The berserker gear is fine.
People are making threads for nearly one year about the berserker gear being bad. The recent modifications to the crit damages made low level dungeons easier and higher level dungeons harder.
People keep complaining about the fact that there are lots and lots of lfgs requiring the participants to use berserker gear (or equivalent, like assassin). What I see is indeed a lot of lfgs at a single time that require berserker gear. But when I look closer, I see that the ones that don’t require a berserker gear are filling much more quickly. So what do we learn from this? That a lots of berserker gear-oriented people are willing to create lfgs and people with other types of equipment barely create any lfg and when they do, they immediately fill. If I count, there are, over time, less lfgs for berserker gear as there are without any indication.
What I see also is a lot of complains about the reward should be compensated in regards to the risk, and since there are no risks in this game, people should all get the same rewards. Well, actually there is a risk. Yes, I am a berserker elitist in this game and I try to pull the general level of the gamers to better skills. I pay the hard price for it:
- I often pug and all I get, even in “berserker only” parties are guys with PVT, guys with other kind of gears. It takes me a good time to get an acceptable party according to my basic requirements. So I lose time.
- Also, when I don’t gearcheck, those substandard players (not only because they’re in not-zerker but also because they don’t read and join my group anyways) get me downed because the fights last too long. I’m not an über-skilled player: I’m an okay player and I can compensate most of the failures of the rest of my party, but certainly not all. So I lost time as well.
So please, all of you that don’t like the berserker “meta” is because:
- you don’t see enough non-“zerker only” lfgs. Solution? Be quicker at joining groups or create your very lfg.
- you don’t want to increase your chance of bad groups by joining non-zerker meta. Solution? Create your lfg.
- you don’t want to uplevel your skill to an acceptable level. Solution? Before going to zerker, use the trait builds that zerkers use and improve yourself with that, then switching to zerker is only a question of time.
- you’ve been in a trinity system for too long and cannot think outside the box like GW2 forces you. The gear is not the build. The gear is a tool for your build. Solution: open your mind and learn to play GW2 for being GW2, not another MMO.
- you don’t want to be forced into zerker gear. Solution? No one actually forces you! Create your lfg and leave us zerker elitists together.
- your partner in a dungeon says you to use zerker and gives you clues about your class and you don’t like it because “I play how I want” and mostly because you don’t like being shown in what is regarded as wrong. Solution? Be humble and listen to him. Don’t think that you know everything, because… you don’t. Be critic, give his advice a try or two and keep using what you’re comfortable with.
So while we all wait for ArenaNet to actually make challenging content that doesn’t need a 5 hours learning phase, bear with us, live with us and up your level.
“But I don’t want that, I want zerker to be nerfed now.”
Then your cause is lost. Go play cards.
Frór (yes, with the accent!)
