Khailyn.6248

if you use the badges of honor from general achievement milestones (5,000 achievement points, etc) and use them for the wvw daily (buying an item for 30 badges of honor) in the guild hall (badge of tribute or w/e) you can get a potion of wvw reward that way to progress the gift of battle reward track. takes a long while but doesnt involve any combat. alternatively, if you tend to buy black lion chests there is an occasional war chest which drops potions of mist reward which progresses both pvp and wvw reward tracks, but the last time it was offered was i think back in march.

> @"notebene.3190" said:

> I would have no use for the thing myself, but was just wondering if there wasn't a way they could leverage some existing mechanics in game to do it with relatively low cost? Maybe drinks or food (cooking!) that apply random or specific debuffs to you periodically that effectively suppress specific (or random) boons? Last a period of time, and a drink/food to clear them.

 

This is pretty much the only way i can see to do it with minimal dev time. have a potion or food item that gives the player health degeneration, a stronger poison like effect which nerfs incoming healing or both in the case of Agony. Like other posters here have said, this would affect a very very very small amount of players (if you want a challenge fighting mobs wear white armor or none at all) so not much time should be spent on it.

 

https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Health_degeneration

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Agony

In other MMOs I tend to play tanky characters for solo content (paladin, force shielder etc), but for group content ranged support/healers (white mages, summoners, priests) both light and dark themed. Also I like the durability and bringing a longer duration fight.

 

In card games like Magic, it tends to go back and forth between these two as well. Angelic knight or dark healing/necromancer.

In DnD its definitely a wizard or cleric with the necromancer sub set.

In WoW it was paladin for soloing, while discipline/shadow priest for group content. PVP played both.

In Final Fantasy its kinda the same thing. White mage, black mage, summoner, knight.

In cabal online was the only one I couldnt play a support, just a shielder.

In guild wars 1 I started with a warrior/monk then started a necromancer/monk.

So then here we are in GW2. first and still main is a necromancer (core, reaper and scourge depending on mood and situation), second and main alt is a guardian. Followed by druid.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Onus or certain animations for https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Exordium are about as close as we get for 2 handed axes. There has been interest for 2 handed axes, spears and polearms but i dont see any of the above happening unfortunately.

It would be interesting to have elite specs alter the weapon skills like they do with F1-5 skills. The only issue with that would be the huge undertaking to make that many new skills (even more so than weaver).

Blizzard already did this at the launch of WoW and then later removed the need for ammo because it would take a lot of time to gather the materials just to play your class as well as it took a lot of inventory space (thousands of arrows for raids). lets not repeat their error.

dark humor.. the best kind of humor..

I'm kind of in the middle on this. While I like the idea of just having enough hero points to unlock the new elite spec right away, Id also like to have the new elite specs expanded upon lore wise. Perhaps a short instance of having an npc teach us what it means to have our new powers, a tutorial of how of use the new mechanic. Unfortunately making 9 separate instances would be too time consuming/work intensive since not everyone plays every profession. Having the npcs answer questions in elona was a nice step forward, id just like to see it pushed a bit further. I just dont like the idea of having an elite spec blocked behind a quest since there is also a percentage of the player base that doesnt do much pve or expansion content.

Feathers of the zephyr. it's been ages since it was last available.

> @"Fractured.3928" said:

> > @"Khailyn.6248" said:

> > If we had an elite spec for necromancer through the lens of a mesmer Id imagine it being kinda like Liadri and the clones being shadow people that blow up when touched. Could be fun.

> >

> > https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Liadri_the_Concealing_Dark

>

> Shadow people eh? lol. Here I am, just wanting to spam undead minions heh.

 

being able to spam out weaker minions iss cool ans a nice throwback to gw1. i just prefer the idea of 'shadow people' b/c of its creepy ghost angle and its more similar to mesmer. win/win either way.

If we had an elite spec for necromancer through the lens of a mesmer Id imagine it being kinda like Liadri and the clones being shadow people that blow up when touched. Could be fun.

 

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Liadri_the_Concealing_Dark

Since my first time playing gw2 back in beta, my favorite location would probably have to be the queens garden in divinities reach.

 

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/7/7d/The_Upper_City.jpg

 

> @"SinisterSlay.6973" said:

> > @"DietPepsi.4371" said:

> > > @"SinisterSlay.6973" said:

> > >How do we still not have Alastia crow outfit?

> >

> > I'm confused. Alastia Crow is wearing the tribal armour set, not an outfit.

>

> It is?

 

the shoulders are different/hidden but the rest is tribal armor. since it requires a reward track to get the pieces its prolly an uncommon sight.

 

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tribal_armor

 

Id love the health pack for my guardian. it already uses the visionary's helm and fanatics pauldrons which have the same symbol on them.

It would be interesting if Shroud rather than decaying on its own, would lose life force based on damage taken as well as a percentage per ability used while in shroud kinda like how revenants have energy costs. Could maybe work with core and scourge but as mentioned above reaper having as much cleave as it does would likely break even on cost of at least its auto attack if not still gain additional LF.

During the stream, we’ll give away some codes for an Ascended Aurene Clothing Outfit so your characters can stay cool and look stylish through the end of summer.

 

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/dont-miss-our-special-announcement-event/

 

All I can say is, way to screw over those that have to be at work during the stream. I like to catch a stream when I can but it sucks to miss a giveaway just because we have obligations outside of gaming. The only way this could work is if the code isnt limited in supply but rather limited to a time based window, but I doubt it'll work that way.

Id personally like to see an armored fish mount. The art is already in the game and somewhat underused. Plus a mount that can take some hits and have a charging cc would be pretty cool.

nice. especially the ranger parts.

I got the dungeon tokens for the armor set via WvW reward track. I dont particularly love WvW but it was less irritating than trying to find a dungeon group.

how about an ascended backpack that doubles as a parachute. so even if gliding is disabled if you do the puzzle again and fail you can drift to the ground instead of going splat.

> @"Strider Pj.2193" said:

> > @"Rusty.9348" said:

> > There was

> > https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/discussion/71247/the-great-warclaw-experiment-has-officially-failed

> > but I can't open it anymore. Looks like Anet is perfectly aware of the problem and they don't like it to be discussed.

>

> > @"Kylden Ar.3724" said:

> > Of course. The lovely open forums.

>

> And people blamed Gaile. ?

 

Other than Gaile isnt with the company anymore and so had nothing to do with the current discussions.

It's been worse since the latest update but something Ive had to deal with for a long time playing the game. After using various programs through customer support they said that the disconnections were related to data being dropped between the host and my client.

Agreed that mounts should not be able to stealth. On my thief (in pve) I can use shadow refuge, mount up after the first tick, wait for it to finish and my character will be stealthed but the mount will not. While amusing it should be this way in every mode.

 

Mark Katzbach.4680 ArenaNet ›

6:29PM

 

Bug Fixes:

 

Necromancer—Unholy Sanctuary: Fixed a bug that prevented this trait from functioning in certain scenarios when coupled with the scourge elite specialization.

While I used to play a lot of druid since I like healing others, especially in wvw I prefer the healing, barriers and rez control of scourge.