Guild Wars 2

I seriously hope Revenants are changed so they get weapon swap and faster attack speed on the hammer skills. I want to be able to use hammer and mace/axe.

Since the stats from trait lines are going to be removed in the near future, and instead, having armor stats boosted to compensate for this, what is going to happen with the trait lines that give bonuses like condition duration? Because condition duration armor doesn’t really, well, exist. I mean there’s armor for boon duration, but nothing for condition duration.

And will Giver’s weapons still give condition duration? Or will that change?

Will we also ever see Legendary weapons provide the option for giver’s stats? I think it’s a bit odd to have an exotic version of it, but not a legendary version.

And finally, will there be runes/sigils/traits etc. to make the ‘slow’ condition in HoT, longer?

As far as I know all I’ve heard is that the precursor will be obtainable through that precursor hunt thing. I don’t think they’re changing the other components.

It will be interesting though to see how we obtain the bloodstone shard for one of the gifts, being as skill points are being removed.

I made 4 gifts of mastery a few months ago so I guess I won’t have to worry about obtaining the bloodstone shards that currently cost 200 skillpoints each, but we don’t know how we’ll get them and what they’ll cost in terms of currency (could be gold and/or karma maybe?), after skillpoints are removed. Something to keep in mind anyway.

Dang, ok tyvm!

So I remember there being a Black Lion Key Reward from the Tangled Paths – ‘Into the Labyrinth’ part, but is it repeatable on the same character so you can get a key every time? Or is it just a ‘one off’ thing per level 80 character?

Woooooooot thanks Gaile.

Yeah I hope the revenant gets a faster hammer attack speed and AT LEAST weapon swap. Other than those 2 things that drive me a little insane, I love the profession.

Uuuurgh I’m sick of all the hate towards the LGBT community here. People saying we’re ‘deviants, weirdo’s’ etc. and people saying they can barely tolerate us…

I’m leaving this thread. I don’t want to waste any more time bashing my head against a brick wall. Just going nowhere with this.

Moral of this thread: Most people don’t want people who are different, represented in the game.

I can’t say I’m surprised really. There’s still clearly so much hatred for LGBT people. Good luck with your thread OP, I’m out. I feel like I’m arguing with 5 year olds.

VaaCrow.3076:

Why bring political agenda into videogames. I can’t see a need or a reason for them to do this, the game is fine, the characters are fine, why push in controversy just for the sake of pushing in controversy. I’m not against LGBTin any way irl, But i don’t like people trying to push social agenda into my life through vidya games, if you want to show support go make a sign and visit a parade.

You contradicted yourself when you said ’I’m not against LGBT in any way, *BUT*’. When you say ‘but’ in a sentence like this, you’re basically saying ‘this is what I want people to think, now I’m going to say what I REALLY think’

Sexuality isn’t (or at least, shouldn’t be) an agenda, any more than having 95% of straight characters in games shoved in MY face or straight couples with the 2 kids, the dog and the white picket fence adverts on tv is an ‘agenda’.

These really are, the same sort of arguments made when black people were struggling to be accepted as equals. Now let me rephrase everything you just said, but instead of it being about sexuality, let’s make it about race, to see if it has any more logic…

VaaCrow.3076:

Why bring racial agenda into videogames. I can’t see a need or a reason for them to do this, the game is fine, the characters are fine, why push in controversy just for the sake of pushing in controversy. I’m not against black people in any way irl, But i don’t like people trying to push their agenda into my life through video games, if you want to show support go make a sign and visit a parade.

Nope, sorry. No logic.

I’m glad their post was deleted. It was so disgusting. If I could remember the player’s username I would also put them on my block list so as to not see any more of the vile they spewed in here :-/

Smooth Penguin.5294:

I can see some double standards already. With Taimi, her disabilities were a boon to players with similar real life disabilities. The Anet writers were cheered on and praised for including a hero with shortcomings. Players felt empowered, and followed the Living Story closely as Taimi persevered through her trails.

