Stop trying to justify arenanet failure by comparing to other games. Arenanet made the best PvP game ever, and they didn’t learn from it, I guess. Simple things like: ladder (it doesn’t matter what, put a kittening ladder i the game and people will play PvP), cast bar (every game has this, why did you remove?), Description of skills/traits and everything else (we don’t know what change from some traits, how much healing will I get, the new radius, how much does the improve signet changes, and so on. Also, you had a perfect system in Guild Wars 1 to know how skills are scalable, I don’t know how retaliation sclaes, only some people in wiki knows, and is it reliable?), balance the classes (thiefs can walk around the map and make impossible jumps that noone can or match, it is ridiculous, mesmers can 1 shot everyone, and you gave them portals so they can do it faster, elementalists do not die against 3 in a point…).
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