Hello, I’m Shiiroi.
I played many games and especially competitive PVP games. I have never been a top player or anything but I always managed to do pretty well and get to some middle-high ranks.
I started GW2 a few months ago beacause I was looking for a PVP game that will have a little more action.
I’m currently phoenix rank / sapphire. So I’m far from being a pro but I manage to do alright.
If I write this article it’s to give a fresh point of view from someone relatively recent to the game (about 3 months) but at the same time, someone who isn’t a total noob to PVP.
So from what I’ve experienced, I have been both really happy and disapointed by GW2.
Most of people that has been playing for years don’t really see it anymore I guess, but the gameplay is really enjoyable. It’s way faster than most MMORPG or MOBA and have a mix between action and teamplay.
On the other hand, I feel like the meta and the way the game is played is really… bad.
I mean okay the current meta is borring. Bunkers everywhere holding points and stuff is quite…
But I know the meta is this kind of game is changing often, HOT was a big patch and it’ll take time to adjust.
But still, from what I read online there is many things that have been unbalanced and this from waaaaay before HOT.
The current problem with the game and the way ANET treat it is that they made a game with a LOT of possibilities, but the way it’s balanced allow you, if you want to be competitive, to play it with a really short array of possibilities.
When I started to play I was like : Woaaa, look at all the builds possible ! There is 8 (now 9) classes, but each of these classes have so many different gameplay possible.
So that is why I was so amazed with the game at first. But then, big desilusion : ANET wants us to play about 4 classes and each of theses with a really defined role…
So on a game that should encourage to try out different builds and experience all possibilities, you end up with a really defined meta and get bad results or flamed by your team if you wanna try something little bit different.
If I’m saying all this, it’s for ANET to realize that they will NOT make it to eSports or anything if they keep on acting the way they do.
I just started a few months ago and they are already loosing me. And I mean, I really loved the gameplay from this game. It’s one of the greatest action MMORPG I tried. But seriously if ANET keeps on doing this, they will fail.
If they want to have any chance to become a good game, and maybe one day get to eSport they need to take a break, sit around a table and seriously discuss how they can change the thing.
I mean it’s not because they finally nerfed Bunker mesmer that it’s gonna change it all. I mean that was a good nerf, but that was 1 nerf out of so many they need to do. They shouldn’t be thinking about, how to balance the current meta. They should be thinking about how to balance PVP. I’m hate when the meta is driven by the devs. The players should be leading the meta by creative ideas and testing out different things. But in order for this to happen, it’s a whole work that need to be redone. They need to make every class viable and check for each class what are the traits that are useless / too strong etc… And there is also the weapons, why do you always have to stick to a few weapons by character when there is so many others that could be totaly cool, but that suck because they lack of power. For instance, I’m mostly playing ranger, and I would love the shortbow to be a viable weapon, but it’s not. Same problem with the utility, there is only a few utilities that are used for each classes and the others are run by a bunch of “hippies” that try to play different.
Of course one of the biggest problem right now would be to balance the elite classes. What I was expecting from the elites is that they would be able to give the classes some other possibilities and not COMPLETLY ERASE the core class. I mean there is still a few players that have been playing their classes for so long that they keep on going with it, but if you look at the overall meta, the new elites are completly dominating.
So for me the game won’t be good unless they stop doing a few changes to make the meta better, but do a big patch in which they will do some up and nerf on all classes.
I know it’s a really big work that will take a lot’s of time, but hey, they said they won’t do any patch until at least january, that will let them some time to do so.
And plus, the community is totaly willing to help. If the devs would mind being a little closer from the community they could just open a special thread in each class and let the players sum up what changes they would like to have to their classes. If player and devs works along it would be way better and more healthy for the game.
Sorry if my english isn’t perfect, but I’m not a native english speaker.
Thanks for taking time to read me.