Klowdy.3126

Gems can be converted from gold, making everything you do ingame meaningful if your goal is cash shop stuff. There are lots of guides on making gold with many different things. Just watch the gold to gem conversion. I usually try to wait for a 115 gold to 400 gem conversion, but it gets lower than that from time to time (you can also do a custom conversion, if the rate is good, but you don't have enough for 400 gems).

Niche mounts are fine. Skiff is only useful for fishing (or new players skipping PoF), turtle mount is only useful with a second person, skimmer doesn't fair well on land, raptor has no ups. Everything has its purpose.

Didn't someone get the birthday song? I'd not dismiss anything these days. That said, there is no case for something of this nature. If so, GW2 is itself guilty of taking ideas from other MMOs, and games in general. Sharing ideas leads to new ideas. Not sure how good they'll be coming from current Blizzard, but I like the new talent trees, so I'll be giving it a go.

It is annoying, but I use the always (for me) unused keypad, with the griffon on ~ as default.

No, I'm just saying I don't see people showing those skins very often, but that seems to be the sole purpose of the skins for almost all of the players.

I've been working towards legendary armor, solely for the purpose of being able to stat swap, and try out new builds. If the look is what people want, then why is only .001% of the population using them?

Also, laurels. That's how I got my first 2 sets (power and condi) back when I first started playing again just before LS2, and how I've been getting celestial gear recently.

Is it even fully functional with 1 person? I'm a solo player, so simply riding around on it isn't as good as my griffon, and if I can't use the cannons myself, it seems very pointless.

Oh, ok. Maybe you should call it quits then. That seems reason enough to stop playing.

Except mounts DID make everything easier, since HoT and core world weren't designed around mounts. Also, the maps are similar in size, it was the lack of WPs that made it seem stretching.

And as I said, who cares? I'm not talking about the people, or what they want. I'm talking about the company of this game taking a good idea (which came from a bad idea) and making it work.

Good ideas can come from bad ideas. Case and point, helmets exist. Just because people want this easy reward doesn't mean the idea of putting in effort in the OW to earn legendary armor is bad. It's up to the people in charge to make it fair.

I would go full energy cheese, and jump around all day, lol.

Right? Veteran refers to the longevity of the experience, while casual describes the actions of that experience. Those things are not mutually exclusive.

I got a pair of boots out of a random weekly key run box. It was truly exciting to get something like that randomly.

I could see a horse skin for the dog, but a new mount wouldn't be worth the effort.

Lol, sorry, that was confusing. I was posting while trying to put my 4 week old to sleep, lol. What I meant to say a power build would be bad with mace just for the combo field. Just quoting myself to clarify.

Maybe with cele, but a power build would be kitten for a combo field.

I've been doing something similar, but went marauder, GS/GS, energy/force, with eagle(precision/ferocity/10% strike damage after 50%), alliance/jalis, or alliance/shiro in meta stuff. There is a small bit of downtime after my 4th dive, but nothing using a few GS abilities won't take care of. Keeping up fury with burst give almost 100% crit (98.56) and 212% crit damage (which could be better with berserker gear).

Yeah, I like that idea. I like the focus of the conversation, and really do miss it in the story, but the action scenes were awkward. Would totally be up for bringing them back every now and then, when appropriate.

That would cause huge balance issues, and completely change a lot of specs. Builds, and meta groups are built around those boons, and all this would do is push more people out of support roles, and into DPS roles. Your fix only removes things, without giving back to those builds centered around providing those buffs. You've also not present any problems, unless different classes bringing different boons/conditions is the problem. In which case, I disagree with homogenization for the sake of inclusion. Not ever class has to excel in every aspect.

One thing I found fun was going GS/GS, both with energy runes. Keep up fury with burst, dive ASAP, swap weapon, dive, F2, dive, swap weapon, dive (bursting when needed for fury). It is slower, and that is far from optimal, but I've not needed help doing any of the HPs, and you get to cheese the vindi gimmick, which I find fun. I like to swap builds a lot, so it's nice to have another one to throw into the mix.

6 armor pieces.

Power bursts down the low health of enemies way faster, but I enjoyed the condi playstyle, so that's how i leveled. Both are more than good enough for the leveling process, so choose the one you enjoy more, or even just go for the closest style you plan on playing endgame. Forcing yourself to play something you don't like is more harmful to your gaming than playing a lesser spec you enjoy.

I actually enjoyed the leveling this time. It was more than likely just my state of mind on my first trip through EoD, but it felt like I was actually learning to be a new kind of revenant. Honestly, the traits are more important to me than a few missed abilities. There is also the option of using different legends until you max out the new one(s). Shiro/jalis works great (some would say better than alliance, but I enjoy the new stuff).