Guild Wars 2

Maybe we need to ask Red Bull to sponsor and feature in this game, that could solve the problem!

Zelulose.8695:

Just played a match 4 guardians vs 4 guardians in solo que.

Lol and I am guessing the team with 4 Guardians won? :P

I jest of course. I was on a team of 4 Guardians earlier too, of course it was a landslide……

Serraphin Storm.2369:

It has been proven that if you give loot from mobs in events people prolong event to farm the mobs or fail events to have them reoccur. This would be the same for xp since they are tied to masteries look at cof farm.

We abuse the system and anet tries to find ways to limit those abuses. and cof isn’t ban-able I’m sure anet will take steps to limit this kind of stuff in the future and why we don’t get loot or xp during events.

Well this is understandable but I am sure they can think up better ways to combat this. Another thing all this is doing is taking value away from our Magic Find levels that we are all building up by sacrificing some of our loot that we could sell instead. Not to mention boosters and other rewards such as from the Birthday gifts etc. They try to fix one thing but in the process break 2 other things, it seems to be coming a trend here…and hey I am usually one of the “fanboys” some would say so that says something….

I somehow doubt the OP is talking about friends at all……
Just bashing free accounts it sounds like to me and using this “friend” story as a cover.

If they were your friends OP why would you not try and sell them all the bonuses of buying HOT? You know like the masteries, gliding, new maps not to mention removing the 2 char slot restriction and other restrictions they have.

This thread smells bad to me….

Not sure if those exact tools will be back. But they seem to bring out a new unlimited tool each month or 2. They are usually based on whatever holiday event is at that time or living story if no holiday is up.

Personally I think all the old unlimited tools should be on the gemstore perm, I really see no reason why not. I don’t believe that people buy these strictly for the “exclusiveness” of them.

I have bought them all so far strictly for the convenience of them and I intend to keep on buying them until each of my 8 chars have them. Ideally I want each char to have a different one so I can build up a roleplay type thing with them.

They do talk to us and I am not angry over any of this nonsense. I suggest everyone just wait and see what they announce when they announce it at PAX or whatever it is lol.

A little GW2 quote to hopefully settle everyone down some!:

“relax, you’ll live longer”

I also have to say that I find it a bit funny that if the situation was in such a dire state (after 250 years after all) what have the dragons done? It seems to me they have done very little and if the story was pitched from a different angle we could end up being the BAD GUYS killing off their kind – how MEAN!

I’m serious, don’t we the races of Tryia have many strongholds and cities which seem totally safe? Really when do you ever see this HUGE threat from the dragons. Oh yes that’s right when we go to THEM. Uh oh I have opened up a whole can of worms now. :P

As for the keys I have to ask. Do you expect to be playing these maps every day for the rest of your GW2 experience? It may seem like a silly question but there is something to it. Our home instances can get the chests to use keys on. So look at it this way. These extra keys you are getting are an investment for the future for when the next expansion comes and you are playing those maps instead. As you can still use those extra keys each day in your home instance. Better than nothing.

sophiewhite.3149:

The V.8759:

Gaile,
I am asking the following question just out of curiosity :
Can’t things like this be taken to Court to shut down the site? Fighting it at the source sounds like the most efficiënt option.

(I’m assuming it’s not easily done, otherwise it would have happend, but I’m just wondering how that works)

the most famous gold sellers move to china because china gets paid so they dont care who gets scammed.

Not only that even their government gets accused of hacking into business’s and such of other nations. So you would imagine they may even hire people to do so.

I would say it depends on the player and what they are doing tbh.

Even in full tanky gear you are not assured to stay alive longer than others. For example if you are the ONLY one in any sort of tanky gear and hit a dungeon or something you might find yourself as the ONLY target by every mob in sight. This could easily wipe you faster than if you were simply in zerk gear (alongside everyone else) and the damage being spread around everyone. Trust me I saw this a lot during my years as the “tanky” guy. I even saw it last night in fact when I ran my Guardian through the new map when I joined the zerg to hit the Centaur POI/chests. Every single sharpshooter was firing at me of course…..

So in my opinion its all about what you are doing, your build, class and skill with said class. Of course there is NO HARM in trying out zerk gear or even tanky for that matter if you are usually zerk and seeing the results. You may just be surprised in fact.

For myself I have all 9 classes and for the first 7 of them I created them all with PVT and stuck with that for about 3 years. Only for my Neco and then Rev did I start them with zerk and I noticed a huge difference in map clear times (solo) as wll as just basically wiping out trash mobs making it faster to go where I wanted to go or to clear hearts quicker etc.

