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Greatsword was OP before the patch. I still wish it was, but lets be honest with ourselves now.
Its AoE was off the chart and i had no reason to use any other weapon except a scepter offhand for ranged. I know I will get flamed for this, and I loved the power of the GS, but i always knew it wouldn’t last.
Its still ridiculously strong and ill probably keep using one.
This is the first company who has made an MMO in the last 8 years who gets it. They understand the MMO community, they love MMOs themselves and are inspired to create the game they want to play. They communicate with the GW2 community, they understand the difference between whining and legitimate feedback. They understand what PvP is all about. I have not been more pleased with an MMO company.
I feel Blizzard had this at one point with WoW but has lost touch in recent years.
EA/Bioware did not understand the genre, community, or fine details of gameplay when it came to SWTOR. They emulated WoW (even the bad parts) because they did not have the inspiration to come up with their own ideas. They did not respect the community and made bad decision after bad decision expecting to have auto success due to the franchise. Eventually they failed with their lead designers “resigning” and the game going F2P.
Funcom repeatedly rushes what could have been decent games. All their MMOs are released too early with only starting content, and enormous amount of bugs. Their games always fail quickly.
Thank you ArenaNet for finally being the ones to get it right. This is the game I have been looking for since vanilla WoW. I can’t wait to see whats in store in the future.
33% damage reduction for an entire group for 5 secs and an AoE knockback, interrupt, stun, ranged mitigator, and a small heal on top of that. Not to mention an amazing easy to get trait that increases toughness by 90 and reduces shield cooldowns by 20%
Why would anyone choose 2 more damage skills when they can swap to a dps weapon when its time to burn someone?
People who say shields are bad are crazy.
Honestly, that has never happened to me, with the exception of one time when I ran into a crowd of enemies by myself with a glass cannon build.