Smoosh.2718

> @"Yggranya.5201" said: > Only emote i would like to see is from FFXIV "slap". Emote that works in every situation, so versatile. I kinda wish we had some OTT emotes, like a wave where you stand on one leg trying to make yourself bigger and more seen. I know FFXIV had one like that. It just gives the characters more life... also... Where is the old female idle position?!!

If its a small node not a rich one, you can bet they are cheating by teleporting around the map, if its a rich node then its a high chance of parked characters.

> @"sorudo.9054" said: > > @"Smoosh.2718" said: > > > @"sorudo.9054" said: > > > > > > or has new armor, or is really that good of a fighter. > > > think about that for a sec. > > > > A good fighter will never have clean armour after battles. Blood, dirt and greece will coat the armour. > > Glancing blows will happen, scratching or causing minor damage to the armour. > > > > Also, tell me, have you never been hit in gw2 by a mob, like ever? > > i have but i know how to survive...... Anyway this is digressing, more armour skins big plus. More choices for the player to make, more options for players to really make it an RPG. I cant see a reason to say no to skins that are already in the game.

> @"Skyve.7156" said: > Crashes when I open Mastery Tab - > Ice Brood Saga - > Resilience Essence Manipulation. I really want to tier it up :D > @"Skyve.7156" said: > Crashes when I open Mastery Tab - > Ice Brood Saga - > Resilience Essence Manipulation. I really want to tier it up :D Tested, and confirmed 2/3 crash, really cba to test the last one.. its probably going to do the same thing. Something really did get dun goofed here

> @"Rihar.3465" said: > Can confirm that hovering exactly this trait (Rousing Resilience) crashed the whole game wherever you are at the moment. Checked in LA. > However I'm not sure this is not happening because of ArcDps or any other addon. I have never used an addon so I can confirm this is 100% game side.

oh... oops im not alone  This is the guilty trait.

> @"Lan Deathrider.5910" said: > Warrior > * Winds of Disenchantment: This skill is no longer channeled. Instead it drops a stationary spell area that lasts for 5 seconds with a 1-second pulse interval. I will be damned, they actually did it.

Back in the core days, combo fields were the thing, this created a combo field fo everyone to use. Tiny bit of time passes and the combo fields become a wee bit useless due to the ways people gain boons now. Personally I'd like to see blast finishers gain more damage or cause an effect. Gaining boons for a blast just feels off in this game. Now on the skill itself, its still stuck in 2012, Zerkers version works due to being rather spammable and the simple fact that it does more damage and burning per use, so yes combustive shot does need an update to what it does.

I know we have skills that do more damage the more of a stat we have... could it work the other way around? So retaliation is higher based on less Vitality and Toughness, meaning retaliation will hit harder from a squishy than a tank. This being said, it could be abused Vs Fast attackers causing death upon a quick 15x attack, but the flip side to this is that you do not have the defences a vitality and toughness stacker would. TLDR: Toughness and Vitality lower the damage of retaliation 50:50 split between the stats, so if you stack only vitality, its 50% of its max.

> @"Healix.5819" said: > > @"Master Childman.2135" said: > > could you kindly explain to me how an Engineer can place all the types of turrets that he can put in his skills while in AFK? in game you have the possibility to put the autoattack on only one skill. I am not aware that there is the option of being able to autoattack multiple skills at the same time? or did I miss this update? > > ArenaNet only does something if the person fails to respond, so with that in mind, they do it by using a macro to use their skills and a program to "call for help" when something happens. For the more casual ones, they simply have the game running in the background and use the skills when they happen to think about it / notice it. > > Back in the day, ArenaNet far more strict and would simply ban them on the spot, including anyone that happened to be next to them. This system is too easy to fool. Use a macro, watch a movie, do other things and just keep tabs on your chat window for a GM message to pop in, while not touching the keys once. This is why a blanket ban system must be adopted, stamp out what could get worse... which is getting worse. Look at the rise in actual bots, look at the rise in cheaters.

