Guild Wars 2

Im sorry but ive tried to be patient and i dont see any changes. The PvP in this game is making me dislike the game all together. Come to the forums to find an explanation, upcoming plans.. hell anything at this point and all i get is 300 thieves trying to justify this cheezy bullkitten? Are you serious? Even worse than that there are actual posts on this very page proclaiming there are zero problems at all with GW2 pvp system…….? ….for real?

Im sorry but these rainbows and sunshine forum trolls that try to defend the most terrible and unbalanced parts of an online multiplayer games need to be dealt with or flat out ignored. They absolutely destroy communities and pollute developer mindsets and both are devastating to a game. It doesnt take a genious to see there are some fundamental problems in this pvp system. Its not just one class or this or that. Theres a list, hell theres several if you read actual posts on this forum with a spoonful of truth or feedback.

Certain classes and skills need to be balanced, immediately. Im not a schmuck. I know there are files and files of data on the outcome of more than likely millions of spvp and tpvp games in your office. You are flat out ignoring balance for some unknown reason and its getting old. Its been old. Numbers need to be adjusted. Now.

Last but not least, i know this is a B2P game and once the game is purchased you dont really give a crap if im a happy customer or not but leaving PvP as you have it as of 10/1/12 is just absolutely pathetic. You have this amazing beautiful PvE side and then a total flip to an unbalanced laggy, hacker infested zerg fest with unbalanced classes and zero balance adjustments.

Please hear me out.

First, id like to say i still like the game. Although what will soon follow in this post you might believe differently. However, i very much enjoy the PvE, leveling, exploration, graphics, music, zones and races.

However..

Ive followed this game for a long, long, long time. I never participated in the beta weekends because i wanted everything to be fresh, new, and fun at release. Its obvious pride and care has went into designing this game. Well, most of it.

I cannot for the life of me see how anyone could find this PvP fun, enjoyable, competitive or even remotely balanced.

What happened to “a competitve new take on pvp”
or
What happened to “when its ready…”

Anyone that has followed this game will recognize the above quotes. I dont find this pvp fun, nor competitive in the slightest.

You see, im not the “pro pvper”. Im not the pwner of worlds. Im the average player. I study my skills and look up builds and try this or that. Im the average player. Im here to just have fun not be the best. And im not having fun when it comes to GW2 pvp.

1. The skills are confusing, redundant, and clunky.

Ive played multiple classes. The complexity from one class to the next astounds me. This just doesn’t make any sense whatsoever. Half the time the skills dont even seem to have the defined effect. Admittedly, in this zergfest its quite hard to tell whats working and what isnt. Some classes are somewhat decent and almost enjoyable, for that brief 5 seconds before you get zerged over in 1.3 seconds. Its lame. OOOHHH look i can put up a wall that no foe can cross!!!! Wow did that really only last 3 seconds……? The skills stop before you can even look down and see the duration. Everything is 1-4 seconds. Very rarely ill see something last 7-10 seconds and you can bet your bottom dollar if it does it will be of such mediocrity you shouldnt have casted it because you died 1.5 seconds ago to the zerg train.

2. Zerg, Zerg, Zerg.

There doesnt seem to be anything else. This creates an environment where its almost impossible to learn efficiently. Its slow and tedious. Half the time i just log off in frustration. It was noticeable at first. I just chalked it up to my newbieness and terribleness. Normally when you play a game you gradually get better and understand more and more. You improve. Either this PvP sucks or im getting worse. By the day. Worse. And ive been trying, over and over, since the first day of head start. Either make all maps 5v5 or just disable hotjoin untill a solution is found. As far as the few “bads” i roll with and conversate at work about gaming, none of us enjoy the pvp at ALL. None of us have given up yet. The game is so awesome hopefully its a L2P issue but im just not seeing it. Its just lame. and bad. It feels vaguely familuar… speaking of familuar……

3. The eerie GW1 feeling.

This is the deal breaker for me. Its what made me quit Gw1 as a pvp enthusiast as well. The community doesnt really give a kitten if you enjoy the pvp. THe community doesnt really give a kitten if you understand the pvp. There will be a top echelon of players that dominate the whole system and everyone else with be the food they feed on, quit pvp, or leave the game all together.

4. WvW

At the very least, i would like to see my name. I would like to see the name of the person that just kicked mykitten I would like to see the name of the teammate that just saved me or held off that group solo. Im sure this was done for performance reasons but it takes away quite a bit for me. I mean, if we are going to discuss WvW performance, how about invisible armies? Not seen as a major issue either? lol figures. Admittedly WvW is where ive spent the least of my time in gw2 so i will just leave it at that.

5. My last and final point. What exactly where the hundreds of thousands of beta testers…doing exactly? I can honestly say i enjoyed Rifts PvP more than this, and i wasnt a huge fan. I urge you to start focus testing PvP immediately and making proper balance adjustments. Players wont continue on and on if they are just beating eat up and spit out by the huge zergy burst machine that is spvp. They will quit. They will probably find “competitive” PvP elsewhere.

Putting your fingers in your ears and shouting la la la everyone loves our game didnt work out so well for a 250 million dollar game either recently. I love this game. I absolutely BEG you to please make the pvp better. Im not a designer i dont have life saving suggestions on what to do.

My only suggestion as a simple minded simpleton would be to tone down the damage. At the very minimum. Tone down the damage across the board. Give more points for defending.

I feel bad actually. I love this game. I dont even think im going to quit the game. I just cannot fathom how people even enjoy this…. “pvp”.