Guild Wars 2

It could be because many have completed what can be completed
concerning Tequatl, and moved on to things they feel is more important.

This is often the nature of some bosses/events/dungeons.

I find it fun to do torch combat when a torch is around,
shame you can’t have a torch as a permanent weapon
with the skills torches have on pick up.

Not sure if it’s something you like, but unless running
in a zerg in WvW, it’s pretty hard at times. You could try WvW.

Maybe just have the different banners create each their own
combo field, which are active until a banner is picked up or
runs out of time. A banner which is picked up occupies off-hand
and 4 skill slot becomes the current 2 skill from banner,
5 skill slot becomes ‘Plant banner’ (or what it’s called currently).

Maybe add this function as well:
Allied player picks up banner, receives a boon apropriate
to the type of banner picked up, until it’s timed out or
planted in the ground again.

risenlord.2035:

A few seconds off of the warriors shield cooldown would be OP.

A block skill that works 1/10th of the time (without trait) and
with no 100% chance that it will actually block something,
is not what I would call OP, is the cooldown got reduced.

Now with that said, any changes or a remake that would make
the warrior shield skills better, but NOT OP would be fine :-)

Larynx.2453:

Warrior shield skills are fine and don’t need changing. They’re not overpowered or underpowered, but they are a strong choice (the best choice) in PvP. There’s literally nothing that deserves changing about the shield.

In PvE the issue is the metagame, not the weapon.

Since you take up specific playstyles/areas, my usage problem is in WvW.

eisberg.2379:

Hedgehog in the fog.1053:

Take two weeks off from producing new content and focus on balancing classes and improving the general gameplay.

People will be happier with a balanced game then a content update.

The people producing content wouldn’t be the same people to balance classes or to make improvements to gameplay systems…..

Maybe it should be the same people if it’s true that it’s two different teams,
at least it being two teams would explain a lot, …at least to me.

Daniel Warren.4968:

Back on topic, shield skills nontraited aren’t the best ever, and I think you have to devote a trait or two to make it shine. Its a pretty big part of your defensive play.

When I was saying the shield skills are bad, I do focus on the usability
versus the cooldown time, and not exactly the buffs from traits, which
only triggers on a block ….with the exeption being the trait that reduces
cooldown.

You keep saying Norn, but you show pictures of an Asuran!

+1 for the idea of hiding the rest of the armor pieces, like you can do with helmet.
could be useful in RP as well, in a very few non-adult cases.

Shades.4572:

I like the idea of getting to choose which skills you want for the weapons. That would definitely add variety and personal play styles…..

That’s basicly what GW1 was doing, except skills where tied to a category.
Example:
Swords 5 (and then this category had swords skills you could equip),
each skills potency was to some degree defined by the number
located after the category (in this example ‘Swords’).

However not all categories was weapons in GW1.

I, among others thought they would progress with a similar system for GW2,
but using a more fine tuned version adapted to each weapon with some skills
to choose from(8-12 or something, with maybe a few proffession specific skills),
to put on your skill bar.

Ele Lady.6103:

With the coming fractals update in the near future, has Anet thought of making some use for extra ascended rings? My all characters have all the ascended rings they need, so my bank is slowly filling those rings (36 atm and 61 pristine relics to buy more).

Selling them to vendor doesn’t feel very useful (1,78g for my rings). How about making at least salvageable for ascended materials (steel/dragonite for example) and ectos. Or let us forge them for a chance for some fancy fractal skin or whatever, but something more than just the option of selling them to vendor.

Well you could give some ascended rings to me :-P
…I got no ascended gear at all, if I remember correctly.

Bearhugger.4326:

Seriously?

Engineers have good shield skills but Shield Stance is like the best block skill in the game. 3 seconds, unlimited blocks, not limited in amount of blocks, can be traited to reflect, 30 (24 traited) second cooldown. There isn’t a lot of things I would trade my Shield Stance for in this game…

Shield Bash… meh, at 25 second cooldown for a stun, it could probably use an evade or a block during the charge animation, or have a longer charge to justify the cooldown… but Warriors are in a very very good position right now so I’m not going to complain too loud.

Also I’m really glad that Warriors get to block with their shield. I hate how Guardians cannot block with their shield. (But can with their focus!?) It doesn’t make sense.

Since I only can quote one person I chose you, as it seems to general cover
the comments/feedback given atm of writing this.

I am happy to read it’s only me that find warrior shield skills bad,
I never really had the use for blocking before it’s too late, and when
I finally thought I could, I was blocking no incomming attacks.

I might have forgotten to tell you what problems I have with the warriors
shield skills, to find them bad. Here is a short summary:
The only skill I ever found somewhat useful was the ‘Shield Bash’ skill,
since timing ‘Shield Block’ to be useful is as easy, as flying without wings.

Is it just me that find the warrior shield skills bad?

