Guild Wars 2

I bring this up because in the first 2 beta weekends battles actually lasted a while and it was quite fun and involving, and now they all seem incredibly short. Granted this could be due to everyone not knowing how to play anything, but even still fights are quite short.

With every profession being able to do everything in a sense, and the struggle to make this an E-sport. I have to see its doing quite bad.

The biggest problem in my eyes is the damage.

Im not going to go in to great big wall of text details, but what I can safely say is:

GW2 combat really does feel more like WoTLK than anything else. Damage is far to high, the team work aspect isnt really there other than “2v1, spam the damage buttons faster and harder.”

I realize this is still an early MMO and therefore will take some time to address certain things, but its been out long enough for arena net to let us know what direction they are taking and really talk about what they feel is a problem in terms of each area of the game (PvP, PvE, WvW, Events etc).

How does everyone else feel?

I feel like combat usually is at a good speed. There are some builds that can result in death really quickly, but I guess they will be played by less and less players the longer the game exists, because more and more players will counter these builds and it will be required to get good all-around builds.
But yes, atm games (especially pubs) are pretty bursty.

I think much has to do with experience: knowing when to heal, what to dodge and such. But the game is still in a quite early stage and I think it’ll be easier for Anet to balance the game when more people begin to understand how their classes are played most successfully.

The damage output doesn’t match the health if one player can hit 5-10k on crits and you only have 19k hp that is absurd.