Guild Wars 2

just give me back my 800 gems skinpacks.. thats all i want

since HoT i start growing weary on the gemstore in general. The x-pac didnt bring much rewards at all.. but they can release outfits and ticket skins like there is no tomorrow. Also they sell stuff that should be meta rewards (like the exalted glider) and raid rewards (flamer chick raid boss that name i forgot aswell the ghost glider) just casually on the gem store. I mean wtf a-net? Want money? Sell some more diverse visual stuff, account bonuses and convinient thingies and fluff like skill effect colours, auras, more toys, much more hairdos, racial features (tats, horns, ears, plant stuff), make another equipment slot purely for visual fluff like earrings, trophies and stuff that you can sell purely for eyecandy…maybe reverse the “no skins on the gemstore” BS and sell some more of them? Hm? Doesnt sound good? Well..im sure it doesnt to you.. you got enough people who suck up all the BS… -ducks for eventual whiteknight jousting lance of ultimate bootlicking-

Sure money…income.. jada…jada….a-net gud boy… but man… i faintly do recall something in the past… a blogpost where some dev claimed a balance of ingame rewards and gemstore. Hmm… not sure what balance means to other people.. but i kinda think this isnt it.

I mean sure.. i do like (well these days not so much anymore, HoT burned me badly, specially cause i bought the 100 bucks version TWO TIMES -_-) to support the game through the gemstore like many people…even if i pretty much hate outfits… BUT everything i buy from the gemstore is with actual gems that i pay with actual money, i only converted gems to gold once..and only about 100 gems cause i wanted some skin before it got removed 1 hour later…but yea.. slowly feeling a bit…kittened. Also i do own pretty much everything that i find “nice” from said store…means 90% of the skins, gathering tools..cept the new flute ones, not my style, tons of account upgrades, surely more then 50 makeover kits since i play the game, tons of trans charges (i dont pvp so i buy em with gems) and much more…. not like you care though…but just sayin a-net, eventually more and more people will be as salty as i am…maybe then you give a darn, as for now… i will wait for the LS3…and the armor skins i did not get with the expansion…

Lucent.8906:

What effects can they add that go with Juggernaut? Shiny grenades, or maybe a small splash of quicksilver for the explosion? Either way, it seems like it’d be pretty underwhelming.

underwhelming is better then nothing at all…

yea.. they are very well made, even the femcharr got for once something awesome…specially the braided one is 10\10. Whoever made em should take a look at charrmors in the future too.. if there ever will be armors…

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Tigaseye.2047:

Oh, OK.

Well, I think that would have been OK, if they had also added some new, basic armour, ingame.

As, I would imagine, people probably expected they would do, when they asked for that…

They probably thought that would be a given and so, felt free to just talk about where things should be placed.

Little did they know, that by asking for the armour skins to appear solely ingame, they were only going to be given that very ugly and/or over-the-top stuff and no new basics.

People can’t be blamed for what they ask for, when they’re not in possession of all the facts and possible implications of their requests.

So, ultimately, Anet are the ones responsible, as they made the final decision and then chose to implement it in the specific way they did.

Not to mention that, as the makers of the game, they are ultimately responsible for anything they choose to do, anyway.

However many people may have asked, specifically, for it, or not.

I dunno about other people, but I never expected new whites, blues, or greens. I figured new armor skins would likely be rares (like Lumi). I just sort of figured we’d get more than 3 of them. =/ Then again…we only got 3 legendaries with HoT launch too, so maybe not..

at the legendaries i sorta get the deal though. The pre-collections are detailed and they gotta think of ways to make em fit their world. Armors though… they set up metas per map and at the brink they added the bladed set into the meta, how hard could it be to add a few more sets that way? Also mistward armor.. a profession themed set, it got a collection thats tied to leveling the profession. How about one set for each class that way? Like.. unlocking the entire alchemy traitline on the engineer gives you a collection where you collect and consume some potions from HoT and unlock a nice set of gloves with vials on them or taming all the beasts that HoT added on a ranger gives you some awesome looking chestpiece that fits your new druid shoulders. But nope..

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Basaltface.2786:

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Lhos.1643:

Randulf.7614:

It funds the game

I like how for $50 we got fewer armor sets than there have been new outfits in the gem store since HoT’s release.

We’re all a bit sore about that, I think. It’s sort of beside the point though.

