Guild Wars 2

Hey all,
I usually don’t post, but after the patch soloQ is just super bad for me. I won’t talk about what kind of teams I seem to be getting and all the other usual problems. Like it’s not enough to have bad variance with 4 vs5 and teams, lately alllll the time people just start AFKing.
3 times in a row I got a 5vs5 fight turned into 4vs5 in first minute and 30 seconds after into 2vs5, because apparently if you are 4vs5 or losing 50 points there is no use playing anymore. I don’t understand why those people play this game mode.
I am a casual player,but when I have time I like to play and have good fights. I like winning better than losing, but also winning 1vs1 gives me joy as well or doing things good.
I dont like seeing 2 people coming to home in the beginning after I am already on it and waiting with me. I know they are beginners, but so what. I don’t like 2vs1ing on home and writing help home before the fight begins and having no people come when I manage even to last for quite some time before dying. And of course it sucks to be 4vs5, but kitten at least give them a fight and kill a few of them.
So last game I played 2vs5 because one logged of in the beginning since one of my team was cursing him and later that same guy and another was AFK. Of course the game is ruined for both sides that way and specially not fun getting killed 2 or 1 vs 5.

So please if you play fight, its just a game and fighting game at that. Or just admit it is not for you or play only TeamQ if you dont have good enough nerves for SoloQ.

More Sparta mentality please and thank you all real warriors. Because of you we sometimes won 4vs5 and had some nice impossible fights we won.

@ThiBash
I don’t agree. I have ele as my main that I play 80% or more and 6 other classes lvl80. I’m sure my skill lvl is quite higher with ele than other classes, but it’s funny how I feel/am stronger in pvp and PvE on quite some other classes, that I do quite some mistakes with or forget to use some skills that I have. Not saying that when faced 1vs1 on ele, you have no chance and automatically die, but there is a noticeable difference.

About surviving elite, what solo content is there that can’t be done with or without the elite anyway and that goes for ele and other classes.

Facing 1vs1 is part of the game in wvw and tpvp, what are you talking about. It happens and is not against the design of the game lol. Still if ele is weaker than other classes in this area something is not ok.

I see you are a staff ele and i like to play staff as well, but also s/d , d/d, focus I used just a bit. Nothing wrong with staff in group and you can even do good 1vs1,but it is seriously lacking still against good player. But try some other class and you will see how it compares in damage and defense compartments. Specially I don’t think you will mind facing ele :-) which says something….

Well he is defending hammer, that it is not OP. But it is everything combined, you can’t look one aspect and a few skills and ignore the rest of a warrior. I have 5 lvl 80s and just created a lvl 80 warrior.
Say whatever, but warrior is too strong because it just has everything. Damage, mobility, defense, control etc. First time I went sPvPing and had almost no clue what buttons to push I almost won a 1vs2 fight. I just couldn’t die. Even the stats you can have are amazing. Give me that kind of stats on my ele please and I still think warrior has stronger skills. Also in a 3vs3 fight or more crowded you don’t see the slow animation. Also people usually don’t dodge bow3 when you shoot it under you feet or in crowd.
Even 1vs1 if the can see the animations you have so much controling stuff to throw at them that they will run out of stuff to defend with soon. and if they managed to dodge the control, warrior still dishes out a lot of damage and is very hard to kill becuase of big HP and toughness. It’s not like there is no skill needed, but the class is just so strong and definetely not in equilibrium. I mean I’m pretty sure I could kill my ele with my warrior and I play ele for a long time and warrior for short.
I suggest you go play other classes and than you will be able to comment how warrior compares to them, not by counting a few weaknesses (that are even not weaknesses really: what do you want to have insta chain aoe stuns, with huge damage and low cooldowns that never run out or what?)
Warrior can stay like it is, I would change heal though, just give other classes same capabilities

I think OOC swap would be very good and wouldn’t make ele more powerful, it would be very convenient.
I would like to say however that just because ele has 20 skills to rotate over and if the class would get another swap does not automatically make him OP. On thief I can still do more dps with just autoattacks and few very nice skills that take care of offense and defense(mostly invisibility). Having more or less buttons is more about how easy or tough is it to play.
Even with 4 attunments ele can still be either close range or long (middle) range, but not both, like other professions can be.

Yeah,
the biggest draw to the game for me was, that I can log in when I want and have same odds to win a fight as someone who can play a lot. So I lets say don’t look as good and probably doesn’t have as much skill (in theory haha :P), but at least it was not gear advantage. So I usually log in, go WvW and that is it. No dungeons and anything so don’t have much gold. I think now with full ascended gear there is quite an advantage in power, even just trinkets make it so.
The advantage I have over PvE’rs that usually spend like 200g-100g per week, that I never even had is I have 1000 or few k of badges. So I think ascended stuff should be buyable there or make some achievments that are as easy to get for WvWer as for someone playing equal amount of time doing dungeons and PvE stuff.