Vinceman: I did understand that point, that’s the whole subject of my post. Please, read it again, completly and conscientiously. If you omit half of what I’ve written, it’s a total nonsense.
Insanemaniac: Your post sounds hypocritical to me as well. :-) (I would be glad to debate about your comment, but it lacks of intelligence and arguments)
I’ve read your post again and I still stand by my comment!
The OP wanted a Xera kill within a standard group that required him to bring 150 LI like it’s a usual thing in the lfg.
OP brought it, wiped with you about an hour without getting the kill and afterwards he was told that 2 players were selling gold to a third one who offered them the kill.
So obviously this is a very dirty attitude of that seller because he gets gold for a thing others help to achieve and those other see nothing of this gold plus they didn’t even get the kill although you can expect a group with such requirements to get it.
Selling raid kills is fine as long as everyone in the squad is ok with that procedure – which one usually finds in static groups not in pugs. But it’s not right to cheat on the OP and pretend it to be a casual pug run with everybody knowing and having enough experience while it is not the case. If I want my weekly kill like the OP within a pug and I would know about 2 buyers in there I would immediately leave that one to get a clean and sober kill without wiping an hour! As being said he didn’t know about that in the first place so he wasted an hour of his gaming time because others cheated on him. If you tell all your pugs that you are selling, that’s fine but in this case he wasn’t told so it’s an impertinence.
This, every post from Vince exactly tells my thoughts about this issue
I expected to find people who are somewhat experienced in the boss and hopefully resulting in a kill, not some dude selling it to two people for his own gain. He told nothing to me that it was indeed a selling run and even if he did, I would have left immediately. This would all be okay if it was advertised as a selling run, but it was just disguised as a normal 150+ LI run.
Even if this commander is a pug god helping newbies, it tells something about what kind of person he really is if he abuses random people like this, and only tells me I don’t understand after he confesses what was happening. I’ve done a fair share of newbie helping too Eternaab, don’t know how much this commander has done it and I don’t even care
I’m not salty about this, I got over it 30min after I left the group but I’m just amazed someone actually does stuff like this
@Vince the group had the potential to kill it so i stayed there, just those buyers were anchoring us down as one of them was a druid and neither of them had and idea what to do and what was going on.
If you wipe for an hour the group has no potential to kill – it’s a training at best.
And that is why I left the group in the end. It had many 10-20% tries so i decided to play till my food buffs run out, but in the end too many mistakes were made so I left. It’s the only boss I’m missing this week anyway so i was more persistant than usually
If you have specific evidence of someone doing this, report it via Support ticket or email. Include the relevant screenshots and description. Let ANet decide how to handle it.
It’s a miserable experience to be used for someone else’s profit, whether it’s as you described or being kicked just before a boss so someone else can leech. However, it’s not our job to investigate, let alone prosecute or punish people who might be breaking Terms of Service or crimes against the GW2 community (whatever we might define those to be).
ANet hires people to do this. And while I’m sure we’d all prefer that this be done more efficiently and more visibly than we’ve seen in the past, it remains up to them to decide what’s acceptable and what’s not.
tl;dr report it, move on. You have better things to do, like enjoy the rest of the game and most of the community.
Thanks for your advice, ill send a support ticket! I did not want people here to investigate it, just wanted to hear opinions about it since it is quite awful thing to do in pugs. It’s obvious Lfg abuse and should really be punished.
@Vince the group had the potential to kill it so i stayed there, just those buyers were anchoring us down as one of them was a druid and neither of them had and idea what to do and what was going on.
I just joined to a Xera pug run, advertized as a 150+ LI group which I thought to be a group that had potential to kill the boss. Instead, it had a commander using pugs to sell the raid for two people. He didn’t tell it to the people joining to the group, meaning that he had zero intentions to share the cut for people joining the run. He was even streaming the run and openly admitting doing this in the stream and in whispers. I spent one hour wiping at it and got to know all about this afterwards. I would not be annoyed if it was just a normal failed pug, but it was me and many other people being used to make money for another person.
Anet justifies selling instanced content and I’ve always been okay with it, but isn’t this taking it a bit too far? Trying to lure in players for their own selfish needs from LFG, and without even mentioning what is actually happening in the run. I took screenshots and reported him for LFG abuse, and would really want to say his name here so people could avoid him, but it would probably just get this post deleted. After a long time of raiding this is the first time I experience something like this, and I don’t want anyone else stumble upon something like this ever again.
