Guild Wars 2

This isn’t the be all end all fix to the DPS meta and giving more importance to condition/CC builds in PvE. They have more things coming, Ferocity is just the first step.

style.6173:

Ele cannot outheal a warrior.
Thieves do not outdps a dps focused warrior (does everyone look for thieves or for warriors in cof)?

My staff ele does. Regen every time I atune to water. Regen, Vigor, Condi Cleanse when using a cantrip, water fields, blasting my own water fields + my regular healing skill.

I think that everyone is over reacting and that we should all wait for the patch to go live and see before jumping to cnclusions. I am sure that with the new runes and changes to sigil ICDs there will be a way for power builds to be more than just viable in WvW.

Furajir.3815:

You boys need to stop worrying. With the addition of new rune sets, 2 sigil slots and how ferocity will work, you will barely notice that 10%.

Also note, it’s not just us, thieves and other classes that rely on full glass will be hit harder, and, that means they won’t be as much of a threat to you.

So chill, still going to be able to steamroll other players.

I totally agree with this.

I can’t wait to start playing around with different sigil combos once the ICD changes go live.

Qaelyn.7612:

As soon as I see someone use the word “baddie” or “bad” as a noun, I know it’s not worth taking anything they write seriously.

The facts are that a disproportionate percentage of players run warriors, and it’s not because they enjoy the challenge. They’ve put pretty much the best of everything in one place, and then they pretend there’s “class balance” as if nobody can see how ridiculous the current situation is.

You are right not to take it seriously cause it wasn’t meant to be serious. Although there is some truth to it given to amount of cries I have read in the past few months. I think that the problem is with other classes not being balanced well enough. They all rely on some gimmick mechanic to get things done. Warrior is just a simple a straight forward gameplay, it’s easier for the Devs to make them a well rounded profession. If you look at the bigger picture,

Guardian > Warrior for bunkering
Thief >Warrior single target DPS
Ele>Warrior for self and group healing, group support, and AoE DPS if they can Zerk and live
Necro>Warrior Condi conditions
Any class >Rangers at anything

Almost every class can do something better than the Warrior. Maybe all those people crying nerf should take that time they spent and give Anet suggestions to make their own class as well rounded as we are then maybe we could have a balanced meta for a change.

My warriors biggest weakest is all the baddies running to the forums to cry nerf after I wreck them. I swear, it will be his undoing.

shimmerless.4560:

silentnight warrior.2714:

I think its more a bug fix. DE was not working as they wanted to work.

But there’s no evidence for this? DE has been the same for over a year, it received zero attention until clone death became popular. It was also phrased quite specifically as a nerf on the stream, not a bug fix.

There are bugs in this game that have been there since launch. It doesn’t mean that they were intended to be that way.

Muchacho.2390:

It doesnt matter how much they nerf it. It will always be a terrible skill from a game design perspective (like many other things in this game). No healing skill should be passiv.

I still think the signet should have worked opposite of what it does now. Passive give some minor effect (condi cleanse or a bonus to vitality), activating gives a base heal + 15 to 20 sec regen. It would make more sense that way.

Black Box.9312:

Julie Yann.5379:

laquito.5269:

Thats not my point, as someone already said ANet gave the Warrior the highest health pool, because they were meant to have subpar condi cleanse. Now that the warrior got buffed, it has one of the best condition mitigation/cleanse, so they basically lost their justification for having the highest base pool.

The reason the got buffed is cause conditions are so OP and the warriors health pool wasn’t enough. They gave warrior OP regen and condi cleanse to counter their OP condi meta.

Okay, conditions in general are overpowered, so let’s give the necessary utilities to survive in a condi meta to a single class.

Makes sense.

Well that’s typical Anet SOP when it comes to making balance adjustments. Why make small changes that could fix something when you can buff the crap out of it and create a problem to counter another problem that was created by overbuffing/nerfing soemthing else. Next they will hamfistedly adjust something else to fix this problem while simultaneously creating another and that’s how the meta wheel keeps turning.

laquito.5269:

Thats not my point, as someone already said ANet gave the Warrior the highest health pool, because they were meant to have subpar condi cleanse. Now that the warrior got buffed, it has one of the best condition mitigation/cleanse, so they basically lost their justification for having the highest base pool.

The reason the got buffed is cause conditions are so OP and the warriors health pool wasn’t enough. They gave warrior OP regen and condi cleanse to counter their OP condi meta.

It was a troll breeding ground. Anet disposed of it.

