New Legendaries
Don’t worry SAB is returning
Pre cursor crafitng is coming soon
HoT will launch in 2015
Months/Years Later um the reason SAB hasnt returned is due to a change we made last week with dot/dash changes this will also cover why we didnt release SAB all those months prior to those changes too.
New legendaries have been announced years after our initial commitment we are proud to offer 3 weapons with three more coming years down the line at our next expansiooi…. I mean soon.. yes soon..
Pre Crafting was soon like we said 2+ years and tied to an expac we keep our word.
HoT 2015…. um yeah… you still trust us right?? Then 2015!!
SAB isn’t coming back and there never going to refund those coins they sold as Anet isn’t the saintly company some of you white knights make them out to be and sure there better than most of the others on many fronts but people have learned to never take a single thing they say as face value.
You know many other MMO’s use Mounts for this sort of thing since there purely a cosmetic item. There isn’t any difference if your moving 33% faster with swiftness or on a reskin of your toon on a horse.
We have items like Sunless skins, Queen Bee, and Wurm Armor but the problem with all of those are there loaded with RNG. You can get the items on your first kill but that’s not the problem I’m refering to as unlike other MMO’s we lack raids these bosses aren’t at the end of some quest to test your skills there purely bosses. Sure Aetherblade path fixes this by having unique skins in its end chest but its a 5 man dungeon the point of raids is that numerous people get a chance to open the chest to roll at the same time. Plus more people can make it harder for people to carry other people thus making everyone contribute to the end raid objective. Out of all of them the Queen Bee makes the least sense as you can’t equip jewels to ascended trinkets so you have to force kitten yourself into an exotic to even use the thing.
I just hope they add back some of the old dyes….
Electro blue has been over 1000g for months which isn’t right a dye shouldn’t be bumping shoulders with precursors and legendaries(underwater). All because Anet wont add certain dye packs back into the shop to restock the supply.
Warriors had the most weapon choices to begin with so it makes sense there weapon choices would be strange. That said they may be the cap on the number of specializations they’ll introduce as a ele/eng can go on for some time adding new specializations but a warr cannot as they aready haev most of them unlocked.
Also not all the starting weapon selections even made sense for instance the main hand pistol on a mesmer? The have offhand pistol the only class with that alone but if a class can shoot a pistol with there off hadn shouldn’t they be able to do so with there main hand? Mesmer is the duelist class after all. Shield and sword makes sense for dueling I suppose but still.
Also only 2 class in the entire game can use rifle? So thief better be getting a rifle cause I’d like actually use some of the skins I collect.
I hope not I have everything I need for Quip with the exception of the pre and would hate to hate do anything in the new maps really before I aquire the weapon.
I see people have stated that mastery points are retroactive but what we lack in knowledge still has me worried namely the mats that will be needed for crafting. Whether there off some monsters found in the final zone or a drop off the final boss we simply don’t know as of yet.
SW is a distraction to keep the masses busy until HoT’s release.
Also decent rewards and a F2P model really don’t go together as any unuqie and varied item will no doubt be a cash shop item. If we do get something there will be multiple versions of it like carapace and lum armor. It will also be more time dependent than challenging to keep people on.
Toxic Tower was the closest thing we ever had to a raid in this game and maybe it’s just me but I don’t think items should be tied to 5 man teams. They should have something with a difficulty high enough to require traits and skill of multiple classes in order to get a speed clear while still doable in the same old random group but challenging enough to were people have to rely on each other more than a simple rally.
Not an elitist however the elitism problem arises from lack of content
No new dungeons or content means people will be more stringent and less forgiving after 100+ runs when there is an error or mistake. These people need new dungeons to test and to push themselves furthermore the raid mechanic is completely lacking from this game. People would care less when there more inclined to fill up there raid then wait for a specific dps class. A raid gives from leeway for weaker classes and adds new content for new experiences at the same time. The burden is much higher in a 5 man dungeon than it is in a raid. However this game lacks traditional trinity roles so a raid would no doubt be a zerg. Without trinity some classes like Necro are simply left behind as what role can they possibly fill?
Zero, nada, none, zip, nothing, you best be dreaming because all the new skins in this game will be in the cash shop. Not only that but… oh wait we’ve had beta weekend and already had a glimpse of future skins to come and even weapons sets have already been documented. This isn’t Shaman datamined data either as who knows when those unreleased skins he dug will ever be released.
