Guild Wars 2

Well first off, burst would probably be op as hell.

• So we nerf burst -how about we just take out crit entirely (RNG = bad anyways right?).

Then people take too long to kill with burst, gc burst classes become inferior to condi classes because they die way faster.

• So we buff burst build’s survivability, nerf toughness a tad and maybe nerf protection.
  Turn burst into sustained dmg-bruiser builds.

A bunch of traits would need to be tweaked to facilitate these changes, but it would be possible.

Every single build has access to a self heal on a moderately short cooldown ( < 30 sec), so the argument that downed state = balance for lack of healers/holly trinity doesn’t really apply in my opinion. Does anyone have an argument against my late night thought process here?

If so, relax -they are never going to take downed state out of gw2 spvp. But what if they did? Would the combat be better without it, or worse? why?

downed state will never be removed.
people should stop asking for them, really.

“they are never going to take downed state out of gw2 spvp. But what if they did? Would the combat be better without it, or worse? why?”
for me, i think combat would be worse.
why? because combat would be less exciting.

I think this game would lose a lot of its uniqueness and individuality. Not really sure how many (if any) other games have something similar to a downed state.

The downed state really adds interesting plays around the downed player in sPvP. Not really sure about PvE, and WvW.

For now the only tweak I want to see in the downed state concerns the rally mechanic in PvP and WvW. It’s far too tolerant in my eyes and should only count players you’ve hit in the last few seconds.