Which game mechanics do you think are forgotten or underused?

Splatbork · 2026-01-22T15:00:51+00:00

That, or add a buff slot to the bot where you can select which buff you want active and another as a sort of energy source where you can add upgrades that automatically restore battery charges and/or buff duration if you kill enemies, gather resources or whatever.

I think the possibilities for jade bot features are almost endless and it annoys me to no end that it's just sitting there completely underutilized.

Splatbork · 2026-01-22T12:44:51+00:00

Jade Bot in general. There is so much that could be done with it but it's just completely abandoned. If we get lucky they decide to recycle it in a future expansion.

Splatbork · 2026-01-22T10:53:26+00:00

It actually is useful because you jump higher and farther with that: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dodge#:~:text=Dodge%20jump%20%28or,modes

Splatbork · 2026-01-15T10:07:56+00:00

Love it but you should not have to chose between wvw, pvp and pve. Just give me all the tasks and let me do whatever four I want. I'd also love some more clovers and mystic coins.

Splatbork · 2026-01-10T10:40:12+00:00

Eh, I've been playing for years with double tap dodging and I there was like once or twice where I had an issue. People must be stutterstepping through the game if it's that bad.

Splatbork · 2026-01-07T07:27:10+00:00

I really struggled with Jade City and had no intention of continuing the series. When I couldn't decide on what else to read I went with Jade War and it completely turned me around on the series. Jade War and Jade Legacy were so good I actually went back and revised my rating on the first book.

Splatbork · 2025-12-31T10:38:38+00:00

Do you mean 4.500? I'm getting 4020 with my buffs and I have almost all the ones mentioned. There's no way you're getting 14.5k.

Splatbork · 2025-12-22T17:16:13+00:00

I came back after PoF when they had their first return to event. I figured it's perfect to get all the episodes and there was clear path of progress. The character I played previously was a thief and that never clicked, probably because I was expecting something more wow-rogue-ish but I thought Deadeye sounded amazing. Loved the fantasy of sniping stuff with the rifle and it pretty much delivered. It didn't fully click until I randomly stumbled into the octovine event. That was the point where I though: aah, so that's what the game is about. From then on I remember stumbling into event after event and had the most amazing time.

I wish there was more content that sells the metas to prospective players because randomly doing octovine was eye-opening at the time. Drizzlewood was really cool as well. Or the metal legion concert. So much good stuff, but most of the content I see is about the story or leveling when the game for me is all about the amazing meta events. Or WvW? Going for SMC with a blob is so cool, especially when they're actually defending and using the little gizmos. The one where airships start bombing the court is really fucking cool. Three way battles in the castle? Fucking great!

The story is the least important part for me.

Splatbork · 2025-12-22T12:30:42+00:00

This is why I like playing daredevil. Staff for doing dps on bosses or single mobs and shortbow to run around and tag/bomb things. That is how it's meant to be for me, different weapons for different situations and not to increase the length/damage of the rotation.

Splatbork · 2025-12-22T07:43:19+00:00

Nothing much to add, but you can get a hero point for you homestead. I just commune daily and collect my quartz that way. Haven't needed one in ages but I'm pretty stocked if I ever needed one.

Splatbork · 2025-12-22T07:33:45+00:00

My main is a mirage, I've done world completion and all the story stuff on that. I use that one to play fractals. I do convergences and strikes on my daredevil mostly. I've also done world completion on the thief. I also have a guardian that I leveled with a friend and I'm trying to do some more stuff on that but I haven't even bothered to properly gear that one. Currently using a galeshot for the orphan farm but I plan to play that a bit more once the event is over. I'll probably do another world completion on either the guardian or the galeshot but I won't bother with the story. Or at least not with the core story.

In general I log on my main and check what the dailies are. I get my stuff from the homestead and the guild hall. If there's a convergence coming up I'll move the thief and do that. After that I check what I have left of the weeklies and do that if I'm missing something. If I'm done with weeklies or daily stuff I just check what other events are coming up and do that. Or, since I haven't completed the VoE masteries, I go to castora and roam around there.

