Xenon Z.6015

What about more two coloured hair or adding a second dye channel to existing ones? So we can get something like black hair with blonde highlights.

They only developed GW1 and 2. Their only other project was some mobile title that never went anywhere around 2018/19, but nothing before GW2 besides GW1. Some of their founders worked at Blizzard before and were part of the development team in some of their games but Arenanet didn't exist back then (maybe gmmg means those?) Edit: sorry, didn't see the before GW2

Oh don't worry. I also have a few screenshots from other people's characters, mostly so I won't forget which armor I thought looked great 😄. I kind of forget about them all the time though 😅. I'm happy with most of my characters. Sometimes armor doesn't really match but I'll keep it anyway since the other options look even worse. I have some old characters that I rarely use but won't delete since they are based on my characters from other games I've played or still play like Blade & Soul and FFXIV. I currently have 2 main characters that are mostly based on myself and somewhat inspired by one of my favourite singers (well, my real life look is also inspired by said singer so you can say the whole character is inspired by her). I have a middle name so my 2 characters both have a different name each, at least it made naming them easier. Unfortunately there wasn't any good skirt in the Light Armor section. Most have thighhighs which I don't want for them so I had to go with the cargo pants. Kind of fits too though. It's fun shuffling skins and armor around, trying out new stuff. But I always end up with the same result since mix and match sometimes doesn't quite work like I wanted 😅 I'm often satisfied with my look until someone with infusions comes around which often makes me think that I have bad fashion sense 🤣 I'm currently trying to save enough gold for the Enchanted Music Box to get the Silent Symphony Infusion to complete my look (since I love music). All in all, I have 27 characters. Some based on Anime characters, others based on my own ideas. Most stay with the same look, sometimes a character gets a complete makeover. Depends what concept I want for them.

Oh no, poor Ring of Fire. I have zero sympathy for you guys, to this day the most toxic server. I've never received more rap,e and death threats than from RoF players. Maybe RoF should get a seperate tier where the server gets split so you can annoy each other then. Besides that, you guys often only attack when one of the other 2 servers is already getting attacked, so where's the problem? You couldn't even defeat Deso that way. Imagine double-teaming a server and then you both still lose. PPT servers should suit you better then.

Top concern: incompetent balance lead. The same guy that was responsible for the February 2020 balance patch disaster and the one that ignored all feedback on said patch is also the same guy that removes all counters to boonblobs while still ignoring all feedback. Almost seems like they want to make WvW as unenjoyable as possible so people stop playing the mode and they can finally kill it off.

How do you guys never have any people? Before I switched from Elona to Miller there were queues as high as 80 on the Deso+Elona linking on the weekend. A lot of fair weather players maybe?

No server from t4 onwards has a lower activity than 3 hours a day, don't be ridiculous. Ever played against any of the EU servers that are set to "Very High"? Most of them field blobs from 8pm till 1-2am AND they have groups running from morning till afternoon. From the time I was linked with Riverside, they only had a big group in the morning (like every other server) and then again in the evening from 8pm till 11pm. In the afternoon it's basically dead, so shouldn't really be a problem for any EU server. And those are usually the servers you're up against in anything higher than t5. The only one that is permanently in t5 is Baruch because they play in a completely different timezone and even they have more than 3 hours of activity a day. Every server usually has more than 3 hours of activity if they don't want to go down a tier on purpose (like WSR sometimes does so they can farm weak servers).

And the german servers you complained about usually only have a queue in the evening. Riverside is only active in the evening and maybe an our or 2 in the morning and that's it. Abaddon is only active at night. No idea about Drakkar, sometimes they have a zerg running around in the morning but most of them only play in the evening. And now a fun fact: Every EU server we (RS+Miller) were up against, had at least one blob running around from noon till evening (at least when I played when I got off from work earlier or had a day off). Maybe play during normal hours? Europe doesn't really have that many timezones. You guys don't have a link but can still stay in t3 which means there are more than enough people active on the server.

It was like he was floating away (but at somewhat slower speed, not walking speed but also not combat walking speed, somewhere inbetween) but it looked really smooth. Isn't lag normally more... messy (jumpy?) ? He was in the downstate animation at least and moving away from me and another player from my server. The other player just said "lol" in chat so I guess that person probably saw the same thing. Edit: I mean, it could be lag? Never heard anything of someone's downstate playermodel moving around so smoothly when he's lagging though. Then again, it's Anets spaghetti code...

