I'd love that, too. At least let us apply dyes. And I'm actually surprised that ANet hasn't yet put Mech Skins in the gem store which have dye channels ...
A bit more points per activity, a bit less waiting and maybe a bit more variety would be nice. It's kinda odd that the fact that this year's weapon skins look nice (at least I like them) increases the risk of me getting Festival Fatigue.
I still remember how exciting I found festivals in the early days, but this is sadly long over. Now I find myself hoping for boring skins so that I feel I'm done after completing Annual Customs. I know this sounds weird, but that's actually how I feel.
These were all pretty obvious questions and Rubi (ArenaNet) already needed to pull the "special case" argument with +25% run speed being a stat increase. But this is only one topic with a weird “We're making it up as we go" vibe. Legendary Relics being another of course.
In cases like this, we’ll be making sure that runes with duplicate 1-5 bonuses have unique 6 slot stats. In this example, 25% movement speed will count as a stat increase and will be seen on a handful of rune 6 pieces.
Consistently inconsistent. As we know it. And it's obvious that the whole system is far from being thought through.
Unique 2 and 4 slot bonuses will become raw stats. (Boon and condition duration increases are not considered unique and will not be removed from runes.)
So my beloved Runes of the Traveler are unchanged and I get to equip a Relic on top of it. Deal!
GW1 had way fewer attributes to spend points on, but if you did, you would increase the damage and crit chance of certain weapons or the power (damage, healing, duration, ...) of certain abilities. What I was mainly referring to (and what I would like in GW2, too) was the principle of freely spending a budget (with increasing cost) on attributes which improve certain offensive or defensive abilities. Anytime you want outside of combat.
GW1 also has/had Runes and Insignias which require(d) (perfect) salavage kits to move around and hence are/were less flexible. But this has/had less impact on your build than the distribution of attribute points.
Originally GW2's trait system also had stat increases baked in, but this was later removed and more attributes (precision, ferocity, concentration, expertise) have been added.
So why not replace Stat Sets, Runes and Sigils as they are now with freely distributable attribute points and let Relics and whatever the successor of Sigils will be have unique (not stat-related) effects?
Or imagine gear just had attribute points (item budget) which you could spend on stats as you like. Obviously this would invalidate stat sets (pseudo content) entirely and stat swapping on legendary gear, too. But why not let the majority of players enjoy the build craft meta game instead of just a tiny fraction which has full legendary gear, runes and sigils?
I mean with a large enough set of (Viper, Celestial, Marauder, Berrserker/Assassin) account bound armor, weapons and trinkets (maybe a few legendary ones) you can mix and match the optimal stat set for pretty much any open world build anyway. But it is very tedious and no fun.
Not sure how I feel about this. Another system coming to the game (did anybody ask for this?) and it does not seem like ArenaNet has fully thought it through one month before it goes live.
I was hoping for a change that makes gearing for different/multiple builds more accessible.
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