Today, I played 10 games (6 wins so 60% win rate for those who don’t know math). There are a few things I noticed.
Professions are actually pretty equal…but not balanced. Every single fight was full of AoEs and condi spamming. If I stopped spamming my cleanse (was playing the meta warrior spec, and yes it’s OP, so don’t kittening deny it), I would be loaded with 6+ condis, usually doing what seemed to be 5k (or more in extreme cases) of my hp every second. CC is through the roof. If you didn’t have stability, you’d be CCed from 100-0 or close to. If I had defensive CDs ready, I could stay alive almost no problem. But as soon as they were done, I would be dead seemingly instantly. And Dead or Alive only delayed my death because the condis would tick for 5k, immediately downing me.
Another thing, people still stand in DH traps…and those are no longer the most OP AoEs in the game…and they still hurt like hell.
Most games were blowouts. The 9th game was something like 500-150, and then the one after that was about 500-450. The least fun game followed by the most fun game. Most of the fun game was running around spamming AoEs because we couldn’t see any animations. The screen was so cluttered with animations and downed players. That wasn’t the fun part (though I do have a guilty pleasure for chaotic situations like that, but it’s still not good for the game). The fun was when I stood back and had time to process what was happening and who to target. It felt good to have time to make a decision and see what was going on.
Powercreep is alive and well and it showed today. I urge you anet, nerf everything except amulets. Literally, stop kittening around with amulets. Just stop. Stop. Now. They are not the problem, and they never were (except maybe Cele).
Don’t nerf offensive attacks without nerfing defensive ones. The meta will become tanky and boring again. Season one didn’t work because defensive powercreep interfered. There were too many defensive skills. But then you buffed offensive skills and now there are too many defensive and offensive skills.
You need to nerf both defensive and offensive skills and how quickly they can be used. This will help reduce powercreep and also clutter. The game will still be fast pace, but we’ll be able to see what’s going on and be able to make quick decisions without dying faster than a quick decision can be made.
TL;DR: Nerf every skill and increase CDs. Reduce the amount of boons and boon corruptions/removals, conditions and cleanses, CCs and stability, AoEs, healing, etc. I could go on. Also, stop standing in DH traps.
Sorry if this is really disorganized. It’s midnight, I’m tired and just wanted to get my thoughts out. I know there’ll be disagrees to what I think is the solution, and that’s fine.
Thanks for reading!