Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars had monks, why can’t Guild Wars 2? I get the whole “we don’t want the holy trinity thing” but for what? no offense but I think it failed, it was a good try though but we need to step aside for a moment and view things from an observant point of view.

Point #1
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Dungeon Runs – The most effective way to run a dungeon is to have your party in all zerker gear and just downing every boss you can as fast as you can, not to mention stacking up in corners, dungeons are so easy in this game it’s laughable, every boss needs to be fixed, yes, but it’s about high time we had a new profession in the game that should’ve (in my opinion) been here since day 1, a monk; let’s face it we have the LFG tool now, and people STILL wait around for a party, wasn’t that the whole selling point of not having a monk (healer class) in Guild Wars 2? so you don’t have to wait for hours to find a healer? or a tank? All you managed to do was make a DPS meta, that’s it, there’s no variety whatsoever. (I also think the rune of the monk would be EXCELLENT on an actual monk profession)

Point #2
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World vs World – Better known as zerg vs zerg, is one big cluster of warriors/guardians running into eachother popping stability and immunitys and hoping they win the exchange to get a bunch of loot bags, by far I have never been more bored of world vs world since game launch, its repetitive, there’s not much variety at all. Anyone else feel like they don’t CONTRIBUTE anything at all to world vs world? it just feels too weird following a zerg around and just having DPS wars till 1 side collapses or runs away. A Healer in world vs world would be fantastic, In my opinion it’d feel great to be a healer and feel as if you’re contributing to the fight rather than being just another # in a zerg.

Right now the best healing class is what? Elementalist? with abysmal cooldowns and not even great heals to begin with. We need Monks back in Guild Wars 2, how come we lost all history of the monks yet we can send the durmand priory to find ancient dwarven relics which would seem it’d be harder to find by logic? yet we can’t find anything about monks and their healing arts? It would be lovely if in the future when Cantha is introduced we’d get a new healing class (Monk) and they’d be based in Cantha, all of the healing arts were somehow salvaged there and brought to use in modern Tyria.

What do you guys think? Sorry wish I could be more organized but i’m in a slight hurry here.

Point 1: a rework of dungeons/ bosses is needed, but until we get them monks wouldn’t have a place. Speed running dungeons is about going fast, and a monk would slow things down. Additionally, if things were worked so that monks have a role that currently does not exist, I suspect the LFG tool would soon turn into a Looking For Monk tool.

Point 2: Your wvw zerging experience is very different than mine. Elementalists and the healing they provide through water blasts is arguably the core of zerg vs. zerg combat. In my experience, DPS wars between zergs are tertiary to who is better organized and who has the most success with water fields (arguably the same point).

Great points, valid too. But to be honest in WvW you’re not gonna see many water field healing going on Unless it’s an organized guild. Most of the time it’s Pugs in WvW and maybe some will come on voice communication but the majority don’t, another plus side to having a monk class is you can heal anyone right off the bat and contribute, without all of the hassle and going through voice comms to coordinate.

It is a possibility that the Monk profession will be reintroduced in Guild Wars 2 – However it will not be the Monk that we remember from Guild Wars.

Shift Focus.9083:

Dungeon Runs – The most effective way to run a dungeon is to have your party in all zerker gear and just downing every boss you can as fast as you can, not to mention stacking up in corners, dungeons are so easy in this game it’s laughable, every boss needs to be fixed, yes, but it’s about high time we had a new profession in the game that should’ve (in my opinion) been here since day 1, a monk; let’s face it we have the LFG tool now, and people STILL wait around for a party, wasn’t that the whole selling point of not having a monk (healer class) in Guild Wars 2? so you don’t have to wait for hours to find a healer? or a tank? All you managed to do was make a DPS meta, that’s it, there’s no variety whatsoever. (I also think the rune of the monk would be EXCELLENT on an actual monk profession)

Much uninformed opinion in this paragraph.

• Dungeons are easy? They weren’t when the game launched. Every time there’s a new dungeon added, people complain about it being too hard. You’re mistaking habituation for lack of challenge.
• People are waiting in LFG? Try posting “anyone welcome” and see how long you wait.
• No variety? There’s infinite variety in the “anything goes” group. There’s also variety in the “zerk-only” group — but the variety is in good versus barely competent. Then again, skill was always supposed to play a big role in GW2 dungeons.
• A dedicated healer profession was not a part of the design considerations in creating the game. Inserting one would require a complete rework of the game from the ground up. Leaving aside the question of whether that is desirable or not, how likely is a game company to spend the time on such an involved and risky proposition?