Guild Wars 2

I only play wvw. I respect other people’s interests in the other parts of the game, but they don’t hold my attention due to the AI, or the more objective-based nature.

I’m posting this on an alt account (also used exclusively for wvw), but for context I’ve got thousands of hours in-game since beta as a carry-over customer from GW1, 90%+ of which are in wvw. The other >10% was to level my wvw characters.

Their posts say no, Anet, but you know the player attrition says yes. Finger on the pulse.

Things I know: I wish I hadn’t paid for two expansions prior to the patch.

Honestly, the lack of testing and insight into your own game is astonishing.

You should have just released the trait changes while trying to mitigate damage changes. You could have rolled out damage changes later, in parts, or not at all since it wasn’t necessary. Now your task of balancing is made more complicated. You have trait changes and damage changes to consider at the same time when trying to determine why something is broken.

I purchased this game after being a GW1 player for years specifically because the developers assured up front this wouldn’t be a gear grind:

“We have no intention of adding a new rarity gear such as Ascended” – Chris Whiteside

Ascended armor was introduced and that was nearly enough to make me stop playing there. Sure, I could grind away for hours making armor for all my characters on my different accounts, but that’s not fun for me and as much as some would like to extol the joy of crafting, it simply runs counter to one of the fundamental principles laid out prior to launch, regardless of how people want to spin it.

How does this relate to the OP? Well, the gap between the have and have-nots has grown, and the stability of damage and mitigation thrown up into the air. After 3 years of balancing, the meta has been undone and there’s now even more reason to have to craft to compete. I just can’t see the sanity in wasting all my time doing that though when stats are rendered useless with as little thought as I see with this patch.

So, I guess my question is, is it possible to get a refund?

Magicus.4302:

I’m referring to this: https://twitter.com/GuildWars2/status/614560129573351424

Please remember that a very large portion of your player base doesn’t agree with the court’s decision today.