Guild Wars 2

Yes, I am not arguing for PvE, but for PvP.

“Awesome Vengeance”? You never get to use it! Whatever awesome qualities it might have are irrelevant when you’re always finished off before it becomes available. It is like it doesn’t exist in WvW/sPvP.

The Interrupt is not awesome either; it is single-target. It needs to be made like the Guardians big shield thing; interrupt everyone trying to finish you off. You knock one guy down only to have three of his mates already doing the finishing off animation. Woo…

FateOmega.9601:

Anyway, since Sylvari cannot reproduce, why do they even have male and female?

Because they are modeled after Humans by the Pale Tree.

Which raises all sort okittenward questions, such as if they do have genitalia, how did the Pale Tree come to get such insight into the matter that she could recreate them? Did she have two Humans come forth and do the dirty infront of her so she could learn how it works?

But would that Charr wouldn’t fight.

There would be too much profit in staying neutral and selling arms and equipment to all the races!

One could also argue that in a in-game universe where there is total war between the races, the BLTC would never have been able to exist in the first place. At best it would be a local Charr merchant guild.

I love how you’re just waving away the intro cinematic which is clearly there to introduce the Norns as a whole. You don’t think there is any sort of symbolism in that Norn warrior lifting that huuuuge boulder? You refusing to recognize the evidence there is does not automatically make it false or otherwise non-existent.

Also best? When did I ever use the term best? I’m talking about physical strength here. The Norns are stronger than the other races. A Norn is far stronger than a Human of equal size would be because Norns are not simply “large Humans”; they are beings of mythological strength. So when it comes to feats requiring nothing but raw physical strength a Norn would trump a single Charr/Human/Asura/Sylvari with ease i.e Norns are stronger than the other races.

How are you not getting this?

QED… whatever that means.

I’m sure you’d take Vapour Form (who wouldn’t?) but Vengeance? You’d get so frustrated with never being able to use it that you’ll be begging to get your fast-charging teleport back, trust me.

What we really need for all classes is a little hotbar above our main skill bar where we can put stuff like weapons, armour and consumables so that we can quickly use stuff without having to either open Inventory or Hero Panel and look for them. Of course, any and all restriction currently in place would apply so you couldn’t switch armour or weapons in combat.

That would be soooo lovely.

Silver.8023:

Vengeance available straight away would be way too powerful if you consider the trait Sweet Revenge. Heck, it’s still pretty powerful as it is.

How is an ability you never get to use “pretty powerful”? You have no way to stop people finishing you off if they are more than one and it takes a month to charge up.

hharry.1967:

You cant compare going back to life, allowing you to ress allies, kill foes, even LOOT, lol, do w/e you want, to vapor form where all you can do is run away.

The comparison isn’t really fair I agree: Vapour Form is way better. It makes you immune to damage and conditions like Stun or Immobilize, guaranteeing an escape if you’re fighting near a Keep/Tower. Heck, most of the time you will be saved as long as you can rush into your friendly zerg.

In Vengeance you can be controlled and promptly beaten to death within a second of rising. There’s no way you’ll escape. And even if you do, by some miracle… did I mention that you still die when it ends?

All the bonuses such as Soldier Runes and the Vigorous Shouts Trait apply.

Shouts only move your mouth and as such Anet made it so that the animation can’t be interrupted by movement (you can even shout when knocked down).

Also, the Stun Break on Shake It Off! is for personal use only, unlike the curing of Conditions which affects party members.

As for Shrug It Off!, it does not put Shake It Off! on cooldown or vise-verca. This is isn’t guaranteed to work with similar Traits though. For example Last Stand; if you have this Trait and manually activate Balanced Stance you trigger the 90 seconds cooldown on Last Stand.

… is really useless against human opponents.

1 does damage. Nothing fancy like inflicting Conditions like most other Professions. But it is alright I guess.

2 is horrible. A single-target Knockdown? It is useless in WvW because even if you knock one guy down, anyone else can easily finish you. Even in a 1v1 situation the Knockdown usually don’t last long enough for Vengeance to charge up.

