Guild Wars 2

Testudo.4620:

Siobhan.5273:

Klipso.8653:

not even the classes that can use shortbow ever touch one

There are rangers that use long and short bows.

and bears

and LB #4 whenever they see a melee char attacking something

With all the darn outfits and ticket weapon skins they shove out instead of making legendaries and other “nice things” stuffs they should have the money to do so. And yes i ascended from salt to hydrochloric acid, im fully aware of that no need to tell me… but i reached my limits of acceptance.

…oh well… thats 2 things down that i expected but dont got with HoT…. ontop of having many things i enjoyed before pretty much destroyed. Sure, they said they gonna add the new legendaries in intervals….so i waited for my new knive thingy and hammer thingy but i think i got enough. Why do i even still complain? Why do i even keep buying gems? Eh… whatever…

Atleast be so kitteng kind to finally add armor skins with the LS…

Yeh armors are rewards…. Meaning you see the next 3 sets next expansion…

slamb.4781:

The 2nd expansion will be pre-purchase only and will be released in small increments over 2-3 years and all new weapons and armor will be exclusive to the gem store.

This is Anets new business model.

You mean outfits … that makes it 100 times worse

Raids a bad idea for gw2? Nah.. not really. Only thing i do hope is that they dont forget or skimp the other content in favour of them …eh.. well it happened already with dungeons so its a valid concern. Other then that… make your raids a-net, eventually more and more people will play em and for those who doesnt… dont skimp arround or nerf other instanced stuff anymore to get people to do em, you might regret it…

^ im sure the lovestruck one is meant.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Lovestruck_Sword_Skin

10 gold its gonna be 3 generic sets with some effects attached. A generic armor with stupid looking helmet, a generic longcoat and a generic dress thing. No class feel to it at all…

…Those are the very first BL skin weapons that i actually find plain ugly… boy… really got nothing nice to say about them at all. Just wow. Usually i can atleast comment something nice about a set, even if its not my personal style…but this time.. nope. No blade looks actually sharp, the blue\white\yellow\red\black clusterkitten of colours doesnt fit together at all and they completely look out of place quality wise aswell, especially if compared to the set that came before it, the timekeeper set. They look like my very first attempt of sculpting in z brush (that i do as a personal hobby, nothing big)…and trust me.. it was baaaaad like really baaaaad. They remind me from the early days of Second Life…. 1\10 would not recommend at all.

As for the wings. Pretty nice effect. Clearly not made for me.. but they got style regardless. Maybe next time something mechanical? Ya know.. a chopper rotorblade with an engine or something like that? Would be cool to have imo. Other then that 8\10 would use if i would be into stuff like this for sure.

Kayberz.5346:

Ummm, you mean just like the default glider?

its not 1 colour tho. You cant colour the whole thing. Thats most likely what the OP wants

Agemnon.4608:

Kastiel.1947:

Agemnon.4608:

Bolt is such a cool weapon that topping it is very hard.

Very subjective, personally I actually dislike Bolt.. I like my sword to be made out of you know, metal – solid metal. Hence very impatient for the new sword to be unveiled, almost anything will top Bolt (imo), hate the fact that it’s hollow inside. Would love something more elegant but nothing silly

What!? How can you not like bolt?! It’s like a cool unique goldish color, has dragon accents, and totally oozes lightning! It’s solid metal in the metal parts but has some empty space in it to charge the lighting, look lighter and more aerodynamic for smoother slicing and slashing and looks sharp.

For me personally its the lightning all over the place. Sure…legendaries gotta be legendary, but i wanna make out my weapon and char when i use one. Incinerator master race. (also i prefer the tech themed weapon side of gw2 and especially charr themed tech)

Danikat.8537:

Also characters in the story, including the player character, are never doing it for the drops.

The destiny´s edge was clearly in for the loot. Unfortunally snaff got killed and nobody rezzed him cause the entire group ragequitted.

