Stu Grockalot.2937

Woo hoo, all aboard the hype train!!! I am so excited, and can genuinely say I haven't been this excited about the game for a long time! Just wondering, what the community consensus is regarding more information? Would you prefer to wait for say 3 months and then get a lot of substantial information in one go, (for example all details about an entire elite spec) or for them to drip feed little tidbits of information as teasers more frequently, for example, just the name of an elite spec, but nothing else ? I prefer the latter, as the speculation on unknown factors is half the fun! :)

Dear Developers, Thank you for all your hard work in producing an awesome game. I am not going to push you for any further details, but I will push you to commit to a single one word answer: Will we EVER get more Elite Specs? Yes or No?

Personally, the reason that my static group don't do raids is we don't always have 10 people online. Not sure how feasible it is, to introduce, "Training Raids" which are say 5 man, slightly easier e.g. Tier 4 Fractal or later end Strike Missions, but have reduced rewards, so that people can't cheese them and get easy legendary gear. It will let people learn the mechanics, and then (hopefully) two well practiced, 5 man groups, can join up and make a new 10 man group.

First of all, I'd like to state that this is not a moan at the development team, who are doing a fantastically awesome job. The most recent living World story was by far some of the best content they've released to date. They just keep getting better. Given the release cadences of HoT and PoF, we SHOULD be enjoying a 3rd expansion right now. However, somebody, somewhere thought that it would be a good idea to go straight from LWS4 into Season 5, and not to do an expansion. I don't know the reason or method behind the madness, but from what I've seen this was largely a BAD idea. As amazing as the LWS 5 saga stories, and content are, it's not enough. Am I missing something? Seriously, like why on earth would someone decide to do another LWS episode over an expansion? Once, again, nothing against the development team the Living World content is amazing, but no Expansion seems to be starting to stress the community out and I see cracks appearing in once loyal communities.

I can't wrap my head around the inconsistency of the template upgrades.Build templates have an account template and a character template, so why can't Equipment templates use the same system?I mean, the downside would be that then there is quadruple monetisation, and I can see that irking some people, but I'd happily put my hand in pocket if it got around the problem of having to unequip gear from a characters equipment, before swapping, then having to re-add it to template.What I can see in the future is I'm going to have to completely re-build my equipment template every other day, or however frequently I swap gear between characters.Bottom line, this is not a well implemented system :(

Yes but either way you slice it, you are still taking account bound items such as ascended and legendary gear and devaluing them to the value of character bound Exotic gear.That is not a good move, especially if you expect the community to pay for this service :(

Firstly, let me say I am blown away by the Build Templates, these look great and will provide a huge QOL improvement. A big thanks to all the Devs for their hard work. However, the Equipment templates don't seem to have the same impact, and from what I saw on the Guild Chat last night, actually have a negative effect on QOL making it more cumbersome and difficult to change gear between characters. Currently, if I have a staff, (a weapon used by many classes) in my shared inventory slot, it is so easy to swap this weapon between multiple characters. Now, with the new Equipment Templates, I have to remove the weapon from one characters Template slot, then move it to the shared inventory slot, then swap characters, and add that to his Equipment Template. Then when I'm finished, unbind the weapon form his Equipment Template, move to shared, slot go back to other character, and add it to his Equipment Template. This is a very clunky system, and seems to be a step backwards having 2 extra steps to swap weapons between characters. Also, given that legendary gear is designed to make swapping builds between characters a lot easier, this new system actually discourages the pursuit of legendary gear, as it would be cheaper and easier to have lots of ascended weapons of the same type, i.e. 6 ascended staffs are probably still cheaper than Bitfrost. All it would take is for the weapons, once added to an Equipment Template, to be account bound, and the weapons stored in some sort of shared inventory slot, with a sense checker to make sure that you're not trying to give a Mesmer a longbow for example. If Equipment Templates functioned like build templates, this new system would be perfect.

This may have already been answered, but please can you explain how equipment templates function between different characters. For example, my mesmer uses Greatsword and Axe/Torch combo, so too does my necro. They also use both Staff and Sceptre/Focus combo. I have in their inventory, 1 greatsword, 1 staff, 1 sceptre, 1 focus, 1 axe and 1 torch. I have to move items from 1 characters inventory to another when I swap their equipment over. You have stated that once a piece of equipment is added to the equipment template, it disappears from the characters inventory, while this is great and will save so much space, how do I use this with another character now. For example, if I save Greatsword Axe/Torch to my mesmer build, and then want to use that (ascended) gear for my necro, how does that work? Can my necro use the same equipment template as my mesmer? If not, do I have to unequip my gear from the mesmer equipment template to add it to a separate necro equipment template? then what happens if I try to equip that equipment template on my mesmer but the gear isn't there? will the template fall over? Many thanks, and keep up the great work! Stu.

I've sat here and waited for ages, I've tried just before the meta, during the meta, nothing.Wouldn't mind just trying to get 100% exploration on an alt character :/

Something needs to be done about Dragon's Stand.At release of HoT this was an amazing map, the meta was fantastic, and I enjoyed the big push to take down Mordremoth.Now a days the map ALWAYS seems empty, the meta never progresses and large areas of the map are un-explorable.Something needs to be done to fix it :(

Please add salvage all rare and lower to the salvaging kits.It irks me that there is a salvage all masterwork and lower option, salvage fine and lower, but under rare, the option is just salvage all rare.Surely, if you are prepared to salvage all rare, you do not care about masterwork and fine?Please add "and lower" to the salvage rare option.

@Irenio CalmonHuang.2048I love the fact that you guys are releasing the patch notes a week early. I love the fact we can salivate over all the juicy changes before they go live.Please, please, please tell me this is a permanent thing and ALL future balance patches will be released in this way.It really ramps up the hype train for myself, and gets me even more excited about the patch, than compared to the old method of releasing the patch and the notes at the same time.Please keep up the fantastic work, and thank you.

They delayed the release of this, and yet it's still bugged. Episode 3.1 Long Live The Bug In The System

Map Bonus Reward gathering tools.Gathering tools that have a chance to provide, a small quantity of the resource awarded as a map bonus for that area.

Personally, I love everything to do with GW2 and want it to be the best game ever.I am also mindful that Arenanet do not work on the game for FREE!! This all costs money to pay the developers, and as a player I am happy to help support Arenanet and contribute towards the next Living World Season,(a considerable amount of content shipped for free by the way), and also balance patches, new Raid wings, new PvP content, WvW content, (again all for free). When you look at other online role playing games that force you to have a subscription of ~£10 a month, I won't name-drop any here, but suffice to say there was a massive motion picture based on it! ; then even after that GW2 is still cheaper. Mounts skins are optional, so if you chose to support the company that you love, to help develop the game that you love, stop your moaning.Otherwise you run the risk of sounding like a spoiled child who doesn't get their way, and how life is unfair and treats you poorly.Do the math, even if you CHOOSE to buy all the mounts, still cheaper than other online games!

There are examples of melee weapons being used as ranged. The mesmer used greatsword as ranged and revenant uses Hammer as ranged. No reason why a new elementalist elite spec can't do the same.