Guild Wars 2

I agree with the personal story quest

but you still have to keep in mind a PvP aspect… will be everyone forced to unlock specialization in PvP or will it be unlocked automatically for the PvP purposes?

did you even read that article? they said it will be added on 10th March, not in HoT… if it’s not fake… so you have wrong title and posted in the wrong section…

what would alliance offer on top of a guild? because there are already alliances in a form of big guilds, people just switch a guild representation when they want to act in the name of an alliance…

only thing which comes to my mind would be alliance chat, but we don’t really need alliances to have an alliance chat… custom channels would solve it…

on the other hand, if you would introduce some kind of alliance specific content, you would end up with the same state as now… small alliances would cry that they can’t do stuff which requires big alliance…

Dirame.8521:

You’re wrong about the skill type thing. Most skill types come in 5s. Turrets for instance are; Flame turret, Rocket turret, Thumper Turret, Net Turret and Rifle turret and same thing for all classes.

wrong, at least ele have utilities grouped by 4, if you would count heals it would be 5 for some types and 4 for the rest…

4 signets + heal signet
4 glyphs + heal glyph
4 cantrips, no heal
etc…

also not all heals have a skill type, so I think we can’t really count them

Jaken.6801:

AnthonyOrdon.3926:

GoldenTruth.2853:

…I’d like some clarity in what happens to mobs when you deplete their defiance bar….

I believe we’re still balancing the broad-reaching solution but yes, a significant stun will be applied. Pretty sure we’ll be releasing more details through our channels real soon.

Ah, like guard break in Final Fantasy 13 then? Urgh. Nice Drag and Pull system if it`s executed well.
I don`t mind it, as long as it doesn`t become the lynchpin for every encounter

I don’t think it will be core encounter mechanic, but I bet most encounters will be much easier when utilizing this, because you will be able to stop the boss casting some huge spell, or it will give you a time to burn the boss down a bit to shorten/skip the hard phase, it also depends how they implement it in each encounter, if the boss will continue with last spell after stun or just skip it and continue with next one

Turtle Dragon.9241:

This means the Revenant is getting 4 Elite skills(1 per Legend), 12 Utility skills(3 per Legend) so far, and 4 Heal skills(1 per Legend).

they can also have more than 3 utilities per legend, so you can switch them, I don’t think there was said anywhere that you wont be able to switch skills… it would also make sense, because they could choose a legend specific class skills or racial skills… the only thing needed would be some UI to set those skills separately for both selected legends

I don’t think ele is a good choice for a new player, it’s quite hard to start with, also the thief is quite hard… but it depends if you like easy play or you want to play what you want to play regardless of the difficulty

Trey Enma.7851:

Deathmatch wouldn’t be so bad if you weren’t potentially randomly tossed into it. If someone creates a build that works for Conquest, that doesn’t mean that it’s designed to work for Deathmatch.

and that’s the point… there are some classes/builds which are just better in conquest than others… why should they shine all the time? point of multiple map modes is to diversify builds and compositions instead of only conquest specific ones… also there is a map vote, the fact that you don’t want to play something doesn’t mean others have the same opinion, deathmatch wouldn’t win the map choice if people wouldn’t like to play it

to be honest, it’s not that hard to guess what it does… the more important part is to know WHEN to use CC to get the desired effect in the specific fight… and this can’t be learned from some general tutorial, you will still need to tell those people before the fight

at least in GW2 you have level scaling and also reward scaling, so you can really go into those old peacefull areas and have fun you can’t do that in most other games…

I want to ask one thing…

why?

there is a lot of content which can’t be done solo, for example world bosses, fractals, for most players even dungeons (I don’t really count those few HC players who can really solo some dungeons)… why should guilds be any different? you can create a guild with 2 people, why not, but there are things which just can’t be done in 2 people, it doesn’t matter if it’s a dungeon or a boss or something guild related, you just can’t, get over it…

tigirius.9014:

Many of the runes/sigils are drops only and with the horrible state of RNG in the title it’s pretty much behind a pay wall to begin with by having people pay for gems to purchase gold (especially new players).

so now we will call farming of ingame currency a pay wall? I think we have just reached another level of QQing

I think mix of valk and zerk could be solid substitute for cele, or soldier and zerk or all of them

Super Adventure Box

I thought I saw it somewhere so I tried to find it but didn’t succeed, so maybe it was just an assumption based on some other information, sorry

Subutex.2416:

I hope other content gets released “until expansion is ready” which is not poor Dragon Ball.

