Guild Wars 2

The same thing happens time and again with online games.

1. People love the game, the company makes sweeping changes to something a lot of people love.
2. Huge amounts of complaints flood the forums but result in nothing being done (yes some just complain for the love of complaining). No company is going to come out and say “we messed up and are going to undo huge amounts of the changes”.
3. Opposing side who love the changes come on the forums to defend and tell the haters “well leave then if you don’t like it”.
4. Haters leave the game for another.
5. 3-6 months down the line the forum starts seeing “How do we attract more players to the game” “I can’t find people to play with” posts.
6. Hardcore lovers of the game remain and play in increasingly small circles until the company tries something along the lines of server merges (Anet preempting this with Megaservers?) which buys them a little longer or fails completely

And of course the community suffers from the division during the whole process.

Me – no longer playing, looking into wildstar after new patch wrecked the things I enjoyed ingame.
RL mate #1 – no longer playing, prefers SWTOR to new patch GW2.
RL mate #2 – no longer playing, trying ESO after new patch trait system made his levelling dull.
RL mate #3 – was going to join us on GW2, now playing ESO instead since we don’t play.
Several ingame mates – no longer playing and playing less in varying degrees.

Levelling up alts and playing around with the traits was the main thing I logged on for, logged out with my latest ele having a fun setup..logged back in to 3 largely worthless points.

The prospect of a X0 lvl grind with the mess they’ve left behind..not wasting my time on that, already uninstalled.

No longer the game for me.

Since there seems to be more bots than real players on my server no, I won’t be wasting any money on the game until they do something.

“we’re looking into it” “we’re developing tools”…hardly reassuring, it’s the same names warping around the map harvesting nodes with impunity hour after hour, often week after week. If they can’t be bothered to get a GM on a server to block these kitten then they don’t deserve the money.

Hope so, I’ll assume the people I’m seeing a lot aren’t that competent then though their tactics seem to be all about the same, the ones that will go after a person solo at least.
Do I find all the best players in the non WvW then? so bumping into them in zerg maps would be a rarity I mean.

I always see the thiefs flying up behind me with their shadow step and arrows move, 9/10 I can just nail quick shot and let them overshoot me(alternatively hit about-face and launch at them with a sword since I like running with the sword out for block). By the time they’ve stopped I’ve already fired off concussion shot and me and the lynx are just touching down for a joint melee alpha strike.
I prefer the stealthers they’re more fun, like waiting on a skelk to strike.

Mesmers are a twitchfest to fight, almost all of them are running that spork? setup/tactic (can’t remember his name..begins with S, it’s the confusion heavy one).
So first thing I realise is me being yanked sideways into a bunch of stacked confusion and a mesmer jumping around recreating new clones to do their brain storm thing.
If I don’t realise in time then my shortbow auto attack will almost kill me before they start, if I realise in time then the fights on.

Aside from the zerg wave back and forth I’m loving the pvp in this game, specially ranger..enjoying it more than mesmer, engineer and warrior atm.

2 days into WvW so far, can’t say I’ve noticed much of an issue with my pets.
I use both of them pretty much every fight and they both seem to do what I’m expecting them to.

They stay on passive because anything running into an zerg aoe storm is dead, I tab through the targets til I find a victim, get in position where the pet will take the least damage along its route and then get started on them. It’s not that hard to hit F1 while you’re hitting 1 to start attacking a target

I normally use a lynx(crazy burst bleed stacker) and carrion devourer(aoe poison field and tough) (traited for both to cause bleeds on auto-attack crits), between ‘protect me’ and ‘rampage as one’ I get out of most situations alive. In situations when using my pet actively won’t work I use it passively to soak up all the extra damage. I’m guessing it’s not a common strategy people see because they start to panic when I’m not getting stunned, thrown or dead quick enough but the greatsword keeps showing them that 20s of fury boosted butt love.

1vs1-2 I’m still expecting to come out of the fights with a couple of shiny new loot bags regardless of their classes .

Am I too new to spot the issues with my pets or something?