Guild Wars 2

they could give you a combat armor copy when you get the town clothe version. They could just copy the model and code it as wearable armor

http://intothemists.com/calc/?build=-cV-FRFCVwk0-U5V-Fd07ER-kb07-JP;49;0TT2;628B45AU-F2WNk6TsW6TsW66gB

This is my generic S/P, SH build. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to never let necromancers cast again. An Alternative is to use 6 runes of Lyssa instead

Depending on how the aftercast reduction goes, it might rise like metal gear rising. Its the only build I know for real.

Having to update for 5 minutes is not a good reason to make balance patches months apart. Small and metered changes should occur over a few weeks, not large changes every 3 months. If its an issue with tournaments, just see if they can be rescheduled. Do not wait months to fix the sigil of paralyzation. It may be bad for the players but it will be better for the game as a whole.

Playing for the experience has not worked, no one wants to play sPvP because it puts a stop to earning actual rewards. No one is forcing PvE players to play PvP because there are other ways to access the same rewards. The population has died because sPvP stands on its own and is useless to all other players that don’t care about the leaderboards.

There are a lot of effects that need to be toned down so i’ll plop this down here and keep adding to it

Freeze Grenade: Remove the white powdery effect when it hits

Sun Spirit: Change it from the bright light to a signet-like effect (EX: Sun Spirit Icon floating above it when it activates)

Ice Storm: Remove the white powdery effect when shards hit

Fire Bomb: Remove the mushroom cloud

Big O’l Bomb: Lower the height of the explosion cloud so it can’t cover players, change its color to be similar to the smoke bomb

Glue Bomb: Remove the glue that splashes up into the air

Shrapnel Grenade: Remove the orange flash, lower the height of the smoke

Stone Spirit: Remove mud splashing into the air

Storm Spirit: Remove the tall lightning strikes that occur on the spirits position (not the small ones on the ground)

Ring of Fire: lower the height of the fire at the position of the ele casting (fire in the center of the circle)

Water attunement swap Make the bubble transparent instead of blue

Lightning Storm: Lower the radius and height of the lightning strikes

Cluster Bomb: Remove the orange flash so when the bomb is split into 3, it will just have grey smoke

Infiltrator’s Strike/Infiltrator’s Signet/Infiltrator’s Arrow/Shadow Return/Shadowstep/Steal: Remove the dark blueish/purple rings at the center

Lich Form: Make all but the arms and head transparent

Banners:Removing yellowy glow when they are summoned

Earthshaker: Change effect to be more like Molten Berserker’s Shockwave

Fire Attunement Swap: Change it to look like Arcane Power but with the fire attunement symbol

Sigil of Geomancy: Lower the height of spikes to height of shortest asura, lower the # to 5

Auras: Change from bubbles to silhouettes

Protector’s Strike: Make less blue and more transparent

Arcing Arrow: Lower the height of the smoke to the height of shortest possible asura

Disable the ability to rez defeated players

Change blue team to yellow team: blue effects on blue’s points can be hard to see

Justin ODell.9517:

We’re getting the fix for these issues to you as quickly as we can.

The additional matchmaking improvements go beyond what has been discussed here, and will take longer to implement.

Will we have to wait the same amount of time for rewards to get people to play PvP
or ways to deal with 1x/2x/3x/4×5?

I think the matchmaking could be mitigated if there were just more people playing

1. Responding on forums
2. Incentives to PvP
3. Process of fixing bugs

I think if we were in the loop more, it wouldn’t be so depressing to wait since we know the direction and changes the game is taking

There also needs to be reasons for people to PvP

finally, bug fixing must be faster and more frequent, try to fix some every 2 weeks rather than grouping them in one big patch

(:<) Necromancer

Marks: Change from proximity trigger to manual activation

This would mean that marks wouldn’t automatically trigger when people step on them (cannot be used like traps), so the necro cannot just fire and forget, and there is more opportunity to dodge them.

Mark of Blood: Reduce Bleed duration by 70%, increase by 14% for each enemy hit

Enfeebling Blood: Reduce Bleed duration by 50%, increase by 10% for each enemy hit

Ideally AoE bleeds wouldn’t out do single target ones, this would mean the necro has to aim for the maximum # of targets to get the most out of the bleed. In smaller fights it would make the necro not as strong (EX: 1v1 at mid at necro comes to help)

Spinal Shivers: Change remove to steal

It is very slow w/ casting. Stealing would give necro access to boons they can’t easily apply and gives incentive to use Focus, Chill of Death, and Spiteful Talisman

Terror: Move to grandmaster

Its a little stronk for a master trait

Death Into Life: Change to heal yourself when you reach 0% life force, cooldown when you gain 40% life force

There should be more trait interaction w/ the class mechanic outside of soul reaping, the cooldown would reset when you reach 0% then gain back up to 40%.

