Keitaro Dragonheart.9047

Right, which was why I said "bring it back from Guild Wars 1".

I don't know if this topic has been made before, I haven't seen it myself, but I'd venture a guess that it probably has, but please bring back Polymock from Guild Wars 1! Polymock was one of the most fun mini-games in Guild Wars. For those who haven't played Guild Wars 1 or are unfamiliar with Polymock, you gather little Polymock pieces that resemble Chess Pieces. Each piece resembles a creature. Then you choose three of them, and battle them against an opponent. Sort of like a Pokemon Battle. You already have the Polymock Arenas in game, so why not bring the game back too? I recall having quite a bit of fun with it; gathering and winning pieces, playing against AI opponents and winning new pieces, etc. I can only speak for myself, but I think a lot of people would enjoy Polymock.

In Malchor's Leap, in the Karst Plains, just a quick jaunt west of the Hero Point Challenge, there is an endless spawning group of Risen. They spawn endlessly for seemingly no reason; you kill them, and more spawn without end. I've seen this happen even when there are no events around, so I can only assume its a bug. Edit: It's a rather large group of risen, and they respawn almost as fast as they die. On that note, I'd like to say that this bug was pretty fun. I honestly didn't care that I wasn't getting any loot, but I was having a blast with the endless fighting. Even got some people to jump in and join me. I'm embarrassed to admit, I wasted half an hour just fighting these endlessly spawning Risen, lol. Maybe take this bug and turn it into a feature? Like, a Horde Mode challenge or something.

Continued to read this thread for amusement, and I wasn't disappointed. "I'm greedy and want everything for free."~everyone arguing GW2 is P2W

This game is most definitely not pay to win, by any stretch of the imagination. It's pointless to argue with people who think it is, because they're wrong, full stop, end of discussion. There's literally nothing that backs up their "arguments". "But E-specs provide an advantage!" E-Specs are part of an entire expansion. If we're going to argue that expansion content is P2W, then every gave, ever made, that has had expansions is P2W. Some people will nitpick until the heat death of the Universe. They're not worth the time or effort to argue with. They're wrong; you know it, I know it, ignore them and move on. :)

@"Veprovina.4876" Yeah, I noticed that later, but I was too lazy to change it. xD But anywho, it's my opinion, (and from years of watching these forums, the opinion of many others including other thief mains) that that unparalleled stealth and the initiative system, are holding the thief back. It's true, Mesmer has received more crippling nerfs, but I'm still salty as hell about how they gutted Acrobatics, re-packaged it as Daredevil, and then never fixed Acrobatics. But I digress. Any class that plays "mind games" of any sort, always finds itself at the top of people's chopping block for the simple reason that victory isn't as easy as HULK SMASH. Unfortunately, ANet listened to those people and now we have Mesmer in this pitiful state (pity since I've loved Mesmer since GW1), with people still demanding more nerfs. What they're really after, without outright saying it, is for devs to just delete everything they don't like. Today it's Thief and Mesmer. Whose next, tomorrow? Necromancer? Warrior?

I main both Thief and Mesmer, and from what I can see, both classes are in the same boat. They're constantly getting nerfed because they require more than 2 brain cells to counter/play against. Thieves and Mesmers require their opponents to think. God forbid one should have to actually think. Why do that when a lobotomized pigeon can play Holosmith, or Renegade (for example) well just by crapping randomly over the keyboard.

Ah yes, those were the days. The GW1 Assassin was far superior to the Thief in literally every single way as a Rogue class (ignoring Shadow Form which was stupidly overpowered and should never have existed in the first place). It didn't need stealth to fuck up someone's day, but it still had plenty of counters as well. I'd hoped for a bit of that in the Thief, but...good lord was I disappointed. To clarify, I wasn't expecting The Assassin, but the current state of the thief, is kind of a joke. And not a funny one. Smfh.

For what it's worth; I've never seen an Anet dev play thief. N-E-V-E-R. I knew about the upcoming Consume Plasma nerf, but I had no idea they'd also be nerfing Sap Essence (one of the few remaining actually hard-hitting thief skills). I'm confused as to why, if Signet of Agility was such an issue , they couldn't just up the cooldown by 5-10 seconds? Then again, considering how limited its use is with its current cooldown as things stand... And people are actually out there talking about it as this 'superb condi cleanse', when it literally only does that while granting an added (now half a ) dodge. It's not like it's a stun break. I really am not much of a fan of deadeye's gameplay pattern. But that's the road Anet's pigeonholing me onto. Pretty much. The most frustrating to me personally isn't even the nerfs in and of themselves. That's dumbfounding, but what's frustrating to me personally are the non-thief players that just seem to think this change is warranted on sole basis that Thieves needed a nerf. They don't realize what the consequence of this change is going to be. Either Thieves are going to keep using Shortbow and find a way around the cost, or they won't use Shortbow and find another means of Mobility. I know some Deadeyes that got really good with Death's Retreat that are probably going to be fine. As for the Thieves that will keep using Shortbow, I can almost guarantee they are all going to do the same thing. It now takes 8 seconds instead of 6 seconds to regen the initiative to cast Shortbow (assuming there are no other sources of Ini regen). Guess which trait happens to restore 1 Initiative every 3 seconds? Shadow's Rejuvenation. When before it was an optional trait that was just really strong (and imho was a crutch, but that's just me) will now be borderline mandatory to make up the difference. That means Thieves are going to spending a lot more time in stealth to get that bonus. What's super ironic is that the same players that are saying the nerf is justified are the same ones that are complaining about the stealth uptime, not realizing what they've just done.What these players are really after, is the deletion of the Thief class entirely. "There's a playstyle I don't like? Oh we can't have that! Nerf it Devs!" Selfish players thinking only of themselves to the detriment of everyone around them, and the game itself. Once they achieve this, which class will next be on their chopping block, I wonder? Certainly not their own, of this you can be sure!

