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I read your post, and all I have to say is. Turn on the chat filter.
It’s true that the squeaky wheel gets the grease, but in this case there are many well constructed posts about what is wrong and needs changing with the game.
Loot/power is and has always been a product of hard work. In this game, you can get an exotic set, the same stats as a dungeon set which took allot more time and effort to gain.
People need to realise the difference between Spvp and WVW. Spvp warriors are very powerful. WVW they can never go melee and are severely kittened.
Hey guys, Thanks fr the replies. As I said in my post, I have no issue with having to swap weapons in the right circumstances. I have issues with how little I get to melee compared to how much ranged get to ranged. The safety aspects far outweigh the damage increase of melee, at the moment most people are to afraid to go in. The long runbacks for me is a big factor in not wanting to go in. The knowledge that I have a marked increase in the possibility of being killed followed by a very long runback just makes me want to go ranged for safety. I don’t have a solution, all I know is that when I am ranged 99% of the time, and not through want, then something needs to be tweaked.
Nightprowler’s solution is a viable one, go support and help the team. But for me that is short-changing people who want different experiences. What if I want to go melee? I want to be able to survive. Not perma locked down.
I have realised through WVW and instances are geared predominately to a ranged system. Allow me to explain.
Before I begin on this, allow me to explain that I understand that the game is designed around swapping weapons. I get that and am for the most part happy to comply. It’s in the execution of this that I have the issue.
It is almost always better to go ranged. There are very few situations in which going melee in WVW is beneficial. When ranged and AOE abilities often have short cool-downs and no resource system, there is just a constant spam that makes it impracticable to melee, both from a damage point of view and a “attacking defences” standpoint.I am not saying here that you can’t melee, it is possible, It even works but the high risk/high reward of melee is far outweighed by the amount of ranged cc and damage coming at you every time you go in. The often lengthy run back makes this even more dangerous.
It’s a similar system in instances, the vast majority of damage is melee, I find myself running out to heal or just staying out in ranged because the damage I take is so much less than the close combat damage.
Again, melee is possible and in certain situations viable. When ranged there is very very few cases where they have to go melee, where melee have to go ranged most of the time to remain alive. This is my big problem, there is no equal standing, they are not even close at the moment.
I found one. I was just mucking about. Love the series Rome. So I used Niobe and put her husbands last name on the end of it. So I ended up with Niobe Vorenus. Pretty happy with that.
Just tried about 30 different names with last names included. Not normal ones either like Darth Vader…. But ones I would think would be rare, I guess when only 1 name is allowed in the “world” and u have hundreds of thousands of people playing, then u get a case of millions of names. Guess I have to make one up.
To get a name now I pretty much have to bash my head on the keyboard and hope for a unique combination. When names are server based you can usually run through a list of names from popular to obscure but usually you get one you want. Now, even names I would consider obscure are taken. It’s frustrating, because now I am using names that I am not necessarily comfortable with.