Protection of the Horde: Change to 2s of protection when a minion dies

You need a full minion build in order to get enough toughness to still not make it worth it. This change would mean that you would actually get decent damage mitigation if you only used reanimator and a full minion build would still get something decent too.

Dark Armor: Change to 400 toughness when below 40% life force

This would give incentive to playing with a low amount of life force rather than building to 100% or only using Death Shroud when you are being bursted. It would also mean the necro isn’t as weak without deathshroud.

Tainted Shackles: Remove the initial torment and delayed immobilize, only torments if bind is not prematurely broken

The risk vs reward is not there for torment, immobilize also doesn’t make sense on this skill if torment only damages when moving. It might have been there if the necro has to maintain distance the entire time to get any torment

Deadly Strength: Change to 3% dmg for each condition on you

I think there should be more things that discourage the heavy use of conditions the way retal and protection discourage power builds.

Spectral Grasp: Increase projectile velocity

This is too easily dodged making the skill useless.

Dhuumfire: Change from on crit to when Dark Path/Doom hit, or when Tainted Shackles doesn’t expire early

Fetid Ground: Change to Unholy Feast

This would be another way to buy time in downed state since it can remove things like aegis, stability and protection. Fetid Ground is useless anyways.

And My Axe!

I think the dmg scaling should be changed from % of enemy hp left to distance from enemy when casted, the longer the distance the more the dmg.

That way it rewards timing and positioning, not pressing it over and over again

[Guardian]

Zealot’s Speed: Change it to give 25% speed boost if you have not taken dmg in the last 3 sec, swap its position with symbolic exposure

Revenge of the Fallen: Make it deal damage to the killer of a spirit weapon

This gives spirit weapons a way to survive (or de-incentivise their death) without needing to buff their health

Kindled Zeal: Change its conversion to reduced incoming condition duration by 1% per 2% of outgoing condition duration

There should be reasons to go 30 zeal other than just for a laugh, this is a passive defense against conditions that is not immunity which is strongest for condi duration users

Signet of Wrath: Change the active effect to recharge Virtue of Justice

Shimmering Defense: Change its effect from burning to shield of wrath

Strength of the Fallen: Make it give 2s of stability when a spirit weapon is killed

Spirit weapon users need a way to stay on capture points without getting cc-ed off

Eternal Spirit: Swap it’s position with Spirit Weapon Mastery

This would allow spirit weapons to survive longer, justifying their stupid cooldowns

Healing Breeze: Make it’s skill type consecration

This would gilette shave its cooldown, and increase the healing

Binding Jeopardy: Make it trigger on blind, apply 2s cripple instead of vuln

Allows greatsword and sword to stick to targets better, more cross trait/weapon synergy

Stand Your Ground!: Remove Stun-Break and move to Retreat!

It is a go to skill because it breaks and prevents stuns for a group. This would force people to be more proactive or use other skills.

Retreat!: lower cooldown to 50s

Orb of Wrath: Change it to Wrath[Downed 1 Ability]

Gives scepter a reliable auto-attack, synergizes with VoJ

[Mesmer]

Feedback: Set on your position if there is not a target selected

This would make mesmer stronger at defending points or themselves through the projectile reflection and blind if traited

Arcane Thievery: Reduce the cooldown to 32s

Mimic: Blocks the next atk and change echo to the blocked attack

Decoy: Activatable a 2nd to kill illusion and swap to it’s position

This would be a way to not use portal and still be useful

Signet of Inspiration: Change passive to give 3s of swiftness every 10s out of combat and 2s of protection every 10s while in combat

Mirror of Anguish: While they are alive, Phantasmal Defender and Disenchanter receive incoming disables for you.

Everything that is not portal, illusion of life or blink id not good enough to justify not taking portal, illusion of life or blink.

Veil: Make it apply revealed debuff for 1s to enemies

Phantasmal Warlock: Change scaling to scale of off how many condis the creator has

Mantras: Changed number of activations to depend on how long you are able to cast before interrupt/finishing

Portal Entre: Make it a diff color than Portal Exeunt

Winds of Chaos: Change chance for vuln to chance for another bounce

Cleansing Inscriptions: Move to Adept Tier

Signet of Midnight: Change it to send 2 conditions to the last created clone/phantasm

All the signets have long cooldowns so even cleansing inscriptions would not be sufficient

Signet of Domination: Increase cast time to 1/2s, change active to swap positions with target enemy or downed ally

Its similar to Vengeful Spirit’s Swap in that it is used to set up kills or save allies. It allows you to be somewhat mobile without the standard utilities and be more supportive

Signet of Illusions: Add stun break to the active

Phantasmal Mage: Change confusion to bleed

[Ranger]

Heal as One: Also make it cure any conditions that both you and your pet share

This would be an indirect nerf to aoe condis, making single target stronger and forcing enemies to aim better

Stone Spirit: Change passive from %chance rng to after every 3rd disable received

Frost Spirit: Change passive from %chance to attacking a foe with swiftness

Storm Spirit: remove passive and move its’ effect to the active

Sun Spirit: Change the active animation to a signet-like effect so it is less confusing, Remove passive and add the burning to the active

These passives function on % chance which means they encourage spamming since the more attacks you make, the more opportunities to proc there are.

