YAY!!! I think ArenaNet deserves some cookies for this one.
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Everyone, I’m just as upset as most in this thread, but can we please keep it civil? As devs have said in the past, they care about the game and they do not make changes to “slap the community in the face.” Can we please not threaten them with any sort of violence and refrain from assuming they are out to spite or ignore the community? Even if you feel this way, it is not productive nor will it help the situation.
Yes, thank you. Please keep it civil to not only our staff, but to each other, while you are giving us your feedback. We are compiling it all together and we should have more answers on a variety of topics regarding Wardrobe when we do.
Thanks for your patience and understanding.
Thanks Danicia
This is pretty encouraging, and keep in mind it’s now 9:30am in Seattle so everyone’s just now finishing their morning latte and sorting through a bazzilion posts & threads.
Be vocal everyone but also be patient.
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Been playing since almost launch, tried to swim to it at least a dozen times (once even just a few days ago) and I never actually put two & two together to get Claw Island. Haha…so don’t feel bad Ravenfield.
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Oh ok thanks nGumball, that would make sense. I searched around the forums a bit to find the answer but with so many abuzz about the wardrobe changes I didn’t find it. Thanks again
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Simply love the new wardrobe & dye system proposed, great job ArenaNet!
However I saw no mention of how this would affect cultural armor. If I bought/unlocked one piece of Sylvari armor would only my other Sylvari’s have access to it, or would all my characters regardless of race be able to wear it?
How will this affect the cultural armor achievements?
Just would love some clarification on this if anybody knows, otherwise I suppose I’ll try to be patient and check things out when the patch goes live.
Again, thank you ArenaNet!
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So excited about this, such a sensible ‘win / win’ system. ArenaNet retains an important revenue stream and players get easy and virtually unlimited freedom with skins & dye changes across all characters. I’m a little giddy about these new features… /hug@ ArenaNet.
I think some are reminded of the wardrobe system in Rift where you could freely make a piece of armor look like any other of the same type…unlimited and for free. Keep in mind though that that system was implemented when Rift was still subscription based, so ArenaNet’s compromise with having the skin changes cost ‘Transmutation Charges’ makes total sense. Very smart.
Love it. Again /hug@ArenaNet.
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What I find most interesting about the mechanic of enemy Confusion healing allies is the potential for zerg busting by Mesmers. In a zerg v zerg fight the default tactic of ‘spam 1’ would have to be more flexible, since if a lot of Confusion is flying around even if the Confusion damage is getting out healed by the zerg they run the risk of continually healing the enemy team.
This would give the potential for Mesmers to tip the scale of zerg v zerg fights. Of course the same counters to Confusion would apply (stop using skills or cleanse the Confusion) but it would add another level of team-wide punishment if these counter measures are ignored.
A number of unskilled players in a zerg just spamming skills and trying to out heal Confusion damage would now be healing the enemy team. Once realized this would make for a third counter to Confusion, scatter or isolate away from enemies. If you are out of condition removal but can out heal the Confusion damage the smart move would be to go at range away from groups of enemies so as not to heal them while fighting. Sort of the flip side to the Necromancer’s Epidemic (instead of being pressured to run from allies you will be ‘motivated’ to gain distance from enemies). Thus large groups could be strategically manipulated to disperse by a focused group of zerg busting Mesmers. And what a beautiful sight that would be.
This mechanic would be punishing to players that stay attacking in melee range with various forms of invulnerability and high health regeneration. Even if they are semi-invulnerable and out healing the constant Confusion damage ticks they are healing the enemies around them with each attack and need to rethink their strategy.
Also interesting is that no one would really know beforehand if a particular Mesmer has taken this trait. Much like Diamond Skin you would only realize this as the fight progresses. Once you see that you’ve just eaten 5k worth of Confusion damage and your opponent’s health has just jumped up simultaneously you’ll (hopefully) quickly adjust your tactics.
This would also make Confusion useful to non-Condition Mesmers to add sustain to otherwise glassy power builds without the need for healing power. Phantasm builds would have their illusions healed by the Confusion ticks, shatter and lockdown builds getting a little clutch healing when in melee. The scepter and torch’s Confusion adding skills would be useful as potential healing tools even for a purely power based build.
Granted the numbers would need to be adjusted to keep everything in balance but I do see a lot of interesting potential in the concept.
Wish I could mod GW2 like I do Skyrim just so I could try it out.
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Thanks for the Feedback everyone.
