Guild Wars 2 Dev Tracker

This is definitely something we're working on, and bit by bit we're revisiting traits and skills to get boon ranges more consistent and approachable to use.

For example:
Quick catalyst will have Quickness front loaded to deploying the sphere, not from sphere ticks, and will have sphere radius increased from 240 to 360.

Chronomancer will likewise have some pain points cleaned up- no more 'last pulse' of wells and needing to shoot Tides of Time through your allies out and in.

Shh! Don't tell Grouch I'm leaking secrets.
You'll get all the details on Friday.

Next step will be letting the meta settle for a bit- and then for the specs that aren't popular, I'll be looking at what they're lacking that is keeping them from being successful.

The goal is still that you should never feel pressured to change professions in order to play with your friends- you should be able to play whichever profession you enjoy the most, and have builds available you can swap to that will fill a needed role in your group.

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BUNNY!💕 I have a bun too - her name is Egg.
Ninen is beautiful! I'm gonna have to go find her in game now :D

Zero explanation intros in this one. We're re-evaluating those - it throws more trouble in for our editing and localization teams (we have a bunch of languages to support!) which makes it harder to get the notes themselves out in a timely fashion.

So the notes will have to speak for themselves.

Hijacking top comment. Notes are coming later this week, and last I checked, the balance section was something like 4K words.

That's not AI- technically this isn't the pet, but rather how you're moved between disconnected platforms in SO, but I understand what you're asking. In that specific case, I find Return to Me works. You don't need to spam it, just use it once, and in a moment the mech will teleport to you.
This is how Ranger pets work in this case as well- in Shattered Observatory's Skorvald fight islands, you're still too close to it to trigger an automatic teleport for it to catch up to you, but when you click Return to Me the pet will check to see if it has pathing to you, and since it doesn't, will then trigger a teleport to you.

Still, that's not great. I'm making a note to look into putting a special case in here. Ideally, when you get tossed between landmasses from the swirly vortexes in Shattered Observatory, your pet would stow, and then unstow on the other end. (Like Ziplines in Cantha do).

I've made a note to investigate. I can't promise changes any time soon, b...

Different department. I just nerf the things you love, and buff the things you don't love yet because they haven't been worth using, but once it's good and you try it you might find you love it.

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My EoD specs were Harbinger, Mechanist, and Virtuoso.

Wow, that's impressive progress! Welcome! We're thrilled to have you here.
(Also, I'm glad you enjoy Harbinger! It's one of the specs I made. ^_^)

Hi Mike! I appreciate you. You're good, and you should feel good.
Thank you for sharing!

Mine's "Glitter Princess". :)

The tails are the same on all three skyscales, the image above is just at a different angle.

If this was a few weeks after it shipped it would be one thing, but it's been out almost four years now and I doubt anyone would want to fiddle with it at this point. At the end of the day GW2 is a game, not a simulator, so some dubiousness with the physics is fine and even expected, especially if it makes the common user experience more enjoyable.

For the drift speed thing specifically, my guess there is that it's accidental fallout from the artificial acceleration I gave it during drifting to counteract its natural speed loss from friction and other things I don't remember. I felt that it was very important that I could continuously drift in a circle, because that's cool, and I more or less just adjusted numbers by feel until that worked reliably. I did make sure that you couldn't easily accelerate on flat ground by drifting in a S curve, but I don't recall doing much testing with you also being in the air from jumping. Drifts in air were always deep in turbo jankines...

For the record, when converting from meters to GW2 units ("Tyrian inches" as they are sometimes called) you multiply by 32, not 40. Assuming the measurement in the video is accurate, 2654 meters would turn into 84928 units, which if the max forward speed of the beetle could be maintained would take a minimum of 84928/1800 = 47.2 seconds to complete. It's also possible the tool itself incorrectly assumes a ratio of 40:1 rather than 32:1 when displaying meters, in which case your distance calculation of units will end up correct but you'll be assuming a max speed of the beetle that's lower than it actually is (45 m/s rather than 56.25 m/s). Finally, while the max forward speed of a beetle is listed as 1800 and it won't accelerate past that normally, it can actually go faster to help smooth over some edge cases while drifting etc., and skilled drivers have figured out how to capitalize on that (the real cap is 2500, though I don't know if it's possible to actually hit it).

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The lightning one's wing size is a bug ~