As soon as I saw this I quickly started to convert all of my chars to zerk but I still do keep their old PVT gear on them just incase the situation calls for it. After playing through all 9 classes (and 2 others just for fun!) through their world completes the impression I got was that the game was based around zerk gear. The mobs just seem designed for that build and heck even if you go to any vendor (I mean basic vendors for basic white gear) in the game you will clearly see “zerk” or “power” only gear for sale. Especially when you first start the game on a new char. It’s as if anet are giving you that subtle hint.

I do prefer tanky gear myself, especially on my Engi main, it seems like the Engi was designed to be a tanky class. Especially in WvW and pvp did I prefer it. I say “did” because anet has pretty much killed it for pvp thanks to “esports”. Dreading the day they kill it for WvW. Oops I went off point so as I was saying, I prefer tanky gear on my engi main but for me personally now, the game is just more fun when things die quicker.

I would love to see some more gameplay involving the orders and the choices we made when choosing our selected orders.

I wouldn’t expect a whole storyline or an expansions worth tho. Maybe just a new daily mission system for them or something. Think of guild missions such as the Treks, Bounty’s etc just applied to the orders.

It could be a fun new small system that could bring something new to the game and give us something other to do to help as filler content until more expansions, living story is here.

Capes would be nice and could pretty much last them a long time in adding new ones, so many designs they could add to them as well as shapes etc.

However atm I think the reason they are adding wings is because they tie in nicely with gliders and can earn them more cash from the glider/wing bundles. I hope they also get around to adding more gliders that tie in with some of the older wings too, just so my chars can have matching gliders/wings that suit the theme I have for those chars.

Having said all that I would like more things other than wings and capes too. More backpack types or misc things. So many things they could do.

Meh why should they yet? There’s plenty to do for players who bought HOT until after Christmas but that’s just my opinion I guess. They will probably be dealing with bugs, balancing and other variables related to HOT right up until Christmas anyway. Add to this as well as taking in all the feedback that is given about it before deciding on anything too big in the future anyway I would say.

Short answer? I wouldn’t hold my breath until the new year tbh. :P

I found it both a surprise (from out of no where) and funny. Good work Anet lol.

“The writing is truly getting worse and worse.”

The writing on the part of Anet is nowhere near as bad as your statement here….I love irony.

These privacy options could also solve another problem. That being sore losers in pvp who feel the need to harass you because either:

A – You killed them too many times

B – Your team lost and its everyone elses fault and not theirs

Yes I know you can block them. But what if I don’t want to block them? Why would I not want to block them you say? Well to defend my good name of course. If I block them they can go and speak in map chat and talk whatever they like about me and I can’t defend myself unless someone else tells me what they are saying.

If we get a privacy option to only allow friends to whisper us I could see the garbage this person is saying about me, defend myself all while having the luxury of not getting annoying harassing whispers from them.

You see this is not ALL about gold sellers, there are multiple reasons why we need more privacy options.

Another example is the incoming mentor system. A mentor might want to have their tag up to help people do a JP or some other stuff but may not want to be whispered about any other thing. They may be running people through a jp or maybe a boss fight/event. Whispers may just put them off or demand too much attention from them especially if everyone starts whispering them with many questions about all sorts of things. Again the block whispers here would work great.

I am sure other people can think up other ideas/examples

TBH if a casual wanted to do nothing other than run around in circles in a lvl 1-15 zone and beating up champs with a zerg with the time they had here, I would really ask them why they even played. There’s a whole world to explore and pretty decent pvp modes after all.

I considered myself a hardcore casual, being that I play/ed hardcore hours/amout of ingame time but played casually (not farming dungeons etc). With my time I would seriously consider farming trains a waste of time and further more plain BORING. Sure I understand the social aspect to it, talking with other players and such (not counting the mindless boring “where’s the train?” or silly arguments) but really, apart from that where’s the fun/challenge? I just don’t see it…

I don’t think we need anymore classes because future elites can cover pretty much anything we can think up.

Having said that I would like a class/elite that is musically inclined. Say oh I don’t know a “bard” or something. Instead of shouts they could sing or play a musical instrument. I would think Mes would be a good choice or maybe Engi as well.

Neurion.4086:

Oops! I didn’t notice it was a year old. I saw it on top and thought, “A new player”. lol

Lol I almost made the same mistake. Still, I think there is a difference if it’s the OP who necro’s a post and if the topic is still relevant or not. So I think they could/should let it slide in this case.

