Guild Wars 2

Yet another infantile mechanic you think would be in place after 8 months of a game being out. Yes, we desperately need some quality of life improvements such as this.

I’ve never felt more epic in a videogame than when I bought 100 icy runestones for my legendary. You just can’t get that kind of heart-pounding action from other MMOs. Why would you want that removed??

Perhaps if the Summoner Profession used Ethereal Creatures, creatures conjured from arcane magic or just pure energy. These summons could correspond with your currently equipped weapon, generating 2 Summons Per main hand weapon.

Summoners would not be able to swap weapons.

There can be two types of creatures the Summoner could create.
-Summons: An essence of the Summoners manifested energy, strong and versatile these are the primary source of damage and utility. Summons cannot be targeted or harmed. Yet they do not attack automatically.
-Conjurations: Are ethereal creature formed from unstable magic. These Conjurations are temporary creations used to tip the scales in the Summoners favor and attack automatically.

The unique Profession mechanic could be Possesion where the F1 and F2 skills will allow you to attempt to assimilate and possess your respective Summons. When possessing your Summon, you assume control of it gaining 5 unique skills specific to each type of Summon. However while in this form Summons become vulnerable to damage and the player loses access to their Healing/Utility skills. When your Summon’s Health Points expire you are forced out from your summon.

Conjurations are created from Off Hand weapons and Utility Skills. They can be both defensive and offensive in nature but can be targeted by players and are temporary.

Useing Weapon skills will cause your Summon to directly attack in unison with corresponding skills targeting your current target. However like most Pet AI, they will move freely in attempt to find the best path to attack their enemy depending on the type of Summon.

Any thoughts?

They should make it so all 5 members need to have story mode completed before your party can enter explorable mode.

Here are some ideas:

Daily waypoint discoverer: Discover 5 new waypoints
Daily vista viewer: View 3 new vistas
Daily POI discoverer: Find 8 new POIs
Daily heart completer: Complete 3 new hearts.

I think these would help encourage discovering a few more areas less trodden. What do you think?

Xalugami.2096:

Though one explorer-based daily achievement I’ve been wondering where it’s been is “Daily Treasure Hunter – Open x Chests”. That seems like a no-brainer to add in.

Good idea. Here are a few other ones that might work:

• Daily Minidungeoneer – Visit 1 Mini-Dungeon
• Daily Tracker – Discover and confront 2 Guild Bounty Targets (e.g. learn where they roam and talk to them; no combat required)
• Daily Diver – Dive from 3 different locations
• Daily Delver – Tap 3 different Rich resource nodes (based on the assumption that Rich nodes are usually hidden in out-of-the-way locations)
• Daily Opportunist – Recover and use 5 different environmental weapons (e.g. Oakheart branch, Elixir of Heroes, Unexploded Mortar Shell, etc – Warrior banners and Engineer bundles wouldn’t count)

theres no justified argument for the engineer’s harpoon gun to be so useless theres no way you ll land a hit on a moving target specially if it has swiftness.

The idea of a Necro seems fundamentally flawed at the moment, in the notion that we should be an attrition class. I find myself really only in need of one thing, and that’s the ability to obliterate mobility.

Necros need more immobilizes. As a class that should be hard to escape from, our ability to negate mobility should be on par with the ability to be mobile as a Thief. Simply, a Necro should generally be able to make it difficult for a Thief to escape.

I’m okay with not being mobile. I understand that a Necro’s way around combat is at a slower pace, but in exchange for being able to potentially last longer*. Necromancers need more tools to be able to be the one profession that can lock an opponent down and keep them from escaping.**

*Debatable, at this point.

**We have this in a perma-chill build, but even then, it’s not ideal and even sometimes impractical.

As it stands, banking, the black lion trading company, and the mystic forge all have permanent tools which allow you to access then from anywhere. It would be awesome if, as a reward for reaching lv400 in a crafting profession, to receive some sort of master toolkit for that profession, which would allow you to access a crafting station from anywhere.

