Lord Trejgon.2809

March 28

According to follow up statement after investor meetings "Guild Wars 3 project has not yet cleared review stage, and the start of development is not yet finalized".

March 18

On 3/14/2024 at 9:37 PM, StraightPath.3972 said:

That reason being spvp.

And considering latest balance decisions AN have made included flat out removing alacrity for sPvP and WvW from traits that provide alacrity in PvE for alot of specs out there, why is that somehow blocking spellbreaker from having PvE alac?

March 11

1 minute ago, bq pd.2148 said:

they did many changes for kill participation of support players in WvW that they might have put into pve too. support players that focus on supporting instead of tagging everything shouldn't miss out after all, especially as we do have weapons with ally targeting now.

True that was a common complaint of WvW supports on that subject (heck I was among them too), but the change to participation in kills in WvW came as far as I am aware just as unannounced as it came into PvE. I just started getting drops from zerg fights on my zergbrand and about same time, people on guild chats started freaking out that afk boonbot heralds are working again for PvE. No patch notes attached, it just happened.

March 11

4 hours ago, kiroho.4738 said:

Change boon participation so that you have to hit an enemy at least once before boons participation count. Also let boon participation only count when applied while in combat.

The weird part is that this is the change they already did many years ago, and that is how the system is supposed to work if we go by documented changes. it just broke some time ago with no comment from AN on it.

(there is whole section of farming "tag" builds" that only exists because of needing to hit at least once to get shared participation.

March 9

2 hours ago, Astralporing.1957 said:

Yes, isn't that the very point? And for a game like GW2, with the playerbase being farmore casual (and far less likely to watch sites like twitch for their game content kick) it's even more so.

Basically, those small (because, let's be honest, they are small) Twitch numbers are pretty much inconsequential.

Yeah I am now mildly confused on the original comment and what we talking in here like at all.

March 9

11 minutes ago, Astralporing.1957 said:

"most players" vs "~3k unique views". I believe that's what the laugh was at.

Most MMO players don't watch twitch tho

March 9

13 hours ago, Teknomancer.4895 said:

That's semi-sorta one of the mechanics in Triple Trouble (Amber), which would make it re-used content. In which case...maybe not such a silly theory after all. 🤔

Also mechanic of leviatan fights in EoD 😉

March 9

1 hour ago, Danikat.8537 said:

Elder Scrolls Online does the same, although I don't think it affects material nodes (or I've just never noticed them changing), but you see it sometimes when you're running up to an area where a quest takes place and suddenly everything will change, with enemies and even structures appearing or disappearing.

And it tends to be buggy at some points too. At sume point I had the issue, where quest told me to kill a miniboss at particular spot, but as soon as I approached the boss, I was being phased to an intance where it was for some baffling reason already dead, but without pushing story step forward.

In the end to progress that particular story I had to attack the boss from outside the treshold where it'd phase me, and pull it outside of designated area.

March 8

14 hours ago, Kalavier.1097 said:

This is another thing. Meta events happen once (unless explicitly stated otherwise). World bosses get killed and are dead for good in the lore. Event chains happen once in the story.

Prime example for that in newest expac would be Defence of Amnytas meta event (Skywatch Archipelago is formed in a way leaving some leeway for multiple attempts of forging the key).

When it is starting it is clearly stated, that acumulating energy to power up the guardians is process that takes decades and expending all of that energy takes minutes, and it is clearly stated that there is only enough reserves to try it once. This is also further reinfirced in newest meta, where Frode reacts to Noryu's appearance with "You should have died at Amnytas". The fact that it repeats every 2h is a subject of gameplay mechanic, nothing more.

March 8

38 minutes ago, Urud.4925 said:

but because in the last episode we saw that she is a bad strategist. The plan to keep Labris alive ended up for being a mistake, and also Nephus told her.

It is less of bad strategist per se in my understanding, but a leader that takes unnecessary risks.Nephus remarked that Labris is to dangerous to keep alive, and Peitha saw opportunity to make a spectacle, and rally the crowds to her cause. The plan could backfire, and did backfire, but she deemed the payoff she'd get if it succeeded worth taking the risk - and lost the gamble.

