Guild Wars 2 - Page 186

On August 10 2012 05:44 Ettick wrote:
I don't think I've ever had as infuriating of an experience trying to download a game as I've had with this game. It won't even let me log in to the forums on their website to see how to fix the error I'm getting. It downloads for a bit (ranges from 2-22% so far), then says to check my connection.
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On August 10 2012 06:55 minilance wrote:
can you choose a server and take an other one when the games get out

On August 10 2012 10:27 vaL4r wrote:
The following was taken from an interview with ArenaNet which you can find here:

"will players be able to swap weapons, skills, and armor, or even profession composition, mid-tournament? Last we heard from your team was that locking “builds” was being discussed internally. Has this changed? Could you give some insight to your decision either way?

This is still being discussed. Although, we can say that between rounds players will be allowed to change their builds. Any locking down of builds will be for a single tournament match. We want to find the perfect balance between “build wars” and people swapping out their skills between each fight in a PvP match. This is one of those areas where we’ll need to listen to our PvP community. We feel we’ll have a better answer to this after our entire system goes live and our player community can give us feedback on what they feel is best for the life of Guild Wars 2 PvP."

This coupled with a post on the gw2 reddit suggesting that equipment swapping during the game should be removed scares me.



I do not see anything wrong with beeing able to change your build around out of combat, It seems to me that it would add to the game, not take away from it.The thought of having to open up my inventory during a match does not bother me at all.

If ArenaNet is indeed considering making this kind of change I am hoping to be able to direct more attention to it so we might prevent such horrible things form happening. (I hop reddit users will downvote such posts immediately)

Unless I am wrong of course and build swapping really should be removed... am I wrong?

On August 10 2012 10:27 vaL4r wrote:
The following was taken from an interview with ArenaNet which you can find here:

"will players be able to swap weapons, skills, and armor, or even profession composition, mid-tournament? Last we heard from your team was that locking “builds” was being discussed internally. Has this changed? Could you give some insight to your decision either way?

This is still being discussed. Although, we can say that between rounds players will be allowed to change their builds. Any locking down of builds will be for a single tournament match. We want to find the perfect balance between “build wars” and people swapping out their skills between each fight in a PvP match. This is one of those areas where we’ll need to listen to our PvP community. We feel we’ll have a better answer to this after our entire system goes live and our player community can give us feedback on what they feel is best for the life of Guild Wars 2 PvP."

This coupled with a post on the gw2 reddit suggesting that equipment swapping during the game should be removed scares me.



I do not see anything wrong with beeing able to change your build around out of combat, It seems to me that it would add to the game, not take away from it.The thought of having to open up my inventory during a match does not bother me at all.

If ArenaNet is indeed considering making this kind of change I am hoping to be able to direct more attention to it so we might prevent such horrible things form happening. (I hop reddit users will downvote such posts immediately)

Unless I am wrong of course and build swapping really should be removed... am I wrong?

On August 10 2012 10:44 Ryuu314 wrote:

Honestly, I'm for locking weapon sets during matches. The game was designed for you to have two weapon sets at a time, not all. If you keep weapon set changing during a match, then what's the point of having 2 weapon set cap? Why not just up the cap to 3 or 4 or making it uncapped? Part of the challenge of PvP is to come up with a build that can be useful in many situations; this includes what weapons you use.

Switching builds out of combat can be neat and separate great players from good ones. But at the same time, it can also cause PvP to be a big game of rock paper scissors that requires you to play with your inventory/hero tab open all the time, which kills the immersion of combat. Getting a build "right" is also a skill that rewards player creativity. Rock paper scissors less so since you can just run out of combat, make a counter build, then go back in and kill the guy np. Then load up another counter build, etc etc etc. It'll just be a game of counters which can get kinda dumb.