Alright,
I’m skipping the introduction as I am fueled by salt, rage, anger .. you name it.
Some of you guys me know me in game as Paw Paw. Not much into there I am a hardcore PvPer… I had a team it disbanded so I started solo qing again. That being said, I know the game inside out, I’ve done tournaments .. I’ve played with great players and I know what I am talking about right now.
When I started PvPing, people complained about the bunker meta.. how warriors and spirit rangers were strong. They were right to complain..the regen on those classes were absured. I’m not really here to talk about any of that…but I just wanna compare what people are complaining about back then and what people are complaining about right NOW.
People are complaining about AI. Artificial Intelligence… Something that has NOTHING to do with player skill…except actually placing that AI/Summoning. If you don’t know what I’m talking about..have you heard the term AIDS? It stands for AI Doing stuff…..and I’ve been saying that a lot lately.
Let’s take that one step backwards. We are all PvPers. What are PvPers in Guild wars 2? People who queue in a strategic 5v5 game to compete in a conquest map and test their skill against each other.
That’s right…test their SKILL. Furthermore, in order to do so… the PvP developers need to balance the game to make sure the game is competitive and fun.
Now let’s go back to what I said point by point:
“Test their skill”… Now don’t get me wrong… I am not gonna complain about how turret engi takes no skill and it is one of the major reasons the PvP community is toxic to every freakin turret engi in this game and Honestly hope they all lose every game they queue in as turret engis coz they do not deserve that win what so ever since they did NOTHING but run around summon turrets and randomly dodge. —- Putting that aside… Guild wars 2 has been trending to more mindless game play and the balance updates have shown nothing but to promotes those brainless game plays.
First — you add the new traits and buff turret engis
Second — you buff power ranger with the read the wind trade and allowing air and fire procs
Third — you buff downstate necro and reward the 1 spam gameplay.
Fourth — you are constantly buffing condi mesmers and condi rangers hoping they come back to the meta.
Do not get me wrong. Celestial meta is not balanced by far. No class should be able to be a bruiser and still deal tons of damage…. However, you can differentiate between a good cele engi and a bad one.. a good cele ele and a great one…etc etc. Turret engi? power necro? power ranger? aside from the general knowledge of how to dodge and position yourself (which is a factor on anything you play) There is NO difference.
The other point was… “To make this game competitive and fun.”
What part of puttin turrets mid air and just being there as a nuisance is fun to fight? or even fun to play? what fun do you get from being spammed by a ranger 1500 range away when you are solo qing? what part of killing a power necro only to die to him in a downstate seconds after because spinal shivers and air and fire proc’d on you?
Anet…. expansion is coming…this is your real last chance to prove to everyone to coming back to this game that there is esports….The first thing the old players are gonna do is solo q or even team q….your game is flooded with turrets, liches, and mindless gameplay. What do you think their first reaction will be? Do you honestly wanna pursue esports or are you just a making a terrible saddistic joke out of us and slowley killing your game?
Your move anet.
TL;DR: Stop the brainless gameplay and start rewarding skilled play. Competitve or not it is not a good idea to have any sort of brainless builds that has such high reward in solo qs. Wether they are effective in tournaments or not is irrelevant since only a select few participate in the tournaments and people usually would try solo/team qs before even thinkin of forming a team/participating in a tournament … and with all these brain-dead classes/builds in solo q it is not a fun experience and any sane person would quit this game.
P.S: Sorry for the rage… However you guys really pushed us to the edge….There has been no initiative or any sort of movement to reward skilled gameplay..
P.S.S: No offence to the good power rangers/necros but your class brain-dead even if you are so good at positioning/dodging.