Eir didnt explain the encounter (and prolly used lb4 too many times)
Logan went brb halfway in the fight so they had no protection and aegis
Zoija wears fullzerk with scepter and no OH weapon
Rytlock didnt bring banners for utility or a GS for dps… or ran PS
Caith brought no group utility… geez couldnt venom share hm?
And snaff got 1 shotted and nobody got him out of the downed state

Fail group 2\10 would not fight again with

I dont hate hot… but i sure do hate certain parts of it like
- that im the only one left of my guild cause the rest left the game
- that it botched wvw now that i started to love it
- that i waited one year for armor skins and got only a handfull of them
- that they nerfed the dungeons
- that they made the engi spec once again an a.i spec
- that the story was short and obviosly cut
- that i had traherne not as a boss fight like i wanted
- that they now only balance each quarter and exlusive for pvp
so yeh… quite salty atm… but im still here… a bit

well.. its an outfit and its from the gem store, i wish it would be a skin… but that would be madness..

my bet is on 3 generic armors.. with some effects. Sorta like ascended with some glow. Generic, bland and one per weight. No legendary style for a class specific look for the “elite ranger” or “elite elementalist” or whatever…just the usual bland armor with a helmet thats gonna look stupid on charr, robe like thing that says nothing and a coat the size of a tent with stupid hat… cause thats as far as far as it gets these days…

Well.. wouldnt want to have druid themed armor… for ya know.. the druid spec or anything… or more cabbage armor for cultural looks for the cabbages..or whoever else wants to drape him\herself in mother nature and combine it with some personal flavour. Pfff nahhh… who neeeds that nowadays… specially after an expansion with SOOOOO many armor skins… man i think i should go off the net for today before i pop a blood vessel in my skull or something.

Nandor The Stampede.1593:

pls stop buying those horribly designed outfits that nobody wears and worse, that you can’t mix and match.

Are the days of cool new armor gone?

yes.. they are long over. Well we got three per weight class in the expansion..and a 4th for heavy only… so thats that.

ah yes.. the druid armor… ehhh i mean outfit. Nah.. wouldnt make too much sence to have that as armor…especially cause the boots might be not the taste of everybody. Oh well.. a-net, you never cease to amaze me since the release of HoT…

i sure do hope not. Bad enough we got the pvp balance already in pve

Its always like this. PVP kittens us over and we can then sort out the scrap and somehow live with it. Wouldnt want to have a tank spec ya know.. tank stuff…

For christs sake split the balance between the THREE game modes. All need their very own balance cause they got their very own way of doing stuff…but why do i even complain? A-net only cares about their esperts anyways if it comes to balance.

oh just check the gemstore for the outfit version sometime… cause thats the only way you get anything armor related from a-net these days

gathering stuff

completing maps for gift of exploration

making a legendary

putting it in the bank where it looks nice

reading the forums and kittening about stuff i dont like

log out

repeat

Never… only outfits. Armor skins are in game rewards and given we got 3 per weight class in an expansion you can do some basic maths… next 3 armors in 2 years. Rejoice….

would be a nice thing so dont expect it to happen… like ever

magitech with scrapper mask

Yashuoa.9527:

LilBiM.3581:

Nerfs to Hammer 3 results in lower DPS from Hammer. As a result I would also like to see an increase in DPS by 20% on Hammer 3 so that we can have reduced survivability but still maintain what moderate DPS we have

Indeed.

Lets hope they will still do something this patch about our gyros in general,
several other utility spells who rarely till not get on our spell bars and some traits who are collecting dust.

They did say:

Our focus for the engineer has been to improve less used traits and to rework some functionality for scrapper traits. For the core specializations, trait improvement efforts have been made toward creating impactful choices and making each build choice more distinctive.

We havent seen all of this yet.

given the way they usually handle engi stuff its gonna be the very opposide of “nice”.