Rezz.8019:

Rangers are good if you spec them and play them properly.

Unfortunately that is a very small minority of rangers.

What if the signet were to work opposite of the way it does? I mean, what if when activated you got a base heal and regen for 15 seconds or more (adjusted to the amount of healing it provides)? The passive could remove x number of conditions every 10 seconds or something else to that effect . That would mean that we have to actively use it to reap the benefits and would allow it to be interrupted offering more counterplay.

I don’t think that Healing Signet is OP by itself but when combined with other forms of healing and condi cleanses the mix can be quite strong. I made a pretty indestructible soldier amulet, soldier rune, healing/condi cleansing shout Hambow that can keep 15 -20 stacks of might on him at all times and 5 to 10 stacks on allies. A real tank with enough power to kill anyone not willing to run away. It also has good team support.

2 reasons:

poor pet control

that stupid bow 4 skill that keeps knocking the enemies back while we are trying to burst them down.

I guess its just the abundance of poorly played rangers.

Fuschia.6573:

They don’t really need to nerf Warrior DPS. It’s fine. What they need to do is look at condition stacking in PvE and make it work separately from WvW and PvP, since it’s obviously severely limiting the pool of workable PvE builds.

They also need to give more importance to CC builds in PvE.

lol….so many necros lately. I think Anet should work and changing the meta.

This build has some really good healing capabilities but your damage is going to really suck. No speed running group is ever going to want that in their party. Why not use some gear that has either Power or Condi Damage as a primary stat since you’ve already traited for healing power and toughness.

What I don’t like about PvP in GW2 is that to win you basically just have to stand in a tiny circle on the ground and live. In WvW you can roam, duel, small team fight to the death, zerg fight to the death and PvD which is just more ways to entertain. If the added different game modes to PvP I would love it more.

Vayne.8563:

Kevan.8912:

Vayne.8563:

Kevan.8912:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Fixing the availability seems weighted more to two slot types: armor and back pieces.

Fixing the system so VP is kept to a minimal level relies on limiting how much power growth is done in the future. (If not refusing to grow it at all.)

. . . can we all agree on these points?

i think that the “time” and “effort” factors could be a problem also for weapons, which are unlikely drops and, in the facts, require crafting too.
(in my opinion. everything should be available without crafting. as it’s not a work, everybody should be able to obtain what he needs, doing only what he likes more.
it’s a game. real world is tough enough.)

for trinkets and necks, i find it grindy but still “tolerable”.

Vertical Progression: for me, zero tolerance it’s more than enough what we’ve already seen. a big not to everything else which improves stats.
i think that if anets manages to show a real, mature, enjoyable horizontal progression, it could change the whole, grind-ill, life-wasting, mmo world.
and that’s why i bought it.

Actually you’re completely wrong. You can’t say you have zero tolerance for vertical progression. Want to know why?

Because before Anet introduced ascended gear at all….vertical progression was already in this game.

Exotics, rares, and masterwork items all have the same levels, but they’re different tiers of the same gear. That is vertical progression.

You don’t have zero tolerance for vertical progression, or you’d be complaining about exotics.

You have an arbitrary line that Anet crossed and you’re calling it vertical progression. Why are you not complaining about exotic gear?

ok. do what you want with language.
still, i think that if i “misunderstand” everything, you are stuck in semantics, losing the global meaning of what people is complaining about.

no. i m right if i say zero tolerance to vp. or…“that’s enough vp”.
as exotics were there since the launch of the game, and were always easily got after 80. with little to no “aimed” grind.
this doesn’t happen with ascended.
it’s a time and money\resources\amount of work threshold.
and of course, a “stop line” threshold, no more tiers, no more stats.

is this philosophically and philologically correct, prof.Vayne?
of course not.
but still our “arbitrary grind line” exists. and it’s personal one, and nobody has the right to "correct"it.
just express your personal one.

The point is you’re not really complaining about VP, you’re complaining about the difficulty of getting BIS gear, which is a different complaint. And if people don’t word their complaints right, how will anyone know what they’re talking about.

People often accuse me of playing semantics. The fact is, people often misword stuff and leave a false impression. You have no real problem with more tiers of gear, if that gear is easy to get. That’s the real issue.

If anyone could easily get a new tier of gear, I doubt very much anyone here would be complaining.

But the gear is basically gated behind crafting, which is a major problem.

Anet isn’t going to take away a tier of gear…but they could conceivably make that gear easier to get.