March 7

On 12/9/2023 at 12:25 AM, AlexndrTheGreat.8310 said:

Make the Class Mechanic traitline (things like Beastmastery, Arcane, Soul Reaping, etc) mutually exclusive with Elite Specs and only usable in the 3rd slot instead of creating an entirely new elite spec for core would be the simplest way to do that.

Causally murdering my last +30% movement speedn I have on my ranger 😞

(And my Aoe Burn from virtue of justice while at it)

My personal woes aside, a sort of core Espec, available to people with no expacs, could have went long way to balance core and especs, and it would make sense for said core espec to be enhancing core class mechanic, that especs are altering, and argument could be made that introducing new traitlines for that, when we already have traitline improving class mechanic, would be redundant, and the existing traitlines instead should be uplifted.

The only issue that is still there is that there is alot of fun espec builds (to my knowledge big chunk of them far from meta) that are benefitting from interaction of core traitline improvement ontop of espec alteration, that would be obliterated by such change.

(sorry for tagging you like this so many months after the og message, but with thread being revitalized, and me not following this forum when the post was made at all, I thought I could still give some opinions on the subject at hand)

March 7

11 hours ago, BlueJin.4127 said:

I really hope that tier 2 will be variants (like Aurene's weapons) instead of upgrades (like Mistforged armors). Variants will give us more selections of armors to choose from. Upgrades will simply negate the tier 1 skins.

"Upgrade" version does not necesarily negate previous versions. There are many weapon/armor sets with an "upgrade" available, where the base version looks better (subject to tastes).

If tier 2 obsidian armor is the flashy variant with heavy FX, the T1 would still be feasible option for people whom prefer down to earth, not flashy style.

March 7

The one main annoyance I find with this op-up is that quite often, when logging into characters, it pops up before I even finish loading (measured by timer passed by the time I do finish loading and cen see it). Same often happens on map transfers, where I go to a new map, and first thing to happen after the loading screen is another pop-up that map is about to close. Once I had situation where right after changing map due to the closure pop-up not even 5 minutes have passed before receiving yet another of those popups, and this repeated for next half hour.

It would be nice if the load balancer selecting people for those instances would prefer putting fresh loaders on instances that are unlikely to give the prompt to leave in some sensible time after joining. (This is highly disruptive especially for chasing achievements of doing all the event chains in the zone, which SotO is full off.

March 7

11 hours ago, Epsilon Indi.2031 said:

Then I suppose WvW and PvP are the exception, not the rule as players can acquire the legendary look without going full in on the legendary cost.

We treating ascended WvW/PvP armor skins as legendary skins now? those modes do not have legendary skins, the final item just reuses the skin from precursor used to craft it by default.

11 hours ago, Epsilon Indi.2031 said:

Yes. See WvW and PvP legendary armor skins.

Which don't exist.

March 6

33 minutes ago, Ashantara.8731 said:

This reminds me that the Shield Master achievement (5,000 killing blows with a shield) is still awaiting completion. 🥺

I farmed mine on rats in ebonheart mines.....

March 6

14 hours ago, Astralporing.1957 said:

Thanks. Notice how Gambeson would more fit the medium category, though.

We actually have it in game, in medium armors.

4 hours ago, Ashen.2907 said:

Not really. Keep in mind that a gambeson would often be worn under heavier armor. It is cloth, lighter than the typical medium armors in games (including this one) and so on.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/images/thumb/c/c2/Studded_armor_human_female_front.jpg/146px-Studded_armor_human_female_front.jpg that looks fairly like gameson to me. And is medium armor. Considering how GW2 classification goes, I would put gambeson into medium cathegory, as "light" is mostly just clothing. Additionally, gambeson is not just cloth, it's multiplelayers of cloth layers stitched together.

That being said this part of threat is also going sideways, if we really wanted to apply whataboutism to OP's issue with the gap in obsidian heavy (however I still think he is claiming it to be much bigger issue than it is) there is plenty of heavy armor sets with big gaps in protection.

