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I would love if there was a guild wars 3 in the works with a more traditional combat and map system. I hate the open world content. It's all running in a zerk and doing brain afk auto attacks. Once the zerg leaves after the meta all the events are not profitable because it takes to long to do them and many can't even be finished solo.

That example from me was a extreme example aswell. It doesn't matter if it cost 50g or 200g. It was to point out how ridiculous much it costs just to test a different stat and switch back to it. All I'm saying is with the current system you cannot simply test and discard without legendary equipment. If you have free stat change just like free skill change or free trait change you would see more build variety in the game. Ease of use of different features have constantly been improved in gw2. Also respecting traits used to cost gold too in gw2 so making stat change free is a plausible option from my perspective. And it is worth the legendary devaluation in my opinion since it would make gameplay more interesting and diversivied. However anet isn't like it used to be and I'm not even sure if they currently have the resources to make changes like that. Now it's just grindy content after grindy content.

Yeah not worth the time for me. also planning to only play once a week in the future. But even if I had every legendary in the game I need 4 friends to have them too. Had this idea of 4 eles and 1 mesmer for fractal cms. The mesmer giving heal, quick, alac, fury and blocks to the team and eles stacking might. If stat change would be free we might find out if it works otherwise probably not.

I asked this question 2012. About two weeks after launch when I hit lvl 80 with my silvari mesmer. I didn't liked silvari because skimpy outfits just didn't look as good as on human or norn. At the same time I didn't want to start a new mesmer because my silvaris birthday was on launchday. So I was forced to keep playing my silvari but deep inside I just wanted a skimpy human or norn. Eventually I stopped gw2 because I wasn't happy with my options. When I returned 8 years later in 2020 I finally created a norn mesmer and the game has been much more fun ever since. My silvari mesmer sill exists being a storage character.

I don't have any exact build in mind. All I want to say gw2 would be much more fun if you have the freedom to play different builds without weeks of farming in between. In gw1 a friend could just sent you a build from his build storage which has infinite storage by default btw and tell you: hey try this out its fun.

Done that too. Now my mesmer has 5 armors. diviner's and minstrel's are just using up space because they are never used but I still want trailblazers to have some fun as condi chrono tank and then never do it again.

If you decide against meta builds and want to use your own builds shoudn't you be able to test them? You can theorycraft about your build as much as you want but at the end you want to play your build to see if it works. If not you might adjust it and test it again. Thats exactly what you can do in gw2 pvp but not in pve without paying gold for every slight amount of change.

So about 200g or 2 weeks just to try out something different for a run to have some fun and then another 200g or 2 weeks to get your old build back. What if you notice in the middle of the run that it doesn't work out as planned and that other stat with more toughness is better? 2 Weeks more of t4 dailies? Someone who only plays on weekends might want to do that too?

It's not about creating new meta builds by being able to stats nor is it about min maxing your crit to 100%. Gw2's old trait system didn't used to my adjustable too. You had to pay money to reset it until they changed it. With the new system trait changing is free but choosing a heal trait over a damage trait is useless if you don't switch to healing gear too.

The result is that players don't swap unless their the meta build is suggesting a different stat. The ability to tryout otherwise never used stats or weird stat combinations or sigils is withheld for players with legendary equipment. There is this cool wintersday sigil which launches snowballs on foes. Who wants to try that out if you have to buy a new 5g sigil of force or 9g sigil of malice after throwing some snowballs?

I usually do CMs+T4 which gives about 20 gold plus tons of mats but it's not about that. The point I wanted to make with this post is that being able to experiment with different builds should be a basic feature of a MMO. Because builds are useless with wrong stats, people can't experiment. Instead you have to follow meta builds to not waste money on equipment which is not ideal.

Some gw2 rant without hoping to make any difference. Tldr: The point I wanted to make with this post is that being able to experiment with different builds should be a basic feature of a MMO. Because builds are useless with wrong stats, people can't experiment properly. Instead you have to follow meta builds to not waste money on equipment which is not ideal. Once stats, runes and sigils are applied to equipment it is very hard / expensive to change without having legendary equipment. This leads to almost everybody playing the exact meta build in raids or fractals because the have been proven to work and discourage players to try out new things because it's so expensive. Also every raider or fractal player is running around in openworld with their full berserker raid / fractal gear and getting 1 shotted all the time because it's to much of an effort to get a completely new set of gear for open world gameplay. Now if you want try something off meta for raids/endgame fractals or a different build for open world you have get new gear, which requires time and money and depending on the stat of the gear (viper, minstrel, diviner, harrier) a lot of time. And after you get it, it could turn out it's totally crap. What if trailblazer stats doesn't turn out as good in openworld as you have expected and you want to try out celestial? Well have fun grinding a new set of equipment. And the trailblazer's is new blocking space inside your inventory for years because you don't want to delete it. Fractals:This becomes even more extreme in T4/CM fractals. As you have the hfb, alacren backline for pug meta.You want to try out a different rune for fractals?Option 1: Get new ascended armor for 200+ gold just for that one tryout run.Option 2: Override your current 6x5g Rune of Scholar each time you want to try new runes.Option 3: Buy 6x upgrade extractor and then 6 again if you want to go back to your meta runes.Other constelations like a chrono-druid backline and more more are perfectly viable but one of the main reasons it is not played is because you have to spend so much gold before being even able to play a different build. You see where I'm going. Being able to customize your character and try out different combat styles is something you want to easily do in every MMO or RPG but it's somehow so hard in gw2. It's like the game telling you to play that meta and punishes you for wanting to try out new things. Only if you spent thousands of hours grinding your complete set of legendary equipment and having all legendary weapons you are allowed to experiment with stat combinations. I think the upcoming legendary armory just further escalates this problem. In gw1 the strength of your skills are dependent on your attribute points which could be changed inside every city. Rune did not have such a big impact. Even so it was fairly easy to have different head pieces each with a different +3 rune.In gw2 the strength of your skills are dependent on your equipment stats which is ok only if it woudn't be so hard to change them. Since gw2 has already been out for so long I doubt any change is coming. I have also read somewhere that devs are aware they don't like the current infusion system but still no change after so many years. Still some suggestions from me:Opt 1: Easiest but maybe not best - Make all ascended equipment always stat selectable just like legendaries.Opt 2: Make ascended stat selectable but one have to unlock the stats. E.g. doing some achievements to onlock viper stats?Opt 3: Same as Opt 2 but add Gem Store item to unlock all Stats?Opt 4: End of Dragon buyers get stat selection?

Thanks I missed the 10% from Superior element.

I have this build but I only get 90% crit but I think I'm supposed to reach 100%.https://snowcrows.com/raids/builds/elementalist/weaver/power/ Only way I see getting 100% crit without changing gear is either using sigil of fire of lightning hammer. Am I missing anything? I don't see any traits giving precision.