Guild Wars 2

I cannot sleep tonight. It is 2:33am and I have work in a few hours, but I cannot sleep.

Why cant I sleep? Because im a GW2 obsessed buffoon. As I set here making ridiculous gemstones that cost far too much, im thinking about how much I disliked today in the world of Tyria.

My favorite class, the Warrior, was given an elite spec that was supposed to be based on condi, and then was changed last minute to reflect condi/power/survival. Welp, now that were a few months in im looking at Berserker and im just not getting it. My Condi War is completely trashed now for the most part, its somewhat viable, but its just not that good at all, in fact; its pretty darn bad.

We were given a Torch as our “new” weapon, and now ill never use it.

We were given these rage skills that just arent that good and dont fit into any builds, except headbutt which I do really love.

So our new skills arent good, and our new weapon is barely viable now (it really wasnt that good to begin with but it did work). Half of our weapons are still meh and have identity crisis issues. We are attached to our Greatswords and its really annoying. I even saw my beloved Longbow bow down to Rifle today… to Rifle.

I just dont get it. I dont understand the thought process behind a lot of these changes and why you guys dont reach out to us and atleast attempt to explain it. Our Mace and Hammer absolutely suck. Our axe has a chance to be great, but its rivaling a superior weapon. Our traits are placed terribly. Why has NONE of this been addressed, or atleast acknowledged? I find myself clicking on websites.. looking at other MMOs but quickly come back to the forums because I feel like im cheating.

Ill admit it, I downloaded Blade and Soul. I came running back of course, but this is a sign. Im not happy, and other people arent either. We have weeks, months and years of feedback that is just constantly ignored without any kind of response from anyone. I dont get along with everyone, and my opinions dont reflect everyones, but I do talk to a couple of hundred people in game and were all pretty annoyed with how things are going.

TLDR; We want SAB, we want weapon reworks and we want a red post once a week.

p.s. this is not proof read and I dont give a truck

On the contrary, that was pretty short imo

You downloaded that hyped up unbalanced kiddy-ish wanna be rpg Korean grinding pay2win arcade hack&slash failgame of ncsoft? Thats funny.

Hoaxintelligence.4628:

You downloaded that hyped up unbalanced kiddy-ish wanna be rpg Korean grinding pay2win arcade hack&slash failgame of ncsoft? Thats funny.

Yet has four times the viewership on twitch…

Geneaux.9547:

Hoaxintelligence.4628:

You downloaded that hyped up unbalanced kiddy-ish wanna be rpg Korean grinding pay2win arcade hack&slash failgame of ncsoft? Thats funny.

Yet has four times the viewership on twitch…

Yet GW2 was supposed to be oriented towards E-Sports from the start, sigh..

if the game is in horrible state, you can always ditch the game and come back anytime later.

I highly recommend having secondary mmorpg. thefore you can switch game if you feel uncomfortable with what devs do. Lol

Blade and soul would be good idea to have as secondary mmorpg that would replace gw2 for a while. all you need to check is next patch date of gw2, which is 2 weeks later and then come back and see if it’s good. If it wouldn’t be good then just ditch again and come back next patch date.

Sansarah.3076:

Geneaux.9547:

Hoaxintelligence.4628:

You downloaded that hyped up unbalanced kiddy-ish wanna be rpg Korean grinding pay2win arcade hack&slash failgame of ncsoft? Thats funny.

Yet has four times the viewership on twitch…

Yet GW2 was supposed to be oriented towards E-Sports from the start, sigh..

Not really…

PvP, yes. E-sports, no.

online.1278:

if the game is in horrible state, you can always ditch the game and come back anytime later.

I highly recommend having secondary mmorpg. thefore you can switch game if you feel uncomfortable with what devs do. Lol

Blade and soul would be good idea to have as secondary mmorpg that would replace gw2 for a while. all you need to check is next patch date of gw2, which is 2 weeks later and then come back and see if it’s good. If it wouldn’t be good then just ditch again and come back next patch date.

Couldn’t get into B&S sadly. The reactionary, seamless movement and animations of GW2 just makes everything else feel janky and stiff(the generic questing and gear grind notwithstanding). Black Desert Online and Star Citizen are my only shining lights in this genre.

On my Condi warrior for PvP, I run torch and Outrage, Shattering Blow, and Headbutt. I wouldn’t call them “useless” especially Outrage.

I just dont get it. I dont understand the thought process behind a lot of these changes and why you guys dont reach out to us and atleast attempt to explain it. Our Mace and Hammer absolutely suck. Our axe has a chance to be great, but its rivaling a superior weapon.

This.

When a warrior needs ranged weapons for more survival ou dmg, is a sign that something is wrong with class design.

I always pickup heavy-melle class in games, and what I want of a warrior in GW2 is that I had in all other games, walk with a giant sword, axes, hammers and crushing everything out.

I do not want to seem “smart” to anyone. I do not want run fast and bouncy look like a ballerina .. not want to look like a ninja who is invisible and is thought “smart” or something, i dont want be a “powerful magician” or a merlin. I want be a warrior, carry big guns and cause fear. Thats why i pickup a warrior in mmos.

Anet guys should look on a Neverwinter Warrior/Orc combo. They already have BIG damage base, and their equivalent of a “berserk mode” is focused on sustain survival.

CombatEvolve.9238:

On my Condi warrior for PvP, I run torch and Outrage, Shattering Blow, and Headbutt. I wouldn’t call them “useless” especially Outrage.

This. People forget that this is the burst era now. No more super-bunkers. People are chittering about shout warr, but with the power-creep of all classes he’ll just get focused dps’ed to death, ESPECIALLY by the buffed necros.

Sansarah.3076:

Geneaux.9547:

Hoaxintelligence.4628:

You downloaded that hyped up unbalanced kiddy-ish wanna be rpg Korean grinding pay2win arcade hack&slash failgame of ncsoft? Thats funny.

Yet has four times the viewership on twitch…

Yet GW2 was supposed to be oriented towards E-Sports from the start, sigh..

You might be right, but only recently has ANet invested such substantial time and money into E-Sports.

And they inadvertently revealed how much of a joke the PvP game has become, that it continues to be, and that it continually gets worse with each balance patch.

The main problem: ANet still refuses to split balance between the PvE and PvP games. GW2 (and to a lesser extent, GW1) has always been propped up by PvE. So depriving PvE players of fun skills while simultaneously trying to appease the insatiable, never-satisfied, recalcitrant PvP crowd goes against the core business model of the game.

They solved the problem in GW1: let PvE players use fun and powerful skills, while PvP players get a relatively balanced competition with toned-down skills.

Not so with GW2. ANet stubbornly tries to balance two (three, if you count dying WvW) very different game modes with a “one size fits all” miracle solution. It isn’t going to work. This E-Sports nonsense and the PvP league season one debacle just proves how irrational and lazy ANet’s balance strategy has become.

Come on… mace main hand in duels is actually good. As berserk mode F1 burst, it’s gold.
Why do you think mace sucks?

cryorion.9532:

Come on… mace main hand in duels is actually good. As berserk mode F1 burst, it’s gold.
Why do you think mace sucks?

keyword in that sentence was duels. This game has nothing where 1v1 really shines. Even in pvp its rare youll get a “duel”. Mace has serious potential, but no, it sucks