3 is horrible as well. Compare it to Vapour Form or any other 3 ability, it just takes ages to charge up. Not to mention it kills you regardless, unless you’re very lucky.

Add 2 and 3 together and you have a truly sorry Downed State for PvP. You’ll never get to use Vengeance because you can’t keep people from finishing you off. I either suggest changing 2 to a pbAoE knocking everyone within finishing range down (similar to Guardians blue shield thingy) or make Vengeance available as soon as you hit the dirt (like Vapour Form).

We should get something similar to the Guardian ability. Y’know, the bigass shield that knocks everyone around you back?

Maybe the downed Warrior farts hard enough to knock everyone around him? Or stomps with his leg, whatever…

Astral Projections.7320:

The design of the racial skills, including the elites, is that they are for flavor and are weaker than regular skills.

“Eric Flannum: Each of the five races has unique skills available to them. Our philosophy behind the design of these racial skills is that they are slightly weaker than equivalent skills determined by profession. While they may be less powerful, the racial skills capture the flavor of each race and provide additional options for the player. For example, a human playing a profession that normally doesn’t have a good way of dealing with conditions could take the Prayer to Kormy racial skill, which removes a condition but is a fair bit weaker than comparable skills provided by a profession specializing in condition removal. By doing this, we hope to give the various races access to skills that make them feel unique without making them overpowered when played as a particular profession.”

http://guildwars.incgamers.com/blog/comments/guild_wars_2_interview/

Hahaha! In your face Panda. Me spouting nonsense indeed! If I were a lesser man I’d demand an apology.

I’d let her ride my broom, if you know what I’m sayin’.

So that’s why Rytlock is extra mad at Logan for running back to Jennah.

It all makes perfect sense!

Amadan.9451:

a fun note… human mesmers don’t use hound of balthazar^^

I’ve seen some do actually. Especially if roaming in WvW where Time Warp isn’t that useful.

Point still stands that it us frequently used where-as many other races’ Elites are never ever used.

Delirious.9278:

No they are NOT supposed to suck. I’m not taking that “philosophy”. Tier 2 Elite skills that cost 30 skill points are supposed to be mathematically 3x better than that of their tier 1 10 skill point counterparts regardless of racial or class specifications. Elite skills are supposed to be strong and effective in battle, not a waste of a skill slot! Redo every races racial elite skills and then that’ll make everyone happy.

Yeah, sorry that you’re not “taking” it, but that’s how it is. Anet have said that racial skills are supposed to only be “fun” and add “flavor” to the races; they are not supposed to be usable because that would upset the balance. They don’t want one race to be “better” than any other at class Y or X because of their racial skills.

Which is why I’m stunned that Hounds of Balthazar still hasn’t been nerfed; you regularly see Human characters picking it over their class Elites. When was the last time you saw a Norn use Become the Bear/Wolf/Raven/Snow Leopard other than to mess about?

Nike.2631:

We so need to get access to the shaman clothes.

At least if you’re a Warrior or Guardian you can get the HotW Helmet which is a bear’s head :P

There is also a NPC (enemy skill challenge actually) that is a Raven Mesmer. I could definitely see followers of Raven being Mesmers, masters of trickery.

Could we please get these to save our auto-attack choice as well? Sometimes I like to joke around in Bear Form but it is such a pain always having to mess about with the CTRL key just to allow myself to attack normally.

Please consider doing what you did to weapon bundles for the forms. Transformation skills are already underpowered as it is, you could at least make them less of a PITA to use.

By “piled on” you of course mean two enemies, right?

Why?

It is a truly unique feature that is very, very handy. Just use some other Trait until you find yourself having to jump off a cliff.

This won’t end well…

30 freaking Jumping Puzzles again?

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGE!!!!

Every racial Elite sucks except Hounds of Balthazar, really.

Sorry, but Anet’s philosophy is that racial Elites are supposed to suck. Just look at all the Norn Elites racials.

Souler.2793:

PowerVitalityThougness Gear, all the way. You’ll enjoy WvWvW a lot with this. Just get ur zerker trinkets and Jewels and go with GS and Hammer smashing faces. It’s mega satisfying when u CC till death a Squishy thief.