Thoughts about this? I really think this is an offense worthy of a ban and I’m really amazed that someone is actually doing something like this
It’s hard to get ranks, they said. This is with only a birthday booster with quite too many playing hours for my taste put you get my point, it will never take two years of playing to get 2k if you just dedicate your time for WvW
This is ridiculous. I can’t believe so many of you are supporting the timegate. You do realize how long you will have to play for to get the skin right? Some people, believe it or not, find it absolutely ridiculous and stupid to have their game oneday decide for them they need to start spending a little bit of time over the course of 2 years to get the skins they had been promised two years prior!
This system as is, It makes the playtime of veteren wvswplayers shorter to accomplish the “weekly”. And it makes the playtime of a new wvsw player to accomplish the “weekly” an impossibly longer grind. It should be the opposite since veteren players already know the maps, have their gear maxed, are oriented with their teammates/server, and have all their wvsw points spent to make roaming a breeze.
It doesnt make sense! Wvsw players who play the most…..require the LEAST playtime? And are punished for overplaying that limit?
Its like they are trying to force their players at risk of burnout on the bench as much as possible. The reward for their honest loyal following and support of the game is less gameplay and a skin in 2 years time? WHAT?!!?! That is stupid!
This is not a player friendly addition to the gamemode AT ALL.
THEY SHOULDA made it so existing players of high enough rank(or some other measurement form) are just farther ahead of new players in the grind towards the skins.
The current system favours the dev team not the player. Gives them an excuse to not have to do anything for 2 more years. You are played and you like it?
I mostly agree with you man! It’s stupid that whatever your rank is you will still be in stuck in the same timegate, no advantages at all, just being stuck in the last repeatable diamond chest without any further progression. Higher ranked players should get more advantages on obtaining the tickets than limiting their weekly playtime
the thought about playing timegated stuff for 20 hours/week for a year to get the rewards I would have achieved 50 times already during my WvW playtime really kills my morale.
The rank 2000 is fine for the armor btw, don’t touch it
So what im getting from your post is that you don’t like playing a time game. You want to earn a reward and not want to take over a year (which is crazy your 100% correct) to do so. The last sentence makes you sound a bit hypocritical. What you’re feeling right now is what new people are upset about.
Exactly, the current timegate is just way too big imo, especially for the effort/week you have to do and for the amount of tickets you get for the effort. And I really think 2k rank is good for the shiny chestpiece. Not because I passed the line at 2014 already, but because it will still keep it somewhat prestigious. Something like rank 1k is easy to get if you PvD a bit with just boosters on or participate on blob fights, even a certain streamer is almost 1k and what I know he has only been randomly strolling in WvW and started his HC(ish) focus just a month or two ago. 2k takes a bit dedication already.
The weekly 175-ticket cap is total nonsense with the current prices. This update did almost nothing to reward the already existing veteran WvW players, only by making the weekly WvW playtime a bit lower. I really want to play more for my rewards and I do not want to get them instantly, but the thought about playing timegated stuff for 20 hours/week for a year to get the rewards I would have achieved 50 times already during my WvW playtime really kills my morale. I think that they should either increase the ticket amount you get per week, add tickets to the repeatable chest so your pips won’t go to waste if you are high ranked or make the prices more humane.
Also the fact that the backpack requires a low rank of 350 tells nothing, since even if a new player only starts to play WvW for it, it will require him to play 30-40 hours a week for 17 weeks in a row, or play the gamemode for a year if he doesn’t want to make the game a second job for him. By the time he will have enough tickets for the backpack he will most likely be around rank 1000 already. In my opinion this already proves that some aspects of this update were not really well thought out, especially if they really thought that r350 people will get the backpack. This might obviously prove that only dedicated players will get the rewards, but what about the players who already dedicated thousands of hours for the game mode? Why are those players still timegated to hell, even when they are given big pip boosts to reach the diamond chest faster?
The rank 2000 is fine for the armor btw, don’t touch it
Honestly, the Wvw armor might as well be a 5th bday gift to WvW players. If that’s your only game mode it’s basically a login reward. It looks ok but the lack of prestige due to it taking no real skill to get kills it for me. There’s certainly NOTHING legendary about it.
Then again all of the legendary weapons are just a money grind, yet they are still legendaries. The current rank requirements just makes the armor available for the dedicated WvW players, which is good and in my opinion makes it prestigious.