Elementalist Scepter main-hand is actually quite good. It’s only problem at the moment is its speed. It’s very slow. It’s too slow to be effective when faced with the damage output and utility that a dagger main-hand or even a staff can contribute to a battle. Therefore, I’m proposing some changes (keep in mind that most Elementalist skills have some after-cast delay so I have tailored the cast-time and damage suggestions to reflect that):

FIRE
Flamestrike

• Cast-time reduced from 1¼ to ¾ seconds.
• Damage reduced from 101 to 80.
• Burning duration reduced from 2 to 1½ seconds.

Dragon’s Tooth

• Dragon’s Tooth now uses ground-targeting.
• Upon fully casting Dragon’s Tooth, the tooth that manifests itself drops immediately.

WATER
Ice Shards

• Changed to a skill-chain: Ice Shard —> Ice Lance --> Glowing Ice

Ice Shard: Fire an ice shard at your foe.

• Cast-time: ½ seconds
• Damage: 100
• Range: 1,200
  —> Ice Lance: Launch a frozen lance at your foe that inflicts Bleeding.
• Cast-time: ½ seconds
• Damage: 100
• Bleeding (1 stack): 3 seconds
• Range: 1,200
  —> Glowing Ice: Fire a bolt of magical ice at your foe, granting yourself Vigor and inflicting Weakness.
• Cast-time: ¾ seconds
• Damage: 230
• Vigor: 1 second.
• Weakness: ¾ seconds.
• Range 1,200

Shatterstone

• Recharge increased from 2 to 5 seconds.
• Stacks of Vulnerability inflicted from the explosion increased from 4 to 5.
• On creation, Shatterstone’s AoE now creates a Frost Field. This Frost Field pulses once at creation and lasts 1 second. The pulse chills all enemies in its radius for ¾ seconds.
• This skill is now instant-cast (can be used simultaneously with other skills).

AIR
Arc Lightning

• Cast-time (channel) reduced from 3½ to 2¾ seconds.

EARTH
Stone Shards

• Cast-time reduced to ¾ seconds
• Damage reduced to 110.
• Bleeding remains at 3 stacks applied (1 per stone that successfully hits) but the respective durations of those Bleeding stacks is reduced from 6 seconds to 4½ seconds.

Rock Barrier

• Cast-time removed.
• Recharge increased from 15 to 20 seconds.

Hurl

• Is now a 5-part skill-chain.
• After activating Rock Barrier, the Elementalist has the opportunity to fire off each rock individually (up to 5 times—once for each rock).
• Each skill in the skill-chain that fires the floating rocks is called “Hurl.”
• Each “Hurl” has no cast-time (you can activate them without interrupting other skills).
• Each rock, if it hits, inflicts Weakness (1½ seconds), Cripple (1½ seconds) and does 120 base damage.

Dust Devil

• Cast-time increased to ½ second.
• Recharge increased from 15 to 20 seconds.
• Range reduced from 900 to 600.
• Now affects a 450 range knock-back on all nearby enemies in addition to inflicting blind (effectively a blind-inflicting version of the Mesmer Greatsword skill: Illusionary Wave).

Hello forum,

So I’ve been thinking about this for a little while, and what got me started was killing all the underwater bosses in honor of the waves. I hated the fact that a lot of stuff wouldn’t work underwater and also our trait designs generally were hindered.

What I really wanted to do was be able to “save” a specific trait design and be able to “switch” to it while NOT in combat but still being in the game world. Not being able to re-trait yourself other than at the trainer is fair enough. But I really like the idea of being able to have more than 1 set of trait designs at your disposal so if you were getting ready for an underwater fight you can switch to a pre-made build.

