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Celestial is fine for solo content at least, right? Like, if you don't know build theory like most people, you just want zerk for DPS in a group, Celestial for HoT solo story progression? If not, I have no clue why ANet gives players Celestial when they use level 80 boosts. Give them the actual solo build gear!

Great video with great explanation

you hit the nail on the head almost everything you said actually happened

Teapot once did a run where he had the entire raid group in celestial gear running hybrid support builds and while it wasn't the fastest clears it was very consistent and easy to pull off it especially shines in fights like twin largos where most of the fight is just dodging stuff

TLDW - Cele is a new player friendly / solo open world player build. For instanced content - look up a guide and build for your role.

SOTO tells us that the future of GW2 is gonna be shit

So, for the maces, The auto attack does not trigger the last stack. You need to use other skills in order to proc the Force of Nature, otherwise good video.

I'm really worried that now that they made this system for dual mode ally/enemy target skills, they're going to want to retrofit it to some existing skills. 😬

I think with mesmer and it's rifle is really going to play into chronomancer and chronometer has incredible uptime with continuum split when it comes to might generation😊 The only thing that I'll say is that I don't think it has as much clone generation, but with that said, the rifle provides so much more healing. You can really customize your skill selection without having to take a lot of Wells.

There are so many issues with Ax in wvw because it's not unblockable in any of it skills or a ground target, it's prone to being reflected. So you're not actually able to use the skill effectively in competitive mode. It's a dead weapon in that space ( current Meta). I was hoping this would be a new weapon to introduce a range meta thief build

The relics of the rune sets should have been put where their runes came from, including as drops as well as vendors. I'm not going to bother thinking about them until legendary relic comes out. Unless I'm forced to get one of each for collections.

Do i need to buy a new dlc to use these new variant of weapons? ty

As a vet player and guild leader i always tell my team to compare the benfits of using something. Following the line of thought of this video about raid composition, i wanna point the follwoing scenarios: if you are gonna play the healer, whats your job? keeping people alive... when do people die in raids? when they screw mechanics, so as the video says you could feel tempted to phase faster. Now go to the golem dps check, what percentage of your team's dps are you doing vs their pure damage? (normally less than 5% based on years of reviewing logs in arcdps), if you bring added damage whats the percentage increase? (normally less than 5% more) now if you were attacking and lose a dps ally, how much percentage are you losing? (can be anything between 15-40% depending on how good your dps player was compared to the rest of them) so what has more weight on your decision making? now if you are going to play a dps and you think "maybe i should bring sustain", well thats actually important until you reach a certain treshold, yes you dont wanna be playing with 11k health 0 toughness and 0 heals, because anything that touches you will kill you and you will mess with the teams dps. Here, what you want to do is go in a practice team to the fight first and see how much damage you are taking and tune it to the point in which your healers can save you when you get hit without them having to fully focus on keeping you alive or reviving you. (look at your health bar and how fast it goes up ro down, try to tune to softer variations). Always start tankier until you are comfortable with the fight, and then start removing sustain until you reach a point where your damage is comparable with your fellow dps players and your healers dont struggle keeping you alive

Where can I find this music from, I watched the rest of the video just to listen to it :D

What a nice series you have done, really loved your take and analisys of the story so far. Congrats!

The only trouble with Peitha betraying us is that it's so obvious, it's not so much a twist as a foregone conclusion. I kind of feel like they might go for a two layer thingie. It'll look for a bit like she betrayed us (maybe after the February update), but then turns out it was just us being racist against demons, or Isgarren lying to us, or something.

I won't lie. This first video is a bit of a mess. Oh well. This whole series was experimental afterall

I posted your first video in the GW2. The dev yes men attacked me, and you, and got a moderator to delete some posts and temp ban me from the forums. So that's how people are reacting to any criticism of SotO.

Little spoiler for the third video: I have found a lot of positive things to say about act 3 actually. Edit: Adendum to the "Akeem as a Forgotten thing" - turns out there was an actual canon Forgotten. It's Vass. He basically only show's up in the Achievements, so ironically, it's easy to forget him.

