They just need to replace some of the armor with female versions. The Asura essentially have three sets of topless armors right now, for both male and female. Each of these could afford to be changed.
Now if the Asura are some kind of species whose male/female parts are largely internal, or who aren’t mammals (and therefore have no breasts), that would make perfect sense. But their styles of underwear along with several pieces of dialogue in the game indicate otherwise.
Either way, doing so would add a few more effeminate armor styles to the asura to appease those who want them, but not eliminate the non-gender-specific aspect some people seem to perceive in asuran culture, even if that aspect is largely imagined.
Come on, we are the most beat up class in the game! Nerf, nerf, nerf, jus’ about every update. The problem isn’ with Thieves, it’s about the renderin’ on stealth an’ we ain’ the only glass what has stealth skills. Get off our backs already, we need ta stay a playable glass for goodness sake.
How dare the other classes want an opponent they can actually fight and kill instead of either dying to an enemy they can’t see or drawing a fight they rightfully won against an enemy that stealths away like a coward.
Right, because there aren’t three clear-as-day classes that completely dominate SPvP right now… I’m sorry but if you think that ANet has created some kind of perfect closed system, you’re delusional. They’ve said that PvP is far from perfect themselves, and they know just a little more about game design than you do.
Nah, it was an amazing piece of design. I got one, but I sold it, the only class I play that uses the GS is my Asuran Mesmer, and frankly it’s just a waste having nice weapons on an Asura. Plus it doesn’t fit a mesmer anyway. I got a grinning shield too, which I also didn’t want, but I goofed up and transmuted it… Support told me to check back in a few months and see if they have the tools to unsoulbind, as of yet they do not.
Loved her “That’s an interesting costume” line. Didn’t catch her smack down of the Mad King. What happens with that exactly?
Every once in a while the Mad King would stick part way out of the portal and start to squeeze through, she would run up to the portal and lay a magical beatdown until he went back in, it was pretty epic. It wasn’t part of any event, just an animation that happened randomly.
I would really like if they didn’t add Anises armor, and if they stop putting in blatant copies of NPC armor period. I hate, absolutely HATE that the T3 light cultural Asura armor just makes you look like a pixel for pixel copy of Zojja. Blatant laziness on part of the designers.
They already have split some skills, so obviously it isn’t a bad idea. There’s just no precedent that every skill should operate differently in PvP than in PvE, when they find one needs to be split I’m sure ANet will split it.
Changes I would make, particularly to daggers as there is only one combo field in daggers and two blast finishers.
Dagger Earth 5 is no longer a blast, but an earth field during the channel.
Dagger Water 2 is a blast finisher
Dagger Water 5 is a water field
Dagger Air… needs major overhaul on almost every skill…
Dagger Fire 3 is a leap finisher
Correction, you deserved a +1, until you stated Rangers need buffs of all things. Try playing an Elementalist or a Necro, you’ll never complain about your Ranger again. :P
Adrenaline is a hit-it-and-quit-it mechanic. It doesn’t really add much to the Warrior’s playstyle, nor is it a resource you need to manage like the Thief’s initiative.
What? Several of the warrior adrenaline skills have the highest crits in the entire game, I’ve a warrior’s final shot deal a 23000 damage crit. You don’t have to think about when to use it because it’s useful all the time. The same may not go for the thiefs class mechanic, but it is true of most of the thiefs other skills.
Or, in the case of elementalists, half of having a slight chance of winning.
Build tanky or lose, not sure why since every other class can build glassy and still be viable. We don’t have that build option, or any build options for that matter.
Well you may not be calling for nerfs/changes but I am. Fighting thieves is the definition of anti-fun, PvPing against a thief is the least interactive thing in the game, and playing one the least intuitive. I mean look at this, you are clearly ten times the PvPer that this thief is and you still can’t bring him down simply because of the terrible design flaws inherent to his class.
The one thing I would change; if they do something similar with the BL chests again, they need to add diminishing and amplifying returns to them. For example, say the chest only has a 0.75% drop rate for the limited edition holiday items. For each chest you open that does not contain one of those items, your chance of receiving them goes up by 0.15+(0.5*chests opened), then when you receive one it all resets back to the 1%. That way people that actually invest will be rewarded instead of punished. I got everything I wanted from the chests, but most people weren’t so lucky, and many lost faith in ANet and their desire to invest in the future of the game.
Additionally, with the crafted items, there needs to be a scale. Not every crafted item has to be legendary status, there should be level 100, 200, and 300 holiday items to craft. Even if there is some lesser effort and detail put in to them, most people would prefer some mid-tier things that are attainable by your average Joe instead of exclusively top-tier items out of reach to all but the most hardcore crafters.
Terrible idea, will be abused. If you want to know what gear someone has, ask them.
-PLEASE PLEASE a follow option
Will facilitate botting (multi-boxing) so this would be a bad idea.
-Duels
Will be highly unbalanced, people will complain about it endlessly. If the balance for 1v1 combat is addressed it could dramatically alter the balance of the entire game.
Everything else sounds good, though.
ANet has already stated they are working on adding 1v1 Skirmish PvP. And it would work fine as every class can spec in to every roll. I agree on the rest though.
It’s not so much won’t as can’t, they literally do not have the engine tools to spawn in-game items beyond the normal drop system. Save your ticket then bother them again in a few months, maybe they’ll have them in by then.
I would be happy to help people by doing this for free, especially some of the disabled players that will never be able to complete the puzzle. But I could get banned for asking for login information, and I’m pretty sure they could get banned for giving it to me.
I’ve done it in a few minutes with a partial group, I’m a level 70 dagger Ele with crapshoot gear that frequently forgets to switch attunements.
EDIT @ Gall: A moderator once stated that this is reportable, or at least something like it. A guy got kicked out of a group for being an elementalist, posted on the forums, and the mod confirmed that he had every right to report the group. Now whether that stretches in to discrimination for level and other things I don’t know, but I would say yes since everyone is technically the same level in the dungeon.
The events which cause the doors to appear in Queensdale, Gendarran Fields, and Kessex Hills are all bugged on Yak’s Bend Server. They just repeat and repeat without the doors ever opening. It has been bug reported by many many people on the server.
2200 candy corn is virtually nothing unfortunately, enough to craft half of the mats for a single weapon. Crafting The Crossing for example requires 20 Superior sigils of the night, which take 200 candy corn each.
Incorrect. Superior Sigil of the Night takes 100 candy corn each, so 2000 candy corn is enough for all 20 sigils.
My mistake, still, with each item costing over 2000 candy corn to craft, and candy corn only being available during the event, Candy Corn will run out sooner than everyone thinks. And not likely before it’s price sharply rises beyond the reaches of the average player.
2200 candy corn is virtually nothing unfortunately, enough to craft half of the mats for a single weapon. Crafting The Crossing for example requires 20 Superior sigils of the night, which take 200 candy corn each.
I’m not so worried about strong as I am about interesting, some of the races clearly had a lot of though and effort put into their racials, and some clearly did not.
Out of curiosity, how many feel that a 100% free market would be a good idea?
Nope. I’m a hardcore supporter of capitalism, it does the greatest good for the greatest amount of people possible, even if not for each equally. But even I know that there has to be restrictions in place, there will always be those who will not look out for the greater good unless forced.
I hardly even played Guild Wars 1 and I’ve thought since the beginning that BL salvage kits should be like this, they just do not make sense as they are.
25/15 is too short. Doesn’t feel like a compensation at all.
I didn’t edit my original suggestion, but I’m more inclined towards 4x the normal cooldowns.
That means swapping weapons puts a 40 second cooldown on Attunements, changing Attunement puts a 60 second cooldown on Weapon Swap.
Elementalist is already very versatile.
Weapon Swap should feel like an option, not a buff.
So my suggestion aims to give Elementalists:
- The flavor to play a single element on 2 weapons if you commit yourself to spending 40 seconds without changing Weapons.
- The ability to swap weapons if you commit yourself to spending 60 seconds without changing Attunement.
I think this sort of commitment makes it fair against other professions.
I see what you mean, but that high of a CD worries me in SPvP. If you are facing a longbow/shortbow ranger and you get stuck in daggers for 60 seconds, you’re boned. He’s going to kite you to death, and there’s nothing you can do. Similarly, what happens if you get stuck in earth against a warrior who runs three condition removals? Once again, 40 seconds is a death sentence. One of the things this needs to fix is our inability to adapt to our enemies in combat. Too long of a CD, and this will just make it worse by giving the elementalist a heaping helping of niche builds. I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’m just saying that long of a CD greatly worries me.
I like the concept behind this idea.
However, letting Weapon Swap not put Attunements on cooldown is unbalanced.
Each of the 2 actions must place the other type of action on a longer-than-usual cooldown for it to be fair, otherwise you are giving the profession a significative, unwarranted buff:
When you change Attunement, the Attunements go into the usual 15 second cooldown, and the Weapon Swap must go into a 30~60 second cooldown.
Yes, 2, 3 or even 4 times as long as the usual Attunement cooldown. You play the Elementalist, having access to multiple elements by being locked to 1 weapon.
When you swap Weapon, the Weapon Swap goes into the 10 second cooldown, but the Attunements must go into a 20~40 second cooldown.