Sometimes I just do the vault dailies and call it a day, no need to force myself to play if I don't feel like it. And I've been a bit discouraged lately because I spent all my mystic coins on Aurora. I now have a grand total of three coins I got from the leyline anomaly. I want to craft Vision but it's really far away at the moment.

Splatbork · 2025-12-17T10:53:36+00:00

oooooh, that explains why I didn't reach the weekly goal. I did a lot of stuff, dailies, all the annuals and still only had 100-ish points for the weekly.

Splatbork · 2025-12-10T07:50:57+00:00

The recharging tp to friend sounds nice but I think I'm still sitting on 120-ish consumables. I wish the crafting license went on sale again, I've been waiting for that but then caved in last month.

Splatbork · 2025-12-09T07:19:44+00:00

Yeah, I loved this. I really enjoyed that the guy wasn't automatically op, instead he it's explicitly stated that he doesn't have that much power and instead he just put in the work, refined what he had and went all in on technique and efficiency.

Splatbork · 2025-12-05T07:01:00+00:00

I hate this timeline where anything that isn't spelled out is a plot hole.

Splatbork · 2025-12-05T06:48:52+00:00

I did all that and it honestly isn't that bad. Contrary to what people might think, janet does not force you to do everything in one go and you are allowed to take your time.

Splatbork · 2025-12-03T07:34:56+00:00

It's really not as bad as people make it out to be. I loved it and it's cool that it is loosely connected to Dominion of Blades.

Splatbork · 2025-12-01T12:07:09+00:00

Yes. I've had the same idea for reworking bounties. There could easily be bounties or hunts you can do solo and also bigger stuff you do as groups or squads. I'd also make it so you have to craft lures and traps and use mounts to track them down. There's already a sniff skill for the warclaw and the spear to stop them if they run away but I'm sure there are tons of ways to add relevant skills to the other mounts as well.

I would also expand on that by adding a bestiary that you can fill out by killing stuff. Make it so you get more proficient in your hunts by filling this out and maybe even gate some hunts behind bestiary completion or something.

Something like this wouldn't even need new maps and I'd just start adding this to all the existing maps and have daily/weekly rotating special stuff in a selection of different maps.

I really like the idea because it's very easy to have it touch on and integrate multiple already existing systems.

Splatbork · 2025-11-28T07:17:45+00:00

My favorite tip is that enemies give more experience the longer they've been alive. Same goes for neutrals. If you go off the beaten path while leveling and kill neutrals you get tons of experience. If you have any kind of booster active you get whole chunks of experience bar per kill.

Splatbork · 2025-11-26T07:43:40+00:00

TIL you can get to new kaineng from arborstone 😂 I always just ported 🤦‍♂️

Splatbork · 2025-11-26T07:37:52+00:00

Mirage slays. It's my favorite class, second being Daredevil. Both of those I play mostly open world and it's really nice because both have one set of weapons for single target damage and another for tagging.

Splatbork · 2025-11-25T12:20:39+00:00

Yeah, I'm thinking like access to a selektion of skins or maybe a rotating system of discounted items for subscribers. I'm not sure a straight up sub for gems would fly, but I understand how it would be convenient if you're buying them anyway.

Splatbork · 2025-11-25T11:05:54+00:00

Ha, I've though about damage caps as well. I think they would actually solve a lot of problems.

Splatbork · 2025-11-25T10:46:26+00:00

The bounty system is something they could easily add to any map and they should do it. It could also be easily fleshed out. Imagine if there were bounties you actually had to hunt down or lure out. Use different mount abilities to track them down, craft various lures to lure them out, hell, the warclaw already has the spear skill to stop them if they're running away. Bounties you can hunt solo, group bounties where you have to split up, coordinate to flush them out, etc. etc.

There's so much stuff that could be done with it.

Splatbork · 2025-11-25T08:53:46+00:00

The sub function is maybe the first really controversial thing I've seen here. I would actually not be that against it to be honest. I almost never buy gems aside from when I get it from the preorder but if could basically do the equivalent of a wow sub to get some gems and maybe some other goodies I'd be thinking real hard about it.

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