[Speculation about Expac 4]

The way that is handled is actually super reasonable. The way everybody acts around them is weird, because in real life, this stuff is very weird because not a single person around you is even able to relate whatsoever to the feeling.

[Quick Update on the Skills and Balance Team]

Finally! Seems my endless nagging about the 300 second cd traits has finally paid off! 😉

[Lack of post-EoD content]

Talking about employee numbers like they are all devs....

 

This is why I avoid the forums for over a year now and only come back to read some patchnotes occasionally.

[Game Update Notes Preview: Profession Skills]

So uh, did you forget you gave many traits in the game 300 second cooldown under the pretense that you will be looking at them soon?

Just remove them already.

[[Spoilers] Some thoughts after finishing EoD]

It felt alright to me, but very unnatural. It's difficult to make somebody give a heck about a character you've just met, so I understand why it was done, but I'd much prefer getting a deeper understanding through flavor text over exposition dumps.

[Jade Bots!]

So when will you sell the Bee Dog skin for the Jade bot and can I have five?

[Please make the blocklist limit bigger]

I don't want to put words into your mouth, but I strongly believe there is something else at work here. I doubt most of those people were out to get you, I can't even imagine how certain things could even come up that lead to that.

[New Asian faces]

You realise you can customize them, right?

[Oh Gods! "Blade Runner" Kaineng City is real :(]

We will see how it is going to look ingame, this is just some artwork showing off the style they were going for. I imagine it is like a re-imagined Rata Sum taken a notch up. Honestly, I could see Rata Sum looking like this if they made it today.

Though my first impression did leave a somewhat bitter taste in my mouth, I can't really say this doesn't fit the game. It makes sense, given all we know about Cantha so far. Holograms are nothing new, the two things that scream futuristic to me are the holo-monitor and the green lamps/lights, which are very unusual for GW2 as we know it so far.

[Yep..Roamers are getting left out with the changes to WvW]

It's really not that hard to have your friends or you make a guild together, or join them, or make an alliance. You not understanding how this kitten easy system works doesn't mean they hate roamers.

[Disappointing that EoD Legendary Weapons can be bought and sold on the TP]

Who cares dude. You make these FOR YOURSELF

They have the value you give them . If they represent a fun journey and awesome visuals that fit your mains theme, that is something NOBODY can copy or take away from you.

[Ya know whats kind of funny, and sad as well...?]

Or, consider this, people will whine no matter what because that is how it has always been since the dawn of time.

Never enough damage, never good enough synergies, no utility, "this weapon is useless", judging before we have seen everything, judging by first impression only, judging by what other people said and not even trying it themselves... Those are all too common.

 

[Why did Anet kill off WvW with the 9/11/21 patch?]

The patch killed of leeches that did nothing for the gamemode in the first place.

Good riddance. If that means temporarily numbers drop, don't care.

God beware, they actually encourage you to participate in the game to be part of the reward structure.

[Is Warrior really this squishy?]

Warrior chains blocks, increased endurance regen for more dodges and the fact they are likely to survive one or two heavy hits if they do go through to be tanky.

Try running traits and the sigil for hp regen, try different heal skills... it's pretty hard to die as a warrior, but you don't have class mechanics that just carry you through that for example.

[Why are some of the armor looks revealing only for female character?]

6 minutes ago, Ashantara.8731 said:

Looking like a **** doesn't equal looking sexy. Which is why most of my characters are male.

In GW2, for most part, if you want to play a female character, you can only pick between a "spoiled little princess" and a "Oooh, look what I've got!" look (the latter even comes with an increased cup size most of the time, in which case it is save to assume that a male dev created the respective set of armor or the outfit).

That's not how cool looking female adventurers dress.

Tens of thousands of women would love to disagree with you there. It's honestly sexist of you to make such an assumption. As if women don't like looking at attractive women. Disproven about a million times.

Reminds me of the discourse over some anime games "oh look at her body proportions some disgusting fat pig made this!" but the answer in 90% of the cases has been a woman made it with the reason she enjoyed it and the fans enjoyed it too.

[Are raids really gone in EoD?]

They fully intent for strike bosses challenge modes to be as difficult as raid encounters. Honestly, that's a good way of moving forward. Strikes also don't have to only be an encounter, there can be pre-events like raids too if they really wanted to.

They are far more accessible too. No need to have an opener, anybody can just start them etc.

[So far, I have a feeling of déjà-vu for both maps that have been shown.]

The monsters look nothing like HoT ones.. what

[Congrats to Anet and the GW2 team! Best Quarter in a long time!]

I haven't even bought it yet myself.

What's really lowering the numbers is the fact we don't get anything new until then besides the return achievements and minor updates/wvw stuff.

[Follow Square Enix on Banning Content Clears for Gold, Please ANET]

Really don't see the point. Let people selling runs make some money from it and let those with money get stuff for less effort. A market formed around a service, nothing wrong with that.

I doubt they would change their stance after explicitly allowing it at your own risk. This isn't RMT.

[Spectre can put out 300k damage on average.]

Cool. Can the people calling everything trash shut up about it now? LMAO

Reading these forums the past weeks has been "reddit knows balance" all over again

[The Mechanist - new engineer EoD elite spec]

This honestly makes me want to play it.

[This game isn't very new player friendly.]

Saying GW2 isn't new player friendly then going on about how much you love the game that only "gets good" like 30 hours in is.. funny.

[Stop ruining new Elite Specs with trade-offs, cast times and insane aftercasts]

Or, and you could take the approach that actually makes sense and doesn't just blatantly disrespect the entirety of the last two years, you tune them according to feedback gathered so that the ones that feel awful to play due to an abundance of those issues to be fixed.

[developers said they will focus on Alliances. Does this mean no new WvW Content?]

The content is the replayability of the gameplay, which is killing players, taking objectives, sieging, skirmishing etc.

The devs need to make sure this works.

At the same time the rewards also play a role here, since they are the main reason many people start playing something, which then gets them hopefully hooked in the fundamentals. Pretty nice they plan on updating that, especially the reward tracks.

[Armor weight restriction removal? Thoughts?]

It's not possible. Each armor type is heavily baked into the class, it cannot be switched.