Soo, instead of “welcome to the game” I will say “glad you are still playing and enjoying the game!”.

I had a good laugh when I got a soulbound gem upgrade today as a reward from a level up. Really, soulbound? So I can’t even add it to my bank collection? So silly…..

It’s a trick, those white circle things are actually portals and you have to select the correct one to go through every time. Try again.

Personally I think the problem is most people go by the mentality that if they are not in a lvl 80+ area they are short changing themselves in the loot drop department.

Personally I PREFER to roam around in the lowest of areas such as queensdale on my main to farm. It might sound silly but in my magic find gear I get lvl 76-80 stuff now and then and today managed to grab 4 golds. Also selling all those logs/ores also add up!

Go figure I play for fun. :P

Thereon.3495:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/archive/suggestions/Ability-to-Pan-Camera-Upwards/first

I touched on this topic a few months back. It is important to see the ground for AOE based skills but for me the epicness of a fight is lacking when half of the boss/mob is obscured by its own name tag.

The First Person Mode introduced soon will definitely help but I cant see why a height adjuster couldnt be implemented.

I think the issue you may be facing with enemy mobs being covered by their name tag could be related to the size or quality of your screen.

Example I usually have no issues at all on my PC screen. However one day I decided to hook my pc up to my regular TV screen to see what the difference is. It’s my xbox/ps3 gaming tv which is a 32 inch. Anywho the best resolution I could get was NOT good. I got the exact same issues you seem to describe with mobs being covered by their name (it seems a lot lower on the screen than right at the top (like my PC screen is). Also I could only have the minimap at half the usual size (which now I know why in so many people’s vids and screenshots I see they have it at said size). Lastly and the worst of all the chat window was not right in my left hand corner as I am used to it but slightly above it which was totally horrid.

You may want to look into changing your screen if you are getting any of the issues here I described or if you are using unusual size/brand.

I’ll post 2 pics to explain what I mean, 1st my reg then second the TV, huge difference.

Heh I had expected something like this to happen 3 years ago when I sent in a support ticket asking if key farming was seen as an exploit and warned it could become negative for their wallet in the long run. We will see I guess. I can’t even read the info yet as the forums/game are running slow right now…

Edit:

Hmm once per week account wide – watch those skin prices skyrocket guys and those chests to drop back down to 2 copper like the old days…

chefdiablo.6791:

Having the attuned rings helps to offset the loss of the amulet infusion, but it still stinks to have to slog through fractals for the best stats in WvW.

I really hope that Anet will add some sort of option for the WvW players to get this that does not require playing outside WvW.

I am with the above posters that would rather suffer some form of torture before spending any amount of time doing fractals.

Oh I expect a new reward track to be imcoming to address this, might be a few months away tho….if not longer

No ty. Open world in GW2 is all about people helping each other and welcoming seeing other players. It is a nice environment.

Yes I know you and everyone else who suggests this say it will be “optional”. But even if so, we would still see the effects of it in game. Players fighting other players all over the place. Trash talking and just the toxic behavior that comes from that sort of playstyle. You already see enough of this when doing PvP or just sitting in the pvp lobby for long enough.

We really do not need to see this in open world pve or attract more of these toxic kind of players to the open world environment that we all know and love.

If anything this feature that we saw in the new map/story is an in joke by anet and poking their tongue at those who have asked for this sort if thing in the past. Sadly however I fear it may only have given them more ammunition to keep asking and hoping lol.

What’s the rush to 80 if there’s no real difference in the content you can do anyway once you get there?

Just play the game and have FUN while you are playing it…..

I have 6 lvl 80s so far and 2 more to go and I never rushed their lvls. I just clear every map and before you know it they are there very easily and I am ENJOYING the content getting there. I don’t understand the people who have to rush, rush, rush…

If you had a ranger at lvl 70 something and then got bored and deleted I say again what difference will it make if he was 80? None…. maybe you should just have taken a break from playing him and worked on another class instead of a complete start over. You do have 5 char slots you know not just 1. It sounds to me more like general attention disorder or a distraction/boredom thing more than blaming any certain class lol…

Lindbur.2537:

Paulytnz.7619:

Run, escape I smell a Runescape player!

Uh oh, you saw what I did there….save me Saradomin!

Send in a ticket with your concerns and I can’t see why they wouldn’t give you a refund.

Hmmm what was that old saying now “the early bird gets the worm”. I guess for GW2 this is not the case.

Feel sorry for you man….

