I dont think I’ve ever seen a more uninspired gear system in a game
Literally none of the gear pieces have unique effects or exclusive attributes. No, not even boots have movement speed.
Literally just a full set of stat sticks geg

>>716354281 (OP)
they used to, but the devs decided to move "set bonus" effects onto another piece of gear to grind for

the meta is still just "you do more damage when you do thing"

>>716354281 (OP)
Yea so you can choose the stats you want without unique effect tied to them. That's the point. You get your effects from your sigils and relic along with your build of traits. While stats come from runes and gear. It's better than it all being 1 system because it allows for build freedom.

>>716354465
Maybe for PvEasy in PvP the meta is more dodges, boonrip, cleanse, movement speed or other utility.

>>716354465
>>716354508
This your unique effect?

>>716354281 (OP)
Just go play PoE then you zoomer retard.

>>716354281 (OP)
>Literally none of the gear pieces have unique effects or exclusive attributes. No, not even boots have movement speed.
>Literally just a full set of stat sticks geg
so FFXIV?

>>716354671
>he says sigils and relic
>pull up rune info
Clearly you know so much about what you're talking about.

>>716354671
no, this is. Something like this used to be on runes, but now it's on a separate piece for reasons that are a mystery to me.

>>716354281 (OP)
>I dont think I’ve ever seen a more uninspired gear system in a game
Literally none of the gear pieces have unique effects or exclusive attributes. No, not even boots have movement speed.
Literally just a full set of stat sticks geg
But enough about FFXIV.
https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Relic_of_the_Living_City

>>716354671
Also what unique effects do your rings amulet accessory and trinket have?

Surely they didnt add 6 more jewelry slots… just so they can be gear sticks. Or do the infusions have interesting effects maybe?

>>716354807
if you told me literally anyone runs this, I would not believe you

>>716354681
I will and I do. Its actually hilarious how trash MMO gearing systems are in comparison

>It's okay when XIV does it!
I wish guild wars 2 was actually good. Fun game but there's nothing to fucking do besides brainless open world content, shitty mmo pvp, or the daily strikes and fractals that take less than three minutes to complete.
Someday we'll get a MMO that doesn't make us embarrassed to tell eachother we play it. But not anytime soon

>>716354836
Stop being a disingenuous retard for attention you can just make a thread to talk about the game. Amulets can have bonuses for grinding currencies. Infusion slots are either for cosmetics or agony resistance. All customization comes from trait builds which makes it far wider than games like wow or ffxiv when it comes to build customization.
>>716354929
After bloodstone relic gets nerfed next patch I bet scrapper picks this up

>spend time focusing on things I feel negatively about
>wonder why I'm unhappy

>>716355151
but he's right, GW2's itemization is absolute trash from a mechanical perspective, but it still showers you with Diablo amounts of loot only good for salvaging. You'll almost never get a drop you actually care to use as anything more than a skin.

>>716355151
What you’re missing retard is none of these unique effects are intrinstic to the gear they’re all shit you tack on to them.

MMOs died when female characters changed from being 50% female irl to 1%

>>716355367
You're the retard for wanting to lump stats and effects together. Pigeonhole yourself into taking stats you don't want to get an effect you do. Sounds masochistic to me. I choose my stats and build separate from eachother and prefer it that way.
>>716355363
Who gives a fuck this game has never been about getting rare drops. It's about grinding towards the goal of crafting what you want. Only zoomers care about dopamine hits from 1% drop tables.

>>716355367
>Goalpost?
Moved

>Longbow Ranger is dogshit awful
>instead of fixing this, Anet makes an elite spec that just summons Better Longbow
>strong indication all the new elite specs will be bundle specs like Bladesworn
I hate them

>>716355597
>this game has never been about getting rare drops
>the only way to get a legendary for several years after launch was to get an incredibly rare drop
mhm

>>716355687
>only way
>can be bought
>can be dropped
>can be gambled for in the mystic toilet

>>716354281 (OP)
there's a reason this is leddits favorite mmo.

>>716355785
>can be bought
after it drops
>can be gambled for in the mystic toilet
this is just another method of getting it to drop

>>716355826
Whats the reason?

>>716355621
Oh you wanted to play ranged ranger? KWAB mediumfags btfo again. Lightbros this is OUR xpac

Also longbow is still aids in pvp especially since they never fixed LB4 sending you through walls.