Yeh, i know its pessimistic but i already prepare my less used alts as life boats in case they completely destroy the engi for the next quarter. Since the 28% mortar nerf i dont trust any “balance” for engineers anymore…

Things i dont like:

- That the balance isnt seperated between the game types
- Outfits
- The lack of armor skins in the 50 bucks expansion
- NPE patch
- Visual “noise” nerf without any options to keep the nice visuals if you want to
- Several nerfs to skills and mechanics on many classes
- The focus on esperts
- What they did to wvw

yeap.. knew it. They once again forgot the other game modes. Oh well.. esperts… watcha gonna do..

Leviathan.6327:

Palador.2170:

ProtoGunner.4953:

I like outfits, it’s very practical, also I don’t have to waste transmutation charges all the time. Armor on the other hand are much more individual. So there are pluses and minuses on both sides.

This is pretty much my take on it as well.

Same here. I mean, if they were separate pieces, then it really wouldn’t be an “outfit” now would it? It’s nice to be able to just throw on an outfit whenever I feel like it, and it’s very useful when starting a new character so I don’t have to use transmutation charges to cover up all that basic armor. I agree that they could benefit from having more dye channels, but given that the UI was made to hold a max of 4, I don’t know how they’d do that without altering it somehow. I’ll also say that hiding shoulders/gloves should hide the respective outfit part just like the helmet.

As gemstore items, outfits are fine. I don’t think armor sets should be gemstore items (especially since I fear they’d charge for each piece if it’s not a full set like the lawless). I think they do need to release more armor sets that are readily available AND not super tedious to acquire. HoT really let me down in that aspect (I was expecting a nice variety of new armors to be able to pick up to mix and match), but it wouldn’t be as big of a deal if they occasionally gave us new armor sets here and there (that weren’t like raid exclusive or anything either).

Weapons are kind of in the same boat. I get tired of every single weapon set being Black Lion exclusive. Especially since they’ve been pumping them out kinda fast, it shows that it doesn’t take them that long to make some interesting new weapons. I just wish at least some of them would be more accessible.

Eh, just my two cents on the matter.

In HoT´s defence..

They gave us quite a lot of new weapon skins, new and really pretty exotics that drop, new earnable weapon skins and even collections of them. Also two tiers of profession themed weapons for the specs. I am content with the weapons…also the legendaries (even if its only those 3 for now) they brought us are wonderfull and creative. Well sure.. more would be nice indeed, more is always better.. but there is atleast some reasonable amount available.

Its just the pitifull amount of armor skins that kitten me off to no end cause i got no way in heaven or hell to get new and fresh skins with gems or gold or tasks in game…cause there are none…cept the few in HoT and the legendary one that is not even arround atm and for non raiders its out of question to get them anyways.

As for weapon sets on the gem store… you always can buy them on the trading post aswell so you can atleast obtain em…even if you do not want to play the RNG chest game. Sure it is not the perfect solution BUT it atleast is something. The only weapons that you cannot really get with in game currency are the ones that are in the 2000 gem bundles…well technically even there you could convert gold to gems and buy it.

I personally do see that a-net needs to make income and i am the last one who would deny em said income. In fact i am a vivid supporter of a-net and gw2 with wallet and spirit….even if i seem to be the most salty person alive if the theme “outfit” pops up…or engineer kit visuals and balance but thats a different theme.

Money keeps the game online and their plates full… but sometimes i start to question my loyality to the franchise…and the voice inside my head gets louder and louder the fewer “nice things” i get. Right now its pretty darn loud already.. lets leave it at this.

Rauderi.8706:

Happy is a strong word in this case.
I’m relatively content with outfits.
For armors, I tend to find one look I like and don’t change it, so new armor sets would be filler for me.

What I do find offensive is that ANet said outfits would make for easier development, but there are several outfits (eg, Monk for human/norn females, bandit sniper for Charr) that are sloppily executed and just look terrible.
Also, where’re my town clothes outfits? There are around 17 tonics that could make for easy outfit unlocks and renewed gem purchases, but they haven’t worked them in.

also to add they said that outfits allow em to make stuff that DOES NOT fit into an armor class… so yea.. 90% of them pretty much ARE fitting for an armor class and ontop of it most of them could be technically profession themed armor skins, wait for the next one that comes… its 100% druid themed, i wont risk and infraction and post the chat code here.. but just go to reddit…

That aside… i personally H-A-T-E the current system. It actually does affect my enjoyment of the game big time. You see.. i like coming up with new looks, playing on different skins with different colours, combining this and that till i can step away and say “yeh, thats a good one”. It just feels nice having that one(or more) look for a char that just feels “right”.
Heck i even made entire alts arround a mix and match look or designed “outfits” and entire characters arround a weapon skin.