Now let’s switch things around, and say that Taimi was a Transgender asura. All of a sudden, it’s no longer inspiring to have a main character, a hero no less, have an alternative lifestyle. Taimi would be shunned in this instance.

Moral of the story, fantasy characters allow players to connect to them in various ways. It helps players to have a brief escape from the pains of reality. Be it being disabled, or bullied for being different. This is where you find the difference between a writer who just creates a character, and a writer who creates a story. If you can create someone who players can connect to, the story has more meaning, and gets a life of it’s own.

I agree. I’m also seeing the same double standards.

People are fine with Taimi, and her struggle in people treating her differently because of her disability, but then the very same people say games shouldn’t ‘force’ or have LGBT characters in the game (who are also a minority and still treated like 2nd class citizens in many countries – some even imprisoned and killed for being who they are – Uganda, Pakistan, Nigeria, as a few examples) because heaven forbid, people may just feel like they’re actually INCLUDED and have a voice, where they may not have one in real life.

And if people think characters with different sexual orientations or gender identities are being ‘shoved down your throat’, please don’t flatter yourself. One could argue I have heterosexuality shoved down my throat everyday. You don’t see me picketing.

We’re all different. Accept this, and get over it.

You have my support for LGBT characters.

Edit: And as for personal opinion, I think Caitlyn Jenner looks fierce (I also think she looks better as a woman than her former identity), and I’m glad she’s finally able to be herself.

I would probably buy the infinite gathering tools for my main characters (wouldn’t buy for all my characters cause I feel it’s too excessive when I only use 3-4 main professions).

I’d also probably max out my bank tabs, and buy enough gems so I could convert them to gold so I could afford The Juggernaut for my future revenant.

The rest of the money I’d probably put in the bank to collect interest while I think about how I could live off that money and make sure I never get into debt, cause I would not like to owe anyone, anything!

If I had a ‘comfortable’ amount of money to live off, like 3-4M++, I’d help out my mum and dad for all they’ve done for me, and also donate a few hundred thousand to a few LGBT organisations and one of them would probably be the Human Rights Campaign, because they do a great job in changing minds and bringing equal rights to all.

If you think that’s shocking, just look at the prices of any fused weapon skin.

I noticed someone must have bought a ton of wintersday skins yesterday because I saw about 3 different wintersday skins on sale for precisely 999g and all of them only had 1 left in stock (but since then others have come in and undercut whoever it is lol). Seems like someone had a few thousand gold to invest in them >_< if only we were all that rich to be able to do that…

I think at some point something will have to be done about the absurd price on most skins. I remember when the island shoulder skins from the consortium update for example, were 1-2g each. Same with the tribal mask and such. Now it seems ALL skins are either a minimum of 17g+ each, or a few copper each (bell focus, candycane hammer skin etc.)

Doing dailies, EOTM, and generally being bored to death while waiting for HoT.

I’d say over $1,000

Weren’t mini’s used for polymock? I can’t remember :-/

Wow my first post was 4 months ago :-/ I change my mind. I think it’ll be released December at this rate.

I bet it has nothing to do with Druids and Revenant specialisations. I reckon it’ll be about some lore about Ventari or some area, and they’ll do a blog or readyup about it. You heard it here first.

Because lore is fascinating and more interesting than specialisations.

Not.

I personally think we’ll be expecting more of the same old, same old:

- more blog posts/ready ups
- re-added gemstore stuff/new gemstore stuff
- new black lion weapon skins every now and then
- information on guild halls/specialisations/things in HoT in general
- more betas
- more ‘summaries’ of things we already know about
- more pvp tournaments

Probably all of that stuff before HoT. So not much actual content in other words.

Elementalists are getting sword. And I for one am not happy about it. To me, elementalists should blast their enemies from afar, not be up-close in combat. To me, that’s more like guardian or warrior sort of playstyle.

I would have liked to have seen greatsword or longbow for ele, but that’s not going to happen, so I just won’t use the ele specialisation, that’s all.

Dungeoneering (although from Runescape it only had a maximum of 5 players, and from what I’ve heard of, raids are more like 25+ players so I dunno).