Rank requirement is fine, only thing that is not fine is the timegate behind it. This game needs something prestigious and 2k rank is even low if you think about how many people passed the mark already
Oh man, the possibilities!!!
Quaggan jumps out of shield and blocks an arrow while yelling DENIED! COOOO!
I am making Eureka for my PVP bloodthirsty huge mean charr, this will be a perfect addition. Said no one, ever. :P
Still, awesome skin!
I made eureka and might actually make this one with it. Because why the hell not!
Just pop an XP-booster, get the guild hall boost and go follow a train for five hours. If that is too much for someone I don’t think he should have the particles. It literally just took me two evenings of 2 – 3 hours of play to get the gift with the boosters on, so it’s not a big grind
Balance and MM were terrible, blow outs to either team for me.
I switched to stronghold after getting bored, haven’t played it much before and it felt fun, had three awesome and fun matches. After that I had six matches in a row, with one having two leavers and four having one, every time in my team. Decided to quit sPvP till the next season haha
I decided to try to pug Xera today. On the second try someone got downed right after we get the shard down on the buttons, I tried to res him but we were 1s late of getting to the ley line of middle platform, we fell down and I got instakicked with the other guy
I don’t usually pug since I got my guild group, but we didn’t kill Xera this week so I decided to give LFG a try. Is this common to happen in pugs, and did I just find the reason why people hate raids? Or did I just find a really weird raidleader?
This isn’t a salty post, I only found the kick to be hilarious, since I lean more towards a milder kind of elitism too. I killed the boss three times and got almost 90 LI, so I’m not really inexperienced either. This just made me curious that is this kind of behaviour really common in the pugging world of raids?
Your build MAY BE viable but I’m 100% sure that your build dont out perform meta build, there are a lot of experienced guilds pushing for world records on clear times, and if your build outperformed metas they would be using it ( dont think nobody never tried it, its not like there is infinite builds ).
And if your wrong ( you never cleared a raid with your build so you cant give any proof ) you will waste hours of 9 other people. So you are the one being selfish with this attitude, there is nothing wrong with off-meta builds if you form your own party with 9 other people that want to try new builds.
But for people that want to clear the raids before next reset (everyone has limited playtime), meta builds is the better way to ensure it.
So you have two options, make your own group ( and you may find that you are wrong after wiping for hours with no sucess) or just change your build.
But if your build dont do enough damage to clear a raid boss, please dont make a post after asking for nerfs because raids are too hard.
I say that I outperform meta because I understand my build more and my proffesion more. In my experience especially in pvp, those that just copy/paste metas majority of the time they have no clue how to properly use them and no experience with the proffesion and thus are easy to kill. What matters is the skill of the individual using the build, not usually the build itself. It helps but not essential in my experience. Meta is “best” on paper, but in the hands of an amateur it’s no better than anything else.
Sure I’ve not tried but in my experience with every other content and world meta events and content and dungeons and fractals I’ve yet to run into an issue where my builds don’t perform up to standard or can’t keep up with others in my groups.
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If you truly were a good/decent player, you would understand that switching to meta build would be way more beneficial for the other 9 people around you than playing on your own “fun builds”
120 LI would be far better, IMO
Still over 3 months, and way more friendly for people with no consistent groups. I feel like people who suffer through the journey with pugs will find the items even more prestigious, than people from speedclear guilds who can easily get all the wings done in one night
Wow man to many people going on each throats over a pixel game here.The thing some of them are right the system is weird!Ho it pairs teams up is beyond my comprehension .Personal experience i managed in 1 day to hit Ruby form 0 then i ranked up nice in it,not to mention was put against a loots of premades somehow we won it.What got me high placed.Then after having few pips in ruby i sudden got hit with weird teams do not understand the system and lost all progress.
Here Example Screen shoot from 1 of the last games i played i started leaving fast game without any more paying attention after loosing over 29 games in Ruby thx to having Amber-Sapphire and Emerald team pairs.
Having the same problems, my win % just dropped to below 50% in bottom ruby. I had 70% winrate in season two, but suddenly I’m getting lots of players doing weird rotations and not paying attention to the map, making us lose. I just tilted today since I can’t even keep the 50/50 win rate up, and being in edge of tilting just makes me play bad too.
