Guild Wars 2

Expansion excluded, which honestly only upset whatever balance there was.

How is it there are less features in pvp now, then there were on GW2’s release?
- Tournament tokens gone, tournaments in general.
- I’ll consider rank emotions gone since ANET just ended up making them grindable.
– Underwater combat gone
- Mystic forge gone
- Unique PVP weapons gone
- Unique PVP Armor gone

And whether your a casual or not, the pandering to the PVE element of GW2 is truly what killed pvp in this game. Even the rewards system is a joke. Why not hand players a trophy, title, gems, gold, every other currency for tying their shoes too.

TL:DR (My QQ. GW1 glory pvp days are long gone, the future of GW2 is…. well sad)

BG

Ok, you have some valid points, but please, PLEASE, stop using the word “pve” to describe everything you dislike. PvE = killing artificial intelligence. That’s it. Rewards are not specific to PvE, ease is not specific to PvE (I can’t beat my computer at chess, no matter how hard I try), and pretty skins are not specific to PvE. Just thought I’d make that clear.

Removing solo q and PvP unique currency (glory) / skins , stale game mode etc take your pick

Changing the trait system on June 23rd. It drastically lowered build diversity and creativity, which is part of the reason we see everyone running the same builds.

I have to say when you put it like that what the OP is saying is sort of true… however, they tried having separate sPvP rewards system etc. and it did not incentivize enough play so they unified it to draw in the crowd that cares to play both PvP and PvE — it is the logical thing for them to have done.

Can’t say it is working as intended especially having played this season, in retrospective I think the matchmaking might be worse that the first season (or then it is just the people playing, can’t say as I skipped the second season entirely), sure it had its own issues… but I can’t say this is all that much better in some places.

Topher.5631:

Changing the trait system on June 23rd. It drastically lowered build diversity and creativity, which is part of the reason we see everyone running the same builds.

community: there are issues pls fix
ANet: kk → juni patch
community: u kitten’d over everything even more fix asap
ANet: wut? not now i make expansion!
community: uok? gameplay is getting out of hand
ANet: chill! here, have some beta tests!
community: …
ANet: HoT is here! everything awesome! GW2 is in golden age!
community: u srs? do u even pvp/wvw?
ANet: SHH.. just play through all the content before complayning
community: a moment later→ pvp left, wvw left, pve be like: hmm k. we’re done. sup with legendary armor/weaps/raids/fractals etc???
ANet: ööööööö. -grabs a palm leaf to hide behind-
community: knock, knock. game ’s kitten, go work!
ANet: -grabs another leaf-

Wolfs Shadow.7234:

Expansion excluded, which honestly only upset whatever balance there was.

How is it there are less features in pvp now, then there were on GW2’s release?
- Tournament tokens gone, tournaments in general.
- I’ll consider rank emotions gone since ANET just ended up making them grindable.
– Underwater combat gone
- Mystic forge gone
- Unique PVP weapons gone
- Unique PVP Armor gone

And whether your a casual or not, the pandering to the PVE element of GW2 is truly what killed pvp in this game. Even the rewards system is a joke. Why not hand players a trophy, title, gems, gold, every other currency for tying their shoes too.

TL:DR (My QQ. GW1 glory pvp days are long gone, the future of GW2 is…. well sad)

BG

Man, I know how you feel.

To me, it’s time to face the music. PvP is much WORSE than when we started, and that’s just sad.

Topher.5631:

Changing the trait system on June 23rd. It drastically lowered build diversity and creativity, which is part of the reason we see everyone running the same builds.

True, the 6/23 trait system threw everything in a loop. However, for a while somehow….it worked. HoT was when everything really just IMPLODED.

MadVisions.4529:

Topher.5631:

Changing the trait system on June 23rd. It drastically lowered build diversity and creativity, which is part of the reason we see everyone running the same builds.

community: there are issues pls fix
ANet: kk -> juni patch
community: u kitten’d over everything even more fix asap
ANet: wut? not now i make expansion!
community: uok? gameplay is getting out of hand
ANet: chill! here, have some beta tests!
community: …
ANet: HoT is here! everything awesome! GW2 is in golden age!
community: u srs? do u even pvp/wvw?
ANet: SHH.. just play through all the content before complayning
community: a moment later-> pvp left, wvw left, pve be like: hmm k. we’re done. sup with legendary armor/weaps/raids/fractals etc???
ANet: ööööööö. -grabs a palm leaf to hide behind-
community: knock, knock. game ’s kitten, go work!
ANet: -grabs another leaf-

This is exactly what i think nowadays of Anet :|

Wolfs Shadow.7234:

- Unique PVP Armor gone

Glorious Armor still exists, as does the legendary backpiece. The other “unique” “PVP” skins were just a grab bag of things Anet forgot to implement in the rest of the game.