Guild Wars 2

Here in the WvW forum and you see several threads about ‘unbalanced’ stomping. Check out the Class forums and you’ll see several of them have threads about ‘unbalanced’ downed skills (we occasionally see them here too). While each usually argues a specific case, the range and persistence of these suggests there is an overall balance problem with downed survival.

Put all that together and it looks like it’s time downed skills and stomping got some balancing love.
(I suspect just balancing the downed skills will sort out the problem.)

Just remove the downed state…oh wait, that would make the game a bit more challenging…never mind.

I have (PVP) friends who refuse to try the game solely because of downed state and the rally mechanics.

I bought the game on the strength of GW1 without even knowing about DS, if I had known there was a stupid 4-skill minigame you have to play when you lose, I’d probably have given it a miss as well.

I can’t think of a worse, more disjointing and detrimental combat mechanic in any game i’ve played since I started playing games 25 years ago.

y’all need to L2P

^ This. 15 charrs.

Yeah…about that…

ANet really doesn’t care about downed states in PvP modes. If it works in PvE and satisfies the majority of ANets core fanbase made up of talentless scrubs, then ANet doesn’t give five fahrenheit of a flaming %#$@ about balancing them.

Driving good players away from their game and undermining skill based gameplay? Judging by the astounding lack of improvement to all things PvP in GW2 I’d say that’s working as intended.

Just remove it, problem solved.

funny how ppl qq bout down state when they shouldnt even be downed

you may see “several threads about unbalanced stomping,” but at least two of them are satirical. Unless you really think “stability stomping” is a real issue.

Like it or not, downstate is a pretty fundamental mechanic in this game. You might as well ask them to remove underwater combat. Too much has been invested in it for them to simply “remove it.”

Remove downed state.

Now, so that people will still have a reason to buy finishers, have the finishing move burn the body so that it removes spies.

Keep downed state, it is so useful for destroying zergs. Just remove rally.

Niim.9260:

Keep downed state, it is so useful for destroying zergs. Just remove rally.

This… downed state is an interesting mechanic. Raising 20 people midfight… ughhh.

Niim.9260:

Keep downed state, it is so useful for destroying zergs. Just remove rally.

Meh, being downed is silly. I already lost no need to make me play with a few stupid skills that only serve the purpose of trolling the victor. Unless you’re an ele (or a Ranger underwater) your downed state may as well just be a /middlefinger emote at the guy that just beat you.

Rally mechanics are a whole different level of silly allowing someone who got beat to get back up because bambi got near the fight and was low enough on HP to DPS down before a stomp…way to be stupid about it ANet…

Delete downed state, it caters to dreamers and PVE’ers; obviously you got downed for a reason. Do not lean on a crappy mechanic to try and “win”. If you down me, I consider that a loss to me. (Assuming there are no PVE mobs to tag; I do likes a good troll)