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  1. Then hand that back out in any of the three empty trait slots we have, just don't make it another inane stacking passive we have to juggle. EDIT: Scratch that, FIVE empty trait slots, good grief what were the developers thinking when they made this thing?
  2. No. Base Elementalist is already the most complicated class, lets add management of an entirely new resource bar, four weapon passives, one to three trait passives, and a gyro-like pseudo-pet (because that worked great last time). I'm glad they took the time to make it functional, especially so quickly after launch, but the Catalyst is overdesigned nonsense that has too much going on and cuts not are an option, they are an absolute necessity, and elemental empowerment would probably be the best thing to cut, just roll 60-70% of that damage in base and call it good.
  3. Not that I don't want other new things but your argument is as easy to poke holes in as uncooked dough. There are several classes that, even with three elite specs, don't have all three of those roles, specs that don't even fill those roles in a traditional way, and specs that do fill these roles in traditional ways, leaving room for nontraditional ways of filling them. And finally and perhaps most important of all, there's no reason those three roles have to be the only three roles forever. The devs stated at launch that trinity content is medicore game design which they settled for after a pittance of an attempt at designing better high end content, they never aimed for trinity content and do not hold it up as ideal, and there's nothing to say they won't work up the gumption to try for something better someday soon.
  4. Posts like this are the reason ANet doesn't actually take feedback from the forums, there is no pleasing some people, everything is bad because negative opinions have more value than positive ones. The Catalyst is jacked up, and its far from the only class released in this expansion that has problems, but there is a lot of content people are happy with, and hyperbolic generalizations aren't remotely constructive feedback.
  5. It factually is not, it only tested with incredibly high DPS against large bosses in the beta because the rotating projectiles hit large hitboxes dozens of times per rotation, however that issue was fixed. Now the DPS is okay-ish against pretty much everything, but relies on half a dozen passives that are impossible to keep up in any remotely challenging content. A single interrupt in GW2 isn't a big deal, but against the catalyst it doesn't just make you waste that one skill, it causes a hole in the upkeep of a half dozen passives and channeled skills that is an absolutely massive loss in DPS. This elite spec is an orchestral build up towards nothing, a frenzied upkeep just to maintain an average baseline.
  6. Yeah I've got it since then too, but depending on the instance I've done so by jumping into the wall or unbroken window area before or after the hole in the window, jumping IN the actual hole almost never works. You basically have to trial and error a solution in each new instance, it's completely inconsistent.
  7. Their adjustments to make jumping in the clocktower window more accurate did the exact opposite, you can land squarely in the broken window and have it not count, been in multiple instances at this point without a single person ever getting a single completion, and I've been playing since launch and done this JP enough that I get to the top literally every single time so I've "failed" that last jump plenty enough to be sure.
  8. None, with a little creativity any weapon can match any class. I'd love to see a scepter wielding warrior; it could summon spirit weapons that overlay the scepter, could be a shaman using ancestral spirits, or general spec that inspires and supports alllies.
  9. It would be cool but at the same time D&D is written to be as generic a fantasy world as possible, you don't really need a module to fit D&D into GW2 or any other fantasy setting, just swap around some names and themes.
  10. I'm not going to tell you any such thing, if you want the game to change in a certain way stay and say so where appropriate, but please stop using my thread for your general complaints, stay on topic, and actually read the posts you're responding to. I don't think that means that at all, we need something for our low innate defense but burst is not the only answer and GW2 is not only about DPS. Traditionally we've been compensated for our low innate defense by having a higher retinue of utility; we always have condition clear and healing, we always have access to condition and burst damage, we always have some amount of control and escape. The issue is that the devs in recent years have used that as an excuse to give us NOTHING but a jack of all trades build that is useless in high-end PvE where everyone has a specific role, and in low-end PvE when everyone needs to maximize DPS.