Well it isnt. Not for me. Gem store is a nice thing, always supported it, even after they brought the cancer growth that most call outfits to the game….. BUT till i got the minimal amount of armor skins i expected ( 1 per map meta of HoT, 1 FULL set per elite spec\profession and legendary armor and this is a rather reasonable thing to expect for a 50 bucks price tag that pays AAA games with much more content then HoT got and after one darn year of starving the game from skins) I will keep boycotting the store and complaining to my hearts content, just try to stop me. Before i shut up about that they gotta ban me…or i gonna loose my love for gw and just fade away..- whatever comes first

We asked for outfits. We got what we asked for. We asked that they stop putting armor in the gemstore, and make armor in-game rewards only. They granted that wish. The gemstore still needs to add items that people desire. Outfits fill that need. You don’t like them, don’t buy them. That’s perfectly fine.

Yes, we all felt that HoT should have come with more armor sets. We know that it takes more effort to design and implement armor (as opposed to an outfit), so let’s hope that we’ll see more added when the LS spins back up. still crossing her fingers

oh did we now? I cant recall myself asking for that stupid BS like ever in the time i play the game (3rd year now). I asked to have something more like profession armor..like gw1 did just freely available for all classes that share the same weight class like we got right now, ya know.. i personally like to dress my chars with armors that lean towards some iconic profession look, i didnt ask to have em added in game for free. I wanted a good share on the gemstore actually to have a reason to buy gems and support the game and pimp my char visuals out, switching parts of my armors and creating new and amazing looks…unlike what outfits do. And dont come me with the usual “colours can change so much” deal. Yea? So? What happens if i dont like a helmet of an outfit and wear my glasses or eyepatch with it? I maybe dont like the shoulders either and maybe i want brown leather pants and a leaf green top…tell me how id do that with 4 colour slots for a whole fit.

I also asked for making town clothes useable in battle. What did i get? Tonics.. effin tonics and i happened to LOVE town clothes. Im serios, i loved town clothes and i owned most of what was once town clothes… till they destroyed em and made em useless.

Also i asked to compensate the extreme lack of armor skins added since the wardrobe patch in the 50 bucks expansion. What did i get? Effin 3 sets.. and a 4th for heavy only…and a handfull of profession themed skins that are fantastic.. though.. where is the rest of these sets?

Also effort? Yea.. do tell me how hard it gotta be, if they can push out such a massive amount of outfits since the x-pac hit they surely could have taken some extra effort to make some sets for HoT. With the mistward they showed they dont care to make the same design for every weight class anyways.. cause where would be the light and medium mistward.

Also they said they make with outfits what they cant do with the armor weight classes… yea.. look at them and tell me that 90% of them are not clearly fitting within a weight class. I give you the wedding attire, lich and noble count… the rest could clearly be armor sets.

Also.. nice generic “if dun lik it dun buy it lel” comment, wouldnt be a topic that mentons outfits without it.

Also yes im as salty as the dead sea…im fully aware of that.

Varrg.2704:

b-but it funds the game!
So where are those money going? Because I would surely expect more from HoT than 4 armor skins.

Seems it does not fund the game…well not like i thought it would. Another reason not to support the gemstore till i get that “oh thats a nice thing” feel again… like i had back then where they where still making armor skins (even if they came through the gemstore what was for me personally totally fine cause i could atleast look forward to something in the gem store once in a while) and cared about mix and match.. unique looks for players and stuff ya know.

These days you can be happy if they throw you a stripped bone… in a 50 bucks expansion.

LanfearShadowflame.3189:

Lhos.1643:

Randulf.7614:

It funds the game

I like how for $50 we got fewer armor sets than there have been new outfits in the gem store since HoT’s release.

We’re all a bit sore about that, I think. It’s sort of beside the point though.

Well it isnt. Not for me. Gem store is a nice thing, always supported it, even after they brought the cancer growth that most call outfits to the game….. BUT till i got the minimal amount of armor skins i expected ( 1 per map meta of HoT, 1 FULL set per elite spec\profession and legendary armor and this is a rather reasonable thing to expect for a 50 bucks price tag that pays AAA games with much more content then HoT got and after one darn year of starving the game from skins) I will keep boycotting the store and complaining to my hearts content, just try to stop me. Before i shut up about that they gotta ban me…or i gonna loose my love for gw and just fade away..- whatever comes first

should have made em work like mantras.