Couple things. A: You complain about the Astral *Ward* camp, but then proceeded to completely gloss over and ignore the very letter opened in the video that explains literally why the Norn acted the way she did to the commander. She was under explicit orders not to interact or interfere with the Commander, even though it was very likely she would run into the Commander. The Ward had asked the Commander to be invited, it was declined twice, and thus her party was told to simply send the Commander away instead of bringing them in. You then mix things up with talking about having a cover story of being Vigil or Priory, and then having things in place for if the Commander appeared. Again, they weren't in each area for long and were explicitly told not to deal with them. You also mix in gameplay elements for saying they suck at stealth. B: You talk of Lyhr's comments, but fail to acknowledge the Commander coming back to life wasn't some easy thing Literally had help coming back to life. "Better then you have tried" would be hostile and antagonistic . The commander is not trying to make enemies here, but learn what's going on. The commander is also not some demi-god and super-powered. Strong yes, but not unbeatable. C: You talk of Commander not bringing up the voice to Zojja but also again, ignore the literal statements within that very chapter. Peitha goes "Don't tell Zojja, she's hostile", but also the medic literally tells the Commander that hearing a voice after traveling the mists isn't weird, they are not possessed, and unless the voice starts telling them to go murder people? It's not an issue. You are bringing up questions that were already answered and covered within the chapter in question. Rift lag is not a retcon. The commander was shunted through several portals unprepared, into a realm that was inherently hostile to their self as shown by them being unable to properly move as well without peitha's help. All other cases of using mist portals are prepared and at full strength, this one was different.

MELEE RIFLE MESMER GO /cry

Alas, poor Mabon, we hardly knew ye!

I'm not getting any sense of mystery from the whole setting, that's my biggest issue with SotO. We finally get into the Wizard's Tower, but randoms from every race on the planet got there before us and it all runs like clockwork. It's as if we're just discovering Lion's Arch by accident because we're the only ones who weren't invited, despite some of our friends chilling there for years now. Dick move there, Zojja. I'm also not a fan of how Anet writes races in GW2. They seemingly go out of their way to add as much diversity to every single setting as possible, but proceed to strip away everyone's identity. Like.. why do we have 20 different races in here if every opportunity to play off of having different races interacting was removed? Worst offender is probably Livia somehow getting along with Mabon. Oh yeah "he's just helping us" - so were the other Mursaat until they realized human sacrifices could recharge their batteries for free, but I guess she forgot. And on the topic of Mabon, this goes back to the lack of mystery. This is the first time we have a friendly Mursaat in the story, it should be a much bigger deal and source of intrigue. Instead it's just "yeah that's a thing now, whatever move on" - ok.. what a great use of such a historic moment there. Mabon I think would've worked better if he was something of a false antagonist. Instead of finding a camp outside LA, have us slowly track him down as we find out more clues about the Kryptis and a mysterious organization (a much smaller organization than what we got). Have us misinterpret some of those clues just based on the assumption that Mursaat are all evil. Give him a twist where he actually saves us from Cerus instead of coming in for a finishing blow, he's the one who opens a portal for us and asks us to trust him. Then don't introduce us to the Wizards right away, have the player character and Mabon go on a journey looking for them as we learn to slowly trust each other in a somewhat uneasy alliance fighting our way back home, exploring new lands, Just The Two Of Us (🎵). Use this opportunity to drop more lore on the Seer-Mursaat war and why he isn't like the others, what the Wizard's Court is, etc. Instead we got Zojja teen drama, Mabon is Ma-gone, and it feels like the Wizards got this whole thing under control so why are we even there? To play 3rd wheel or more like 523rd wheel? Considering how many members they have. If the organization was smaller and they were keeping the portals closed all this time instead of actively fighting a war without us, they could've made the floodgates open as the big cliffhanger and that's where we should've been introduced to the rest of the cast IMO, in their hour of desperation (saving them for the next story drop and teasing Zojja).

12:43 The commander, uh... finds a way. You see, the other people don't get a magic green marker telling them where to go.