  11. That's incorrect, the difference between the longbows highest and minimum range is about 30%. But in any case as with all fan-stuff we don't know how they calculate DPS internally and everything we do is either estimations, or in this case, sticking a number in because a nonsensical number is better than a blank space. I didn't go over every single buff that would round out these changes, but facilitating that gameplay is exactly that idea behind them, make the melee and ranged skills stand on their own enough that if you need, you can run the two melee attunements in a melee only setting, or the two ranged in a ranged only setting, without the combination of all four having enough overlap to be overpowered. If you don't think this accomplishes that, what would you suggest to make it happen?
  12. The Catalyst's Problems The Catalyst Rework As I organized my thoughts about Catalyst over the beta week, they wound up growing less into a post and more into a full on document, so I cleaned those notes up and made a workup on how I would fix the laundry list of issues. Unlike most of the reworks on this forum, this one is trying to be as non-destructive as possible, we're not replacing the class mechanic, turning the Hammer into a bow, or redesigning the specialization from the ground up, we're trying to make the Catalyst's existing mechanics work where we can, and cut and paste where we can't. Even then, it's still pretty destructive, the catalyst really is in bad shape. More than half of the issues I saw weren't even issues of taste or opinion but full on functional flaws under which the Catalyst wasn't playable, let alone fun, or competitive. Let me know what you think.
  13. Not perfect, but it is fun, and as an Ele main, a lot closer to where you want it to be than the Catalyst. 😒 I think the jump dodge is fun, but it needs a little more uptime, and the traits/class mechanic need to reward active and aggressive use of the jump mechanic with more returned energy. I wouldn't even be opposed to a "refill energy on kill" reset trait that lets you lance hop from one trash mob to the next. I also don't think the kurzick/luxon flip utilities are as bad as people are saying, I just don't think they fit what people want to play on a dragoon class. This class makes you want to jump in the fight full steam ahead, and then your utilities flip over to support skills that don't facilitate that. I found the class to be a lot more fun when I stopped using the new legend and switched over to assassin/dwarf. You could somewhat address both of these issues by making alliance tactics/energy meld a weaker but more frequently usable skill. I also think the kurzick/luxon skills would be better themed as aggression/sustain, rather than agression/support, so that it matches the "charge head first into battle" playstyle people want out of this class, and Revenants don't need another support spec anyway.
  14. I would argue that not every spec is intended for every game mode. The Deadeye was the same basic idea as the Bladesworn, a fun gimmicky PvE one-trick, and in trying to get it to work for PvP they just ruined it for every game mode.
  15. Ele is too complicated to add energy on top of everything they already manage, not to mention the UI apparently can't even fit it. Furthermore, if it has energy, why is there a cooldown? And why do we lose all energy when shutting the Jade Sphere off? The hammer being range/melee seemed a good idea at first, but in reality it's just a melee weapon because you can use ranged skills in melee, but not melee skills at range. So you'll bring its greatest potential to bear using all four attunements and it will be balanced as such, and balanced as such the pair of melee attunements and pair of ranged attunements will be too weak to play on their own. And it's not even really an option to switch off the hammer. The Jade Sphere is like weaving 2.0, it's new mechanic works against fundamental base elementalist mechanics, albeit in a significantly less disruptive way than weaving. Most of the base eles attunements have either fields, or finishers, not both; with the jade sphere transforming to match your attunement, you frequently find yourself wanting to combo off a certain field but can't have that field because your sphere just changed to match your current attunement, or the attunement you are in doesn't even have any finishers and your jade sphere is just completely worthless in that attunement. Just like how the Weavers weaving mechanic tries to force you into dagger/sword, this spec tries to force you into hammer, not by the hammer being a positive and fun addition, but by making everything else so dysfunctional that its not an option. And then when you do put on the hammer you only have 1 finisher each attunement, only 1 gap closer to control the range you play at on this supposedly ranged/melee hybrid weapon, only 1 built-in way to proc the auras that for some inexplicable reason are a third of our traits. And you forgot to give the earth auto bleeding, again. This is quite possibly the most awkward to play weapon added to date. My issues wound up growing too much to be contained in a post, find my suggestions: here.