Nature’s Renewal: Change it to function more like Toss Elixir R

Rather than a instant up, it would heal % over time

Spirit Actives: Require ground targeting w/ Spirits Unbound and when summoning

More control for the ranger, adds need to aim spirit actives

Stability Training: Change it to 2s of stability for self/pet when you swap to those pets

More incentive to use those pets, better ability to hold points

Intimidation Training: Change it to 2s fear nearby AI-controlled foes when you swap to those pets

Shared Anguish: Change it to trigger every 3rd time you are disabled

90s is too long, punishes enemies who spam

Trap Potency: Make it still reduce the recharge, but change longer conditions to transferring 1 condition

Gives trap ranger other method to remove condi

Quickening Zephyr: No negative effect if used while pet is dead

Remorseless: Change it to: If your attack is dodged the next attack crits

A way to deal with builds that dodge a lot

Vigorous Spirits: Remove 2nd part

Unnecessary if changed from a % chance

Enlargement: Also trigger when they are at 25% hp

Sharpening Stone: Make unblockable

(+)Warrior(_)—-

Berserker’s Stance: Change from immunity to: For 8s any condition you receive is copied to it’s sender

Arcing Slice: change apply quickening zephyr (debuff) to target for 2/3/4s

Brutal Shot: Change vuln to 1s stun

On My Mark!: Also make it remove a boon

Shouts can have a way to deal with stability and this skill shouldn’t suck

Stomp: Make it ground targetable like Seismic Leap

Sprint: Make it cripple target for 3s

Rush: Add 2s cripple

Kick: Make it transfer a condition

Physical Utilities lack any way to deal with conditions on the user

Distracting Strikes: Change confusion to 3s Haste (debuff)
A way to deal w/ chronic dodgers

Powerful Banners: Change dmg to removing cast time on summon

Plant Standard: Reduce cast time to 1/2s

Adrenaline: Spent even if attack misses or is blocked

Inspiring Battle Standard: Change to 2s of stability when banner is summoned and when planted

Rending Strikes: Raise chance to 50%

Armored Attack: Change it to 7% bonus dmg vs foes w/ protection

Rampage: change its’ skills to physical skill type.

Im ok if they get baffed, so long as they don’t get buffed

RIP In Piece Physical Utility Skills

Elementalist Make-A-Wish Wishes

Fire Shield: Change it so it still gives 1 stack of might on hit, but removes a boon from the attacker

This will be enough to deter constant attacks without needing to be like the other auras

Gale: Reduce the cooldown to 40s, because its way too long

Lightning Flash: Make it a Leap Finisher, this will give more access to auras w/ staff or focus

Arcane Blast: Make it Pierce and transfer a condition because Arcane Skills can’t do anything about them

Cleansing Fire: Reduce the cooldown to 35s

Mist Form: Make conditions not tick down in this form

Conjure Earth Shield: Make it break stun for creator and whoever picks the 2nd shield, because there is no way for conjures to do this currently

Fortify: Remove the rooting effect

Serrated Stones: Bleed a foe when they critically hit you, this benefits from both stats provided in this tree

Diamond Skin: 40 toughness for each stack of might, there should be other ways to be defensive outside of water/arcana

Flame Barrier: 40% chance for all attacks in all attunements, it has a very small opportunity to actually trigger now

One with Fire: Transfer a condition when flame barrier triggers, there are no traits for condition removal outside of water/arcana which pigeonholes elementalists

Signet of Fire: Change the active to 2s of quickness

Persisting Flames: Make your Fire Fields give .5s of stability every second
This buffs Lava Tomb and Focus which has the longest fire field duration on the class among other skills.

Glyph of Elemental Power: Make the next five attacks apply a condition for their attunement instead of rng, change cripple to bleed, No one likes RNG

Glyph of Lesser Elementals: Make them pull a condition from you when summoned and every 25s, Glyphs cannot deal with conditions

Glyph of Storms: Make it give projectile reflection for 1s

Deep Freeze: Remove the self rooting effect

TLDR: Fire traits, Earth traits, Conjures, Glyphs and Focus are too weak, these would be the least possible amount of changes needed to make them good.