At any rate one of the new weapon sets coming with HoT the Makeshift line…
Well I was going to link them but it seems the Wiki is messing up or they’ve simply been taken down. If anyone else has a decent link to the Makeshift weapon set or even a single Makeshift Weapon that would be helpful as that’s proof of new sets and not just from the mouths of the devs.
HoT in 2015!?
More like parade the game in front of more shows like PAX instead…
If HoT does release in 2015 it will be more like late November/December and if that’s the case HoT will be washed away in the tide of holiday releases and sales. Who is going to buy HoT on Black Friday if it’s the only game not on sale because it released a week prior or even a week after.
We still have more beta weekends which took weeks to even get the first one since announced so it will probably be a couple more weeks for the second as we obviously aren’t getting one this weekend. We still have half of our classes without specialization reveals though Revenant does tip the reveals to 5 with 4 to go. Furthermore the anniversary events are in about two weeks or so and that no doubt will be another week without HoT info.
MMO’s take to much time and I don’t really play them during the holidays as I’m simply far to busy. I don’t preorder anything without a release date but a release in the busy holiday months makes perfect sense when you consider they’ve been acquiring pre-orders for some time now. The only reason any company does such a thing is if they know there going to launch in a bad time so the sheer fact there doing such is further proof there going to release late in the holiday season and that’s why they wanted your money up front. As for me I’ll get HoT in January if it releases anywhere near Halloween or after.
Magic Carpet, Drill, and Broom
A Mount is a cosmetic item meant to fluff up playtime through collection and end game content rewards. Any games with mounts will generally have multiple methods of travel.
In GW2 we have three items already so the question becomes in a Cash Shop style game why they don’t sell more items in the same scheme as the Carpet, Drill, and Broom?
cus no one buys them XD, i mean how many people do you see actually use them?(im not for or against more items like this btw)
I use the broom on my asura because she is dressed like a witch. I’m pretty sure that the reason the mount lovers don’t buy what is already available is because they aren’t over the top “hey look at me…. please please look at me” or have a speed boost that would wreak the class balance.
I’m going to go with theme this game does have many items to create certain themes for your characters. AS the poster said they use the broom since there dressed like a Witch. As for myself my logging tool, mini pet, back item, and finisher all share a particular theme. This theme doesn’t carry over with any legendaries, mail carriers, mini mounts, harvesters, or mining tools and if they existed i would indeed buy them however they do not and thus I don’t buy the items.
If Anet spent more time completing sets they started already like Jack in the Box, Frost Wasp, or even things to complement finishers and mail carries I think they’d see more sales for mount style items. If they add them then they need to flood the game with them like other games.
Seeing how Anti-Toxin Spray was removed from the game without replacement I might add.. Also the TriChest moved to LA…
The chance for Toxic Tower ever returning seems slim to none so yes I would agree that Kessex Hills needs to be fixed. I started in the middle of Toxic Living Story and I’ve never seen the original map as the spores and tower already existed.
Either return Toxic Tower as an event or fix the map to its original state as it’s just plane depressing as it is now. Much like SAB in Rata Sum.
Magic Carpet, Drill, and Broom
A Mount is a cosmetic item meant to fluff up playtime through collection and end game content rewards. Any games with mounts will generally have multiple methods of travel.
In GW2 we have three items already so the question becomes in a Cash Shop style game why they don’t sell more items in the same scheme as the Carpet, Drill, and Broom?
FF14 focuses to heavily on PVE and not enough on PVP furthermore elitism in that game is weird as people demand tanks and heals to break there trinity roles?
AA is exactly how the people depicted it earlier
If anything they did wait to long and it’s too late they paraded HoT like some horse and pony show across every major gaming show what was the last one Gamescon? We had in game footage months ago and they wanted to parade it infront of the gaming journalism tabloids instead of buckling down. Heck we all know that we have more beta weekends and more weeks were they’ll just reveal a specialization for that entire week. We still have Eng, War, Thief, and Ranger left that’s basically half the classes still if you don’t count the odd revenant.
Now everything will be dedicated to Legion news and WoW’s change in there model design and upcoming changes with the expac. Gameshows, Websites, and so forth will be WoW now. If they truly go to a yearly model then it only becomes worse for this game.
