Guild Wars 2

Hey there everybody,

I recently came back to guild wars after a long break, and I’m re-learning everything I once knew. Currently playing on Gate of Madness, but any server in NA is fine. Looking for a guild to join with a laid-back attitude. Preferably do a little bit of pve and wvw, because that’s what I enjoy.

Rocking a level 40ish Mesmer at the moment, but I also have my level 80 Necromancer from the before time in my back pocket.

Anybody available?

Before I start, this is not a rage post. Too many posts in this forum right now are raging like crazy. However, I do want to discuss (civilly, please) what seems like a pretty serious issue to me. I am a proud casual, who just started playing this game a month or two ago, now working on my level 70 necromancer.

Lots of people have been saying things like “Liadri/Salazar is impossible as one profession or another.” Those people are silly. We have all seen people beat Liadri as every profession. However, I also don’t think any of us will deny that it is much harder playing as certain professions (necromancer I can say for sure) than as others (warrior, guardian, etc…). This bothers me enormously. I like that there are extremely difficult achievements to get, and the fact that they require a little luck is even ok. They are supposed to be super difficult. However, shouldn’t that difficulty be the same for every level 80 with good gear? Shouldn’t any strong necro be just as viable as any strong warrior, but for different reasons? Isn’t that the very point of the profession system? Coming into the game as an ascending necro, the possibility that I’m inherently worse solely because of my profession is pretty disturbing.

I respect the balance teams at ArenaNet enormously, and so should you. They are good people doing hard work, trying to moderate the QQing of thousands of angry gamers. However, I feel that they have an impossible task at this point. PvE, PvP and WvW have entirely different balance concerns, but still try to operate around the same skill mechanics. Nerf Warriors in PvE, and we’ll never see another one in PvP. Buff Necros in PvE to have better survivability or higher DPS, and all of PvP will be playing necromancers. I honestly have no idea what could be done to solve the problem.

Like I said, I’m a newbie necro with crummy gear, and I’ve never faced Liadri myself, so I’m mostly talking out my butt. I’m interested to hear what other more knowledgable players think though. Ideas on a solution? Agree/disagree? Why? Be specific, I’d like to learn something.

Sincerely,
Your Friendly Neighborhood Casual