Guild Wars 2

i dont get the whining about conditions… bunker ele is the best class for removing conditions. Sux vs burst dmg a lot. On my bunker ele thief backstabs me for 8k and with 17k health pool i aint living long.
I also play a sword/pistol thief. I do about 20k dmg on cloth in 2s flat. And you are stunned whole time (1 stun per second for 1 second). And its spammable skill that also has built in evade. I can also disengage at any time i want regardless of cc you drop on me. I can also port to your kitten and root you pretty much on demand.
Just couple of hours ago i engaged 2 eles that had 1 elite outside. From distance of about 1500 i ported (2 dif skills used which combined have 1800 range iirc) to first one, pressed haste and whip twice. They both died. Second whip was already hitting air midway through its cast. I was in ZERO danger of dying in that fight. I could disengage at any time i wanted and would end up 1500 units away.
Only thing ele is good at is running and support in wvw.

Suctum.6912:

I played WoW for 30 days with some of my guildies from AoC, the fact we crushing people in less than 10 hours after hitting 80 in 3v3 against people who played for 4+ years is a testament to the learning curve in that game. Pally is no easy. lol

Some comps in wow are relatively easy to play at a high level as they had a high skill floor, e.g. Beastcleave etc. Pallies at one point were like heart seeker thieves, easy to dominate at lower tiers of gameplay. Unless you were playing at gladiator level it doesn’t really mean much, and even then the diff between a glad and rank 1 is massive.

Also the fact you levelled to 80 gives you far more than 10 hours experience of a class. That combined with your synergy/communication/reflexes/aptitude if you play at a high level in ANY game means the feat you mentioned is not really anything unexpected.

I can assure you that players like hydra, venruki, reckful, ocelote (!) etc can move to other games very successfully in the same way you did. It says nothing about the game itself.

Anyway I digress, my point was your argument that most people are familiar with only 5 key binds and hence struggle with ele is sophism.