Guild Wars 2

It will be a long post so prepare yourself! =) Also i am not a native english speaker so i am sorry for my english=)

I have rank 45 and have about 8 QP(thats nothing i know but my team broke about 3 weeks ago so i had no chance to play paids anymore).

I v played a lot against all “top” teams and all “top” players. Also i am watching all the streams that are happened in GW2.

First of all i want to thank Anet for this ideas and mentality that they bring in this game.

Second i want to “blame” Anet Pvp developers for what is going on now.
When i saw for the first time a movie on youtube about this game in 1+ year ago i was so exited. It was a showcast from exhibition in Korea(i guess). It was so fantastic to see that developers are crazy about skill in Pvp , about fight feelings, about so complicated fight that going to happen. It was an ele who was using staff against warrior. That was not 100 blades against dodge roll, it was about fire shield and burning against melee attacks and deeper. Thats was so awesome i cant forget even for now.

But what i get now after this game was released after 2 mothes ? I have a few good pve updates(tbh i dont play pve at all, i had a 1 character who got level 25=)). And almost not any updates on pvp scene.(Everything that is live in the game now was in Beta events and even sooner)
Dont get me wrong, i am not complaining about how soon Anet is doing their work, i am complaining about how this game was introduced before release and what is going in reality.

Lets be honest – GW2 was PR-ed before release mostly as Pvp game, and i guess more then half of the customers are looking for good Pvp(not Pve). And to be said – Pve content and Pve players will never be thankfull cause players nowdays are eating pve content too quick to be developt to satisfy their appetite.

The main problem i see that this game in Pvp is lacking of a skill of individual player. Elites like Moa, Thieves guild, Entangle, and so one are too powerfull and game changing. You cant have such powerfull and game changing 1 button spells in a game that is going to be a competetive.Look at Lol-ultimates in this game is powerfull but well balanced to make changes not more then 30% of hp or something sort of this.
Passive things like so powerfull hp regeneration, protection, retaliation, aegis and so on cant be in a game of skill too . Especially when you balance game about capture the point. If you ever had an experience about roaming in a tournament and facing a thing like guardian who simply just stand on a point doing nothing and you killing yourself to his retaliation, protection and hp regen?

I can clear imagine that pvp developers was going to make this game so deep cause of combo fields that can melt any bunker build. But they forget about ping issues. 1/4 sec for creating combofield + N time ping issue + N time to see where and how combofield is created and placed + 3/4 sec for blast = 1.5 secs+ . That is too long to be effective in this game, especially when Anet limit combo field per 1 in an area, especially when there are so passive effects that can literally ignore any combofield finisher and creator.

So dont be frustrated cause ppl are running no brain/no skill involved burst/bunker builds due to uselenes of combofileds and finishers cause Anet created a game w/o any needs of to be skilled.

The only one way i can see Gw2 is going to be esports is changing priorites at all. Lol(the most succesfull esport game for now) have a few lacks that can be used. The main thing is that Lol have no such thing like a Eve online have. It is a clear and simple thing. Top players who achived a lot in game have a serious voice and influence in developing a game(I guess it will be the most usefull thing for qualify point leaderboard as well=))

So long story short, plz make a top players branch who involved in developing and make combofields instant and limited to 2+ in an area and combofinishers stronger to make this game more in-depth and have a chance to be popular.
Also all this things like nerfing bunker/burst builds and things to be done will came when a top players branch/structure will created who have seriuos influence to game development.

Cheers, Dizzyk(i understand that this message have a very small chance to make something in gw2 but i really wanted to make this due to my thoughts about this game, which is really first i like since ultima online =). Once more, sorry for mistakes and bad english i hope main ideas of this text is clear ))

I so so agree : +1, i am lvl 30 ( almost)… Ok i am not a pro, but i played many hours in sPvP and… i won’t rewrite all Dizzyk wrote… just read the notes above…
One more time : I completely agree
Very nice post
+1

Agreed. I bought this game thinking it was practically all pvp. I do like the fact that I don’t have to grind for gear to compete in pvp, but with only one map type (capping nodes) and the zerg fest in 8v8 (thankfully there’s 5v5 hotjoins now), I don’t see how this game can survive. I know it’s been a couple of months only, but I would think that a game that’s ready for release would not be adding new maps (sadly of the same game type) so soon. It makes me feel that the game is still in beta.

Tournaments need minor fixing but there should be 2v2, 3v3, and 5v5 arena style matches where last man standing and their team wins. Other game types like capture the flag should be included as well to add variety to pvp. That way, we’ll see a variety of class builds being utilized, instead of all glass cannon builds. In tournaments, I see less of those so it’s not much of an issue there. If there are other game types, we’d see less bunker builds and glass cannons.

No dueling is a fail. How can someone practice against a certain class if they can’t dedicate time to duel against it?

And lastly, can we zoom the camera back a little further? A charr guardian doing whirling wrath takes up the whole screen. Even worse when there’s three charr guardians doing the same thing.