Guild Wars 2

10/10. best combat system of any MMO to date. i am still excited to log in every day to continue practice & learning. a hybrid MMO-FPS is exactly what i want to play. this game is the MMO side of Team Fortress 2 style gameplay.

if you care about FIGHTING other people, combat system is all that matters, imo.

i think the maps are great. there are nuances of every map that can be exploited in various ways for positioning around the nodes. kyhlo’s clocktower is the epitome of this. good teams will shred inexperienced teams based purely on their positioning on CT. ( something i have been experiencing of late learning this map better, hehe )

i really am interested to see Temple added to tourney rotation, just to have team fights on that map. considering it’s the newest map & it is close to kyhlo’s level in terms of complexity, i think future map design will give us things to look forward to.

class balance is pretty good, i think. burst is not high when defenses are binary ( 100% avoidance through evade, block, blind, dodge ). but any player coming from a casual MMO is going to get gibbed constantly until they embrace the active style. in a game like warcraft, you have passive defenses. so you just pump up your dodge rating on your character sheet & wham bam, 40% dodge rate without actively doing anything.

“but i get caught with stunbreakers on cd etc”—oh hello team based combat, sup. remember wow arena? “he trinketed kidney, fear now, gg”.

i vastly prefer the possibility for quick kills than playing healer mana wars ( anyone complaining about bunkers here is putting the blinders on & forgetting that every healer in another MMO is in effect a bunker )

blah blah no ratings blah blah no matchmaking.

i can’t even play during paid times & i still <3 this game. peace folks, keep up the good fight.

4.5 / 10
i like how fight works, they’re dynamic, requires knowledge etc. etc.
but aside from that is really boring and easy, i always love pvp but gw2 pvp bores me after really short time (mainly because of all the issues people said in this pages)

Combat: 8/10
Balance: 6/10
Reward system / Point system: 3/10 (only rewards zerging)
sPvP: 2/10 (its just a mess)
tPvP: 8/10
Viable build options: 3/10 (Bunker, Glass or Condition (sorta))

No Ranking / Ladder, No matchmaking system, no team options or smart AI balancing, only 1 gamemode.

Overall: 5/10

If they truly wish to obtain the E-Sport title….they have a lot of work cut out for them still