>>716355827
>this is just another method of getting it to drop
XD

i played at launch for a while and dropped it forever ago once i completed the zhaitan stuff
then again i played a necro and it was fucking suffering

>>716355826
>leddits favorite mmo
> r/wow 3m
>r/osrs 1.3m
>r/ffxiv 1.3m
>r/gw2 350... thosand??
Gw2 has always been a 4chan mmo thoughbeit. Anything else is reddit

>>716356114
How do you remember zhaitans name if you played it at launch and never came back? Makes no sense

>>716355894
imagine a world where the new elite specs gave an "iconic" core weapon set a new moveset
>Engineer Rifle
>Ranger Longbow
>Thief Daggers
>Elementalist Staff
>Mesmer Sword+Pistol
>Necromancer Scepter+Focus
>Guardian Mace+Shield
>Warrior Greatsword

>>716356232
>how do you remember things from 13 years ago?
what a dumb question

>>716356410
It would be a terrible idea because some of those are regularly meta weapons and not being able to use them would gimp the class. Mainly thinking engineer thief and elementalist.

>>716356624
just make the elite specs comparable in power to (or better than) current meta loadouts using the weapons. Or make it so you can pick and choose which moves you want to use from either moveset if you have the new elite spec equipped. Call it a throwback to GW1.

>>716356624
>noooo you need to develop with the intent to not touch the current meta that's been stuck in place for years
fuck off

>>716356205
>Gw2 has always been a 4chan mmo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxTiwKvp348

>>716356986
>stuck in place for years
You don't play the game retard, builds and traits regularly cycle in and out. Some weapons simply are too good by design and can always have value in pvp.
>>716356848
Much better idea a drop down menu letting you pick the 5 weapon skills is a better idea

>>716355621
Better than some dumb shit like druid or untamed. Soulbeast is the only good spec on ranger

Post Asuras, faggots.

GW3 is hopefully going to vanquish all the weirdos still playing GW2. So happy i quit after EoD

>>716357273
>can't refute the numbers so xhe posts a shitty yt video
I accept your concession.

>>716354281 (OP)
not really related to class design but something that has always irked me about GW2 is the race choices are...bad to say the least
>human (99% of people play them)
>fat humans
>goblin creatures
>furry race
>half tree people?

idk chief, I think WoW and XIV do races better. Even if XIV is 'human with cat ears', at least there's some race variety. Literally everyone in GW2 played human from what I remember.

>>716354281 (OP)
It's been a long time since I played GW2, but my go-to ranged build was Thief dual pistols and spamming UNLOAD forever like a retard.

>>716355872
gw2 is extremely casual and doesn't really gatekeep anyone from doing any content. WoW by design has a system that filters shitters from doing hard content. Whether that be raids, M+, or even PvP.

>>716357567
This is for all accounts that have connected to GW2efficiency.com, which is all but the most casual of players and people who bounced before or right after getting to max level.

>>716356410
I'd only like this if they allowed quickswapping the moveset from base to elite as easily as normal weapon swaps

>>716357817
The reason for charr being so low is armour looks retarded and unbelievable on them

MMOs should ban losers from making female characters. I swear, the faggoty shit I've seen over the years from you lads playing as females is one of the slipperiest slopes.

>>716357567
No gw2 player would ever disagree with you. Pretty sure their code and engine limitations are why we never got more races and better bodytype customization. I want real anthro girls not this redditshit westoid knock off. Give me Codevein or Mechabreak customization

>>716357990
>check out gw2 efficiency race x gender x profession Characters/Playtime numbers
>top 6 of both are human females

I mean I know the game has a large tranny/lgbt/activist population but holy shit lmao

>>716357990
>>716358368
It does but actually troons all play Asura and I say that without a hint of irony. They're never on anything else out of the 8ish I've interacted with over the years.

>>716357324
>literally repeating that some weapons are so good that they have been meta weapons for literal years despite build metas shifting around them
:^)

>>716358358
Adding another race would take the same amount of effort as a whole mini expansion with the voice acting and personal story missions especially since all of the races have their own city

>>716357968
also their run animation fuckin sucks

>>716357968
True, it's hard to find a variety of good looks for my charr characters. Honestly for light armor I use mostly the same pieces just dyed differently.

>>716354281 (OP)
Missing the point. Gear progression is stupid and skills or unique effects should never be tied to gear. Nobody should WANT to be on a treadmill, you have wowbrain rot.

>>716357757
GW2 has a system that filters shitters from doing hard content because the content is hard, not because you don't meet an arbitrary stat requirement.

>>716358775
>gear progression bad
>farming 150 hours for one legendary item good

>>716354281 (OP)
definitely the worst part about the game. somehow FFXIV is even worse

>>716359119
you don't NEED legendaries for any content, that's the point

>>716359426
You also dont NEED the most boring gear system imaginable

>>716357757
I tried to get into raiding in gw2 and the skill ceiling is retardedly high. I downloaded a dps meter and while furiously sweating I was doing like 50% the dps of other people with the same gear

>>716359426
There's no point in arguing with this nigger he makes the threads for attention and the same 1-2 anons shit them up with him. Just use the general if you want to talk about gw2 these are quite literally bait from osrs and wow trannies.