To be clear, that's not including this Monday (aka Today at the time of posting).

I only see cele useful in wvw actually it’s hard to find a wvw roamer without cele gear. It’s pretty hard to play against since they have balance on everything

As a new player i want more raids

Like the latest fractal boss, everything in this expansion has too much health. Scaling makes normal enemies in events have more HP than elites everywhere else in the game. This isn't good for new players who are jumping into their first expansion without elite specs or dps increasing knowledge.

Should I have maybe double checked some details before I started recording the audio so I don’t have to correct myself repeatedly while editing? Perhaps. In my defense….Actually I have nothing.

Celestial builds are the biggest waste of gold time and effort for most players, especially opem world players who should just play boon dps builds.

White background, really..?

Solid video. I'm a little surprised that you didn't put DwD for fractals (indicates requirement for the Dancing with Demons title, obtained by completing sunqua peak CM without anyone in the party dying). Also for fractals, "Pots" is often also used for potions.

For warrior i actually have an idea. But it's not really for the weapon. Well, i _stole_ an idea more like, but hear me out here... Another game called "Destiny 2" recently added a thing to the Titan class (basically space Marines/warriors) where they gave them a thing called "Banner of war" What it does is basically create a healing field around the Titan after they kill something with a melee or melee weapon. Stacks X4 as a 30 second refreshable buff. Allied kills while in the heal field refresh the buff as well It heals every ally in the area at an interval. It's honestly the only time i can think of where I did not mind playing support. Hell, i actively _wanted_ to play support like that. Cause you're basically using punches to heal your teammates. I can't think of a more warrior way to heal people Imagine you combine that with tactics. You punch the enemy and heal allies around you. You start yelling at your friends to shake off their conditions and get ready to fire on your mark and it heals them. You're basically doing the standard DPS rotation, but while supporting your allies. I dunno if it'd translate well to GW2 from destiny, but i can dream 😅

For revenant, what if you turned the scepter in to basically a "ritualist" weapon from GW1? Granted, back then i never tried that class but it looked unique. Just summon some spirits like they used to and throw some pots around or something (i don't know what they did 😅)

For guardian, they get pistols. In keeping with the "class fantasy" you can go a few ways with that _Healing_ shots. Have the 2 & 3 skill provide a heal and/or buffs or perhaps combo fields? *Smiting* bullets. Just load some silver in that sum'bitch and blast away all the -vampires- _-zombies-_ *demons* Exorcism bullets. You lock enemies down and purify them. "The power of *(insert racial deity)* compels you!" "Purifying bullets" AKA turn it in to a flamethrower and purge them in holy fire 😅

Ooh, i like the idea for engineer! Make #5 a ranged turret placement like you said, that's great The #4 skill sounds really good too, but if you double down on turrets it might become very oppressive (triple with the supply drop ult?) I have a suggestion for #2 & #3 tho Skill 2 can be a "multi shot" thing. But instead of arrows it shoots "homing rockets" aka a split shot that targets multiple hostiles adjacent to a target, or hits a target multiple times Skill 3 can be a "trap" type deal, where you shoot an arcing shot that places down a mine (or a mine field even?) Or maybe instead of a mine you can turn it in to an arrow that spreads "glue" or whatever over an area and slows anyone who crosses? It'd tie in with a bunch of engi gadgets, so that might be fun? Rockets, mine, electric boost field and finally turret? Normal shot can be "scrap arrow" which could be like a shotgun blast, but as an arrow. Explosion on hit with slight AoE that does minor splash damage? Iunno man, just brainstorming with you here 😅

Willbender should be the spec to use pistols. At the moment WB is very meh….

you have wrong timestamps and description, they say guardian engineer ranger and its rev and warrior. But the ideas are great