Back in the days before this (in my honest opinion) outfit cancer came along i had a reason to look forward to the gemstore updates…cause there was a chance that new skins would come along, something to look forward to and right away also a pretty good way to support the game and maybe that “certain something” for one or more of my looks.

…nowadays i gotta stop myself from looking at outfits…cause there could be a piece of it i like, or one detail is not of my liking and i KNOW i could “fix it” with a skin from my collection so easy. Maybe i might like even the entire look but i know myself.. eventually i will swap out parts and add personality, had it before many times.

Im not saying that outfits are ugly.. by all means, most of them (cept 2 right now) would be in my inventory and if its just for one part of it… sadly they are just one part…

Before HoT i calmed my saltyness cause i expected more armors with the 50 bucks(!) expansion. Would make sence that they stopped giving us armors so that they can release a bunch with HoT… but nope, a pitifull amount of armors was all we got.

I by the way still await the promised “balance between in game rewards and gem store items” Crystin Cox… yea i did not forget that blogpost and im pretty sure neither did a lot of other people.

tldr: Basalt kittening hates the current system and wants to have his nice things again

Nike.2631:

So, over then next three months should we expect eleven new I-can’t-change-anything-but-the-color &$@ing outfits and ZERO armor sets?

‘Cause its getting real old the way you are frittering away the Character Art team’s time.

well of course thats the way it goes. Outfits and esperts…thats what a-net cares about the most these days

Ocosh.5843:

Samnang.1879:

Necro has more survivability than engis.

Not in PvP. There are multiple game modes in this game, folks. In sPvP, Scrapper sustain is ludicrous. This generally carries over to WvW, too. And in PvE you don’t die unless you afk in the wrong spot, anyway.

They are talking about a small and necessary adjustment. It won’t hurt anywhere else.

sure… wont hurt anywhere else…like 90% of pvp related nerfs did right?

Nieguen.6235:

Basaltface.2786:

Nieguen.6235:

I did not smile. Making fun about something that was wrong since the beginning, from the design to the beta that was promoted as a “package” for the new engi elite spec.
Before any tweak on gyros, making assumption that AI can bring a plus to any profession in this game is wrong at so many levels..
Then:
can’t follow the engi (speed, wall, whatever)
hp which is a nightmare to balance (in any case it will be useless considering the amount of aoe in this game)
the mechanic they bring can be outperformed by other utilities EASILY
the CD (as if HP + Erratic movement was not enough)

Gyros are bad in terms of design and implementation, period.

At best they can compete with the turrets.

Turrets got atleast 1 blast finisher and you can nuke em instantly rather with a cast time, turrets can be overcharged, turrets can be traited to deploy a shield bubble for a short period of time what i personally find very VERY usefull and turrets got a lower CD then the gyros AND stay on the field longer too. Also i dont need to trait them to get a “nice thing on nuking” effect either.. like i gotta do with the gyros. To say compete with turrets is an insult to the to death nerfed remains of turrets that STILL outperform the gyros. I really rather slot a turret into an utility slot then any of the gyros to be fully honest cause atleast it does nice things. Only the sneak gyro really is somewhat usefull… but so is the crate, elixir-x and mortar that i also rather slot then the sneak.

That’s why I said “At best”

not even at best man lol

TexZero.7910:

They’ll nerf adaptive armor and rapid regen because PvP balance demands it.
They’ll likely also touch gear shield and hammer 4’s cooldown.

yeap and once again kitten over pve and wvw with it. Its not like we need stuff like defensive traits and skills in raids where stuff happens that eats your live away for just kittening breathing or wvw where stuff flys left and right when zergs collide so much that you dont even know anymore what the hell did hit you just now. Pfff nahhh as long as the esperts are balanced everything is nice.