Charge it= deploy a gyro that visually follows you arround just for eyecandy and visual cue that the engi got a gyro out and ready to work.

Cast it= Gyro does gyro stuff

Could even mix that mantra idea up and make a hybrid between sigils and mantras by having a charged\deployed gyro do a helpfull passive effect. Such as…

-Medic: Heals the scrapper slowly overtime and gives protection at a critical hit on the scrapper with an ICD, if used it does a moderate aoe heal without any field then explodes like it does now.

-Purge: removes 1 condition all few seconds and converts it to 1 stack of its contrary boon (like cripple becomes swiftness and weakness might), if used it removes all conditions of the scrapper and maybe up to 3 of allies arround the scrapper and then explodes

-Shredder: does 1 whirl finisher every second with no direct damage, if used it acts like the thief dagger storm with drastically reduced damage that and stays directly over the scrapper like a sort of aura of thorns..if that makes sence…and then explodes once its done.

-Blast: buffs the scrapper´s attack a little with a passive effect, if used it does its charge attack and becomes a minion to counter it.

-Bulwark: reduces the scrapper´s incoming damage by 10%, if used it reduces it by 50% for a short period of time and then explodes.

-Sneak: adds a passive movement speed bonus on the scrapper, if used it does its stealth thing and becomes a minion to be attackable and destroyable for counterplay

Toolbelts remain the same…cept maybe purge´s… that could pulse resistance like the medic´s does protection if you stand on its field.

As for the mechanic.. simple. Make it a hybrid between initiative and energy.
Charges over time… can be used at will as long as there is enough “fuel” available with an F6. Cyrcles arround you like rev hammers and pulses protection or stability while dealing some minor damage if it passes an enemie in “normal mode”, revives an ally if targeted and at full fuel and stomps an enemie if targeted at full fuel. If the gyro is out the “fuel regeneration” stops to avoid its permanently out. Also to regenerate the full fuel deal takes the same time it does now to use the mechanic in the first place

There. Melee friendly gyros that are technically “sigil-mantras” and mechanic that still got its utility intact, only relies on a.i where it really is needed for counterplay and brings two things to the engi that the class does not got atm. Thats how id do it.. but then again what do i know…im just some guy..

SuLor.2840:

Well I think it’s quite clear from the post above that they will never just do armor skins instead of outfits. I think the real problem is that ever since they decided to make armor skins in game rewards and not have any in the gem store, we’ve gotten loads and loads of outfits and very very few armors.

I have no problem with the concept of outfits vs armors, each fills a role and are good for different things. However it’s just sad the number of outfits they produce vs adding new armors. A lot of the reaction I’m seeing is that people now would prefer they add more armor skins to the gem store if that means we actually get some new ones since they aren’t adding them in any reasonable amount in game.

I know I’m not the only one who was expecting a lot more armors added with HoT.

yes.. you are certainly not alone.. hence i was and still am raging and extremely salty…

here´s mine…

Magic Faze.9613:

Sthenith.5196:

paysafe ingame : flawless. Never had any problem.

So you are Canadian?

austrian but paysafe works everywhere on the planet.

i use paysafecard everytime i buy gems, so yea, they work flawless

SqualZell.7813:

here is an idea,

break the outfits into slots
you still need to buy the whole thing for the same price, but you can pick and choose which goes where
so the chest of the slayer, the head of the cook the boots of the pirate… wtv.

…so basically skin packs without transmutation charge. Basically what i suggested way back when…

…many people do, but since that stuff is going on for 2 years now and a-net´s reward team made it very clear what they think about balance between gem store and in game rewards…just look at the x-pac, should make it clear as air….sad..sad air…

Doggie.3184:

Mez Koo.9510:

I was getting used to weekly outfits, what am I supposed to use my gems on now? (Gliders are pointless imo)

Hopefully there’s never an Outfit + Glider bundle ever again.

i hope they keep going.. so that even the outfit fanboys get sick of them.
Welcome to my personal hell, make yourself comfortable…

^ you do know that legendary armor stats are ascended right?
Technically they did not add a new tier…just a convinient armor set that lets you change stats like legendary weapons do, thats all that it is…well this and some kitten visuals i assume…ehh well i hope atleast.

