Guild Wars 2

Purecura.1795:

Sicarius.4639:

Purecura.1795:

Sicarius.4639:

Purecura.1795:

Sicarius.4639:

Didn’t need a healer in dungeons before, won’t suddenly need one now.

Yes you will. Ppl loved when I was healing them in dungeons. Go away..

Unnecessary. Well glad the Druid is here, cannot believe we got by the last 3 years without it! What were they thinking waiting to put it in the game up until now! It’s almost like they’d designed the game for people to take care of themselves and do the content without one. Silly me.

Why yes, Silly you honey pie. I wonder where RAIDS came from… I wonder how you will “GET BY” without a DRUID in a RAID. Oh dear me, I just don’t know. Its just so amazing how they tried to create a SOFT TRINITY (At launch of GW2) and it failed, which created the ZERK meta which is SOO boring. DPS this DPS that. Oh dear me I cant believe now, that ANET finally realized this ZERK issue, and are now creating the SOFT trinity though Elite specs! They realized their mistake and are changing it for the better! Oh boo hoo what to do?

Embrace the change? Yes! Yes thats right! I think so! A wonderful NEW exciting change at that.

Good job, now go back and see where I typed the word Raid.

No need, I got my Point across. <(^o^)>

Unfortunately you went off on a unrelated topic and you’ve now realised that. Which is fine, at least you’re aware you don’t need a healer in dungeons.

Sicarius.4639:

Purecura.1795:

Sicarius.4639:

Purecura.1795:

Sicarius.4639:

Purecura.1795:

Sicarius.4639:

Didn’t need a healer in dungeons before, won’t suddenly need one now.

Yes you will. Ppl loved when I was healing them in dungeons. Go away..

Unnecessary. Well glad the Druid is here, cannot believe we got by the last 3 years without it! What were they thinking waiting to put it in the game up until now! It’s almost like they’d designed the game for people to take care of themselves and do the content without one. Silly me.

Why yes, Silly you honey pie. I wonder where RAIDS came from… I wonder how you will “GET BY” without a DRUID in a RAID. Oh dear me, I just don’t know. Its just so amazing how they tried to create a SOFT TRINITY (At launch of GW2) and it failed, which created the ZERK meta which is SOO boring. DPS this DPS that. Oh dear me I cant believe now, that ANET finally realized this ZERK issue, and are now creating the SOFT trinity though Elite specs! They realized their mistake and are changing it for the better! Oh boo hoo what to do?

Embrace the change? Yes! Yes thats right! I think so! A wonderful NEW exciting change at that.

Good job, now go back and see where I typed the word Raid.

No need, I got my Point across. <(^o^)>

Unfortunately you went off on a unrelated topic and you’ve now realised that. Which is fine, at least you’re aware you don’t need a healer in dungeons.

Sigh, not every dungeon party will be ‘Zerker 80’ only. There will be many new players, and vets alike who wish to just enjoy a dungeon differently than running all zerker gear. Druid does not reinvent the dungeon zerker meta, it however creates a new FUN alternative to running it in a dungeon.

AC Path1 where you have to keep HODGINS alive, is one example of fun and a new alternative way to running that dungeon path in that moment. Healing Hodgins is def an option to keeping him alive. Especially when you are with new players or those who dont know about the dungeon path.

I cannot express how many times people loved my HEALING in the dungeons I ran during BWE3. No one hated that I was there healing them. I actually gave many a positive outlook on the druid and its support healing.

Here’s the thing. Dungeons got a nerf via rewards. Nobody is going to care about dungeons as much as they did before. Will Druid be nice in harder fractals and raids where they are NOW pushing rewards and focus? Yep.

So argue all day about how Druid isn’t important. It’s not going to get you anywhere but a few wasted posts on a forum thread.

I find that it’s going to be great even in dungeons. I like to solo / duo dungeons and this is a new and fun way to do it. But I guess the only thing in this game that really matters is how much skill it takes to stack and press 1. XD

CandyHearts.6025:

Here’s the thing. Dungeons got a nerf via rewards. Nobody is going to care about dungeons as much as they did before. Will Druid be nice in harder fractals and raids where they are NOW pushing rewards and focus? Yep.

