Maxter.6530

Yeah, I found this info and I did note in my initial post: "You can find info on which tool is the fastest and maybe speeds for the older sets, but not for all". More than that and all you find are speculations on the topic.

They are cheaper, they don't have any bugs associated with them, I clearly understand what exactly I'm buying. Once again, it's not that every point in my initial post is a deal breaker, it's that all of them combined are a dealbreaker.

It's not one thing that stopped me, it was the combination of all 4 points. I would've made the purchase if it was the only thing. They are probably popular BECAUSE they are not buggy. In any case, how do I know which sets of the ones available for purchase right now are popular/not buggy? The fact that I didn't find any info about bugs doesn't mean there are none. It bothers me now that know that it's a thing. Equipment tabs, build tabs, bank tabs, etc. Anything that provides concrete value with no strings attached.

Right now 6 infinite gathering tool sets are in the gem store, 5 of which are on sale. I already have the gems to buy a set - it's a nice QoL (or so I thought) and a bit of money boosting due to glyph value. However, after spending 2 hours to research which set I should get I instead decided to not buy anything at all. It's one set - only one character can use it. To make it multi-character I have to buy 3 shared inventory slots (basically doubling the gem investment) and even then I have to manually swap those tools on every login/logout. So you want to buy a QoL improvement but end up paying double the price and receiving another QoL problem which you didn't have. Not all tools are made equal. Every tool has different gathering speed. What are those speeds? Game doesn't tell you. Internet doesn't tell you. You can find info on which tool is the fastest and maybe speeds for the older sets, but not for all. I cannot make an informed decision. Some tools are bugged (according to the Internet). E.g. some tools sometimes fail to make last gathering strike or whatever. You have to go and research yourself which tools are "safe". The fact that you're paying real money (well, premium currency, at the very least) and can get an inferior item is just mind boggling. Tools are expensive. A set of tools is among the most expensive items on the gem store - it costs around 30-35 EUR. So in the end, you are paying a lot of money for potentially inferior and/or bugged items which don't fully solve the QoL problem. Thanks, I'll pass. ---- Fixes: Make them "legendary". I imagine different gathering times for different tools is a feature, not a bug. If that is the case list the gathering speed in the description. Otherwise, fix the bug - normalize speeds. Fix the bugs ---- P.S. I almost purchased the skyscale hatchling tools because animations were so cute but then I found out that the logging tool is bugged supposedly /facepalm

... got his bottom handed to him. Silver noob being me, just to be clear. I'm playing GW2 for about 1.5 months. Initial Impressions Used this build (omg it was removed from metabattle yesterday 😄 Unlucky me I guess). Played around 20 matches, won around 4 of them. That guy can deal some freakin' insane damage (got a 10k crit from hammer2 once), 6-7k crits are regular. This guy can survive: 2 stun breaks, invul, big health bump from ulti, condition cleansing. Mobility is a bit limited but hey, you can't have everything, can you? Problem Consistency. Landing CC or damage is a coin toss. You make your huge swings and nothing happens most of the time. Surviving while focused is coin toss. Sometimes there is a brawl, sometimes I just explode. Invul... there were multiple times when I pressed that button with low health and died anyway. Conditions apparently. Due to limited mobility, if you go in a fight, you either win it or die (mostly die). There is no escape. Matchups That guardian dragonwhatever. You step on a trap - lose half health, he comes and blows up the remaining half. I dunno what to do. Soulbeast. You lose half health just to get in melee and when you do he pulls his big greatsword out of his pants and your insane burst ends up licking that hard steel while he's blocking. Then he blows up your remaining half health. I have no clue how to counter this guy. Daredevil. I just can't hit him. Even with Eathshaker. End of story. Comparison to Reaper I got initially placed into Silver 1 as a holosmith and hovered in that spot. Then I picked up a reaper and was steadily climbing (almost into gold, was 2 points away). Then I tried this spellbreaker and... well, you know how that went already. Reaper is consistent and brings a lot to a teamfight as long as you are not getting focused hard. Any advice aside from trying out those problematic classes and sucking greatswords on them too?