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You mean the proffession built on the concept of building, genius, and creation has developed a method to recreate power through scientific discovery?. How is this exactly mix and match. While I can agree with some critic written here, no one can say it looks like anytging but a engineer. You write alot of Weird and made up rubbish to vent at a game lol.

well they've said also life leech is a core of its skillset in its description. so i imagine its gonna have alot of self healing to balance the life costs

Well. we know who won lol. you took a Class which has continously Gone through heaps of time Overpowered. and gave it the only thing it actually lacked, mobility lmfao However Very cool concept, and tbh Looks really fun :P, Happy for the Necro bros Wonder how many people gonna be rolling necro in the next meta lmfao

Tbh boons are too powerful without any other factor in all game modes. Boons should have never been 100% uptime and Alacrity shouldn't of ever been spread further then chronomancer. They're likely just trying to protect the game from "zergy" with enforcing some form of group comp to be considered, which is self defeated by the fact absolutely everyone can do everything

More then just ranked. Absolutely everywhere more like. Most popular classes in the game, while people adore to act like nothings different. 2 classes don't swallow over 50% of the playerbase because their not good 😂😂 Issue is classes like ele and warrior have sat behind for so long barely anyone plays these classes anymore.

Wat?. Guardian has been meta, in far more then just support for a extremely long time 😂😂

Eh, I csn understand this, but at the same time. If they made this a thing everyone would want this done for every weapon in the game. I mean realistically every weapon kinda ends up in a role, and yes anyone who doesn't wanna play that role gets left out due to this. But if this was to take shape, every build would use the same weapons. And many weapons would be brought up demanding the same treatment. Same with rifle for mesmers, its just primarily support focused weapon. Although tbh it does appear that all of its skills are gonna be quite samey. Which doesn't feel amazing. It's the only real critic I have for the idea, the mechanic behind it however sounds quite interesting.

Now you can do the RP proper with warrior healing. Screaming at your team mates now will carry positive impacts!

*screams at my friend for daring to lose some of his hp*.

I doubt that's seriously gonna happen, elites have mechanics and overlapping them isnt really possible. Weapons master had very low impact on the actual result. Looking through meta builds it didn't really change anything as the weapons were developed on the elite mechanic, Also the weapon trait is fixed to the elite meaning at best their weaker on other elites. This was a freebie that they could sell that wouldn't really change anything meta wise but added some funky fun things people could do for laughs.

Yeah, in paths of their trait trees and what they bring as a change up on the core mechanic with unique utilities accessible But elite speccs are not classes. So they arent class homogenization. Elite speccs just got less restrictive. The weapon is not the elites unique play. There are plenty of elite speccs that use core weapons primarily. The change on the classes mechanic was the primary uniqueness to a new elite specc. The weapon was just added flavor, but imho never should have been restricted to the elite, it should have been added to the class. There are alot of sore spots where core classes are lacking, or when a second elite Comes along, the speccs underwhelming because its weapon choice is bad due to this never being expanded.

I can agree and disagree. I think the ideas are really cool, but I can also see the fact these will inevitably be overpowered is kind a eh as we are gonna go through a period of time when every build has these weapons in it. That and it feels sore for classes that don't peak interest. I mean warrior staff and elementalist pistols both really interest me, but mesmer rifle looks like a balancing hell that inevitably long terms gonna be nerfed til people don't use it. Atleast in pvp enviroments.