You can accuse me of playing semantics, but if you really want the game to improve, you have to ask for things that might happen…because Anet won’t be removing ascended gear from the game. It’s not going to happen.

But they might make ascended gear easier to get, with less grind.

I hated grinding out levels to unlock new zones, leveling up crafting to craft useless gear cause leveling was still fast enough to make crafting useless before lvl 80. I totally despise the way Ascended weapons and armor are implemented. You are right on the fact that we don’t like long grindy time gated methods of getting BIS gear. There are plenty of grindy MMOs out there for people who enjoy that kind of thing. We were sold on the idea that once you are lvl80, BIS is quick and easy, that’s why many of use bought into GW2.

Zoid.2568:

Julie Yann.5379:

Subdue.5479:

Allanon.9072:

Next time use search
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/VIP-Membership
And we will not get this system no one want it here.

Aside from the resurrection buff, which needs further explanation, I don’t understand why you wouldn’t want this here.

I also don’t get why anyone would waste any real cash on for any of those. Cut half of my ascended crafting requirements and maybe I will start thinking about it.

Then that would be P2W.

You can already P2W. There is the black market where you can buy anything at the risk of getting banned (which I doesn’t seem very high judging by the amount of people I seem getting away with it). You can also buy strenth, regen, speed boosters from the gem store. You can also buy a bunch of gems and trade them for gold and buy most of the crafting mats for ascended if you want to spend a lot of money.

I say Anet should have stuck to their original vision instead of trying to keep the locusts fed. Those people will never be satisfied and will end up leaving either way. As for the Asceneded gear grind, I think it was a huge mistake.

Subdue.5479:

Allanon.9072:

Next time use search
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/VIP-Membership
And we will not get this system no one want it here.

Aside from the resurrection buff, which needs further explanation, I don’t understand why you wouldn’t want this here.

I also don’t get why anyone would waste any real cash on for any of those. Cut half of my ascended crafting requirements and maybe I will start thinking about it.

ThePlanez.5871:

Julie Yann.5379:

If you are able to time it right everytime then it might be. I still prefer Healing Surge over the Signet for PvE since my PvE build doesn’t encourage using bursts. I prefer a burst heal over a regen heal if I don’t have a lot of CC on hand.

im full zerk, so when i face mobs or champs in dungeons, I take loads of dmg in the matter of seconds, so i really cant feel the effect of healing signet. as for Healing Surge, it is a great healing skill, but i mean, defiant stance gives u a few seconds of invulnerability as well from dmg.

I just never seem to get enough healing out of it in PvE but then again, I often don’t time it right cause I am not a PvE master and don’t know all the encounters.

Sages.3496:

Julie Yann.5379:

Sages.3496:

Does it honestly sound like im crying over here? because im laughing at how you are all raging about this post, in truth. if there is a single bad thing said about warriors or any class that someone likes there is going to be a firestorm of nothing but hate to the person posting it lol. IDK

We are not angry, we are just laughing at your pathetic nerf request and the reason for requesting it. It is a most obvious troll. Don’t hate us for laughing at your attempt. We just treat trolls in a very unwelcoming fashion cause all they ever do is polluted the forums with an endless feed of troll dung.

Sounds like a true warrior fan to me, one that would rage if you got another nerf to the hammer build. glad to see this is getting atention. if it wasnt hitting so close to home with people that love warriors than it wouldnt be getting so much hate. admit it, thats the truth.

Like I said in and earlier post, go ahead and nerf it. We will still own you and you will come crying on our forum for another nerf and we will laugh at you again.

If you are able to time it right everytime then it might be. I still prefer Healing Surge over the Signet for PvE since my PvE build doesn’t encourage using bursts. I prefer a burst heal over a regen heal if I don’t have a lot of CC on hand.

Sages.3496:

Does it honestly sound like im crying over here? because im laughing at how you are all raging about this post, in truth. if there is a single bad thing said about warriors or any class that someone likes there is going to be a firestorm of nothing but hate to the person posting it lol. IDK

We are not angry, we are just laughing at your pathetic nerf request and the reason for requesting it. It is a most obvious troll. Don’t hate us for laughing at your attempt. We just treat trolls in a very unwelcoming fashion cause all they ever do is polluted the forums with an endless feed of troll dung.

Flissy.4093:

Swagger.1459:

Flissy.4093:

The drop rate would have to be severely nerfed to be able to choose the stats.

