Playing another game with legit melee really makes it obvious where the OP is coming from. No, it’s not really where it should be. It probably never will be. In WvW in general, one step forward can bring you in range of about 50 people, and you’ll be splintered in a second. It’s not very good gameplay, when your melee players can’t do their job and rush in, swinging, breaking up ranged enemies because they can easily shrug off most of the damage. You’ve got a couple skills (Endure Pain, Shield Block), but after that, you’re toast. And most likely you haven’t done any damage to break up their formations in the process.
I’ve been able to do it using GS strike squads in WvW, but it relies a lot on load in problems and the enemy being balled up, and just wildly swinging like a fool, without a target. There are excuses, but stepping away from GW2 for a while, playing normal games and coming back really has sold me on how terrible the combat is. Good for a MMO, I suppose, but it’s nowhere where it should be, when you consider you don’t have the targeting advantages you would in a normal MMO, and you don’t have to worry about load-ins either.
It’s less about the Warrior, I think, and more about the game, in general. There’s no DR for damage from multiple sources, no intrinsic defense bonus to closing distance to a ranged target, and so on. It’s just not well thought out, and difficult to see for the trees, since we’re already working within the bounds of the game itself and no longer in development.