(Thief Wish List)

Pistol Whip: Increase stun to .8s

Back Fighting: Change to gain 3s retal when struck from behind, cooldown 10s

it still benefits from power damage and its better than the old one

Body Shot: Increase vuln duration to 5s

Haste: No negative effect if used while below 50% hp

Spider Venom: Also transfer a condition on next 5 attacks

Venoms cannot deal with conditions on the user and this would be away to do that, buffing Venom sharing and support thieves

Unload: [also] give reflection for 1s

Scorpion Wire: Make it pierce, switch pull to knockback (only pvp obcourse)

This gives thieves a way to get people off of point besides damage, making them better at defending points on their own

Ice Drake Venom: Make it [also] give 4s stability, affect allies if you have Venomous Aura

If there are other sources for groups stability, someday there may be teams without guardians.

Hard to Catch: Increase dodge distance to 500

Ricochet: Make pistol skills bounce every 5th attack

Larcenous Strike: Change to removing up to two boons if attacking from front or steal if from side/behind

Lowering just the # only encourages more spamming to make up for the nerf, this would reward skilled use and timing just like venerable Colonel Radec

Infiltrator’s Strike: remove the immobilizing attack and add to infiltrator’s return

This would still be able to close gaps but the immobilize would be applied defensively because its part of the return skill, rather than the way it is now as a set up for other attacks.

(Engineer Wish List)
Change skill 2 to Acid Bomb:
It can be countered by Immobilize/Cripple/Chill, not a disable or interrupt, rewards smart use of auto attack since its the only way to rotate

Throw Junk: Change chance for chill to immobilize, weakness to vuln

Immobilize is supported by other traits, vuln benefits power/crit engi

Personal Battering Ram: Make it transfer 2 conditions
the entire gadget type has no way to deal with non-movement conditions

Overcharged Shot: Change the self-knockback to a backwards leap like Acid Bomb

This will still move you backwards but not put you in a vunlerable position

Throw Mine: Change Remove Boon to Steal Boon if you are in the blast radius

Gadgets don’t get access to the defensive capabilities of the other skill type, this gives a gadget build access to protection, vigor, regen and stability through the enemy

Kit Refinement: Remove the global cooldown and give them different individual cooldowns, Global Cooldown makes this suck

Accelerant Packed Turrets: Move it to adept tier because there are not many adept traits that affect turrets in this trait tree

Performance Enhancement: Change it to 35 healing power for each stack of might, the conversion thing sucks skritt, and this can be countered by boon removal/steal

Rifled Barrel Turrets: Move it to master tier, this would not be worth 30pts even if turrets are made stronger.

Rocket (Rocket Turret Toolbelt): Daze for .1s

Empowering Adrenaline: Make it give 2s of quickness on the use of a gadget

Napalm Specialist: Increase bonus to 45%

Static Discharge: Make it shoot to your selected target, regardless of the toolbelt’s target. This often misses with skills that don’t target the enemy

Adrenal Implant: No negative effect when you gain quickness

Utility Goggles: Make it apply 3s of revealed to enemies in a 600 AoE

Mortar: Change to a kit, remove minimum range.
Stationary+Min Range makes it a bad skill

Armor Mods: Change it to 2s of protection on toolbelt use,
there are not enough traits that deal with the class mechanic

Flame Turret: Make it’s health/armor equal to current value of canine pets

Thumper Turret: Make it’s health/armor equal to current value of drake pets

Rifle/Rocket: Make it’s health/armor equal to current value of cat pets

Turrets do not last long enough to justify their cooldowns, their cooldowns are different so survivability should vary also

Automated Response: Change it from immunity to :copy any conditions you receive while under 25%hp to their sender

I think there should be things that deter condi spam but immunity is a little much. This will still deter condi burst but not render it useless.

Incendiary Powder: Change to burn on next attack after using a toolbelt skill

[Warrior]

Berserker’s Stance: Change from immunity to: For 8s any condition you receive is copied to it’s sender

Arcing Slice: change apply quickening zephyr (debuff) to target for 3/5/7s

Hundred Blades: Change from a channeled skill to a attack chain

Brutal Shot: Change vuln to 1s stun

Frenzy: No negative effect if used under 35%hp

On My Mark!: Also make it give 14s swiftness that ends when you attack

Stomp: Make it ground targetable like Seismic Leap

Sprint: Make it cripple target for 4s

Kick: Make it transfer a condition

Throw Bolas: Allow it to pierce

Distracting Strikes: Change confusion to Haste (debuff)
A way to deal w/ chronic dodgers

Unsuspecting Foe: Make the bonus last 1s, cooldown 4s

There should not be a reward for spam, there is still a reward for keeping a foe disabled since they can’t contribute to a fight but the warrior does not win by pushing buttons fast.

Rending Strikes: Raise chance to 45%

Armored Attack: Change it to 10% bonus dmg vs foes w/ protection

Vigorous Return: Change it to restore % endurance when you heal

Spiked Armor: When disabled, apply 4s of Frenzy(debuff) to enemies 120 AoE around you.

