Guild Wars 2

Trinnitty.8256:

I don’t think the OP is talking about removing the stats themselves. They are saying its more intuitive to see 20% + 20% + 20% + 20% + 20% = 100% Not some high expertise or concentration number then add in the traits runes that still have percentages that equals 100%.

Actually they are probably trying to avoid exactly what you point to as ‘intuitive’ because that 20%20%20%…etc can actually end up looking very very different in the end depending on how order of operations is interpreted, i.e. you have something that adds that first 20%, then you throw on something else with that 20% modifier, depending on how it is calculated it can look like this:
(assume a 100 base primary stat)
100+20+20=140
but, since they’re directly affecting the base stat and then applying a relative-value based amount, it might look like this:
(100+20) + 24 (because the second modifier sees the base stat as 120 now and 20% of that is 24 not 20)
particularly dangerous when you have two sets of modifier types (point derived and relative) looking at the same stat.

on top of that there are a number of in-game situations where, conceivably, the buff might have worked in a different way (worn/wielded vs eaten vs specialization or signet bonus) . Too sum up, I feel like they had to go with one or the other exclusively, and I think that they chose granularity of stat tuning over something based on relative values because they’re (let’s face it) far easier to use in unbalanced gamebreaking ways and far more likely to cause havoc with equipment and skills added later.

the fact they were changed directly prior to a ton of new content being added makes me suspect there may be a specific mechanic in the expansion that did not play well with those.

My game crashed and I’ve been getting this when I try rerunning the game. Anyone else getting this? I’ve already reset my modem and also flushed DNS, still doesn’t fix it.