Guild Wars 2

Insanely loud lol, but that looks like a hell of a lot of fun, awesome

TwoBit.5903:

Lynq.4079:

Downstate is a great addition in my opinion because it adds a further stage before dying and that alone makes the game less annoying to play, if that’s because its psychology or what I don’t know. I hate it in games when you get zerged by a load of players then oh great I have a fun run back to my corpse.

Downstate let’s you fight on and feel heroic “I shall never give in!”.
Even if you die any way lol.

Conceptually, I agree with you and until I started to play WvW in earnest it was pretty great. In WvW, however, it shifts balance too far towards an uninteresting and unbalanced playstyle. I would rather see it gone in WvW just to shift the balance back a bit. It absolutely kills me when a player asks in team chat “where’s the zerg” and far too many mechanics favor it at the moment.

Oozo.7856:

My opinions are coming from a solo and small group player. You can check the vids in my signature to verify.

I like the downed state mechanic. Yes, it makes winning fights when you are outnumbered harder… but things that challenge me are what keeps me playing. You try to come up with solutions to a problem. In all of my builds I sacrifice damage to pick up things to help my team manage downed state.

Now, with that said here are two things I HATE about the downed state system in WvW.

1) Players should not get rallied from MOB kills in WvW. Period.

2) Players who have been stomped should be forced to respawn in WvW. It sucks to be fighting a 5v20 (for example) and get people downed AND stomped but end up losing since you can’t keep that many people from rezzing STOMPED players.

Fix those two things and I’ll be a very happy solo and small group customer. Keep the overall downed state mechanic as it adds a great amount of tension to a fight, which I love.

+1 to this

Maybe having it as some sort of time limit would be good?
10 seconds to kill something, but no revive, Would that make a difference?

Finding a small network of friends around your level is key to enjoying dungeons, definitely use GW2LFG.com or other Guild Wars 2 forums to find like minded individuals!

Downstate is a great addition in my opinion because it adds a further stage before dying and that alone makes the game less annoying to play, if that’s because its psychology or what I don’t know. I hate it in games when you get zerged by a load of players then oh great I have a fun run back to my corpse.

Downstate let’s you fight on and feel heroic “I shall never give in!”.
Even if you die any way lol.

Downed state is awesome, sometimes you just get zerged and that would be it, but with the downed state people Zerg and then move on to other characters. It’s their fault if they aren’t strong enough to fully kill you off, they need to regroup and come back with a stronger force if they want to.

I think the key is just keep getting out illusions and eventually this becomes easier.

Hey all,

I have been writing up some guides and collating together some useful builds for new players, let me know what you think.

Also you can submit your own if you think mine are rubbish! Lol. The guides are aimed at getting new people into the game or people who left not long after launch for other games and want to get back into it.

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