  16. I regrettably have to agree, if non-combat stuff like fishing is going to be their feature focus this expansion, then they should lean in to that enough to actually make an expansions worth of features. The games crafting system has felt "Menus: The Game" since launch, it's not gameplay, it's a barebones progress system. Add hunting, fishing, farming, ranching and whatever else you can think of as actual gameplay systems, and upgrade the existing gathering and crafting system to match. Make the expansion most forefront feature, something actually worth featuring.
  17. There's nothing wrong with a cash shop. There is very much something wrong with charging people for something, and then not giving it to them, that is called theft, or as the gaming industry likes to spin it, gambling and lootboxes.
  18. At launch the scepter was THE confusion weapon, it's entire schtick was confusion attrition, you slowly stacked confusion on an enemy as you belayed attacks with clones, blinds, and evasion until they basically killed themselves. It was a ton of fun, but truth be told back then it was more than a little ridiculous. But that was SEVEN YEARS ago now, since then we've had: 1. Specializations added to the game, including one with an axe that, as a torment weapon, feels way too similar to the "new" scepter. 2. Two expansions, and a third on horizon. 3. We have gained the ability to passively decrease incoming conditions 4. Torments functionality has literally been reversed, with it now dealing damage to non-moving targets and the scepter having no control to speak of, torment is anti-synergistic with the scepters ideal gameplay of kiting and getting lost in a crowd of clones. 5. And perhaps most important, the ENTIRE "damage on clone death" mechanic was gutted from the Mesmers kit, the actual culprit for the Mesmers overpowered confusion builds in the first place. In my opinion, it's time the devs fixed this, confusion is as signature to the Mesmer as backstab is to the thief, and it's kind of ridiculous we don't have a weapon dedicated to such a core mechanic.
  19. Not sure if this is the right place to post this but I don't see a bug report thread unless we're supposed to use the feedback thread, but then again I guess I don't know if this is a bug anyway. /shrug As per the title, the mesmer with the virtuoso specialization and scepter equipped cannot stock more than 3 blades with the auto-attack, it can still stack more than three with other abilities like illusionary counter and traits. Not sure if this is intended or a bug, but if it's intended I think it's a mistake, the scepter does not generate blades nearly fast enough for allowing it to stock five blades to present a balance issue.
  20. ANet nerfed all player spawned AI years ago, stating that AI was fine for casual content but unhealthy in any competitive or challenging environment, turrets have been just how they are ever since.
  21. You literally stated that guides are an "option for exploration and discovery", and a requirement for both of those words to apply is that what is discovered is previously unknown, not handed to you like a roadside map. I misread nothing, you're moving the goalposts in an attempt to save face. And with you not only denying fact, but fact that came from your own mouth, I'm done with this conversation.
  22. Yes, that's what a forum is for, very little on here is factual. Your statement on the other hand that being hand-held through content by a third-party is a form of exploration is not an opinion, but is factually incorrect by the very definition of "exploration", and you are deliberately choosing to be incorrect.
  23. Ah yes, the exploration of tabbing out of the game and going to a website that tells you exactly how to do things so that you don't have to see a single pixel more of the world than the minimum necessary for progression, oh wait, that is literally the opposite of exploration.
  24. I never stated I agreed with the OPs opinion on the skyscale quest and agree with you that it doesn't require a guide or even much of a grind. I don't even know why you and other posters even think that as I never even responded to the OPs post but to someone else who made a similarly general statement. All I'm saying is that Guild Wars 2 has had a continually growing issue over the last few years with new content having ridiculous meta-knowledge restraints that make for a poor experience and aren't good encounter or progression design.
  25. If you can't do it in a reasonable amount of time without guides, then the guide is necessary. To continue my analogy, if you watched the same badly written movie or read the same badly written book enough times, your understanding of it would grow regardless of its failings as a work, but that doesn't change how badly written either one is. Extra time and effort spent on content should bear extra insight into the content, not mere baseline understanding. EDIT: Pardon me, I meant without.
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