I have never been less motivated to play sPvP, and this season I don’t even care about getting to legendary. I just want fun matches., which I seem to find once in 30
I prefer burning rabbits to death, personally. The way they try to put the fire out with their paws as they burn… horrible yet adorable.
Yes, I know that makes me a terrible person as well. But oh well.
All the different elemental death animations are pretty neat, though.
I remember when rabbits had a huge exploding effect with the sigil of fire like one or two years ago? It was super amusing anyway, killed every rabbit on my way just to see that
The only problem I’m having with the community is the amount of “kill exp required” groups with Matt. I got a really good hold of the boss in my training runs I did before, but I can’t find any squads who can help me to finish the job. Not asking to get carried, I could grind the boss for 4 hours more just to get the kill but those groups are nowhere to be found anymore
Obviously it’s understandable that people want super exp people for the runs to get it done quickly, but it’s really frustrating since I don’t find myself to be a noob for the boss either
Well tbh Matthias is the last boss most players start to practice one and if most organized guild or group already killed it, they are not pugging. It will take a bit more time before the pug population start to kill it on a regular basis.
It’s sad but true. I used to have a group of like minded people with a mix of my guildies and their friends, we cleared the first wing with no problems weekly and killed sloth and the trio in the first week after SP release. But for some reason 80% of the group lost motivation for raiding before we even tried Matt well enough. Now it’s just me, stuck with pugs after taking a few week break from raiding too
The only problem I’m having with the community is the amount of “kill exp required” groups with Matt. I got a really good hold of the boss in my training runs I did before, but I can’t find any squads who can help me to finish the job. Not asking to get carried, I could grind the boss for 4 hours more just to get the kill but those groups are nowhere to be found anymore
Obviously it’s understandable that people want super exp people for the runs to get it done quickly, but it’s really frustrating since I don’t find myself to be a noob for the boss either
Did every t4 so far since the patch, got 5 ascended mats (2 elonian, spiritwood, damask and steel) but nothing else. Not complaining since they turn into decent money anyway. Got my first ring today!
Around 6.8k hours playtime with 3 precursor drops. Got my first one on 4k mark. Not even counting ascended drops, getting them quite a lot actually nowadays
You should block him, watch him queueing, and when he is in a match again start queueing yourself. I did that with one particularly bad DH when in diamond since I lost 3 out of 4 games with him in a row and started having decent games again
The amont of totally, TOTALLY shet diamond and legend players whom i am forced to play with is shocking me.
You’re not alone there. I’m seeing the worst in diamond too so far, they don’t know even the basics.
It’s actually pretty funny. On some games when we manage to recover from 200 – 300 to 400 – 350 with a 3-cap, I’ve seen so many people just zerging far with 4 players, while I’m getting 3v1’d somewhere else when desperately trying to hold the two other points alone, making us lose the game in the end. This kind of stuff happened three times in diamond t3 for me, and I have no idea how to even carry that
Also the amount of people who don’t want to switch their professions and adapt for the match is just crazy, on some matches it feels that your teammates aren’t even wanting to win the match
The issue is the types of people who are stuck in Ruby.
In low levels, people are just learning their role.
In Ruby, people know what each role is supposed to do and ONLY play their role the way it is supposed to be played and expect others to do the same
In Diamond/Legend, people know what each role is supposed to do but adapt to what the rest of their team is doing and are flexible as needed in order to win.
This dude is a wiseman. I realized I was taking the job of a revenant too seriously around two weeks ago when stuck in ruby. Then I just stopped trying to +1 everything like mad, decided to camp on points a bit more and read the map more carefully, and the next day I was already in diamond
IF Lazarus was the final boss of the 3rd raid wing, atleast it would give him some justice. Not making him a simple, easy and boring story boss like Moldy or Zaitan were, but a really hard boss like a Mursaat should be. I kind of doubt it though that he will be a boss in Forsaken Thicket, maybe we need to get ascended first to survive the spectral agony?
Yeah the rewards are really bad, considering some fractals like 94 can be a nightmare. I wouldn’t do any of the 90+ even once now after completing the fractal master achievement
All adding raiding to the gw2 did was divide the gaming community and bring out elitist players that are slaves to the meta.
“Slaves to the meta”
It’s being efficient. It makes things easier. I surely wouldn’t want to see someone running full nomad healer engi in my raid group just because “I play whatever I want!” -attitude
Without a DPS meter you can’t actually prove what is efficient. All you can do is make the meta to be what ‘appears’ efficient.
