Those that haven’t played it will be blown away by the numerous builds GW1 has.
Get this…you can put any skills you want on the skill bar, your weapon doesn’t determine it.
Yeah…you read that right.
They’ll also be blown away by the amount of redundant skills.
Just 1 class and you complain? Diamond skin can counter a whole set-up,condition necro own boon classes and has higher win rate against other condition builds…
Changing a class mechanic for 1 trait only seems very minor,very very minor.
Actually it’s not to difficult to get past Diamond Skin, getting an ele (or any class) below 90% heatlh really is not super hard.
Ascended Gear is only worth it IF one or more of the following apply to you
1. You like the look of it
2. You want the fairly small stat boost (somewhat nice for weapon/trinkets/back piece, insignificant for armor)
3. You want to run level 50 fractals (even then, you CAN get all the AR you need with two infused rings, you’ll just need highly upgraded Agony Infusions)
4. You have nothing else to spend gold/laurals on.
If none of those apply to you, avoid them entirely.
I still remember this scavenger hunt and how fun it was, but I seem to have misplaced my Mad Memoires copy due to lack of inventory space and prefering the higher stats on the upgraded version…
Would it be possible to unlock the Mad Memoires skin in the wardrobe of anyone that has the Mad Memoires: Complete Edition unlocked, since the first step was a requirement to get the upgraded version?
Or present a way to reaquire the skin if it was “misplaced”?
I tend to get snarky when people start looking down on others with different playstyles. I am specifically referring to Harper’s quote, which apparently tries to gather support for a “gated community” where “Really experienced players” (another quote) do not have to encounter “newer players” anymore.
I am pretty sure this is against any game developer’s philosophy.
You seem to have missed the point of his/her post entirely then.
Really experienced players find themselves hanging out in the same areas as newer players because there’s nowhere you can go and apply your experience in order to earn more rewards/better rewards/more unique rewards.
Oh, how terrible! You have to see n00bs! The smell must be unbearable!
Seriously, this thread can be summed up as “I want preferential treatment for my playstyle, and who do ArenaNet think they are by catering to people with other interests?”
The sad thing is that this elite cadre of “Really Cool Veteran Players” is not united in their opinions on everything. It is just rhetoric; if you say that many people will agree with you (regardless of whether they actually do), you sound more important.
Oh look, the typical “I’m gonna degrade your argument instead of actually trying to provide a counter argument” response.
maybe just do like some other games do, have a forced death that allows you to explain the downed state, maybe during the tutorial instance one of the mobs gets to insta-down you or something
Back in beta, each intro end boss had a special attack that would spawn weak enemies that was followed by an attack that would down your character. This was the first downed, rally and revive experience, but you were left to figure out the mechanic yourself.
Then they nerfed it as well as the damage and health of all mobs in the early levels. Ettins for example could 1 shot an elementalist with their special attack back then.
I miss those days.
I still remember the fire shaman in plains of ashford being able to delete a zerg instantly if people didn’t pay attention to his shield. Good times.
Do you guys think that there’s a middle ground between ultra hard and easy?
For example, I think we could clean up some of the issues with the Shatterer and just make it a more engaging experience. So rather than spending the entire fight hiding under his right paw he could, say, turn his head and attack that area? :] It doesn’t have to be hard, just a little more involved.
We tried to put in a few changes here and there when we added the new world boss timers. Reactions varied.
Honestly I felt that Mary was the perfect example of difficulty that satisfies both crowds.
Ascended armor is extremely dependent on two things
1. Dye, the image you linked is an example of horrendous dyes + body shape ruining armor. This is not unique to ascended med, that would look terrible on any outfit.
May not be to your taste, but it fits mine perfectly in that I wanted a battle mage look. Though I’ll likely switch to sPVP light when it comes out. I’m sure I could put together something with the med, but sadly I do not have leatherworking at 500 + working solely on my ele atm.
I’m hoping that the changes announced next week will include a change to BLTC chests; particularly, making the chests more valuable and more worth spending real money to open. Who would buy a BLTC key right now?
“We felt having scraps were far to complicated as they confused new players into thinking they could buy a skin. As such we felt it best to remove scraps entirely.”
Minister Caudecus and his guests have been monopolizing the carnival/shooting range in Divinity’s Reach for two years now – isn’t it about time to tell the guests to go home so us common citizens can see what the fuss is all about?
Only if they decide to work it into the living story.
Oh you didn’t know? If it doesn’t involve the LS, it’s meaningless.
Maybe I’m crazy, but I saw nothing in that blog post that mentioned anything about keys. They did mention that they would reevaluate rewards. My guess is that the gear you get to choose from will actually become useful. But removing keys as a PS story reward? I’m not seeing it, but maybe I forgot my tinfoil hat….
Considering so far they’ve only brought over the chinese changes with little or no change, it’s safe to assume the first “bundle” is unlocked at level 10.
This is bad, even for new players who don’t key farm.
The 1st birthday was not tied to Scarlet’s invasion, it just happened to be the same time. Tbh they could have easily delayed the story till after the 1st birthday and it would have made just as much sense.
The entire PvE design is flawed; if you’re not a might stacking zerker you’re doing it wrong; and that’s bad… mmmk.
Guess I’ve been playing the game wrong for 2 years now, dang.
If you’re fully reliant on condition bosses, please don’t come to world bosses. You’re literally doing nothing but scaling the boss. Please go play something else.
I shall now bring my condi necro to every single world boss you do.
No real issues adressed with some heavy handed nerfs on the side.
Laughable.
OH NOES FGS IS NERFED WHATEVER SHALL WE DO, OH NO WE CAN’T ABUSE THE PRETTY OBVIOUSLY UNINTENDED TORNADO GLITCH ANYMORE
Oh right, aoe vuln and continue nuking.
