Guild Wars 2

As the devs stated, they want healing and support to be a bigger part of the game, which I am all for. That being said, there is very little incentive for it. This is not just a problem for WvW, but arguably bigger here. Currently players are only rewarded for aoe-ing all day.

Fixing this would be tricky. Remove player-death rewards will make players throw a fit, but would be an option. Either way this needs to be addressed.

Don’t think this will ever happen for the same reason that defending will never be rewarding. It’s just too hard to implement without opening up avenues for exploitation.

They implemented reward tracks in PvP and the idea of implementing something like that was naturally asked for in WvW. I think it makes sense.

Nomad Guardian still get a metric ton of loot while healing like a champ (not that you even need to run nomad to heal. Elementalist can run full zerker and tag people by just looking at them, while putting down fields for the entire zerg.

I dont understand the problem.

Dawdler.8521:

Nomad Guardian still get a metric ton of loot while healing like a champ (not that you even need to run nomad to heal. Elementalist can run full zerker and tag people by just looking at them, while putting down fields for the entire zerg.

I dont understand the problem.

The problem is druid staff isn’t a loot stick like guardians and their cele form doesn’t do any damage on the majority of the skills. No tagging = no loot.

This is more of a problem with druid than it is with the system. All they would have to do is widen the auto attack beams and make the staff pierce and the cele form skills do a small amount of damage.

Ooooooh but that is a druid problem, not a support/heal issue. In WvW, nobody will care about them, just like nobody care about Rangers. If you cant frontline or you cant AoE stun/dps, you are useless. The others can do that and heal.

What’s kind of made me a little wistful, is that GW2 was the first to break the “holy trinity” and that’s what made the game so unbelievably awesome. Seems we are slowly crawling back to it …

Dawdler.8521:

Ooooooh but that is a druid problem, not a support/heal issue. In WvW, nobody will care about them, just like nobody care about Rangers. If you cant frontline or you cant AoE stun/dps, you are useless. The others can do that and heal.

Yup, that’s why I said it’s a druid problem, which means it will likely be ignored.

Melee support works well so say tempest i am not sure if druid can do the same thing these are the only 2 pure support/ healing classes you will see in wvw.