Guild Wars 2

My meta wish list:
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I want to NOT be forced to use Lyssa Runes.
It does not matter your build, skill level or class, these runes are a must to counter the heavy condition meta. Instead of making hard counters, why not nerf things?

I want people to STOP yelling at Necromancers who doesn’t use Dhuumfire.
ArenaNet: “We feel like necromancers do not have enough conditions. So lets give them 2 more with Torment and Burning.” By that logic, why not give Elementalists a trait that poisons? Dhuumfire needs to go, simple as that.

I want people to STOP yelling at people playing Thieves that doesn’t run Backstab spike.
Try any other non-glass thief build and be effective. Not going to happen. They have a low health pool and because of that, they are stuck with only one play style. Thanks to the sword nerf, which, once again, low health pool, they NEED that get out of death free card, sword isn’t very viable.

I want people to STOP yelling at Engineers that are not condi bunker.
It’s easily the most powerful build out there, you cannot fight an Engineer 1v1, they are hands down the top tier sPvP class now. They are built to counter everything in one build.

I want people to STOP yelling at Guardians who are not bunker.
This can be cured with more PvP types that isn’t capture points.

I want people to STOP yelling at Rangers who are not using Spirits.
Enough with the passive abilities.

I want people to STOP yelling at Warriors who doesn’t use Healing Signet.
The healing should be based on health threshold. Healing more when health gets low but if the health is high, it basically has no effects.

I want people to STOP yelling at people playing Mesmers.
Nerf the sheer amount of conditions to fix this.

I want people to STOP yelling at people playing Elementalists.
Nerf the sheer amount of conditions AND condition removal to fix this.

Pre-Dhuumfire update sPvP balance was at it’s prime but now everything has gone downhill.

sPvP has more problems now than lack of maps and game modes.

Also tone down the length of conditions, Pin Down can hit 6 stacks of bleeding in a single hit that lasts for ~15 seconds. I’d rather have 12 stacks of bleeding for 7 seconds.
In WvW, the +40% condition duration and -40% condition duration food has to go away.

Well for starters I’ve never been yelled at for playing a certain build. Well…maybe along the lines of “omg cheese noob build spammer lolz” but I’m sure that’s not what you mean.

Anyway, I agree with your general sentiment but not necessarily with the specifics.

My take on…

Lyssa Runes – Yes, Lyssa runes are a reaction to the condition bombing phenomenon some classes have. In the early days Lyssa Runes weren’t better than others because you didn’t frequently have 6+ Conditions dumped on you at once while you abilities were only designed to remove one or two conditions at a time.

Lyssa Runes are the only way some classes can deal with this type of condition pressure. Imo Agony should have never been added to the game. It just pushed Conditions as a whole over the point. It just adds another DPS condition to an already bloated Condition meta while abilities were never designed with this sort of Condition bombing in mind.

Sure, you can nerf Dhuumfire but that’s just addressing the symptoms, not the cause.

Thieves – I’m not sure about you but very few Thieves currently still run Backstab builds. S/D still seems to be the most popular but that may change. I don’t have any huge issues with Thieves right now, just that their lack of Stability and Protection make them really frustrating to play on Skyhammer and during node-fights.

Engineers – I agree with you there. Engineers have been OP for a while now but always remained unimpaired because they aren’t as popular as other classes and have more complex mechanics. Still the extent to which this class can bunker while still putting out good condition pressure is OP.

Guardians – I’ve felt for a while now that Guardians are one of the most balanced classes in the game. I just don’t like just how hard they can bunker. They’re virtually unkillable by single players and can even tank multiple enemies for a while. This isn’t a good balance. Being tanky is ok, but borderline immortal…not so much.

Rangers – Oh god yes, Spirits are so dumb and just add to the already unbearable visual noise in this game. And it doesn’t even take any skill to play. It would be great if Rangers required a little more finesse and had more depth to their skills rather than relying on all this passive play and automatic procs. GW2 has by far the most boring Ranger class of any MMO. But fixing Rangers would require quite an extensive rework.

Warriors – I still think it’s too soon to judge their overall balance after the patch but I agree that Healing Singet is still incredibly OP. Passive abilities should never be the best choice. But HS is for a number of builds. Personally I think Hammer is still conceptually OP. Being able to put out so much AoE damage and CC on a regular basis just isn’t suitable for a game like GW2 where, due to low TTK and active combat, CC needs to be targeted and avoidable.

Mesmers – Mesmers are probably the most OP class next to Engineers. And their new Heal is just mindboggling in that context. In WvW the stealth-spam coupled with conditions and constant blocks + _Aegis_makes them virtually unkillable. In sPvP they can be equally OP when they have their Phantasms do the work while they spam stealth-moves and Illusions.

