Hey The Lost Witch,
Great essay you wrote here
. Thank you for offering the community all those leads to improve our gaming experience in PvE.
Like you pointed out a lot of options already exist in the skills mechanics so maybe those need not to be modified. The devs should probably focus more on the balancing if changes are to be made.
I find gw2 extremely beautiful and that is part of what have brought me back to give it a second chance. That and of course my former gw1 guildies and allies who are actively playing their gw2 characters. If it wasn’t for those reasons I wouldn’t be playing gw2 today and spending hefty sums of money in purchasing cute stuff from the Black Lion
. But I miss the brainstorming we performed to achieve wonders in gw1. I think it is extremely frustrating not to feel the need to change builds in what is supposed to be PvE predicaments. Clearly I miss the “Magic The Gathering” way of gaming I thought we would get in guild wars 2.
I am also a bad dodger and I feel with the current system there is little I can do except train to be better at dodging. That does not feel like some great purpose in a character’s life. So yes The Lost Wicth, I agree. I would love my skill choosing matters more and I know there are a lot of people out there who think the same.