Well I can agree with you on WoW. When u take a step back and reliese 99% of WoWs content is repeating the same dungeons for a slightly increased ilevel. And you reliese the game actually really don't give you alot for 184 pounds a year, if we boil DF down. You got 8 new dungeons, 3 new raids, 7 new lands 2 solo instance based content (rifts and the elemental thingys). With a dream overlay on 1 zone at a time. Everything outside of that is repeating the same content for identical rewards at a higher ilevel each season. You could make a argument DF is smaller then HoT content wise. Here's the thing. SoTo is a change in how contents dropped. People dont have what they used to have and with living world story cut no one really knows how much content there is to look forward to. So reactions by default will be wild. I think for what SoTo is, you get alot for £20, I've paid £20 and now I get a year of content drops and active updates on a game with limitless access. My messages may come across negative and that isnt due to gw2 nor its direction. Its simply: Gw2 is the cheapest game on the market. It has no p2w features it has no predatory tactics, and offers some of the most consumer friendly monetization on the market. So seeing people seriously state "I want more, but I dont wanna pay more" annoys the hell out of me 😂 if players wanna sit down and say "we want expansions to be bigger. To be more ground breaking" then the follow up discussion needs to be how much are we willing to pay for that. And maybe I allow my emotions drive responses that aren't fully thought out. But its a better discussion then "I want more and I wanna pay nothing". Saying rhe game makes money, isn't a response. Because yes the game makes profit. On its current development cycle. But to widen that requires more employees, a larger studio a bigger team and payment for more man hours. Now in that hypothetical situation u have to account for the simple fact that increasing development also increases Costs, and in that you have to then think "will the game still stand at a profit". We have seen parts of what is to come, and tbh I think players make a god kitten bargin and a half with this game, it churns out plenty to do, the content drops are pretty equal with mmorpgs that charge a hell of alot more, There's lots to critic, but I dont think what we get for our money is one of them.

If the new games good enough that won't matter, bsczuse we just move to the next game. New game launches are good for many reasons.

I'm ngl, we have yet to see this happen, because living world stories added alot in terms of content. And I doubt expansion content will match the size of HoT with living world stories assosisated. In even WoW the majority of players don't engage with end game systems lol. No game has the majority in instanced content regardless of budget set, they don't blame instanced content on casuals. They blame the company for not dedicating enough into the budget of development for it. But WoW has the opposite, shouting how WoW doesnt dedicate enougu to open world while blaming favoritism for raiders/m+ players to why they don't get it. That's natural every game has a audience unhappy about something. Talk to a ffxiv raider you will see they have the same argument as gw2 raiders about their game. Gw2 aint p2w, I prolly werent playing at the time this happened. But I doubt it really was p2w. If there's one thing I do know, gw2 ain't p2w. Lol.

You beleive SoTo, has only £7 odd pound of content?. Lol. 😂 you haven't even seen all the content to state this....

Tbh I'm glad, I rly cba with the concept of "20 pound expansion should have gone soo far". Its ridiculous imho. £20 buys squat. And tbh I'd still say SoTo is worrh more then £20 😂. If the game was capable of developing triple A content. Itd price itself to compete, it aint there because anet know it isnt the case.

