Guild Wars 2

Ok, well not SO recent. Am I the only one thinking that condi builds completly ruined WvW? Everyone is crying about powercreep, which is less toxic than this nonsense.
You guys ruined GvGs since you just need 4-5 full condi idiots and win. PvP isnt much different. Yes, some would argue “its just a troll build”, but there are 80% freaking trollsbuilds running around in WvW. Is it just condi wars now? I thought it should be a nice side effect while loosing a bit physical damage. But no, it ruined WvW with Dire builds, perplexity runes and stuff like that. GG duelling a confusion mesmer. Its just my opinion, I like WvW for its fights, but this part is completly ruined. People rage whisper me when I defend a kitten camp since they just want to farm camps (???) and use condi builds. Those are people who are completly new to WvW and can smack almost all physical builds. Yes I could run anti condi, but thats a whole different build, and Revenant for example can only counter condi with condi. GG. Its kittening ruined. I just hope that next weeks LS3 brings some balance.

Whoops, almost forgot to mention that the server merge ruined GvGs and open fights aswell since its just PPT now. GG Anet, now you dont have to struggle supporting GvGs, they dont freaking exsist anymore.

Aury.1367:

Ok, well not SO recent. Am I the only one thinking that condi builds completly ruined WvW? Everyone is crying about powercreep, which is less toxic than this nonsense.

Powercreep refers to the inflation of everything (sustain, damage etc.), not just power damage. When people are crying about powercreep, it’s as much about ridiculous condi bombs as it is about 5k auto attacks.

Personally, I despise how (damaging) conditions work right now. I think it’s a terrible system and I do not enjoy fighting condi builds/comps in any way. I have many issues with the state of combat in GW2 since HoT (/June last year), but this is the one that could realistically make me stop playing all together.

Aury.1367:

Whoops, almost forgot to mention that the server merge ruined GvGs and open fights aswell since its just PPT now. GG Anet, now you dont have to struggle supporting GvGs, they dont freaking exsist anymore.

Sorry to break it to you but WvW has always been about PPT and they have said in the past, it’s not going anywhere.

GvG is something the players created in the wrong mode as with the other things you mentioned. Anet is not going to change their base mode to suit you.

The only thing WvW is worth now is moving in Tiers and that is to slow and players will get bored and leave or move. The mode is in a constant flux.

The only thing at this point to make matchups worth winning is rewards and to get that is by PPT. Deal with it or move on to something else.

Enjoy your stay…

Meh, in large scale fights condi is countered by near perma resistance boon share and condi clear. Same goes for organized small scale groups. Condi’s are manageable in 1v1’s if you are built properly.
Basically they are only a problem if you are unorganized and allowing your group to get picked apart, or if you are heavily outnumbered (in which case you will still likely die to power builds).

The only real problem is Anet is unwilling to balance the game modes separately and they broke certain things to make them more viable for pve. The best example of this is giving confusion a passive tick.

sadly arena net never supported gvg . In a game called guild wars with all the respect you have no option to fight against another guild.
Dear A-net. after 4 years of gw2 , could we have some kind of support in fights betwen guilds?

Aury.1367:

Yes I could run anti condi, but thats a whole different build, and Revenant for example can only counter condi with condi.

I have a friend who would disagree with you… He been able to destroy most full condi builds out there (except chronomancer and some condi thieves) using power rev.

Yep they killed the GvG scene with the condi cheese creep. Maybe that’s what they wanted, after all GvG just cast a shadow on their own pvp modes as it was community organized and more fun/competitive.

Combat is not about being good anymore, it’s just about running the right build and having passive ticks do the job.

It’s a shame but it looks like Anet stopped playing their own game. I don’t think they’ve notice how bad the situation has become with conditions and all their unjustified nerfs to power skills.

Like when they do balance they completely destroy skills in a manner that nobody ever use them again, instead of doing incremental balancing like Blizzard does or other MMO companies. Nobody uses turrets anymore, good balancing! Nobody uses Ice Bow anymore, good balancing! I don’t know how they can justify that.

Xillllix.3485:

Like when they do balance they completely destroy skills in a manner that nobody ever use them again, instead of doing incremental balancing like Blizzard does or other MMO companies. Nobody uses turrets anymore, good balancing! Nobody uses Ice Bow anymore, good balancing! I don’t know how they can justify that.

Turrets always were trash anyway (except the healing turret) and people only ran turrets on spvp because all you needed to do was place all turrets and afk on the spot.

If there is a meta build, it’s unlikely that you’ll see people running a skill set other than the meta one. They can do all the balance they want, you’ll still have very few players running somenthing different. It’s like this on every game.