Guild Wars 2

Thanks Mesmers.

Footsteps are garbage. I don’t want an ugly scattering of crap in my screen.

Lack of trail sucks.

When sheathed sucks.

Purple sucks.

Thanks Anet.

Gburzak.7035:

I never was closer to quiting this game. I could maybe learn to ignore these idiotic footsteps – at least they are small – but the kittenING glows, both the purple one (not even going to comment on that one) and the new shade of blue (worse in every possible way) I simply can’t. I feel like vomiting when I see this weapon now.

Honestly I’m trying very hard not to be dramatic.

My first impulse is to quit the game and remove all of my guides from the internet, because I’m honestly disgusted by this.

Meteorlogicus now has ANNOYING footsteps that I are visually distracting and disorienting.

The purple night time effect looks like crap.

I feel like I should be able to sue you. I put so much work into this kitten thing and now I honestly don’t want to use it. If it wasn’t “Ascended” now I would begin using a different skin.

First step:

Remove the awful footsteps.

Second step:

Return the old trail

Third step:

Remove purple night-time effect.

Third step:

Make it look right when sheathed like it used to.

I really hate you for this, honestly. This sucks.

Are you kittening kidding me Anet?

The purple looks like kitten. The lightning footsteps look like kitten. This is ridiculous.

They need to get rid of the footsteps, bring back the trail, and no kittening purple.

Yeah, so its 30 silver just to buy the box, and then whatever it costs for the sprocket.

I lost like 20 gold on this just now. Its stupid as hell.

darkace.8925:

iriyabran.6218:

I’ve expressed my opinion in older threads but after seeing the stream I can sum up again:

-I don’t like purple being added
-I don’t like trail removal and aura not active while stowed
-I don’t like the footsteps AT ALL. They look cheap and awful and they don’t match the weapon. It just looks off.

-I like the stars effect, it really adds up.

So that’s a 3 negative and 1 positive from me.

I think that’s the biggest rub. The weapon was supposed to be soft and serene, and this violent (and cheap looking) lightning strikes just look out of place (and poorly done).

That makes sense. It just doesn’t fit the aesthetic at all. It’s not a LIGHTNING weapon.

This is horrible advice. You’re basically telling people to pay 60 silver for a yellow.

Source: I just went and did it with a ton.

Tomorrow is the moment of truth.

jinxy.8457:

Update is tomorrow… hopefully they have made some changes :s

Agreed.

Flash.6912:

As a world fist Meteorlogicus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWVT9sQLQrM, I humbly Anet please put back the blue/purple trails thing w/ the new effects.

Wow, congrats!

marnick.4305:

Brutaly.6257:

Evans.6347:

That’s very nice and technical, but imo irrelevant. Choosing jack of all trades inherently makes you master of none.
What do you expect then? That they make Celestial better than all other choices, boosting it’s attack on par with Berserker and give all the other stats as a bonus?

The stat totals are higher, the effectiveness rarely. That’s just the way this combination is supposed to work.

I think you missed my point, celestials isnt a jack of all trades. If you stack celestials the combination of stats you get can be bettered by combining other geartypes. The fact is that celestials isnt the best jack.

Combining other gear types makes you a better jack

I want to see proof of that, because as far as I know, celestial items have more stat totals than other gear. I don’t know how you’re going to get a higher stat total on all stats by not using full celestial?

But feel free to enlighten me.

That person is correct, in general because healing power and condition damage are pretty much wasted for most classes.

However, Celestial Armor is actually pretty good.

This is a ranking of various armor types in terms of damage/survival efficiency. Maximum damage is on top. Celestial only wins because it has needlessly high crit damage on armor. The trinkets are awful.

1. Full Zerker
2. Celestial Helm, Chest, Legs— Rest Zerker.
3. Knights Helm, Chest, Legs— Rest Zerker
4. Full Celestial armor. Zerker Trinkets and weapons.
5. Soldier’s Helm, Chest, Legs, Zerker trinkets
6. Full Knights Armor, Zerker Trinkets

Note that this is intended for Elementalists, who benefit more than other classes from Celestial, but technically it is the same for every class— its just even better for Eles.

Annelotte.8105:

Purple is perfect for my Mesmer ____

There are tons of purple weapons for mesmers.

It would be awesome for me if they changed the Anomaly to be blue— then I could grab a nice focused I liked.