Is it just me or does “daredevil” sound more like it should be a name for an Engi Elite Spec? I don’t know, Daredevil just makes me think of evel Knievel or any other sort of stuntman type of thing. Which to me would fit an Engi perfectly….

Leo G.4501:

Soo…are you guys going to issue an objective complaint about the mechanics of the game or just make sideways complaints about ‘fun’ and ‘fairness’?

Let me ask you a question:

Which of the 2 below would you find more fun/challenging?:

1 – Walking into an area where there is just one type of mob who has 1 skill that will make you lose control for a set period of time. You know what’s coming, how to deal with it and you know if you continue to fight this said mob it’s going to be the same exact thing every single fight unless confronted by more than one of them when it will be just an added spamfest instead.

2 – Walking into an area where you can see there is a mix of perhaps 2-3 different mobs which all have different skills which could make you lose control of your character for a set period of time. You know fighting just one on your own should be no problem but you are aware that each different fight may be slightly more challenging depending on what each mob brings to the fight so you have to be prepared for any single one of them. But what if you get into a fight with multiples of them? You have to be more strategic, more skillfull to take out first the most dangerous to you and then deal with the rest. You have to be fully contentrated in what you are doing and be slightly more reactive to the situation as it changes.

It is clear to me which would be more fun and challenging depending on the situations, level of mobs and player skill of course. But hey that’s just my opinion, perhaps some people just want less of a challenge/diversity. Perhaps they have found a simple way to ignore these mobs and what they bring to the table and thus don’t fear them anymore? Perhaps it is THEM who don’t want a more fun/challenging game?

Metasynaptic.1093:

Every time black lion keys go on discount, my guild jokes and calls it ‘the yearly reminder as to why we don’t buy black lion keys’.

You Sir/Madam just got a +1 for this reply. :P

There are some changes coming in the feature pack that are to address some of the things that you are talking about here.

1 – Changes to runes/sigils. These changes may give your ele more build options.
2 – New traits and ways to acquire them – again this should give you more build options.

3 – Ability to use PvE skins in PvP, enough said, as yet I’m not sure however if we will still be able to earn skins through PvP and then use them in PvE.

As for PvP armour not having stats I’m not sure why they did this, it is something you have to get used to and take into account when playing, especially if you play PvE a lot more. I have no idea if they will address this or even if it’s an issue for them.

No, just no. Period. No.

Thank you, don’t come again. :P

Edit:

Ps, no.

Ubi.4136:

Ascended gear is already acct bound. There really is no reason to keep the rest soulbound.

Yes there is – crafting and the market. When you make an alt you have to either craft a new set for them or buy it off the TP. If all of a sudden all armour sets were not soulbound and if tradable as well that would kill that totally. You could simply keep your old gear from 1 char and pass it to the next or even sell on TP if tradable. This would pretty much kill any market that may be there for crafters.

In the case of ascended the reason that is account bound is because it takes a bit of time and effort and if impatient a bit of coin to create them. So it is perfectly fine these are account bound. While people make their ascended they will have to use the others in the mean time so they will still have to craft or buy from others. And if you do make alts if it is not the same weight class or correct weapon that you already have, again you have to go through that process so in the mean time, craft or buy again.

No keys from drops yet but that should really come as no surprise to anybody. I have had 4 total the 3 years I have been here before this change was made. So that explains that.

“Map completion, one key. ( two maps did not even give me the reward chest)”

More than likely you completed these maps in the past and got the reward already. Anet have added extra Poi’s and Wps to some of the maps. What this did was made our 100% for them less than 100%. So we had to complete them again by getting these new Wps or Poi’s. They are right in not rewarding us again with the chest. You were not ripped off trust me.

Ok I’ll get the skritt army ready, we will be unstoppable!

HHR LostProphet.4801:

@ Vayne:
I’m sorry, but I have to do this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-On3Ya0_4Y
That is what you are defending.

(It’s not my video, I just found it on reddit and it might show… some problems with the new system)

Bahahaha, the sarcasm is strong with this vid maker. 2 thumbs up!

Thing is it’s not the content people are against, it’s the philosophy behind the content…
If done right you are correct this could be a good thing. However from what information we have been given people are not seeing that. So all in all I guess it is a wait and see. For myself if I don’t like/agree with or find fun the content to come I just simply will not do that part of it.