In my own opinion, I think there’s too many short-ranged weapons for the Revenant.

Sword…
Mace…
Staff…

The only decent ones in my mind are the hammer (albeit extremely slow and clunky, the range almost makes up for this – almost…) and axe offhand (both skills of which, have a range of 900 – which is fairly decent).

Would be nice to see at least one of those 3 weapons have an increased range. Mace would be nice. Keep staff and sword as close-ranged weapons perhaps.

I hope Anet improves the Revenant by at least doing these 2 things:

1) increase hammer attack speed (it’s SO slow and clunky)
2) give revenants weapon swap (they only have access to switching between 2 legends after all, AND the fact that they can’t, or don’t have many options to, changing their utility skills – the least they deserve is the ability to weapon swap)

And suggestions 3) and 4) aren’t really an absolute deal breaker for me, but it would be the cherry on the top if it were made possible…

3) give revenants a trait that increases the range on mace skills. 130 range is pathetic. I think it should be more like 600 range (like necromancer’s axe skill range).

4) have a trait that makes the axe skill “temporal rift” ground targeted. This way you can place it where you really want it to go – not just straight ahead. This would be great for pulling people off ledges etc. too – like the Mesmer focus #4 skill.

I think if all those changes were made, it would make the Revenant SO much fun to play and feel less slow, clunky, and restricted.

Mini Southsun Faren because skimpy male :-P

I hate the fact revenants can’t change (or don’t have a large variety of) utility skills, along with the fact they don’t have weapon swap, AND the fact that the hammer is quite slow and ‘clunky’ feeling.

I hope all three of these points are addressed now or in the near future.

Yeah I would wait until HoT is out before you make anything. I made the mistake in thinking heavy ascended celestial gear would be good no matter what heavy profession I use it on, but in hindsight I feel as though everything has to be celestial in order for it to work (amulet, rings, accessories, backpack etc. too).

So yeah, wait until you know for sure what stats you want. If you have any dungeon armor boxes you’re not using, and they happen to give the stats you want (I.E. zerker stats), you could always make a zerker heavy exotic set and keep it in bank until the rev comes out and test the waters as such, to see how you like it.

I think it’s smart to have a few stat sets in their exotic versions, to try things out, before you go ahead and make ascended versions of it – something I myself didn’t do when making ascended celestial, which I do regret now. I just HOPE that celestial stats for revenant will be good, but I can’t tell until it’s out.

Gaile Gray.6029:

BrotherBelial.3094:

I want it! What will you accept as payment? My wife or is it a cash only sort of deal?

Greyhound.2058:

I’m just putting my relatives on Ebay, I’m all ready to pre-order

I love your enthusiasm, but I’d suggest you keep your family members close. (And your guildies closer. No I did not just say that. )

If I could exchange my brother for a gw2 pre-sale, I would. He doesn’t accept me because I’m gay, and he said that whoever I find won’t be welcome, so…

Sometimes blood isn’t thicker than water, and sometimes just because someone is blood related, doesn’t mean they’re true “family”.

Probably nothing as usual to look forward to. We’ll all have to silently suffer with more non-updates for a few more months until HoT is out. Urrggggh.

For ascended/legendary runes specifically (I like the idea of ascended/legendary sigils too, but for now I’m more focused on the rune aspect), I would like to see the ability to combine certain runes, like for example, the superior rune of speed and the superior rune of infiltration. As an example below:

Superior/Legendary rune of the Assassin

1): +25 Vitality, +2% damage against foes with less than 50% health.
2): +10% Swiftness Duration, +35 Precision
3): +50 Vitality, +4% damage against foes with less than 50% health
4): 25% chance when struck to gain Swiftness for 15 seconds. (Cooldown: 30s), +65 Precision
5): +100 Vitality, +6% damage against targets with less than 50% health
6): +20% Swiftness Duration; +25% Movement Speed, When struck below 20% health, cloak for 4 seconds. (Cooldown: 60s)

I LOVE the rune of infiltration, but for quite a few of my characters, they don’t have access to a 25% increased movement signet skill, so I am therefore literally FORCED to use runes that give me a permanent run speed, like the superior rune of speed, or the superior rune of the traveller (though the latter is way more expensive, so I always run with runes of speed instead of traveller).

