Guild Wars 2

A lot of people tend to lean one way or another on any and all types of issues. There are those that want to complain about something simply for the sake of complaining. When I used to work in a gas station, a man once complained to a woman that she parked in an area that he normally parks, and then proceeded to berrate her for half an hour over it. It was ridiculous to watch and listen to this man complain like he was, when the parking area in front of the entrance was completely clear of any kind of traffic, yet because “his spot” on the other side of the parking lot had a car sitting in it, he felt he had to voice his concern over it.

Anet reads almost everything that is posted. They sure as heck pay attention to any and all threads that gain a following, such as this one. This thread will be shut down if they perceive school-yard trash talking between the posters. That does nothing for a debate, and does nothing for a discussion. I would strongly advice that this discussion stays on track.

As for my own opinion on this thread, I think the OP lays out his concerns quite nicely. Easy to read, and the concerns are all on point and valid. I see there are problems with the game, anyone can see them. If the playerbase does not wish to see the problems out of blind loyalty or trust to the developer, that is there perrogative. I watched from the sideline as Anet worked, enchanced, worked some more, and enhanced GW1. A lot of the problems they had at launch, where there were pages upon pages of player rage and frustration over one thing or another, are completely gone 6-7 years later.

Honestly, I believe in Anet. I trust that they don’t want to sink their own game, no developer wants to. I also believe the things the playerbase are complaining about right now won’t even be thought about in a year’s time. I would even go so far as to say within 6 months, 70% of all the issues people complain about right now won’t even be an afterthought.

This is a new age we live in, where people want things last week, and expect updates yesterday. This age has a name, The Age of Entitlement. Every single game that has come after World of Warcraft launched, has a very large playerbase in them that have gotten this disease. These same people will also complain simply for the sake of complaining, and will not listen to any sort of reason. They will simply ignore anything said that makes sense, and instead focus on something else to complain about. These people are trolls, and will continue to do this sort of thing “just because”. Make no mistake, the OP is not one of these people.

In my opinion, which honestly doesn’t matter in the grand scheme, I’d like a focus put to the living story and bug fixes. That’s all I’d like to see for the next year. Get the general world bugs ironed out, the class bugs worked out, the pvp and wvw bugs worked out, all while expanding the living story is all I expect until Q4.

Make progress, substantial progress that betters the game, in those areas and I personally believe the playerbase will be more than happy to hear about what’s next.

I could bring up a WW2 reference, with how the Marines used FT’s during the island hopping campaign, but I think that wouldn’t be appropriate at all.

Suffice to say, burning needs to be applied to the basic attack. What Hule mentioned is certainly more than enough, and maybe dps bumped to 980. I’d be happy with burning applied when hitting FT1, because you can apply burning right off if one wanted to, then spam FT1 and the other abilities when needed.

I trust that when Anet is able to get to working more on the classes, that a lot of issues will hopefully disappear for the betterment of us all.

Same here, about the cripple/chill. I’m tired of being forced to go 30 disc just so I can remove those conditions. I use a certain set of utilities because I like them, I should not be forced into using utilities I do not like the feel of.

Forcing players to play a certain build, utilities, weapons, or what have you is just wrong in my opinion. If I want to play a longbow warrior, I’m going to play it. I’d just like more than a couple traits that will help that weapon. There sure are a lot of traits that help out all the other weapons, where-as the longbow has 1. The Immob trait doesn’t count, and the only longbow trait merely extends our range with the weapon.

I won’t go on about weapons and traits, because it’s redundant. Sure, we have many different ways to remove conditions, but it pigeonholes us into using a set group of skills that many of us simply do not wish to use.

I love the warrior class, it’s the only class I care to play. I just hope they are able to iron out the wrinkles. I will say though, that our class is far better off than some of the others, by far. S/Tpvp are legitamate concerns that need to be addressed. I don’t think anyone will dispute that.