Skills, Traits, and Builds - GW2 Combat Interview | TenTonHammer

nice job

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this handy wy cuz you got now much hp and ive you got much hp you need to do somme more dammage so the skills recharges faster so you can deal more dammage

We put conditions all over. Weapon skills have lower recharges because you use them more often

yea that handy lol i got suck english in writing :O

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Or even, “Oh, I feared you off a cliff and you took falling damage.”

I just loved that thought!

I didnt see any player recieve failing damage in demo videos :/ maybe its not implemented yet or you really need a huge heigh to fall from to recieve it. Seems like elite skills lost their "unique" value and now people will have to grind for traits for your specific profession/role, maybe we lost the possibilities of combinations with 1st and 2nd professions but it seems with traits we win much more.

That made me feel a lot better about builds and creativity. Excellent article, I'm looking forward to the further installments.

BTW: hunting down the 5 sword masters - I'm doing that on my Necro like FIRST thing. I may complete that with my Warrior too, to get the trait and all...but it's more of just a simple goal for my Necro, just because.

<3 the same skill going from Melee to ranged.

This made me jizz so bad xD, im kidding but it gets me all pumped up though

Part 2 was posted this morning.

Especially cool highlights:

Question Submitted by Gorlag: Will there be the option to print or buy a book of your personal story journal maybe with your character and name on the front cover? It could give you the ability to have something tangible to share with your friends.

Izzy: I do believe so.
I think we plan on having people be able to look at your character and see a lot of that information, but I’m not too sure exactly how that interface is going to work. But the point of that stuff and the way it’s laid out is for people to be able to see what you’ve accomplished. So I think we do want that, but exactly how we’re going to present it is still being worked on.

That's awesome. Yes, I will pay extra for leather-bound, thanks.

Also:

Ten Ton Hammer: Each of the original Guild Wars campaigns and the expansion had that overarching mission chain that would help guide you on an epic journey across the different continents. In Guild Wars 2 we’ll have the main focus of the Elder Dragons and how they’ve quite literally changed the landscape of Tyria, but will there be something similar to that epic mission chain that leads to a massive confrontation of some sort?

Izzy: We have a couple of different things. We have your personal story that definitely guides you through the storyline. And then there’s a second thing which is the dungeons. The dungeons interact with your story, and every one of them has a “story mode” of that dungeon which is almost like a mission. It’s got an embedded part of the story, and those do help guide you through the overarching story, so we do have some of that in Guild Wars 2.
But your story itself almost takes on more of that role, like a handcrafted way of taking you through the whole story of the game. The dungeons are the part where you work with other players kind of like how a mission worked in Guild Wars 1.

instanced mission-type dungeons. Kickass.

There's a bunch of cool info in there, and they've promised another installment:

Be sure to come back for the next installment of our exclusive interview with Game Designer Izzy Cartwright which focuses on core gameplay mechanics in Guild Wars 2.

The book idea is one of the coolest things I've heard - I am all for this kind of micro-transaction, they need to make money. I'm all for them selling anything that doesn't give a game advantage, and the more things that can go on my shrine, the better I like it.

More RL items, swag, gear, merchandise. I always thought they should have been doing far more merchandising.