Guhracie.3419:

Misguided.5139:

Liewec.2896:

every dam week, new outfit, new outfit, new outfit…
WE WANT ARMOUR SKINS.
but hey, expecting anet to get a clue is a bit ambitious.

And the reason we don’t get any (from what I have heard repeatedly) is because players complained about armor skins being sold in the gem store.

People complained about them being sold in the gem store instead of being obtainable by playing the game. I don’t think anyone could have known that ANET was going to stop creating armor sets entirely, or be so very stingy with adding any cosmetics to their $50 expansion pack.

…yeh.. specially after starving the game out with skins for a year and then pushing out the x-pac and selling 5 outfits from the release day till the latest patch…. AND then having the audacity to even sell stuff that technically belongs into raid rewards on the gem store…looking at the bandit sniper bundle that contains an outfit that would make amazing medium armor and especially the glider and also the mini of the raid boss (even if i personally dont like minis..but that went too far). Also the exalted glider… The hell a-net? Why isnt that one where it actually belongs? The map meta rewards..

-Oh be assured you arent the only one that is pretty darn mad about that, you could power a city block with my anger.. if that would be possible in a way.

-Also nope.. i am certainly not happy about the number. I expected atleast a full set per specialisation and one armor per map as meta reward like in the silver wastes thats related to the map design\enemies\allies you encounter…like exalted armor or stuff

-I never did and never will, even if i may like an outfit how it looks.. i may want to replace parts of it in the near future or use parts of it on other looks, thats just how i roll. Would be a waste of money to me and frustate me. “man these shoulders would look great on that look. And man id buy that outfit just for that epic top.” If you catch my drift.

-Yes indeed i would. I did it before they changed the entire system and even bought skin packs that i didnt need right away. Know why? Cause i never know what i come up with if i play arround in the wardrobe. Happened a lot that i ran into the gem store to buy a skin pack just to get that one part i want.

also.. inb4 generic. “i like outfits” and “dont like it dont buy it” comments…

Pride.1734:

No armorset for raids…. just the first part of a precursor collection…. and more outfits…. and more outfits…. Idk what to play for anymore…

Also only 3 sets per weight class and a 4th for heavy in a 50 bucks expansion.. thats another thing you must not forget. Also outfits\gliders\minipets that should be meta rewards and raid rewards in form of skins on the gem store…lets not forget about that either. Not a fan…

…I expected something like that. Look… i know that there are sooo many talented devs at a-net that if they are allowed to bring epicness to the table that just gives you that warm feeling…ya know the feeling when you play a game that you love. They do so many amazing things that make you go “kitten yes”….but then all of a sudden you got something extremely questionable in the mix where you ask yourself just “why… would you do this?”. Seeing these reviews made it to me pretty obvios where the worm hides under the bark… lets leave it at this. I as costumer cant change a thing there…but i can let the devs who are reading this by chance know that i personally understand their situation a bit better now and that i personally highly appreciate all the nice things…even if they really went sparse for me personally since 1,5 years now.

Of course ill keep complaining and ranting about what i dont like…but be aware, i appreciate the nice things.

yes… 2 days ago in eotm THREE TIMES in a row

inb4 cultural outfits -_-

Vephar.8475:

New hair and faces in the Makeover Kits and a new armor skin set in the gem store, not another outfit.

I dont even need to wait for datamining or actually know whats coming to tell you that you will be dissapointed pretty hard then. Atleast if it comes to armor skins.

Ho Ho Ho loosers! Buy outfits! Join the storm troopers!

Agemnon.4608:

Basaltface.2786:

Liewec.2896:

agreed completely, one of the biggest sellers for GW2 is the graphics,
turning a powerful fireball into a laughable pixel is a sure way to tell your customers that you are utterly clueless about what this game needs.
but hey, churn out afew more lame outfits and i’m sure the game will be soooo much better.
clueless…

But dont you know? Outfits are the best thing ever. No class identity needed, not much work needed and they can “make stuff that doesnt fit any armor class”…like basically all but two or three outfits they released up to this point. Oh look.. today we got a heavy armor outfit that would really make some great combinations with norn armor…or charr armor but nope outfit it is.. cause we here at arenanet dont give a darn about armor personality anymore. Here have these three + the mistward set in this 50 bucks x-pac and that handfull of spec armor pieces cause full armor would be a waste, buy outfits! Be a storm trooper! Bah.. even reading the word “outfit” makes my salt encrusted blood boil.