But if Anet did that, I would support all of the upset Mesmers, because it would be unfair.

Manuhell.2759:

I am, but i’m talking about this in other thread. More because i don’t like seeing items they’ve just introduced getting nerfed so nonchalantly, that for the reroll part.

Yeah, they literally came out with a brand new magic find set, and then like two weeks later announced magic find was getting removed and that they would do their best to avoid screwing people over.

And then the new magic find set they released doesn’t get to re-roll. Because Celestial wasn’t a magic find set…

SeNoZinD.9874:

No matter how they change it, it still doesn’t look good on a necromancer
Quaggan sad.

Actually, I think it currently looks pretty nice on my necro. Obviously it isn’t darkness themed, but its still earthy and serious enough for a necro for me.

Mesmers who are using Scepter don’t get a say. =)

Pros:
-New textures look amazing
-New glow looks amazing
-Day/night cycle is a cool idea

Cons:

-The current blue/purple trail has been removed. I’d personally take the current trail over the new footsteps/sparkles any day.

-The new electric footsteps look incredibly low resolution; hopefully what we’ve seen is beta art. Otherwise, it looks horrible.

-When sheathed, Meteorlogicus no longer glows, which looks atrocious.

-No one wants it to be Purple at night

Sources:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Save-Blue-Meteorlogicus-Do-not-want-Purple/first#post2721043

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/I-am-against-new-colors-of-Meteorologicus/page/2#post2721034

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Merged-Meteorlogicus-color-change/first#post2745941 )

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Meteorlogicus-Footsteps-Effects-removed/first#post2745933

Pros:
-New textures look amazing
-New glow looks amazing
-Day/night cycle is a cool idea

Cons:

-The current blue/purple trail is removed. I’d personally take the current trail over the new footsteps any day.

-The new electric footsteps look incredibly low resolution; hopefully what we’ve seen is beta art. Otherwise, it looks horrible.

-When sheathed, Meteorlogicus no longer glows, which looks atrocious.

-No one wants it to be Purple at night

(Sources:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Save-Blue-Meteorlogicus-Do-not-want-Purple/first#post2721043

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/I-am-against-new-colors-of-Meteorologicus/page/2#post2721034

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/suggestions/Merged-Meteorlogicus-color-change/first#post2745941 )

This is a simple fix to make the combo field system more managable.

Light Fields default to lowest priority of any overlapping fields unless they are your own field. So for Guardians, Light fields will maintain normal priority, so if you are trying to proc retal or whatever, you can.

But for other classes that are trying to make use of Fire fields, or other more interesting and rarer fields, huge Guardian Light fields wont get in the way.

lupercaleb.6041:

i don’t see what’s wrong with blast; it’s like Energy Blast and Mind Blast

I don’t know if anything is necessarily wrong. Do lots of other abilities in GW2 not scale with weapon damage but their tooltip says it does?

I’m honestly not sure. Was hoping to see some more light on this.

Player Character.9467:

I thought this was a guardian post, not a necro post.

I laughed. Thanks.

Surprised more people aren’t annoyed at this.

Septimus.2714:

Making weapon is kind of concract to me. Especially for 1000g.
I made it, and want what I paid for, not useless mismatched piece of trash.

Take Twillights and change them to green, same kind of change.
AND PROLLY SOME SYLVARIS WILL SPAMM AND APPROVE THAT IDEA.

Exactly the same, agreed.

Ayrilana.1396:

People got celestial because they felt having all stats was beneficial in some way. They didn’t do it for the MF. If they wanted MF then they would’ve gone for MF specific gear.

The magic find armor set had as much magic find as a magic find set, while also including beneficial stats.

Its main role was as a magic find set.

Hanako.1827:

I just realised something else as well, the have removed the blue swivel effect that flowed of the scepter…. Really? Replacing it with mediocre glimmers isn’t considered a good thing to many.

No way, that was so cool. I can’t imagine they’d really get rid of that.

Purple and blue are not similar. It’s not a remotely complimentary color to the existing look of the weapon.

And I do not want to change my dyes. ]

Let’s just make all the legendary purples then, if its such a non-issue for people.

They said they wanted to do this with minimal issues for players. This is an issue for players.

I used Celestial for the Magic Find.

Without Magic Find, I want to re-roll them. C’mon Anet.