Also yes i am salty, no need to remind me, im fully aware of that.

Nieguen.6235:

I did not smile. Making fun about something that was wrong since the beginning, from the design to the beta that was promoted as a “package” for the new engi elite spec.
Before any tweak on gyros, making assumption that AI can bring a plus to any profession in this game is wrong at so many levels..
Then:
can’t follow the engi (speed, wall, whatever)
hp which is a nightmare to balance (in any case it will be useless considering the amount of aoe in this game)
the mechanic they bring can be outperformed by other utilities EASILY
the CD (as if HP + Erratic movement was not enough)

Gyros are bad in terms of design and implementation, period.

At best they can compete with the turrets.

Turrets got atleast 1 blast finisher and you can nuke em instantly rather with a cast time, turrets can be overcharged, turrets can be traited to deploy a shield bubble for a short period of time what i personally find very VERY usefull and turrets got a lower CD then the gyros AND stay on the field longer too. Also i dont need to trait them to get a “nice thing on nuking” effect either.. like i gotta do with the gyros. To say compete with turrets is an insult to the to death nerfed remains of turrets that STILL outperform the gyros. I really rather slot a turret into an utility slot then any of the gyros to be fully honest cause atleast it does nice things. Only the sneak gyro really is somewhat usefull… but so is the crate, elixir-x and mortar that i also rather slot then the sneak.

oh yea all those imaginary drones in my head… was watching them too. Quite a lot of them

^ pretty much that. Everytime they balance the engineer they do it for pvp reasons and usually completely kitten over pve and wvw aswell right away too. Thats one of the reasons i cant stand pvp… cause it always takes my nice things away.

well a-net only cares about pvp and esperts, so it only balances with that in mind… suck it up, engi will get nerfed to oblivion once again…like usual. Why do people even still try to protest? Its useless anyways, esperts man… thats where its at. Cause somebody made a bunker build there and many others are running it means you mustnt have nice things anymore either, who needs survival in raids or wvw zergs where projectiles fly left and right…pfff nahh kitten it, nobody needs that. Also lets nerf the mortar 28% cause screw you guys (and no i will never let this nerf go)

We had it before… many times… just remember what they did to the turrets, this is gonna be the same subtle way they gonna “look” at the survivability, im calling it now.

- WAYYYYYYY more armor skins, cause HoT was pitiful

- Equal love across the elite specs (means reaper or chrono level for everybody)

- Equal utility and “freshness” across the elite specs

- New elite specs obviosly

- 100% seperation of balance between the 3 game types

- a story thats not so obviosly cut down in many places

- more fractals

- less focus on the gemstore right after the expansion

- less nerfing of activities in game to promote something else (dungeon nerf)

- a fix that you dont always run into an empty expansion map or having them all on
the very same rotation, do it SW style

- more emotes\animations\hairdos\racial features

kakumbien.8047:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/profession-balance-goals-for-the-winter-2016-update/

This is the post about incoming nerfs and buffs . Slightly nerfs to scrapper ? It is ok . I hope they won’t ruin the defensive nature of the scrapper . But hey , we ll get some buff about some traits .

oh they will ruin it with a mighty overkill nerf of total destruction.. like they do with everything engineer related eventually.

just kill the skelks then and leave the doylaks alone if you cant stomach it.. geez..

Obtena.7952:

You know, I like GW2 but I don’ t believe another Hot-like expansion and LS free content is a realistic goal for Anet … right now.

“deeper delivery of existing systems” is just a vague way of saying things like:

1. Ascended Jewelry crafting
2. More mastery lines (some people don’t even have the points to pay for the current ones)
3. More Legendary gear (we already know this and the requirements to obtain)
4. Gliding in Core (we have hints of that but that shouldn’t really excite anyone that much)
5. another Elite spec (I’m doubtful)

I’m hope I’m wrong but I don’t expect to see anything surprising from these mystery deep contents and I certainly don’t think Anet can afford to give them away for free and uncoupled from story.

