Guild Wars 2

I’m sure just like many others, you’ve noticed the high amount of threads just about in every section about class X being OP and about poor balancing. I think an implementation of Spectator Mode in sPvP and a proper ranking system where viewers could spectate some higher end PvP could put an end to this. If people could see good PvP players play and how they counter FOTM or so called “OP builds”, then they might stop all this crying and understand that in many of the situations it’s just a l2p issue. It’s really getting annoying and it gives GW2 a bad vibe and image while most of the time it’s just miss-informed complaints.

I know this could take a while to implement but until then a good idea would be to actually form a tournament of all the high end PvPers with a good representation of each profession and then publish that footage to show people that it’s really not that bad.

Something being done in this direction could transform all the nonconstructive threads where people just complain, point fingers and spread all this poor documented information into constructive threads where people start asking “HOW” and come up to real solutions to their problems.

Even just a ranking system similar to WoW’s armory could do the job. If people start seeing their profession at the top, they might look differently at the situation.

stefanplc.5234:

I’m sure just like many others, you’ve noticed the high amount of threads just about in every section about class X being OP and about poor balancing. I think an implementation of Spectator Mode in sPvP and a proper ranking system where viewers could spectate some higher end PvP could put an end to this. If people could see good PvP players play and how they counter FOTM or so called “OP builds”, then they might stop all this crying and understand that in many of the situations it’s just a l2p issue. It’s really getting annoying and it gives GW2 a bad vibe and image while most of the time it’s just miss-informed complaints.

I know this could take a while to implement but until then a good idea would be to actually form a tournament of all the high end PvPers with a good representation of each profession and then publish that footage to show people that it’s really not that bad.

Something being done in this direction could transform all the nonconstructive threads where people just complain, point fingers and spread all this poor documented information into constructive threads where people start asking “HOW” and come up to real solutions to their problems.

Even just a ranking system similar to WoW’s armory could do the job. If people start seeing their profession at the top, they might look differently at the situation.

There will always ALWAYS be balance QQ-ing. And the chances of it ever coming from people that actually play, practice, and become good in these modes of play are extraordinarily low. The complaints always come from the people who faced person with X build and oh jeez, X build just happens to be especially good at Y role which is very effective against the build of People Complaining. It’s a pvp learning curve and a lot of people don’t realize it’s there so they get stuck in place and complain about it.

A ranking system would harm things more than help them. The current QQ wouldn’t go away, it would just shift focus because “wow, look at all of Profession X at the top of the rankings. They’re so OP!”

I can’t say much about a spectator mode but the only sentiment I’ve ever seen about it from GW1 was something along the lines of being able to see everyone’s build and a lot of people copy-pasted things instead of, you know, learning. If players don’t have access to that kind of information to copy-paste it onto themselves to suddenly do well then I imagine a spectator mode is right up the alley of dulling the QQ a bit.

Honestly , there will never be an end to QQing… never.

Still this would be a nice feature to player learn how to play and stuff like that , for sure would help players in my opinion.

Well the main issue is also the type of complaints we’re currently getting. Generally speaking since launch, the majority of complaints were related to other professions doing too much damage. People didn’t really complain about not having ways to avoid the damage or counter it and so forth, it was more like “Wow, that guy hit me really hard, doesn’t matter that I could have avoided it, why can’t I hit like that?”.

I’m all for complaints, as long as they’re constructive and documented because it helps the game progress. I feel like the majority of the GW2 population atm isn’t educated enough to come up with constructive complaints and them being able to see solutions to their problems could help that. There are those few players that when confronted with a problem try to figure it out and don’t go running to the forums and showing them as an example would help the entire community.