Guild Wars 2

Is it just me or did damage get alot worse over the last few days?
What put me on the hype train through beta was

1.) Dirty open PvP in a RvR environment instead of clinical competitive PvP á la battlegrounds
2.) Slow, tactical fights with alot of health and low damage instead a 5 seconds roflstompfest somewhere between crits and CC-chains

WvW is broken for me, 5h++ queues can’t be named in any other way in my opinion.
And the slow tactical fights start to remember me more and more of lolcrit damage-fests I’m used to from…WoW-Rift-SWTOR-AoC-WHO-etc-etc

I’m specced vitality / toughness, my whole gear is power / health / toughness based. It’s the rare WvW gear.
If I lose 80% of my health in sometimes under 5 seconds, it feels like something’s very, very wrong.

Most of the time it’s fine, people in damage gear take more damage and do less because of my more tank-ier stuff, but sometimes I just feel like some green geared guy in a WoW battleground.
It’s just my opinion, but it feels very, very wrong.

Eight out of ten guys nearly wiping the floor with me are thiefs, the rest were necromancers. No clue if it’s the class or the gear, but I’m concerned. I’m a Mesmer. With a defensive-heavy skill set. I don’t do much damage. I’m tanky and agile. I get out. What do people without a dozen stealth skills, blink and roots and snared and knockbacks?

They die.
Like that Warrior yesterday. Or that more damage oriented Mesmer the day before.

Maybe it’s just a phase. Maybe I smell honor point grind and critfests just because I’m paranoid.

Im a mesmer too in yellow +3 orange parts gear with balanced offense/defense stats. I have slotet decoy and blink, I almost never die.

Most people that die dont know when they need to get their kitten out of the way of the enemy zerg.

Edit: I dont die as necro too, its just a matter of watching your surounding.

I didn’t talk about dying. I talked about how the sudden increase of damage concerns me.

Phoenix.7928:

I didn’t talk about dying. I talked about how the sudden increase of damage concerns me.

The only damage increase possible is full exotic lvl 80 and having 3 orbs. Glass canon toons with full exotic gear sit on 3000 attack and more and almost or 100% crit.

People getting to 80 and getting exotic gear makes a big difference compared to a L60 wearing L40 blue gear being scaled up. If you were a L60 in L60 exotic gear it would be good but that doesn’t happen.

This will only get worse when more people get full exotic gear. Better get used to it.