Amaranthe.3578

> @"Hoodie.1045" said:

> > @"Amaranthe.3578" said:

> > can anyone recommend a very bulky build for open world that barely dies?

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> You don't really need to focus on being tanky for open world PvE. It's better to kill mobs faster than tanking them. Since you didn't specify if you wanted a core, Berserker or Spellbreaker build, I'm just going to give you my core warrior build for open world PvE:

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> http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vJAQNAR3XjEdQlH25BudAnIGgCqrJCgZHfgyeB0jY3zAA-jhRBABXt/o8DPdPP80CMTJIAXQBKV/JAwBw5nn5Nv5nf+5P/8zP/8zr5nf+5nf+5nf+5BA-e

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> You can also check out Metabattle for a variety of different builds, but at the end of the day everything is viable for open world PvE, so don't worry too much.

If i focus on damage i get killed by champs/multiple mobs

can anyone recommend a very bulky build for open world that barely dies?

I really want a spear :(

If it meant raids dungeons and fractals would actually get released yea

> @"Dreadshow.9320" said:

> It's not like they need to start worrying about clipping issues since 90% of of wardrobe items clip one way or another.

This basically, they wont even fix the current flood of clipping issues

> @"CETheLucid.3964" said:

> Just do a cool looking Kirin on the Jackal. It looks horse-like enough that it should satisfy people asking for a horse and cool enough to draw in people who want a cool fantasy mount.

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> Unless it doesn't cause ya'll are a persnickety bunch that literally wants for an incredibly boring lifelike rendition of the horse that can't really be done justice on the current mounts we have... then whatever.

Great idea

> @"Dante.1763" said:

> > @"Ashantara.8731" said:

> > > @"sitarskee.5738" said:

> > > why would you want to ride a horse anyway when you have much cooler raptors, jackals and girffons

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> > One's definition of "cool" might differ from another person's. I can do without crazy childish stuff, for instance, or at least like to have an option.

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> > > horses are overrated and boring imo

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> > "Boring"? Okay, I bet you are into super hero cartoons and movies too, where everything is over the top and "ultra cool" - which is the tone GW2 has taken up lately (well, gradually within the past 2 years). I prefer more class in content (visuals as well as dialogue) and a straight, harmonious design where the elements fit perfectly together - in other words, a cup of "good, old fashioned fantasy genre" tea.

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> I wouldnt mind a horse, *IF* they made it have functionality like the rest of the mounts. i love horses, ive owned horses, they are anything but "boring" in most cases ive found. But for them to fit in, in GW2 theyd have to be made to have functionality like the rest.

They could just add it as a raptor skin.

Raptors long jump = horses long gallop

> @"sitarskee.5738" said:

> > @"Ashantara.8731" said:

> > > @"sitarskee.5738" said:

> > > why would you want to ride a horse anyway when you have much cooler raptors, jackals and girffons

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> > One's definition of "cool" might differ from another person's. I can do without crazy childish stuff, for instance, or at least like to have an option.

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> > > horses are overrated and boring imo

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> > "Boring"? Okay, I bet you are into super hero cartoons and movies too, where everything is over the top and "ultra cool" - which is the tone GW2 has taken up lately (well, gradually within the past 2 years). I prefer more class in content (visuals as well as dialogue) and a straight, harmonious design where the elements fit perfectly together - in other words, a cup of "good, old fashioned fantasy genre" tea.

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> You're right about the definition of "cool". You're wrong about me being into super hero cartoons and movies. I bet you're into tasting cheese and wine while listening to classical music. I also bet you think fedoras are awesome and you like gossiping in british accent.

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> I believe there is a reason behind horseless universe in Guild Wars and I am fully supporting it. Horses don't fit the current mount system, they don't fit the story and well.. they've never been there so why would they appear all of a sudden? Horses are literally in any other MMO, I like how GW stays unique in this aspect.

And peacocks,spooky mounts and branded untamable mounts fit the gw universe well.

Mounts are not lore friendly.

> @"Dante.1763" said:

> > @"Amaranthe.3578" said:

> > > @"Dante.1763" said:

> > > I do not want to ride a classic horse, and no i dont find it weird we dont have one. There are no horses in GW2(the game world, *NOT* the books i know they mention them there.). Now a dolyak maybe.

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> > > But what would it offer? What would be the point of having one? All the other mounts *do* something, what would a horse bring to the game?

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> > Could be a special skin for all I care.

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> And for which mount would it be a skin for, and how much would you be willing to pay for it? because theyd have to make entirely new animations for it, the 3d model, and having the character riding it.

Raptor I guess, the leap makes sense for a galloping horse.

I'd pay the 2K a special skin costs regularly, like the bird skin.

> @"Dante.1763" said:

> I do not want to ride a classic horse, and no i dont find it weird we dont have one. There are no horses in GW2(the game world, *NOT* the books i know they mention them there.). Now a dolyak maybe.

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> But what would it offer? What would be the point of having one? All the other mounts *do* something, what would a horse bring to the game?

Could be a special skin for all I care.

Am I the only one who really wants to ride the classic horse mount and finds it extremely weird we have no horse mount or skin?

Hammer/Rifle

> @"xShiro.7691" said:

> This is totally have been overlooked for a long time it's time to give Justice for the Charrs.

Honestly feels really disappointing

> @"Leablo.2651" said:

> Of course Anet is going to say that. They will never publicly state that they can't justify the expenditure to retain Zojja's VA for the living story sessions. Nor will they admit to writing around her absence to avoid an ultimatum.