Don’t use an argument you clearly don’t understand the principles of.
Did you miss all the DPS meter threads?
We must’ve missed that efficient nomad engineer raid build. We don’t understand the principles yo.
I was referring to the use of ‘meta’. Not a specific instance of low damage stats set. If you are gonna use a strawman at least make it a good one.
Do I need to explain what ‘meta’ means? I sincerely hope not, because the conversation is much deeper than that. Especially in a game that has a wide versatility of usable runes, stats, sigils, and food. Allowing you to min and max in different ways. Not to mention different fights (with NPCs) having different encounter types which make some builds (like Zerker vs perma protection bosses) builds have less effectiveness. Saying it is ‘meta’ would mean it is meta all the time, except for the fact that some fights are really designed to be geared more towards condi, or a more tanky build. So which one would be meta in a fight that requires a tank build? All of them?
Then that would mean there is not meta, just simply what ‘appears’ to work best.
How about this. Try taking a squishy melee based build into the cliffside fractal with last laugh instability. See how ‘meta’ works out for you. But of course you will make this all about nomads, like you already did, when that wasn’t even my point to begin with.
All adding raiding to the gw2 did was divide the gaming community and bring out elitist players that are slaves to the meta.
“Slaves to the meta”
It’s being efficient. It makes things easier. I surely wouldn’t want to see someone running full nomad healer engi in my raid group just because “I play whatever I want!” -attitude
Without a DPS meter you can’t actually prove what is efficient. All you can do is make the meta to be what ‘appears’ efficient.
Don’t use an argument you clearly don’t understand the principles of.
Did you miss all the DPS meter threads?
No, I have not. But the legal ones are not 100% accurate. That doesn’t make them unusable, but higher accuracy would be better when comparing something like Sinister vs Vipers vs Assassins gear. Actual DPS comparisons, with realistic DPS uptime would help people figure out which of these sets actually does the most dmg in most scenarios.
Obviously some of the builds are really situational. Like if you move Gorseval off the lava fonts, staff ele DPS will go down a lot. But if you play well yourself or as a team, you will get closer to the numbers the charts show us. I probably didn’t do the best DPS on my viper necro yesterday who I geared up two days ago, since I wasn’t that familiar with the build yet, but it was enough to kill slothasor without that much problem. In the end it all depends on you if you can dish out the good DPS or not. But the numbers aren’t just illuminati that the top PvE guilds threw at us
Also I actually completed every fractal on a full berserker staff ele including the last laugh-fractals and 90+. Died a few times maybe, but in the end it all came down to dodging on right times, and on teamplay
Did anyone actually try this yet? I have a dagger and rifle I’m not probably going to be ever using and was wondering if it’s worth to salvage them. Could actually even salvage one of them for science, if someone hasn’t done that yet. And if someone didn’t know, they give an X amount of magnetite shards now, after the salvation pass patch
All adding raiding to the gw2 did was divide the gaming community and bring out elitist players that are slaves to the meta.
“Slaves to the meta”
It’s being efficient. It makes things easier. I surely wouldn’t want to see someone running full nomad healer engi in my raid group just because “I play whatever I want!” -attitude
Just got out of Saphire T2 after being stuck for few days, thanks to a decent Mesmer, people should seriously reconsider it in the meta because it’s really broken in team fights.
It really depends on your teammates if it’s even good or not. I got moa’d so many times in the past 20 matches but haven’t died to it even once
Because you were being matched against scrubs who don’t know what assist is …. usually the teammates I get in soloQ. literally you shouldn’t be alive after mesmer moa (which has increased duration over engi’s AoE moa)
Go send ANet a cookie for matching you with decent teammates. Because it freaking infuriates me when my teammates go chase half HP shrouded reaper when there’s a moa’d druid and I need a little bit of firepower to finish them. Most of the time I do it alone but sometimes my cooldowns are not nearly ready but I’ve decided that I should drop the moa in that precise moment.
Funny thing is, I’ve never missed to land a moa. Guess people overestimate how good they are at dodging around this forum
I guess. I also survived a double moa once by just kiting it around the pillars in forest. I think the timing for the moa is also pretty important, if you just throw it at full HP rev who just kited of a teamfight it prolly won’t work that well always
Just got out of Saphire T2 after being stuck for few days, thanks to a decent Mesmer, people should seriously reconsider it in the meta because it’s really broken in team fights.