Look on the bright side, they could introduce royal outfits where you could look like a king or a princess

I like the uploaded outfits and think they’d fit the game pretty nicely. Also some school girl outfits like in animes like K-On!

Yea might aswell. The “dont care” train runs on full engines anyways. Man.. what i would give to have a cup of tea with Crystin Cox… and actually speak my minds about that “balance” she was talking about back then. Boy i gotta get off the forums today…or for a while better said before i actually do pop a blood vessel in my skull.

Liewec.2896:

agreed completely, one of the biggest sellers for GW2 is the graphics,
turning a powerful fireball into a laughable pixel is a sure way to tell your customers that you are utterly clueless about what this game needs.
but hey, churn out afew more lame outfits and i’m sure the game will be soooo much better.
clueless…

But dont you know? Outfits are the best thing ever. No class identity needed, not much work needed and they can “make stuff that doesnt fit any armor class”…like basically all but two or three outfits they released up to this point. Oh look.. today we got a heavy armor outfit that would really make some great combinations with norn armor…or charr armor but nope outfit it is.. cause we here at arenanet dont give a darn about armor personality anymore. Here have these three + the mistward set in this 50 bucks x-pac and that handfull of spec armor pieces cause full armor would be a waste, buy outfits! Be a storm trooper! Bah.. even reading the word “outfit” makes my salt encrusted blood boil.

Well i can only say.. i dig em, all of them. They look lethal, painfull and you can actually make out the very fine details cause they arent swallowed up by particle effects. Also their size is decent for the most part. Already bought the pistol and sword and boy does that sword look sharp. For once its not an oversized mess of stuff. Its small, looks lightweight and most important it looks really cool. The pistol is an oddball if i ever saw one..but if thats not a thief offhand firearm then i dunno anymore. It even got a darn dagger attached to it, love it. Those are going on my thief…if i ever make a proper build with the alt i got laying arround since 1 year now. Not really too good with that class but whatever. Staff and mace are on my list too, just ran out of tickets…so that gotta wait a bit but ill get em for sure. Also the axe is seriosly painfull looking…might need that one too..ill see what comes.

9.5\10 from me. Only complaint would be the size of the shield.. this one should be pretty large imo, but then again…eh.. looks great.

id only change a few things…

- race identity in most skills, what might look like for example a flesh golem on a human
might be an undead bear for norn or a mordrem like beast made of bones and plants for sylvari, functionality would remain the same and standard models for skills can be turned on in the options menu like it can be done now for player models.

- no outfits, they never would have happened, town clothes never went away but gained the ability to be worn in battle…means in short they can be mixed and matched

- also town cloth skin bundles are sold alongside a fitting and fun toy, that can be bought in a bundle together with the skins or standalone.

- more skins themed arround classes or specific bosses, monsters or locations, generic sets only in lower levels, anything above 30 would slowly but surely go into a design pattern fitting for one of the classes within its weight class. Also atleast 3 new sets get added per quarter that are tied to content or the gem store…and if its just a random collection. Also armor quality is equal for all races and genders and adjustments are made to compliment the anatomy of each race.

- legendaries would be all like the new ones. Handcrafted precursors only or lucky rng drop, no TP precursors.

-Dungeon team was never disbanded and keeps balancing dungeons aswell adding new ones as new maps\content appears. Dungeon team gets renamed to “instance team”, the team size gets adjusted and is now in charge of instanced content in general where battle situations happen. Dungeons\fractal\raids\other instanced content gets levels of difficulty that can be choosen by the player or group, the rewards are affected accordingly.

- balance gets completely split between the 3 game modes, each balance patch each game mode gets its very own changes to balance. Minor changes that happen per patch also get split between the 3 game modes.. cept fixes if a skill doesnt work or stuff.

- black lion chests dont include tickets anymore. Weapon skins can be directly bought with gems from the former ticket vendors either in a full set bundle or single skin. Chests now got a chance to drop the newest set of ticket weapons. Boosters get removed from chests and replaced by multi boosters that allow you to pick what kind of booster you want by default.

- Glider skins are in game rewards only and tied to HoT.

