Charybdizs.7490

too bad that TINY reflect came at a loss of the virtually 50% projectile reflect that staff 1-2-3 had. That actually meant so much for survivability in a crowd. It was COMPLETELY usable, too. All you had to do was pause your chain for a split second. I remember waiting on my combo chain to reflect the sniper in Kaineng Overlook and feeling super cool, like a jedi.

This exactly. Good or bad, I was actually a staff main, and I can't believe this. They got rid of the actual unique dust FX it had for an awkward animation + generic tornado & tiny reflect, while nerfing Punishing Strikes (removed the reflect from it), taking away Staff's ONLY mid-range move (old dust strike). Is the old animation (which was really sick) even used anywhere in the game anymore? I'm so mad. I figured something like Rev Hammer 4 would have been the obvious go-to if they wanted to change dust strike, but too bad for us I guess. kitten.

Not impressed with axes axe myself. They had the opportunity to make this the BOOMERANG, something which doesn't exist in GW2, and instead it's so milquetoast and jank.

Reflect timing does seem a little odd to me, but I'm more disappointed that it came with a big range nerf and a shoddy animation which doesn't even fit.

When the patch notes preview said Dust Strike will now reflect projectiles I got really excited, because it felt like that'd make for fun baseball games with projectiles. Unfortunately, it comes at the expense of everything I liked so much about dust strike before. I really don't think these additional changes were necessary. Then: It had a COOL ANIMATION. You actually kicked up dust into your opponent's eyes to blind them! Now: It's a weird float? Why is my staff floating? I'm a thief, not a revenant. Then: It was a mid range blind attack Now: It has extremely tiny range and I basically have to be standing on my opponent to make it work. It doesn't even look right! It could have reflected projectiles JUST FINE without any of that being changed. Now it breaks the brawler class fantasy AND it is strictly worse at its original purpose. And it looks stupid too! Please revert this! It's not very fun at all! 😭

This is something I've never seen anyone talk about before, but it's really important to me. As a gender non-conforming person, I would really love to be able to choose which gender of voice I use on my character. I really like the femme appearance options and outfits on my asura, but reallllly wish I could use the male voice. Again, probably something most people wouldn't care about but it would mean the world to me.