Guild Wars 2

Bright.9160:

Wukunlin.8461:

was there so much whining about people doing speedclears in gw1?

It was different in GW1. Of all the whining I heard back then, I never heard people say “you’re not playing the game” or “stacking mobs/using pull techniques is exploiting”.

It mostly boiled down to “Shadow Form is OP”, which was true, but most of them added some crappy arguments here and there, and insisted on Shadow Form being nerfed, which wouldn’t solve anything. Especially seeing how Shadow Form wasn’t the skill that made speedclears so easy. It was Shroud of Distress. (Shadow Form made you immune to spells after a bunch of nerfs -it used to make you immune to all damage-, and Shroud of Distress gave you a bazillion regen when you dropped below 50% hp.)

Actually it was the 75% chance to block when you were below 50% health and it’s ease of maintainability that made it so op. It’s synergy with shadow form was incredible.

Syn Sity.5826:

Bright.9160:

Wukunlin.8461:

was there so much whining about people doing speedclears in gw1?

It was different in GW1. Of all the whining I heard back then, I never heard people say “you’re not playing the game” or “stacking mobs/using pull techniques is exploiting”.

It mostly boiled down to “Shadow Form is OP”, which was true, but most of them added some crappy arguments here and there, and insisted on Shadow Form being nerfed, which wouldn’t solve anything. Especially seeing how Shadow Form wasn’t the skill that made speedclears so easy. It was Shroud of Distress. (Shadow Form made you immune to spells after a bunch of nerfs -it used to make you immune to all damage-, and Shroud of Distress gave you a bazillion regen when you dropped below 50% hp.)

Actually it was the 75% chance to block when you were below 50% health and it’s ease of maintainability that made it so op. It’s synergy with shadow form was incredible.

Oh yeah, forgot about the block chance too. Man that skill was stupid OP.

Not to mention the synergy SF + Shroud + Whirling Defense… Dat 94% block chance + stupid damage.

GW1 speedclearing might have been broken, but at least the playerbase was a lot more chill about it. I mean, there were opponents that b*tched and cried everywhere, but at least their arguments made more sense and they kind of had a point. I mean, I’m not going to argue that SF and SC’s in general weren’t broken as hell in GW1. It was just one of the most fun things to do… And at least they weren’t all like those feel-good play-how-I-play-and-screw-your-own-interests carebears that we have now…