A very rare, 41+ only drop as an extra item, leaving the stat specific one in, would be fine though.

ascended drop rate is terrible enough so it shouldn’t be a problem.

Still far too good to let someone choose their stats.

I have yet to drop an armor chest, I agree with Swagger. Drop rate is pretty terrible so it shouldn’t be a problem.

Sages.3496:

Haters gonna hate my posts man, you must realy love your warriors.

People use to QQ about hammers warriors cause they provide to much damage combined with CC. All those people cried for joy when they found out that Hammer warriors were getting a nerf. Those same people are still getting stomped by us true waariors cause they just haven’t L2P. Now they cry for more nerfs. Go ahead nerf them again, we will still stomped the crap out of you.

It is optimal if everyone is running full zerk in an organized group but if you are pugging with people running all different gear you might end up with all the agro and that will suck.

Sages.3496:

Please nerf hammer warrior’s they have allmost infinite crowd control effects and its nothing but a cheap move in wvw.

I’l give you 1 out of 10 for effort but that is the worst troll attempt I have ever seen.

LOL almost infinite. Must have been one of those 30-30-30-30 dual hammer builds. Those guys can be a real pain. Seriously though, have you never heard of something called stability, or stun break, or dodge roll? FYI the hammer warrior just got a nerf.

What’s up with PVT or Full being the only choices? Go to gw2buildcraft and play around with different combinations of gear. Try to get the highest Epower and Ehp you can while still maintaining a good crit chance and % damage. You should end up with a set that is tough enough for WvW but has enough DPS for PvE dungeons. You can get a really good DPS and have excellent survivability by mixing knight, valkyrie, cavalier, zerk, and a PVT piece or 2.

Chewablesleeptablet.3185:

My main is a Ranger. Not any harder than any other profession. I have leveled them all to 80 and Ranger is actually the easiest because of its simplicity. Sit at range with a longbow , command pet to attack first and Boom , easy peasy mode.

I easily get groups for dungeons all the time. I can get into CoF, Arah, Fotm, and CoE no problem……. My zerker dps is as high if not higher than a GS war zerker. You obviously don’t know how to play Ranger Galtrix, no offense. Feel free to reply with disgust if you like.

There are 2 reasons why rangers are so hated in dungeon parties is (If you think that there is no discrimination against rangers than you are deluded)

1: Noob rangers that can’t control there pets which agro unnecessary mobs
2: Noob rangers that just spam all there skills (LB skill 4 mainly) and push the mobs away from the melee as the are about to burst. (Makes me want to kick them in the junk when that happens, and they do it all the effin time)

I would say go to gw2buildcraft and mix match different gear stats until you get the numbers you are looking for. I like having at least 3.2k armor, 3.3k power, 70% crit damage, and 40% crit chance (100% with unsuspecting foe) for my hammer builds. I use the same gear for roaming and zerging. I got zerk, knights, valkyrie, cavalier, and even a sentinal chest for my WvW hammer build. Gives me 41kEpower and 40kEHP with food buffs. 46kEpower with bloodlust stacks.

It’s all about how well you survive and how much damage you can put into your build before you become a rally bot. We can sit here and tell you to gear such and such a way cause that is what works for us but that doesn’t mean it will work for you. However, if you are strictly going to be roaming I would build more towards big damage rather than survivability, but then again, that is just me.

I had to do some special exercises to build up the strength and endurance required to spam 1.

Ashabhi.1365:

Unfortunately, every…single…one of the LS updates since then have been a direct result of Scarlet and her evil, if unsubstantiated plans. I would have had less apathy toward her if they had skipped a chapter here and there and then brought her back. I had hopes for the tower, but then when I found it to be Scarlet again, I did the meta and have yet to go back to Kessex.

This ^^^

It’s was just too much Scarlet shoved into our faces for us to appreciate her. Now she is just annoying and I can’t wait for her to die.

Hamstar.9421:

Oidmetala.8426:

adam
dont join solo q, it destroys your soul ^^

Exactly what he said. I tried it, it just makes me depressed.

Yes, I also hate being paired up with a bunch of noobs that don’t communicate and don’t even try the defend the points. It’s like these guys forgot that this wasn’t a WvW karma train.

Dead Muppet.9718:

Julie Yann.5379:

I think it’s because Ele is a complicated class to play. Those who master it can pull off some pretty epic combos and deal a lot of damage. Unfortunately the majority (myself included) don’t have that level of skill and therefore the Ele seems UP which really isn’t the case.

