Guild Wars 2

Hello all,

I’ve created this topic because I would like to see some of the opinions on combat mode, and if you feel it’s needed, or not. So, let us try and have a good discussion going.

I’m almost 100% positive while in the Beta, there was no “Combat Mode” present. The more, and more I start playing Guild Wars 2 (Level 80, and four other characters), I’ve just been getting irritated by the combat mode.

In my opinion, this is simply just slowing down the game and I believe quite a few players such as myself, and others within my guild are just tired of falling off a ledge, or having a monster hit you, and then being stuck, or put into combat mode forcibly. And I’m not sure if it’s just me, but it seems that every new patch it seems that we’re just running, slower, and slower, to a point where we can’t even escape monsters, which I find is ridiculous.

Now, before everyone goes, and gets all riled up, I’m obviously apparent to why combat mode is in place, and that’s simply due to kiting reasons. Again, that’s no real big issue here, but other games we’ve seen combat modes implemented in such as… Well, the only one that comes to mind really is Tera, but even with their combat mode, they’ve had some form, or sort of way to increase their combat speed for a “longer” period of time then what Guild Wars 2 offers. As such options would be are food, potions, scrolls, other items etc. These would all increase our combat speeds making it a bit better to fight others in PvP.

Now, I really don’t see the reasoning behind the combat speed come to PvE. Obviously kiting comes to mind, but have you seen how fast the majority of monsters run? If you can’t outrun being hit by the monsters out of combat mode, what was the point of adding combat mode in the first place to PvE? Not to mention Guild Wars 2 revolves around the traditional auto-target hit boxing, meaning that if you’re incredibly far away form an enemy, but were close up as the action was commencing, you’re still going to get hit unless you dodge, which is limited, and should only be used for certain attacks, and or skills.

Could ArenaNet have done something like some other games? Add in “Combat Mode” strictly for PvP, and just have left the PvE speed alone?

As it stands now, my answer to this is yes, considering there are absolutely no items to enhance your speed while in combat, and all you’re relying on is slight “Trait enhancements”, and skills you can use once every 20 seconds, which by then the battle is over, and it was pointless to have used the skill in the first place, other then traveling reasons.

So, what are some other opinions out there about combat mode?

(Note: Sorry if this was a reposted topic, I searched around for something similar, but could only find others “Female Dogging” about how they hated it, this isn’t really a “hate” thread, just some general discussion, or an attempt at it)