I don't play WvW that often anymore but the amount of hackers I see nowadays compared to 3 years ago is laughable. Already 5 today: A Revenant that kept teleporting large distances whenever someone got near him, and it definitely wasn't the 600 distance you can get from the skill leaps, it was at least double that distance (looked like mesmer and thief teleports). A Catalyst that suddenly popped up out of nowhere, tried to burst people down and just vanished if he failed to kill his target and came back a few seconds later to do the same again. A Mesmer that somehow could crit for 10k with greatsword without any condis on his target (probably a bug or exploit). A Guardian that just kept walking away in downstate. And another Catalyst (why is it so often a Catalyst??) that could just magically rez himself out of downstate while he was about to get finished off (no downed enemies or mobs around, healtbar also didn't move up, he just got out of downed state somehow), and vanished a few seconds later. 2 weeks ago I've had someone on our own server that could somehow move almost twice as fast on his mount. He literally just ran past me, both of us on mounts. He didn't use mount dash and I couldn't even keep up with him with mount dash. And it's always the same servers. Reporting does nothing anyway. Am I supposed to record every time I play this game, cut to the part with the hackers and send it in with a ticket or what? You can't expect people to constantly run recording software every time they play GW2. 3 years ago I've seen maybe a single hacker in half a year. Now it's probably like at least one per week. It's a joke at this point.

Since they actually added the Rebel Boots back into the store for some time (was actually surprised those really came back so soon, so thanks for that), might as well try it with Braham's armor set: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Braham's_Heavy_Armor_Skin Last seen in gemstore over a year ago according to the wiki. I'd happy to have it back since I've been keeping an eye on that one for a while now.

Rebel Boots: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Rebel_Long_and_Short_Boots_Package Missed them by a month (I only returned in June, don't play that much anymore though). Don't really have much hope though since most of the stuff requested on here doesn't seem to come back until after a year. Makes me wonder why this thread even still exists...

Not using exploits on the desert map to port into t3 keeps would be a start to make it less annoying. Especially when you're already massively outnumbering both servers. There's a thief on your server that does this for hours. Oh, and not using hacks. Like the Ele that ported away while in downstate (not mistform, he literally vanished) and returned with full health.

Add more people to the balance team (like 4-5 for a start) and get rid of that secret discord where they only get feedback from streamers and youtubers. The latter is a recipe for disaster as shown with Blizzard's Overwatch (and ANet Solar). Streamers / youtubers often don't care about balance, they usually care about the number of people that watch their streams / videos.

Tbf, neither does ANet...

Do you want to turn WvW even more into a snoozefest? Because that's how you turn WvW even more into a snoozefest. RIP Warrior, you deserved better... People were complaining about boonblobs. What do we get? Even more boonblobs. And boonstrip nerfs. You have to be kittening kidding me. Looks like you guys want people to turn their brain off while playing and make everything in this game about the gemstore (as if it wasn't already). You know Anet, a gacha would probably work better for you guys. There already are some where you completely turn your brain off and leave everything on auto while the only worthwhile content is currency, equipment or skins in the shop. Should give it a try, you seem to know the basics for it at least 😄 🙃 (sarcasm if it wasn't obvious already...) I just got back a few weeks ago. The only mode I play is WvW (when it isn't boring for once with all the blobs running around). Might as well quit for good if this goes live.

That wall of text can be summarised to "We are sorry that you are angry". Clear direction my kitten. Nothing but hollow words as we've seen with you guys time and time again that you spit on any feedback. If you actually listened we wouldn't even have gotten half of these specs as people wanted something completely different. Ele, thief, warrior, ranger (maybe also engi). Not to mention ele got its third kittening melee spec while being the squishiest class and gets its ranged weapons nerfed almost every balance patch. Then we have recycled animations on new specs. New weapons like spear on land for a single class wouldn't have been a problem either. Spear could've worked on warrior (Lancer) or guardian (Dragoon). There were enough fan concepts with feedback on the GW2 subreddit. There was enough feedback during the beta. Most specs weren't changed from the beta when the expac was released, Catalyst for example was the same clunky mess as in the beta. Balance has been garbage for the past 4 years now and it won't get any better until management gets their kitten together and actually leads with a plan. People have told you time and time again to nerf the boon spam as it has become too much. What did we get? More boon spam and nerf to boonrips in WvW. Also because one of your people likes to play favourites with his class, he even admitted it. WvW, one of the cornerstones of the game. Cornerstone probably because it's lying somewhere in a corner, forgotten. And then we have that secret discord chat which reminds me of Overwatch. They also had one which is the reason why the game is such a bad state. I've honestly had enough of this bullcrap. Time to go back to FF14. I usually don't like subscription games but that one looks like it's at least worth my money. Especially after they turned everything around after that colossal failure at the beginning. You could learn a thing or two from them.