Dragon Ball isn’t new content at all, it’s part of the Chinese new year celebration event it is repeated just like a Halloween or Christmas

Argon.1563:

Even if they don’t totally redesign the system, it at least needs toning down slightly. The prices of traits need reducing by a significant amount, and the tasks need to be relevant to the level you get the traits at, rather hiding them in high level zones.

I don’t agree… price should remain high, it’s not meant to be for beginners, it’s for veterans who want to get it fast and are willing to pay for it… but the tasks MUST be relative to the trait level to make it work, it’s a nonsense to send a player to lvl 30 zone for a trait unlocked on lvl 10

Belzebu.3912:

farm in game and buy with gems

just a note, expansion wont be available for gems

how is this different from all base classes not having access to all existing conditions? I think you are just crying about expansion bringing new content for money…

rotten.9753:

maddoctor.2738:

I can’t imagine someone saying “Hardcore content” and meaning Open World.

Imagine Anet.

I think both Tequatl and Triple Trouble in open world are quite hardcore imo, depends what would you call hardcore

—> Xenon
you don’t understand what I mean… they have their own game engine and programming IN game engine and programming game engine are two different things… you just used some tools from engine, but when engine don’t support something, you have no chance to do it until you implement it into the engine… that’s why they called it new tech, because engine didn’t support that kind of skill before, it’s not meant to be new invention, just GW2 engine update

Xenon.4537:

I love how he calls it “new tech” when all they did was find a way to bind the wall to the player controller (avatar). I mean I’m sure it took some doing, but its not like they split the atom or anything.

you don’t know anything about their game engine so you shouldn’t judge new tech, it could be more work in the engine than it looks like… and I think you don’t know much about programming when you compare it to splitting the atom to trivialize their work…

because specialization are based on main class and should include new class machanic, I’m really interested in elementalist because the mechanic must be different enough to make specialization worth it and also similar enough to allow usage of skills from base class… so I’m really curious what will it be and how it will work, because elementalist is quite compliacted in it’s core feature and I think it was a real challenge to come with anything different and similar at the same time

maddoctor.2738:

Morsus.5106:

Knighthonor.4061:

This allows the Tanking role to be more effective and useful to the group.

Forgive me if I’m not all that excited for a return to the trinity system.

Don’t worry Taunt will only force the target to attack the one using it for a couple of seconds, it won’t affect the Threat list, for REAL tanking to work Taunts put the tank on the top of the list. So no trinity is coming and no tanks.

not really, taunt (as in WOW) changes agro only temporarily, so taunt isn’t really mandatory for holy trinity, it’s just a tool to manage situations when tank isn’t able to hold agro on all mobs… on the other hand strict agro system is mandatory for holy trinity… and that doesn’t have anything to do with taunt in any meaning

I really hope these topics about taunt will stop soon, it’s becoming to be boring to read wrong assumptions over and over…

I understand why he wants to call Revenant a Knight, people tend to call anyone in heavy armor a Knight… but why Dark Knight? When I see Dark Knight I imagine something like Necromancer in heavy armor or even a Death Knight from WOW, but imo Revenant is more about spirits than a darkness, not all ghosts / legends / spirits are about anything dark imo… so I would rather say a Spirit Knight

as the taunt is not a condition but status effect just like stun, I think it will behave the same way, overriding the conditions and thus even fear

Dragon’s claw pierces? never noticed it

lojer.8576:

They don’t cleave because other characters have another weapon on swap, which can cleave. Revenant (like elementalist) don’t have other weapon on swap, so You can’t compare weapons without class mechanic.

ok, how does all engi and ele weapons cleave? I don’t play engi a lot so I’m not sure, but eles attacks usually don’t cleave except for lightning whip and fireball and chain lightning if you count it as a cleave

Astralporing.1957:

From what i understood, its autoattack creates a shockwave that travels away from Revenant, increasing in damage. If that is true, it won’t have cleave, but it will be an aoe attack. Still, from the same desciption, it’s likely that its dps will be subpar at close distances.

why you think that skill described in the article was auto attack? or that auto attack will have the new mechanic too?

most ranged auto attacks don’t cleave, so I don’t think it will, depends on skill mechanic

Rognik.2579:

I was reading through it, and I just want to check: is there a way to remove Taunt? I did note that stun breakers would still work, so if nothing else there is that. But I’m not sure if condition removal would work.

it’s not a condition, so no, condition removals wont work…

quickness reduces the distance traveled? seems more like a bug to me… but effects which reduce movement reduce also a traveled distance, so I would rather count with this option

BrunoBRS.5178:

TBH i’m not a fan of either terms, but taunt rolls off the tongue better. provoke is too much of a truncated word, if that makes any sense.

