Guild Wars 2

I think alot people frustrations are coming with the fact that elite specs made everything to easy.

For example ele, overloads give boons, damage/healing and a potential aura on completion and traited. Players no longer have to think about when they use it but simply time it as a break stun. Its become a baseline that if you simply rotate threw your skills a certain way you will have X success without even having to learn the class.

Dh was a big one since placing traps with huge a range that did high damage takes next to no skill to play. You would have players who are bronze/silver/gold now playing in high silver/gold and low plat.

They can compete from a mechanical level because it has been dumbed down so much. With so much damage/sustain/boons and defensive outs. What has happened in my experiences is that they could take a OP class in low levels such as DH/warrior. They would destroy at bronze silver. Then when they got to gold/plat they were not only getting out played in 1 vs 1 situations but making horrible decisions rotation wise.

With the lack of new content when it comes to LW, PvE event changes, the major WvW change that took 5 years and PvP endless seasons where something just seems to be off.

I think it should be about time to get back to basics and go threw balance all the spec lines that way when you introduce a expansion with another spec line, you dont kill the WvW and PvP scene again.

I think most people enjoyed gw2 more pre HoT. I know I did.

I dream of a retro server with no specialisations where i can play rifle engineer, but dude its a pipe dream. No hope

Yes i agree that i preferred PvP ALOT more pre HOT. The D/D pandemic was destroying ESL and AG tournaments but in game you didnt see them in 1 vs 1 rooms or in ranked/unranked que. Also most people could play a cele ele build so its not like you couldnt force a break even.

And yes i agree if they had a split mode where if they split the new spec vs pre hot specs i would play pre hot.

But overall that is neither here nor there. If Anet is ok with the skill level of things and the speed of the game they will of course keep it the way it is.

Yet if they want to bring back some old PvP players and bring in new blood that actually want to play. They really should look into fixing the speed of the game and skill of the game issues.

PvE will work regardless no matter what they want to do. The question becomes will they change raid bosses DPS/health bars for the betterment of WvW and PvP. We saw leaks of the new specs and if it in anyway does what HOT did then we will be looking at a near dead scene for PvP and WvW.

I will personally wait to see what the word is on the expansion, so i hope they take 2/3 of the " other" gamer modes into account. I truly hope Mike O doesnt give the same " if you play WvW, you play PvE " attitude in this expansion.

I remember playing ele and rolling my face on the keyboard for free wins. I remember war being a worthless kitten while rampage was off cooldown. Oh and power mes, who can forget. Playing gs/hammer vs 3 mesmers every game was physically painful.

Power rifle engi was fun to play albeit garbage.

zalt.8937:

I think most people enjoyed gw2 more pre HoT. I know I did.