I used to go with zerker gear, and believe me, despite the tankiness of this gear, you still do a decent dmg

You could do the same with Knights, and gain a lot more damage in the process.

I just wish Vengeance charged up a lot faster. It is alright in dungeons, but in solo PvE and any form of PvP you are dead before you can get a chance to use it.

Unfortunately, it does not affect dialogue like that. When gaining Adrenaline all male Norns spout that line. Which is sad, I wish it (your choice of Spirit Animal) had more of an impact on how your Norn “feels”.

runeblade.7514:

http://imgur.com/Tvw5sOV

Found it. Confirm dead.

That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with stranger aeons, even death may die.

Again you’re using game-play balance as a counter-argument against lore.

It doesn’t work that way.

They can’t have Norn NPCs being stronger just as they can’t have Norn PCs being stronger. The Cave Troll in Ascalonian Catacombs could probably single-handedly wipe out all of Hoelbrak if he was set loose inside, but that has nothing to do with lore.

You didn’t understand my post. Read it again. The name I was looking for was “Gift of Ascalon”, by the way.

Ascended Knight gear is a must.

I agree. Like the “defend Maggs” part, this one also needs a do-over with the new system in place.

Elementalist is the last class to ever need more toys.

The Quaggan is sooo friggin tiny though.

Grakor.3450:

What’s more jarring, I think, is the Charr running animation. They go on all fours, but because of their size, it feels like they’re running in molasses when they should be moving quickly.

Should’ve made it so that you jog on two legs normally, but when you get the Swiftness Boon you change to the four-legged animation.

The one from A.C probably. Gift of… Magic? Light?

Rexlent.1607:

A guildie of mine made a clip of his Howl. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=X6YdlbEL-Xw

So Howler now farts fog….

How very disappointing.

Twilight/Sunrise it aint….

My Condition Duration displays a 60% bonus duration, but the only thing I have that is giving me any form of Condition Duration is 10% from Traits.

Or am I missing something here?

Or, simply put: “Create X combos”.

Steelo.4597:

oglaf: sword and warhorn.. jesus. love making life hard on yourself, eh?

I’m not one of those selfish Warriors running around with Greatswords only caring about kills in WvW.

Our player Norns are seriously underpowered compared to actual lore. There is no way they’d be on equal terms with a Human, let alone an Asura!

You can’t base the relative strengths of the races by in-game mechanics. That’s ridiculous.

And no, it is still not reasonable to estimate strength by basing it on the size of the Norn. How many times do I have to say that they are not big Humans? They’re giants of mythological strength. Aesgir knocked a fang out of Jormag’s skull with a single blow.

Raf.1078:

Ranger?…not for me. Human are rangers. Lithe, quick, agile.

Norns are melee. In the berserker traditions.

But that said, I have a Norn engie, Guardian and warrior.

Not if you consider their culture. Norns are definitely Rangers.

Solid Gold.9310:

It shouldn’t be there, it’s highly offensive to many people.

ArenaNet SHOULD know better, we ALL know what the swastika stands for.

So don’t give me any of that religeous rubbish.

I find your statement to be incredibly offensive towards my proud Viking heritage, my good Sir! Not to mention towards a great deal of other people such as Buddhists and other Eastern religions/cultures who have used the Swastika as a religious symbol way before my Viking ancestors.

Toughness.

Warriors have a really great Health pool to begin with.

Neither Vitality nor Toughness will help you when you get focused if you jump into an enemy zerg though. Just so you know.

Knight’s is flipping amazing on Warriors.

Gimme gimme gimme!

Depo.9071:

Did all you people miss the post in this thread saying they are working on fixing this? Put the pitch forks away…

They are fixing it so that every kill counts. That doesn’t change the fact that this achievement is horrible.

For the love of crabcakes Anet, at least remove the Champion guard dog, will you?

Ugh…

Maybe their tails actually weight a metric ton in order to keep them balanced?

Its not like that cheap-kitten Vapour Form that Elementalists get which you can use before your butt even touches the ground and scuttle away.

Jesus H Christ on a pogostick, Anet!