So argue all day about how Druid isn’t important. It’s not going to get you anywhere but a few wasted posts on a forum thread.

I find that it’s going to be great even in dungeons. I like to solo / duo dungeons and this is a new and fun way to do it. But I guess the only thing in this game that really matters is how much skill it takes to stack and press 1. XD

Candy said it. I agree 100% (^_^)

Purecura.1795:

CandyHearts.6025:

Here’s the thing. Dungeons got a nerf via rewards. Nobody is going to care about dungeons as much as they did before. Will Druid be nice in harder fractals and raids where they are NOW pushing rewards and focus? Yep.

So argue all day about how Druid isn’t important. It’s not going to get you anywhere but a few wasted posts on a forum thread.

I find that it’s going to be great even in dungeons. I like to solo / duo dungeons and this is a new and fun way to do it. But I guess the only thing in this game that really matters is how much skill it takes to stack and press 1. XD

Candy said it. I agree 100% (^_^)

I agree with you too! Let’s duo the hard fractals while the haters cry about healing power. xD

Levetty.1279:

runeblade.7514:

Levetty.1279:

runeblade.7514:

Chokolata.1870:

Depends. The Ranger will probably be the better pick for speed runs in old dungeons.

Wisp travel says hi.

and that competes to ele giving fiery greatsword to a Mesmer slotting Portal how?

Because Wisp travel is better than fiery GS?

And how does Mesmer use Wisp Travel?

They don’t.

CandyHearts.6025:

Purecura.1795:

CandyHearts.6025:

Here’s the thing. Dungeons got a nerf via rewards. Nobody is going to care about dungeons as much as they did before. Will Druid be nice in harder fractals and raids where they are NOW pushing rewards and focus? Yep.

So argue all day about how Druid isn’t important. It’s not going to get you anywhere but a few wasted posts on a forum thread.

I find that it’s going to be great even in dungeons. I like to solo / duo dungeons and this is a new and fun way to do it. But I guess the only thing in this game that really matters is how much skill it takes to stack and press 1. XD

Candy said it. I agree 100% (^_^)

I agree with you too! Let’s duo the hard fractals while the haters cry about healing power. xD

Oh my god! Yes! I’m going to add you. We can be two heavy healing Druids! Healing our allies!

runeblade.7514:

Levetty.1279:

runeblade.7514:

Levetty.1279:

runeblade.7514:

Chokolata.1870:

Depends. The Ranger will probably be the better pick for speed runs in old dungeons.

Wisp travel says hi.

and that competes to ele giving fiery greatsword to a Mesmer slotting Portal how?

Because Wisp travel is better than fiery GS?

And how does Mesmer use Wisp Travel?

They don’t.

Then wtf are you talking about?

Purecura.1795:

CandyHearts.6025:

Purecura.1795:

CandyHearts.6025:

Here’s the thing. Dungeons got a nerf via rewards. Nobody is going to care about dungeons as much as they did before. Will Druid be nice in harder fractals and raids where they are NOW pushing rewards and focus? Yep.

So argue all day about how Druid isn’t important. It’s not going to get you anywhere but a few wasted posts on a forum thread.

I find that it’s going to be great even in dungeons. I like to solo / duo dungeons and this is a new and fun way to do it. But I guess the only thing in this game that really matters is how much skill it takes to stack and press 1. XD

Candy said it. I agree 100% (^_^)

I agree with you too! Let’s duo the hard fractals while the haters cry about healing power. xD

Oh my god! Yes! I’m going to add you. We can be two heavy healing Druids! Healing our allies!

Yay! So much heals. So much pet tanking. Survival forever. Never downed. Never die. XD

Purecura.1795:

Sicarius.4639:

Didn’t need a healer in dungeons before, won’t suddenly need one now.

Yes you will. Ppl loved when I was healing them in dungeons. Go away..

If you want a hugbox then go back to tumblr.

