Guild Wars 2

Have at it everyone make a list of things in game that absolutely take no brains or skill to use or are absolutely broken in current state. Like some classes having passives that cause burning whenever you attack them or block hits without having to do anything besides the toon standing with its thumb up its rear. Or the take no damage for so many seconds skills and traits that can be stacked for lengthy periods of time. Or the overabundance of stealth which causes classes to rely on stealth rather than having viable survival skills. I am sure that the list could be rather lengthy if everyone pitches a couple thoughts in on it. Have fun and see you in game.

I think that auto attacking takes no brain or skill, please remove ranger from the game.

All passives are no brainers. But some passive traits proc once every 60 seconds, which is a long time compared to some active traits that become more usefull at higher level of play.

Some classes are so full of passives that the 60 seconds cd is easily covered by other passive defenses and procs. Which will carry the worst of players even against top tier players a bit.

Thorin.9624:

Have at it everyone make a list of things in game that absolutely take no brains or skill to use or are absolutely broken in current state. Like some classes having passives that cause burning whenever you attack them or block hits without having to do anything besides the toon standing with its thumb up its rear. Or the take no damage for so many seconds skills and traits that can be stacked for lengthy periods of time.

This sounds like the ramblings of someone that keeps getting wrecked in WvW roaming or sPvP.

If you know a class can go invuln for X seconds, maybe don’t blow all your burst on them until they use it? You will find the usefulness of invulnerability decreases dramatically if you use it and the enemy doesn’t attack you…

someone dying to dd eles too much?

Proud user of Injection Protection, Backpack Regenerator, Iron Blooded and Juggernaut FT here. I’m so lazy it feels like I’m flying!

I do wvw and no I don’t get wrecked by the lazy builds. I just think that they are boring as hell and take no skill to play. But hey you sure can tell the people who need crutches.

Thorin.9624:

I do wvw and no I don’t get wrecked by the lazy builds. I just think that they are boring as hell and take no skill to play. But hey you sure can tell the people who need crutches.

Keep telling yourself that if it makes you feel better.

Thorin.9624:

I do wvw and no I don’t get wrecked by the lazy builds. I just think that they are boring as hell and take no skill to play. But hey you sure can tell the people who need crutches.

Why do you care if other people are being less active when playing the game? Some people may have legit reasons for say:

Auto attacking
Using PVT gear
Using stealth
Using Blocks
Insert 99 other things here that the OP seems to be unhappy about “other” players using.

One more thing, anyone who ridicules other people for just using auto attack is not any more skillful than said person. Really, spamming keys as soon as they are off cooldown = skill? I don’t think so, using those skills when the situation calls for it is actually more skillful. Also some auto attacks stack things which is why they are used. Examples, some stack conds (engi pistol) others may heal the player (guardian mace) or add some boon.

If this is not a rant post about dying to other players “cheap” playstyles I really don’t know what it is tbh….

You really can tell the players requiring crutches. Getting people to blow their defensive skills is probably the easiest thing to do in wvw besides stopping to grab a rich iron node. And just so you know stealthers are easy targets if you time their attacks. I just laugh at all the thieves and mesmers who crutch on stealth. PVT gear lol who cares, I don’t care if you run through wvw in your underwear. Auto attacks lol press1 and carry on because autos are the easiest thing in the game to dodge or block. Blocks hey the ones that require you to actually use timing are nice and when I have someone negate a burst through the good use and timing of a block I always smile and think well done. I really started the post to see what others think of the route the game has gone with the easy mode skills and traits.

What’s up with people wearing armor and using weapons? Everyone should just run around naked and dodge randomly until someone forfeits.

Before the days of mega-servers our guild would find deserted world bosses and strip of all armor and do underwear world boss fights. Actually kind of fun. Another fun thing is start a new toon get just enough levels usually 20 before the npe and run from the home city to arah in underwear. Things like this make you learn to time skills very quickly. And actually I guess I was wrong about the passives because come to think about it there is a lot of goofy fun things you can manage to do with them.

Clownmug.8357:

What’s up with people wearing armor and using weapons? Everyone should just run around naked and dodge randomly until someone forfeits.

Now I really want to see a No Armor, No Traits, No Heal/Utility/Elite, Offhand Weapon Only tournament.

It would be hilariously funny!!

Yes it would be.