Rauderi.8706

Great QoL now that we have JW and the homestead: Update the collection box UX so having the glyph is enough to apply it to the box. The vendor-driven UX is poorly dated and makes for a choppy experience.

I usually skip the fractal weekly, but since Convergence is (a timed) drop-in-and-play, it's much easier to finish. And more options is good.

Mastery points are .. fine, I guess. My objection to them is the consistent insistence on doing some of the most meandering, annoying grinds to get some of these points. GW2 does not make good achievements, and many of them wouldn't even get done if it weren't for the points locked behind them.

Let's reverse it. Underwater Hammers! Underwater Focus (so people have a reason to use them...)!

ANet give me Tengu or Kodan, I give ANet $90. But that is unlikely because of how race is tied to personal story and the tremendous amount of voice acting that would have to get done, for past content and all future content. New race would mean, I think, at least 10-12 new voice actors. And then all the refitting of armor, which already barely gets done because Charr and Asura get the short shrift as it is. So it's sad, but I highly doubt we'll see it happen.

Nah, he's shaping up to be a snarky, irreverent NPC. Y'know, like all the others.

I'd offer that better controls are also needed for salmon run. Needing to dive in order to use skills (because being at the surface completely removes them...) and the dash underwater pushing you upward, toward the skill-disabled surface, is just awful. And can we get the canons labeled, please?

They're not even good masteries. The rock/paper/scissors masteries? Tedious to build up the 30 stacks that decay too quickly before you can really use them. Take the timer off of them and they might be useful. DRM-related buffs? Eh. Never got a sense they were useful; they felt mostly invisible even when I had them. They really need to go back and adjust what the buffs themselves to for all of IBS. I got them all just to have them, but lawd are they worthless in the grand scheme of things.

Yeah, I was so amped to have the collection box, only to realize ANet biffed it at the 10-yard line. It was supposed to be a convenience, but all the glyph-swapping is (admittedly minor) irritating. I fully blame their antiquated UI for that. The system should be using any unlocked (bound to account) glyphs we already have, not some weird and janky "vendor". Making that one change would take the homestead mastery from great to fabulous.

Yeah, between this and the corrupt vomit, it's pretty clear JW is all about melee hate. And as usual, enemies spam abilities on too-short cooldowns, making their nuisance extremely repetitive.

This is the right way to go about it. Clear, single-hit punishment with time to respond. The effect itself doesn't need to be nerfed, just how it's delivered. Alternately, a key answer to boonspam is right there on Necro spear: Extirpation. Pulsing, time-stacking boon denial would be sufficiently punishing. I recall another thread (on reddit?) that suggested something akin to "reverse Resistance", where boons just stop working for the duration. Either approach would work but also be much less frustrating or Bad Game Design than the current execution.

A lot of this has a somewhat easy fix, and something that can be applied to the game as a whole. (Because the PoF permablind wasn't annoying, right?) Two parts: Internal cooldown and Telegraph the abilities first. Critters all across the game, from vanilla to now, have horrible conveyance. Attacks need to be unique, clear, and actually give players time to react. Right now, they don't, and the aoe boon-corrupt mess is just the latest red flag of it.

Maybe I can finally get a lion statue again. Had put one in a guild hall a long time ago, guild drama dissolved it, lost 50g for it. Sadge.

With the new Vault season coming, once again asking for Clovers to become a 300AA buy after the cap. In fact, all the time-limited items could use the same treatment that Gold gets and let us decide what's more valuable to us.

So glad the Lily of Elon NPCs mostly don't talk. I'd get really mad if I had to listen to Complaining Tengu and his rant on the guano den of iniquity every day.