Guild Wars 2

Yamsandjams.3267:

HAHAHAHA… oh man, the salt all this has caused… mountains upon mountains… from a misunderstanding.

Hoooo hooo hooo… oh boy.

Well there go my mobility concerns out the window. I might not be including lock on in as many builds as I expected now. Choosing between perma swiftness and stealth revealing will be quite the decision to make.

Add in the 4 red posts on our forums and the salt level is through the roof. Heaven forbid engies get our own profession specialization week or the salt level will give haters a stroke

Dont forget air blasting right after stacking lots of burning!

Worst case scenario only the last condition is extended, best case is theyre all extended!

So what happened to all those posts making fun of engies about speedy kits? They all seem to have disappeared Lmao!

Keep hating haters

Josh Davis.6015:

Gern.2978:

I want to know how much the #1 attack hits for. That is the deciding factor of whether this is a good kit or not. If the #1 attack hits like a wet noodle, then this kit will be next to useless for a power build.

According to napkin math, mortar #1 hits about 47% harder than rifle 1. The rest of the mortar skills do less damage but have more utility.

That is insane damage on a .5 sec cast time O.o
Does this mean it still won’t scale or crit?

Exile.8160:

Penguin.5197:

Exile.8160:

Penguin.5197:

Not engie.

We lost speedy kits. :/

Oh no they took your perma swiftness… Im suprise it even lasted this long. Also you guys got so many good thing from the patch you cant even complain.

Can and will!
Apart from that, no more ssrb and nades took a hit. I mean we got some nice stuff but with the hits there’s no way engie “won” the balance changes.

your angry because you cant spam nades from 1200 range? lol again im suprised it lasted that long. Dude engis have been anet fav class for a long time with nothing but buff all the time and you complain cuz some few OP stuff got put in place? and im also suprise tool kit or Slick shoes didn’t get touch either. you engis have it made tbh.

Not angry just felt like using an exclamation point :P
But anyways wow good thing your not a dev, if it was up to you engies would end up as punching bags

Exile.8160:

Penguin.5197:

Not engie.

We lost speedy kits. :/

Oh no they took your perma swiftness… Im suprise it even lasted this long. Also you guys got so many good thing from the patch you cant even complain.

Can and will!
Apart from that, no more ssrb and nades took a hit. I mean we got some nice stuff but with the hits there’s no way engie “won” the balance changes.

Not engie.

We lost speedy kits. :/

Shadow.1345:

Counterplay it by not getting hit, kinda like how we have been telling people to counterplay stealth by swinging wildly and not getting hit by backstab.

lol funnily enough, swinging wildly will actually be tactical now.

Because med kit has been as niched as mortar since launch. So ill get hyped for it when I personally try it :P

uhohhotdog.3598:

Loboling.5293:

We heard everyones complaints about engineer showing up too much in the daily. So we made some changes to allow two alternate classes to also show up into the daily profession winner. For instance, now you can complete the daily by playing a ranger or thief, as well as the standard engineer. Rather than the previous system, which only granted one choice beside engineer.

It may be too late for humor. I bug reported this with a screenshot. And proceeded to turret to victory.

People still lose to turrets?

Its just proof turrets were never the problem >:)

Well, us engineers already have box of piranhas so I don’t think it would be too farfetched if engineers suddenly got the brilliant idead of dropping piranhas into tornado

I always wanted that weapon that the charr is holding in that concept art. If the mortar kit turns out like that I will cry tears of joy

Provost.6210:

So they strip the character and force him off a bridge… what is this, the mafia? This is an online game with privacy rules. Just ban the account. If you want to celebrate, post a picture of his character in a “hall of shame” or something. There’s no need for the whole show.

I’ve never been more convinced of ArenaNet’s immaturity.

Take a step back and breathe. Remember this is a video game, not real life.

Looks like it has good synergy, more traitlines should be like this instead of trying to get traits nerfed and unwanted.

ITT: Lots of people that have never played engie or ele

Its okay to have passive skills but I think there is a problem when a passive anything defines what a profession is.

My main.

