Guild Wars 2

I have my own thoughts and opinions but it would be interesting to get a general consensus on what the community thinks about NOT having a holy trinity (Tank, Dps, Healer).

Was this a mistake? Is it something that is annoying but doesn’t matter? Or is it exactly what you were looking for?

Please vote in the category most relevant to you:

PvP’r – http://strawpoll.me/886869

PvE’r – http://strawpoll.me/886874

Wvw’r – http://strawpoll.me/886877

hmmm i’m a casual player that plays all PvE WvW sPvP so i voted all 3.

no to holy trinity for me.

Getting some interesting feedback across the board. I have posted this in a few select sections to give the poll true value.

My thoughts:

Right now, there is literally not a single class that seems to have any set point that ANet wants them to reach- i.e. all of the classes lack a vision. As a result, we’ve seen tons of awful nerfs to things that haven’t needed nerfs and overbuffs to things that only needed to be buffed a little.

If we instituted a Holy Trinity, granted, that would take away one of the unique aspects of this game. However, at the same time, it would give each of the classes a specific goal to work towards, and right now, I think that’s what this game needs.

The only problems would be:

1. Any people that leveled their class to 80 would be faced with a much different class
2. We’d need to institute more classes, or be stuck with very little diversity between Healers, Tanks, and DPS’ers.

That being said, I’d be perfectly fine with a holy trinity as long as classes within each section don’t suddenly become exactly like one another. It’s simply impossible to make each profession good at every play style without making one OP or another UP.

Also, the poll is kinda awkwardly worded. Here’s the one I would suggest:

http://strawpoll.me/886931

I would be ok with no trinity if what we had wasn’t such an unorganized mess, where nothing has a specific purpose.
I mean, it didn’t even solve the healer problem (the problem of having to look for a healer and the long and boring time to kill), every team will run a bunker guardian. It’s actually worse, in the sense that all teams run the same support class.

I think it would have been great if they made some classes have some weapon set that healed in AoE, untargeted frontal cones etc etc, BUT that wouldnt heal the healer. The healer would have to rely on the 6th skill to heal himself like others do. And there could be other interesting ideas, like a weapon skill that put a mark on an ally target and 50% of the next X attacks are redirected to the “healer”.
There were so many ways they could have made healers interesting without removing them. And then maybe we wouldn’t have to rely on downed state to add depth.

ahuba.6430:

There were so many ways they could have made healers interesting without removing them. And then maybe we wouldn’t have to rely on downed state to add depth.

That’s an interesting statement

i do everything pvp, pve and wvw

i like this game for that very fact that it doesn’t have holy trinity

i come from WoW where having healer was a must, it was very frustrating in any aspect of the game

Cynz.9437:

i do everything pvp, pve and wvw

i like this game for that very fact that it doesn’t have holy trinity

i come from WoW where having healer was a must, it was very frustrating in any aspect of the game

hmmm i feel similar except that i’m casual in all 3 pve wvw spvp.
and yes i like gw2 for no holy trinity, no “dedicated healer” though having a dungeon full consisting of warriors and guardians does make the dungeon run much easier though.

i did not play wow much, but in the short period that i played, waiting for a healer in a dungeon finder queue can take quite some time.

the survival of a dungeon group very much depended on the tank and the healer. i like it much better in guild wars 2 where everyone can help each other get back to their feet.