They can continue to run the circuit as they have been doing but the light will be on WoW from here on out. More so because WoD was so terrible and they’d want to push harder or seem like they are to push publicity and regain lost numbers.
DPS-PVE-Zerk da Dungeons
TANK-PVP-Camp the capture point
HEAL-WVW-The smaller zerg eats the bigger zerg
They removed Anti Toxin Spray from the game..
Didn’t give us a refund for all the skill points gold and time it took to unlock the skill…
So yes clean it up as all chances of a return to the tower died with that skills removal it’s just am eyesore in kessex now. You can’t even farm Tri-keys anymore so whats the point!? They should revert it back to the way it was prior to the tower if they’ve going that far as to remove the heal skill we had to unlock during that time.
They’re fine however…
Aquatic Legendaries need more going for them like more skills triggering shark or added effects to the harpoon gun and trident.
Some legendary weapons need added effect’s like focus and shield to bring them to the level of other Legendaries.
Subbed games still have account services and even cash shop so TC is well….
A sub game generally doesn’t have to deal with what we’re currently seeing in the way of WvW golem exploits right now though there always on top of stability and glitches. Also Sub games tend to have the cash to do proper phasing of zones, more money for a better script(Sylvari must always be the Bond villain is extremely dull), and permenant content not this temporary deal we had the entire season 1. Maps for SaB, Lab Cliffs, Toxic Tower, and so forth all exist there just not in the game. Also sub games are faster in terms of content as GW2 is now going on three years and we still don’t have a release date for an expac. So many beta’s too while other have one big beta we’ve had Beta weekends all summer and those who farmed those portals earlier in the year are out of luck as beta is tied to pre-order sales now.
yes we are and even more overdue for an actually release date or window.
If these special beta weekends are going to be farther than 2 weeks apart then who actually thinks this game is going to release in the summer much less the fall. If we have Revenant beta weekends then the other elites will probably have one too. Then legendary weapon reveals, beta’s for HoT maps, Beta’s for Revenant elite, beta’s for betas and even more to come after. All while pushing pre-orders while never giving a release date as if the amount of pre-orders will effect the game like it was some sort of kickstarter deal. Pre-orders should’ve only been given out after the release date was given these days every other post is about a refund. You should never give money to any company without a release date unless your funding there project.
Buy this SAB coin for $10 and then we remove SAB….(Sab infinite coin)
Play this PvP map its different it has water invest in some gear for it then we remove all water from PvP and pvp lobby… (Water areas in PvP)
Spend time, currencies(Gold, spores, and skill points), and energy unlocking this heal skill and then we will remove it from the game…. (Anti-Toxin Spray Heal)
We feel after three years we need to completely axe some playstyles and force people to change thus tossing the balance of pvp into chaos…(Removal of clone death mechanic in mesmers)
Anet is the worst dev I’ve dealt with thus far not even Blizzard does this type of thing so it makes sense that people are disgruntled as is and certain things are indeed enough to push them over the egde. Tuesday was supposed to be the bi-weekly patch day adn we got nothing not even a fix for WvW glitches. My WvW is dead since my server is apparently the smallest in the game(Kiening). But according to Anet they are all highly populated so they can overcharge on transfer fees. There are many things wrong with this game and unlike other MMO’s it’s not the game itself it’s the developers so people are more upset with Anet/NCsoft than they are about WvW. WvW is just the last push to get them moving along.
Free Transfers are a must I come from a small server and down that low things are not balanced at all. Then come events like this that gives an incentive and it’s like we don’t even exist in WvW.
The smallest servers should be removed and free transfers given to those people affected. As a low pop server works until events like this or a tourney.
Either that or discounts because no one honestly believes that all the servers are currently high population. They should be honest and have different pricing depending to and where a person is heading. A higher going into a lower should be discounted and the lowest pop should be removed completely and those people given free transfers or given a discount as well to enter a world that actually has WvW activity.
I’m from Kiening and everything is blue and everything will remain blue for the entire week. We are a small server and this insentive has made it so that one server has basically dominated WvW and farms teh other two for bags.
EOTM never has a CMD these days because there all probably on there home server maps.
This entire event is a burden on smaller servers as well as those dedicated to WvW.
It’s true people want SAB they’ve always wanted SAB to return and I continue to check up on this game in case they decide to release SAB. Not so much these days as I log in for a min to gain mats to chuck down the legendary toilet and call it a day.
