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Why? The new axe has extra effects and doesn't look exactly the same. Legendaries don't need to be equal. For example Incinerator is probably the cheapest legendary to make in the game but i still went out of my way to build the Claw of the Khan Ur for flavor reasons. Its not something most people will do but its still nice both options are there. Same with Frostfang VS Jormag's Axe. People who care about the stat stick can just make Frostfang. Others who want to go out of their way to make the Jormag Axe will.

Relic from the older days (Iike... 5 years ago) when it was safe to assume men and women biology differs and too costly to "fix", i imagine. I'm really confused here. I uninstalled Twitter a while ago, are you guys angry at chairs now?

Didn't know much about GW2 when i made my account at a friend's place. Looking at Character selection, picked what looked like the monster race cause that's usually what appeals to me. Spent like an hour designing my Charr Thief who's still my main to this day thinking " he looks cool". Intro plays plays then i immediately fell in love with everything about them. The edginess and all lol. I'm also a huge fan of steampunk so yeah they're the perfect mashup of everything i like. Fav race out of any MMO by a decent margin. Specially like the effort that went into making them look like a whole different species, instead just just slapping a fursuit and a tail on a human-like character like a lot of other mmos do.

Story-wise : LWS4, i also really like the early parts of IBS though. Second half just felt rushed and generic :/. Gameplay-wise : now.

Its not in the notes but it was confirmed by CmC that Power Mec is getting nerfed during the stream. The Mec no longer inherits Ferocity and it won't proc AAR either, both changes are roughly a 3500 bench DPS loss dropping it from 37kish to 33500ish while benching using Snowcrows' parameters. Still a bit high in my opinion due to how uninvolved the build is but at least won't outperform most of the harder builds as easily. Honestly having a Power DPS option on Mecanist was probably a mistake to begin with. Should had been Condi/Condi Alac/ Heal Alac, mirroring Firebrand for Medium armor. Note that the AAR change also unnecessarily nerfs Condi Mec a little bit as well as it also runs it due to a lack of any other options in that row of the Explosives line for Condis. As far as the op's whining about Scrapper/Holo/Core i'll just address it with this : lol None of these builds are the best at what they do. Scrapper in particular suffers from major design issues, specially as far as the Support variation is concerned (at least in PvE). Holo is just an alright power dps option that competes with about half a dozen other similar builds and Core is just as much of a meme as any other core build as they're all stuck using dead traitlines as their 3rd (in this case, Tools).

Would def like scars and more body mods in general. Headcannon'd my Thief having a scar and lost an eye for years. Just been using Magnus' eyepatch IG to represent it. Not sure about beards lol. Def open to see some artwork of bearded charrs to see if it works.

The design actually... works? Nothing to do with the inspiration. They could had given DBZ hairs to humans for all i care. On a charr its just jarring.

Can't say i remember a lot of example of that and i've done map exploration a few times. Most "regular" charrs (farmers vendors scrappers etc) are as grounded as the rest. Ofc Metal Legion members are different cause well... they're performers. You don't see a lot of everday joes looking like KISS IRL either.

I mean some work well. I like the FF7 hairstyle and some of the more grounded ones. But common... DBZ hairs... on Charrs?

Cele Holo is better in my experience than Mec for soloing Champions, Better sustain and way tankier due to much better access to boons like Regen and Prot on top of Heat Therapy and Crystal Configuration Eclipse. For general openworld roaming either Power or Condi Mec works. Rifle Scrapper works surprisingly well too for that purpose. For Thief Specter is really good at soloing champions. For more general openworld roaming i much prefer Deadeye though as Specter has so much ramp up and so little power scaling. Payback coupled with Be Quick or Be Killed also make your utilities nearly spammable in that scenario which is really fun, including Thieves Guild if you kill stuff quick enough. Either Rifle or P/P works there. I personally prefer rifle since it has built-in mobility (About Face + Death's Retreat) which frees my second weapon slot to run Sword/Pistol to deal with Reflect monsters instead of having to run Shortbow but P/P+SB is a lot of mindless fun too. Same idea for Rev. Cele Renegade is amazing for Champion killing but for more general openworld Herald's burst combined to its tankiness is hard to beat in terms of useability. My 2c on the 3 Professions i spent a lot of time on.