[Ranger]

Heal as One: Also make it cure any conditions that both you and your pet share

Signet of the Hunt: Change active to make you and your pet immune to cripple, chill, immobilize for 8s

Signet of the Wild: Also give stability to yourself

Sun Spirit: Change the active animation to a signet-like effect so it is less confusing

Sharpening Stone: Also make it cure 1 condition for the next 5 attacks

Nature’s Renewal: Change it to function more like Toss Elixir R

Spirit Passives: Change it from %chance to after X amount of attacks (dif for each)

Stability Training: Change it to 3s of stability when you swap to those pets

Intimidation Training: Cleanse cripple, chill and immobilize when you swap to those pets

Circle of Life: Change it to trigger when disabled, cooldown 60s

Shared Anguish: Change it to trigger every 3rd time you are disabled

Trap Potency: Make it still reduce the recharge, but change longer conditions to transferring 1 condition

Quickening Zephyr: No negative effect if used under 50% health

Remorseless: Change it to: If your attack is dodged the next attack crits

Vigorous Spirits: Remove 2nd part

Enlargement: Also triggers when they are at 25% hp

I think the %chance to trigger incentivizes spamming because the more attacks you make, the higher chance to trigger

If it occured after a certain # of attacks and then goes on cooldown for 10s, there is a guaranteed way to trigger it but it has to be timed right to work in the ranger’s favor

And Natures Renewal should be like Toss Elixir R rather than an instant thingy

I’ll toss in some of mine since my original thread got sent to die in the suggestion forum

Add Custom Arena Tokens, Black Lion Keys, and Karma Consumables to Tournament Win Chests: PvE incentive to PvP, Ability to sustain a custom arena solely through PvP

Change pt reward from standing on point to contesting a point: It will stop multiple people from trying to cap the same uncontested point, rewards roaming

Make pt reward for capturing/neutralizing points apply team wide That way there is still reason to cap but no one is losing out from not getting their first

Limit Anet Custom Arena Sizes to 5v5

Make Skyhammer only available on player-owned custom arenas

Add Settings to adjust the quality of other player’s models/ what race they are: Eliminates racial advantage

Change the way rank is determined Functioning on a pt scale incentivizes farming and rewards those who exploited skyhammer. It also makes it so that getting certain armors take way too long.

Change it so that ranks rabbit-phoenix are based on specific challenges for each class in tournament games and make Dragon achieved by obtaining all other ranks. It will encourage variety in tPvP, not reward farmers and be an actual representation of skill with all classes.
It will also allow PvP players to be able to quickly acquire specific gear but still keep dragon as a long term goal

Brutal Arts.6307:

Jackial.2457:

Excuse me, how reliable is this information???

It’s not. He’s just posting what his ideas that will never see the light of day.

Lies! Evan told me it would happen in a dream I had.

[Mesmer]

Feedback: Set on your position if there is not a target selected

Arcane Thievery: Reduce the cooldown to 30s

Mimic: Blocks the next atk and change echo to the blocked attack

Decoy: Activatable a 2nd to kill illusion and swap to it’s position

Signet of Inspiration: Change passive to give 5s of swiftness every 10s out of combat and 2s of protection every 10s while in combat, Change active to copying boons from all nearby enemies to yourself

Chaotic Revival: Rename it, Make it trigger when you are disabled, cooldown 15s

Mirror of Anguish: While they are alive, Phantasmal Defender and Disenchanter receive incoming disables for you.

Bountiful Interruption: Steal a boon when you interrupt

Veil: Make it apply revealed debuff for 2s to enemies

[Thief]

Pistol Whip: Reduce whipping animation, allow rotation while rooted

Heart Seeker: Change its dmg scaling so that increases the farther you are from the target when you cast

It should not reward spamming

Vital Shot: Increase power scaling, move the bleeding from this skill to each attack on Unload

Haste: No negative effect if used while below 50% hp

Spider Venom: Also transfer a condition on next 5 attacks

Unload: Make it bleed on each attack, give reflection for 1s

Scorpion Wire: Make it pierce

Ice Drake Venom: Make it give 4s stability, affect allies if you have Venomous Aura

If there are other sources for groups stability, someday there may be teams without guardians.

Hard to Catch: Regain initiative when you are crippled, or immobilized (cd 10s)

Ricochet: Make pistol skills pierce

[Guardian]

Zealot’s Speed: Change it to 5s of swiftness on weapon swap, 1s if its already on you.