That being said pointing out other armors being worse, does not really address issues obsidian armor may or may not have now, does it?

March 5

58 minutes ago, KryTiKaL.3125 said:

Honestly they might have a concern for putting Alacrity on Spellbreaker in some capacity because it would bleed into competitive modes, but at this point...

They have just split a number of traits to not provide alac in competitive modes, so I see no reason why spellbreaker couldn't have same treatment if alac in competitive is such evil.

I definitelly support the notion that alac would fit spellbreakers neatly both in theme and design. Spellbreakers are supposed to be direct descendants (in art) of sunspears, and those are generally associated with paragons, which is the Support class of GW1 (compounted even further after 15th anni new elite skills xD). Here is all the thematic link one would been to justify opening more support options for spellbreaker one should need.

1 hour ago, KryTiKaL.3125 said:

It can often feel like ANet is simply only doing things like this on Bladesworn simply because its the newest Elite Spec.

I am 100% sure that bladesworn got alac primarily because at the time it was the newest expac, and AN took the opportunity to try to push some additional sales there.

March 5

54 minutes ago, DanAlcedo.3281 said:

I looked at the Patch and tried to find Pistol Changes and didnt find anything that says that Pistol skills have a minimum range now.

Sooo i was confused.

Because it's axe/pistol dual skill, and was stated as axe change. That being said it's not minimum range, it's range cap on how far away you can pull axes from. Because on release you could pull axes on people from effectively infinite range, through walls and other obstacles, and it was kinda borked this way.

March 5

1 minute ago, Remus Darkblight.1673 said:

I thought this too but both types of skills already exist. The original post is admittedly sarcasm, but still, axes and LB don't function even remotely the same.

Yeah that's why my poorly conveyed confusion about what exactly made OP think that those are anyhow relevant things. ("thinking it somehow means" was supposed to convey the bit where I see no logic why OP would think so)

March 5

12 minutes ago, Astralporing.1957 said:

There are no preevents for Navigate Isgarren Wards. When i tried to get that poi on multiple characters, i have checked every single event on Bastion of Knowledge (multiple times), and none seem to be connected in any way to that one. And i have never seen that event go up more than once per map cycle.

It starts next to the gates, but only of gate event is not going on right now. It doesn't need to succeed just not be there - the one I finally caught today started shortly after gate recapture event failed. And I saw the follow up even twice before within same map cycle.

March 5

On 3/2/2024 at 9:07 PM, DanAlcedo.3281 said:

Did i miss something?

I think OP is taking the thief change, where they limited recall range for hovering axe recall to the weapon range, and thinking it somehow means that AN will make longbow skills require target in range to cast? Not sure, may be getting it wrong.

March 5

1 hour ago, Malus.2184 said:

How can a thought-terminating cliche be a buzzword when I seldom hear people use it and fall for the use of one all the time?

After checking up definition of word buzzword, I will admit in here, that official definition according to oxford dictionary as of date of writing is in fact different than what I thought it was. My apologies. I retract my veiled accusation of hypocrisy.

1 hour ago, Malus.2184 said:

If you truly believed it was then you would have called me out on it rather than using this snarky attempt at belittling humour.

That ... is pretty much not how it works. One can be snarky when calling out things, and still believe to be correct.

1 hour ago, Malus.2184 said:

Something can only cast a noticeable shadow if it's noticeable.

Helmets that go deep enough over the head, as to cover more than just the skull shape, has tendency to you know, cast shadow over neck? You will see such use of shadowing on the bottom of helmet in art about everywhere involving those kinds of helmets.

1 hour ago, Malus.2184 said:

For you to think the gap was a shadow is an expression that if I had chosen a darker colour on the armor you'd have argued that you see no issue since you want to see no issue.