It really depends on your teammates if it’s even good or not. I got moa’d so many times in the past 20 matches but haven’t died to it even once
I wish i could play vs 4 necs instead of double rev + tempest + something every game
well i can tell you i already have done like 70+ games ranked this season, in all of them there was at least one necro in opponent team.
I found only one game without necro in opponent team, and it was the funniest game i played in this season, it was fast, i could concentrate on my rotation and on my target without bothering about chill/weakness or any kitten load condi i usualy had in other games.
So no, i wish i could play vs double rev+tempest + something else instead of 4 necs!!!
This, I had one match without any reapers today and it was a blast. Matches with just 1 reaper/team can be really fun too, but when the stacking begins it just becomes boring AF and frustrating with the perma weakness and chill. Necros are pretty easy to burst down, but it requires everyone to actually know that, and that can be pretty hard when soloqueueing with pugs
Hammer guard is pretty amazing for the encounter, especially for the last phase. My group has been able to facetank every falling rock with the perma prot, and by swapping the druid away from circling like it was mentioned before
I’ve been stuck in ruby t1 and t2 for four days now. Every time I’m starting to have a killstreak and things are going nicely, MMR throws a team of 4 reapers against me, and my team consists of people who seem to have no clue what they are doing. With this it feels like it’s impossible to progress anymore, and I’ve never been so frustrated at this game before
Maybe you are where you belong. Four necros in a team is incredibly easy to beat. Just focus them one by one, and make sure you play something like a shout ele.
In soloqueue situation when matched with 4 randoms it’s not always that easy.
I don’t really think that I belong to these tiers myself, since in so many matches that make my starting winstreaks break I get some people to my team, like 4/5 premades who have no idea how their classes even work or how even rotate properly. Not saying I’m a godlike player, but judging by the people who are ruining my progression I just feel like I don’t belong in these lower tiers. It just feels like bad luck
I’ve been stuck in ruby t1 and t2 for four days now. Every time I’m starting to have a killstreak and things are going nicely, MMR throws a team of 4 reapers against me, and my team consists of people who seem to have no clue what they are doing. With this it feels like it’s impossible to progress anymore, and I’ve never been so frustrated at this game before
Just 10 minutes ago I had a match against 4 reapers and we had one. Why is this system even allowing this kind of stuff to happen? It’s getting really uninteresting and slowly driving me away from this really badly balanced gamemode
That’s actually false. Conditions have to be applied. Condi applying abilities can be blocked and evaded.
The problem with condis is that since they deal damage over time, many players don’t learn to associate the condis with the abilities that apply them. The players only notice the condis after they are applied.
A player encounters a DH trap and all this blue crap comes out of the ground and instagibs them, that player immediately learns that blue crap needs to be evaded/blocked.
However when a player encounters a condi build, they typically don’t notice anything until after the condi build has stacked up everything, which means the player completely misses what abilities applied the condis.
I wasn’t even talking about evading and blocks? Of course you can evade and block most of the attacks. The thing is that there’s no condis or boons but just resistance which help against condis. When you dodge the attacks and possibly kitten up at kiting, eventually you will run out of endurance and the condis start stacking on you. Running out of endurance will possibly kill you even if you are against power specs, but after that there’s no protection or weakness helping you to midigate damage against the condis. On condi specs like mercenary reaper/warrior/everything you can kitten up with dodging and soak some hits even from a thief backstabbing you, since you have more toughness and vitality than the power specs poking you. I think you basically only picked that one sentence from my message and ignored everything else
I’m going to admit and say that I’m really rusty against the elite specs and some other classes, since I only got to emerald on the last season (Wasn’t amused by the meta) and last time I played spvp before seasons was before HoT, but I can still dodge the poison whirls of reapers and such. But something like marks I find insanely hard to dodge, since they’re about instant and unblockable.
Myself I think the biggest problems with conditions are that you can put more toughness and vitality without losing the condi damage (like the current mercenary amulet, which just makes terrible builds to play against). With power you almost need to wear marauder to do some decent damage.
Also the ways to deal with condis are really limited. There’s just resistance that helps to deal with condis, and some of the classes still have no ways to even apply it. But then against power builds there’s protection, and you can even toss some weakness at those poor power players to make them hit like a wet noodle. Against condis there’s nothing like this.
WvW is still dying, even if you put updates like PPK on it which should have stayed there over a year ago already. These updates didn’t help the drowning ship at all