- Transmutation charges get removed and “custom outfit slots” get introduced that allow you to save a look for your armor. One slot is free per char, more can be bought at the gem store like bag slots

- Build templates get introduced, 2 per char by default, further ones can be bought through the gem store.

- Developer communication is more open and explains nerfing\buffing to content and skills and also adresses obvios concerns as good as possible. Even a “we are aware of it and we look into it but are not sure how to deal with it just yet” can be assuring to people. Same like a " we think its good that way it is atm" can give people closure that feel ignored with their concerns. Betas get introduced for every big change like with HoT or raids.

- rewards get put together with love and care and reward skins related to the content (especially LS) or more helpfull items.

-minipets can be turned off for those who dont really like em

- basaltface keeps on dreaming and wonders himself why he even bothers to write that…

Lindelle.3718:

Wander.5780:

Don’t worry, Anet will add those armor skins to the game soon for the low price of 800 gems.

I wish. Even this weve asked for since launch.

Norn are just tall humans now, completely lost any cultural feel. I kittening hate it.

skins.. riiiight. You get them as darn outfits and if you are lucky its not bundled up.

Icdan Sevaen.4628:

Basaltface.2786:

know why op? Cause that doesnt generate money and money is all a-net cares about. In a godforsaken EXPANSION we got two… TWO armors per weight class…and 3 if you count the mistward, though im certain that one only happened to be useable for players cause else people would complain…and they needed a revenant “personality” armor. Rather ask for an outfit with glider combo bundle for 2000 gems.. else a-net wont even look into your direction anymore. And yes i know i smell like the dead sea, my salt levels are quite intense…

Three per weight class. Four if you count legendary.

So? Where would be the other light and medium then? Bladed and leystone makes two. I didnt see a third one for medium or light. Only heavy got another set with the mistward and thats technically class themed armor and a perfect example of what i would have loved for all classes. Also where are the legendary armors? I dont see em. Do you? Not in game yet you say? Well then. Also if you think im pleased with this few sets in an expansion that got a fraction of the original game content but still got a 50 bucks asking price in game where visuals are sorta a part of end game then you are dead wrong. There should be ATLEAST one set per map…what we dont got in two maps of the expansion AND one full set per specialisation\class that screams its made for said class and not just one single armor piece and all tied neatly together with a collection like the mistward set cause thats an awesome way to get your set together. Also after 3 years there should be a way to aquire NPC exlusive armor as cultural armor sets and that for all races to bring some cultural feel in for those who want that stuff…like i would LOVE to have…but alas outfits and more outfits and even outfits at the same darn day the x-pac comes out…and now even bundled up with the darn gliders that technically should be raid rewards, collection or map rewards and all for a asking price of “what the hell is wrong with you a-net”.

And no.. im not a “i paid 50 bucks and thats it” guy…in fact i am\was the opposide of it.. till they started making outfits and even then i still supported the game through the gem store. But why im even complaining.. a-net doesnt care, you most likely doesnt care either and neither does 90% of the community…well i guess i gotta vent sometimes.

know why op? Cause that doesnt generate money and money is all a-net cares about. In a godforsaken EXPANSION we got two… TWO armors per weight class…and 3 if you count the mistward, though im certain that one only happened to be useable for players cause else people would complain…and they needed a revenant “personality” armor. Rather ask for an outfit with glider combo bundle for 2000 gems.. else a-net wont even look into your direction anymore. And yes i know i smell like the dead sea, my salt levels are quite intense…

Redfeather.6401:

How can anyone play a thief/engi/ranger and not love longcoats nor want to start a collection of 50 ugly longcoat skins?!

Sanity and a moderate sence of taste or desire to dress their char(s) to show that they use one of three really distinct ways to fight. Nature magic and traps. Poisons, knives and other shenanigans. And explosives, gadgets, weird potions and tools and other things that go boom. Couldnt be more different needs for armor designs there… yet its the armor class with the least creativity.
If you make your medium classes THAT distinct and different in design.. you should by default hand your visual artists a sticky note that says “dun make coats, make sneak suits for the sneeky breeky, comfortable leather armors for the walking petting zoo and stuff with toolbelts, pouches and other guff for the weirdo who coughes up explosives all day long.”

Logic 101…but what do i know..

Liewec.2896:

they should make NEW armours instead of giving you our past rewards.
past rewards should stay past rewards.