You think its a skill issue?
Like there is only a select few gamers that have tapped the potential of this class…
There are tons of threads in these forums that will point out the flaws with the traits and with that suggestions.

It is a skill issue but that doesn’t mean it is not a problem and it doesn’t mean there isn’t issues with traits. What would need to happen is to make the Ele more effective at the intermediate/good skill level and less effective at the godly skill level. How that can be accomplished is beyond my understanding of the class. I only alt an Ele, and only play a WvW staff build which also works well in dungeons.

I think it’s because Ele is a complicated class to play. Those who master it can pull off some pretty epic combos and deal a lot of damage. Unfortunately the majority (myself included) don’t have that level of skill and therefore the Ele seems UP which really isn’t the case.

Turtle Dragon.9241:

I played Guardian since headstart. I am however a bit out of touch with builds.

CoF P1 boss hits this AoE attack every 10 seconds or so.

This person is asking me to party-wide Aegis on every AoE attack, so that he does not have to use the dodge button.

Even at 30 in Virtues and 20% cooldown on shouts, Virtue of Courage + Retreat,
I cannot get Aegis up every 10 seconds.

Please link me to the build that can do this.

Wow, seriously? I would just tell that person to quit being so effin lazy and L2FP. That is the easiest boss in the entire game but I guess knowing how to pull it off can be a good thing to know. The only way I know is stated in the above post.

Gris.5094:

glaphen.5230:

Flanking was never a viable strategy in any situation ever.

You, sir, are a kittening idiot. Flanking is a fairly common strategy when you have a well coordinated WvW guild doing zerg busting or have two separate zergs working together (rare but it happens). it is effective because one zerg holds enemy attention while the other runs up behind, forcing fights on two fronts (Splitting fire power reduces effectiveness). Please, stop talking about things you have no understanding of.

I agree, when we have only a few people log on we run flank for biggest guilds. Circle wide and take out the squishy backline. Without the support of their backline the frontliners have no combo fields to blast and are severely weakened.

@glaphen Also, anybody running full zerk in large scale fights is nothing more than a rally bot. It might be fine for roaming and duels but once the blobs collide you are nothing more than a liability.

Oghier.7419:

You’re running a build similar to mine, which is also an alt designed primarily for WvW. I moved the 20 points you have in Fire into Air. Bolt to the Heart nets nearly as much damage as Internal Fire, as it applies regardless of current attunement. In addition, that allows you to use Inscription. This is a fantastic trait for anyone who likes GoEH, allowing permaswiftness and other on-demand buffs.

For reference, here is my build:

http://en.gw2skills.net/editor/?fEAQFAWhImkbzR4QlDAkHocCLCFWQRRxOzA-jEDBYfAYLIkFAUBIpPKrJQCilhhtkKIVXRTZDTdiIq2bgIqWKA9EGB-w

I am very happy with it, though I am also not an expert on this class. Teefs are my thing

Interesting build, I was wonder how the survivability is with 1500 toughness and only 14.7K health (19.3k effective health). I main a warrior and am used to seeing EHP in the 30-40k range although I guess as a staff Ele you shouldn’t be taking a ton of damage from the backline. The reason I ask is that I am wondering if I should trade of my vitality for more power/prec/crit or maybe even condition damage.

Edit:

After some testing I found that I wasn’t stacking enough might to make much of a difference. I opted to give up some vitality and went with 2 hoelbrak 2 strength and 2 pirate runes and replaced 1 of my accessories. With this set up I can easily maintain 10 to 14 stacks of might in combat which puts my effective power somewhere between 3500 and 3700 while still keeping an EHP of 22k.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/elementalist/?1.0|6.1g.h1h.0.0.0|0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0|1n.79.5c.71n.1n.79.1c.71n.1n.7d.1c.7d.0.0.0.0.0.0|21k.0.2u.0.3u.0.31j.0.2t.0.2v.0|k68.0.0.u19b.k58|40.1|1m.1r.1u.1v.28|e

Scoobaniec.9561:

redslion.9675:

Scoobaniec.9561:

Theres olny 1 problem with sword..its burst is weak and i dont know why it wasnt buffed yet

It’s burst is powerful either for organized teams or for GS users. It’s a 5 seconds immobilize. Great for setting up bursts.

other than that, it’s great to make soldier builds in spvp without giving up too much damage.

So u saying that power dmg for flurry is powerful?

Getting immobilized in WvW = DEATH. kitten right flurry is powerful.