Anet hasn’t mentioned Purple in any of the dev previews, and the new textures look great.

Footsteps are bleh, but as long as its not purple— thank God.

Anet hasn’t mentioned Purple in any of the dev previews, and the new textures look great.

Footsteps are bleh, but as long as its not purple— thank God.

I did not want footsteps, and those footsteps look back.

However, I do not care. I will accept anything Anet does to my item because I new it was likely to be updated and I took that risk.

HOWEVER, ANET CANNOT CHANGE THE COLOR OF MY WEAPON TO BE PURPLE AT NIGHT.

insanemaniac.2456:

what is it with people and coloring themselves white with this weapon?

you can hardly even tell where armor ends and the weapon begins. i dont think you guys even want to know youre carrying a legendary. you just want to be eyesores in dark places…. or blend in to frostgorge.

Doesn’t matter. People chose Meteorlogicus with a specific look in mind— a look that did not include Purple.

Gburzak.7035:

This thread shall be bumped. Meteorlogicus shall not be purple!!!

Dev confirmed day/night cycle.

Do not want PURPLE night.

I really hope Anet doesn’t go through with this.

Evans.6347:

You should be honoured! Clearly your Meteorologicus is going to change according to which level you finish SAB in Tribulation mode.

It can be blue, green, yellow, red or even purple!

Ouch :P

Im Mudbone.1437:

Hamartia.3421:

This is my character:

http://i.imgur.com/lpAaXEe.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Tv4JDU2.jpg

I did not want a purple weapon. I wanted a blue weapon. I want it to be blue during the day, and I want it to be blue at night.

You can’t change the COLOR of a weapon people spent months working on. I happen to HATE the color purple. It’s the reason I don’t have a Mesmer.

I chose Meteorlogicus because it was blue.

Changing an item’s COLOR like this is completely unprecedented. This is not a mere effects improvement— this is a change to the fundamental aesthetics of the item.

I’m sure some people will LOVE the new purple. But other people have already obtained Meteorlogicus based on its previous appearance.

Maybe you can make Meteorlogicus special by giving us the option of putting it in the mystic forge with 3 purple dyes, and THEN we get the version that turns purple at Night. Or make that the default, and let us do something to change it back to blue.

I appreciate that your artists have worked on something that I’m sure is beautiful to many people, and there is no need to waste it. I’m totally ready to spend more gold and compromise however I have to— I just do not want purple.

Please don’t force it on me. This patch will ruin my favorite item and achievement I’ve had in GW2— or any game, for that matter. Yeah, I hate purple that much— and I love the current Meteorlogicus that much.

I’m sorry, but, I’’m seeing the dress is identical in color to the item you are wielding.

The purple won’t happen until the September 3rd patch. The idem is indeed identical— hence why I’m so happy with it right now

Rift.4179:

You could quit, that would show them whos boss

I’ll definitely do something protesty. Not quitting though.

Lothirieth.3408:

sazberryftw.3809:

I’d like to point out nobody here has definitely seen the updated Meteorlogicus. That screenshot could easily be an old screenshot of it with some sort of profession/environmental effect.

The white sun and blue glow around it never changes no matter where you’re at. I can provide screenshot evidence of that.

Anyway, I’m just going to wait and see. A day/night cycle could be cool, but one of my favourite things about the weapon is its blue glow. All I wanted was some cloudy footsteps and perhaps a bit of a glow aura for the user like other legendaries have and not changing anything else about its look. But, we’ll see.

The Sunrise aura would have been perfect with almost not weaks, just a bit of blue/yellow glow.

Wait what—- I can be mining that once a day on any character?

Bismuth.3165:

I think people are exaggerating, it’s not really going to ruin anybody’s look and it does look nice indeed, I don’t have a metoerlogicus but I think it looks awesome, then there is also the fact that it makes sense, the stars are also a nice addition

You don’t have a Meteorlogicus.

The stars are nice.

I mean c’mon. What weapons do you have? How would you feel if Anet just completely went and changed the color?

Sure, if your Volcanus suddenly turned blue it would be awesome, but some of the people with Volcanus wanted Red. That’s why they made Volcanus.

Zeldain.5710:

Yeah, there’s really no reason there should be a visual change to something someone worked at getting for months.

