Guild Wars 2

You guys have skills! I’ve seen it! Now anets letting you show it.

A lot of choices in this game were replaced with just zerker, burning it down, killing it (whatever you want to call it). This doesn’t make for a game that is skill based. You can call it a nerf or whatever you’d like to but honestly it has to be done. The alternates to this solution aren’t good. They did the best they could to make choices viable while still keeping the stat itself powerful.

Right now when your faced with a lot of questions there is one response ultimately…

*How do I do this dungeon? Stand in this corner and just burn it down
*Should I rez this guy or kill the mob? just burn it down
*How do I kill this player? just burn it down

Some say”

Just buff other stats!

In theory this sounds simple but… If you do this you also need to boost the mobs so that people aren’t just 1 shotting everything. Which makes mobs and other players needing to have insane health pools just to keep things interesting so we aren’t 1 shotting everything. Sure that sounds easy but it can get out of control pretty quickly resulting in mobs, bosses, and people with insane health pools especially when you take into consideration level cap increases eventually.

Some say”

What about my ascended gear!

Your ascended gear still will be 10% more damage than exotic gear. If you focus on just your gear getting nerfed reduced. Just remember every item in game is getting reduced so your hard work was still valid as you will still be doing more damage.

Some say”

I need my zerkers! It does more damage!

This is true and will still be true. It will still do the most damage in game.

Some say”

There were other ways! This was the easy way to do it.

Anet basically said they were aware of it being out of balance for a while. No this doesn’t mean that they just did nothing about it. This means they were trying to figure out the best way to do it. So this wasn’t an easy way out by any means and I think we as players need to give them more credit.

TL2DR:
Look at the bigger picture it’s changing all around the board. So stop making it sound like you personally had your gear nerfed. Everyone will still be on the same page. Build diversity is what makes this game better than most. Having a “meta” defeats that.