3.0 & Weapons / Armor.

[Sapphic]

I suppose the only problem with something like this is that they would need to possibly make some changes to skill speed to have it increase TP regen. Otherwise a player whom did this would burn through all of his/her TP too quickly.

True, thats teh bad side.

But there was mention of skill/spell speed getting a workover to be equally viable in 3.0. As atm, gains are extrememly minimal in comparison, plus the negative of burning through TP even faster. Also speed increasing stats are capped by the length of ability animations. If ability takes 2 seconds, and unable to clip, then going to 1.9 seconds reuse is a waste. A certain amount of Skill speed is good to have, to fit abilities within Perfect Balance duration.

But if you can cllip like with BRDs bloodletter and they change it so Skillspeed increases regen, then things would get interesting in decided gear, more freedom of choice in preference of playstyle, hit harder but slower or faster but not as hard, SS+crit would lstart to look a LOT more attractive.

[Doctor]

High ilvls does not determine player skill. I do hope that we will have horizontal progression after a character reaches a certain ilvl. Guild Wars 2 system works perfectly! I'm not sure about how you guys feel but vertical progression is similar to a hamster running towards a goal that will never be achieved.

[Deathscythe343]

True, thats teh bad side.

But there was mention of skill/spell speed getting a workover to be equally viable in 3.0. As atm, gains are extrememly minimal in comparison, plus the negative of burning through TP even faster. Also speed increasing stats are capped by the length of ability animations. If ability takes 2 seconds, and unable to clip, then going to 1.9 seconds reuse is a waste. A certain amount of Skill speed is good to have, to fit abilities within Perfect Balance duration.

But if you can cllip like with BRDs bloodletter and they change it so Skillspeed increases regen, then things would get interesting in decided gear, more freedom of choice in preference of playstyle, hit harder but slower or faster but not as hard, SS+crit would lstart to look a LOT more attractive.

I suppose they could do something similar to what WoW did. Have haste effect melee, ranged, and regen. Makes it simpler and benefits all.