Guild Wars 2

Again, ill point out. I’m not commenting on anything about the skill, the effect, the condition, the status effect, the class… anything related to the game. I am just saying that if we are to rename the skill, it should be a verb and not as some others have suggested, a noun or adjective. Like, I wouldt mind them renaming Quickness to Haste, and Swiftness to Quickness. Im not commenting on anything other then a preference of word choice. Taunt could be a character class for all I care.

Knighthonor.4061:

Eggs.3142:

“Im going to posion you”
“Im going to burn you”
“Im going to fear you”
“Im going to confuse you”
“Im going to torment you”
“Im going to chill you”
“Im going to stun you”
“Im going to daze you”
“Im going to immobilize you”
“Im going to bleed you”
“Im going to ______ you”

In my opinion it has to be an infinitive to sound right. so Taunt: “I’m going to Taunt you” makes sense. “I’m going to provoke you” “i’m going to enrage you”

Anything else to me sounds silly.

Taunt is an effect not a condition.

Since we are arguing linguistic ascetics, i fail to see how this is pertinent?

“Im going to posion you”
“Im going to burn you”
“Im going to fear you”
“Im going to confuse you”
“Im going to torment you”
“Im going to chill you”
“Im going to stun you”
“Im going to daze you”
“Im going to immobilize you”
“Im going to bleed you”
“Im going to ______ you”

In my opinion it has to be an infinitive to sound right. so Taunt: “I’m going to Taunt you” makes sense. “I’m going to provoke you” “i’m going to enrage you”

Anything else to me sounds silly.

They might have just turned it off for the demo. Since if your having a bunch of people play the same demo at a live event, you dont want your character to be naked after someone dies too much

A small suggestion. I know it might detract from the oohs and ahhs of the expansion land vistas but…

maybe a training Golem or two? You know, so you can use the skills without having to worry about them going off right. Just a suggestion though

While your in the thread…. come on.. you can admit it. Someone on your development team has played or currently plays Diablo III. The Hammer Spinning around you (Crusader/Paladin) the Hammer Smashing (Barbarian) the ‘your critical hit chance increases until you crit then it resets’ (Demon Hunter) :P

I also hope those UI changes get spread to other classes too. They looked pretty

In the poI they seemed to be regaining energy pretty fast. I think you could gain 50% energy in 6-12 seconds. You just couldn’t spend it on anything else other than taunting.

Roy Cronacher.1576:

Eggs.3142:

The Torment on Temporal Rift seems wrong. it has the same damage for moving as it does not moving

Probably just a skill fact bug, I’ll look into it later.

Im gonna count this as making me a Late Alpha Tester! whoooo

Notice the armour bar on that monster? I think thats why he didnt want to click on it.

The Torment on Temporal Rift seems wrong. it has the same damage for moving as it does not moving

Correct me if I’m wrong, but i’m pretty sure its Rubi’s show…

If its any consolation, no doubt if you dont buy the expansion, you’ll still get to suffer from them from enemies. That’s kinda like getting them, right?

Doubt it, but not becasuse of our reasoning, just because I think, in my opinion Anet is not counting any previous game mechanic as a major change. Lets look at the announced changes:

1: New class – not something in the game before
2: New way to level after 80 – again, something not in the game before
3: New Job specializations: See above.
4: New Collections and Legendary: While in the game, they mentioned this purely because saying Precursors to people just gets them into a frenzy, so i cant fault them.

Things They Didnt Say at luanch, but we have gotten anyway:

1: New Boon
2: New Condition

We got the announcement of those new boons and conditions as basically a filler in the revenant article. I wouldn’t doubt that when they full release notes come out there is a new dungon, maybe even a new path in all the old ones.

The Big Kitty gets sucked into the Mist, becomes a Revenant, gets spat back out 100 years ago, teaches the secrets of Revenent to the Tyrians, gets sucked back in the mist trying to get back to his time, Emerges now.

No need to note anything on it, since time is paradox correcting, you blink your eyes and you just remeber Revenants as being a common thing. Destiny’s Edge gets confuse though, because they were so close to Rytlock that they remeber the real past.

Its a pretty monotonous event, even when you get the the gate phase. I got three words that might make it interesting though:

Giant Wooden Dolyak

Wow. Thanks. I didn’t know any of that.

Can anyone even confirm that there is no threat mechanic in GW2? I’ve only been playing a little while, but I have never read anything on the subject. There has to be though, right? I mean if Monsters were free to just randomly attack anyone, with just a RNG deciding who they attack you and 3 friends could stand in a triangle around a monster and it should, by all logic, ping pong at random once you all tap it. Right?

I’ve never seen that happen. I’m not a game designer, but it seems like that’s a bad AI decision too. There has to be a threat mechanic we just don’t know it.

runeblade.7514:

Ferever.7014:

New legends are unlocked via skill points this was from the polygon interview today.

That sucks.

I want it to be a scavenger hunt like Ranger pets. I go around and commune with the legends in the world.

You still could. I mean, maybe. you’d have to invent your own places. Lets put the RP back in MMORPG

Despite both sides of the argument, at the end of this day: I’m still looking forward to being able to taunt, no matter how it works.

Anet, I want to thank you. Not Ironically or sarcastically. I am filled with genuine feelings of joy now that I have read you are adding the ability to taunt. Many people might cry ‘but no, no trinity in gw2!’ but lets face it. There was always the trinity ( DPS, Tank, Healer), but everyone was just DPS

Why do people sometimes say PvE is boring? Mostly because there is only 1 strategy: Deal damage and revive people till the monster is dead. With taunt you have intentionally or unintentionally, made toughness stronger. I know some people who will be very happy to know that now they can spec for Toughness Vitality and Healing and feel like there is a place for them.

Thank you again. Really. This has made my day.

Not that its that big, but compared to other MMOs, there are only a handful of animated emotes in GW2. Is there a chance HoT will give us any? What would you want?

Since Heart of Thorns is going to be a full-blown expansion, I was wondering: Will there be changes to world completion? Will there be a separate world to complete for HoT? With new legendary weapons coming I’m sure there are player out there who have used up more than their given number of Gifts of Exploration. Will there be a new way to get them?

As someone who is terrible at PVP and WVW, is there even the slimmest of chances that the WvW requirements for world completion will be dropped all together?

:crosses fingers: