Janthir Wilds Spear Beta Event Feedback: Elementalist

[Markus.6415]

20 hours ago, Chyro.1462 said:

There's been a news article yesterday about their response to the feedback:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/sharp-lessons-spear-beta-feedback-update/

Yeah thanks, i read that. It was still in the future when I posted my comment 

[Chyro.1462]

On 6/27/2024 at 6:27 PM, Rubi Bayer.8493 said:

The beta event for spears has begun and is open to all players with an account in good standing! The event runs from June 27 at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time until June 30 at 10:00 p.m. Pacific Time and we'd love to hear your feedback. Let us know what you think of the new weapon for elementalists in this thread!

Can we still post spear feedback here and the devs will maybe see it or is it better to open new topics for that?

On tempest, it seems fire overload does charge the etching so you can go etching -> overload -> volcano, which feels nice cause it synergises with the class. But the same doesn't apply to air overload for some reason - air overload doesn't charge the etching. Not sure if it cause fire overload is doing whirl-finisher combos in its own firefield. Would be neat if all overloads could charge their etching though, makes it flow a lot better for tempest.

[draxynnic.3719]

2 hours ago, Chyro.1462 said:

Can we still post spear feedback here and the devs will maybe see it or is it better to open new topics for that?

On tempest, it seems fire overload does charge the etching so you can go etching -> overload -> volcano, which feels nice cause it synergises with the class. But the same doesn't apply to air overload for some reason - air overload doesn't charge the etching. Not sure if it cause fire overload is doing whirl-finisher combos in its own firefield. Would be neat if all overloads could charge their etching though, makes it flow a lot better for tempest.

Could be worth checking water and earth - granted, a power build wouldn't normally be using those overloads, but it might help pin down whether it's air or fire that's special.

[Josspai.4356]

3 hours ago, draxynnic.3719 said:

Could be worth checking water and earth - granted, a power build wouldn't normally be using those overloads, but it might help pin down whether it's air or fire that's special.

I checked, sadly neither air, water, or earth overloads charge etchings, only fire overload does.

[draxynnic.3719]

On 8/22/2024 at 2:16 AM, Josspai.4356 said:

I checked, sadly neither air, water, or earth overloads charge etchings, only fire overload does.

Sounds like it might be the whirl finishers doing it, then.

[Gaiawolf.8261]

A shame. It would be a nice QOL for tempests considering they have to get close to get anything useful out of overloads on a weapon that wants to be at range.

Then again, weavers and catalysts have their own issues.

[Chyro.1462]

Small QoL request:

Would it be possible to show both etching tooltips when hovering the etching skill? Makes it really inconvenient to check what your etching finisher does since the tooltips only show the 'yes you're starting your etching' tooltip. And if you do activate it to read, you only have 7 seconds to read what the finisher does. They're not even shown in the weaponskills overwied of the build tab, so can't check them there. With other classes/weapons having their whole tooltip fill out the entirety of the screen, it shouldn't be hard to display two tooltips for each etching.

Edit: Forgot it should be 3 tooltips. The etching, the uncharged finisher and the charged finisher.

Edited August 31 by Chyro.1462

[Terrorangel.1526]

The visuals are so pretty! But I have problems seeing the enemies attacks because of them. Especially the Etching abilities make it hard for me to see the red circles where an enemies attack is about to land.