Arthelad.5418

I have some concerns for the what is going on with the balance of the game. I want to mention that this isn't intended to be a rant, but feedback and constructive criticism related to changes that might be bad for the overall enjoyment or potential of the combat system. This is purely my opinion on the matter. -Damage builds are beginning to do 42k+ dps as a normality (when builds used to do ~35k dps). -Essential boons have made the balancing of the meta a nightmare in the last years, rewarding a passive playstyle rather than an active playstyle. A lot of support builds can sometimes feel same-ish -There are still many useless traits, skills and weapons, differing from class to class, with takes away from class fantasy and diversity of build. -Unique buffs are getting rarer and rarer. While passive stat increases as they existed were a problem, they could have reworked them (and the useless traits mentioned previously) to traits that play into the classes' mechanics, ANet decided to make passive boon pulses that are pretty mediocre. -There are classes that are now crossing mechanics, with no real distinguishing features. Necro and specter shrouds are basicly the same mechanic. Specter shroud could have given stealth and some boons when entering, with its duration being increased the more of the resource you had when entering, but just it feels like a suport based core necro shroud IMO. I'm not saying that specter isn't enjoyable, but that class fantasy feels like it it suffocating a bit. -Elite spec weapons are now usable on the other specs of the respective class. This change has had mostly good effects, if not losing another bit of elite spec identity. While it adds to the build diversity, it will make some weapons much more used, some weapons used relatively a same amount of times as other weapons and some weapons be used much less simply because the other weapon does .5-1k more dps. This change still needs time to play out properly -Relic system removed a lot of rune effects and the ones that remained are a mixed bag between good and super niche. Is it just me?

If it's the normal commander, then WoL. But if it's a 1v1 between WoL and Aurene powered commander, then I think I would give it to the commander for superior speed, strength, abillities and tactics. For example, just fight him while WoL is being bombarded by the pact. WoL can make weapons out of light and launch them at the ships, but it has a big cast time and that's the perfect opening for the commander. I don't think it would even be a fair fight in that circumstance. But I haven't played through endwalker, so if anything crazy happened there, it would change things.

all fixe now, and no i was using dx11 version. ty for help everyone

Where should the dll for reshade be? I cant find the dxgi.dll for reshade anywhere

same problem here 😕

Depends on what the studio decides. Personally, i don't see canach being the investor beacuse he has no real reason to keep it a secret from us. He could have easily told us at the party. And with the brand new letters of E and others being introduced with the return season 1, I would bet my money on E. Unless it was the "its lord faren cuz L+F=E" theory all along 🤯.

At the end of EoD, we find out from marjory that the FDA (friends detective agency) is funded by a misterious investor. So after a few misteries solved, it's possible for this said investor to reveal himself as possibly E?

We all have experiences like this. This is why characters are made to be sympathized/emphasized with. Gw2 has always had a recurring theme about hope. With all the tragedies that happened to the main protagonist and how they still kept getting back up. Judging from the current stage of the story, with the commander learning how to deal with entities that use your memories and deepest fears against you, it would make more sense if Aurene would be there for us. Some people forget that in IBS she was more wise and mature than in EoD, because she's an Elder Dragon, which comes with an understanding of the world that you never experienced before. Aurene is an integral part of gw2 and it would be really weird if these characters suddenly stopped interacting with each other. So as long as the writers handle it with care, I don't think you have anything to be afraid of in the near future. I do think they will write her out at some point if they want to raise the stakes again (because an ally elder dragon is op) by sending her to sleep and be able to concentrate on filtering magic that way but they still can make her telepathicly speak to us while being asleep, or something like that. I just hope they give her a satisfying ending for the characther and an satisfying imminent plot exit. Unless it means stomping kormir's face in the dirt with aurene powered god mode is off the table ofc.

To me, it feels like the commander is the stoic leader that tries to do the right thing and stand strong against all odds, while inspiring others with their bravery, but struggling with doubt and loss so they try to keep a facade as long as possible. Therefore, no one really tries to check on the commander beacuse they think the commander is fine (most of the time). There are moments that indicate this: -Kasmeer crying next to the commander's corpse in PoF -Rytlock trusting them with Sohothin -Braham saying the commander and their group are a family. -In War Eternal: commander: "caithe and I will tend to Aurene. The rest of you... you should be with the ones you love" Taimi: "We are" -Many times in IBS when people check to see if the commander is doing fine with the whispers. -Braham transforming into wolf to save us etc. etc. Main point is, there are people that are clearly concerned about the commander. But if we're talking about the now, it's beacuse there are many new characters. Not many people like Yao and Rama have an insight in what the truly commander went trough, just the vague picture and they think the commander is doing good beacuse the commander trying to look fine while still sorting out their thoughts. "Was there a better outcome than this? Where could I have been better? How many people have died beacuse of my shortcomings?". But hey, that's just a theory. A GAME THEORY!

I wouldn't say core legends are bad. The worst core legend would be ventari which has insane proj block but depends heavily on salvation gear and sinergy with other legends to be great. Mallyx has boon corrupt and great condi sinergy with all specs especially renegade, Dwarf has good self defense and stab, shiro has great offense and doging. They all synergize with more powerful legends making them accentuate eachother. They are better with a spec beacuse they benefit from the new traits that can argument them. That is unless we're talking about pvp, in which case its a whole different story of underpowered skills and energy cost, yes. About the jade winds. It's not that it costs energy and has a cast, it's about how little that benefits the player. Yes it has 3s stun, great. But I have no energy to use for my burst to benefit from said stun and the enemy has a breakstun. It should have reduced energy or do more damage to make it so that i can use my other legend to finish a smaller burst to compensate for it, also possibly make the stun 3+1/2 s to actually make it high risk high reward by making the enemy be incapacitated . The best way would be to make it cost less energy so that the player can bait a breakstun, before going into shiro and decimate them. Maybe make it have 35 energy and have increase by 5-10 secs or more. But im not an expert at pvp so all I've just said could be complete bollocks ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

"What happened to the empire during my absence?" "It most certainly has..."

Since we're dealing with demons, can we have in the future a small line from Mallyx? Like trash-talking the demons or something else. "I will show you the true meaning of torment!" "You're dumb. You'll die, and you'll leave a dumb corpse" Please?🥺

Same here

I think they were intending EM to be some extra endurance in case you needed a dodge, but it is absolutely useless since you already got almost perma vigor and scavanger burst. I really like the idea of it doing something with combining giving legend based effects, or there is something like it giving effects based on your dodge or an upkeep that gives you endurance for energy. Would have been cool to see maybe some unique modifier on it that you can share with allies but ANets current design choice wouldn't allow that.

Every time i try to log in, it just crashes. I already tried deleting it from folder but when i log back in it just restarts the whole process.