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Gw2 is a game where people refuse to click on harvest nodes but get excited to click on fishing nodes

To their credit, bear is probably going to be the optimal pet (baring potential EoD pets) given it's hp but it doesn't get dodge iframes and can't weave around red rings which means it's going to eat a lot of AoE which will kill it very fast despite the large health pool and moderate armor I can build and operate as a survivable melee train member with the wombo combo hammer, my pet cannot

Possibly but thats the problem, we already have that Core, Druid, and SlB are very solid roamers and do reasonably well in <10 man groups Unless the hammer hits like an absolute nuclear bomb on par with the Rev hammer, this isn't going to get us a zerg spot anymore than druid heals or soulbeast stance share did because it has the same problem they had, too much personal benefit at the expense of any team synergy "Rangers need not apply" is going to be the WvW guild moto forever at this rate

It's more of a "Make pets not garbage" agenda, to be honest

I imagined it and then immediately imagined Anet nerfing the kitten out of drakes and any other pet that will get boosted to viable dps levels to quell spvp subforum tears

So basically every ranger spec along with vanilla except now the pet requires even more micro managing

They made the Scrapper, a survival bruiser, into a better team healer than the Druid Of course the golem is going to be better than any of our pets

Every other class has matched up with the [info we're not allowed to discuss on this forum] We're getting hammer

5 mil to skiffs and fishing 112 mil to skiff and fishing pole skins

Pretty sure when people asked for "actual Guild Wars" they were referring to structured pvp modes and not a system that will see the top slot forever dominated by whatever Alliance manages to Katamari up the most serious players

This was always going to be the end result They're taking a system that already barely works as intended and making it that much more complicated The same people rigging matchups will figure out how to break this system as well and newbies who are already apprehensive about diving into a pvp mode (one that still relies on having BiS pve gear, at the very least ascended weapons) even more likely to just say "no thanks" and then complain that they need gifts of battle Especially if they prefer "non meta" classes like ranger and thief or classes that have limited use like mesmer Telling these people they have to sit at a forever jumbled pug table isn't going to be very appealing

If the servers can handle all the kitten firing off in a full 80vs80vs80 WvW map, activity that causes so much congestion it can lead to double digit seconds of wait time on key press and skill activation, it can handle a few dozen people swapping templates at any given time across multiple servers This had nothing to do with general stability and was almost certainly an issue of people triggering crashes by macroing gear and template swaps to min/max clear speeds The system wasn't likely built to handle people swapping templates in millisecond intervals and rather than sniff out macro users and tip off people on how to crash the game, they just removed any incentive to do it and gave us a nebulous "because stability" explanation

While I generally endorse any attempt to remove people's ability to confuse "cheese and exploits" with "skill", this does seem like an odd thing to care about at this point in the game's life where "speed clearing" things is pretty much the only reason a large chunk of instanced content players even still bother logging in Also seems rather dumb given that you are expected to pre-buff prior to activating a strike fight and presumably will have a similar system in the EoD strikes

The sad reality is the game is now overwhelmingly made up of people who don't actually like action RPGs and thus refuse to engage in any actual gameplay that requires effort, instead opting for instant gratification via gemstore cosmetics and buying gold from Anet to get everything else Itr's why you see such a visceral hatred of serious players in this game beyond anything I've ever seen in any of the other big 3 MMO's right now I mean, kitten, EoD's biggest selling points so far have been "dance on a boat" and "harvest fish nodes", neither of which even involve using your class skills in any way and people are actually excited by this

You can right click on mount licenses in the store interface and it will let you preview what's in the pack The lottery box's are kitten but they aren't a total scam either

Ya, I'm not really sure how anyone can watch the video and not just assume that fishing is reskinned herb nodes you slap with a stick instead of a sickle

Unless they pull the kitten they did in HoT with lilies, pearls, and flax, I don't see fish being all that much more valuable over current mats In fact, making the resource food based is probably going to actually make much of the fish value null on launch Why pay 5x as much for a food that gives you the same buffs as current "not seafood" based dishes? There will be a minor spike from whale speculators and completionists and then much of the items will likely end up like sawgill mushrooms or eyes of kormir with supply overwhelming what little demand there is 3 weeks after launch

It has less to do with them "losing inspiration" and far more to do with them losing literally any and all development staff who gave a kitten about the content or were capable of creating more of it It's the same story for pretty much every other aspect of them gave that has been left to rot on the vine "So and So was the only person keeping content X going and they don't work here anymore" is the end result of almost every dig into why something hasn't been updated in years The amount of dev staff that are still around from the "good old days" is probably in the single digits and most of them are likely management who are just there to facilitate bean counter decisions at this point

I would assume they could swim for it I mean, lets hope there's a reason to actually enter all this water they're gonna put in the maps or this is going to be one extremely dull expansion

99.9% chance what they mean is new faces and hair styles for humans to reflect the Asian area we're going to just as they did with PoF Cross your fingers and toes and hope they actually update the other races as well this time

Not having to sit in town repeatedly shouting that your 6/8 team was looking for 2 monks was the greatest feeling on Earth and nothing can change my mind

Because people don't like feeling weak in a videogame, especially one that essentially only has one metric of "strength" (DPS) No one wants to feel like they have to play with lead boots on because the class that appeals to them the most is objectively weaker for no apparent trade off There's also the simple matter of not getting team slots if you're not on a "good class" The strong class might help the weak class loot faster but why would the strong class even party with the weak class in the first place when he's the one who's going to be held back? He'll just class stack with another "strong class" and loot even faster, leaving the weak class to sit in town

This is a game where you get a sizeable character limit and multiple spaces for your toon names If you're really running into issues where you can't name a toon without resorting to exotic characters then you're simply not being creative enough, if at all In fact, pretty much the only time I see people resort to special characters is when people want pop fiction names or low effort stuff like "Moon Queen Luna" It's also HIGHLY presumptuous to assume that a taken name is rotting on some abandoned account and not still in use Sorry that you can't name your pistol Thief "John Wick" or whatever but that's what happens when you join a game that came out 8 years ago

>Balance patch >Every point for Ranger is a minor bugfix Really hope the new spec isn't pet focused or it really will be DoA

This seems incredibly unlikely given the "best failsafe against leaks" is to just not update the game with content you know is going to get mined by people who openly do it with every update you push There's there's no point to uploading gear boxes for classes that aren't available to demo, many of which are probably not even done yet, aside from spaghet code kitten If, for some reason, they needed to have a box for each class, they would have just put up the PoF boxes like they now have with the assumption that people would understand they were placeholders when the "leaked" weapons were all the same ones from PoF specs, not put out random weapon codes hoping to bamboozle data miners