People who actually play the game and know what other classes can do know that Druid isn’t going to be needed and the only way they will be needed is if they make some absolute horrid design choices in making the raids.

Just because your friends want to carry you in dungeons doesn’t mean people aren’t allowed to voice their concerns about how sub par ranger and druid are in all modes.

Levetty.1279:

runeblade.7514:

Levetty.1279:

runeblade.7514:

Levetty.1279:

runeblade.7514:

Chokolata.1870:

Depends. The Ranger will probably be the better pick for speed runs in old dungeons.

Wisp travel says hi.

and that competes to ele giving fiery greatsword to a Mesmer slotting Portal how?

Because Wisp travel is better than fiery GS?

And how does Mesmer use Wisp Travel?

They don’t.

Then wtf are you talking about?

What does mesmer have to do with wisp travel?

Levetty.1279:

Purecura.1795:

Sicarius.4639:

Didn’t need a healer in dungeons before, won’t suddenly need one now.

Yes you will. Ppl loved when I was healing them in dungeons. Go away..

If you want a hugbox then go back to tumblr.

People who actually play the game and know what other classes can do know that Druid isn’t going to be needed and the only way they will be needed is if they make some absolute horrid design choices in making the raids.

Just because your friends want to carry you in dungeons doesn’t mean people aren’t allowed to voice their concerns about how sub par ranger and druid are in all modes.

You need to sit down and relax. You express yourself as if you played every RAID wing. Every Squad that defeated the first RAID BOSS over the BWE3 weekend had a DRUID. As a matter of fact, the first KILL ever had a DRUID with them. ZERKER meta is over! Learn to accept the better change.

You assume my “Friends” carry me in dungeons. That alone shows how you try to base your opinions as facts and renders you useless in my eyes to further any debate with you.

Levetty.1279:

Purecura.1795:

Sicarius.4639:

Didn’t need a healer in dungeons before, won’t suddenly need one now.

Yes you will. Ppl loved when I was healing them in dungeons. Go away..

If you want a hugbox then go back to tumblr.

People who actually play the game and know what other classes can do know that Druid isn’t going to be needed and the only way they will be needed is if they make some absolute horrid design choices in making the raids.

Just because your friends want to carry you in dungeons doesn’t mean people aren’t allowed to voice their concerns about how sub par ranger and druid are in all modes.

It was around for 1 weekend where raids were pretty much broken the whole time.

Wait it out and see what it can really do. All you’re doing right now is making an assumption based on the past when it’s obvious Anet is trying to make game changing changes.

runeblade.7514:

Levetty.1279:

runeblade.7514:

Levetty.1279:

runeblade.7514:

Levetty.1279:

runeblade.7514:

Chokolata.1870:

Depends. The Ranger will probably be the better pick for speed runs in old dungeons.

Wisp travel says hi.

and that competes to ele giving fiery greatsword to a Mesmer slotting Portal how?

Because Wisp travel is better than fiery GS?

And how does Mesmer use Wisp Travel?

They don’t.

Then wtf are you talking about?

What does mesmer have to do with wisp travel?

You brought up a movement skill as why druids would be taken over Rangers in speed clears. The only important movement skill in speed clears are the ones that get the Portal bot to the next boss the fastest. Which is FGS.

Purecura.1795:

You need to sit down and relax. You express yourself as if you played every RAID wing. Every Squad that defeated the first RAID BOSS over the BWE3 weekend had a DRUID. As a matter of fact, the first KILL ever had a DRUID with them. ZERKER meta is over! Learn to accept the better change.

You assume my “Friends” carry me in dungeons. That alone shows how you try to base your opinions as facts and renders you useless in my eyes to further any debate with you.

And every person who cleared it said they might not need the Druid when they have the raid down.

With the amount of healing and defense other specs can bring on top of you own dodges and self heal and then a Chronomancer lowering the cooldown of all those skills what will a Druid bring with just more healing? Nothing. What would cause that extra amount of healing to be needed? Unmitagatable damage? As I already, thats an increadbly poor design decision.

