Guild Wars 2

But I wasn’t mad. I wasn’t mad at my team’s Necro leaving. I wasn’t mad that I lost. If so, all I was mad at is how the Anet balance team is actually allowed to be the authority on balancing the game.

2 minion masters, 1 bunker warrior, 1 decap engie, and 1 engie that I didn’t even need to face. The amount of clutter, projectile animation, passive play and power creep? Champion Legionnaire and Phantom titles are now a huge joke, they’re just Walmart titles.

I’m just disappointed that such a game with great combat mechanics is allowed to disgrace itself with such a short-sighted Balance team. I do realise that the balance team has to account for all 3 formats of the game, but, right up to this point of the game? They have not done their job at all. PvE is still all zerkery, WvW is rewarded by tankiness and spam, and the filth of WvW builds is all over sPvP.

I do sincerely wish that the game gets better, and the way forward is to stop hiring 15 year olds to do your balancing. Even better, if you could break away sPvP from WvW/PvE, and actually get beta testers from the player population. But wait, so many players have become disillusioned, the number of “QQ threads” that festers this particular sub-forum about so and so builds should be a huge warning sign that the balance team doesn’t know what to do.

For god’s sake, be responsible and revert most of the changes and do miniscule changes. Take a leaf out of Dota2, a game that is still in beta stage despite being almost 1.5 decades old, and adopt the practices that IceFrog used in order to make the game it is today. Active beta testing teams (about 5 – 8 of 10 each IIRC), active engagement of the Pro Players community, having a stable map version to use in legit tournaments whilst rolling out balances for the pubs to play out and let new bugs/abuses surface for fixing.

tl;dr. Please, Anet, wake up, the sPvP community wants to help, and help can’t be accepted with a closed fist.

Dota 2 is actually officially out of beta.

Just in case you were wondering…

I agree with one major point you mentioned in this post; they need to shove their egos out of the way and study the way succesfull pvp games handled things. There is no need to reinvent the wheel.

Believeinsteve.9354:

Dota 2 is actually officially out of beta.

Just in case you were wondering…

Thanks, I didn’t expect it to be out of beta since they were still bringing in the rest of the heroes into the game. Besides, nothing wrong with it remaining in beta, since balances and newer heroes would still need to be rigorously tested.

But I am disappointed that you could only say that out of everything else that I said. Please, stick to the topic, thanks.

xoom.4918:

Believeinsteve.9354:

Dota 2 is actually officially out of beta.

Just in case you were wondering…

Thanks, I didn’t expect it to be out of beta since they were still bringing in the rest of the heroes into the game. Besides, nothing wrong with it remaining in beta, since balances and newer heroes would still need to be rigorously tested.

But I am disappointed that you could only say that out of everything else that I said. Please, stick to the topic, thanks.

I’m new to gw2, your topic was interesting, and its morning for me.

That’s ok, so long as you sign the petition to stop passive play, an entire clusterkitten of particle effects and petting zoos.

xoom.4918:

That’s ok, so long as you sign the petition to stop passive play, an entire clusterkitten of particle effects and petting zoos.

I’ll sign it for passive play. Unfortunately I’ll have to stay away from the petition stopping clusterkitten particle effects & petting zoos.

I have to disagree with most of what you said or maybe just the tone I hear you reading this before you hit “post reply”

I have played a MM necro since the launch of this game and we have seen our fare share of buffs but we have also seen our fare share of nerfs as well. Funny thing I hear all the time people crying about the MM necro doesn’t have to play or do anything because the pets do all the work. Thats wrong I get owned plenty of times. This class like many others have to be played correctly to win. The issue lies with many of the other classes and I have posted many suggestions probably much like you on ways to fix it. There are many ways to kill the MM Necro. You either have to burst them down quickly or if your a bit tanky you need to focus on some of the pets first. Crowd control and locking the MM Necro down in one spot is key to killing them. I will say that once a fight starts if you mess up and attack me first or the wrong pet and you give me time to start dodging around gaining momentum and time to lay down conditions and heals I will win every time but not because of my pets but because you either have the wrong build or you made a mistake. I have a lot of pvp experience in this game with almost every single class. I have 80s of each class and familiar with most of the classes mechanics. To play this game you can’t push buttons you have to time certain attacks and use them as I believe the mechanics of the game are intended. I get a few nasty tells in game from time to time about how I suck because I play MM Necro and its funny to me because most of the time they are very poor players or much lower rank then I am.

I do agree that the team in charge of pvp content for this game has done a poor job and there are some balances needed but to me its not the MM Necro that needs fixed because any player with a good spec that knows how to play their class can absolutely beat a MM Necro. MM Necro has no stability and if you are specced like me and most are you kill the healer pet and well no heals for the necro. Many disadvantages to playing the MM necro. Yes its nice to have the pets but lose the right one and your dead. It sucks too because you really have no control over what the pet does of goes.

That being said hopefully you didn’t take anything I said personal. I do hope there are some New and exciting changes for us in Pvp this year. I have a feeling there are some great ideas coming I just hope they don’t come to late.