…and want the engineers shield skills,
I mean I never really seen an engineer
with a shield in WvW anyway, might
as well give them to us :-)

+1 to such a tracking/checklist feature
for various reasons, 2 among them
being the mentioned:
Diving Master & keeping track of what paths you have taken in a dungeon.

Olba.5376:

Well, the thing is, the classes are already balanced around having different amounts of HP.

If you change the baseline HP all of a sudden, you’re guaranteed to run into issues.

And even if you give everyone the same baseline HP, that will just make Armor the deciding factor…..

…which means no real factor, as armor(armor rating) has a super low factor in GW2.

I have read ALL of Yoh’s post(s), and some of the responses.

To me the problem with GW2 is NOT that it take away the holy trinity,
but more the fact that it went from a customizable skillbar in GW1,
to a more fixed skillbar …known to/from the holy trinity MMOs.

I am not saying they should implement 200 skills for each proffession
like they did in GW2, but a customizable skillbar provides the flexibility
which are needed, especially now that we don’t have the holy trinity.
It’s like 2 step forwards choosing holy trinity free style,
but 1 step back, changing skillbar flexibility to the fixed holy trinity style.

…and yes I know in those holy trinity MMOs you can put your skills
down as you wish on the skillbar, but you have the same fixed amount
of skills, as if they were fixed on the skillbar like in GW2.

Larynx.2453:

It’s called adrenaline…

Sorry, adrenaline points. [changed ‘rage’ to ‘adrenaline’]

I posted it in this thread rather than ‘Suggestions’
because if the warrior community fells it’s a great
idea but it needs some tweaking, it would be nice
to get that done before posting it in suggestion.
(should be fairly obvious why that is a good reason)

Asuran being very good at science, and since there is one dwarf left,
I would like an epic Asuran event that saved that dwarf and possible
cloned him in such a way we got dwarves as playable races.

Looking at what different devices Asuran have made, it is possible :-)

NEW ADRENALINE MECHANIC (suggestion)

You gain 1 Adrenaline point for a kill.
Adrenaline points are reset to 0, when you get downed or killed.

Lvl(Max. 80) * Adrenalin points (Max. 10) * ‘each point is worth 2.5’
= Max. +2000 Defense (round down).

Adrenalin points (Max. 10) * ‘each point is worth 5’
= Max. 70% (+20% base, only applied if having more than 0 Adrenalin points)
chance to avoid condition to be inflicted on you.

Adrenalin points (Max. 10) * ‘each point is worth 2’
= Max. +20% damage.

This leaves space for some new traits as well, in the trait panel.

I would like to hear what you think, as I think this is more in line
with raging/adrnaline, and how I perceive ANet’s idea for a warrior.
(looking at all the proffessions and their mechanics)

Some of the values may need to be nerfed. [changed ‘rage’ to ‘adrenaline’]

I do not know much about how a samurai functions, but with
asians usually focused on maneuverability, like ANet wanted
for GW2, I think it is fitting to re-work/build the warrior into
a samurai skill wise, with that said, the katana could just be
a weapon that stands out by name, visual art and some standard
extra buff tied to the sword dmg range. I would suggest +5% to crit,
AND make the katana a Warrior/Samurai only weapon.

Sadly I can’t post a pic of my Asuran, and that might be a good thing
for you people, since I have no doubt he is but the most cute and charming one.
I can tell you his name, maybe you have come across him
on his server habitat: Seafarer’s Rest, or if you done some WvWvW against the server,
and the name to notice is Loloch.

DeadPhone.3084:

To get an emote in game that play’s I wanna Rock and has your toon play an air guitar? Had this idea earlier but man it would be awesome.

Actually in LOTRO you would be able to do such a thing,
thus I doubt it is impossible to make. LOTRO even got
different instruments which can be played real-time, or
you assign a saved note sheet thingy, forgot how they are made.

+1 …I think that is constructive enough in itself,
that is if you even bothered to read this thread.

Angriff.1935:

Well it’s time again. This time it’s…

Rifles. They’re boring. Some might say underpowered, some say very situational. I say they could use a heavy dose of fun.

Why are rifle’s boring? Well you sit there and you peck away from a distance, and every so often you get a big painful peck that often never connects.

My idea is to make the rifle much more aggressive.

Volley - The closer you are, the more damage it does. I think about 18th century battles and how inaccurate the muskets were, a volley was held off until opposing forces were relatively close to maximize damage. The skill could also track enemies moving around you instead of the skill ending early.

Crack Shot - Change piercing to ricochet(up to 3 targets). I think this mechanic is a bit more fun and makes hitting more than one target a bit easier to set up. Taking time to line your targets up doesn’t seem like a warrior type thing to do. Charging in firing wildly is more like it.

Now for the fun stuff

Rifle Butt - Changed to the adrenaline skill. Now stuns instead of knocking back(remember volley doing more damage up close?)