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> The facts are plain enough: Day is the only member of the voice cast whose celebrity extends beyond the VA fandom. And Zojja is the only major character to consistently be missing from the story, except when Anet is working with a bigger budget. You can choose to connect the dots or not at your leisure, it won't affect anything else.

I honestly think the vast majority wouldn't care at all if they brought someone else, zojjas character is much more important than a specific voice actor.

And btw it won't be hard at all to find someone with a voice so similar you won't even notice the difference.

She just vanished after hot?

Let underwater combat drown

> @"Ray Koopa.2354" said:

> I've also wondered that. Seeing decorations on horns, it seems like charrs typically care about how their horns look and in what state they are. They wouldn't just saw them off to wear a cheap hood.

Agreed

> @"ChartFish.1308" said:

> > @"Amaranthe.3578" said:

> > Overall, Rangers are in a better spot than any other class imo.

> > Power builds are good,condi builds are good and support builds are good.

> > The simple builds are good and the complex builds are good too.

> > They are wanted in every game mode.

> > Their 2 elite specs are brilliant from a concept/design pov and are really fun to play.

> > Cant think of a better choice for a main if you enjoy the hunter-ranger play-style.

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> Rangers are hardly in a better spot than other classes. Sure you'll find a want for support druids and condi soulbeasts in pve, but in pvp the only competitive choice is druid (and theres better choices to go with if you want to bunker) and wvw doesn't want rangers unless you roam, in which case you may use whatever

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> That said rangers are consistently in a good spot. Roll one, you can adapt to any situation be it pve, pvp or wvw. It's a good choice of a main because even if it's not the cream at the top, it's the milkshake underneath that tastes the best :P

When you consider all game modes rangers are in the best spot.

Overall, Rangers are in a better spot than any other class imo.

Power builds are good,condi builds are good and support builds are good.

The simple builds are good and the complex builds are good too.

They are wanted in every game mode.

Their 2 elite specs are brilliant from a concept/design pov and are really fun to play.

Cant think of a better choice for a main if you enjoy the hunter-ranger play-style.

Gearing in GW2 is ridiculously easy man

> @"Brother.1504" said:

> What if spirit shards converted to gems. Ten shards to one gem. IKR. Mind blown. Drop the mic.

That's actually a good idea

> @"Linken.6345" said:

> > @"Orpheal.8263" said:

> > You call stuf like 1 potential laurel from a level up big rewards? LOL Or a bag of a random material?

> > As you mention the Tome of Knowledge, this is why I said, that they would need to get drastically reduced, should ANet ever give each day a level Up a different reward like proposed by me, so that peopel wouldnt not be able to massively farm those anymore. The game got flooded long enough by them, that it is overdue, that they need to get reduced.

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> > There is no problem with it by floodign the market with specific items, as long Anet adds at the same time also enough material sinks to give those flooded materials again also enough demand again, so that their valies will also rise up again.

> > the boosters you mention don#t work on characters, which have not reached Level 80 yet, so they won't affect the market at all, cause you won't get ever any past level 80 rewards from those...

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> > And hey, the game also rewards players simpoly just only for logging into the game .. lower that this can't it really be and we also receive from daily logins materials, even low end gemstore items like black lion salvage tools, laurels and mystic coins as also tomes of knowledge.. which woudl be the first thing that that id replace out with something else, if Anet would make it possible to gain each day different past lvl 80 rewards, than only spirit shards.

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> > Howeve,r please stop focusing yourself too much on my examples.. its in the end Anet owns decision as to what they'd add as additionalx daily changing past level 80 rewards. Personalyl I'd be happy with ANYTHING, as long its just not only spirit shards ...

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> > PS. someone mentioned thats possible to make gold out of shards, but it being a chore... gettingg instead of spirit shards instead now a bag of money would be also a nice begin, just so that players don't have then the hassle anymore to have to exchange the shards into gold ... but get the gold instead directly.

> > That would be already a little awesome QoL change and would give people like me, which have no usage for shards an alternative that is more generally useful for most people.

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> But you can already get gold go do the spirit to gold conversion.

> Shouldent be to easy to make gold tbh.

how can you make gold from shards?

> @"Haleydawn.3764" said:

> > @"Amaranthe.3578" said:

> > > @"Orpheal.8263" said:

> > > I know this Linken, but turning Shards into Gold is a chore...from having to do all the material conversions..

> > > Simpler woudl it just be, if i could decide to switch the reward of the spirit shard directly into a Bag of money, to save the time of needign to convert all this stuff first until i get the gold out of the used up shards. Thats what I meant.

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> > I actually think it shouldn't give easy gold but something rather secondary like MF just to make the exp feel not wasted.

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> Only if it’s a short booster. Actual consumable magic find eventually will be useless, as it already is for a lot of players (myself included).

Makes sense

> @"sitarskee.5738" said:

> I just wish I could choose whether the experience goes for masteries or getting spirit shards because currently I got all Tyrian masteries at 4/5 and I don't have the mastery points to finish them so every exp I get goes to waste.

I'm exactly in the same spot,I'm lacking mastery points and the exp goes to waste.

> @"Orpheal.8263" said:

> I know this Linken, but turning Shards into Gold is a chore...from having to do all the material conversions..

> Simpler woudl it just be, if i could decide to switch the reward of the spirit shard directly into a Bag of money, to save the time of needign to convert all this stuff first until i get the gold out of the used up shards. Thats what I meant.

I actually think it shouldn't give easy gold but something rather secondary like MF just to make the exp feel not wasted.