It doesn’t have to be SAB we had other events such as Lab Cliffs, Dragon bash, Crown Pavilion, and so forth and yet they won’t add any of them. All the temporary content exists as it was implemented and yes LA has changed and dashes too but much of the old content needs either LA or Jumping to complete. There emphasis on temporary content continues to be the albatross for this game.
It’s obvious there releasing content for only those HOT preorders and those people can’t even keep the loot the find. I don’t preorder anything without a release date and not from this company after the SAB coin debacle either.
Challenging content with a game that only focuses on one facet of the holy trinity just isn’t possible. Enemies need to attack more than you can dodge and do more damage than your one utility skill can handle in addition cancel out or redirect damage incoming damage as well as move faster across ground as well.
GW1 had these things but while tanks couldn’t taunt they had dedicated healers in GW1 so places like Underworld and other higher level areas existed. This game is just a zerg fest whether a 5man zerg in dungeons or many more in WvW. Gw1 also didn’t force a healing slot on you and it was up to choice about whether or not to bring a heal or rez.
Until we start moving in the direction of a trinity this game will be as easy mode as ever. Whether your for such a thing or against it people seem to fall into too camps those who desire raids and more difficult content and the more casuals who simple don’t want to be pigeonheld waiting for a specific role to do content.
Fractals are already locked away from casuals so both are completely possibly and the revenant proves it. A minor implementation would fit the needs of everyone and making the heal slot optional would just further help to move it along. A person who wants to tank and run lowbies through content of someone who just wants to heal during Teq doesn’t break anything except exand the methods of play people have to choose from also allowing raids and other difficult content to exist like Fractals. Fractals are locked behind Agony so a Raid deal can be locked behind monsters that hit like trucks with OP spells that require a high level of teamwork to stay alive.
We are getting ugly purple and yellow butterfly wings soon so other than a sea of purple and yellow characters trying to get something that matches I suppose those should be added to your back pack list…
http://dulfy.net/2015/07/07/gw2-upcoming-gemstore-items-from-july-7-patch/
Wouldn’t mind the butterfly wings if they could be dyed but they literally took a sylvari painted it’s skin yellow and purple, dyed it’s armor yellow and purple, just to get the yellow and purple wings to match…
Little over 1000 and zip
Legends were supposed to be something to reward play if I remember correctly something that can come about naturally. Of course this isn’t the case and people who have played for years and supported this game have nothing to show for there hard work. In less than a months time I could gather the remaining mats I would need to complete a legendary aside the precursor and the level of RNG involved just isn’t right… I know many people like myself who have the Gifts crafted yet lack the precursor…
Yes of course,
Gw1 was known for cosmetic skills since their were so few overall.
Gw2 has a single bar as well though we have less customization since were locked into weapons, heal, and elite. More skins, cosmetic weapons, even sub weapons of existing weapons. Like a GA wielding Mesmer who actually swings the thing instead of spamming lazers like the GS. The fact that weapons are locked behind elite specializations and that skills are replaced for utilities just makes it worse.
Gw1 wins no doubt the game even had cosmetic skills and complete sets of skills while Gw2 has neither.
Should a Well using Necro have access to an elite Well?
Should a Mesmer who uses Phantasms have a heal and elite Phantasm and Clone?
MM have a minion for every slot and Spirit Rangers also have a spirit for every slot though this isn’t the case for all the class or skills and for that reason in addition to the fact that elites had a more important role in gw1 I find the skills in Gw2 lacking…
I didn’t even mention underwater combat as that would make Gw1 the winner hands down as we can’t even use a good deal of our skills under water. Look at the golem for instance.
They can’t even balance the classes we have right now for underwater combat.
I wouldn’t say it’s dead either as they have been converting a few skills every now and then for underwater use. I think the guardian recently had one of its’ shouts converted for underwater or something.
I’d be happy if it just had a footfall effect myself maybe scattered pages or text on the ground or something.
If not that then maybe an aura deal just make the projection that the shield has a full body effect.
Let's have 3 different borderlands instead
in WvW Desert Borderlands Stress Test
Posted by: Doam.8305
EoTM was built for it’s karma farming system though and fixed some of the problems we had in the standard WvW with people who would only join to farm karma and not defend anything.