Throw your zerk meta buzz words around all you want, once again proving anybody who uses that phrase doesn’t actually know what the Zerk meta is or why it is bad for the game, but nobody kittening mentioned it, nobody really cares if it goes and the other elite specs are doing a better job of taking the game away from that then braindead heal spam.

Levetty.1279:

Purecura.1795:

You need to sit down and relax. You express yourself as if you played every RAID wing. Every Squad that defeated the first RAID BOSS over the BWE3 weekend had a DRUID. As a matter of fact, the first KILL ever had a DRUID with them. ZERKER meta is over! Learn to accept the better change.

You assume my “Friends” carry me in dungeons. That alone shows how you try to base your opinions as facts and renders you useless in my eyes to further any debate with you.

And every person who cleared it said they might not need the Druid when they have the raid down.

With the amount of healing and defense other specs can bring on top of you own dodges and self heal and then a Chronomancer lowering the cooldown of all those skills what will a Druid bring with just more healing? Nothing. What would cause that extra amount of healing to be needed? Unmitagatable damage? As I already, thats an increadbly poor design decision.

Throw your zerk meta buzz words around all you want, once again proving anybody who uses that phrase doesn’t actually know what the Zerk meta is or why it is bad for the game, but nobody kittening mentioned it, nobody really cares if it goes and the other elite specs are doing a better job of taking the game away from that then braindead heal spam.

LOL!!!! You once again prove my point, you have no idea what you are talking about. Nothing but rants and rages. You must come from the future, where HoT has been out for a month or two. Smh… Poor thing. People will always speculate before something is RELEASED and believe their SPECULATIONS. Sadly that is what I call ignorance.

P.S: I guess when Irenio said the Zerker META was over during the live stream at Twitch con, he didnt know ANYTHING about the ZERK META. SMh Once again you spew forth idiotic opinions. Case closed honey pie

Rising Dusk.2408:

Sicarius.4639:

Didn’t need a healer in dungeons before, won’t suddenly need one now.

But you do want Spotter, FS, SS, GoE, and now GotL. These easily put Ranger above even Warrior in terms of offensive team support, not even factoring the healer qualities of Druid.

lolwut?

Above a EA PS Zerk warrior? lol! You made my side hurt!

Since when did we need a healer in dungeons and fractals? Healer qualities aren’t needed… Anytime we need heals in Fractal 50s you just blast a water field a couple of times and call it a day.

ill co-main mine with the daredevil. Druid is pretty cool, but sometimes i just want to bash heads and DD is promising in that department.

Purecura.1795:

Sicarius.4639:

Purecura.1795:

Sicarius.4639:

Purecura.1795:

Sicarius.4639:

Purecura.1795:

Sicarius.4639:

Didn’t need a healer in dungeons before, won’t suddenly need one now.

Yes you will. Ppl loved when I was healing them in dungeons. Go away..

Unnecessary. Well glad the Druid is here, cannot believe we got by the last 3 years without it! What were they thinking waiting to put it in the game up until now! It’s almost like they’d designed the game for people to take care of themselves and do the content without one. Silly me.

Why yes, Silly you honey pie. I wonder where RAIDS came from… I wonder how you will “GET BY” without a DRUID in a RAID. Oh dear me, I just don’t know. Its just so amazing how they tried to create a SOFT TRINITY (At launch of GW2) and it failed, which created the ZERK meta which is SOO boring. DPS this DPS that. Oh dear me I cant believe now, that ANET finally realized this ZERK issue, and are now creating the SOFT trinity though Elite specs! They realized their mistake and are changing it for the better! Oh boo hoo what to do?

Embrace the change? Yes! Yes thats right! I think so! A wonderful NEW exciting change at that.

Good job, now go back and see where I typed the word Raid.

No need, I got my Point across. <(^o^)>

Unfortunately you went off on a unrelated topic and you’ve now realised that. Which is fine, at least you’re aware you don’t need a healer in dungeons.

Sigh, not every dungeon party will be ‘Zerker 80’ only. There will be many new players, and vets alike who wish to just enjoy a dungeon differently than running all zerker gear. Druid does not reinvent the dungeon zerker meta, it however creates a new FUN alternative to running it in a dungeon.

