Why did you just change your method of delivering your argument half way?
The Engi rifle immob is a giant net flying at you.. Throw bolas is a flying string thing… If a Warrior has LB out you know they want to hit you with Pin Down, etc.
You start with the animation of net shot, Throw bolas and then change to if theres a longbow out. There’s a stark contrast there. Which isn’t to attack warriors, but you’re trying to reinforce a point by using something at odds with it.
I actually don’t think you’re on the same topic as me. You’re mentioning hard CC locking but CC has not stacked in GW2. If you’re talking about the previous War situation that’s a seperate thing.
Once again; If we CC stack so that a 1 second stun/knockback/ had it’s duration increased by another subsequent one to 2 seconds for example we’d be reducing the level of conscious play to achieve optimal shutdown time on a powerful state in the game. It’s what has been done with immobilize, you can feel it’s fine, I feel it puts the game backwards from the level it wants to be at. It’s no skin off my back, as I don’t take GW2 very seriously, and others who are against it may do so but why would you decrease the level of thought put into a strategy when it’s not even particularly difficult on a basic level. Someone said it before it justs “Dumbs down” the game, games shouldn’t be unnecessarily complex, but immobilize wasn’t complex to begin with, so it’s in poor judgement to me to take this route.
I don’t recall claiming an issue with the level of evasion in the game or being able to land a hit (until Pistol whip was nerfed, but they’ve already said they’ll address that) to justify immobilize stacking. A thief could prior to patch get 12+s of immobilize on an individual if they wanted to (but there were more appealing options) through chaining his immobilizes to prevent overlap without just throwing them out. Even above decreasing the level of thought, on a base level when condition removal is not a factor it just makes it easier to compact your damage as you don’t have to decrease damage output to maximize support. Kind of increases the level of spam you’ll do in the game.
Eg, devourer venom optimal use? attack once, wait ~2s, hit again, maximize CC to ~4 seconds (without residual venom) thats 4s of lock for your team on an individual. If you just hit twice you’d reduce the effect, getting more damage in but locking them down for less time. Now you get maximum benefit while still being able to get your maximum damage in that timeframe.
Chaining immobilize will still be useful, just much more rarely and given as I’ve seen the amount of players who care to begin with, it’ll appear even less so in ideal situations because the game doesn’t have enough people who would care to do so.
tl;dr: It’s Anets game and they can do what they want, but why would they decrease the thought process on something that didn’t require a hefty amount to begin with?
thinking about it, immobilize stacking is not even a PvP related change, it was probably done for PvE since immobilizes meant nothing on bosses and champs, since it would get replaced and cleared instantly
That only reduces the quality of strong PvE team work though.
In this other MMO I am playing, That CC in PvE would have diminishing returns, which prevents everyone from spamming their CC and makes the encounters more thought out. I don’t find this a negative experience at all, so from a PvE standpoint I don’t know why PvE players would.
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