To quote a certain someone: 'There'll be some amazing salt. I can't wait' / 10

It seems like none of them were designed with competitive modes in mind, pretty much open world PvE specs which is kind of funny in itself as that's the place where classes and builds don't even matter so now we have this mess. Reminds me of the gif where the received fax went directly to the shredder below as that is probably what happened with all the feedback for the specs, going by how little changes they made and how clunky some apparently still feel. Edit: found it: https://i.imgur.com/s1Yltie.mp4

Ah, I loved going to enemy zergs with my spellbreaker, activate defiant stance and all the stab skills, pop the elite bubble and Break Enchantments and watch as they crumble without boons while the rest of our group unloaded their attacks on them. We managed to melt a zerg 3 times in a row like this once (though it took a while as we had to pick off small numbers and we didn't have any commander on the map), they didn't come back after that. But Anet just had to mess up Winds of Disenchantment again. That aside, superspeed is a bit of a problem and then just give the other classes their original boonrip capacity back. The target reduction to 5 on a lot of skills probably didn't help either as the solution often is to just bring more of the support classes. The whole damage nerf patch was a mistake.

Oh it sure is, saved me 30€ at least. I stopped caring about the story when they killed off Balthazar and made everything only about Elder Dragons. The White Mantle stuff was actually a breath of fresh air but that was cut short. Almost all specs are useless in WvW and I'm not willing to wait another 2 years for them to make them somewhat playable in this mode. Sorry, but if they don't change anything with the elites in the next 2-3 months then this is it for me. They've had more than enough time to come up with something better, they just needed to take a look at the ideas and wishes on the class forum and reddit. Both were completely ignored, even the feedback on how to make the current elites better. I've seen fan concepts that were better than whatever the hell the current ones are supposed to be.

I was thinking... A skill that let's you equip your mechs arms or turns them into (jade-powered) gauntlets that turns you into a close to mid-range brawler would've been interesting (kind of inspired by Vi from LoL). So like 2 stances or something: one is controlling your mech for long range attacks and maybe close range (defensive) support and the other is equipping the weapons of your mech to fight close and mid-range (like gauntlets, cannons equipped on your shoulders and stuff like that). I don't know, just an idea I came up with few days ago. Mace is kinda useless so something like this would've balanced it out. Or just swap the mace with scepter, would make more sense anyway. The spec seemed kind of meh to me so I came up with my own what if scenario... Would probably be nightmare to balance though I think...

So, Alliances won't change anything in how WvW or large scale combat works. But now you just have to look where everyone from your server is again, great. Also: endless queues, chat is a mess (reason why I transferred to national servers that weren't linked with international ones), mixed languages once again (someone for the love of god please explain to Arenanet how Europe works when it comes to languages). Why even spend ressources on this crap system. Just release a new map or make changes to large scale combat which is more than overdue now (reversing the damage nerf patch would be a good start). Everything about this expansion is just a mess.

The people saying scouts shouldn't be rewarded are probably also the first ones that start complaining in chat when no one's giving info on status of garrison when it's under attack or when something falls without any callouts whatsoever. Since zerging or blobbing is apparently all Anet wants nowadays, they should just make a flat terrain and let the zergs hug each other until one of them wipes, rinse and repeat. Though I have to admit it's also kinda funny seeing blobs stack for so long at a door or gate that the objective falls in the meantime, and then wipe anyway.

Miller died the moment the Dzago bandwagon got on there like 1 or 2 years ago and made players and Miller's biggest guild leave. If anyone is to blame then it's them. Some of them were downright creepy (which was the last straw for me and made me leave though that was last year where most of them were gone already). They also threw constant hissy fits if someone questioned their "strategy". Most of them aren't on Miller anymore thankfully but you still notice the difference in atmosphere. Also, the feeling is mutual I think, only a few want to remain linked on both sides. Though I'd rather take Miller over most of the international servers (most of them were a nightmare to deal with)