1. why add that? You can literally buy most stats with laurels, badges of honor and ectos or flat out earn em with archivements. If anything they could use ascended jewelry for effects like the refractors or stuff.. but then again i doubt it.

2. Yeh thats something i can see coming for sure, thats their new horizontal progression system afterall. Lets hope the new masteries are interresting…rather then time gating.

3. Yea.. armor and the rest of the gen 2 weapons that hopefully look amazing, well.. the ones we got are a good sign already…fortunally. As for armor.. im doubtfull its gonna look good. My bet is on 3 detailed but generic sets with some effects on them..sorta like ascended with sparkles.

4. Most likely gonna be added next week or pretty soon, they already showed gliding in orr. Was obvios they gonna do it… nobody is buying glider skins if nobody is in the new maps afterall.

5. Yea right.. next expansion is the earliest point i can see that beeing added, took em 3 years to add a handfull of things to each class…so yeh… lets not get any hopes up.

Lets hope we are both wrong with our negatives…especially me and that they now slowly “get it” and bring back the game to its glory…

oh im sure you get em eventually. 1 ticket each… or part of a 2000gems bundle… that seems to be the new trend afterall

Still betting 10 gold that this is exactly whats gonna happen. They gonna make a BLTC set out of them, sell em for 1 ticket each or just add em to a revenant themed outfit in a bundle… like they did with the arbiter outfit thats clearly heavy armor and we can go and screw ourselfes.

Scellow.1596:

Basaltface.2786:

bahaha! Dream on… all you get are gemstore outfits from now on. Want to have an unique look? Though kitten, take whats there, more ya aint getting from a-net anymore. Maybe next expansion you get another 3 armor set choices per weight class IF you are lucky…

:(

you know its true… and trust me.. my negative view on that theme didnt come out of the blue. Just look at the game, look at the skins added since the wardrobe update and in the (50 BUCKS) expansion. Sorry but better dont put your hopes up at all, in fact dont expect anything good, that way IF something actually nice comes along it feels sweeter.

bahaha! Dream on… all you get are gemstore outfits from now on. Want to have an unique look? Though kitten, take whats there, more ya aint getting from a-net anymore. Maybe next expansion you get another 3 armor set choices per weight class IF you are lucky…

sephiroth.4217:

I’d love a dueling option, but a massive no thank you to gear checks. (PvP and WvW are not viable options due to build restrictions and server issues)

Dueling would have to be handled carefully as not to offend people, like something similar to GTA online, where you have the option to flag yourself as “combat ready” so players who weren’t interested could carry on with normal activities and not be effected by it.

and if you are not flagged as ready cause you maybe dont care about that feature you are the “coward”, the “noob” or “scared”….had it all, just throwing that in, whatever, carry on with the topic…

Aomine.5012:

skullmount.1758:

Basaltface.2786:

10 gold that they just gonna sell em on the gemstore…like everything else since the 50 bucks expansion…

This.

If they were already in game then they’d be visible in the wardrobe (which iirc they aren’t). Which means if they get around to finishing the set, they’ll add it as a BL set instead of letting us get them as rewards through gameplay.

HoT feel so unrewarding because the new skins never dropped, and the amount of new skins are so minimal, and all pushed toward gemstore. This is very sad.

also every glider skin, even the exalted one that should be map meta rewards also even raid related items.. like the raid boss mini, ghost glider and stuff like that…but thats a different theme. Im personally at the edge atm with the game, not gonna lie.

10 gold that they just gonna sell em on the gemstore…like everything else since the 50 bucks expansion…

Because of people like you that cant controll their own darn feelings we all cant have no nice things? Yea… right get triggerd m8.

Trust me on that one… if i play a game the last thing i think about is your family´s history and your eventual displeasure with an archievement.

Yes op, you gotta use all of it…well you can hide the helmet but thats all you can do. Outfits are such a nice thing…arent they