Guild Wars 2

I’m very well aware this thread will spiral out of control, ending up in a flame fest, usually with long elaborate replies which in essence slanders me as a person and/or as a player. Some will call me a noob, others a elitist since, well. This part of the forums has completely lost it.

There is a large part of the community that are happy with the elementalist in it’s current state, this includes veterans of GW1, newbies, elitists.

There is a large part of the community that are unhappy with the elementalist in it’s current state, this includes veterans of GW1, newbies, elitists.

I would love for this forum to shape up. Until things start to change, why not help each other out with constructive builds and tactics, instead of bickering amongst ourselves about things we know nothing about (assumptions about a persons preferences etc). As it stands now every thread attempting to give some sort of tips and tricks gets torn down by people who does not enjoy playing elementalist. It’s a free for all where no one is a winner. Anet gets a harder time to go through it all, and we loose support and care.

My question would be; Why tear down the elementalist forum? Do you understand your own role in the community? And ultimately, do you understand that by attacking people who enjoy the game you ruin the game for said person?

I’m close to quitting my ele, not cause of the class, but because of you people and your eternal bickering, and the lack of support from the community to solve some of the obstacles. Instead every thread offering some advice is hunted down and burned down the ground in an effort to ventilate frustration. “Hey dude, since your doing so well, what specc are you running with?” becomes “you’re elitist, and a noob. The class is broken, gtfo”.

It’s moot, and it won’t help anyone.

I agree and wrote the same, but a moderator eliminated the thread.

I c wut u did thar! Whining about whiners!

On a more serious note, even though I agree with you, your post is only going to make it worse and will continue where other flame posts ended. So it will most probably get locked soon.

Edit: Grammar phaaaail!!!

@Mato how will it make it worse? Take a look at the thread “I heart elementalists”. It’s flamed to kitten by the community. It doesn’t matter if you have valid points, are positive, negative or silly. I’m trying to make people aware of what the kitten we are doing.

I feel a tad let down by my point being overlooked, discarded as QQ about QQ. I qoute “Until things start to change, why not help each other out with constructive builds and tactics, instead of bickering amongst ourselves about things we know nothing about (assumptions about a persons preferences etc).”

This is my point. A naive one at best, but alas, something to strive for in my humble opinion. Emphasis in this thread would be “why not help each other out”.

Official forums are always a collecting tank for disappointed or upset players, and thus constructive discussions are a rarity.
If you want to learn something about the game it’s better to visit other forums.

Kerfilicious.5862:

@Mato how will it make it worse? Take a look at the thread “I heart elementalists”. It’s flamed to kitten by the community. It doesn’t matter if you have valid points, are positive, negative or silly. I’m trying to make people aware of what the kitten we are doing.

I feel a tad let down by my point being overlooked, discarded as QQ about QQ. I qoute “Until things start to change, why not help each other out with constructive builds and tactics, instead of bickering amongst ourselves about things we know nothing about (assumptions about a persons preferences etc).”

This is my point. A naive one at best, but alas, something to strive for in my humble opinion. Emphasis in this thread would be “why not help each other out”.

I am sure you noticed the “on a more serious note” implying I was joking.

What I am merely suggesting is that it’s generally know that forums are not a place of reason. People usually use them to vent frustration, troll other people venting frustration or in the minority look for advice and with the rare and admirable exceptions, post helpful guides.

Now trying to make people be constructive on here is like telling a stupid person to be smart. You either are or you are not, people are not going to change their tendencies because someone asked them to be reasonable.

Though I must admit, I expected this to become a “lol u noob l2p” kind of thing by now.

Just gotta ignore the QQ and focus on the posts about improving the pew pew. Seriously, there will always be detractors, even if every single class and every single skill is taught to sing in perfect harmony and everyone ANet buys everyone a coke (not in that order.) Granted, the noise to signal ratio in this forum is way off right now, but you can find the good posts in amongst the very non-constructive posts.

Don’t quit the character if you enjoy it, just don’t bother with the QQ on here. Or just do what I do, have a nice little chuckle imagining some person with veins popping out of their forehead when they were typing their rage post!

Kerfilicious.5862:

I’m close to quitting my ele, not cause of the class, but because of you people and your eternal bickering, and the lack of support from the community to solve some of the obstacles.

What… do you work at some sort of PR office or something? Is this your first gaming forum you ever seen?