I have two level 80’s right now with 100% world complete on both of them. Am I boring myself by grinding all day in Orr? No, I am doing what I find fun. What does this have to do with anything? I don’t know I’m tired lol and I see people saying things like “would you prefer to grind in Orr all day or look forward to this new content?” and just find it obsurd. :P

Tbh I prefer the trench coats over those tops that have 1 long sleeve and the other short or not there at all. Now THAT kills my ocd and various other oddities I may have lol….

DeanBB.4268:

Excluding a scythe or musical instruments, couldn’t all this be accomplished via Elite Specs, rather than adding new classes? I think we’re done with new classes and will only see more Elites added, including more profession mechanics.

I don’t see a bard working well considering how short skills are. They’d all be playing (war)horns, too. Perhaps a bard in the party adds party-wide buffs, so there’s some sort of maintenance cost? Or you can only choose one, which represents whichever tune the bard is humming? I dunno.

Anet hasn’t yet shown any interest in adding weapons, so I wouldn’t hold out for a GW1-style dervish. That doesn’t eliminate something like a Mesmer wielding a hammer dervish-style, right?

Priest = Guardian Elite.
Ritualist = Rev Elite.
etc…

Well we already do have a couple of Scythe staff skins so it wouldn’t be hard for them to simply create a Dervish Elite with a staff as the primary weapon and giving a decent looking Scythe skin for the class reward.

As for musical instruments I really don’t know. As mentioned we already do have the musical instruments in game which could be used skin wise but for which weapons I’m not sure. Perhaps just skills 6-10?

They could go corny and do something like:

1 – Short bow used for a violin or something (add a few extra strings lol).
2 – Staff hollowed out and used for a didgeridoo – imagine that!
3 – Scepter/Mace used for a Microphone.
4 – Hammer turned upside down and used as a Guitar – now that would be rocking!

Two words:

Pirate Skritt

That’s all that matters, nothing more, nothing less. Now, lets just hope this indicates they will be a new playable race with the next expansion!!!!

Not only that but some servers at some times of the day can’t afford to split their people up as they don’t have enough people…..

Also does this mean you only get 1 reward if you kill 2 or even all 3 of the knights?

Idiots, not only do they do this sort of thing but they then go and boast about it to the victim to troll them.

Send that pic in with a support and I can say that in the LEAST they should monitor this guy when it comes to partying to see if this thing happens on a regular basis.

Justdeifyme.9387:

Melissa is an awesome chick. I don’t like the look on her face though, all squished and weird.

Like a little raisin?

Shinnetami.7041:

Well, the name of the topic is saying it all, but I would like to specify. I have about 90+ Tomes in my bank now and about 3k+ spirit shards. I actually would like to suggest to trade those useless books for something interesting. Like mb trade a stack(250) of them for a black lion key(sweet dreams) or maybe for some amount of laurels which seem more usefull.
Sorry for bad english.

You would trade 250 tomes for a BLTC key?

Why not make a new char, use 80 of them to get him to level 80 and then do the personal story? Doing that will get you 3 keys and should only take a couple of days. Also if you have HOT you can get another key from that story which will take you another 2 days. You will also get more than just the keys obviously, all those quest chests etc.

Sooo, think about it.

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

I’m okay with both portals and gliding being allowed. Some people just aren’t into jps and they’re welcome to get their achievements by taking shortcuts. I’m a purist and will jump through a jp the old fashioned way, but that’s just me – so in the name of the six gods PLEASE give me the ability to reassign the glider button! I really, really try but sometimes I hold the jump button a little too long and it still opens the glider and flies me off a jump I would have otherwise made. It’s so frustrating. You took my jump button away from me. Give it back.

But what really got my goat recently was this: gliding is allowed in some jps.. but there’s an area in Krya (I forget the name) where there’s a slope with some harpies – that’s designated as a NO FLY zone. Why?!?! It’s a slope! You still have to walk up it to get to the harpies! There’s nothing there but some harpy eggs and stupid harpies. What in the name of Mordremoth were you trying to prevent players from doing there?!?!?!

And to add insult to injury, the harpies are allowed to fly – in a NO FLY zone.

I agree with ZOltar here. Again for those of us with bad ping/fps it is helpful to spam the jump button in some cases or hold it down for a split second longer than needed. I have seen this mentioned on other posts and those defending the current gliding being the same as jump have always come back with replies similar to: “you don’t need to spam the jump button just time it right”. Well, that might work for them as they may have the most awesome computer and live very close to where the servers are. So they may not experience these things that others do. So I say to them: not everyone has the same game experiences as them or the same fair opportunities due to these facts. Just ignore it if there are no issues for you, but others do have these issues and just think for one second that any such changes may make it easier for us and really, lets be honest should not have any negative impact for you.

