Guild Wars 2

Replacing the Monk with downed state…

Was sort of like taking the Goalee out of Soccer, but saying that it was OK because now anybody can use their hands as long as they’re inside the Goal box.

Exaserbated by the fact that handing out teleports like candy sort of meant all positions were allowed to roam anywhere on the field.

I know, I know: it wasn’t just downed state replacing the Monk. Brief Invis or Invul mechanics were meant to replace good spike reactions and so forth. But letting every person do that for themselves is really the opposite of team-work. It’s NOT trusting your allies and sticking to your role (casting an important spell even though you can see the final thrust combo comming.) Because you trust.

Of all the really dubious decisions that anet made despite the ferverent protests of their fans and testers… removing the GW1 Monk seems singularly important to me.

When we saw devs promising to balance skills independantly, because they recognized the potential importance — we should have also see them taking away the Monk from PvP because of the wants of people in PvE and known then what was to come.

shakes head

Hey anet: you told your PvP fans they would have a home in GW2, but I don’t see one. Build it?

Lopez.7369:

Getting rid of healers is one of the two amazing things about Guild Wars 2’s PvP. The other is the combat.

Also, it’s spelled goalie.

and exacerbated.