Thanks for understanding

skullmount.1758:

Yeah, boon or condition duration should replace it. Probably only 1 or 2% for each piece, so it doesn’t get too overpowered. At 2%, it would be boon/condition duration +22% (6 armor, 5 other ones).

Actually, based on Giver’s Armor, we’d only be able to get 0.5% boon duration per piece, if anything.

One thing I thought of was for Anet to divide it up.

1% boon duration on chest, helm, legs (the ones that have more stats by default and the slots that are preferred for Power-based builds).

1% condition duration on gloves, hands, shoulders.

Weapons can get 1% of each.

Agreed that Lingering Elements needs to be fixed to work with all minors. It’s just silly. (it does still work with damage boosts and such, however, like 10% damage in air).

Perhaps flame barrier could change to an X percent chance to gain a Fire aura or something more useful— or even just a power boost like Earth gets. But yeah, I guess we shouldn’t just accept lame traits that could be improved.

I don’t have a problem with Zephyr’s Speed— its good for running around the world, as with Signet of Air (assuming they stack, I haven’t checked) it allows you to match the movement speed of Swiftness.

As someone who has abandoned heavy Arcane builds, moving Renewing Stamina to a minor trait would make the tree much more attractive— as I could then grab 3 of the awesome traits contained in, rather than just 2 + vigor. It also would synergize very well with Evasive Arcana.

sazberryftw.3809:

I’d like to point out nobody here has definitely seen the updated Meteorlogicus. That screenshot could easily be an old screenshot of it with some sort of profession/environmental effect.

I have Meteorlogicus. No environmental effect does anything like that, or changes the sun to white (clearly to reflect a moon).

They wouldn’t choose a screenshot to represent their legendary update that doesn’t reflect an actual incoming change.

Trixie.7614:

Is there a preview of the purple version or they just said that they are changing it?

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Save-Blue-Meteorlogicus-Do-not-want-Purple/first#post2719194

Included here.

Have No Faith In Me.1840:

Boon duration or condition duration affect combat, where magic find does not. Adding those would be pretty overpowered.

Karma gain is the perfect replacement.

This is true, however Celestial is far from overpowered— or even powerful, as it is.

Neural.1824:

Hamartia.3421:

Lokheit.7943:

Last time they did something big that everyone disliked (changing the pew pew sound effect on Predator that everyone loved) there was a small revolt and they reverted it.

I don’t like Meteorologicus too much, but I agree that with stuff that takes this long to craft, they shouldn’t make changes that could annoy the players that took so much effort on crafting it.

Thanks. I personally LOVE Meteorlogicus. I NEVER thought I’d make a legendary in this game. I didn’t even have a character that could use a scepter effectively. In fact, there wasn’t one.

I then theory-crafted the hell out of Elementalists to see if Scepter could be a viable mainhand weapon, and it appeared that it could be. Then I leveled an Elementalist for the sole purpose of wielding Meteorlogicus.

And now Anet is making it purple.

If Arenanet follows through with this change, it should be taken to heart by everyone who wants to buy or craft a legendary, that Anet doesn’t care about the money, time, and effort you put into anything in this game, they are going to change it to however they see it making them money.

I’m not quite as cynical as that.

I just think Anet wanted to do us right by updating the Legendary, and didn’t think about how much we might not like Purple.

Its great for Mesmers, but not for Guards, Eles, and Necros.

Lokheit.7943:

Last time they did something big that everyone disliked (changing the pew pew sound effect on Predator that everyone loved) there was a small revolt and they reverted it.

I don’t like Meteorologicus too much, but I agree that with stuff that takes this long to craft, they shouldn’t make changes that could annoy the players that took so much effort on crafting it.

Thanks. I personally LOVE Meteorlogicus. I NEVER thought I’d make a legendary in this game. I didn’t even have a character that could use a scepter effectively. In fact, there wasn’t one.

I then theory-crafted the hell out of Elementalists to see if Scepter could be a viable mainhand weapon, and it appeared that it could be. Then I leveled an Elementalist for the sole purpose of wielding Meteorlogicus.

And now Anet is making it purple.

czechu.5471:

Just great TT.TT
I’m halfway to get my BLUE Meteorlogicus and now it’s gonna be purple or pink maybe ??
Upgrade legendary it’s a great idea but changing colors it’s not cool Anet

Imagine having it already. On a character that goes well with blue but has absolutely no purple to speak of. =/