Probably next week and for those who didn’t know about it..
http://dulfy.net/2015/07/07/gw2-upcoming-gemstore-items-from-july-7-patch/
Personally Butterfly wings are not Angel wings their much harder to pair and your probably going to have to alter the colour scheme of your entire set just for them to look right. So I’m giving these a pass unless there can be dyed. I can understand the angel wings not having that option but these are butterfly wings and color is more important and yellow/purple/black or any static color combination for something like this won’t do and put some people off from buying it. I’m sure most people have a two or three color combination for the wings that would send them rushing to the gem store.
Remembers his old clone death build…..
I think they will release it at the same time another big MMO comes out, such as Blade&Soul in December. They are forcing pre-purchases right now so that when they release it at the same time as the other MMO, people who have pre-purchased will feel compelled to stay in GW2 to play HoT(because they have already spent money on it) and not leave for the new MMO that comes out.
Nope
Anet is under NCSoft and NCsoft is the one the directs Anet and the other companies under there belt on the guidlines they need to follow. Like people QQ’n about price and the expac a few weeks back that was decided by NCsoft and Blade and Soul is one of there MMO’s. Just like when Wildstar released we will see a content drought as NcSoft doesn’t want to give any room for product cannibalization. Whenever Aion, Wildstar, and so forth gets a major patch or update the other MMO’s tend to lay low.
You mention Blade and Soul in December and I’m sure in December Wildstar and GW2 won’t have a single major release or patch until a few weeks after its’ release.
At least with the old version of thing when in a zerg even if the clones died in that monstrous AOE they’d have a clone death ability to fall back on.
Spreading distortion and using a staff as phantasm will die as soon as there cast in WB and Zerg instances and shattering has a high fail rate under those circumstances as well. Were the only class with a needed resources to use our special ability and to make matters worse it’s easily destroyed.
More of a 1v1 class but yeah when all chaos breaks loose and there is a sea of aoe dmg around you the memser suffers and all you can really do is spam “1” on a GS.
If there forcing three trait lines then maybe they should interact more for certain builds.
I’ve been messing around with build and theorycrafting and it seems most things only need two trait lines and the third is just an after thought.
This is probably on purpose though as the third one is the deciding factor between a standard Mes and a Chrono and I suppose other classes follow this same scheme I picked up on for the sake of elite specializations. That’s just gimping everything for the sake of adding in those professions though…
I do indeed prefer the old LA and not the ruined LA but the LA that was there before they started messing with it.
Old LA had more nooks and crannies to explore and the NPC’s were more interactive. You had Tengu guarding the gate, Whisper members hidden in the sewers, and a Bar suspended high above it all to play that drinking mini game. They also had Moa races and a Fort at the edgje of town made perfect sense as well as the smuggler den and other attractions.
The old LA also made more sense as it was loaded with cannons and weaponry and had a darker pirate feel to it while this new LA acts like it was never attacked in the first place as it’s bright and cheery with hardly a cannon in place almost as if the dragons never existed and the aether blade and Karka instances never occurred so they’d have no reason to build for strategic purposes or defense.
Oh yeah and out of every thing the old auction hall is what I missed the most as it looked like an actual indoor auction all.
Can read the information on the upcoming beta weekend and they even mention many more beta events to come. We’re already in July and there give a release date for a game even a week at the very least in align with other games giving us the date a month or two ahead of time seems appropriate. Based on them giving us vertical mini slices at a time to so called test and that we’ll have less than 2 months till September I highly doubt this game is releasing this summer. Summer will be beta weekend events apparently and also for me money isn’t an issue but if this game releases in the fall I’m not buying it as I’d rather buy a new game than an expansion for an existing game and many many new games will be releasing in the fall. Also I don’t pre-order anything without a release date and after that SAB coin debacle I don’t trust Anet enough to just pre-order without a release date.
Probably why they want pre-order in advance so badly because the release date is probably at a time they think the game will get overlooked.
I wouldn’t call it whining just an observation I decided to make known to the masses since people still think the expac will release in the near future. If they continue to play like that they’ll get burned out before it actually launches which isn’t good for anyone. More and more posts are arising with so called “Hype dead” titles and more and more negative posts will continue as long as the carrot remains I didn’t have a problem with the cost or the content like people did a few weeks ago but I do have a problem with them constantly teasing that carrot and making pre-orders all while never giving the official release date.
