Guild Wars 2

.. want to play this game anymore. I was thinking about leaving silently and simply just not worrying about this game anymore, but I did truly enjoy this game and spent a lot of time playing it, which was basically only spvp.

Now, spvp is just not fun. Maybe half of the reason why the game isn’t fun for me now is because I don’t have HoT, who knows, but despite the fact that I do not have HoT I attempted to remain a loyal player. What I do know however, is the state of the balance and how poorly it was theoretically constructed in terms of spvp prior to the launch of HoT. Skillful play is no longer rewarded what-so-ever, passive play on the other hand in the form of runes, traits and auto procedure skills(passive spells/effects), seem to be where all of rewarding results come from; it’s kind of like candy crush, the game plays for you yet you feel like you’ve accomplished a lot with minimal effort, an addiction inducing effect.

The spvp community has been pigeon holed into a few set of meta (Most effective tactics available) builds, which don’t exist outside of HoT content and in turn have created a very lackluster experience for myself. I’m sure others would have conflicting opinions on what I’ve said, but this is how I feel and how I shall remain to feel about this game.

Honestly though, I’m not really going to try and talk about balance, or the state of the game anymore, plenty of others are already doing that, I’ll just end it here instead

Bloodwish.7058:

Ty for your advice but I would not change my gameplay. Tpvp are about survivability and cooperation for me (and I hope that for a lot of us). It isn’t all only about doing the highest dmg, at least in tPvP not.

I’m not at all saying you need to be doing the highest damage, but your build requires you to hit spells to do any. You’re running valk amulet based on your health pool and runes of strength. For you to not hit a spell when running a non Fresh Air based build or DD, limits your defensive and offensive capabilities. Sure you can run around healing with your water attunement and evasive arcana, but what’s the point in doing that and no damage at all, it’s essentially the same as running something like cleric or sentinel amulet and hitting all your spells.

You’re playing this build somewhat like a pseudo D/D ele, where you are just running around, eating damage. The difference is you aren’t dealing much back, as S/D if you are not doing damage you will not win a fight nor will you impact your team in any manner.

I don’t mean to sound harsh if I do; I never post on this forum, but what made me come here to read and post was “S/D Ele…”.

I literally exclusively play S/D Zerk and have been since Beta. I don’t claim to know everything there is about S/D nor am I attempting to imply it, but you seem to be quite misinformed on the basic functions of a S/D ele. S/D is a damage weapon set, almost all of S/D’s tools are based around doing damage, if you’re not hitting that damage you aren’t worth much in any situations that could occur in a game.

You’ve kitten yourself a great deal with this build and play style.

You’re hardly doing any damage in this video. Aim your spells, don’t just waste them for healing.