I would have to disagree with Guardian pistols having bleeding on them. Guardian is themed after burning stuff(Virtue 1 is literally that: burning stuff to cinders), so it would only make sense to have pistol do only burning. No sense adding bleeding to a class that does only burning. Revenant scepter.... might be similar to specter's scepter, by being able to provide benefits to allies if you have them targeted. Maybe not have something good as scepter/pistol combo for specter(scepter 3 in that combo is awesome), but providing boons to allies is something that revenant could stand to have, which would pair perfectly with shield, which is already an excellent support option for revenant. While I do agree that warrior staff should be a heal weapon(same as druid or revenant staff), I do believe that warrior staff will be similar to revenant and daredevil staves: you whack people on the head with it. While it's not exactly a bad option(revenant staff is a pretty good heal weapon), it makes little to no sense for a warrior to have a long-range staff. Plus, ANet may add some burning or bleeding damage on one of the skills(warriors are similar in that regard to guardians, after all), so it shouldn't be a complete surprise that warrior staff may have one of its skills burn enemies instead of healing.

I'd love rev's sceptre to be support oriented weapon. It lacks mainhand option for support with sustained healing. It could be something akin to engie's mace.

I would love to have focus as a minionmancy offhand instead of an offhand sword. It would just fit so well to have frostmourne style necromancy sword with a focus

I know I mentioned the next video at the end of this one, but it's probably not gonna be up next week due to some irl obligations. The week after should probably be fine

Yes yes yes yes! As a Ranger main.. I'd loooove that mechanic! I hope they come out something like that or anything else that is just as interesting and is intertwined with pets!

Since all of these weapons are supposed to be used with all specs, I feel like your idea for ranger, while interesting, might not play out as well on Soulbeast. If we follow the current theme of Soulbeast with "anything that would apply to your pet, now applies to you" would essentially permanently buff the Soulbeast. As for your Engineer idea, I wish turrets were good, but essentially forcing someone to use turrets in order to make full use of the weapon is not the way to go, I think. You Thief idea, I kind of like, but I worry that it might make the weapon not really used in PvP for the same reason staff isn't really used in PvP as much. Most Thief weapons have 1 skill that deals damage and then some utility skills for mobility or defences. What I got from your explanation is that you intend for all skills on the axe to be DPS skills. Fine for PvE, but kind of useless in the neglected game modes. What I would do... Thief: Let me build on your idea a little. Sword/Dagger 3 and Pistol/Dagger 3 already have a similar thing, where using one of them flips the skill into another skill. What if we make Axe 2 a utility skill (either defensive, CC or mobility), which flips the Axe 3 skill into another skill that deals more damage or adds some kind of effect. Then, when using the flipped Axe 3, maybe it changes the stealth attack, as well. Maybe from CC to high damage or something. Ranger: I dunno'. I guess maybe a more supportsy weapon? Staff is cool, but where boons? Engineer: Honestly, I'll take any thing that is just purely ranged damage. So far, all weapons work best in melee range. Some ranged AoE would be nice. With some defensives built in, of course.

For necromancer weapon, would it not be better to use off hand axe for that idea?

Interesting thought on thief but with ur arguments u can just delete the initiative system. Thief wouldn't be unique in this way anymore

Personally I would like Ranger's mace to play more on the trapper or rugged tracker/survivalist aspect. As much as more interactions with pets would be great, the way they function is just atrocious. I don't know why their AI doesn't prioritize, overwrite actions and do them instantly on command like other games do. As for your idea, it's just horrible. In WoW, Survival Hunter has Coordinated Assault, a really neat dps CD that works similarly to what you described, it empowers you when your pet uses its focus dump, and because if the pet's focus is over 50% it uses twice the amount to empower that focus dump, thus making the buff it should grant you extremely inconsistent and difficult to track. Not to mention this is in WoW, a game where the pet is extremely responsive and well made.

I'm a heretic, I like necro a lot, but I don't really like minions, I tend to avoid them as much as possible, even when they're technically meta.

I had a little of the same in mind for a Thief Sword Off-Hand... Only have the condotion be an Evade or Block. Really set it up as an active duelist type of build, though that wouldn't be as plausible for PvE, I think... With the Engineer I really want there to be trick arrows, like a box-glove shot that stuns/dazes/knocks back depending on the Range. Ranger idea for mace sounds quite fun actually!