ApeHawk posted:

Yo, shut up, new legendary weapon poo poo here!

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

BIRD STAFF BIRD STAFF BIRD STAFF BIRD STAFF BIRD STAFF

Lemon King posted:

Galaxy Axe is Astralaria
Pew Pew Space Pistol is H.O.P.E.
And BIRDSTAFF is well - Raven Staff

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

Frenzy doesn't rule.

Irenio posted:

Hey all,
Since the third beta weekend there’s been a lot of great feedback – thanks!
Below are some of the more solid changes to the Druid since the beta weekend that were made to address some concerns regarding net damage loss in a raid, celestial avatar form feeling gated by staff and glyph reward scaling.

Grace of the Land: This trait has been re-worked. Instead of its former behavior, allies affected by your celestial avatar abilities gain 3% damage and condition damage increase for 8 seconds. This buff stacks 5 times.

Lingering Light: This trait has been re-worked. Instead of its former behavior, when you heal an ally their next outgoing attack will heal them (based upon your healing) and blind their target.

Glyph of Unity: This skill now has a 400 initial effect radius and a 600 radius leash.

Glyph of Empowerment: The radius for this skill has been increased to 600.

Glyph of Alignment: Increased the weakness and cripple duration on this skill from 3s to 5s. Reduced the cast damage by 66%. This skill now applies 3 stacks of poison.

Ancestral Grace: Is now an evade and will immediately end upon reaching your destination.

Celestial Avatar Form: Entering this form now has a 10s CD. Charging of Astral force by healing has been reduced by 40%. Charging of Astral force by outgoing strikes has been increased by 200%. You now retain half your current astral force if you decide to break form early.

Celestial Avatar Form: Skills that heal have had their base heals reduced by 15-25% and increased their healing coefficients from 100-145%. This should leave base heals solid while really rewarding players who elect to use healing power stats.

(Celestial Avatar) Lunar Impact: Reduced the daze on this skill from 3s to 2s. This skill is now ground targeted and will blast finish correctly.
Well wishes,

~Irenio
Bonus: Bristleback Pet F2 is no longer the Sharpen Spines ability. The F2 is now Spike Barrage to give you more rewarding control.

Irenio posted:

’allo fellow Engineers,
Since the beta weekend there’ve been a fair chunk of posts regarding the Function Gyro, Hammer and Gyros… a bit fewer regarding traits that weren’t contingent on those other components. Below are the more solid changes at this point.

At this point we’re not going to be able to change the elite specialization mechanic very much. There are still going to be changes to it with the possibility for expansion of functionality post-launch.
Hammer was generally well received and many of you pointed out some flaws and potential changes that were in line with our intent for the weapon skills.

Gyros are going to be affected by a systemic change that should increase their survivability quite a lot. In addition to that several changes to how Gyros follow you and their rate of travel were made – they shouldn’t zig-zag randomly about anymore even if you’re not moving and try to stay pretty close to you while you are moving.

Function Gyro – The gyro should appear and begin stomping or reviving more quickly and no longer seek to attack anyone that strikes it, focusing instead solely upon its task of stomping or reviving. The cooldown on the
gyro has been reduced to 20s from 30s and its duration has been reduced to 10s from 15s. This is intended to increase the frequency of availability while still giving it enough time to complete its purpose. The range at which the function gyro can be used has been increased to 900.

Hammer 1 Autoattack Combo: Went in and removed most of the aftercasts from the swings, so this should feel a bit smoother and it is a functional damage increase from the reduced rotation time as well as slightly increased might and vulnerability uptime.

Rocket Charge: Will no longer leap about once you’ve reached your target, instead leaping ensuring that the gap remains closed and your leaps are more closely synchronized. The leap finishers from this ability now happen at the start of each jump, like other leap finishers. Also smacked the bug of this ability being affected by movement-speed.

Shock Shield: This skill now starts you blocking immediately upon and will cease blocking the moment the skill effects end, hopefully giving you better control and sense of the block time so your anticipation and reaction time are more rewarded.

