1; Burst damage is high if Zerker player fires at zerker player. Jackie has about 20k hp on his warrior, which is about right for someone wearing at least a few pieces zerker gear. Thieves have almost 50% less HP when wearing zerker gear compared to Invader gear, not to mention no toughness. I think eles are at similar numbers. The burst damage is definitely not too high between two invader geared characters. It’s an active choice by you to allow the burst damage targeting you to be so high. If I remember correctly, VotF like to run zerk builds in their warbands. You also have to remember that in this video, you have several people hitting the same spot. The people dying in 2 seconds are doing so because each of them are being hit by multiple people. (The only exception to this rule are some Thief abilities like Backstab which is stupid high even in full invader gear IMO, but they are all single target and rarely matter in larger fights.)
All classes have either a Stun breaker/teleport or some kind of damage invulnerability button. Anet has given you the tools to avoid burst. If you don’t do it, then it is your own fault. If you watch the video you will see that almost every time Jackie uses all of his utilities for the initial burst. Frenzy to get the high damage, Endure pain to counter the drawback of frenzy and to stop the vast number of enemies whose attention he just got, from killing him, and balanced stance to prevent CC from countering him. Many of his teammates probably do similar things. Had his opponents popped their damage immunity/teleport and just kited him for 5 seconds they would now be 2 utility cooldowns up on him. Had they equipped invader gear they would not be dead but just on low hp. If you know what you are doing, burst isn’t hard to counter.
You argue that the burst is to high, I would definitely say no. To allow a character to do the high burst you give up way to much survivability and utility for something that is countered so easily. In the end it’s mostly subjective though. I don’t think a TTK, for 3 people hitting 1 guy who isn’t defending himself, of 2 seconds is a long time in a game with so much damage avoidance.
2; As for the culling issue, yes sometimes it does suck, but it hits organized guilds as well as you can see at the end of the clip. Go back and look at the video. In every situation they are hitting enemies, where at least one person is aware of them, indicated by the fact that they are being attacked before they hit the main group. Now this person probably does not relay the information to the others, because they are fighting PuGs, but that’s because of lacking communication on the PuGs part, not because of culling. In several instances they are also on top of people dealing damage for 2-3 seconds without these people reacting. They keep on running while dieing. If they were any good, as soon as they took damage without seeing the source, they should have dodgerolled, teleported or popped a cooldown. But they are bads, thus they do not react.
3; The amount of scrubbery in WvW is staggering. These scrubs come to WvW excpecting to win, even though they have little clue about the game and have no intention of improving or realizing their flaws. They then lose over and over and instead of finding a solution, they come to the forums and blame their defeats on the game or cheap tactics.
They are the worst kind of player, not beacause they are bad, but because they refuse to improve.
Instead they want everyone else to become as bad as they are. They usually also refuse to accept the fact that they are bad and comfort themselves by saying that everyone calling them out on it is a no-lifer that lives in their parents basement.
Playing purely for fun with no intention on improving is perfectly fine. I do not have a problem with that, I even do it myself in many games. But don’t come on the forums kittening and moaning because you got beaten by someone who plays to win then.
The biggest flaw in the game imo.