AC Path1 where you have to keep HODGINS alive, is one example of fun and a new alternative way to running that dungeon path in that moment. Healing Hodgins is def an option to keeping him alive. Especially when you are with new players or those who dont know about the dungeon path.

I cannot express how many times people loved my HEALING in the dungeons I ran during BWE3. No one hated that I was there healing them. I actually gave many a positive outlook on the druid and its support healing.

We are getting off topic again, now we’re at whether or not players enjoyed it.

Point being, we had 3 years in dungeons that didn’t need it and they aren’t suddenly going to need it in dungeons now. That was the only point being made as you danced around it.

Purecura.1795:

Levetty.1279:

Purecura.1795:

You need to sit down and relax. You express yourself as if you played every RAID wing. Every Squad that defeated the first RAID BOSS over the BWE3 weekend had a DRUID. As a matter of fact, the first KILL ever had a DRUID with them. ZERKER meta is over! Learn to accept the better change.

You assume my “Friends” carry me in dungeons. That alone shows how you try to base your opinions as facts and renders you useless in my eyes to further any debate with you.

And every person who cleared it said they might not need the Druid when they have the raid down.

With the amount of healing and defense other specs can bring on top of you own dodges and self heal and then a Chronomancer lowering the cooldown of all those skills what will a Druid bring with just more healing? Nothing. What would cause that extra amount of healing to be needed? Unmitagatable damage? As I already, thats an increadbly poor design decision.

Throw your zerk meta buzz words around all you want, once again proving anybody who uses that phrase doesn’t actually know what the Zerk meta is or why it is bad for the game, but nobody kittening mentioned it, nobody really cares if it goes and the other elite specs are doing a better job of taking the game away from that then braindead heal spam.

LOL!!!! You once again prove my point, you have no idea what you are talking about. Nothing but rants and rages. You must come from the future, where HoT has been out for a month or two. Smh… Poor thing. People will always speculate before something is RELEASED and believe their SPECULATIONS. Sadly that is what I call ignorance.

P.S: I guess when Irenio said the Zerker META was over during the live stream at Twitch con, he didnt know ANYTHING about the ZERK META. SMh Once again you spew forth idiotic opinions. Case closed honey pie

Didn’t read my post, incredibly immature response, didn’t try to argue to accused everybody of being wrong but yourself, random words in caps. Yep the WoW players are here. Enjoy your stay for 2 weeks bafore you realise healers and raids don’t work like they do in WoW.

Levetty.1279:

Purecura.1795:

Levetty.1279:

Purecura.1795:

You need to sit down and relax. You express yourself as if you played every RAID wing. Every Squad that defeated the first RAID BOSS over the BWE3 weekend had a DRUID. As a matter of fact, the first KILL ever had a DRUID with them. ZERKER meta is over! Learn to accept the better change.

You assume my “Friends” carry me in dungeons. That alone shows how you try to base your opinions as facts and renders you useless in my eyes to further any debate with you.

And every person who cleared it said they might not need the Druid when they have the raid down.

With the amount of healing and defense other specs can bring on top of you own dodges and self heal and then a Chronomancer lowering the cooldown of all those skills what will a Druid bring with just more healing? Nothing. What would cause that extra amount of healing to be needed? Unmitagatable damage? As I already, thats an increadbly poor design decision.

Throw your zerk meta buzz words around all you want, once again proving anybody who uses that phrase doesn’t actually know what the Zerk meta is or why it is bad for the game, but nobody kittening mentioned it, nobody really cares if it goes and the other elite specs are doing a better job of taking the game away from that then braindead heal spam.

LOL!!!! You once again prove my point, you have no idea what you are talking about. Nothing but rants and rages. You must come from the future, where HoT has been out for a month or two. Smh… Poor thing. People will always speculate before something is RELEASED and believe their SPECULATIONS. Sadly that is what I call ignorance.