Revenge of the Fallen: Make it deal damage to the killer of a spirit weapon

Kindled Zeal: Make it block every 5th condition when virtue of justice is not on cooldown

Signet of Wrath: Change the active effect to 3s of quickness

Shimmering Defense: Change its effect from burning to symbol of judgement

Inner Fire: Make it give fire shield when burned for 4s

Strength of the Fallen: Make it give 2s of stability when a spirit weapon is commanded or killed

Eternal Spirit: Swap it’s position with Spirit Weapon Mastery

Healing Breeze: Make it’s skill type consecration

Searing Flames: Lower the cooldown to 12s

Smite Condition: Change remove condition to transfer condition

Binding Jeopardy: Make it trigger on blind, apply immobilize instead of vuln, cannot affect same target twice within 10s

Follidus.8027:

hi

can we be friends?

[Elementalist]

Churning Earth: Remove the self rooting because its cast time is slow and obvious

Fire Shield: Change it so it still gives 1 stack of might on hit, but removes a boon from the attacker

Gale: Reduce the cooldown to 35s

Lightning Flash: Make it a Leap Finisher

Arcane Blast: Make it Pierce and transfer a condition

Cleansing Fire: Reduce the cooldown to 35s

Mist Form: Make conditions not tick down in this form

Conjures: Make autoattacks not count towards charges

Conjure Earth Shield: Make it break stun for creator and whoever picks the 2nd shield

Fortify: Remove the rooting effect

Conjure Lightning Hammer: Make it create a static field around the 2nd hammer

Serrated Stones: Bleed a foe when they critically hit you

Diamond Skin: 50 toughness for each stack of might

Flame Barrier: 45% chance for all attacks in all attunements

One with Fire: Transfer a condition when flame barrier triggers, there are no traits for condition removal outside of water/arcana which pigeonholes elementalists

Signet of Fire: Change the active to 2s of quickness

Persisting Flames: Make your Fire Fields give 1s of stability every second

Glyph of Elemental Power: Make the next five attacks apply a condition for their attunement instead of rng, change cripple to bleed

Glyph of Lesser Elementals: Make them pull a condition from you when summoned and every 25s

Glyph of Storms: Make it give projectile reflection for 1s

Deep Freeze: Remove the self rooting effect

[Engineer]

Change skill 2 to Acid Bomb: It can be countered by Immobilize/Cripple/Chill, not a disable or interrupt, rewards smart use of auto attack since its the only way to rotate

Throw Junk: Change chance for chill to immobilize, weakness to vuln

Personal Battering Ram: Make it transfer 2 conditions, the entire gadget type has no way to deal with non-movement conditions

Overcharged Shot: Change the self-knockback to a backwards leap like Acid Bomb

Throw Mine: Change Remove Boon to Steal Boon if you are in the blast radius

Kit Refinement: Remove the global cooldown and give them different individual cooldowns

Accelerant Packed Turrets: Move it to adept tier because there are not many adept traits that affect turrets in this trait tree

Performance Enhancement: Change it to 35 healing power for each stack of might, the conversion thing sucks skritt

Rifled Barrel Turrets: Move it to master tier, this would not be worth 30pts even if turrets are made stronger.

Rocket (Rocket Turret Toolbelt): Knockdown for 1s

Elixir R: Remove cast time or lower it to 1/4s

Empowering Adrenaline: Make it give 2s of quickness on the use of a gadget

Modified Ammunition: Change it to 3% dmg and 3% crit chance per condition

Napalm Specialist: Increase bonus to 45%

Static Discharge: Make it shoot to your selected target, regardless of the toolbelt’s target.

Adrenal Implant: No negative effect when you gain quickness

Utility Goggles: Make it apply 3s of revealed to enemies in a 600 AoE

Mortar: Change to a kit, remove minimum range

Armor Mods: Change it to 3s of protection on toolbelt use, there are not enough traits that deal with the class mechanic

Power Shoes: Change it so that sidestrafing is the same speed as forward movement

Flame Turret: Make it’s health/armor equal to current value of drake pets

Thumper Turret: Make it’s health/armor equal to current value of ursine pets

Rifle/Rocket: Make it’s health/armor equal to current value of cat pets

Exploit Weakness: Weaken targets when you immobilize them

Automated Response: Change it from immunity to :copy any conditions you receive while under 25%hp to their sender

I think there should be things that deter condi spam but immunity is a little much. This will still deter condi burst but not render it useless.

Change Pt reward from standing on point to contesting a point: Roaming is fun and worth it, discourages multiple people from standing on an uncontested point.

Make Pt reward for capturing/neutralizing apply team wide: This would stop people from racing to points and leaving when someone else gets there first but it would still
give reason to cap it (friendship is magic).

Make Skyhammer exclusive to custom arenas

Change the way rank is determined: Rather than function on a pt. scale like lvling, make ranks rabbit-phoenix based on specific challenges for each class in tournaments (like achievements but actually feel like achievements). Make dragon earned by completing all other ranks. It will encourage players to try the other classes. This will allow a quick way to get specific rewards without rewarding farmers. Dragon will still be a long term goal because all the other ranks still have to be completed first.

