Guild Wars 2

To the OP.. no you are not wrong. It is up to you to decide where you spend your time. Tonight I have decided to throw in the towel myself…..
Loved GW1…liked GW2….
I put my money where I find worth and have bought gems to support GW2.
Lately it’s just a grind to me….LS is Meh for me.
I have fought these factions and won? now they are back? fighting for Scarlet again?
Timing in a story is important…I just don’t care anymore.
WvW which held some interest is dying.
Many guildies are no longer on.
To top it off many of ANets recent actions seem just a money grab.
I maybe back .
Maybe they will have fixed the undead hawks in Orr by then, they make a crowlike squawk when you kill them

I have two accounts one in silver, one in bronze. I created the second when my guild moved to silver. Pretty much what the OP said.
The silver server usually crushes the other servers. Its no fun when you own everything the other servers wilt by Sunday…… The bronze, it pretty much outnumbered most of the time, no fun there. The present matching has made it worst.. often facing the same servers over and over…You know their play style, they know yours…..It gets boring….

Seriously looking for a new game to play.

Worst event yet…but each to their own. Whole area feels like a grind …hack and collect collect and hack…….New? novel?…WoW so Catacylsmic. Low pop server so YMMV. Captains tickets? Yes I can work around it….but its WORK (F our letter word there) …expecially coming from WvW…..Guild has gone inactive…Time to find a new game and put my money into that I guess…..

I will chime in here one more time. (one sentence paragraphs)
Go to the bottom for TLDR….
AED can work and there can be a nice synergy.
With healing gear and healing bombs the heals in AED are enough, either basic or epic.
Timing is not an issue, you trigger it and forget, you are covered for the next 5 sec.
I rarely have to use supply crate for aditional healing.
The tool bar trait is ok, its a simple interupt that deal some damage with a traited endurance boost.
I have completed daily interupter in my first fight of the day with it.
I was concerns about conditions, but with up to four conditions, health is stable (Bombs) and AED supplies a spike heal.
It keeps my support build up in a group but also allows it to solo 1vsX with lots of loot bags.
It works well in Dungeons.
In WvW I have often been invited into private dueling parties by the other side.
That never happened before.

TLDR: I believe with AED its traits that make the skill work.
If your build is not going to include those traits, then yes other healing skills are probably better then AED. It needs traiting in gadgets, automated medical response and healing gear. Think of it as a high maintenace girl/boy friend.

OMG ….AED is really so op……at least for a bomber man…having a blast. I tried it at first and hated AED then I made a build around it… 10,0,30,0,30 clerics gear.. rifle,bombs,mines,rocket boots, and supplies….no asended gear yet. Its nice for WVW and PVE. I have heals through bombs, supply crate and AED. Heals for AED are 14452 and 5102. AED is a gadget so trait for 20% reduction in CD….so CD drops to 32 secs which makes it better. In inventions the minor skill “automated medical response” means the healing skill recharges at 25% health..this makes AED work…. With intial health you have 44000ish health available excluding other heals. Now lets face it, if you are healing it because you are dying…..so just before I hit 25% health I pop AED…timer starts….If I hit 25% heath AED is ready to go again. If my opponent kills me…..I am pretty much back to full health, if they don’t I am up 5102 and with AED usually ready to go again. I find myself wanting people to kill me lol. When people see you are close to death they close in for the kill/HEAL which works nice with bombs….See the zerg…. run in and bomb away….AED triggers….. rocket boot out….. do it again. 2-10 in a zerg will persue a almost dead engy.. breaking it apart …and you as a bomberman dropping bombs as you run away…..I am having fun with it..YMMV