Guild Wars 2

HoT brought PvP in GW2 to a whole new level of horribleness. I came to this realisation after playing through the leagues upto saphir tier 2. Basically there was already too much of everything before HoT, but the elite specialisations made everything even worse. Chronomancers (too much alacrity, evades, blocks), Scrappers (the drones are a bad joke, they need to go), Dragonhunters, Herolds etc are all things which never should have made it into PvP.
Basically the only reason I and many people I know just keep playing PvP for the new achievements and the legendary backpack. If your metrics show an increase in player activity it is not because people enjoy pvp, it is because they want these rewards. I will bet real money on this.
I must say playing this frustrating and horrible game mode so many hours in 57 days just to get the rewards feels like torture and and not fun at all.

Are you really complaining about gyros? The only gyro that sees any play is function gyro and only because it is the feature of the class, the rest are pretty much pure garbage. Engineer is one of the few classes that the base class can actually stand up to the elite spec, most people only play scrapper for access to hammer.

Dragon hunters are cheesey as kitten but they aren’t really overpowered and are actually inferior to most of the other meta builds.

You make some good points and a few of the elite specs are way over tuned but somethings you seem to complain about just for the sake of complaining.

The sad part is, no one – not the players, not the devs – is surprised at the PVP being broken, because that’s what happens when expansions come out.

The REAL depressing part is how long it will take for balancing patches to kick in. Arenanet is notoriously slow with implementing balance patches, with one coming every several months.

I had so much love for PvP before they shuffled and changed the entire trait mechanics on the June 23 update. PvP went downhill for me from that time onwards. If they buffed necro, mesmer and ranger while everything pre June 23 stayed the same, class diversity would be near perfect.

Balance patches need to come every 2 weeks if Anet wants GW2 to become eSports.