Curse

TheRaven · Oct 26, 2007, 05:46 PM // 17:46

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Originally Posted by TaCktiX

Yeah, I RAed for Glad Points. Balthazar Faction was a sweet little extra that led to me being 7-profession UAXed before I got R1 Glad. I hit HA and got the remaining three in due time. As for whether or not UAX matters, it does. In high-level PvP, people throw a skill and equipment template at you, and expect you to have the unlocks to run it. UAX is insurance against the embarassing "um, I don't have that unlocked" when you finally get into the group of your dreams. I key on UAX as well because of the HA I do, and I'm sure a lot of serious Hero people in PvE key on it too. Being able to know if the person is legitimately UAX would be very nice.

I have to disagree with you there, but I think it might just be a matter of terminology rather than that we're really disagreeing.

If I'm on an HA team and a player joins our team, I expect him to run the build presented to him. This does not require UAX. If a monk joins the team, I except him to be able to run most monk builds. I do not expect him to have all assassin, mesmer, warrior and ranger skills unlocked. I would hope that he has most monk skills unlocked. We could all name some monk skills that will never ever be used in HA. I couldn't care less if he's unlocked those.

The fact is there are over 1500 skills in this game and about 1300+ that will never ever be used by 1 single character. Personally, I have all Warrior skills unlocked, most ranger, most elementalist and a smattering of other professions. Some professions, like monk, I have more than 50% unlocked and others like Paragons I have perhaps 20 skills.

If my warrior joins an HA team, I expect that the team will either allow me to run my current bar or if they are a good team they will give me a warrior bar to run. If they give me a bar filled with non-warrior skills then I have to question why they took on a warrior.

Yes, I know there are exceptions. Some decent bars have mostly non-primary skills like the Necros running Rit bars, but again those are the common skills that you always see and have been unlocked at some point and I probably have them unlocked as well.

Moving onto runes and weapons..... Again this doesn't require UAX. A decent PvP player should have all runes unlocked for the professions he plays in PvP and he should also have all the weapon modifiers unlocked that are needed for that profession.

And of course there is always faction to fall back on. If I have 8-10k faction on me, then I can unlock any of the necessary skills and equipment I'm asked to use. If a player has absolutely none of the skills and equipment unlocked then they should not be playing upper level PvP.

Cixpak88 · Nov 10, 2007, 01:55 AM // 01:55

UAX Title= Meh. No more expansions so no more skills(maybe). So eventually everyone will have it. No point.

Total Balth faction Title=ftw. This is ever changing. There's a title for everything else in the game that keeps increasing. Why not this?