> @"TheLadyOfTheRings.9148" said: > > @"Smoosh.2718" said: > > For me personally, Id love to see all of them at once, or at least 12 on the screen at once. > > Me too, I'd love to see them right next to each other, scaled properly, showing their in-game heights :) Tera did this with their game, it gave a really cool first screen you see. All your characters walking towards the screen, select one and they get their weapon out. I'll try to find the example:

> @"sorudo.9054" said: > > or has new armor, or is really that good of a fighter. > think about that for a sec. A good fighter will never have clean armour after battles. Blood, dirt and greece will coat the armour. Glancing blows will happen, scratching or causing minor damage to the armour. Also, tell me, have you never been hit in gw2 by a mob, like ever?

> @"lokh.2695" said: > There are two sets that have a "worn" variant, if I remember correctly. But the effect isn't all that eyecatching and with only two sets the variety just isn't there. But we literally have this armour in the game right now:    Players can not use it but NPC's wear it, this would be such an easy start to providing damaged armour to the players. Battle damage shows a sign of experience. A hero with no damage was either standing at the rear of the lines or a poser.

For me personally, Id love to see all of them at once, or at least 12 on the screen at once.

I'll still stand by my belief that players who AFK farm set a bad image for the game. And some of them are 100% not legit players, Only takes 3 minutes to work out if someone is botting or not by the clockwork skills they are using, always in the same order. One way I found how to detect a macro user is this: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Bouquet_of_Roses Throw that in to their hands before combat starts, and watch them still try to do their skills, they wont remove it from their hands. Slap them all with a temp ban then a longer ban if repeated then perma ban them out of the game if they do it for a 3rd time. Its a bad image, it sets the idea that its ok to cheat in gw2, it makes players also believe that Anet doesnt ban people and they do in some areas prevent honest players from completing a task quickly (ascalon STILL has that problem). I will guarantee that this thread will have an army of afk farmer defenders coming in. With the fact that there is a BIG rise in Bots / Cheaters, something needs to be done to deter people away from doing it.

> @"Burnfall.9573" said: > > @"Smoosh.2718" said: > > > @"Obtena.7952" said: > > > I don't get this expectation or complaint ... anet doesn't 'talk' about balance changes with players since ... ever? I mean, when they do, it's so vague and infrequent that no one should expect it to happen, especially with any sort of regularity, that's for certain. It makes no sense to complain expectations you create for Anet. > > > > Are you literally not seeing the sticky'd post by anet? > > > > https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/109025/upcoming-balance-notes/p1 > > > > Before this, they posted another asking for feedback and made changes before it went live. > > if i may, where is the connection with the Community for asking for feedback? If you really want me to dig it out, they made 2 posts, one asking players for feedback and one with the changed list of changes. Ta-da! I searched it for you: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/97624/balance-update-update-global/p1

As an example, this armour is already in the game: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/f/f1/Wounded_Soldier.jpg A simple addition of the damaged pact armours would seem fitting to the game. Allowing players to pull off the looks fitting to the area and theme they want. This would give the world the Grit it needs, what was taken from LA can be given back in armour. I'll grab some other pictures of stuff that is already in the game, that could be easily be provided to the players for use in game as well. 

> @"Yggranya.5201" said: > I don't think there are, or will be armors like that. I mean, considering anet just keeps pushing out more glowy garbage, we can conclude that it's really popular stuff. Only some weapons, like the axe revenge and the dwarven weapons look damaged. Maybe there are others but these are good enough for me. I'd honestly love to see damaged armour being able to be used by the players, we have way too much glowy rubbish in the game. Some of the armour is already in the game as damaged (pact soldiers are all rocking it currently, Some DR Serif soldiers also have bandages on mixed in with their armour. The other part I hope for is less bulky armours (most of the gloves have about 2 inches of material around the wrists) It is so hard to find gloves that look good due to this bulkyness. I really do hope with EoD, they do not create skins with partical effects on, or any more new BLTC skins with glowy effects, The reason why I do not want anymore skills that do this, is because of this: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/comment/1372432#Comment_1372432

Can people STOP trying to make PC games Mobile games.... Mobile games are a cancer on PC/Console games and they really need to be stamped out.