Well it obviously weren't just new projects. They cut Living world Sotry because they litterally stated they cant work on more then one thing at a time due to team size limitations. Yet could in HoT and PoF, both which had raids to juggle aswell. Clearly something changed if they lost the ability to do this. And yes while projects were cuts and in those figures of lay offs, we know some of those employees who were moved onto those projects orginally worked on GW2. Likely not all, but a good chunk were. So they still are involved in the number of pwople who worked on HoT / PoF compared ro what came next. SoTo has less content then PoF and HoT. Strikes or not, it just does lol, And even if you say "well SoTos a 1 year expansions where these were 2" not even 2 expansions SoTo sized, would match these expansions in content size. Now yeah, the development has changed, their content drops are now spread out instead all at once, however as a WoW player. I'm already very used to this. And tbh for what it's worth, this expansion did not rly launch that much less content then WoW did. Lol, Dragonflight launched a rare named farm, 4 maps, 1 story line, 8 dungeons with a new race/class exclusive and a raid. And for a entire year it didn't move past that they added 1 NPC which spawns a rift every 30minutes, 1 NPC that opens alternate timeliness portal event every 2 hours, and a caverns which was just another rare farm and 1 more story line. So to be fair, you cant rly be that angry at SoTo,. Its profit margins maybe lower then WoWs, but its content launches aren't that far apart in content. Regardless: To the point, Your saying "you cant use numbers or comparitives of entertainment" etc etc, but anyone saying SoTo is worth less then 20 pound is basically doing the same thing. My point was never hatred towards GW2, my orginal point was, GW2 is a budget game. And IT IS. No sub no microtransactions 1 off payments, in all terms and everything else, if your looking to buy ur kid a game but can't afford continous upkeep. Gw2 is the best option right now to hand them. For all intents and purposes. Gw2 is a budget game, because irs rhe mmorpg on the market right now that'd break ur bank the least. Anyone trying to say SoTo isnt worth £20. Puts too much weight on £20. Your asking for a triple A game for £20 and thats not how it works. And sure Anet likely priced their box based on 1) what they think it would sell for. And 2) what it competes with. But that doesnt change the fact, GW2 is sub free, a minimum of £10 pound cheaper then every alternative, and the only real game that does vast amounts more content drop then it is FFXIV. I've played WoW I do play WoW, there's a reason i suddenly need a second game. And here's a hint (it's cause I ran out of content 2 weeks in). I played ESo. And It launches less content then GW2. I played that necromancer expansion. And litterally I completed it in a day. Lol, Rift, never had much content past core game, when it flopped. Tera and wildstar are shut down and weren't doing alot either. Blade and soul only rly just see more p2w options added at a time lol. SoTo is worth £20. If players want more rhen SoTo in terms of content per Year, monetization has to change. Yes the game runs a profit. But right now it's basing that expected income on costs/profits of the current condition, if your asking a game to increases Costs (development of more content) by default their profits have to be higher to achieve the same profit. Anet know alot of people would go mental, if they priced a expansion at £50. So they don't, so they have a glass ceiling to whst they can do. They cabt make everything top end. Because they will run a loss spending too much money on the game to then price it at £20.

Yes but 100% of people don't buy gems a % of the peoppe active do, and I'm afraid, I find it unlikely the big whales of the gem spending, are the ones threatening to quit. And true I could. But I prolly will still buy its expansions. The expansions £20. You rly csnt expect greatness. Its so cheap, it rly doesn't matter realistically.

I hope the fact irs called a front line support will mean its versatile in dps and support roles. Looks good none the less that warriors getting a proper support weapon however

But have built in mechanics. Lol The new weapons will be power creep garunteed. Just depends on what role they will end up with through the weapon to how much your gonna enjoy that. As classes who are getting a new dps weapon will prolly be better then others who aren't getting support weapons in a dps role.

Um?. The game has no sub. There's no using ur wallet about it. The game costs nothing... People confuse facing the truth 😂😂 if uve already bought SoTo uve already spent all the money the game costs. Buying gems is completely optional and there's nothing power related further to buy. I bought the expansion. I dont buy gems. The expansion cost is all the game will get from me if I do or don't play lol. And there's many alike me 😂😂 There's no solid income nessercary to play the game past that.

Well yeah. Anet just cut its company employee count in half to make their profits better, it doesnt change the fact this clearly has a effect on content production and limitations As I stated. A company either shrinks its product to reduce its costs to make a larger profit. Or make the product more expensive while retaining its productivity. Anet choose to run with option A. But jts had effect which was shown when LS was cut as the company stated theyre studio is now too small to be able to develop expansions and living world.

Well ye but we knew that weren't true, the reason they cut LS is because they can't create that quantity of content along side development for a expansion

Anet don't care about making more money?. Find that unlikely. If your fine with Sotos quantity of content, then that's cool lol I simply disagree My statement is simply, you cant expect quantity of content to increase, or expansions to be wider if u arent willing to pay more. Eh I will beleive it when I see it. Thryve gone on about this stuff everytime and generally is a overpromise that proves too much for them to take on.