I agree, also the functionality isn’t that different from the WOW taunt in it’s core idea

FUN FACT
quite a long time ago on WOW free servers, taunt used to work in PVP for a while and it worked exactly like taunt in GW2 now sometimes even a bug can invent something new

I think it’s unique enough, even if you look at it as the combination of thief and necromancer resources, it results in something new and unique, because together it’s different than both base aspects alone…

also the new skill mechanics look interesting

ok, thank you

lucadiro.4519:

Sigil of air is a must, the second can be fire, energy or battle

do they have separate cooldowns? they used to have shared cooldowns, but I’m not sure if they haven’t change anything…

but the stats are the same, just distributed along the armor pieces instead of 1 amulet…

on the other hand, Whispers have Tybalt, who is a legendary character and you can unlock armor skins for faction sets in SPvP if you want, so it’s not a big deal (but I’m not sure how hard it is after the reward system revamp, I had most skins before it)

from what I remember, phoenix does dmg 3 times… when flying away crossing the targets, when exploding and when flying back, that’s why it does so much dmg when aimed properly, so if they haven’t changed anything, it works this way

I don’t think water attunement needs a buff, also having 2 water fields and a 4sec CD blast finisher in the same attunement would be OP imo… staff have another things to change / buff

isn’t WvW roaming quite similar to SPvP? small scale fights, often 1v1? so you could use the same gear for WvW

from one point of view (lore) I agree with people saying it breaks the timeline of lore…

but why are everyone talking only about lore? it would be stupid to cut off the personal story from new characters just because they have new profession from the gameplay point of view…

why are you not complaining about whole personal story? or living story? things which happened in living story breaks the possibilities of personal story too… also how about Charr personal story including Rytlock? should they remove whole personal story from Chars after last episode of living story just because Rytlock is in the Mists and can’t be in their story now? or after he returns, should he be removed from personal story because he is now revenant and revenants didn’t exist in that time? you should stop taking it so seriously, some things are just gameplay based, not everything must be 100% lorewise, that happens when you add new content and move the main story line forward…

Puls.5867:

It isn’t designed to be a mount? It’s designed to get us to places that are hard to reach or require a glider?

yes, it’s like a parachute, just a hang glider

Blackmoon.6837:

This presents a huge issue for my guild as the whole premise for us is to be casual and just hang (for the most part).

don’t expect to get it for nothing even if it will be possible to build some basic guild hall with gold, it will be probably quite a lot gold, nothing you could make with hanging out with few guild mates imo

I hope it will be guild progression, it will challenge the guild and give the guild new purpose I really like how guild missions did it and I hope guild halls will be next step, but I’m not against low entry level for small guild to allow them to have a small guild hall

yes I agree with lordkrall, in the GW2 there was a personal story at first and then a living story as a bridge between GW2 and HOT story… now in HOT there will be most likely new personal story and then after some time another living story as a prelude for next expansion, most likely in old world as it will probably include a dragon on a different place in the world, so everyone should be able to play it

I don’t play engi a lot, but I agree the bag is ugly and players shouldn’t be forced to have it when using kits

only thing I’m a bit worried about right now is that specializations wont be distinctive enough to make different specializations for different profession really different from their base profession… but I’m still waiting for some more detailed info about at least one specialization to judge the feature itself

as HoT is a datadisk I would look at it as the game itself… so I bet there will be different personal stories for each race and Sylvari will have very distinct story line, that’s the reason imo and it’s logical

Jaws.1569:

BrunoBRS.5178:

we simply won’t get any stronger than we are now. we’ll just get different types of strong.

though the mastery system could be interpreted as “getting stronger”, since there are combat-related masteries.

True, I’m just referring to the potential feeling that we’re getting more options, but not much stronger. It’s more of an rpg-progression feeling I’m referring to, you know, going from a little commoner to a god etc.

Of course I could be wrong and these specializations could make us feel a sense of getting stronger after-all, in which case awesome!

you didn’t read what others tell you? specializations aren’t something what makes you more powerful, they are here to allow for more specializations, are different skills making you more powerful? no… are different trait lines making you more powerful? no… and specialization is exactly the same thing, it changes how your character play, not making it more powerful… got it now?

according to description on HoT page, I would rather agree with Maxwell, so I hope it will change the class mechanic, this would open more options and also change the way both ranger and druid play even if they share many parts

I don’t mind small guilds getting guild halls, but they should be appropriate to their size… so guild hall should begin as small and improve over time and with resources…