Let's theorize the reasoning of this .gif
I really don’t mind 1v1/2v2 balance. If you get a few thousand hours in a moba you can see how physically painful it is to count on random allies in pvp, especially when you play support and they boast about their kills. Go ahead and add in a few big support skills, but most of the decisive skills should be INDIVIDUAL and OFFENSIVE.
Pvp would kinda suck if your matchup was decided from minute 0.
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I really don’t mind 1v1/2v2 balance. If you get a few thousand hours in a moba you can see how physically painful it is to count on random allies in pvp, especially when you play support and they boast about their kills. Go ahead and add in a few big support skills, but most of the decisive skills should be INDIVIDUAL and OFFENSIVE.
Pvp would kinda suck if your matchup was decided from minute 0.
Idk, I enjoyed Guild Wars pvp quite thoroughly. The choice of skills made up for an arguable inbalance in classes/skills. (Bunny thumper was good, but not good enough to take down a dervish etc.). Necros could be as tanky and take down a team as well. Elementalists could be difficult to kill and offer CC or just burst someone down real fast. The balancing point was making the secondary class much weaker to level, so an elementalist/monk was still much more squishy than, say, a monk/ele.
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That .gif was made a very long time ago, after the trailer of SAB was released, but it still mostly holds true to this day.
GW2 can never be on the level of Guild Wars pvp, ever. There were very defined roles in Guild Wars, without being too defined like tank/heal/dps in say WoW for example.
In Guild Wars it was Front, Mid, and Backline. What you filled those with was up to you, and determine if you could beat the other team (with proper player skill of course).
The importance of where to stand and split-second reaction from good monks, protters, rupters, and melee is what made pvp so fun. GW2 can never achieve the fun-ness of GvG back in the day. It’s just mechanically impossible. In comparison GW2 feels like this spammy redheaded step child of GW. Basically you lay AoE and press 1 multiple times, running back and forth between points. Feel free to randomly dodge every now and then or if you’re getting focused.. you will be invulnerable during that time.
There was no easy way out like that in GW, every member of your team had to pull their weight and play their best because one wrong move meant you wiped and possibly the end of the match. Also 1 or 2 people couldn’t solo a lord like you can in GW2 which is totally stupid.. but then GW2 only has a party of 5, and everyone is a 1 man army.
May seem off topic at first but my point is, it is futile for them to put so much effort into esports, when quite frankly their pvp simply isn’t as interesting or fun as it was in Guild Wars. And I didn’t even touch on the extreme lack of builds or counters in this game, which is a totally different tl;dr.
Mechanically and visually, the game is boring to watch pvp. It makes no sense they waste so much resources on it in my opinion when it simply wasn’t designed correctly in the first place.
It’s all thanks to ANets new and improved effort to make their game more casual and idiot-friendly, because apparently Guild Wars was too hard to understand. Who knew?
Great Gif
It’s straight forward
Think of the game before their shift to esports
Think of the game after esports
Forget the QQ for HoT and forget the QQ for raids and those going on about build diversity and so forth. The first major pivot in the game was Esports and the most detrimental was esports. That gif is a modification to the Sab commercial a time when gw2 had more options the gif was made when the game started to contract.
Think of HoT and all the complaints people had and the back and forth however there was one universally hated. They shrunk our skill animations to make it easier for esport viewers to watch. The game came from one that was balancing all modes to one that cares first and foremost about esports. Talk to all those who have quit and talk to all those who no longer post and you’ll typically find esports as the number one. HoT was some nuclear bomb that broke the masses it was the straw that broke the camels back that was overloaded with all the bad decision that started and came out of a shift to esports. All MMOs are known for certain things like toxic raiders but raids didn’t exist back then this Gw2 was and still known as the MMO that threw all but a handful of players under the bus in the name of esports. ESPORTS!!!!
Great Gif
It’s straight forward
Think of the game before their shift to esports
Think of the game after esportsForget the QQ for HoT and forget the QQ for raids and those going on about build diversity and so forth. The first major pivot in the game was Esports and the most detrimental was esports. That gif is a modification to the Sab commercial a time when gw2 had more options the gif was made when the game started to contract.
Think of HoT and all the complaints people had and the back and forth however there was one universally hated. They shrunk our skill animations to make it easier for esport viewers to watch. The game came from one that was balancing all modes to one that cares first and foremost about esports. Talk to all those who have quit and talk to all those who no longer post and you’ll typically find esports as the number one. HoT was some nuclear bomb that broke the masses it was the straw that broke the camels back that was overloaded with all the bad decision that started and came out of a shift to esports. All MMOs are known for certain things like toxic raiders but raids didn’t exist back then this Gw2 was and still known as the MMO that threw all but a handful of players under the bus in the name of esports. ESPORTS!!!!
I feel the same way about the eSports situation in GW2. I think Guild Wars 2 would have had some interaction with eSports either way, but with the devs trying to push the eSports side of things it’s kind of like when LoL announcers grab too much spotlight. Nobody cares about the announcers, they’re just there to tell some folk what’s going on. Sure some announcers have their moments where they do their job decently. Yet mostly everyone is interested in the “professional gamers”. The devs are playing their eSports like it’s a big scene but in reality who is going to watch someone they don’t even know?