All Anet would need to do is have a check box on the first page of the settings tab to turn on Jump/Gliding sharing. If it is turned off (unchecked) you can then assign both of these keys to whatever you like in the keybinding situation. Problem solved.

Rauderi.8706:

DeanBB.4268:

Have a house… so you can AFK in it. Wow. Fun.

That is, pretty much, the reason ANet isn’t thinking of investing in personal housing. It either doesn’t get used in any meaningful capacity, or players AFK there instead of doing things in open world.

Oh yes and where is the source for this information? I would really like to see it.

Btw if people are just afking in their homes where is the problem in that? After all if that’s all they are gonna do when logged in what makes you think they are not already doing the same in a city? Having tons of ppl afk in a city does exactly the same as what some of you are saying is what you are concerned about. Sure you may “see” these people but does that actually mean it is a lively population? Ask something in map chat and you may still get no response = not a very lively place. So really, what exactly is the difference?

Actually I would rather have ppl afk in their homes instead of the cities so that when you do see people in the cities there is a good chance that they are actually playing the game and not just standing there afk showing off all their glorious leet skins/legendary weapons. They are taking up population spots which could be filled with real people doing stuff. You can be sure these people that afk to display their wealth/special snowflake whatever would still do so in the city anyway rather than their own home instance. So really, I can’t see at all why anyone would afk in their home instance anyway, what exactly would they get out of it?

I think the Pros would far out weigh the Cons for player housing and I think Anet would also agree, or in the least their wallet. Look at guild halls, have they taken away the afkers or populations from the cities? If so I haven’t noticed as such, they still seem lively to me or as dead as they used to be, however you want to look at it.

Lampshade.7569:

I’m a warrior myself. I don’t join groups with a ranger/necro/engi and when one joins the group after me, I leave. My dungeon/fractal experience has significantly improved ever since.

I believe you had some bad experiences with bad players and then blame it all on certain classes tbh….

Rezzet.3614:

yup thats right a Global nerf is what he game needs currently Direct and Condition damage as way off the charts to the point players can have 3000+ armor and will get downed just as fast as if they ran 1900 armor wich is why everyone simply runs offensive stuff since defensive stats are near meaningless

perhaps Ferocity is a step in the right direction as that way they could actually scale the stat since its not a fixed percent value

I’m not so sure I agree with you here.

“players can have 3000+ armor and will get downed just as fast as if they ran 1900 armor "

The above quote is true in some cases but they are few. Also you have to look at the why and how these players are getting downed just as quickly. I main an engi who has 3200 Armour when using a flamethrower and I can tell you the ways I get downed as quickly as lower armoured people.

1 – Condition damage – a lot of it and not removing any of it.
2 – Running into a room/area full of mobs thinking I am invincible and taking all agro by Aoe-ing too many at a time.

3 – Not dodging/avoiding that boss’s (or environment traps etc) special/powerful attack when I am supposed to.

Now let’s have a look at these 3 ways that I see I take fast damage that downs me. In case number one this is SUPPOSED to be high armoured players weakness. You NEED to build to remove condition as well as have a lot of healing options with regens being highly recommended.

In case number 2 this is perfectly fine and is the players fault. Having high armour in this game is not meant to make you invincible or what other games would call a tank. It is meant to make you a little bit more survivable so that you can take a fair few extra hits from a single mob/boss. Anytime you fight a group of mobs or are taking the majority of their attacks (especially ranged attacks which can add the damage up fast from a lot of sources) you are and SHOULD be at risk of being downed fast. Learn to pullback when you have to and to drop some of that aggro, perhaps not to aoe so many or to single out targets instead.

3 – Everyone SHOULD have to avoid mob’s/bosses special attacks. Again being a survival build should not make you invincible to bosses powerful attacks, you should still have to avoid their circles or other tells. In general as my main I do notice I can usually take an extra hit or 2 from a mob’s/bosses powerful attack and that can be all the difference in the world from being insta-downed and getting my health back up as well as other players back on their feet.

I think the system right now in most cases is fine. People just need to be aware of what having high armour is meant to mean. Also while partying in groups they need/should be aware of how many other players are running survival builds so they can play with that info to plan for things better if things do go sour.

Lastly I would like to say if you are meaning mainly PvP my case number 2 applies. I play a fair bit of both WvW and sPvP and I run my survival build in both places. Everything I said above also applies there from my experiances and what I see.