> @"Touchme.1097" said: > > @"Smoosh.2718" said: > > yes I agree to an extent that skills should not provide high damage if you are evading at the same time. > > A simple fix to this could be that damage is reduced to the caster by 50% while the attack is going on. This means they will still hit you, they will still jump from target to target, however they can still be attacked with a 50% reduction in damage. > > > > Should this skill be counterable by CC? I should coco. > > > > However in the PvE setting, bosses imo need to be tough in openworld. We currently have too many open world bosses that are so easy , you can 1 them to death. Personally I have not had an issue with PvE monsters / bosses having overpowered skills.. quite frankly, they need them. This way it keeps you on the edge, knowing that you can die if you dont dodge or get out the way of the next attack. > > While I agree with you that bosses need to feel challenging I have to express my discontent with an ability that couples burst with evade and a boss that can spam unrelenting assault putting the boss on a difficulty level which is higher than the other non-Legendary bounties for a group of 5 to 10 players. > I am sure it has been suggested before, I would rather welcome a rework for Unrelenting assault than a nerf, a rework may not impact on how a profession performs in terms of DPS but a nerf will affect it negatively and will not solve the problem for player characters. > On the other hand a nerf on a PvE boss will tune it down to be on a difficulty level which is more appropriate for a non Legendary bounty and it's not going to affect mechanics. > I would be happier if Unrelenting assault was removed completely to be reworked into something that allows interaction, it's not the damage the issue, the lack of interaction is, because it gives evade while dealing damage and the evade mechanic doesn't allow me to interact with my opponent while I am being hit repeatedly. > Unrelenting assault is in my opinion a toxic mechanic because it's not interactive and doesn't offer a valid counterplay, it's a bad design and it feels unfunny to play against it. One way to fix this could be by giving the skill a breakbar allowing CC to strike it, but reduce damage by say 70% while active, this will allow players to CC the target out of the skill, providing that enough CC is done. I do not agree with evade attacks either in this game in all honesty, as they can be abused to achieve easy wins.

> @"sitarskee.5738" said: > Meanwhile staff warrior is literally unplayable, buff plz. No! Warrior Pistol, take it or leave it! >: (

> @"Terrorhuz.4695" said: > At this point I'm inclined to think most of staff skills need a buff. > Ele staff is trash, mesmer staff is trash, guardian staff is trash, soulbeast staff is trash. Daredevil staff is... sort of acceptable, the only ones good are revenant's and necro's. This just reminds me of everyone wishing for Warrior Staff with the next elite spec... they have no idea how bad staff is on 60% of the classes, yet they expect its going to be the be all end all weapon that changes everything. Staff on all the classes to me is clunky, boring and ugly to use. Ele staff could be amazing, casting big skills for big damage, yet we have this clunky weapon that has 0 damage on some skills and little to no utility. 100% believe at least the ele staff should get reworked (the class with the least weapons that is)

Difficulty should get harder in the later expansions. Why? If you played core > HoT > PoF you should know your classes, know what mobs do and know how to play pretty well to be able to fight tougher mobs later on in the game. When you play a single player game (heck lets use Deus Ex Mankind Divided here) the game builds you up for that final fight. It introduces the mechanics through out the game, could you beat that boss with little effort / skill on the normal difficulty? Probably not, you build up that skill and know how throughout the game. If a game has a really easy final level, what was the point? So, why should Gw2 try to get easier and easier as expansions come out? This is not how games work, the later the expansion the more experiences you should be when playing it. If you skipped story / parts of the game just to be there, that is your fault not the games. TLDR: Gw2 Needs harder open world content, players should have built up the experience and know how by the time they got to that point.

> > @"Smoosh.2718" said: > > Wait.. does this mean I'd get to wear the Male version of the Scallywag armour? Oh hell yes! > > If that one is too much... maybe a compromise? Barbaric? > > I'm sure they could add some bandages over the boobies or somethnig. > > Don't you ruin this for me!!

What If Banners pulsed a boon? Defence - Retaliation Tactics - Regeneration (still sour about this one being removed) Disciplin - Fury Strength - Might Battle standard - Might, Fury, Swiftness and protection (But becomes a destroyable object when placed)