I am unsure what do you mean with that grammatical structure. But here is a pointer if you want to showcase how the flesh is visible from under the armour, it is much easier to show with human with light tone of skin, and darker armor colour. You know in the way I did it in the pictures I posted, where is is clearly visible, and it is clear that it's flesh poking out, not just a black hole of "could bye just shadow being cast by your helmet onto your neck". Please do notice, I am not debating the gap is not there, I have aknowledged it being there, and even provided pictures presenting it being there better than yours. That whole thread of conversation was started by me pointing out, that you chose poor example to show of your issue. Rest of the dispute comes from me thinking that you are exaggerating the scope of the issue - which became blatant after you have claimed it is same size of gap as in wow armor, and then provided a link to a wiki page, with 3d model preview, which shows that there is order of magnitude difference between the two.

1 hour ago, Malus.2184 said:

If adding gotget would add serious clipping issues then how do you explain and the heavy armours in the game that

The armours that? I think half of the sentence got lost here in the process.

And yes it would create serious clipping issue within the set, especially considering that helmet already clips into the existing gorget-lite when combat stance is turned on.

1 hour ago, Malus.2184 said:

The context for those armours is that they served a ceremonial role or in other ways a narrative role. For example, gladiatorial armour was open so that the audience could better see the blood since red against skin is visible.

I was not even talking about ceremonial or gladiatorial sets of armours. There is plenty of combat armor with gaps larger than what was shown is this thread that Obsidian heavy brings.

1 hour ago, Malus.2184 said:

"The standard" combat outfit for those who could afford it was padding, a mail coif, and general mail armour with some plate pieces on top.

"The standard" varied from place to place and from period to period.

1 hour ago, Malus.2184 said:

The full plates that you see all around in museums were mostly of a ceremonial nature and never saw actual battle since they would be really impractical there.

I am unsure what kind of museums you were visiting, but the ones I saw were battlefield plate. High end battlefield grade that only nobles could afford to get, but battlefield grade regardless. Care to share some pictures of that "ceremonial" plate you saw in museum?

1 hour ago, Malus.2184 said:

There might have been some mounted knights using something that looked like it since a full-plated knight charging at you while mounted is a Code Brown for most people. It looks great in fantasy and in real-life it's rather impractical and while it offers significant protection it also comes with severe downsides.

That is beginning to sound like one of those AI articles of why wearing medieval plate armor was worse than wearing nothing at all, with arguments of "it had weakspots you could stab dagger into!" 🙂

Now I will give you some interesting factoid: there was a period in medieval history, where knights in plate armor were such a vital piece of army that people entered battles thinking they are sure to win, based just on the fact they had more of the heavy cavalry.

1 hour ago, Malus.2184 said:

Conscribed troops where given things such as gambesons and other quilt armour, and they still had provisions from pote ting the noggin since the head is the carrier of the most important organ in the body, the brain.

That once again varied from place to place and from period to period. But in general, yes the protection of head and chest were taken as priority.

1 hour ago, Malus.2184 said:

Your last paragraph I can only interpret as that you think the gap is noticeable and at the same time "not noticeable"? If so, this is a case of cognitive dissonance where they same thing is effectively something contradictory and mutually exclusive and somehow both true at the same time.

The gap can not be seen from the direct front view of the preview. As you definitely did notice looking at the pictures of my guardian, from the top, and then concluding it is not there.

The gap is visible, when you rotate the preview to just perfect angle, which I only did on my guardian, after you pointing out that it definitely is there on female version, and I took a look, and from the front I did not see it there. This prompted me to start rotating the preview which is when I found it on the female model, which then prompted me to check on male guardian again now that I knew what I am looking for. There is no contradiction there, it is basic physics that on 3d models, some features can be visible at certain viewing angles and not visible at other angles.

Maybe I should at this point take a note from your book and throw a fit over how you are still failing to read my posts. How disrespectful!

1 hour ago, Malus.2184 said:

You also launch into this long paragraph from what I can only assume is a subconscious desire to avoid elaborating on what your "not exposed skin" actually means as nothing of it is an answer to anything and instead just a justification for you thinking as you did. I already know, and you repeat yourself to explain the same thing to me again.

Thank you for confirming that you have no ability to read and understand basic english, and that you assume what I wrote and what my intentions were.

1 hour ago, Malus.2184 said:

If adding a gorget would create serious clipping issues then how do you explain the Heavy armor in the game that has the simulacrum gorget and have no such issues?