Limit Match Sizes for Anet Custom Arenas to 5v5: If hotjoin is supposed to be preparation for tPvP it should be formatted similarly

Add Custom Arena Tokens to Tournament Win Chests: This will make a custom arena sustainable solely through PvP

Add Karma consumables to Tournament Win Chests:

Add Black Lion Chest Keys to Tournament Win Chests:

Stop PvE notifications while in PvP

Announce PvP tournaments (actual tournaments, not matchmaking) through game-wide notifications: It will help in viewership and maybe get more people playing pvp

Make the PvP Locker function like the items in the achievements tab: This will allow you to retrieve items you have unlocked on whatever character you want without having to transfer from character to locker to character. Also prevents PvP items from affecting PvE Character’s storage.

Add settings to adjust character quality/what race others are viewed as

No matter what style you play
spend 15 pts in water tree and get cleansing wave (the 5pt grants hp regen and 15pt is an aoe heal)
10pts in arcana for elemental attunement (boon whenever you swap attunements)

Since its almost october here is a drawing, if you are familiar w/ 40k you might recognize them

#8/15th-karl

1. The back of an elder dragon
2. Crystal Desert
3. A map that has the tiny objects from wintersday
4. Airships from Arah SM
5. Branded section of blazeridge steppes

Whirl finisher on axe #2
blast on #3
anet pls

long queue into game that doesn’t have 5 players on both sides
skyhammer lag

bump for static discharge

colesy.8490:

Why should Unscathed Contender have you deal more damage the more scathed you are?

logic——————————————————————————————you

Because conditions are supposed to reduce your effectiveness in combat but it counter-acts this by giving you increased dmg. So you may not be able to attack as often or as accurately but each atk hits harder, the one strong atk is equal to several normal atks so it is as if you are unscathed by them. Contender also implies offense so its +dmg dealt.

Its not like there are not other traits that don’t follow their name,
Glacial Heart; nothing implies critical hits, heart has nothing to do with the effect or the weapon it affects

I would think that effectiveness would outweigh how appropriately the name fits or whether or not it follows some scientific effect

furget naming anyway, they could name all the traits after MLP characters and I would have it that way so long as the traits are actually useful.

Zealot’s Speed: Gain 5s of swiftness on weapon swap, 1s if you already hav it (similartostaff)

Guardian moves with the speed of pvp development.

Binding Jeopardy: Triggers on blind, applies immobilize instead of vuln, cannot effect same target twice within 10s

Blind is available on the weapons w/ more multi-hit skills which can trigger virtue of justice more often, there are also other traits that affect blind, immobilize would help these weapons and blind/burn/immobilize all benefit from the condition duration given by this tree

Revenge of the Fallen: Make it deal dmg to the killer of a spirit weapon

Kindled Zeal: Block every 5th condition applied to you if virtue of justice is not on cooldown (every 3rd with Supreme Justice)

I think there should be someway for an offensive build to have condi removal and this is deep enough in the tree that it would discourage use in a bunker-ish build. This would be unique from other sources while also tying into the class mechanic

Signet of Wrath: change the active to 3s of quickness

U don’t need immobilize, there is already a knockdown signet

Searing Flames: Lower the cooldown to 12s

Shimmering Defense: Change effect from burn to symbol of judgement

The symbol can still hit enemies multiple times and burn them through virtue of justice. It also might help when you are at 25% hp

Inner Fire: Gain fire shield when you are burned, cooldown 12s

Unscathed Contender: Deal 2% more dmg for each condition on you

Strength of the Fallen: Gain 2s of fury when a spirit weapon is killed/commanded

Eternal Spirit: Swap its position with Spirit Weapon Mastery

Smite Condition: 2 conditions cured, dmg scales per # of condis

Symbolic Power: Changes symbols from light fields to fire fields

Healing Breeze: Make its skill type consecration

W/ the traits, it wouldn’t have as long of a cooldown, you would be able to heal allies w/ out facing them, and the +duration would also help

Wrathful Spirit: Spirit Weapons get 2s of retal every 5s

Dave taken da henje!

I think there should be an option for custom announcers like in dota 2

I saw evan lesh post something and I wanted to twist his words to aggravate him and give hope to the community

“If you own a custom arena, you may notice that some commands may not be working. This is a temporary change that will be reverted in the next regular patch in two weeks. The reason behind this is to slow down the speed that some players are acquiring glory with the use of these commands.
There is an upcoming change that will allow custom arena owners to enable or disable these commands. When enabled, progression will be disabled.
Affected commands:
/gamestart
/gameend
/setscore”

Does this mean that rewards will be reworked in two weeks so that skyhammer farming won’t be the only viable method of ranking up? Will there be rewards for PvP?

Bhawb.7408:

<3 the templates, it would make things so much nicer.

