Guild Wars 2

I would like to thank the mods for their willingness to discuss this issue.

A few points. First, if Xeph’s original post is purely about him quitting, then I would be 100% on your side. However, this is not the case. A vast majority of the post was intended to be constructive feedback, with the leaving part a mere footnote. I understand that this is a matter of interpretation, and we can agree to disagree on that.

Second, I do not understand why the mods would delete the post rather than just close it. I have seen blatant “I quit” threads closed before, the mod stating the reason why the thread was closed. Surely, this would be a much better way to handle things. It would give the community a reminder of the forum rules, and give the original poster a chance to rectify his/her post. The way it was handled had zero transparency, and in my opinion extremely suspect. I would rather not second guess the moderator’s motives, but you have to understand our frustration when several of our threads were deleted without stated justification over and over again.

The spamming of the threads did not happen until the thread with Jon stating that he did not see anything wrong was deleted. Many of us tried reason, but our posts keep disappearing off the face of the earth. Spamming was not our first course of action.

Finally, with regards to sending an email to forum at arenanet.com, I’m am sorry but this approach does not inspire confidence. For instance, I sent an email a couple of days back and have still yet to receive a reply. I am rather curious if anybody sent an email to anet after the first post was deleted and if they received a prompt reply. I would love to stand corrected here.

Spamming the forum wasn’t ideal and I hope it doesn’t happen again. I will not make excuses, but don’t I have any regrets. I don’t think we’d be having this conversation if we didn’t do what we did.

I would like to request that if you find something inappropriate in a post, close it and state the reason why. Deletion, at least for me, seems like a course of action you would take if you have something to hide. It makes me wonder what other threads were deleted and for what reason.

In fact, he rewrote his post such that only relevant constructive criticism/suggestions remain. Too bad all those posts got deleted without so much as a justification stated.

@Lowden I think the problem with that spec is that pistol by itself does not deal good damage. Unfortunately, I think we have to use either grenades or bombs to be competitive (the latter’s viability being debatable).

I suggest running this:
http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fcAQFAUlIqqbHxShF1LJyoCdGoC6lIF5nl95Bb1WQIA-jgxA0HgEYR0YbDFRjVvgpOJiq9GFRrGA-e

Here, the elixir gun is used primarily as a support and mobility kit. This build has good cleanses (~3 every 20s), lots of regen and healing. Most of the healing are aoes too.

Using the healing turret with elixir gun is really nice since you can blast into your water fields for some aoe heals. Also, you can leap through them for some good healing.

The nice thing about this build is that its very flexible. You can swap out power for condis quite easily if you want just by just changing gear. You can also swap out EG for TK for more survivability and burst or FT for more control and aoe damage. You can really mix it up depending on your mood.

PS. I’ve been running this build for a while, but I should note that I took significant inspiration from Teldo and Phantaram, so credits to them.