Oh, here is our lost second part of the sentence. That is very simple - show me the armor piece in GW2 with the gorget higher than obsidian armor has, and I will show you the bad clipping issues. If I am feeling bored after work today I may even show you the clipping Obsidian heavy helmet already has with it's own chestpiece 🙂

March 5

8 minutes ago, Malus.2184 said:

- Projecting: Use a buzzword without knowing what it means, https://www.britannica.com/science/projection-psychology, you calling what I did a projection is a thought-terminating cliche.

Interesting that you concluded that I do not understand the meaning of the word. Oh and trying to call out using buzzwords while following up with buzzword, I wonder if there is a big word to call that phenomenon 😉

8 minutes ago, Malus.2184 said:

- Gamebreakingly: I never used this word,

Yes, I did. And I used it deliberately, because you seem really deeply upset over this tiny gap. Thought a bit of hyperbole there could help you notice scale of how are you behaving.

8 minutes ago, Malus.2184 said:

- Small gap: If I took a ruler to it and extrapolated the numbers and ratio the gap is objectively larger than a blade would be. If you see the realistic weapons they would easily get through that gap (minus the hammers and maces). It's only because the game has exaggerated weapon proportions on the showy weapons that moist people like to use that this gap appears small.

If you took a ruler, you'd notice a lot of armament which larger gaps, with a lot of internet keyboard warriors going "this armor sucks because you can just stab there" while completely ignoring the fact that said piece of armor has been successfully deployed over centuries, so let me ask you this - if you an just stab the weakpoint, why medieval people didn't just do that and win all the time? In case you had issue with guessing why - because in a heat of the fight, against non-conforming opponent, it is truely not easy to land a precise stab at the opening of this size. and scale of weapons in the game has nothing to do with my thought process in there, I assure you.

Interestingly that you didn't even address the elephant in the room of you stating that this gap is same level of vulnerability, as the armor set from WoW, which not only has much larger gaps in neck area, but also completely exposed head.

10 minutes ago, Malus.2184 said:

- Not exposed skin: What is it then? Because "not" and forms of it are words that explain nothing and seem like they do. If I say, "I'm not happy," it can mean that I'm in a lot of different moods except for happy. It's negative communication and if people are fully aware of what they want to communicate they use positive communication where they say what is, instead of, what isn't. It's my character's skin and it's exposed even if you're unwilling to differentiate it. Will you argue that none of her skin is exposed despite it objectively being so?

I did tell you how your picture of your Sylvari looks like. By choosing dark skin colour, and bright armor plate colour, you managed to camouflage the gap by making it look like a shadow (place in the armor which looks dark because light is obscured from reaching it. This camouflaging effect is further enhanced by the fact that no other element of her skin is anyhow exposed (at least within posted clip). Therefore outside observer has no way of determining the pigmentation of "flesh" under that armor. It is a commendable work at using colours to hide the flaws of model design. I have no idea how this point is eluding you for so long.

14 minutes ago, Malus.2184 said:

ANet can easily fix this by extending the forget to have the same proportional length on the female version as it has on the male version.

And since we were on the topic of reading and respecting what other people are posting, I will take this moment to point out, that on the previous page, I post the picture showing that the gap is still present, and of comparable size on male model too. it just in both cases needs to look at the preview from a particular angle, and that angle was not the frontal view that I posted first. But you took that first response, went with interpretation that male gorget is longer, and did not even bothered to read when I debunked myself on this subject. And as I stated in other post, I disagree that raising gorget would be a good fix - it would introduce alot of clipping with not only it's own helmet, but make clipping worse with all the other helmets. The better solution, would be to patch this gap with a piece of mail texture, implying presence of mail coif underneath the helmet, which was standard medieval practice to do.

The only issue with that version, would be to figure out exact length of coif so it works with other heavy pieces. This is still something that may not be on high priority for relevant artists, because it is very likely, that they need to move on tier 2 obsidian asap, and after that start working on armor sets for next expansion all together.

