Klowdy.3126

I really like the sylvari racial armor. My problem is sharing my few sets of armor between all of my characters. If you use racial armor skins, only that race can wear it. So, now, I have 2 or 3 of the same classes for when I feel like playing sylvari for a while, and human/norn for when I don't (I don't like a lot of the heavy, "standard" boots on sylvari).

Devs need to look into "kit" skins/dyes for a bunch of classes. It's time. We have enough reason for this now. Also minions, and other "pets" that can't be changed out.

They regularly give the episodes out for free. Let your friends know when that happens.

Like I said, if it hasn't changed direction for half of the bar, and it's been acting crazy, maybe be prepared for a reverse. Some of the fish seem much, much easier, some are slower, and some aren't. There is also the trick I said about not going all the way to the end of the bar, and letting it come back into range. I'm not saying you need to you need to be nostradamus, but being able to use judgements to outsmart the program should happen after you've fished up a few.

No, I didn't think anything seemed negative. Just stating I'm happy for the fix, but I feel for those still dealing.

As a vindi player, this actually makes me happy. I'm very sorry to any other class affected by this, though. I know how annoying I've found it for the short time I've dealt with it. I guess it did get me to try out my will bender, though.

For that build, I'm running alliance, and stay in that most of the time. Red has perma fury with burst (4 second duration with a 3 second CD), like Lucian said. I've gotten very used to checking on it, so I make sure to have it up before every jump for sure, but obviously strive for 100% (which usually doesn't happen, because why care at the end of a fight, lol). My biggest issue with the build is it seems like the trait that gives might when applying fury isn't working. I've watched it in and out of combat, and it doesn't seem to give me might, at least not with the alliance ability. So nice they can fix the bugs that help us, but totally ignore the ones that hurt the class, like abilities swapping position, or the alliance defaulting to blue 90% of the time.

Just for fun, I'm playing around with GS/GS with energy runes, and the vigor trait. You can keep up fury with 100% crit, and dodge quite a bit, with very little downtime on the dodges. It's not optimal, but the dodge crit hits pretty hard, and you're flying around like Cecil in FF2, so I have fun.

You wanna use the red heal while there are a few people around, or as a last resort, and blue while you're playing defense, which will also open up condi cleanse/regeneration spam in the downtime if needed. Also, until you get it down to your liking, you can go 3 in the final trait for a heal and barrier on the jump. Don't use your blue elite solo either. The CDs are short for everything, really. My only real advice is keep up fury in combat, and regen on D.

I think "play your way" was a bad choice of words. Doesn't that elude to the fact that you can get to max level with multiple ways, more that one not even needing weapons? I never assumed they started off with the idea that every class would excel at every role, which seemed to be the purpose of especs.

I'm loving it. I'm able to get 100% crit rate with fury, which is always available when needed. Running GS/GS with double energy runes is tons of fun.

It really makes mounting unappealing now.

I think you mean "bug fix."

The amount of gems bought had nothing to do with what I originally asked, which was are they done (deleting account), or are they just taking a break. The fact someone responded about gems to my post got an equally off topic response.

I've been playing GS/GS with energy runes, and I'm loving it. Buff yourself with fury, jump, hit F2 when you land, buff with fury if needed, or use another ability, jump, switch weapon, ability, jump, switch weapon, buff or damage, jump, F2 etc. Its not the best DPS for benchmarks, but it hits hard, and I'm not in combat half of the time, while I'm attacking.

I've played for years without buying gems.

Does that mean you're deleting your account and never coming back, or that you're just doing the normal thing, and taking a break, because you own the game, and it has not subscription?

It's the nuance of trying to predict the direction change, not following it all the way to either end, and understanding that sometimes the bar moves faster, and sometimes it moves slower, all on the same fish. People just need to learn the tricks, and failure rates will go down. I feel like people are just trying to follow the thing blindly, without trying to predict the next move, and not taking action to head it off. If you (general) have moved more than half of the distance to the other side without changing, maybe think about letting it move past you while you wait for it to shift back. Also, leveling up the mastery helps.

For light armor, I absolutely love reaper, and coming around on mesmer (nothing specific, still my first). That said, so far, I'm having a great time on vindicator. It's fun running OW with GS/GS with double energy runes, flying around smashing stuff. The rotation is fun keeping up fury with a short CD ability, able to weave it in to guarantee 100% uptime on 100% crit chance. Honestly, a lot of these new builds look interesting, and I'm definitely going to try them out. I just mentioned vindi because I also came from renegade (melee torment), and I enjoy it.

Side note, I sold my core for 30g on day 1, and bought it back for 5g on day 4.

That's why I loved the old story/conversation cuts. On my second, tenth, 100th time through, I just don't need to hear it again. Now I just use the time to do something else, like make dinner, or take a nap.

I love diving into battle from my griffon, then trying to hit the alliance charge, but instead, I leap backwards off of a building.

Remove 7 y/o "bug." Abilities (and now the alliance legend) swapping when you dismount: class feature.

I'll keep that in mind.

That's what I was saying, many games do have these builds. My point was mostly to not seem so counter to the OP, since I don't disagree with them, but the body of my post could seem negative.