Can't say I'm entirely surprised. Just glad I bailed on WvW and PvP ages ago. Those game modes used to be a lot of fun, but they've slowly turned into a dumpster fire over the years. This balance team is terrible. The literal worst Balance Team I've ever seen in any game ever. Ban me, don't even care any more; I'm just calling it like I see it.

This is why I don't spend $$$ on loot boxes, of any kind. The loot box mechanic is gaming cancer.

Yes, this, please, 1,000 times this! Heavy and Light armors, I find, have so much variety, but medium armor is all the same! I hate PvP, but I actually did PvP just to get Glorious Armor for my thief so I could have something that wasn't a damn trenchcoat! Why do only Scholars and Soldiers get variety? Why do they get a wide array of different styles, while adventurers have nothing but coats, coats, and more coats?! Please Anet, give Adventurer classes some actual options! Y'know, options that aren't strictly gem store crap. Edit: Final thought; Anet, if you're really listening to your players, then why have you been ignoring this, that we've all been asking for, for literal years? Each patch that adds new armor is always a massive disappointment when it comes to medium armor. Some creativity in your design choices for medium armor would be appreciated.

PvPers can't handle anything that functions as long as it's capable of beating them.

Chiming in here, this bug is still in the game and it's infuriating. Please, for the love of God, fix this.

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Recently updated my Thief's look with the new(ish) Runic Armor. Gotta say, I'm kinda liking it.

It's a common theme in literally every game with some kind of rogue or illusion type class. Illusion and Rogue classes are tricky, play dirty, and require the opponent to actually think. Where other classes are more straight forward, Rogues and Illusion Mages are much more subtle, deceitful and tricky. But as with every game that has these classes, the playerbase has no interest in thinking, and countering, and putting in the mental effort to fight them. So they whine and cry until the Devs inevitably respond by bringing the nerf hammer down. And this will continue to happen as long as the nerf criers realize they can continually get their way by complaining, instead of learning and adapting. My suggestion with the current trend of nerfing Mesmer and Thief is that they may as well just delete all of our Mesmer and Thief characters' avatars and replace them with a loot bag, since that seems to be the end goal for anti-thieves and anti-mesmers. And ArenaNet will undoubtedly appease them. It's a shame to see my two favorite classes get continually hammered with the nerf bat. But It's also not surprising, since that's what I've seen in pretty much every game that has these two class types. If you enjoy trickery and deceit, if you enjoy playing mind games with your opponent, well too bad for you. That's the mentality of the modern MMO gamer these days.

Oh wow, I completely forgot about this thread, lmao. My spirit animal is Dory. xD I'm on NA, but I completed that bit of the story already. Means I'll have to re-do the whole chapter. >_> Idk why we can't choose which part of a chapter, but that should be a thing. It would make hunting story achievements immeasurably less boring.

Hello all. I'm looking for a bit of help w/ this achievement. It's the Laser Trap achievement in "Be My Guest" on the LWS 4 chapter "Long Live The Lich". I have an Asura Engineer at that part, and I've tried to do it on my own, on and off for the last three hours. It's the curse of being a perfectionist I guess, lol. Anywho, if anyone could help, I'd greatly appreciate it. I've already tried asking all of my guilds, Map Chat, and LFG, but I can't find a soul to help. I thought of using a Thief or a Mesmer, but I also really don't want to have to repeat the entire chapter all over again. (Utterly stupid design choice btw. Thanks Anet.)

I mean, let's be honest. For anyone that has been playing Guild Wars since 2005, it certainly doesn't come as any surprise. They've been making questionable balance and design choices for 15 years. Who here remembers the Guild Wars 1 skill "Smiter's Boon (PvP)"? Not to say they're not capable of making great balance and design choices, but it seems to me, their "fixes" are often worse than what they're trying to "fix". It's why I stopped doing WvW over three years ago, and from what I've seen lately, I'm glad I did. Every "fix" has made the mode worse, and worse. It's kind of hilarious. ArenaNet has "Smiter's Boon'd" WvW.

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I've really enjoyed the new Season so far, especially as aGW1 player! But I gotta say, the amount of CC during the Wyvern fight in the first instance is just completely and utterly ridiculous. There was no need for that amount of CC. Anet, you seriously need to tone it down with the CC on boss encounters, because the Wyvern fight was the most unfun, frustrating boss fight I've ever had in the entire game. It wasn't hard, but it was seriously annoying. Almost every single one of its attacks had a knock back or launch attached to it, along with environmental CC. Seriously, stop it.

Updated my thief's look. Also went with darker, more stealthy colors. :p

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