March 5

53 minutes ago, Malus.2184 said:

I mentioned the colours, I mentioned the reason I had chosen those specific colours as that the character has incredibly dark skin.

yes, you did, and I specifically addressed it.

53 minutes ago, Malus.2184 said:

You just expressed that you had no respect for anything I wrote as you never read it, just assumed things based on your own opinion.

Erm, no, that's projecting, I have merely pointed out that the picture you provided of GW2 Obsidian armor is a poor example of how gap is gamebreakingly visible and huge gap, because of your colour choise disguising the issue - it does not matter what your sylvari skin is like, when the only bit visible was that smal gap, it IS going to look like just a shadow, not exposed skin. I have also asked a question, if you have tried to rotate 3d model of the WoW armor to which you provided link, which you took offense in, claiming that you provided rotated picture which - for WoW armor - you didn't.

So there are two ways of what is going on: Either you have no idea yourself of what you actually posted, and really thought that link you provided was to picture of rotated WoW armor (which would also imply you really have issue with comparing sizes of gaps, because gap you claimed to be same size as obsidian armor gap, was in fact much larger than the gap obsidian armor has), or you did exact thing you accuse me off, and did not read what I posted, and thought I was asking you to rotate GW2 display. Which would hardly make sense in conversational context.

Regardless of which variant of events is behind your original weirdly delayed upset at me, after it happened, you clearly did not read anything I wrote after your outburst, because if you did, you would realize that I did in fact read the things you wrote, and replied to it to the best ability the sensible forum posting timeframe allows. It seems you are also assuming things (about content of my post) based of your own opinion (of my lack of respect for anything you wrote). Which are exactly things you accuse me of doing, hence as per starting of this post section - you are projecting things you do onto other poster. I'd advise you to go back and actually read what is written in your thread before throwing baseless accusations of bias further.

March 5

On 3/3/2024 at 11:21 PM, Sobx.1758 said:

And I'm saying inner lining instead of the armor itself, because I don't really like those higher collars asking to clip with whatever part of character or wardrobe they can (obsidian medium collar? Not a fan).

Yeah the collar in combat mode already clips with it's own helmet, not to mention any longer helmet where it'd clip all the time. if that gap is to be patched properly, it needs a chainmail filling tied to the helmet itself, not rising of collar.

20 hours ago, Ashen.2907 said:

while examples were being given that would be, realistically, even less protective.

And claim was raised, that this gap is on the same level of vulnerability!

20 hours ago, Ashen.2907 said:

(and I do think the set looks cool despite the helm being a little small).

I'm liking it, and I have already an idea for new guardian fashion for when I finish dem grinds - to to be fair I am rather not going to use helmet/shoulder and gloves skins in it.

21 hours ago, Astralporing.1957 said:

(the big gaps on charr armor however do matter, but they are often way, way bigger than other race versions).

Yeah that's why I originally though OP was meaning Charr version of obsidian armor.

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Thoughts about GW3 [Merged]

Alacrity Spellbreaker is my biggest wish in Gw2 right now.

Botting/AFK farming is out of control

Botting/AFK farming is out of control

The amount of filler content in story is out of hand

The amount of filler content in story is out of hand

silly Eparch fight theory! (we'll "Men In Black" him!)

Map Closures / "Lack of players" in a map [Merged]

Silent protagonist

Maybe Peitha is the really evil one SPOILERS

CORE PROFFESIONS HORIZONTAL PROGRESSION IN FUTURE???

Obby Armor variant speculations!

Map Closures / "Lack of players" in a map [Merged]

Obsidian Armor Skins?

Please rework the Artisan's of arms achievements (kill 1000 enemies with new weapons)

Obsidian Heavy Visual Feedback

Mukluk Realizing that PvE Alacrity makes more sense on Spellbreaker after Playing Bladesworn for 8 Seconds.

Looks like rangers next up on the chopping block

Looks like rangers next up on the chopping block

Tone down inaccesible areas please, you are ONLY frustrating the player

Looks like rangers next up on the chopping block

Obsidian Heavy Visual Feedback

Obsidian Heavy Visual Feedback

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