Guild Wars 2

I appreciate your elaboration on this topic. I found that arena net’s insistence during development that in reality, no one wants to make red bars go up as a monk (GW1), was ill-thought and insulting. Sure, I want to help out my team in a general sense, but I also wanted to do it in a specific sense, as a dedicated protection or healing character. Maybe most people wouldn’t have enjoyed that role, but I did; the fact that it wasn’t given as a viable play style still infuriates me to this day. Talk to any dedicated monk in pvp and ask if healing/protting was mindless or easy. It was the opposite. I’d love to fulfill that specific role again. If I can’t have a dedicated monk class, at least make it viable. I’m sure this applies for many other CC roles that currently don’t exist for players who craved that niche.

Everyone wants to feel like they have specific role on their team. Anet said as much. It just isn’t panning out like that in game.

Behellagh.1468:

I’m going to be called a white knight but here goes.

In my experience, if you don’t like the food or service at a restaurant and after numerous complaints to the owners, nothing changes, you stop going there.

What you don’t do is set up across the street from them on a folding chair with a bullhorn telling the arriving customers that the service and food stink and would be so much better if the owners just listen to you. If the place is still in business and they still get an decent clientele of regulars, where is your proof that what the owners are doing is wrong? Seems to be working out for them. Parking lot is always full and people seem to be enjoying themselves as they leave after their meal, only to return again several times during the month or even week.

I know. You all wanted something different. Something closer to what you had with the first game. It’s been over a year and a half since it went live. It doesn’t look as if your comments and complaints are making any headway. So when do you give up and move on, or move back since Guild Wars is still running? When do you stop jousting windmills?

So accept what good you can find in the game now, and by some of the posts it seems very little, or look for something better. I never understood how people can stay in abusive relationships and I’m seeing some of the same signs here. We’ll give ArenaNet another chance to see if Living Story 2 is any better. Maybe it’ll be different this time.

Honestly I think there’s a calling for therapists who specialize in getting people to leave MMOs they no longer like but can’t leave for some reason.

Generally true, but I can’t go to Guild Wars 1 to get my fix anymore. The player population is below minimum to do group pve or pvp, and people will not return because the game is no longer updated by anet. No balancing, no content. And apparently bots haven’t been seriously removed since 2010. On finding another game: there is no other game that resembles the combat, strategy and team mechanics of guild wars 1. Not one. So I guess our best option is to try to convince devs to give the spiritual sequel as many possible elements of what made GW1 great. Hopeless cause? Probably. But my only other option is to develop a game myself (I can’t) or wait for someone else to.