All they need to do about combat is remove the PVE cleave auto atack spamway from the game :|
This would be a good start, then reduce the cleave zone radious for the rest of the skills that cleave.
this would help reduce the lag as well.
Cleave on auto has big impact because AA in gw is a lot of your damage output, unlike in other games I played. In fact in GW 80% of skills are AoE, cuz of cleave, which do 100% damage to secondary targets. In WoW maybe 20% skills are AoE and they usually are made for AoE and usually are weak or at best semi-effective in single target combat. Here every skill is as good for AoE as it is good for single target.
Furthermore, from my experience with MMOs, I’d say, that problem can be dynamic buff system. In fact it’s awesome and introduces a lot of co-play, but through might, fury, vulnerabitlity (idk if there’s something else, had a looong break from gw) you can easily double your DPS and you can manage 100% uptime, I haven’t seen something like this before. And my bet is, that changing buff system would have biggest impact on combat, dunno if good or bad, but then maybe more builds would be viable, and I’m not talking about trash stats, because everyone knows that in every game people are taking the most optimized build and stats, as they are most effective. Inb4 why should you raid without timer with 10x clerics and fight for 30 minutes when you can beat the same within 5 minutes using zerks, still no timer, though xD
However, imo combat change is not that important, if at all. Bigger problem is, that some classes can be completely unplayable. I understand one class being better than the other, but making class non viable as any role in MMO is misunderstanding (necro for 3 years since start, don’t know equivalent which is up to date). And the biggest problem is progression/endgame, but it’s another thing. Inb4 another ascended set and legendary grind is neither progression nor endgame