Were just patiently waiting for HoT so we can return

RabbitUp.8294:

Penguin.5197:

I feel that might be a little redundant to give if juggernaut is being reworked to give stability, I dont think they would add defiance on top of that.

p.s. Oh I can hear the cries from the pvp forums now about juggernaut.

So, the entire elite spec must rely on a specific traited kit to function?

Why would it? Were’d you get that from?
I’m just saying engie cant be getting defiance. I can’t see how developers would allow a class to have the potential to have both defiance and perma stability at the same time

Not “Fearing” isn’t exactly the same as thinking you are a loot bag. Actually, I don’t think you could’ve gotten any other answer. I mean, who would fear a class reveal anyways?

I feel that might be a little redundant to give if juggernaut is being reworked to give stability, I dont think they would add defiance on top of that.

p.s. Oh I can hear the cries from the pvp forums now about juggernaut.

If by power creep you mean traits will finally get organized and synergize with each other unlike how they first were introduced, then yes there is power creep. There is nothing wrong with this though if they can get it to the point where the player has a tough chance picking out of the three options because theyre all so good, as opposed to having a tough time picking because theyre all underpowered and useless.

Just look at the reaping traitline for necro; syngergy and powerful traits everywhere. Its how all traitlines should be like.

It kind of looks like they are created from the shadow of the victim…so a shadow fiend would be pretty cool

GrandHaven.1052:

TLDR
You expect to many nerfs, you want to gut engis, so stop. Now.

After turret nerf, these guys don’t even know what they want nerfed for engie now. Theyre throwing any and every skill out there for a nerf, but can’t decide whats so op about engies; they just want to roll over them.

Its pretty sad, really.

sorudo.9054:

warriors already have almost all weapon choices and have one of the highest DMG, what more love do you want to give them?

Minions, its the only thing they are missing. Once they get it, They’ll be able to have a single mercenary (henchmen) out at a time.

After that, they’ll basically have everything

Other than magic, another explanation could be that in their world, gravity is lower. Which would also explain other things like being able to jump off many high cliffs unharmed.

Engineer has had that problem for the longest with performance enhancement.
Anet really never did anything about that.
I am sorry you got it now too :/

Watch his high concept name be life hunter

waSte.8640:

All you Dragonhaters been drinkin’ Dragonhateorade.

Nah that’s what guardians have been drinking. Because they, like, hunt dragons now.

choovanski.5462:

coglin.1867:

choovanski.5462:

considering engineer was designed to be weak vs cc, no.

No, engineer was designed to be weak against Conditions, and solid against CC.

No. it was designed to be weak against both. it doesn’t have few stunbreakers and awful stab (only on thumper 1sec and B toss. the elites with stab are a joke) by accident. engineer is weak vs cc and conditions.

The engineers defense against cc is in their traits, not just by pure stability like other classes. Protection injection, cloaking device, stabilized armor, leg mods etc.

You should still have added an “other” option.

I flinched a bit the first time I heard dragon hunter as the name. Right away it just felt wrong but I couldn’t put my finger on exactly why. It really doesn’t describe anything about what the class does, its just a horrible name compared to the rest. I really hope anet does hear our feedback and switch the name.

After noticing in the trailer the fact that he goes after a dinosaur, not dragon, the guardian should in fact be named the Dino Hunter.

Dragons are generic and overdone for mmos. Dinos is where its at now.

I hope we get something similar to signets, but that do stuff instead of passive buffs.

Like a gizmo (that’s what I’m calling engineer signets now) that gives a drone when equipped.

Though that idea is still farfetched, we’ll probably get the drones as the profession mechanic.

Rauderi.8706:

In the very least, I hope to see something represented in game that defines the Dragonhunter in lore. It’d be easier to accept. Seeing as the Dragonhunter is about ranged support, I could see Logan being pansy enough for it.

He can’t do it, Its dragon hunter, not dragon evader

Cold Hearted Person.6154:

Funny, history of turrets make a full circle, at start of the game almost no one used them cause of the humongus hit box, then they made them usable by fixing this and now again almost no one will ever use them due to a fact that they now die extremly fast, as if they didnt die fast enough before.