P.S: I guess when Irenio said the Zerker META was over during the live stream at Twitch con, he didnt know ANYTHING about the ZERK META. SMh Once again you spew forth idiotic opinions. Case closed honey pie

Didn’t read my post, incredibly immature response, didn’t try to argue to accused everybody of being wrong but yourself, random words in caps. Yep the WoW players are here. Enjoy your stay for 2 weeks bafore you realise healers and raids don’t work like they do in WoW.

Still doing the same thing. You must enjoy assuming things. Ok Have a good day sir. You are wrong on so many levels but, hey there are definitely going to be some Ignorant people around, who love to base their speculations about the DRUID as PURE fact, clearly you being one. (^_^)

Ciao~

Purecura.1795:

Every Squad that defeated the first RAID BOSS over the BWE3 weekend had a DRUID.

This is actually not true.

That said, druid won’t be good because of its heals. Everyone can contribute to heals. The groups that won without druids just blasted water fields. Druid will be good because of its over-the-top offensive support on the order of having a second Warrior with buffs that stack. The heals are plenty strong with no healing power, and if some healing power is necessary for future raid encounters players will just fill in 1-3 zealots pieces and be on their way.

Do not make the mistake of assuming that because a druid is desired that your job will be spamming heals left and right. Au contraire, it’s far more likely to be a huge offensive support buffer and the weapon sets will otherwise echo standard power Ranger. Staff will only ever see use if the 3 skill is necessary for movement (ie. skips in old dungeons or to get inside certain AOEs in raids).

Rising Dusk.2408:

Purecura.1795:

Every Squad that defeated the first RAID BOSS over the BWE3 weekend had a DRUID.

This is actually not true.

That said, druid won’t be good because of its heals. Everyone can contribute to heals. The groups that won without druids just blasted water fields. Druid will be good because of its over-the-top offensive support on the order of having a second Warrior with buffs that stack. The heals are plenty strong with no healing power, and if some healing power is necessary for future raid encounters players will just fill in 1-3 zealots pieces and be on their way.

Do not make the mistake of assuming that because a druid is desired that your job will be spamming heals left and right. Au contraire, it’s far more likely to be a huge offensive support buffer and the weapon sets will otherwise echo standard power Ranger. Staff will only ever see use if the 3 skill is necessary for movement (ie. skips in old dungeons or to get inside certain AOEs in raids).

You cannot base your speculation that future raid encounters will not need a druid. What party defeated the raid boss in BWE3 without a druid. I’m curious to know. Otherwise I disagree with your response.. We have yet to see how effective druid will be with it’s new trait setup and change to healing power.

Likewise with assuming then.

Well good! I support you and your GOOD attitude towards the class(no matter what)

I’ve seriously heard enough negetive, salty kittens who take the game too seriously and insult everything they see because it isn’t good enough for them or “in meta”

So yeah..+1 for you I hope you have a lot of fun with it! (because we know the try-hards won’t)

Purecura.1795:

Mercurias.1826:

I’m actually a roleplayer (go ahead, your mockery only nourishes my black heart), and the Druid spec is something that works so perfectly with my ranger character that I’m a little curious if the devs have been watching me RP.

Gameplay-wise, I always was a little surprised how much simplicity there is to Ranger. It’s a very easy class to pick up and learn, and much of the tricky stuff you can do later revolves around controlling the pet (e.g. making your bear kite enemies while you nuke them with longbow). Adding healing and a little control to the mix is a great way to make Ranger stand out.

I’m especially looking forward to the staff. You actually hold the thing like you hit someone with it rather than simply leaning on the thing while waving your hand, and the abilities look useful and flavorful. Glyphs don’t necessarily impress me as a full-bar proposition, but that’s all fine given that most of them have short recharge and have some interesting synergies. I cant wait to use glyph of tides with traps and combo fields.

Omg! Im a Roleplayer as well! I actually cannot wait to RP as a Druid. Im going to write out my bio for my main asap! We should RP sometime!

Ima send you a pm. We can make this happen.

Combat-wise, I still don’t actually see Druid healing as a required option in terms of pure super ultra meta speed run zerker charging. Super elite players can easily get by most of the time on dodging, water field burst, and a flood of a team buffs from whatever metabattle is going to crank out for raids.