Prepared Shot (Replaces Rifle Butt on the #5 slot). – Prepare a powerful Rifle Shot. Prepared shot Does different things depending on how well prepared it is. Skill changes for every second it is charged.

-Less than 1 second – ill Prepared Shot – Fire an ill prepared shot that knocks back the enemy(so a double tap of the skill maintains the same function as Rifle Butt)
-After 1 second – Hastily Prepared Shot – Fire a Hastily Prepared shot that stuns your foe
-At 2 seconds(full cast) – Well Prepared Shot – Fire a powerful Shot that immobilizes your foe

Bayonette - Replaces Brutal Shot – Rush forward and impale your foe with with a bayonette making them vulnerable.

I think it would be a lot of fun charging in with a rifle like this. More utility(prepared shot/rifle butt), more damage(volley/crack shot), more aggressive, more fun. Yeah it gets rid of Kill Shot, but I never liked that skill anyways. I think it would be hard to make an accurate Kill Shot when pumped up on adrenaline anyways.

Edit: Some additional thoughts. Though the idea of these changes were to make rifle more aggressive, but they also allow for more defensive play as well. Bayonette could used to run away as well as charge in. Prepared shot can keep people away or hold them still and if they do get close, rifle butt is there to stop them.

This approach makes the rifle more involved, versatile, and usable.

I like your suggestions for a more ‘colorful’ skillset for the rifle,
though I don’t like the ‘Prepared skillshot’ with variable outcome
based on holding down the numerical key? ..for x amount of time.

It’s not the exactly capture the flag, but I think the orbs in WvWvW
serves such a purpose very similar to the mechanics in capture the flag.

What do you mean with lead?
…by right click + control, you can assign another skill to be your new auto-attack.

I think they disabled ‘click to move’ because it doesn’t
fit with their dodge system for GW2.
In addition to that, from my own experience with female players,
if they like it enough, they will take their time to learn, how to move around.

I thought something was wrong, when I sometimes didn’t get
my AoE stun done. I will call it a bug, and personally I wouldn’t
want any of the burst skills to be interruptable by other players/enemies.
It just makes them too weak, because as you say, some if not all
of the burst skills, can easily be dodged.

@Arkanis Drako – Pop’ing protection for at least 3 secs, after having lost health
seems nice, though I probably would change it to:
If damaged from 100% health, grant protection 3(maybe 5) secs.
Cooldown is irrelevant as it could be triggered when you hit 100% health
and get damaged again.

I have never seen an engineer actually use shield in combat,
would be nice if their throw shield(aka captain america) skill
would be renamerd and given to use, they already got ton of
cool backpacks, turrets and what not.

@Varyag, never had the need to blog shots for a few 3 secs,
though I would low a thief detector, they always manage to get
up behind me, and before I can react, they have downed me,
….so much for wearing heavy armor.
Would be nice if Warrios at least got immunity to backstabs or something like that.

@Artaz – Yes, we can agree that the current burst damage buff per trait point is low,
but what I might not have said as clearly as possible, I wouldn’t want any adrenaline
function like the one you described.

Fixing it to 1.0% might work.

Houdre.8145:

What I would really like to see in this game for warriors, guardians and possibly rangers, is the introduction of spears and/or polearms (or two-handed axes).

A spear could work as a high damage single target weapon that inflicts weakness or bleeds and has a bigger melee range compared to current one-handed weapons.

A polearm could work as a huge AoE powerhouse with high damage, but low mobility and average support (a middle ground between the greatsword and hammer).

I do believe spear is a member of the polearm family, with that said NO,
I personalyl would not like more weapons that root us as we attack, we already
got loads of them already, the rifle being one of the exceptions to the rule, if
not the only one.

I can’t remember what game it was, but there you wielded the shield in your right
hand because you had your weapon in the left, AND it served a purpose here,
because when clicking the left mouse button you attacked with the weapon,
clicking and holding the right mouse button you blocked.
This setup makes sense because usually we are more adjusted
to using the left mouse button, when clicking around.
(that is, if you are not left handed.)

For a game that is centered around mobility in combat
warriors melee skills are rooting them, you can choose to use
as much skill as you want, but when you are rooted due to
activating a melee skill, the enemy can get away, not being hit.
Which is 1 of 2 reasons why I do rifle combat in PvP. the rifle
only got 2 skills that root you, the shot that cripples and the burst.

The thing that keeps me from buying the heavy armor cultural T3,
is it got not only gems floating in a fixed unnatural way on the shoulders,
but even on the knees and looks like the lower leg part floats as well.
Not very cool in my opinion, please have an asuran blacksmith look
at the get away parts of the armor.

If that was fixed, I would actually work on getting the money to buy it,
because then it might look better.