BAHAHA! New armor? A-net and new armor? Saw the pitifull amount in the expansion? Well.. do you think they would just casually start making new armors now after they already got our money? Dont expect any new armors till the next x-pac…if even then.

Im actually fully for atleast giving people the old sets…so there is atleast something there

90% of medium players most likely agree with you. Most medium armor fits none of their respective classes in style at all…especially not thief and ranger. Also engineers are shafted equally cause there are almost no parts at all that sorta scream out “yeap thats a thief armor” or “well thats certainly meant for ranger” and so on. But meanwhile we get stuff like the bandit sniper outfit onto the gem store… would make pretty darn cool medium armor right? Well…actually why do i even bother to complain…isnt like a-net gives a single care in this world what i (and the people who think like i do) think. Bladed and leystone armor is all you got with the x-pac, if you dont like them or those in vanilla gw2 then its though kitten… more then that you most likely wont get till the next x-pac… if there even will be a next one or you are still arround and care

nah they where too busy to release new hairdos and faces with HoT cause by all means.. they needed to push that outfit\glider bundle out the door with HoT… ya know providing the clone troopers with new armory. I dont fault em… well actually I DO.

dont make me laugh op… really.. dont do it, its not funny anymore. Saw the pityfull amount of (armor) skins we got with HoT? Did you? Now tell me if we even got a single glider with the 50 bucks expansion. No? Then you got your answer…you knew it all along deep inside…like most of us.

Beldin.5498:

Yeah .. i also bought the 100 € version, and have spent maybe 4-5 hours max in the
new areas, and have absolutely no interest to go there ever again.

So what did i got for that ? A (not even full skilled) Reaper and Dragonhunter and
Tyria mastery. Heck .. not even some new armor skins, and that in a skin based
game. Oh forgot .. its now all about raiding like in every other MMO.

Oh but you are wrong there are actually TWO sets per weight class and… i hope you are sitting cause there are actually THREE for the heavies… also guess what… there are backpiece skins and now comes the best part. Each specialisation gets one single freaking armor piece! Yes you heard it right! One piece, dont worry you dont need more then that in a 50 bucks expansion! Also dont worry.. the day HoT was released you also right away could buy another stupid outfit and a nice glider skin…yea.. wouldnt want some of these to earn in game…or more armor skins since i dont even can buy these anymore in the gem store either, only through the power of “balance between game rewards and gem store stuff” this was made possible. Thanks… dev who wrote the blogpost back then..forgot your name and cant find it for the quote, hope you arent offended…and if you are im honestly out of kittens in my litter sorry to say.

Also a-net really did react quickly and gave us an exalted glider cause it sure felt like it was missing…ya know, some prestige glider for doing the meta or finishing a collection related to the exalted… IN THE GEM STORE.

HoT made me quite mad…cause i waited for almost a year for new armor skins, i expected atleast a set of specialisation armors…ya know a nice full skin set for the spec you just unlocked, but nope.. no such luck. I personally wouldnt even care if i atleast could buy more skin packs in the gem store…but not even that is an option anymore.

I struggle atm pretty hard with that question. I main engineer since day 1… but i cant say that im happy anymore with the class. Traitlines are a mess… class visuals are bad, especially now after the general visual nerfs and even after the kit visual changes..especially the bomb kit but also the other kits… lvl 5 rifles look more impressive then the ELITE KIT. Also the general armor weight class is horrible ugly and does not offer many mechanical looking designs cept maybe 2 or 3 sets…and no i dont count outfits, they can go and screw themselfes with these darn things, especially painfull if you wanna play a dirty stereotype (charr engineer), the elite spec is uninspired and doesnt offer much (for me) besides the hammer what might be very awesome but i still regret making the juggernaut legendary, also i dont like a.i besides turrets…and even these things are for me just blast finishers with remote switch and usually helpfull side effects. Also constant nerfs and supposed “buffs” destroyed so many of my handmade non meta builds and nerfing in general got most of the time no ryhme or reason for me. 28% mortar aa nerf? The med kit changes? You insane a-net? Why do you even bother giving engineers a mortar in the first place if you dont want em to use other ranged kits then stupid nades? Also what the hell is the med kit supposed to be? Group support? Yeh.. right. Every way i look at engineer right now is frustrating to me.