Sorry, but you people who honestly think we’re being hit hard are adorable. If you honestly required FGS to not be useless in groups or Tornado-meteor to be useful in a zerg, you shouldn’t be playing ele.
You cannot deny we took some of the biggest nerfs of all profession (40% of our damage out put??). Which for all intends and purposes was expected. Now we have no elite skills worth noting, yeah fgs for running away. Very occasional use of elementals. Now again you could say: Well first fix the old stuff and next consider buffs. However like you pointed out balance patches are infrequent, they will leave us without viable elites for half a year.
No, you and so many others are just making mountains out of mole hils. Remember how revealed kill thief in pvp and pve?
Oh, it didn’t you say?
Shocker.
FGS will still be strong, just not broken strong in PVE. The elemental summon DOES have it’s uses, I have no clue how you all manage to lose your elementals so fast in high level dungeons as mine always live long enough in fractal 50 and such to do what I needed them to do.
Tornado is the only legit complaint, as the fact that it was useful only due to a bug is an issue. Though quite honestly, this is a problem with tons of elites, not just ele.
No real issues adressed with some heavy handed nerfs on the side.
Laughable.
OH NOES FGS IS NERFED WHATEVER SHALL WE DO, OH NO WE CAN’T ABUSE THE PRETTY OBVIOUSLY UNINTENDED TORNADO GLITCH ANYMORE
Oh right, aoe vuln and continue nuking.
Sorry, but you people who honestly think we’re being hit hard are adorable. If you honestly required FGS to not be useless in groups or Tornado-meteor to be useful in a zerg, you shouldn’t be playing ele.
but the FGS nerf will mean zilch in the grand scheme of (PvE) things.
Exactly, so quit the kittening.
Sorry I’m just so tired of the people crying that “we’re going back to the 4 war/1 guard meta!!111!1!1”
The problem with you guys justifying the changes is that you completely ignore that the elite is now not useful for any real purpose, the only purpose being launching off a cliff, which is so niche you will probably never slot it, maybe after a hard won fight in a Lord’s room you might think “hind sight I should have used tornado to push everyone out of the circle so we could cap easier”
But it’ll all be hindsight. Because almost every time you’ll have FGS slotted as an escape weapon instead
Oh I’ll agree with tornado being useless now (the fact that it was only good for a bug that needed to be fix is a problem) , I just am tired of people kittening and crying like ele is dead now.
No, Ele as a class is still good, it’s just our elites that are bad now.
Sorry I should have been more clear, wasn’t saying you were saying ele was dead, it was more of a blanket statement directed at certain other people on this forum/reddit. I apologize if you took it otherwise.
(also sorry if I misunderstood your post also, kind of out of it tonight)
The problem with you guys justifying the changes is that you completely ignore that the elite is now not useful for any real purpose, the only purpose being launching off a cliff, which is so niche you will probably never slot it, maybe after a hard won fight in a Lord’s room you might think “hind sight I should have used tornado to push everyone out of the circle so we could cap easier”
But it’ll all be hindsight. Because almost every time you’ll have FGS slotted as an escape weapon instead
Oh I’ll agree with tornado being useless now (the fact that it was only good for a bug that needed to be fix is a problem) , I just am tired of people kittening and crying like ele is dead now.
No real issues adressed with some heavy handed nerfs on the side.
Laughable.
OH NOES FGS IS NERFED WHATEVER SHALL WE DO, OH NO WE CAN’T ABUSE THE PRETTY OBVIOUSLY UNINTENDED TORNADO GLITCH ANYMORE
Oh right, aoe vuln and continue nuking.
Sorry, but you people who honestly think we’re being hit hard are adorable. If you honestly required FGS to not be useless in groups or Tornado-meteor to be useful in a zerg, you shouldn’t be playing ele.
Today announced changes for the next update, and the elementist was harmed some more time they decreed the end of FGS and made other changes of little or no relevance,so I wonder is it really worth playing with a character other than the thief ? because today the light are just punching bags while the Arena Net makes the thief to be a God should rename the game to “die for one thief”
From what I saw, those who succeeded the event, never went on to the next one. My feeling was they just wanted to crash the party! It only got toxic when the trolls came out to play. Then again, there is a bridge right next to the event, go figure huh!
This is usually what happens yes.
In fact, I once saw a troll commander complete it one day, and then the very next day that EXACT commander was doing the farm and getting kittened at people for trolling it.
Oh Wildstar shares the servers too? That’s kinda…I mean I get NCsoft and stuff but that just seems silly. You lose both games instead of just one. Twice the amount of people who don’t get to do anything.
Tbh, this is really nothing new.
A lot of companies share data centers for their games. IIRC, even Blizzard.
It’s possible that it is simply an NPC only weapon.
I can’t see them releasing a “superior” version ingame after putting the “inferior” version in the gem shop simply because while I would like it ingame, I can see many people feeling ripped off.
Many of these boss fights are hard for the softer classes. I did with my ele first and she died a lot. I’m not such a good dodger but there is hardly anyplace to dodge to it’s mostly red rings. All of these boss fights are doable but I would say too long and a bit boring once you get the Idea of what to do it’s just a long boring drawn out battle that could be shortened 25%.
My real opinion is they were really intended to so in pairs or small groups. And it’s the devs way of punishing solo play. Like being required to do some fractals to finish the backpiece punishment for solo play.
Did it on my ele, staff, zerker, solo (first time) challenge mode (second time).
1200 range, mist form, arcane shield makes it loleasy
Hell there are some corners of the room that allow you to avoid everything except that attack that hits the entire room at the same time.
