Guild Wars 2

Fact is, since this game has no dedicated healers down state is needed unless you want everyone to be running a glass cannon build.

Agreed with jake, you don’t stay with sword/whatever unless you intend on swinging at air or getting steam rolled until BF comes off cooldown. Besides, if you use BF every single time its off cooldown, the universe must be working in your favor having people just line up to eat the damage or for your to avoid an attack. BF is usually used in conjuction with sword #3 anyway so people just don’t roll from that SUPER PREDICTABLE shatter. Oh no clones are running at me, what does that mean better roll just in case lawl. Since mesmers need that root to get a decent shatter off, they need to use sword #3 which teleports them directly to the enemy and roots the enemy which leaves them with 2 options use BF/roll or get lol facerolled. If you want to argue that you can use a utility skill, sure then it takes sword skills 1-4 + a utility to get a decent combo off balanced indeed. Not to mention sword #3 usually misses or is cleansed unless you cover it with pistol #5 or they are just standing still. Play a mesmer vs a condition oriented build and tell me how that goes.

Sadly the pvp scene is dying. I haven’t seen a shout in the mists for people trying to form Tpvp groups in quite awhile, granted pugs made in that way aren’t to effective but it just shows the lack of interest. The only topics disucssed in the HotM, are either how dead that area is or people crying for thief nerfs. The only traffic going into HotM is for PVE players to get a free port to LA.

Lukin.4061:

In my humble opinion, kitten(rhymes with duck) healers – healing classes ruin every mmorpg game, because bad players that have a pocket healer do not need to be more skilled to win, all your mistakes are forgiven simply since dps can be now be outhealed instead of avoided by other means. Thank to smart development decisions on Anet, since if healers existed in this game it would be awful for pvp and pve: Tpvp – 3 bunkers 2 healers = always win.

Yes I to applaud Anet smart choice for making such a flawless scoring system and point capturing system (1 person can deny the point vs 2 or 3).

The meta is what works best, and no you can’t deviate far from the meta stat wise since traits are tied to specific stat bonuses along with weapon skills tied to there perspective weapon. You just fool yourself thinking you have got some original build unlike any other but in fact it is just some variant with MINOR differences or in better words preference. Removing dedicated healers just removed a level of complexity to game play and substituted it for bubbling a downed player and hitting the F button. Anets response to removing dedicated healers is the downed state, which as everyone knows is the best thing about this game lol.

I blame this kind of damage on the fact there is no full healer in this game that can cast prot spirit or guardian like in gw1. Just my rant on how i want my M/W healer back. lol