Guild Wars 2

If anyone played Guild Wars 1 pvp, you’d know how bodyblocking was a great strategy to stopping someone from running a relic (or an orb in this game), stop them from retreating to their team, or just a fun way to make them lag across the map while staying in the same spot (aka rubberbanding). This was made possible because your character was a moving wall… A decent size too.
Now, if you have even been skirmishing a thief, or any melee class for that matter… it can get annoying because one, you have to be looking at your target to cast on them, unless its AoE of course. If your target seems to run right through you, as you were looking at them and then casted, he is now behind you, and that skill has done nothing, and is now on cooldown for a sexy 3 seconds. This, is what grinds my gears.
In Guild Wars 1, lets keep in mind that you could not jump. I understand how this could screw up the bodyblocking strategy, as you could now just jump over your enemies, if they are on slighty lower land. But as I said before, In Guild Wars 1, your character was a moving wall. It added another whole dimension to the game, in my small minded opinion. Players working together to hold hands and shout, “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!”
I feel sad that this great Tyrian past-time is now dead and buried. Lowering the level of difficulty in positioning and teamwork. Also, as I mentioned before about how a thief can just run right through you and start backstabbing you. This is a small crisis, and can be simply fixed. Make an aura around character so that, yes, there is some mass to their bodies. Everyone will have fun.

There is body blocking but not to the exploited extent that you describe. You can body block attacks that do not pierce, for example Warrior downstate #2 can be body blocked by say a ranger pet or a necro minion so you can get the stomp off.

lol listen to you, youre so cute.

gw2 isnt about gimmic strategies like body blocking, its about skill and clever builds. in gw2 we have gap closers and no body blocking to ensure gimmics like positioning and such arent a part of the equation

ryston.7640:

…gimmics like positioning and such…

This… is hilarious.

even if body block exist in GW2, it will make no difference since there are so many different way to get out of that situation, such as CC (fear, push foe away), teleport (blink) or stealth.

ryston.7640:

lol listen to you, youre so cute.

gw2 isnt about gimmic strategies like body blocking, its about skill and clever builds. in gw2 we have gap closers and no body blocking to ensure gimmics like positioning and such arent a part of the equation

^ … I laughed. I literally laughed at how little sense this actually made. I didn’t realize positioning was a GIMMICK ( ftfy ).

ggwp

ryston.7640:

lol listen to you, youre so cute.

gw2 isnt about gimmic strategies like body blocking, its about skill and clever builds. in gw2 we have gap closers and no body blocking to ensure gimmics like positioning and such arent a part of the equation

Wow, I felt shivers run down my back. Clearly this paragon of megaskill was a force to be reckoned with in the hardcore MMOs he ruled before coming over here.

I’m pretty sure ryston is being sarcastic.

Celtus.8456:

I’m pretty sure ryston is being sarcastic.

In a recent patch, it was noted that attacks like Mesmer greatsword 1 if another enemy player got in the way, the attack would go through them and they would also receive damage.

There is bodyblocking (kittening ranger pet eating up basilik venom for the ranger), but its only in the physical forms, if dealing with magic it is highly likely it will go through a player and everyone that it goes through will receive damage as well.

Minion master necromancer is the best class to have body blockers body block for them.

The only time you wouldn’t see a bodyblock in the physical form that I can think of is attacks like ride the lightning and warriors bullcharge.

I think warriors bullcharge should deal a knockdown to everyone that gets in his way to his target. And the only way to stop it is by blocking because blocking in GW2 is highly underrated, barely even used by majority of players in GW2.