Although I share some of the cynicism that any of these ideas would ever see the light of day, there is hope. After seeing that a lot of the ideas generated by the community are now to be implemented (free anywhere trait reset, quest driven trait unlocks, backpedal on a misguided Deceptive Evasion nerf etc.) I do think the devs are at least reading and considering ideas put forth on the forums. Really just want this idea to make it somewhere into the pile of ideas at some future morning staff meeting.
@Xaylin: Interesting point about reworking the scepter trait Malicious Sorcery, hadn’t thought of that. I do think though that even with a lot of balancing adjustments to the strength of ‘Merciful Madness’ it would still need to be a Grandmaster trait.
Your idea about reworking Malicious Sorcery got me thinking. I’ve had this idea floating around about how to rework the scepter 1 auto-attack. Maybe this idea, instead of being the default would be tied to Malicious Sorcery. Something like:
Malicious Sorcery – Ether Bolt & Ether Blast are projectile finishers. Reduce recharge on scepter skills.
Here is the full details of how I see this working:
A suggestion for scepter auto-attack:
- Make Ether Bolt a projectile finisher.
- Make Ether Blast a blast finisher.
- The Ether Bolt cast by clones would also be a projectile finisher.
- Scepter is the only mesmer weapon without a finisher. Even our underwater weapons have finishers.
- Creates interesting possibilities with glamors, which synergizes well with the Inspiration trait line.
- Adds potential for both AoE and support capabilities in groups.
- Enhances conditions builds without creating a spammy quality to it.
- Gives an alternative (or compliment) to staff as a defensive weapon in holding points in PvP
- The projectile speed needs to be increased or the pre-cast animation reduced, or both.
I think this suggestion is almost perfect, but if the blast finisher on the second attack proves to be OP (as I think it might) then here is my slight variation and some examples of how simply changing the first two scepter auto-attacks (as well as clone attacks) to 100% projectile finishers would play out.
- Ether Bolt: Shoot a bolt of energy at your target. 100% projectile finisher.
- Ether Blast: Shoot a second bolt of energy at your target. 100% projectile finisher.
- Ether Clone: Shoot out a third bolt of energy that damages your target. Summon a clone that casts Ether Bolt.
- Opens up interesting weapon combinations such as scepter/focus by using the light field of Temporal Curtain as a way to remove 2 conditions with the first 2 auto-attacks of the scepter.
- Using Veil in much the same way as above to remove 2 conditions and then stealth.
- Firing through an ethereal field would apply two stacks of confusion solidifying it’s identity as a confusion weapon.
- More varied interplay with other combo fields such as being able to life-steal through a necromancers dark field at range or applying burning to a target unwilling to cross through a fire field (Burning Speed / Ring of Fire).
- The clones would be creating the same effects but since they are usually grouped around the target would serve mainly to reapply chill/burning/poison/blind etc. for as long as the target stands in the combo field. The most powerful scenario for the clones would be standing within an ethereal field as they will be sustaining around 4 stacks of confusion on the target while the field lasts (with 3 clones). Combos like life-steal, regeneration & condition removal will have little impact on the clones and so balance this.
- In dungeons and group events scepter would have more support utility, even if used by a non-condition build. The clones would at least be adding duration to any combo fields put down while waiting to be shattered and the scepters auto-attacks would help keep the mesmer and the team alive (regeneration, life-steal, chill, weakness, blindness).
- Since players in PvP and WvW hopefully don’t just stand in combo fields this change would indirectly help re-balancing PvE with regards to Confusion. More stacks of confusion for NPCs standing in an ethereal field, punishing the mindless being a mesmer specialty.
- Extremely easy for the Devs to dial in the right strength of this after testing by adjusting percentages if needed.
In short it makes the scepter more tricksy and supportive, more situationally random not just RNG. More like the unpredictably confusing magicians wand it was intended to be.
Good point about the possibility of Merciful Madness being overpowered in large groups (zerg v zerg) but I still believe a balance could be reached by adjusting the amount of healing that is converted from the Confusion damage.
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So how do we all rate the end of LS season 1
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Please don’t delete them!
You can hold on to your extra blade shards, as the team will be adding something later which will allow you to convert the shards to something of value. Dev will be announcing more on that later. Thanks!
Thanks for the heads up Danicia!
I was debating whether or not to delete them…now I know I can safely remain a blade hoarder.
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Of course in the heat of battle everything is a kittenaotic (no idea why that word is censored), but how much more realistic and exciting would this make it.
Chaotic isn’t. You preceded it with bit and followed that with a ch word.
Haha thanks Sariel V! Was really baffled by that one…a bit.
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