Now I want to clarify two things. One is that I’m talking about a pre-made trait built, as in the points are set in the trees which you designed at the trainer, so you can just decide to move the points (though you can change the trait slots in your pre-made build just as you could normally). Second is that this ability should NOT be free, I mean you should have to pay some sort of dues in order to be able to “unlock” a second (or more) set of trait build. Whether it’s quest, achievement, gold, gem, etc I leave up to Anet and popular opinion.

So then you and your squad would be able to co-ordinate your designated roles and functions before different fights and situations.

Food for thought

Or just make it an account upgrade instead of an item.
“Characters will no longer require a pick to mine ore.”

Soulbound seems like a waste. I bet you would get more people to but it too Anet.

Please put in switchable armor sets. I have all my inventory slots unlocked and half of it is taken up by the exotic armor and trinkets I regularly switch between. Would be great if I could just click a tab and have my cond set, flip another and have my defensive set or my DPS set. Would really make my gaming experience more enjoyable, cut down on inventory micromanaging(terrible part of games), and should be pretty easy to implement. I think a lot of players would really enjoy this. Thank you.

Sirendor.1394:

Lol I think this goes too far. Keep marriages in real life.

i think that e-marriage in a game shouldnt do anything imo we should have a recruit-a-friend program where both new user and player are rewarded with a symbol of them being friends such as say a unique hat re-skin or something and an exp bonus when they are in the same party. this would be a nice way to improve new player counts as well as improve the pace at which new players reach main game content
THAT would be a nice way to join players e-marriage is a useless gimmick that would jsut wind up abused by the micro-store if u ask me. i dont want to seem rude but 9/10 when a game gets a marriage system its either hidden behind a pay wall or its ridiculously priced with in-game currency. and in the end does nothing for the two players who wish to be joined. its a silly RP gimmick and thats not exactly something anyone approves of. u want to get married online, add it to your sig and call it an evening..

plz! if u agree reply with something

It’s supposed to be more expensive than exotic armor and less useful due to only being rare?

Frankly, it annoys me by being rare instead of exotic. It should either be a skin or useful level 80 armor. Right now it is no more useful than an skin and yet you have to buy gems to be able to transmute it to actual good armor for a level 80. I’ll pass. If I’m willing to pay that much gold to get something for looks I don’t want to have to go through a hassle to actually use the looks.

I’m sure plenty of people will buy it and then purchase the fine transmutation stones to skin it. I’ve purchased fine transmutation stones to change the looks of armor and weapons, so I’m not adverse to doing that. I just think its a cheap trick to make extremely expensive level 80 armor have to be transmuted to use. And don’t say, you don’t have to transmute it because really, I’m not going to wear rare armor stats when I have exotic armor already. .

I like the idea of changing the system for cultural armor, perhaps something such as what the OP suggested.

Mounts with a speed buff could easily be implemented alongside waypoints.

Purchasing one would allow faster movement for a large one-time payment of currency, instead of slowly draining your wallet every time you choose to use it (like waypoints do).

One could almost call purchasing mounts an investment, saving money in the long term should they be quick enough to compete with waypoint travel. Now, if you want to hop across Tyria in the blink of an eye, utilize the waypoint system to serve as your venue for long-distance travel.

I’m sure I worded this all very strangely, so I apoligize in advance.

If i will propose a mount speed of 10% max with or equal to city speed boost speed you cannot interact with F while outside of city must be dismounted

You can start with a doylak or what ever the transport animal we got. the movement should not exceed 20 percent speed. The highest buff is 33% and some have double speed. and add in tier mount just like mini pet are.

upon entering combat you dismount.
My reason to suggest this is to provide mount that many player want but does not make you any faster then a non mounted speed runner
And this would give those collectors more then to do oh and since we have evolving world we might as well add in proving your worth by completing a number X of heart of the faction city you then gain access to their racial wares.

Oh and these mount cannot be use in WvW or s-pvp.

Again for those who hate mount do not fear it only maxed at 20% speed Your own buff give 33% and you lose that when you mount

For those that want mount is purely cosmetic and how cool is it to ride some of the large animal.