Pass. Would love more Charr customization but would like a more grounded approach. Already sucks that most Charr exclusive hair styles look completely dumb and out of character.

People don't hate Power Mec existing. Its just too powerful for how uninvolved it is, that's all. Even if it benched at 30k it would still be by far the best LI build in the game and perfectly viable for all normal mode encounters and a good chunk of the CMs in the game. Power Mec getting nerfed just means playing Holo or Condi Mec is finally going to feel like a sensible choice again for people wanting to push their performances a bit further.

Wat. This game has like 60 maps to explore and constant meta events rotation all doable on your own.

Games aimed at teenagers tend to end up like that. People discovering themselves and all that.

Thanks but if i may ask, if you really need to mess with Gyros some more please look at the Elite as a whole. I think the main reason the Elite feels overloaded at time is that it combines two fairly conflicting designs. Scrapper's core idea is seemingly to be a very tanky "juggernaut" style supportive character. At least that's what a lot of trait designs, alongside Hammer itself and even concept art of the elite seem to convey. At the same time it has access to a ton of mobility via superspeed and has stealth access. Before reworking Gyros entirely again maybe looking at these 2 things first and reworking/removing them would refocus the spec and give it more of a niche. Could always use the superspeed based Elite idea for a future one instead. Just my opinion as someone who played 1k+ hours of Engi and pretty much every iteration of Scrapper since its inception.

Core specs are all rounders and in a lot of scenarios they can be as good or even better than Elites. PvP and WvW roaming comes to mind. They don't shine in PvE group content because players are encouraged to hyperspecialize in that type of activity, something better done by Elites.

Renegade here when i Alac in Fractal CMs. I just never enjoyed it enough to really practice it outside that context. Realistically i suck at most classes since the vast majority of my playtime is on Thief and Engineer (who i mastered on all elites).

They 100% started out as a communist parody. Writers are trying to make them more acceptable now so they're toning them down a bit.

Honestly the only part that really that made me really uncomfortable is the very very very thinly veiled communist propaganda at the end of the first arc of EOD. Its an optional convo after beating Mai Trin between Gorrik and one of the Moleman and goddamn they could had done without it. Everything else is just surface level "conservatism bad progessitivism good", "old people bad young people good" "yay diversity" (that one i agree with at least). Which is really whatever and pretty much unsurprising considering the game's target audience.

Yes Anet is incredibly left leaning and it bleeds into their writing. It is annoying/cringy at times but story is still good overall so whatever. Its 2022, have to accept everything has to be political. Politics are the new religious dogmas now that religions have mostly been sidelined from society (in the west anyway).

There's a reason almost all of my Charrs wear a variation of eyepatches, goggles and blindfolds. At least IBS had a few custom fit Charr headpieces too, sucks that its unlikely we'll see any more. I'd throw money at some good ones too :/.

"hey lets give the spec revolving around SUPERSPEED static puddles on the ground utilities, that's a HUGE BRAIN move". Le fricking sigh

We're back to "PvP changes kittening over PvE"... That's fun. Besides mindless WvW zerging, in what universe did Scrapper need to get redesigned AGAIN?

They are in a few raid encounters but nobody ever uses Holo for it. Scrapper is much better tooled for it but honestly even mecanist is better since you can role compress Healer + Tank using a Minstrel HAM build.

Look up guides on what the different roles are in PvP in this game then decide which you want to fill. Yes Thief is squishy and isn't the best duelist (its not undoable against most builds though) but that's because the game is built around team objectives and not team deatchmatch unlike for example WoW Arena. So nah it doesn't play like a WoW Rogue and is much closer to a Jungler in League for example. Rengar/Khazix/Kayn/Kindred style junglers specifically. You're there to control map objectives and swing fights in your teams favor and you have all the mobility and burst to do so. These character builds are called "Roamers" in this game. If what you really enjoy is dueling and shutting people down from playing the game like a WoW Rogue, Spellbreaker is probably more down your alley, or Catalyst.