Guild Wars 2

I am begging here. Please enough with all the knock downs. I don’t find them fun or very entertaining at all. This update with the Queens champs like the Blazing gun were just silly at times. Even with carrying two stability skills and a stun break and dodging as needed I spent the majority of the fight eating dirt. I was never in any danger of losing the or being killed.

I find this feature is more annoying then anything. Having played both Guild Wars 1 and now 2, it seems that the slid bar has fallen way short. I recall some fun and interesting boss fights in GW1 that did not have to rely on knocking my avatar about like a kitten with a ball of string. It doesn’t make me feel very heroic to see my avatar constantly and repeatedly knock around despite the fact I eventually beat the boss/content.

I realize that GW1 and GW2 are different games. Both in the engine and play style, however overall core or them remains the same. Please consider more fights that require us to think and react to objects rather then just giving new bosses the ability to spam knock down skills in one capacity or another. If needed I can list fights from GW1 that were very well done both in theme and quality. I miss these fights and would like to see more like them. I would not even object to more one hit kills,(despite feeling that anything that Kills me in one hit such as a trap should count as fall damage and not break armor). At least with these I feel I accomplished something.

I guess it boils down to risk and reward. Some fights are not worth the time or effort put into them for the rewards we are given. Please, just enough of the knock down spam. There are many creative ways to annoy us with out relying on this crutch.