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Shadow Arts.

That's a bit weird, isn't it? You've projected yourself on a character with a personality you have very little control over, but somehow maintain immersion, yet a 3rd party saying "They" instead of "he" will bring you out of it?

I've never had a character represent me. They are dolls to push around the gaming board. The personality of the main character has been more or less set the entire GW2 experience. They are vocal and have a personality. The choices you can make are very few and, while it might impact parts of the story, does not change your characters personality at all. My Female Sylvari says, sounds, and does the exact same thing as your Female Sylvari.

The actual context of my statement was about how singular They/Them is NOT broken English. It's standard and has been used in that way for literal centuries. You don't need to take my word for it; you have the entire internet to browse. When games started letting you choose your gender, they used the singular they/them so the game wouldn't need to check your gender, nor would they need to spend time adding in more dialog just for gender. No one gave a flying fig newton. Most of us still don't give a flying fig newton. When I say "unknown" I mean in a game setting, as it used to be. Back before anyone cared. I have two problems now: 1. People are whining, in thread after thread, about how Anet is being cheap on everything EXCEPT this, which is somehow ONLY a political thing. 2. The people quibbling over not using pronouns now because "Politics!" are opening the door for more than just he/she. What's good for the goose is good for the gander; If you get your pronouns, it's only fair that everyone gets their pronouns too. The fantasy game is a fantasy. Any connection to the real world is irrelevant. Even if Anet wants to shoehorn in everything I am against politically... it's still just a fantasy and has no affect irl.

Singular they/them has often been used when a gender is unknown, since "it" refers to an object. At least since the 1800's, but probably longer. Many games used it prior to non-binary being a consideration.

Keep it as "they". I don't really care, but it probably saves time and money.

Viper's D/D Daredevil with Deadly and Shadow Arts. I can spam 3, but usually I autoattack while weaving in Dagger 5 for Stealth/Leeching Venoms/Cleanse/Healing/Superspeed. Leaves enough Initiative to react to whatever is going on around me.

That's not a problem with the relic system itself, now is it? Changes will always happen in MMOs. You'll be much happier if you change up what you are doing than if you just focus on what you lost, since it's not coming back anyway.

It's fine. It's nice not being forced to choose between Stats and the set power. The complaints are far overblown, especially when you compare them to balance changes to abilities.

The people who don't buy the expansion still pay $15 per month. Get no expansion content 3 months later. Tell me how the people paying the subscription without the expansion are paying for expansion content. All players pay $15 per month regardless of content drops or which expansions they have. You are ignoring this portion entirely, which is why your disagreement is arbitrary. Again: which games am I allowed to compare to Guild Wars 2? If you give me the list, we can have a discussion that actually goes somewhere.

Subscription fees exist regardless of whether you buy the expansion or not, making that a rather weird argument. What games does Kranlor Greyhelm decide are acceptable to compare to Guild Wars 2? That way I don't waste my time finding arguments that are just denied through rather arbitrary reasons?

Yes they do. You get the Expansion patch, then the content patches afterward that build upon the expansion. When WoW releases an Expansion, you get a large amount of content. However, it's never ALL of the content. Future patches add more content that can only be accessed by the people who bought the expansion. Usually a Raid or two, maybe a dungeon, a new area filled with Dailies. It's all tied into the story they tell over the length of the expansion until they launch the next one.

Greatsword - Sword Dancer The 3rd skill does some type of acrobatic evade and cycles to the next stance, similar to Elementalist Attunements.

I've always been more interested in having fun, generally with interesting builds that are rarely Meta. My current enjoyment is a D/D Condi Specter Thief for excessive healing, leeching, and barriers. Fairly unga bunga.

That image is a WoW Monk.

I'd focus on the profession mechanics that you enjoy playing with. All professions can solo and support groups. I enjoy Thief the most. High mobility, stealth, and the initiative system make me feel like I always have the option to change my strategy on the fly. Currently trying to work through Elementalist. I understand the concepts. It just feels clunky, likely due to Attunements being the opposite of Thief initiative skills. I'll "get it" one of these days and then all those shiny skill animations will be mine.

Elementalist. Your friend can start out with easy support skills in Water attunement. He can transition into Tempest or Catalyst at 80.

This. My first and only Strike was for the turtle. Failed a few times, but we got it eventually with a bunch of player corpses lying around.

Necromancer is fairly survivable in core and every Espec.

No, I think they are saying they want to break the stereotype view of Korean games being Pay to Win. I believe their system will likely be similar to Guild Wars 2, since it walks the fine line with its Gem - Gold conversion.

Since we are nit picking, he said skins, not complete armor sets of a specific weight class. Many skins I'll think "who would wear such an ugly..." then eventually come around to finding a decent look for it.

I've seen a few people run parts of that set with foot and hand wraps with a bandana. What's the issue?

I only got Skyscale after Turtle. Prior to that, I simply followed along with Raptor, Springer, and Glider. Borrowed the Rent-a-scales in Dragonfall. It became even easier with the Jade Bot Glider Boost. Never felt the need for Skyscale, so I didn't bother. Only reason I have it and Griffon now is because I finally decided to get all the mounts.

Many of us have level 80 Guardians and Necromancers as nothing more than character select decorations. I really love how my Guardian looks, but even Willbender feels like rigor mortis after playing Thief. I could play the "Meta" classes but my skill isn't meta level anyway. Warrior definitely needs love though. It's far too bland to even be called the ugly duckling of Anet.

I was still playing MUDs and Diablo 2 when the earliest MMOs launched. I didn't really join in until WoW/GW1/CoH.