They didnt know what made GW2 fun and now we are at a point where veterans dont want to play it because its not the same game they enjoyed playing. New players dont love it because of spam and clutter effects they dont understand. Then to top it off no one like perma cheese which has been thief, DH, mesmer since HOT.
This is arguable. I am not a huge fan of new maps, or meta builds, however i like posting out tactics in order to adapt and try to make the team do the best. The real issue to me is that, after few years, i still have to deal with unexpected attitudes and people not reading chat.
Typically what happened my last placing matchs :
- one game i typed twice " We have no choice than pushing lord " and spammed on it, we ended up being 3 there, with 2 guys standing on points although we had no way of winning on points
- i drawed on map and ping spammed to go to close point, one mate went to mid, our thief went to solo svanir and died in exactly 2 seconds, while i was dying on that close point..
I could bring a lot of similar examples, but it really gets old when it’s still the same happening along years, and i’m not sure the season system does really help..
I can give some examples,
So for instance my old guild team ran a power necro with lich form, i ran shout warrior and we had 1 shout guardian with staff. We would give the necro support and condi cleanses and then he would go lich form with 15-20 stacks of might. Which took team coordination to do. We had a player who played 1 vs 1 ranger and then we had a thief for +1 and decaps. We had some success in ToL even though it wasnt meta at all. The meta was d/d ele with cele engy. We were able to beat a team running meta comp because we were better. We then lost to a far better team.
Even in the 1 vs 1 rooms you would see MM necros beating players, rifle warriors winning fights, sword thieves winning fights. Right now there is literally nothing you can think of out side the meta that would even work.
Big reason why is before HOT you had to choose, other then D/D ele you had construct your team comp for more mobility, boons, condi cleanes and survivability.
If you go back and watch WTS 2 the play by play people are talking about how Orng are better at team fights and how the Abjured were better at spacing the map and creating the match ups.
This game use to have styles of play, with many different players running different builds. You didnt know what they were running, it could of been a power necro, a wells necro, a MM or the meta necro. Warriors had a condi cc build, meta power and shoutbow support, guardian had burns, medi dps and shout support.
When you play ranked PvP now 90% of the time when you see a ele you know what it is. When you see a DH you know what it is, warrior, rev.
You can still bring up strategy when your talking pushes/rotations/ and cornering. But i dont think you can compare pre-hot team set ups vs the HOT seasons where bunker meta 1-2. Then followed by broken spam seasons 3-4. With no teams or even a serious PvP scene due to the lack order Anet put into S5.
Or maybe i sound crazy either way dont let me ruin the fun, cheers.