To come to a point.. i wish i could say engi is still my fav…but right now i got no fav..what actually saddens me.

Aight… seems my asura get some new toys to play with. Those reek of magitech and cause of the plasma beams they look rather lightweight and they are certainly science… I cant imagine a better set for asuras who sorta like it a bit cultural but cant see the other asuran themed weapons anymore.

The shield certainly goes on my engi, same for the firearms and most likely also the hammer. I also gonna get the GS, dagger and sword…just to be sure. Got no use for them atm.. but i dig these skins, might aswell get all i like.

9\10 from me for those cause the bows arent really that cool. The set might be quite simple in design and details compared to other sets…but it fits and why fix whats not broken anyways. Love the colours too, something new for once.
Shame though.. they should be rata novus loot…but oh well.. lets not devolve this topic to salt….well then, lemme redeem some of my tickets.

Daralii.8940:

Kodama.6453:

Rhomulos.2089:

Likely an older version of the Scrapper’s ascended hammer that doesn’t exist anymore

This. The hammer is shown as the icon of fix-r-upper. I think they changed the skin as they decided to scrap the old scrapper concept and gave him a electric theme instead. The new fix-r-upper just fits more for electric attacks.

But I hope they will implement the old version some day too. It looks really well and I would like to have it.

I really have to wonder why they shelved the Forge concept so late in development.

cause it probably worked…and we cant have that on the engi class…

…boy thats dark. 10\10 would play

…you just wanna see the world burn… dont you

Shoe.5821:

All Asuran tech runs on magic. It’s not clear, but Charr tech seems to be mostly magical as well. Magic is ingrained in every single thing everyone does, as is made clear by the fakeass bullkitten nature of Asuran science

…charr tech runs on combustion engines…

Boy its already 15 years?… Man time flys by. Gratz gaile, glad we gotcha

Trice.4598:

Substatic.6958:

Also can you stop making them and make armor skin sets instead? thanks!

They made it clear a while ago they would no longer make gem store armor skin, armor skins will be obtain through playing the game, while gem store will have the outfits.

And curse the one who came up with that cash grabbing nonsence to oblivion… 2 sets per weight class in a 50 bucks expansion and then right away a new one of these darn things released on launch day AND a week later another one? Yea thanks. Wouldnt want some more sets after waiting a year. Atleast sell me skins if you cant be bothered to put them in game -_-

miriforst.1290:

Basaltface.2786:

Ahhh yes the nerfing continunes. First AA…then my beloved HGH and now the bulwark. Good sooo… lets see. Ah yea the hammer still is viable.. better get to it ireno, it aint gonna nerf itself….

Yeah, given that the hammer is essentially what makes the scrapper strong at the moment it will probably be next on the chopping block. This is what happens when you give a class notorious for its sustain a specialization focused on sustain. Either we become even tankier or we do not, and then the spec is pointless. At the moment the hammer alone carries the spec to a high degree (and the protection on heal which is better used with healing turret than with gyros).

And some of the traits are only strong because they stack with traits of similar purpose.
Speedy recovery stacks well with backpack regenerator and other regeneration traits for example, and should we really be surprised of our might generation capabilities when we got lots of firefields, blasts and 3 traits for might stacking (not including hidden flask and similar minors)? And with hammer might on autos.

and thats exactly why i smell the next nerf a mile against the wind… and this time its the hammer for sure

Ahhh yes the nerfing continunes. First AA…then my beloved HGH and now the bulwark. Good sooo… lets see. Ah yea the hammer still is viable.. better get to it ireno, it aint gonna nerf itself….

Yes indeed i am, i got the darn sword that should be mine in the first place (even if its just a 1 hand sword version rather then a gs and its also broken and i cant use it as engi but watch me give a kitten, for me its more the thought behind it), that darn spotlight stealing, as pact leader unfit radish who dared to command me, a darn iron legion zenturio with leadership and war experience arround bit the dust, i didnt see nor hear him till the end and actually gave the darn orders for once… even effin rytlock brimstone took my orders i mean omg how epic… and i was able to fight with tybalt side by side one last time what was the highlight for me. So yea.. everything is nice now, my universe is in order again and my dignity got restored…thanks a-net.

Like we would get nice things as engineers…

10 gold the legendary armor is gonna be 3 sorta generic but for humans only well made sets without any class feel or clear identity…sorta like ascended