I looking for some constructive input on this build I’m working on. I recently pulled my Ele out of the locker. I haven’t played it in a while since I was busy grinding WXP ranks on my main. I’m looking to put together something that has some good support from water but also good damage from fire and might. After some theory crafting using stuff I had in the bank I came up with this.

http://gw2buildcraft.com/calculator/elementalist/?1.0|6.1g.h1h.0.0.0|0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0|1n.a1s.1c.a1s.1n.a1s.1c.a1s.1n.a1s.1c.a1s.0.0.0.0.0.0|21k.0.2u.0.3u.0.2t.0.3t.0.2v.0|k67.0.0.u19b.k58|40.1|1m.1r.1t.1v.28|e

Like I said, this is an Alt and don’t know all the intricacies of the class. Any suggestions on how to improve it?

Junkpile.7439:

Julie Yann.5379:

Kicast.1459:

50% warriors in performing guilds in wvw sounds balanced to someone here ?
Maybe it is because the class is challenging but absolutely not op

Actually most organized groups have as many hammer guardians as warriors in their squad. The only reason is they bring the most utility in zerg fights, not because they are really OP.

Ok this makes sense. Hammer warrior isn’t op, but hammer skills and utilities are.

In WvW 1v1 and small group fights, even in PvP they are not OP (they may be strong but are not OP cause they hard counter builds for them, rock paper scissors) but they bring so much CC and Blast Finishers to Zergs that any mob would be stupid not to capitalize on that. The problem is not the hammer, or the skills, it’s the WvW zerging game design.

Kicast.1459:

50% warriors in performing guilds in wvw sounds balanced to someone here ?
Maybe it is because the class is challenging but absolutely not op

Actually most organized groups have as many hammer guardians as warriors in their squad. The only reason is they bring the most utility in zerg fights, not because they are really OP.

The only reason we seem so OP is back when Warrior was the underdog, those who stuck with it got real good at playing the class in order to make up for what it was lacking. Now that the Warrior is competitive and well balanced, those who stuck through the rough times totally own the baddies that use to give them a hard time. We now have the capability to show those baddies exactly how bad they are and they don’t like being shown their inferior skill so they have taken to calling names and insults. Keep playing the class you enjoy and never mind what the losers say.

Travis the Terrible.4739:

My warrior breathern have evolved into mindless dps machines these days

They pretty much always been except for a few pioneers coming up with ingenious builds. I think that is what the community wants also, many of those pioneers often get flack from their party for not running enough DPS in their builds. It all stems from the “LF1M Warrior Full Zerk png gear or Kick!” mentality.

laokoko.7403:

Julie Yann.5379:

laokoko.7403:

Darkobra.6439:

They’re talking about the accumulation in and of itself. This is also down to time-gated recipes and ascended stuff coming from very specific places, such as dragonite ore and dark matter.

So people are not complaining about crafting. People are complaining about doing dungeon, wvw, champ farming, world boss?

If people are complainig about that. Why are they asking about alternate way of getting ascended gear. You “ARE” getting ascended gear from wvw, farming, dungeon.

Spend the next 3 weeks in WvW then tell us how much dragonite you have accumulated. The problem with the way things are set up now, Anet is forcing you to play content you don’t enjoy in order to create these pieces of kitten in a reasonable time frame. I just spent the last 2 days just farming meta events and temples (wihich I find boring as hell) with my 3 alt and I still need to farm them for another 2-3 days inorder to get enough ascended mats to craft my armor and weapons. After that is done I have to wait another couple weeks inorder to craft all the time gated pieces (I’m looking at you Bolts of Damask). Anyone who find that enjoyable needs to get their head checked.

Exactly. Your problem is not with crafting (beside the time gated material which you can probably purchase from the AH anyway).

Your problem is you don’t want to farm temple which don’t have anything to do with crafting.

The time it takes to craft is negligible compare to “gathering the material”.

So stop blaming crafting. But blame the grind for doing “dungeon, wvw, world boss, chest farming, gold farming, champ farming”

I see your point and that may apply for some but remember that there are a lot of people who have never bothered to level their crafting because, well quite frankly, it is very uninteresting. Now all those people are required to level all those professions to 500 which is not a small undertaking. I was lucky enough to be a hoarder and had plenty of mats available to take me from 400-500 but I still ran out and it still cost me a quite a bit of gold and I still have 2 crafts to level up in order to eventually gear up my alts. Since crafting is the only way to acquire that gear Anet is inevitably forcing those people into playing a part of the game in which they have zero interest.