PvP in GW2 is 90% team interactions and 10% being able to perform your build at a sufficient level to carry out team strategy. This is why you generally see very low risk builds in tournaments, because it allows players to reroll quickly to adapt to the best possible build for the team, instead of playing the build you are mechanically best at.
The teams who win tournaments though are not necessarily the ones with the best players. They are the ones with the best rotations, the best team comp, and the best team play.
To directly answer your question: the game just isn’t really suited for having a lot of high skillcap builds, since the skillcap is almost entirely focused into team-based things. Thieves aren’t even that hard compared to actually difficult games, its something you can pick up fairly well pretty quickly if you just devote a lot of game time to it. Certainly builds have varying amount of skill differences, but even the hardest build to play in the game isn’t that hard to play.
I see. Very informative answer. I guess I’m gonna have to join a PvP guild for hardcore tPvP if I want a bigger challenge. Thank you for your reply.
Gw2 has a high skill cap. Despite what the average player thinks. People always reference games like wow ect (which I was a 3 time gladiator mind you), due to ability bloat, and number of skills, when in reality you only used a handful of them, and most rotations were 4 or so skills.
Defense in gw2 is very much “active” if you are “on the ball” and know what to avoid and when, you come across as godmode.
If you think pvp in gw2. Has a low skill cap, or is cheezy. You’re doing hot join or scrub soloq. Try playing against skilled players.p
I wasn’t really comparing wow’s skillcap with Gw2’s skillcap (I think wow’s skillcap is lower than GW2’s). I was mainly comparing it with GW1’s skillcap. I used to play PD mesmer in GW1 (HA, RA and TA when it was around). I had to look through all the players and interrupt the most devastating skills (e.g. Warrior’s knockdown, Monk’s elite skill etc). That took a lot of skill and I knew that there was enough room for improvement, which is why I’m finding Gw2’s skill cap relatively low.
I mean, yeah I can save my dodges for devastating skills, know when to use my distortion, blink away when an enemy’s leaping on me, even interrupt (Although interrupting in GW2 is much less reliable than in GW1). I feel like I’m doing all these things almost perfectly. This must make me seem arrogant but if you played GW1 I think you’ll understand what I mean. In the recent tournament I noticed a necro that spammed his skills on-cooldown for a little while, and I find myself doing the same thing sometimes simply because in some occasions that’s the best thing you can do. I mean, if I have a skill that simply deals X amount of damage, why wouldn’t I want to use it on-cooldown? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that’s the case in every occasion and with every build. I’m just giving an example on how the skillcap could be improved (e.g. More skills whose effect is greatly affected by external factors).
Of course, I know that good team coordination, various combinations with allies and strategic decisions are a very hard thing to achieve, but I’m talking about profession skill-cap.