We saw playable footage of the game months ago and Anet seems more driven to tot this game around the game show circuit than actually releasing it.
We have a stress test coming up and in those notes they say many more are to come in the future for those who pre-ordered. This also means with there vertical slice of content and the fact that it wont be till mid July till they start that one could assume an august release is out too. Seeing how they use a Two week updating schedule and they seemed to imply many stress tests then one could also logically guess september is out.
When you get into October that’s the holiday season and no MMO’s has ever been stupid enough to release an expansion in the holiday buying season as it would just get overlooked and forgotten in the sea of new games being released back to back one after another until January when the season ends.
Hype is dead to be sure as other MMO’s don’t hold there expacs at the end of a carrot milking there consumer base. The other companies announce then release in a reasonable amount of time and pre-orders aren’t done multiple months in advance to further milk the base. The people who pre-ordered will get content and temporary content at that while the rest of us will no doubt get squat in return. No SaB, Bash, or Labrynth Cliffs as there putting all there effort into so called stress tests…
I’ll get the expac whenever it releases I suppose but probably not at launch as if the game isn’t released in 2016 then it will probably get released and instantly forgotten in the midst of the holiday buying season.
Always reminded this is the first MMO for many people on these forums.
You spend $50 and every thing they release until the next expac is included in that $50 which will no doubt be more content than the original package since most of the base game only introduced temporary content. It wasn’t until season 2 until permanent items were added but all of season 1 the maps, enemies, an story is supposed to come back in some form after HoT. Thus will no doubt be a part of HoT and all the new maps, patches, and changes they make for the next couple of years will indeed be HoT. Lacking any type of subscription there will be less and not as often as other MMO’s is something I’d like to say but these sub games have been severely lacking in the content department lately so I’m gonna assume it will be on par with them.
I disagree due to the temporary nature of season 1 many of those titles are unobtainable. I started this game during the Toxic Nightmare and thus I have achievements related to the Toxic Tower. Adding that type of reward track would just bring further light on the fact that practically 1/3 of the entire game was temporary and places like Lab Cliffs, Toxic Tower, SAB, and even achieves titles tied to certain holiday events are simply out of there reach.
HoM is physically in the game already for those who played GW1 and such a concept would require more content in game as titles are far to easy to obtain and nothing truly feels difficult. The only title I’m proud of are the ones transferred from Gw1 and a title system would also mean people would have to go back to Gw1 to unlock and fill out that title achievement tab.
Maybe after they implement season 1 back into the game but I really don’t see that happening anytime soon if ever…
Zerker, Assassins, Sinister, Rampagers, and so forth
Anything that lacks Toughness, Vitality, or Healing Power is considered Meta in my book as your focused on DPS as much as any Zerker.
We are sloppy…
Group: Is that a Mesmer!? We need Feedback, we need Time Warp, and occasionally we need Portal
How many people run glamour builds into dungeons? Cause every dungeons group I get into people are clamouring for a glamourin’ and I’m never traited for that type of set up so it’s sloppy…
They announced HoT
Then went and paraded it to all the gaming shows and any event they could really plug. They trickle information out like there actually doing something when we all know the game is probably complete and the twiddle there thumbs before the next big show so they can present more. I’m not a white knight but have been called so but am more of a realist in that NCSoft released Wildstar and as a result we didn’t get any content at all during it’s launch and NCSoft controls these sort of things because they have many MMO’s under the belt and many smaller companies like Anet underneath them. The price has been set the game is probably done but won’t release until both companies give the green light and by both companies I mean when it doesn’t interfere with NCSofts other MMO’s. For the record Anet is Valve and NCSoft is EA games.
Have to agree with TC and I do indeed disagree with his dissenters.
Three years of GW2 think about it three entire years and Anet decides to start axing playstyle in some false pretense of a visions? This would’ve been fine at launch but you don’t start axing away at a class after three entire years. What makes it worse is the elite specializations as the chronomancer itself is a heavily shatter based build. When they first announces them you’d think Anet were planing on changing the effect per class. But they didn’t and what people call focusing on each classes core mechanic I call the start of neutering the classes. A mesmer is a mesmer now they hardly differ as you know they will shatter which wasn’t always the case. Soon cloth will all be the same we are getting necro wells after all and leather and plate and after that were looking at something like WoW where there is no class identity. The Mesmer lost some of it’s identity as there is only shatter and it doesn’t matter what they claim to be they will be a shatter build.
