Guild Wars 2

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You want button smashing and a one skill win….. habbo hotel is a good place for you Vet.

If you cant land your hits thats a l2p issue, use cc before a long skill

Oh so you want me to sacrifice fun and play style so I can fall in line with every other tunnel visioned pvper? I’d rather “pick my own weapons.” This wouldn’t be an issue if the classes had their own skill set rather than having what you’re using decide. Hell, if I want to Rush someone, I can do that with anything in my hands, not just a two-handed sword.

TLDR at bottom

Veteran? What is this blasphemy?
By veteran, I mean I’ve played quite a few games for quite a few years. I’ve gained quite a bit of experience and I know a bit more about MMO pvp than you think.

Also, in every game, I play a “warrior” style character. This entire argument is from a warrior player’s prospective.

Okay, anyways. Let me get started, diving right in.

Responsiveness.

This is a huuuuuge problem for me. Playing other games, you activate a skill and it instantly happens. There are numerous skills in those games and there is never any down time (there is always some button to be pressing, keeping you on your toes.)

Now in GW2, you press a skill, you wait for the animation to begin, you hope that the latency is in your favor, and you wait for said animation to finish before moving on (which should already be planned because you have all this time.) That is, unless you have a skill which requires you to sit there, for example, Hundred Blades. I stopped using a Greatsword unless I want to just curb stomp noobs. I stopped only because the time from start to finish of the skill is too high. It’s so high that the worst reaction time known to mankind can press v and still escape it’s wrath.

Variety, or lack there of.

I’ve played around with a few classes here and there and noticed something…
They are all the same. Now before everyone starts “oh they’re not the same they got all these different effects and art and blahblahblah,” please let me state: shut up.
When I first got Frenzy as a warrior I thought I was all BA ‘n what-not. But then I played a thief and engineer and realized I’m just a mass-produced variation.

There isn’t any real uniqueness. I doubted that statement when I saw the thief’s ultimate that spins the thief around, throwing daggers. But, that’s just the same as a warrior’s off-hand axe spinning in fire. Warrior rifle shoots fast? Thief pistol, same thing.

No game-changing skills

I remember in WoW when I was a warrior, popping my CDs and throwing everything I could at an enemy, refusing to die because I’ve been pvping for so long. (erhmahgerd, another WoW noobs. Shush, just read.) In GW2, I use my “cooldowns”, gain an effect for, oh I don’t know, 20 seconds tops, and carry on. But there’s a problem… Only ONE warrior elite is for me.

TLDR
-Skills take forever to animate and cast, much down time.
-Little amount of skills, too much down time.
-No elites, no self-fulfilling satisfaction.
-We has variety! Lolz, jk.

I really don’t like any of the warrior elite skills. I’m a level 80 warrior, by the way. The entire time I only used Signet of Rage because the others are just god awful. And only having one elite makes being a warrior that much more boring.

I’m loving the Warriors! The only problem I have with them though is the Greatsword’s Hundred Blades being a stationary cast. Makes the Greatsword much less unappealing for me. Other than that, freakin’ awesome.