That doesn’t make Druid a bad or useless class, however, and I’m holding out for new gameplay types that will slap around the zerker/sinister meta. Not necessarily heal checks, but enemies who can party wipe if no one has any solid protection or something that can party wipe if people push boss phases super fast. That sort of thing.

I have no problem with the meta other than that players will achieve it and then begin to whine about being bored. You’d think they would be the ones happiest about a change rather than trying to see how they can zerk everything new.

Levetty.1279:

Purecura.1795:

Sicarius.4639:

Didn’t need a healer in dungeons before, won’t suddenly need one now.

Yes you will. Ppl loved when I was healing them in dungeons. Go away..

If you want a hugbox then go back to tumblr.

People who actually play the game and know what other classes can do know that Druid isn’t going to be needed and the only way they will be needed is if they make some absolute horrid design choices in making the raids.

Just because your friends want to carry you in dungeons doesn’t mean people aren’t allowed to voice their concerns about how sub par ranger and druid are in all modes.

Since meta/efficiency-driven people tend to follow “logic” and math (and there’s nothing wrong about either), to you I pose this question-how is something subpar if we have no par? Many of you are basing GW2 PvE encounter design on past metas-you have no idea of what’s to come, as even the beta experience was quite limited and bound to change (not to mention that it’s official from ANet that they don’t like for direct damage to be so prevalent, whatever lies the community was fed before about the “right way to play GW2” due to “active defenses”)

I don’t actually want Druid to be “needed” as much as many types of gear being very useful for most Professions, from healing to toughness/vitality. It will always be great that some players use very powerful, squishy gear, just not everybody in order to be most efficient. That was an accident, and it seems ANet is on a mission to validate more than just DPS gear.

Until we know what the “par” will be (a term which can be subjective even if we had said “par”), stop insulting others with “you with your subpar builds”, because it’s not an intelligent-much less respectful-way to express ourselves, and we should all know better.

I love the Druid healing concept, and quite honestly expect to use mine more than my other characters. I am sure I will be insulted as people are ALREADY in this thread, but it’s my character, my preference, and further, there’s nothing “selfish” about helping your team members in “new” ways such as these-being non-pure DPS isn’t “selfish” any more (though I never thought it was.)

Mercurias.1826:

I have no problem with the meta other than that players will achieve it and then begin to whine about being bored. You’d think they would be the ones happiest about a change rather than trying to see how they can zerk everything new.

I honestly think the really good players will welcome new changes and adapt their tactics and team compositions. Most of the uproar should be from individuals inconvenienced from their ideal, mostly “one gear suits all” concept they had with the game. Everybody-and to an extent, even the existing content-“taught them” that GW2 PvE was all about dodging and max DPS. They never read the writing in the wall that Exotic and Ascended gear wasn’t only Berserker’s, interpreting non-DPS gear as “training wheels” for the “pro gear”, which was never stated by ANet, but was just a misread/bad conclusion. The good players will likely find ways to be efficient that don’t involve ten party members in Berserker’s/Sinister’s, and hopefully will adapt to the real GW2, rather to the one they may have initially thought it was.

DPS will still be very relevant, so to be honest the affected players should just stick to what they love to do, and let other people use the gear they don’t enjoy using-the idea that people that weren’t using the most efficient gear were “bads” and “didn’t know how to dodge” was also cruel, mean, and very often utterly misplaced.

People were able to build to heal in dungeons before the Druid was introduced.

Are there enrage timers?

fuyuko.3705:

Well good! I support you and your GOOD attitude towards the class(no matter what)

I’ve seriously heard enough negetive, salty kittens who take the game too seriously and insult everything they see because it isn’t good enough for them or “in meta”

So yeah..+1 for you I hope you have a lot of fun with it! (because we know the try-hards won’t)

Thanks for that! I really enjoy the Theme and the fact that the druid is all about support and healing. I just finished crafting my Ascended Cleric Staff last night, and I cannot wait till oct 23rd!