Kattliadi.1507

As a casual newish player I had to wait nearly a YEAR for the hummingbird skimmer skin to come back to the store. Its a beautiful skin and totally worth the money, I was ready to buy it right away...and had to wait months and make sure I didn't miss it just to give them some money. Finally got it, but ugh - not something I'm likely to do for a casual buy.

I've been jumping around myself, still alot of content to go. But myself coming in as a new player to MMO in general...I finished the main story, and then started jumping here and there. Started HOT just long enough to unlock gliding and then went and did all of POF for the mounts, had alot of fun there - started Living World 4 but got frustrated and tired of all the sand so jumped to EOD and am about to finish up my fishing mastery there. At which point I'll probably check out SOTO, then either go back to EOD to finish or Living World. Either way I'm leaving HOT until I've got the skyscale unlocked one way or the other. Sometimes I just get frustrated with certain mechanics/terrain/story at which point I"ll hop to something else. Its been very chill and not following the story hasn't hindered me much at all.

All I ask is that they have a better rotation system if that is how they're gonna play it....like an ACTUAL rotation system. Because right now some things go a year or more without being seen while others show up again after just a month. We've had that recently with a few outfits and even the peg leg and some maguuma armor pieces and some other stuff JUST recently. Meanwhile, the hummingbird mount skin I want to give them my money for? Its been nearly a year. Like ok, FOMO, things available on a rotation...now make the rotation make SENSE. Offering me stuff to buy which I was JUST given the chance to buy and did not want just makes me irritated. I should be logging in and checking the gem store excited and wondering what might be available to buy....not whatever this is.

I want shoes that are hooves...they already have them as part of that one outfit. And we already have various horns and antlers sooo....

Thank you! And that is good to know on the fire dps, and why I see it used so heavily when I'm seeing eles. Its an extra character so I don't need to be top tier on my fighting with it probably...just wanted to know options if I can have fun running around with it for various things. There is always the possibility of really growing to love it and going to those higher levels later. Just that anytime I hear about it people aren't too jazzed so I wanted to hear about people who love playing it and the highlights to try out.

So I bought a new character slot and wanted to make a male sylvari since I had a *really* pretty design I wanted to use. At first I wanted to go thief and play off the whole 'darkness' and 'shadows' thing but for me the light cultural armor is superior so...not that. I already have a mesmer I like and a necro I'm 'eh' on and don't want to double up so that leaves me with elementalist. I have heard things...mostly that they are hard. I main ranger and really like the mesmer...like having the option of ranged fighting when I can and am pretty middle of the road skill wise probably? I started playing in August. SO, I think he needs to be an ele...and I have a spare lvl 80 boost I can use but before I sink money into him want to be sure I like it ok. SO SELL ME. What are your *favorite* or best parts of playing elementalist? Best vids or posts etc. etc. I know of rumors only. Also, I always see them dealing with fire....is that the only option or is it just the most popular? Because he's a dark and white type color combo and I thought water and air would be ok....but having him wield nothing but fire would kill the look. (sad I can't change colors on fire...or mesmer for that matter, blue fire would be amazing.)

You know who I want to shoot arrows at? That mastery point chef in POF you have to throw ingredients at.

Hot take, I want the game to be *easier*...or at least the story part I have to complete(like a super easy option toggle for ppl like me or maybe if you're repeating on an alt and want to just get through, I will pay MONEY for that man). I enjoy the story and following along and all the little mini game mechanics of it etc....and then I get stuck in some boss type battle that I struggle with and its a HUGE slog and I just hate it. Soul sucking tedium I take no joy is struggling through a boss I have to solo for the story and struggle 15min. to slowly defeat because I'm not great at a game. Give me an 'easy' toggle where I can walk through that *even more*(I realize for the story it is harder to fail they keep letting you rezz etc. its just a slogg is all.) Ahaha, it takes all sorts of folks. And no, I don't think that will ever really happen, I KNOW the story sets you up NOT to fail. Just sayin', its not my cup of tea and the thought of having to do it again for alts is no fun. But I'll suffer it to get to the general game and more PvE I can dictate the details of myself. 😝