We shouldn’t have to buy runes for such a basic necessity like a 25% increase in movement speed, but the reality is we do (mesmers for example). So my idea is to combine certain runes that not only give us something basic, like speed, but a good bonus as well.

Heck, it could even be simplified to not be as OP, by cutting out the bonuses of one rune set, but keeping the 6th rune as the one where something from the other rune set’s bonuses that weren’t included, is combined. For example, for the rune of the assassin, it would be just like the infiltration rune, but the 6th rune bonus also provides +25% movement. For example:

1): +2% damage against foes with less than 50% health.
2): +35 Precision
3): +4% damage against foes with less than 50% health
4): +65 Precision
5): +6% damage against targets with less than 50% health
6): When struck below 20% health, cloak for 4 seconds. (Cooldown: 60s), +25% Movement Speed

This way it’s just like a set of infiltration runes, but you have the 6th rune bonus also providing +25% movement speed. Not OP, and everyone’s happy :-P

I agree that ultimately we need ascended or even legendary runes and sigils. It would be awesome to unlock them and be able to switch them out whenever (though this should be available only with legendary armor).

Edit: Finished editing my post, lol :-P

I think we’ll either be getting nothing at all, or some or all of the following:

1) Gemstore items being re-added for a temporary time
2) Fan art/Fan videos
3) Maybe another poll on Lions Arch rebuild
4) Readyup summaries and reminders

Anything really to give the illusion that we’re getting content, when really, it’s all just a bunch of fluff.

Along with making the recipes unlocked account-wide, I wish we could also transfer our crafting levels to another one of our characters for a small fee.

For example, I have 500 armorsmith on my norn guardian, which I never really play anymore. I want to delete her to make room for a new character, but then I would have to get 500 armorsmith again – which sort of defeats the purpose and leaves me in a bit of a dilemma. I really don’t want to have to spend any more money getting 500 armorsmith again just so I can free up that one character slot.

superherovillain.3618:

revenant is kinda cool with all it’s skills and that legends thing but well , it seems a bit hard to play solo with this class especially when using hammer . so slow . am i right?

Agreed. I think the absolute minimum that needs to change is:

1) Increase hammer attack speed
2) Give Revenants weapon swap

Revenant feels really slow and clunky. Tried it in the first beta. I hope it is improved.

I saw this ranger once, his name was something like ‘wtb qq wts pew pew’. Maybe it was the other way around – ‘wts pew pew wtb qq’.

Either way it was funny. He wanted to sell damage and buy cries.

Yes please add this option Anet. I’m sick of holding down the ctrl button to see buried chests.

Nilkemia.8507:

Wrong. WvW is still probably the worst.

I second this. EOTM specifically.

Sorry I didn’t understand a word. Are you suggesting making recipes shared amongst all your characters when you unlock them? So you don’t have to remember which character has said recipe unlocked etc.?

Not sure if that’s what you meant, but if so yeah I think that would be nice. Also I giggled a little when I heard twink. I like twinks ;-P and otters. Not so much bears.

My Bifrost on my elementalist, the copper fed salvage o matic (couldn’t live without it), and my rank 3,323 in WvW at the moment.

There hasn’t been any new information as to when 500 jeweller and 500 chef are coming out, so I don’t understand why this thread was made really – unless there’s new datamined info you mind sharing? Or someone wants said materials to go up in price.

Regardless, I already bought 100 stacks of silver ore months and months ago. Couldn’t care less about other mats cause silver ore was the cheapest. And who knows when 500 jeweller and chef are coming.

At this rate, it probably won’t be out until HoT anyway, or months after its release, so no point thinking in advance right now – especially when Anet still haven’t even finalised the profession specialisations, all the new legendaries, fixed all the current bugs, guild halls, the list goes on…

Zackie.8923:

hype peaked at announcement , its going downhill from there.

feels more like a drag now rather than growing any interest.

