Guild Wars 2

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Ario.8964:

Kuya.6495:

I wouldn’t really pay much attention to official forums on the state or quality of a game. I have never seen an official forum that wasn’t full of complaining. Ever.

Also regarding elite specs, they are only a full upgrade in some cases. Such as mesmer. The reason why they are almost always used has more to dl with the fact that the elite trait line also gives access to utilities and weapons. This is something that isn’t true with core traits.

Every espec is an upgrade outside of reaper really. Guardian to dh just buffs the virtues to an absurdly powerful level and still offers all the same passives and such. Now you just have extra active play options with them. They are also always taken because they cover natural weaknesses in a class. Mesmer had mobility problems and chrono gave them free move speed. Thief lacked a reliable dodge spec and daredevil gave them that plus condi clear outside of stealth and extra mobility. Ranger got a free healing form. I could go on but I don’t need to.

Also of course there will always be complaints. Nobody is ever happy with a game but looking into what is being complained about can sometimes yield answers with what needs to be done and since anet appears clueless in what they should do then maybe there should be some attention paid to the forums.

Nope.

This complaint would have made sense before they buffed base virtues. Right now in wvw you do not take dh and nor do you take dh if you want to run burn guard optimally in pvp. Dh is only ever mandatory if you run power in pve or pvp.

Kuya.6495:

The problem isn’t that they don’t understand player motivations. This forum is full of opinions on what drives player motivations. What anet is charged with is playing a balancing act with all these opinions and sorting out which opinions don’t work.

By player motivations I don’t mean what specific to this game the player base desires, I’m talking about the progression in the pvp scene; why you’d such around to play it.

In most comprehensive gaming people want the game to be fun and that their efforts and choices are impactful. The fun part is debatable but i can’t agree the meta or the lack of changes in meta is fun.

The second bit, well, spvp is some of the most coin flippiest competitive gaming around. The game’s everyone can do everything gameplay eschews some of the basic principles that makes team games fun. There’s no dedicated roles, no explicit formation.

This leads to a difficulty in forcing specific encounters in a match and you’re left with a visual mess that feels completely random. Which goes back to the first point, it’s not fun.

Ramoth.9064:

Why can a game like Dota 2 offer no guaranteed rewards for winning matches, still retain a higher playerbase than GW2’s pvp mode?

That’s right, you can easily play 10 games, taking 6-10 hours, and receive no material rewards for your game account.

Are rewards really the problem for GW2’s pvp? Food for thought.

Because reward is the only thing what keeps people playing. Game is totally broken, boring and not competitive. People were excited about HoT release (I even pre ordered it with my old account), but later they saw how broken this game is. PVE is like PVE, nobody cares about skills, it’s just Fashion Wars. But other game modes are just… PVP is probably the worst among all games, just disastrous. It was bad, but ANET managed to ruin it even more. When you unable to create anything good, you just put RNG on…this is what condies are. They made condi builds strong and it’s just luck which player will spam 1 button better You don’t need skill to pvp, pre season games and your division placement is broken. yes, I have played with ppl in GOLD division with 700 AP…they had ridiculous builds, die instantly.

So, I would spend those 10 hours in 10 games more happily than 2 hours here, even if I won’t get any reward. GW2 is dead, wait until next expansion, you will see how many people will buy it