Pretty much.
They spend years on trying to get people to play turrets, and now that they did they’re like…nope go back to alchemy or something,

Turrets as they are now feel inferior to other minions. They cannot move or benefit from boons, yet they now share the weakness of other minions just “to bring them inline with the rest of the game”.
It was pretty obvious that instead of balancing, the intend was just to completely take them out of play again.

If it does it should only open up to a few conditions like burning and work from there to not completely kill turrets while keeping some logic in this game. I will be terrified the day my turrets start bleeding and feel fear, what are we necromancers?

I feel it must be a revamp. It would be ridiculous to call a skill a kit if its not a kit.

Taunt shouldve probably just been left as a creature only skill, or at the least handled differently. Being forced to change targets and getting target locked is reasonable, but losing control of the character is completely unecessary. don’t think we need more ways to lose character control when fear still exists.

When I first read the word taunt on the blog I went “wait wat?? are we now going back to trinity?”

Part of me is going “Its okay, I don’t want to play guild wars anymore anyways”
I will be fair and give it a try, but I feel so disappointed at hot now.

Espers.7346:

figured I would come back and just as I expected… negative replies. Zerkers are all anyone does. when I ask in map chat for advice on a class I get the same thing…“Zerker” for end game…. I never once said enforce the role system.. to those whom felt that is what this post was about. I enjoy Guild Wars 2 for it’s build system.

I understand some of it can be confusing, what I mean by non zerg teams struggle is.. mobs hit for thousands per hit. a healer can only heal maybe 2k every 16 seconds. (going by what my water ele can do) then the rest is Regeneration which does not heal to much. I will admit, I have no issues when I get a team with a warrior or guardian whom builds some toughness.

I cannot stress it enough, this post was not to enforce the trinity, but to allow others whom wish to play non zerker roles. the chance to enjoy content also. Not everyone should be forced to be pure damage builds in order to burn down mobs before they can kill you. Also not saying make it fast, but make healing builds matter and do enough healing to last a longer battle.

Instead of trying to have a constructive discussion, you pretty much left a whine post i dont see how you couldnt have expected negativity here.

But with that said, their bosses have been improving, their newer living story bosses don’t just stand around and take the hits while once in a while doing a big slow attack every ten seconds. As long as they can bring more bosses like that to HoT I hope we end up seeing less dependence on zerker gear and opens it up for other stats.

The devs were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should (add two legged magical triceratops)

Xyonon.3987:

*common engi with predator outfit

Thats what I was thinking lol

They will get focus for offhand and use it to shoot ki blasts and energy shots a la Dragon kitten. Actally gw2 already has those attacks from the dragon ball mini game :O

Today I was thinking about how revenant charaters would meet Braham and the rest of the charaters. It would seem pretty ridiculous to have Rox and Jora and the rest calling someone who they barely met “boss” and most importantly it would create a gap about who finished off Scarlet and what not. Its like “Oh yeah hey we used to have another member but we forgot who he is. You are boss now”. What seems more appropriate would be having boss become the revenant, and thats where all revenants would start off as, already being heroes of L.A, killer of zhaitan etc wit Rytlock just coming in and showing that person the revenant ways.

Agree? Disagree? I cant think of any other way a revenant would start without making it complicated, but I would like to hear other peoples thoughts on this.

I would like to see what a dagger wielding guardian would do

Why has no one mentioned forgal or even tybalt yet??

Your new nickname of course
Gaile Gray the Grey!

btw thanks in advance for the gatling gun specialization you gave to engies! (right?)

Im thinking the flying turrets could actually be a mechanic that replaces toolbelt whenever you choose that specialization. It could probably be f1-f4 where with 4 specialized turrets that do different things.

If not, flying turrets will be glorious still!

Yup saw that too! (plus he was wearing some awesome armor!)
If one of our secondary professions lets us wield hammers, its probably melee focused. I hope the other profession is just as interesting…wonder what the other one can bring to us, bows seems likely

Ar as it is gives me a reason to invest in hp. I don’t think it needs a rework just slightly higher threshhold for it to activate.