I have to disagree, Black Citadel would be a bad choice to invade directly, since the charr are not a race to capitulate lightly. Therefore, we’d have to exterminate a major part of them to succeed, and that would be a waste of heavy lifting power.
Why should you expect to swap places with a non-existant clone? Summon it and swap instantly, frenzy away then do whatever. These are not nerfs, they are bug-fixes.
Why not? The clone was only a pointer to where the Mesmer is going to potentially teleport to.
You’re twisting it. The clone was a clone who attacks with your 1st skill chain, who you can swap places with provided that it exists. That’s what the tooltip says, and they fixed it when what it actually did did not match what the tooltip said.
Depends. Venom costs about 100g on the TP and Zap is 1k.
why should we settle for something that is not as good as we had before. Ya ever heard the saying if it isn’t broken then don’t fix it. That was one part of the game that was fine and did not need fixing. So why should we settle for something less than we had before.
Oh, you wouldn’t believe how often things like that happen in every sphere of life. Slightly better than demanding more and more until your natural human greed can’t be satisfied.
As I’ve said, I don’t see how the SP/silver cost for a newbie is so insurmountable, unless they are completely unable of planning ahead and mapping out a general way they want to play their character. And most of the people I see complaining (I really want to use a harsher word because it fits better, but I’ve been warned once already) are on their 2nd-5th chars, have enough gold (do you REALLY need every single trait?), have access to leveling/SP tomes and are generally more experienced, allowing them to plan ahead better and buy only the traits they know are good.
It also would not really be repelling for a newbie to discover they can’t unlock this one major trait yet. Most likely they will either scrounge up 2sp and how much silver again it was or will be patient. Unless, of course, some heartbroken lvl 80 walks up to them and whispers “pssst, quit this game, you don’t deserve the world to be SO CRUEL”. You are only complaining because it’s been easier for you before.
Besides, if you want to test different builds, there’s this shiny mode called sPvP where you can tinker with every trait without any effort and test them out on dummies and NPCs.
tl:dr: the new change does not really harm neither newbies nor veterans, the only reason of 29 pages here is because people have accepted the mentality of “ANET WHY DONT YOU LISTEN TO US!?” instead of adapting.
Though you do have some very valid points, have you tried ( from a new player with no saved up gold etc) to actually " play their way" and use the supposed flexability of builds since the patch…
Where for a lvl 30’s skill you have to be in a lvl 50 area, or kill a boss that takes a major event chain ( new player remember so no guild mates)
Or get slaughtered over and over in WvW when the trait you need is in a green area and they are dominating the war and you are red !
Or maybe you say buy them …. great but new players are going to need the skill points and for sure are not going to have all that gold as dungeon farming is basically lvl 80 onwards (lvl 80 Zerk only LFG ) especially now that new players are not going to have the needed traits……
Or you could just accept that you won’t necessarily have access to every trait in the tier just because you can equip them already. You don’t complain that you are not granted all the lvl 45 gear once you’re lvl 45, right?
Think of them as goals, not rewards.
Uhhhh… to have fun with friendly people?
Some NPCs do have issues with that. The asura in the lab north of Tequatl spawn point repeat their dialogue about the experimental oozefying weapon with almost NO PAUSE, and I mean like a few seconds. That’s right, they say all this stuff again and again and again.
@Ascimator.6735
1. Irrelevant point because the majority of traits are not simple+stat modifiers that are found on armor sets.
2. YMMV. Though I will say you are in the minority when compared to the other 1400 posts.
3. Irrelevant point – this is an MMO, not an offline single player game. How do you think Anet pays for all the ongoing 24/7 server upkeep and employee labor in a game without subscription fees? If they don’t retain players, they are paying out of pocket.
1. I meant it in the sense that you won’t be willing to switch between different builds (DPS, survivability, etc) without having different sets of gear to fit these playstyles.
2. Point taken.
3. I have serious suspicion that the majority of people who complain about changes buy gems regularly. And until they do, they are little more than a waste of server space, not to offend. Besides, a significant part of the playerbase, as it often happens, might not be visiting forums at all, so that “everyone wants change you are losing players anet” attitude is prone to be exaggerated. Potential players Anet will lose because the complainers will tell all their friends “Don’t buy gw2, they made it so you have to put in a little more effort to become cool” is, on a rough estimation, nothing next to the influx of newcomers through various channels.
To put it simply, go ahead and quit if you so desire. Unless you spent more money on gems regularly than on the game itself, that will be a net gain for Anet. And I’ll personally be glad to have less lag and less players with a bad attitude.
A few months passed and people are STILL acting all entitled about this? You could have unlocked everything you need on all 5 characters during that time instead of raging and demanding that Anet changes their game.
For the record:
1. You don’t need to unlock every trait anyway unless you want to be switching builds every few seconds, and if you have multiple sets of armor with different stats for that, I don’t see why are you complaining.
2. I leveled my second character, a mesmer, post-patch without having a biased opinion about the change and guess what, I faced no problems.
3. Don’t delude yourself with thinking that you are important enough to listen to your every whim. You already bought the game.
Now that I have been summarily spanked. Let me say that my comments were purely my “opinion”. While I understand the system and the need to take time and know the thousand of recipes by heart, some folks don’t have all the time in the game that others do. I feel the crafting situation in this game is too complex and that system was made by the Dev’s (that’s my opinion). By the way. I have crafted Asended Back Pieces (Armor) with my weaponsmith. Did one for my Ranger.
Thanks for your opinions and help.
If you do not have a lot of free time, why are you playing a MMO?
Besides, there are builds which can peel defiance off bosses quite heavily, such as daze mesmer.
Why didn’t the Inquest leader treat sylvari well?
Because he kud-usurp them instead.
Solution? Change Unshakeable so that the mob only gains defiant stacks if he’s actually interrupted, not just when hit with an interrupt skill. Remove defiant stacks the same way (or add a 10 second or 15 second timer per stack or something), but few things suck more than trying to interrupt that boss’s OMG attack and failing because that warrior over there spammed his downed #2 skill just because.
So people can stunlock the boss as long as he does not start to attack?
Why do people think they are entitled to have a legendary? All I see is “anet gibe precursors NOW omg they r greedy and want us to pay!!1”.
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You’re the one to talk when you wouldn’t possibly be able to spot a difference between a skritt and your own reflection.
I’m not the one to derogate people over punctuation, but even thinking about other areas you are bad in would make me dumber.