GROAN. Who really cares when a class gets revealed? Does it ultimately matter? One class has to be first and one has to be last. Why look for a conspiracy?
Well humans evolved in an environment where pattern recognition was an important part of survival. Those who could identify the best patterns (i.e. Ung ate red berry, Ung now dead. Me no eat red berry) had a better chance of survival. Furthermore when it comes to survival it’s better to err on the side of caution, that is to say it’s better to think there’s a tiger in the bushes when there is not, then to think there’s not a tiger in the bushes when there is.
It’s the same reason we see so many ‘RNG is broken’ threads, because of this habit of seeing patterns where there are none.
LOL I agree with this to a small extent. I have two things that hold me back on believing “The Medium Armor Conspiracy” here in this thread is OK.
1. I am not going to jump every time I walk past a bush. Not a paranoia fan.
2. This is a game, not a red berry.
I can see it now, the entire zone has been conquered by nasty Quaggans. The horror!
This is not funny. Not even a little!
We already have enough of those little GW2 water ewoks running around as it is.
Yeah, cause the are already in the game.
Since mounts are not yet in game, you cannot claim they are not already there.
So replacing animations, like Aviator’s Memory Box, with the regular walking animations is already in the game. Hiding the e.g. “standing on a Hoverboard”-animation would just be the same.
Again that is replacing running toon animation with running toon animation. That is not toon on a completely different character object. All other items that carry or toons such as the magic carpet and flying broom are seen by everyone. It is no longer the character moving but being carried by something else.
We were talking about PvE-Mounts with perma swiftness, not usable in combat (means dismounted if put in combat). And with the Aviator’s Memory Box-hiding-option it would just be like the mini-hiding. Too much going on on the screen? Hide the mounts, replace animations with regular walking/running.
This just goes back to other previous statement. We do not need mounts for swiftness in or out of combat. We have waypoints, skills and traits for that. And also, this is NOT the same as using the aviator’s memory box.
I spoke about perma swiftness on mounts, basically saving you time needed to change from a “no perma swiftness”-build to a perma swiftness-build – even if this only means to take a warhorn out of your inventory.
With a mount as easy perma swiftness-source there would be no need to click all your swiftness-skills to maintain perma swiftness on your own. Its just saving time and clicking-effort, thats it.
Of course e.g. warriors with a mobility-build aka sword/warhorn + GS would still be faster than mounts, due to their leap skills on top of perma swiftness.Convenience item for comfortable PvE-traveling, nothing more.
See answer above. No need for perma swiftness.
I only wanted to point out that there already is a frame/code-chunk for the basic function of mounts. Deactivating your skills, putting you into a specific position/animation set (holding kite) and providing a speed boost.
Thats what a mount does, admittedly the kite is a bad one with only 5%.
That maybe what you want in a mount, but that certainly is not true of all pro-mount people. Many if not most want mount skills, etc. Again, for you it comes down to a wanted swiftness boost which we already have. Why would they want to risk more in-game lag and performance ganks to add something that is only cosmetic and provides speed boosts that already exist?
The boost (perma swiftness) is not unfair, since every class can get perma swiftness on its own. Mesmer (for worst case example) would have to use Runes and the healing mantra – basically gold for a second armor/runes and bag slots for the armor, as well as time to change the armor/utility. And you would still be able to blink around, speeding up the traveling even more.
With a mount you spent a much bigger amount of gold or real money to save some armor/weapon-changing-time, some space in your bag if second armor is needed and the repetitive spamming of your skills.
You just proved my point here an above. Every class can get a movement boost without a mount. Those with mounts that could afford them (even if they wanted to see them in game which I personally don’t) would have the unfair advantage of not having to change their builds by riding mounts. They also would not be using waypoints which helps regulate gold in game to a degree.
I highly doubt that the average casual player, who is willing to spend some money on the gem shop, is wasting his time in the forums, if the game is running.
And the few with enough bravery to open a mount thread get immediately jumped and flamed by the same slavering mob of ppl. I guess they visit the forum never again.I still have the impression most of the mount hater don’t even know what we are talking about. They just read mounts and go into ragemode like fanatics coming up with the same arguments over and over again, while the solution for this issue was posted few posts before.
That just isn’t true. Just as it wouldn’t be true if I said that all pro-mount people just wanted a carbon copy of other MMO’s out there. Generalizations like that are poor arguments at best.
And as far as the casual player out there that doesn’t get in the forumsm, my guild is full of casual players and most of them don’t want mounts, are very intelligent professional adults that would argue just as I do. And maybe in turn, you just are not listening the the arguments of the people who don’t want mounts. They aren’t all haters. They have strong, compelling arguments that I happen to agree with.
I like the construction and idea behind the Sylvari. I like their look. Their dialog and writing is for me personally a little sing-songy and annoying. i.e. More violets I say, less violence.
I would like to see more good sylvari that are less “dreamy” and introspective, but less BSC and evil than Faolin and Scarlet. You know, like Canach but more snarky.
Let’s see some Sylvari with a battle cry, “I’m gonna cap a thorn in his kitten.”
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I main both a ranger and an ele. I understand the frustration here.
My ranger is a trap ranger who uses LB and SB. I actually know when to use and not to use my knockback on the LB. Even with the LB equipped I often find others using KB skills frustrating.
I set up my traps. Lure them to the area where players are standing to AOE as a group and before they get there another ranger or KB profession flings them away. Grrrr.
There are a couple of places in group play where a knockback/interrupt can work in a group. When you are knocking an enemy TOWARD the group to kill or when an enemy is against a wall and the knockback will only act as an interrupt and nothing more.
I get the frustration with knockbacks. I do. I don’t like it when someone knocks enemies out of my Barrage AOE either. But the hate for the Ranger and other classes that do it, especially in map chat is horrible. Not all players of rangers and KB professions use KB’s wrong and don’t deserve the general hate. I’m sure we can find something to hate on ALL professions. I have been playing my D/D ele and some idiot Warrior with “Fear Me!” makes the mob we are fighting scatter. I never see these guys called out because they are warriors. Hypocritical.
My point is, don’t hate the profession or the people that play them. It is players with little skill or poor fighting etiquette that use ANY skill detrimentally. Don’t hate on these people either. Be kind or at least helpful. You don’t know if they are new or are just playing the way they like to play, the same as the rest of us. Not being hateful gets you much further with these people.
There was one guy playing a warrior in map chat yesterday that was being crude and inappropriate and being hateful to any toon he saw that was a ranger. So I watched this one ranger follow him around in SW and KB’d every thing he was fighting. He finally got so mad that he left the map. I wasn’t the only one glad to see him gone!
The important word that everyone is glossing over is “MAY”, and Leah specifically said the story is going to be different for Sylvari from the other characters…which if you want to read between the lines means that it’s entirely encased within the story and not going to be in open world.
^OMG! Don’t start with the common sense. You’ll scare people.