What makes it worse is that every other class has a more passive ability that can be molded in many different ways. While the Mesmer shatter isn’t versatile at all it’s not passive like an ele/rang/guard and not adaptable like Shroud/Rang nor can it really be ignored like thief. Also it doesn’t change at all like War or Eng and thus Mesmer have the most to lose in this regard. I picked Mesmer because I liked the utilities, style, and skills but we’ve always gotten the short end of the stick and this is no different.
Teq is fine
He is meant to be a harder a boss and he was like this when he was first introcduced simular to TT Wurms.
The problem isn’t Teq it’s people as eventually more and more people will get in his crit spot thus uping the damage.
Furthermore the leeches as Teq like any good events scales to the amount of people invovled. To many people are AFK in the corner, Dead and refuse to WP, or rezzing the dead and all these people are in the area actively contributing to the scaling of the event but not helping to complete it. The people actually return to waypointing upon complete death and people stop rezzing those who are actively bieng a burden is the day Teq will die. As all three of these people are burdens to the entire event that everyone else has to pick up the slack for and that isn’t right.
Dead are just burden but the rezzers are just as bad as there not contributing to the fight but instead contributing to the problem. These people know they’ll be rezzed and in the time it takes to rez one of these dead people 3 people who were merely downed would have died and thus the problem compounds over time.
Fingers, Turrets, and so forth are only minor issues compared to the people whose only purpose it seems is to scale the fight and be a burden. Also yes there is a very large difference between down and dead and if your reviving people you should only revive those who are downed less your contributing to the problem.
Tengu have room for there city and starter zones and the same is true if the stone dwarves are ever made playable because there area two zones one of which is there former capital still currently blocked off.
Both races will have to be brought up in greater detail when we fight the destroyers and its Dragons since we know both are tied to Destroyers at this point.
Kodan are tied to Jormag and have fled there homeland so I wouldn’t expect anything from them until Jormag. The same is true for Quaggan(Dodge Roll), Krait, Karka(Who doesn’t want to play as a karka), and Largos who are all tied to Bubbles the water dragon.
In Gw1 you allowed us to bind weapons too F1-F4 that’s four different weapon sets we could switch to on the fly.
In Gw2 we still have four sets however it’s split between aquatic and land weapons. What I’d like is another slot for a third weapon set for land. Right now I run S/P + GS but with this change in HoT I could run S/Shield + Staff + GS and other people could use the third slot just to unlock there elite specialization and keep there current gear set up.
Also templates which I still don’t understand why we lack these. PvE, PvP, and WvW are all instances where I change my current build. With templates that’s a simple button press and with added weapon slots that too would be simple button press to get started in WvW, PvP, or PvE quickly.
Going to miss Clone Death however I consider this a nerf to our clkitten
tering in PvP is fine but shattering in a World Boss or WvW situation usually gets you no where since there is constant AoE up all the time. In those situations the clone death skills make up the difference in lost damage.
That’s completely lost now as unlike every other class clones are a resource that can be dodged, blocked, or in most cases destroyed. Seeing how in HoT PVE content is supposed to be harder I’d rather not take the time to set up clones then have them run to a target that’s harder than the mobs we have currently and I hope AoE doesn’t wipe the lot of them because if your traited for those shatters to connect that’s giving up other traits and you’d be open for attack.
In PvP I guess I’ll be ignoring Ele’s now because if they nuke the clones there not going to get punished by anything and I’ve lsot a resource.
I suppose Phantasmal shattering can work since they have more defense to connect in AoE but there so slow to build up.
I’m angry at Anet you people weren’t going to stop anyway your going to leech off as much as you can as is dictated by how most of you probably live.
The nanny state is strong in this game were already the laughing stock of the MMO world and even with this change more posts continue to sprout with people asking for more and more people in game are still tryig to get people to not purchase the expac and uninstall as a sign of protest they don’t want people to support Anet at all for something there parent company NCsoft and every other MMO company has been doing for years. It’s not about the so called issue but this people simply want the game to fail. At least other MMO stop inactive players from posting in there forums as every game has people who wish for its destruction yet this game has no filter as all the others do.
Maybe a few really were upset about a character slot and maybe people really wanted to milk out something and are satisfied but that’s obviously the minority because they’ve already shifted the goal post to beg for more.