Back here again, because yeah - I know why they do it and I know it works and it isn't going to change. BUT. BUUUU~TT - the stuff that just came back into the gem store. Some maguuma and wooden leg stuff etc. We JUST had that stuff in the gem store, like...less than a month ago? And it was there for a long time! And now its back again!! THAT is what I don't get, like what the heck. There is plenty of stuff people want to buy that only comes by like once a year(Hummingbird mount skin.....anet, do you not want my money? **nearly a YEAR**) But this stuff is cycling back again already? Thats what I really think is broken and really really awful practice. Like ok stuff isn't alawys available, but at least cycle things through on a decent rotation?! Hate this.

At the end of the day what is MOST important for an MMO like this is people, people populating maps and playing the game and MAKING the world work and fun. Being designed well etc. is part of what will bring those people in but without numbers it doesn't matter if you've made the best game in the world, it won't do you any good. So I feel like for core content you have to have a certain balance of 'not too hard not too easy' and I think Guild Wars does that pretty ok. Having other aspects of content for more of a challenge for those who want it is great, but if your core game is too hard people won't enjoy playing it and will spend their time somewhere else and then you will be dead. I'm not a big gamer myself, in the past I mostly play things like Pokemon and Animal Crossing...even when I was a teen I didn't game much I'm just not very good at it and I get frustrated and then its just not fun. But I got interested in MMOs and after some research picked Guild Wars exactly because I felt like I could manage to play casually and have fun. I like world exploration and collections and matching cosmetics etc. And the other parts are fun...but I'm not very good at them alot of the time. I spend time looking up videos and guides and things just so I can get through them ok usually without too much frustration. But if the game was too hard, myself and people like me just wouldn't play.

I know this was rezzed a bit, but I bought this as my first and only pass with the last sale and saw some cute things I didn't see mentioned. In one section of the map there is a small shrine with a cat, and there is a jackal kitsune shrine guardian that hangs around there as an npc. It lounges in front of the shrine and every so often will get up and walk down the hill to the cliffside to lay there instead and look over the ocean. There is also a small beach section out of the way under a bit of rock outcropping with two giant fish pulled up onto the beach and a cat there enjoying the spoils. Just some super charming little details.

THIS!! My Ranger Sylvari has some many wonderful leaf details on her body and its always a huge battle to be able to see ANY of it. Medium female armor is SO much 'trenchcoat, gloves, turtleneck' etc. Whhyyy~~~ I suffer. And I don't think I'd ever play a heavy armor character. Overall, would just like a nice EVEN(between sexes) variety of things we can wear...on all armor classes. Plus I'm always in game for some nice simple base pieces that can be mixed and matched in with things for some fun!

Adding to my earlier request for the hummingbird mount for the skimmer. Far as I can tell with looking online it was last in the gem store in FEBRUARY. That is so so long ago, nearly a year!! For such a great skin I'm sure lots of people are wanting to buy. PLEASE take my money, ahaha.

I totally understand the logic behind why Anet does it the way they do...and I certainly don't think they'll be changing it anyway soon. That said, I DO understand the frustration and share in it to some extent. Even if they could just try to offer *more* updates to the gem store...or even something where they have a single item that is only available for 1 day. Yeah, people might complain that if they don't log in everyday they might miss it. But it would be incentive for people to log in while also making it so that items can cycle faster through the gem store in at least some capacity. I'm waiting for the hummingbird mount skin myself and feeling frustrated about it. But aside from that sometimes I go check the gem store with nothing in particular in mind to buy....just hoping I see something I like. But then its all the same things and nothing I'm interested in. Which is then frustrating since I *want* to give them money...but have nothing I want to buy on offer, lol.

How do you move the chat box? I have this message popping up all the time for me and its blocking of the chat is a real problem when I'm needing to read comments in an event etc.