gduber.9756

Are there any real advantages to taking harb over reaper in open world? Boss fights are very rippy in melee. You lose health from hits in harb (unlike reaper), you're in melee (just like reaper), and your health degens (unlike reaper). I think it might have been a more viable option if harbinger skills had 1200 range, and if allies (or at least minions) could be buffed without having to be close to them, but as is it's not really competitive with the other two specs (unless I'm missing something). The game doesn't need more melee specs, honestly.

Or solve the issue in some other way. I keep boarding people's turtles when I'm trying to loot in open world events. Not asking to change the game just for me, as it may be an issue for other people too.

You have an opportunity here to really get buck-wild with mech customization options, and you need to take it, ANET. People have already mentioned different colors/dyes, but please give us different bot body styles. It would be great if there were much smaller body options, perhaps that could float and not take up so much space all the time. Let us use them as mounts (with functionality based on the mounts that are unlocked). Give us bot emotes (watch tv, coffee maker, stuff like that). Bots should also be able to help rez their gibbed engineers. Don't let rangers have the monopoly on that sweet sweet QoL honey. Those pansies wouldn't be anything without engineers and they know it. Scooping pet turds is the past. Mechs are the future. Take us there, ANET.

I remember how much I loved Ele in GW1 and how much I was looking forward to having a ranged caster in GW2. Yeah, imo Anet completely botched it. Every video guide I've seen has elementalist in melee range to perform, and the game already has too many melee options (virtually every profession is melee to some degree, even rangers, which I see as a major overall design flaw),. Nobody familiar with rpgs thinks 'melee range' when they think of light armor caster professions I atually gave it a chance, but my ele has been shelved for years, unless one considers bank tab a profession in this game. I love this game but ele's design is one of the biggest disappointments.

I mean, come on. I have one of every profession at 80. I won't use this until the far distant future if a new class ever comes out. I'd love to stow this in my bank until then and be able to actually use the shared slot for something that I need now.

Wonderful.....

I'd say skip unless you want the elite specs (none of which seem to outperform HoT specs). I didn't enjoy the story, but I am grateful that they didn't put world bosses on the hero points this time.

Thanks, I guess I'm off to try to solo this stuff.

For my mechanist. I'm more than a little confused as to why this item isn't tradable, but whatever. I've looked over the wiki, but I just wanted to ask before I focus my efforts on any of those methods.