>>716359637
it's nice being able to log in whenever and do the new content I want to do immediately without having to spend weeks farming for an arbitrary stat check
gear treadmill is and has always been the most boring part of an MMO and it's just a lazy way for modern games to maintain player retention

>>716354779
this is an objective improvement thoughbeit

in guild wars 1 each rune applied an effect, in guild wars 2 you needed to shove 6 copies of that rune to get an effect which is retarded, relic is back to the guild wars 1 format but you can only pick one

>>716359786
You only need like 50% of bench to kill raids. Numbers are hella inflated now bro. It's just memorization and you'll get faster over time. PvP however is unironically one of the highest skill ceiling pvps to be made. I put it up there with shit like dota 2 and elsword where the mechanical complexity and ideas behind it are so absurd that even showing it to a new player should realistically scare them off.

>>716359786
just play Reaper and roll your face on the keyboard

>>716356205
>missing the point
guarantee there are a larger number of channers playing wow than playing osrs or gw2, probably not ziv though.

>>716359887
GW1 runes were just stat buffs too, though

>>716360192
>reddit plays gw2 more!!!
>w...well that's not true but there's more 4channers on wow than gw2!!
Moving goalposts again are we?

>>716354594
the fact that you can play a level 1 thief with just a pistol and then wait to snare people who overextend from the enemy blob is always hilarious to me.

>>716354281 (OP)
gay attempt at viral marketing thread
no one gives a shit about this garbage woke tranny "game"

>>716354281 (OP)
Gear with "unique abilities" is lame and gay.
If I get armor, I want it to protect me.
If I get a weapon, I want it to hurt people.
I don't want gear to give me some class-defining mumbo-jumbo that you NEED.
If you want to give me unique abilities, give them to the class. Or make them trainable with some rare item. None of this "I got a helmet and now I can fly and shit rainbows" crap.
If you absolutely NEED gear that does something weird, make it ultra rare and in single numbers. If you want that Ring of Fagginess + 5 you better earn it by getting it from Tomb of OP or prying it from the corpse of previous owner. And if you log off with it for more than a week it disappears and returns to the tomb of OP.

>>716355132
>Someday we'll get a MMO that doesn't make us embarrassed to tell eachother we play it
i love how this is the most overlooked and tiptoed around elephant in the room for this faggot pseudo-mmo
NOBODY out of the 3 trannies who "play" this dogshit (aka erping in starter towns) is willing to admit they play it in real life, and there are very good reasons for that, and it's why no one plays this nigger shit

>>716356205
>troon loxist woke anti-white faggot "mmo" run by a bunch of filthy ratfaced kikes
>4chan's mmo

>>716360308
who are you quoting?

>>716356410
imagine a world where skills aren't tied to a weapon and you can hotswap them on your bar

>>716360983
Nah
it's totally fine for some gear to have unique effects, to enable certain playstyles, or strike a unique risk-reward level of balance

>>716365048
It's impossible Anon. They could never make it work.

GW2 seems to be in some weird limbo between dead and alive. I feel like a lot of people don't want to play GW2 long term because the possibility of a GW3 soon pushes them away.

>>716354281 (OP)
have you not played ffxiv? it's a game that might as well just remove gear lmao

>>716366227
there hasn't been any official announcement about gw3 being in development though?

>>716366227
GW2 is definitely dying because these """"""expansions"""""" are smaller and smaller

>>716366227
>>716367203
reddit was saying they are making gw3

>>716367203
because it costs more money than the rest of their games while not producing any more revenue.

>gw2 base
>the zhaitan fight
>softlocks in orr quests while anet consistently nerfed gold farming routes and dungeon rewards
>time-gated crafting
>endgame consisting of world boss lottery and fractals (actual dogshit) or playing spreadsheet simulator at the market

>>716367305
that's the very definition of dying game

>>716367528
yep. and why would they make gw3 when they can just shit out mobile games to 5x the revenue at a fraction of the production cost?
they don't even talk about throne and liberty because that game was such a flop. at least it's still online I guess?

GW2 has the most boring combat I've ever experienced in an mmo.

>>716367818
mesmer is fun though

>>716367661
I loved playing lineage 2 back in chronicle 4, shame they turned it into a free to play skinnerbox

>>716367951
somebody is recreating it in unreal 4, and it might interest you.
https://youtu.be/Oc5cYW5Ic6A

>>716368080
looks cool but
>made by russians
it might get finished but we'll see

>>716354281 (OP)
you're right don't play gw2

>>716354281 (OP)
>none of the gear pieces have unique effects or exclusive attributes
That was ideal considering the PvP was highly "calculated" so knowing stats beforehand was a factor in being good.