Guild Wars 2

I will be making the drive to Gamescom in Köln in a few days. It’s a shame there won’t be any huge GW2 announcements at this one, but I will be looking out for Anet devs if I can find the right community party. Anet is long overdue for my sincerest high five awarded for outstanding achievement in entertainment.

Would it be reasonable to give a ranger pet the evade/distorion effect for the 1 second while the ranger is dodge rolling? I know other ideas like making pets always highly resistant or immune to aoe would be overboard and imbalance pvp, and we should just have to deal with our pets dying in ground effects if we can’t recall them and wait to send them back in, but with this fix, we can still have our pet and realize our full potential after successfully dodging that huge kill shot.

I hate to ask for something to be easier, but in this case, I’m glad it happened. I am also very impressed at how well they listened and how quickly they changed it. I can’t wait to try the fight again. I hope it’s still as good to them as they had envisioned it, and that this is not too much of a compromise. Nonetheless, I will surely have more fun staying alive. Thank you ANet. Grenth temple has always been my favorite in Orr. I’m very excited about the new fight now.

I’ve been watching this topic all day because one-shot mechanics really rub me the wrong way. I wouldn’t even care if it left me with 10 hp. That’s something that gives me just long enough to live or die by my own competence. I can’t get behind the circles that cover everything and come out in waves, saving some for after my dodges. I know some people like it, but not all of us have the ego to support the philosophy of “survive chaos and RNG with zero mistakes.”

Anyway, I always give Anet the benefit of the doubt and trust that they have the most fun interests at heart, and I think it’s a very good thing that we haven’t had a dev reply to this issue yet. They haven’t defended it, which makes me confident that they are working on changing it to be more fun. To me, it makes sense not to announce a change to this after one day because that will start arguments and such over how it should be. When it’s ready, it may go quietly in, or they may bring it out as welcome news. Telling us now would just make us impatient.

I’m usually the first person to fall in love with the new stuff that is added, and I can agree with the reasons that Anet gives, but this…. I thought ya’ll knew better. One-shot mechanics are just not fun.

In the personal story for Order of Whispers, at one point, you get to play a fun little drinking game with pirates and I was wondering, since it already exists in game, I think it would be fun to discover that while walking into a bar in one of the cities. I don’t know how much trouble it would be, but there are several things that are neat in personal stories that you only get to do once. I think it would be cool to discover these things in the world, maybe even as rarely-occuring events or spawns so that they don’t become common enough to ignore.