Guild Wars 2

colesy.8490:

The way I play involves dodging dangerous attacks, reflects, blocks, invulns and paying attention to fight mechanics. If you’re not able to use your dodge key or pay attention to mechanics, then yes, people who don’t play my way are bad at the game because it really isn’t that hard.

dodging…check
reflects…always have ’em when available
blocks…you bet
invulns…for the few there are, yeah

edit: just thought I’d toss this in here, too
And none of that really matters at all when all you can see in front of you is a lightshow of effects from the enemy and allied skills. It’s pretty hard to see when to dodge/block an incoming attack when you can’t even see the enemy itself for the ball of blinding light.

It will be amusing to see all the dead glass cannon zerkers littering the ground at Teq 2.0

I can’t imagine it’s going to matter what your armour stats are, it’s a bit like Jormag where you can have high toughness armour and still be chewed out if you linger near him too long. Bad players will be bad players, armour choice is irrelevant. The difference is that zerker users are normally at least trying to be good.

They’re usually just trying to follow what someone else told them to do. Anyway, in an event like that, you’re very likely not able to mitigate all of the damage unless your build/gear/food allows for an extreme amount of dodging/endurance regen. Toughness can make a huge difference there. Zerkers only do more (or any) damage while they are alive. And having someone with a support build nearby gives them the chance to stay alive more easily, and have to focus a bit less on avoiding damage. But, where clerics really shines is wvw, which is the main reason I have it. And the main reason upgrading that to ascended would be important.

Oh, and FYI…Secret of Southsun…that was…months ago. I guess that does explain the “zerker is the only build” mentality. Even the dungeon speed clearers figured out you can do it just as fast without a bunch of zerker wars.

Correct. It turns out zerker engis, zerker rangers, zerker thieves and zerker eles are pretty good too.

Oh look, they’re all zerker.

I’m glad you know every one of them, and what builds they all run.
spoilerThey aren't _all_ zerkers. As much as you seem to think it, you don't speak for the entire community, or even just the "good" players.