This +1.

I was hyped at the beginning. Not so much anymore. It’s been months and we haven’t had any real updates, we’ve only had gemstore additions and drip fed information on a few professions and their specialisations – if you can even call those ‘updates’.

We haven’t even had a WvW Tournament for us to get our Mist Weapons (sure it seems to happen every year or so >_< but that’s hardly ‘permanent content’, what do YOU think?), let alone any new additions to WvW Rewards, what we can buy with our badges of honor, or some reward track like PvP has.

All I’m doing now is my dailies and playing EOTM. It’s getting boring though. I want to play revenant already and set up a build for it, and play the new WvW borderlands, but at this rate I feel like I’m going to have to wait another half a year :-/ Not really hyped anymore to say the least.

True, ok thanks guys.

Yeah I forgot there’s another 2 trait lines as well as the specialisation trait line, so 3 other trait lines in total. I’ll wait till everything’s been revealed.

Since there’s no revenant ‘profession’ forum, I thought I’d put this here.

Now that there’s a specialisation calculator on Dulfy (http://dulfy.net/gw2traits#build=AgYBqAKoA6g~) I thought perhaps there’d be some players pre-planning builds for the Revenant, but I’m not really seeing any.

Is it too early to come up with any builds for the Rev? I really want a balanced revenant (hence why I made myself full heavy celestial stats gear) and perhaps a condition based build where I can spread a few condi’s on enemies, but I’m not sure if I should plan ahead, or wait until we see the final traits and the Revenant specialisation.

I like to have 1 of each class – particularly for the PvP dailies

And I also like to have my alts used as storage for when my bank fills up. Why pay 600 gems for 30 slots in your bank when you can have up to 100 slots (if you use 4 of the 20 slot Halloween bags like I do) for 200 gems more? Sure it requires a little more effort remembering which alt has what item, but it’s only a slight inconvenience for more space.

I must say I’m not happy about the removal of the applied fortitude and strength buffs (as a squishy ele, I need as much vitality as I can get!). And as a player with a rank of 3,243 and having the lines cost less points (which is a good thing – especially the supply capacity one, that’s been long overdue), it’s just odd that I’ll have even more points that I cannot find a use for.

I would have thought at least by giving us more points in theory, that they would be adding MORE WvW ability lines to spend our excess points on :-/ now I wonder if I’ll EVER be able to spend my additional WvW ability points on anything.

Right now, I have an excess of over 1800 WvW ability points, which will be even more after this update happens. And I don’t mind extra points, it’s just… I wish I had something to spend them on :-/

As long as I get to propose to Lord Faren or any other male NPC, I’m fine with it :-P

Report the mail and delete it. Also, don’t reply to it because then you may be linked to whatever said scammer has done – I saw someone on reddit complain saying they responded to these people and in turn had their account basically disabled (whether true or not, who knows, but better to be safe and not reply to them). Not sure what happened and whether they got their account unlocked again but yes I would not reply to any scammer.

Report and delete. Also, as it says at the bottom of the message, it’s been sent from a player, not Arenanet. If you’re in any doubt, always check the bottom of the message for that warning sign, NEVER follow any links in messages – especially ones allegedly sent by Arenanet, and if you’re still in doubt, ask Arenanet directly by sending in a support ticket on the legitimate site – not the one/s in said mail message.

Whatever it is, it won’t be a true surprise to me, unless it’s a Lord Faren Speedo outfit. Would pay 2k gems for one. Seriously.

:P

That’s cool.

I hope with the rebuild of LA that all 5 races come together to build it so that you have influences and different structures/architecture with differing tastes from the various races. That way we see a bit of charr, asura, norn, human and sylvari everywhere.

DC’ed twice in 2 mins in EOTM. Kinda hard to accomplish things when it’s this buggy.

Same problem here and I’m on Blackgate. 2 disconnects in 2 mins. Ridiculous >_<