Now I can’t fault them for that, but the amount of visual noise and clutter that Mesmers create with their abilities is unbearable for a game like GW2, where it’ imperative to know and see what’s going on on screen. In that context I find the rate at which Mesmers can create Illusions to be the biggest offender. They can literally create one over 2 seconds…mostly from passive abilities. That’s just excessive. The biggest offender is probably Deceptive Evasion. By itself it wouldn’t be so bad, but combined with near permanent Vigor and other Illusion spawns its just too much.

Elementalists – I don’t have a strong opinion about Elementalists at the moment. Just that the combination of Bunker builds + Conjured weapons seems OP in WvW because it combines tankiness with so much offensive pressure. There just doesn’t seem to be the trade-off you’d normally expect. But other than that I will reserve judgement until further notice.

I also agree about the +/- 40% Condition duration food. Power builds don’t get +40% Crit-chance or +40% Crit-damage from food, so why should Conditions builds? It just doesn’t make sense to offer them such an increase in effectiveness when other foods aren’t nearly as good. +/- 20% is reasonable.

Nova Stiker.8396:

My meta wish list:
_____________________________________

I want to NOT be forced to use Lyssa Runes.
It does not matter your build, skill level or class, these runes are a must to counter the heavy condition meta. Instead of making hard counters, why not nerf things?

I want people to STOP yelling at Necromancers who doesn’t use Dhuumfire.
ArenaNet: “We feel like necromancers do not have enough conditions. So lets give them 2 more with Torment and Burning.” By that logic, why not give Elementalists a trait that poisons? Dhuumfire needs to go, simple as that.

I want people to STOP yelling at people playing Thieves that doesn’t run Backstab spike.
Try any other non-glass thief build and be effective. Not going to happen. They have a low health pool and because of that, they are stuck with only one play style. Thanks to the sword nerf, which, once again, low health pool, they NEED that get out of death free card, sword isn’t very viable.

I want people to STOP yelling at Engineers that are not condi bunker.
It’s easily the most powerful build out there, you cannot fight an Engineer 1v1, they are hands down the top tier sPvP class now. They are built to counter everything in one build.

I want people to STOP yelling at Guardians who are not bunker.
This can be cured with more PvP types that isn’t capture points.

I want people to STOP yelling at Rangers who are not using Spirits.
Enough with the passive abilities.

I want people to STOP yelling at Warriors who doesn’t use Healing Signet.
The healing should be based on health threshold. Healing more when health gets low but if the health is high, it basically has no effects.

I want people to STOP yelling at people playing Mesmers.
Nerf the sheer amount of conditions to fix this.

I want people to STOP yelling at people playing Elementalists.
Nerf the sheer amount of conditions AND condition removal to fix this.

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Pre-Dhuumfire update sPvP balance was at it’s prime but now everything has gone downhill.

sPvP has more problems now than lack of maps and game modes.

Also tone down the length of conditions, Pin Down can hit 6 stacks of bleeding in a single hit that lasts for ~15 seconds. I’d rather have 12 stacks of bleeding for 7 seconds.
In WvW, the +40% condition duration and -40% condition duration food has to go away.

You need to stop yelling at people.

Countless

I want a pimped out Kalahari,
to roll up and down strawberry,
looking for a kitten to punch in the mitten,
exchanging that paper ride off feeling richer.

Oh no I forgot the condi,
no use contemplating my purity,
it’s all in vain as it starts to sting,
if only I had that diamond skin.

I want people to actually start killing each other and not focus on surviving.

Amir.1570:

I want people to actually start killing each other and not focus on surviving.

You can only kill when you’re alive.

I personally want adrenal regen buffed, healing signet nerfed to oblivion (again) and longbow to be perished by making other weapons more viable, like axe mainhand and greatsword. I play a warrior and I hate longbow + sig because if you play without them you’re less effective.
Also necros should not be able to “backstab” any class without condi removal by pressing 2-3 buttons. Conditions are tedious to play against in my opinion.

Amir.1570:

I want people to actually start killing each other and not focus on surviving.

Don’t worry Amir they are slowly adding more PvE content and PvE friendly builds to TPvP. Soon we will be able to use same build as you do on PvE Raid in Team Que.

We can write 100000 posts on the PvP problems cause I know for one its been done over and over. Have they listened NO!. It’s like they look at our ideas and go we can come up with something better, lets buff the Ai and Passive even know the player base is saying don’t buff. Honestly look at the last few patch’s it really does feel like they are trolling us and throwing kitten in our face, for got sake they made SkyHammer and called it PvP.

I think I like many others are going back to other games, just isn’t any point when its clear they won’t listen.

Amstel Steel.2058:

I want a pimped out Kalahari,
to roll up and down strawberry,
looking for a kitten to punch in the mitten,
exchanging that paper ride off feeling richer.

Oh no I forgot the condi,
no use contemplating my purity,
it’s all in vain as it starts to sting,
if only I had that diamond skin.

No good Elementalist would ever use Diamond Skin.

It has no place in the Elementalist profession let alone the entire game.