Yes, 2, 3 or even 4 times as long as the normal Weapon Swap cooldown. You play the Geo/Aero/Pyro/Hydromancer, able to swap weapons by being locked to 1 element.
I think this would make Weapon Swapping for Elementalists fun, balanced and provide alot of flavour.
It would give players the option to play the “Aero/Geo/Pyro/Hydromancer” instead of Elementalist if they wish to, by giving up the ability to swap Attunements for a long while every time they swap weapons.
Hey, whoa! Since you posted I can actually access the thread without using that stupid link in my history. You’re MAGIC!
Anyway, I edited the OP days ago with changes from your contribution. Swapping attunements puts your weapon swap on a 25 second CD, swapping weapons puts your attunements on a 15 second CD. I’m debating longer CDs, but for now that’ll do.
Pretty cool idea actually, I would pay real cash for this, character appearance is a big deal to me and right now any look I want to ‘save’ takes up six slots in my bank.
You know, the way I see it is that the thing that differentiates Elementalist from other classes is the attunement mechanic. The main difference between say an Elementalist and a warrior is the fact that an Elementalist has 20 weapon skills available with any one build instead of 10, and these weapon skills are typically all one range category, but are always more “generalist” and not very specialized.
In other words, an Ele can always heal, DPS and CC regardless of what build they have. While a warrior will typically build to focus on one of those things.
Trying to add a feature that locks Ele into one attunement goes against what I perceive to be the fundamental philosophy of the class. I really feel like some people just want to be a fire wizard or whatever and they are complaining that Elementalist does not fit into their expectation.
But the problem in this scenario is not the elementalist…the problem is their expectation.
To the average player, not solid PvPers or hardcore gamers, stylistic difference matters more than mechanical. So long as there is a class that uses the four elements, people will have desire to fulfill fantasies about being an aeromancer, pyromancer, geomancer, or hydromancer. And the traits and many other aspects of elementalist play strongly suggest that this is a playstyle the designers intended to make available, but apparently failed to.
Has this thread been deleted? I was hoping for more discussion on this…
Nope, but days ago the thread was giving an error; I contacted support, they said they were working on it. I’m in now but I had to follow through a link on my profile, actually clicking on the thread wasn’t working.
EDIT: Yep, I’m still getting the error. After every post the whole thread disappears and locks me out of posting. I have to sort through my post history and find the one single link that allows me to access the thread.
I didn’t say report them I said contact support, and tell them that this is happening. Doing so will allow them to work on locking these transformations out in the puzzle, and will do so without spreading the word to potentially more griefers.
Lack of indication is a little annoying. I managed to find everything by myself in Mad King World without any problems. However, how does one begin the search for Memories VII? There’s no indication telling you where to start. Without VII, you can’t find VIII-XII.
Read the hint on the book you got in Act 1 maybe?
Or use a guide, because that hint isn’t even remotely clear to anybody who doesn’t delve deep in to the game lore, which is most everyone.
I think somebody must have somehow hit the NPC with an ability or something that screwed up the quest. Back in beta there were several NPCs that could be forced to move, and if you did so successfully, the events and such for them became unresponsive.
Fourth times a charm apparently, got in to the room and it didn’t reset on me. This must be some kind of timing glitch, and should be looked at. Didn’t do a thing differently than the other three times.
Just got in to the room a third time, reset me back to the beginning before I could even grab the chest. And I’m not saying, i jumped and it reset, the room inside the clocktower loaded, then I was teleported.
I did the tower before the patches yesterday without a hitch. Twice today I have successfully reached the last room, only to be teleported back to the start when the puzzle resets for the others who didn’t make it.
EDIT: I’m not saying I jumped and then it loaded me back at the beginning, I’m saying, I jumped, it loaded me in the room with the chest and the mad king door, then it ported me back to the start from that room.
If someone’s going to bother to cheat, they’re not going to speed hack, they’re going to teleport hack to the end.
… so I just witnessed a teleport hacker. They were standing, waiting for the window to break. I loaded in before them, they took the chest, ran out. I loaded before them again, they teleported away… lolz.
I reported them for botting… wtb a exploits/hacks/cheats option.
It might have not been a hack, I ran it twice where I jumped off, somehow the fog didn’t take effect and I died on a lower platform, rezzing from where I had jumped off. I wasn’t able to recreate it on purpose though.
And, for windborn speed, pretty sure it doesn’t work in the jumping puzzle. If you look at your bar, whenever you are in an attunement you have a corresponding buff. All buffs disappear inside the puzzle, including your attunement.
This must have happened with one of the mini patches then, I did it yesterday morning (before the two ‘new build’ interruptions) without a problem, obtained the book and everything. And I am on Yak’s Bend.
Support told me to check back in a few months and see if they have the tools to unsoulbind, as of yet they do not.