Overall it somewhat looks like that, from what I have experienced,
but with that said, looking at racial arrmors, my main being an Asuran,
We need cool armors too, the only armor I found cool/good, and that
is in comedy way, is the Vigil heavy armor for Asura, which I can’t use
since I am Durmand Priory, and that armor look even worse than the
crafted heavy armor.

It’s like they want to give us a lot of possibilies visualy, but mostof them
is far from worth it… now I haven’t looked into legendary heavy armor
for Asuran, it might be better there.

‘All the time’ contested WP, a reason why it would be
nice with mounts, since obviously all the rest of the people
that replied in here(at this point) are event freaks/farmers.

Actually, it’s only the Eternal Borderlands JP,
which got traps you can activate.

…in some way, I actually find that a very interesting battleground,
would like to see the borderlands maps build that way instead.

Speaking of armor, I agree not many at all look good/great,
though because of the comical relieve it gives, I like the Vigils
heavy armor set for Asurans, sadly I am Durmand Priory, and it
just doesn’t look even near as good as the one you get when
crafting your own armor with armorsmithing.

I never had problems getting adrenaline,
and there are traits that makes you gain adrenaline.

If sprinting isn’t available to use to get away from enemies,
I don’t really see any reason to have it at all, since that would
have been a good time to use sprint, especially if you find yourself
starting to get run down by 10+ enemies.

I would love to see mix and match armor/‘armor types’,
since despite popular belief, defense rating on types of
armor is not an issue, if the guild wars 2 wiki info on
armor types and defense is correct.

There are many other easier ways to earn Trick and Trat bags,
and an easy solution would be to log out players that have completed the puzzle.
In the long run it would help, though to start with, not much of a difference would
be to spot.

Seems I am lucky to be bad at getting money, since it’s too easy to waste them.

It would be nice to have karma account bound, rather than character bound,
since all karma items do have a lvl requirement anyways.

And yes, it would be nice as well, if you could use karma to other things,
like buying more stuff for cooking. The merchants that sell groceries for cooking,
why not give them a larger or all of the ingredients available, used in cooking, as an
alternate way of getting ingredients for cooking, especially since cooking
in itself is quite a money sink, and you can’t really sell the created food
to vendor, to get money of it, like with almost every other crafted item.

I can at times make it to the place where you need to jump very far down,
I believe other players call it ‘the leap of faith part’, however I constantly
find myself getting their too late to jump down, and I am not sure what
I can do better to get there faster, without any kind of speed buff.
I do however believe, if you wasn’t forced to wait for parts to break of
the tower to continue (in the start), meaning they should be there to
start with, it would provide with soem extra needed time …that’s all I would like,
not the big tweaks everyone else suggest because they find it too hard.

I don’t see a mechanich where your character is pack of Skritts,
but just playing a single Skritt would be awesome, I like them too.

I think it’s because you are used to GW1 where everything was medieval,
GW2 (in my opinion) is very much steam punk, with emphasis on keeping
most of the things medieval style.

Rizzy.8293:

Orcinus Orca.8627:

No, not for this kind of reasons.

Why not?
If you think about it, its just an armour upgrade.

No, it’s not much of an armor upgrade. I would says this is the 2nd reason
NOT to roll a warrior, if it’s only this one and the other(1st) one mentioned.

I would want adrenaline which is our key mechanic,
to play a more important role, especially since armor
doesn’t do much, and I find we(warriors) are more
fighting Conan style, forced to run around in heavy armor.

I would like to see more adrenaline efficiency like Adrenaline health,
it doesn’t heal much though, here are my ideas for improvement,
involving adrenaline (now where the skills/traits should be placed
I will leave to you and ANet):
If you do not have a full bar, leave that adrenaline in that bar alone.

Maybe 3 different kind of (burst) attacks F1, F2 and F3
F1 uses 1 stage, F2 uses 2 stages and F3 uses all 3 stages.
To have some adrenaline management, which I feel is needed.

Adrenaline health(re-done): Heal 1% of full health on stage 1, each second.
Heal 2% of full health on stage 2, each second.
Heal 5% of full health on stage 3, each second.
Remember while maintaining the adrenaline, you can’t
use you your burst skills, thus I want to have some numbers
that make it worth NOT using your burst skills.

Furious defense: Each stage of adrenaline provides 5% or 10% damage reduction.
Remember while maintaining the adrenaline, you can’t
use you your burst skills, thus I want to have some numbers
that make it worth NOT using your burst skills.

We got a ‘forced’ trait for not having full endurance bars, maybe an endurance
thing like, Speed or roll: With a full endurance bar move 10% faster, stacks with
any other speed buff/trait.

Dxnice.8647:

I’m assuming shouts are considered a healing skill so they won’t proc regen.

The skills you can slot in the 6th skill bar slot, is considered healing skills,
any other skills, no matter if they do some healing or a decent amount,
are NOT considered healing skills.