If you like me, hate me, loath me, don’t know me or don’t care what I have to say atleast hear me out on this one subject.
For the longest time one of the main reasons I personally stuck to my Warrior was the community. They were so supportive, so determined to be heard and respected as a class. Because of that community I’ve come to meet and like/befriend a number of Warriors that talk frequently on the forums. Warriors who play completely different games (essentially), some WvW some PvE, some sPvP.
The one thing we all shared was a will to be better. Because of that we all did what we could, shared builds, talked strategies, supported each others streams and learned together how to play this class better.
However, I’ve noticed an increasing trend from Warriors on the Warrior forum. Bad mouthing, putting people down, criticism in an un-constructive manner and general depressing trolling. These actions made me reflect on the community that I’ve grown to love over the past 10 months.
I essentially came to the conclusion that for the few people who are intentionally trying to rain on everyone else’s parade; you need to re-evaluate your concept of contributing to the community.
Bringing each other down doesn’t help to raise the bottom line. As a class we have a stigma in the PvP community. Myself and others are trying our best to bring awareness of our class to the rest of the public. It’s an uphill battle, we fight closed minded perceptions and an unwillingness to learn and accept changes or new concepts.
Please don’t force us to fight within as well as fight others when it comes to the validity of our class.
United we stand.
The reason why I think people are trolling you and a few others is you guys are making the warrior sound like its ok. and its not ok its better. So its got to the point warrior is actually playable now. Barely playable, we dont want warrior to be barely playable we want it to be good. Everytime I see one of these posts where I dont know if its opposite trolling or just people that have low standards or what not saying “there is nothing wrong with warrior” Its guuuuud now. It makes a lot of us mad. Cuz that kinda attitude is not whats got anet to make changes to warriors, and with that kinda attitude they will do nothing more to warrior to make it good.
Warriors as a whole aren’t in a great spot that’s for sure. You can’t use rifle, or hammer in high end PvP. We’re limited to only a handful of builds that really make us work to have it be successful.
But that last word is why we’re viable, not OP or rediculous, but viable. We have successful builds that do work.
They may pigeon hole us, put us in a spot we’re not used to, or a playstyle we’re not accustomed to, but they work.
Plenty of other classes play the same way, many mesmers would love to run Mantra, but they can’t, they are stuck with Shatter.
The key is their community has come to the conclusion that for now, they have a viable build that’s working for them. It’s not perfect, it doesn’t do exactly what everyone would want. But it works.
We’re in a similar position. We have a handful of builds that work, they aren’t the most amazing or will rock someones socks off, but they work.
Only time and constructive feedback will fix the other issues, but for now we can’t go around saying we’re kitten poor when at a bare minimum, we’re viable.
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Also in regards to low standards. I don’t think it’s a matter of low standards, but a matter of I’ll take what I can get. We havn’t been viable in a long time, to have something worth playing as right now is better than having nothing before hand.
I’m not sure if people are aware but a number of the changes ArenaNet made were requests that this community gave. Cleansing Ire was a specific request that was made by Daecollo! Although they implemented it slightly different, it still works exactly the same way.
“Plenty of other classes play the same way, many mesmers would love to run Mantra, but they can’t, they are stuck with Shatter. "
Stopped reading the thread right here. You really want to compare us to mesmers and say we are in the same boat?
You, sir, are either a fool or a troll.
No I’m comparing that there are builds people would prefer to play, but don’t because the other playstyle is better for the current meta.
We’re in the same boat.
Rifle won’t work in tPvP, so do you sit there and pound your head against a wall trying it? Or do you go Longbow, or CC, or GS.
Mesmers, and other classes, are the same way.