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Holy cow new PvP content?? To tell you the truth I thought 'Push' meant we'd be doing some sort of lane warfare with minions, which I was quite excited about. But this also looks good! And hey, new PvP content?! This is great, will definitely give it a go cheers ANet!

As a WvW Rev main myself after witnessing the horror of Sceptre, then switching to Thief and Axes having acceptable range for about three days, I decided to wait this expansion out to see what level of g-imped ANet decide is appropriate 😄

Yeah but mate... You know how they are with new mechanics, they always get tuned. On the plus side Spears are better than SotO weapon additions at least, from what I heard. Hopefully they will end up in a good place for every profession eventually.

This is another issue with it - you need to get lucky with LFG before you even reach the other problems because it is not on a timer.

As someone who did this meta largely blind and experienced a failure that would have been a success with maybe 20 more seconds on the clock, I agree with you. I had no idea that the buff pools were what was ticking my hp down when I was trying to do damage - I was too busy avoiding all the aoe and moving damage walls and trying to close rifts and stop the champs and take down break bars. That entire fight is a clusterkitten. It wasn't until the final encounter where, absent of any obvious other sources of damage, I had a moment to check wtf those rage 'buffs' were doing and was then able to avoid them.

Buying it as soon as it becomes available is the very opposite of waiting...

Shouldn't you have waited then before buying? I dunno about your experience, but for me the weapon updates in SotO were dreadful. They were overly complex and just weren't fun to use, the story also nose dived once the player arrived in Nayos. This time around I am waiting before I buy Janthir, because Spears and yet another home instance don't intrigue me.

Yeah levelling Rev is gruesome sorry for your loss OP. It gets better once you have the traits unlocked. Rev is designed with cycling every weapon and utility skill in mind, plus intelligent legend switching to trigger weapon and elite procs and various traits. You can't camp one weapon set or legend and remain viable, you can't switch legends and gain benefits of switching when those traits are locked. So Rev really suffers without its full kit available. It's like trying to do ballet with both your feet on the ground.

They probably did build out the entire set, but will release it one piece at a time. It’ll be similar to the weapon sets for yearly events like SAB. The retro-forged set would have been done in one go instead of having an artist keep coming back every year.

The way I look at farming anything in GW2 is that I don’t want to be farming it at all. Instead, I want to be making gold effectively enough to purchase the item I need. The economy in GW2 is such that absolutely everything has a value in gold, and gold translates directly to time. Don’t worry about not being able to farm scales - try to find the most effective way to make the gold you need to buy them instead. There’s loads of ways of doing that, but I imagine for you it might involve parking loads of alts at gathering spawns and gathering them instead to sell.

Me too - sorry folks.

After Sceptre turned out sooooo bad on Rev (my main) I switched to Thief just as a way to try something a bit different. My Thief had previously existed more or less purely as a character in SAB, who has all the SAB weapons and unlocks. I had a bit of fun doing WvW as a roamer and was slowly picking up some of the more dastardly tricks - like shadowstep / return to avoid interrupt when finishing an opponent. When Spears were announced I was cautious, given the track record with the previous expansion’s weapons which I felt, as a whole, were overly complex for no good reason. Now I see Thief had a promising weapon that got destroyed, and I am wondering what will happen to Rev in the next patch as Spear seems over tuned for them. I am holding back on my purchase until things settle down. I’m also REALLY not a fan of this trickle-fed content.

Certainly Taimi is a good reason to break all association with the Pact. Actually Asura in general are extremely irritating; It’s such a trope to make the most technologically advanced race the most insufferable as well. Plenty of better ways that combination of traits could have been handled. Had we been given more control over Pact affairs, I’d have kicked everyone out with the exception of Canuck, Rytlock and Rox.

I think they chose Wayfinder because it has a less militaristic connotation. I disagree - the player IS and forever will be the Pact Commander. However this is the world we live in.

So how does spear work in wvw with celestial builds?