Several Gyros received increased movement speeds to help keep them close to you as you move and some skill changes to make them more effective at their jobs, like increased range on their abilities.

Gyros now start their cooldown upon summon rather than upon gyro death. Medic, Shredder, Purge and Bulwark gyro now have a 35s cooldown, up from 30s. Sneak Gyro needed a cooldown that was longer since it would otherwise have potential 100% uptime, so it now has a cooldown of kitten 45s, up from 30s (its 30s duration remains). This should encourage players to keep them around to gain their benefits for longer.

Impact Savant: This trait now affects dazes in addition to stuns.

Well wishes,
~ Irenio

Xun posted:

What gives you ascended drops in spvp?

Inzombiac posted:

WOW that guys is a loving spazz. He reminds me of every ultra dork I hung out with in school (including me).
But man, that action camera is exactly what I've wanted for ages. It's going to save my wrist.

I had to stop the stream because of him buuuuuuut do you hold down 1/LMB or have to click it for each attack while in this mode?

Kessel posted:

Exactly this. The dev who thinks this will be good for engineer nades is dreaming. Oh good let me just point the camera at my feet in a group clusterfuck andhgrjxjdhgehrhfhhhgggjh

(also aiming all your nades at a distance using the crosshair is loving impossible, you'll throw up after a minute of bucking the mouse)

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

Cave

Inzombiac posted:

BUTTERFLY WINGS YEAH

Gwyrgyn Blood posted:

Are the gyros effected by the new 95% untargeted damage reduction for minions?

Alteisen posted:

Druid got me feeling like:

Alteisen posted:

Its really underwhelming, the healing is ok but the most use I seem to get out of it is just keeping my pet alive, the main issue is how the healing skills seem to be based around people being really close or even stacking to get use out of and actually hit people, I can move around and try to get people in the beam but the width of the beam just seems to small, the wisp is cool and helps melee classes, the celestial grace is pretty stupid, it heals allies when you reach your target but for your allies to gain any benefit out of it, i would have to be in melee range so you put yourself at risk and any ranged classes don't get the benefit of the heal.

Alteisen posted:

Celestial form is so incredibly dull I forget its even there half the time, the skills barely seem any stronger than the staff ones and it doesn't work like death shroud either, its your regular health on the line so don't go down or you waste it.

Alteisen posted:

The biggest issue is how even if you're using your elite spec you can't really mix and match with druid, you HAVE to take the glyphs, the entire sub class is built 100% around the glyphs and they fundamentally alter the class when you go celestial.

Alteisen posted:

What gear? Maybe druid is just a bad fit with a condi build.

Alteisen posted:

Interesting combo.

What runes you rockin

Azzents posted:

I need this bow for my grimdark skull charr. Where did you acquire it?

Agent Kool-Aid posted:

they're finally adding the outfit for the only actually interesting human god

Uziduke posted:

Is there a currency you need to grind?

AzureSkye posted:

e: ^^^ it already is. Some guy on reddit made the colossus and only saved 60g on what he would have spent on the AH, plus theres the time he spent doing the collections.

CLAM DOWN posted:

quote:

Removed Minstrel Amulet. Anyone who has purchased this amulet will be refunded their gold.

malhavok posted:

So what's the bullshit dragonhunter build?

Riftling posted:

As a returning player who's here mostly for PvP and some casual PvE, Mastery feels...okay. I would just settle for indicators telling me which masteries are needed for story missions, because I spent a night unlocking the upgraded glider mastery to find out I should have been working on the mushroom jumping mastery instead, since I need that for my next story mission.

The only real ire I have is I was peeking at Tyria masteries and saw the devs actually implemented auto-loot, but gated it behind the top-tier Tyria masteries. And it looks like a lot of mastery points are from the Living Story or Fractals, neither of which I'm super interested in playing (or purchasing).

CLAM DOWN posted:

That ain't anime, it's some kind of bondage poo poo imo

malhavok posted:

Where did the bladed coat come from?

Thyrork posted:

Cloromancer.

ItBurns posted:

Oh hey, it's some sylvari wearing cultural armor.