I think one complaint though is the way stats are so different in PvP vs PvE. This isn’t just the actual number of stats you get, which I think is fine as is, because PvE/WvW damage is stupidly high, but also the way you get stats. In PvE if you want to run full berzerker but want just a wee bit of defenses, you can swap out a single accessory from berzerker to soldier. In PvP you get two choices; amulet and jewel. You can do a bit of tweaking with runes and traits, but often times your build is too dependent on specific runes/traits that you can’t just change things around to get a bit more precision.

I think they could reduce the stats the amulet gives and increase the stats on the jewel,

or they could just split the amulet/jewel into 5 pieces of jewelry like in PvE

JonPeters.5630:

Just finished reading through all 12 pages. Thanks to everyone for 12 pages of positive and constructive feedback. Keep it up and keep in mind these are updates from just the skills team so try to focus on skills traits and other combat related stuff.

Jon

What will come on the 17th?

Xovian.8572:

Super Riceman.8702:

I think there is more room for anti-stealth capabilities on stuff like; Utility Goggles, Ambush and Spectral Grasp.

You need to realize the Dev’s have to be very careful of abilities that reveal stealth. Unlike games the majority of players who compare GW2 to other games and their stealth mechanics, the big difference for GW2 is that stealth is not perm for any class. Some only have certain skills that can do it, and making those skills to the point of useless because “everyone” all of a sudden has easy access to stealth reveal would significantly hurt several classes.

This change alone could mean I’ll have to be very cautious approaching a ranger on my mesmer as Decoy is almost guaranteed to fail depending on implementation (active / passive ability).

Even w/ just these three, they aren’t on every class and are not “easy” choices to make.
I don’t think everyone should get it but there are clearly skills that could be helped.

Utility Goggles alone wouldn’t make stealth useless because of how the player has to decide between a stun-break or a kill.

Spectral Grasp is slow and dodge-able. Ambush requires them to pass through a specific point and like goggles, it has a long-enough cooldown that you don’t just fire and forget unless you are sure you can win.

I think there is more room for anti-stealth capabilities on stuff like; Utility Goggles, Ambush and Spectral Grasp.

There are also many skill types that don’t have any way to deal w/ conditions.

DevonCarver.5370:

Radiology.3597:

That’s because there is no incentive to defend. You get NOTHING to defend except spare change-like wxp and karma. There literally is no reason to defend, there is more reason to let the ball drop and recap. And for a game where keeping the points you have is equally as important as gaining points from other sources, they sure do a bad job of rewarding the defense.

If you give incentive to defend, you will have the opportunity to kill something that isn’t programmed.

I said this in another thread, and I’ll repeat what I said here for clarity, the issue with rewarding defending currently is a problem with a way the content is built and how it determines participation. Until we solve that problem, we won’t be increasing the rewards for defending because it is far too easy to game the system. That is why escorting Dolyaks is not very rewarding. Once we do solve that, we will make big moves to incentivize defending so that people who are helping out, whether it be escorting yaks, or defending objectives will see more rewards for doing that.

Maybe make the Dolyaks move faster per nearby ally, increased by up to ten allies. There would be incentive to guard them since it is helping your team overall even if you are not participating in big fights/being in other areas.

Conversely there would be more incentive for the other team to split up into small teams to stop these faster dolyaks

They promised one month that they would focus on bug fixing and the actual # they addressed was disappointingly low.

I have the feeling this will be the same case in october because they are relying on “next patch” again and every aspect of this game has over-hyped and under-delivered.

Chaba.5410:

Why does X need to be separate from other classes? There are so many duplicate skills and traits across professions in this game.

X needs to be separate because both forms suck so it wouldn’t be any better if there were guaranteed ways to get either form

I think if you make the effect based on what weapon(s) you equip, you can remove the randomness and get guaranteed effects for in/out of combat

H can give protection w/ p/shield, regen rifle , and vigor p/p. Always vigor out of combat

B always give swiftness out of combat, retal w/ shield in combat, might w/ p/p, fury rifle

U give wall of reflection w/ rifle or p/shield, smoke screen w/ p/p and when out of combat

S stealths w/ p/p, stability w/ p/s or rifle

As for X, it needs to be separate from the other classes.
One idea I had was making your attacks lifesteal for 10s. It would be a boon to bursty engis since you can heal-up from very low hp but you are still succeptible to disables/conditions/etc.

Random pvp is probably that persons way of referring to hot-join, in hot-join you enter through the PvP Browser NPC. In hot-joins you can enter and leave at any time, teams can have up to 8 people, games can be spectated.

Don’t listen to them when they say do hotjoins bcuz of your rank. Rank does not determine skill and you won’t improve much by playing hot join

The difference between tournament and hotjoin is that; each team can only have 5 people, rewards are different (chest from tourn, no chest for hotjoin), Queing (waiting to join a match), team members can’t be replaced during the match, and you get ranked on a leaderboard for playing tournaments.