Guild Wars 2

It wasn’t that bad till I read ur “tiers”. Idk what game do you play but certainly not gw2. I bet you just read how everyone is glorifying these 3 classes and you wrote this post without any tests. Half of this is just not true and is based on major community opinion wnich is worthless.

I have posted an app on your forums

knives.6345:

Yes it does.. But you may want to play a different game if you are looking for the Trinity… GW2 is not designed to be like most MMO..

It is designed to be boring repetetive game where you abilities are useless except in few encounters that you rarely do? Every game is designed to be enjoyed by players. If the majority doesn’t enjoy it, its time to change some things.

There is no need for trinity, but they have to make battles more complicated than just zerging through them. Do you enjoy staying in one place and watching ur character auto attack? Because thats what I do 99% of times, I just press f1,2,3 on every cd and watch the autoattack. I dont even need to look at screen.

maddoctor.2738:

Przemek.6835:

all I do is use the wp to get to the boss, than I just stay and browse the web while my character is auto attacking so I can grab the loot.

And why should someone that does that be rewarded? It’s puzzling why some brain dead activity is more rewarding than doing something that actually requires a player to be present.

Problem is, there is no need for me to be present. I just switch back onto gw2 once my heal or wells come off cd. The encounters are easy, and classes lack any kind of depth when it comes to gameplay. I mean hey, I got that blind, I can remove boons, but there is nothing to remove, and no attack that needs to be blinded.

Why would I bother to do them if they would have no loot lol… the encounter is boring, laggy, and SCHEUDLED (worst idea ever, to make bosses spawn not-randomly and let people farm them with timers), all I do is use the wp to get to the boss, than I just stay and browse the web while my character is auto attacking so I can grab the loot.

Sup, I just logged in after a break and I though it would be nice to have an option as a necromancer to build as some kind of “death knight”. Either give them greatswords, or add new weapon type to the game wnich many others already asked about – polearms/2h axes. Or maybe rework the staff because as it is – it is MANDATORY for any necro. Everyone is using it. If not everyone, than a vast majority. It is just too good, rework it to be melee 2h weapon so people will have more choice? And we will have that feel of the grim reaper on the battlefield. You know… melee guy dressed like a cultist with huge scyte?

Im just gonna say that to me, pvp in this game is pathetic. It makes no sense, and takes very little skill. Your character doesn’t scale with your own personal skill. There is very little build diversity. And overall the play is just poorly designed. It is boring, mindless, LAGGY, and tacticless zerg. BOTH spvp and wvw. Don’t lie. WvW is purely pvp content.

RayKoke.1638:

I waited for years to play GW2. I worked to get my GW1 HOM rewards as high as I could. I played Prophecies, Nightfall, EON and Factions in regular and hard mode. I vanquished all campaigns and was 100% cartographer for all. My partner and I coming to GW 1 from WOW found we loved the game.

We spent every possible hour playing every BETA event; dutifully attempting to report our experience to developers. My partner took vacation days so we could play the BETA as much as possible.

Sounds SOOOOO casual.

1. Simply just… remove the grind? More emblems per dungeon run, less mats required for legendary OR replace the crappy quests with logic puzzles, u know a real quest, not collecting materials but a real quest, that would require us to think, to know the game well, to search under every rock, to look for every clue. AND obviously I would do my best to prevent people from spoiling such legendary quest through the internet, banning every guide and that kind of stuff.

2. No.

I support this idea. Why do you care how others look like? The fun in this game comes from customizing our looks, dont ban people from this. Please. It changes, nothing in pve, nothing in pvp. Why?

Because more than one class is wearing light/medium/heavy armor, you don’t recognize people by their looks you recognize them by icon or abilities.
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Let us transmute items regardless of their item type please.

Agree with everything but Gold grind. Never had more than 10 gold. I am full exotic, spent like 4 gold on that. I am fully geared on my necro AND I have all gear transmutated to what I want. Took me one week doing 2-3 dungs per day.

EXPLOITING trading post. LOL. There is no such thing, what are you talking about is called MERCHANTING, and I would rather say exploiting people’s stupidity and lazyness

About the topic – I agree that the game is too much grindy when it clearly isnt designed for that

HiddenNick.7206:

Also… Let me describe to you in the exact same way what your abilities have to be in standard MMO:
Tank – you just need to use threat skills in the simple manner (you just spam it).
Healer – you just watch the single health bar and use your heal skills when it drops.
Dps – you don’t have to be good at anything really… Just choose the best build from the internet and use you skills in the correct order.

Wtf? Those are just… basics. It is like saying : hey playing piano isn’t hard, you just mash the keys in right order, nothing special. DPSers can do A LOT of mistakes, gearing, doing dps, failing at boss mechanics, it doesn’t matter if healer saved you, or your group killied the boss if you could perform 10 times better. Same with healer, you can heal with few spells, keep up the buffs, debuffs, cleanse debuffs from your group, help people with specific fight mechanic (for example some1 has to run through whole boss room for whatever reason, you give him a speed buff or something like that), and as a tank you also keep your eye for the buffs, debuffs, you have to manage your cooldowns because for those who don’t know tank survivability doesn’t come just from the guy playing as healer and spamming heal. If you fail at CD management your healer can run oom, or you will die.

The whole discussion about trinity on this forum is like a bunch of kids saying that everything is easy and they can do everything as good as someone who practiced doing something for years because “hey, it’s just about doing this that and not doing this and that, easy I can do it too np”. Ignorance.

I am someone that mained warlock and fire mage in WoW for a looong time. I stopped WoW, and started playing GW2. My first choice was necro, got disappointed because any build that I wanted to play (like … dagger necro, or axe necro, anything without pets and condi dmg) was weak, traits were boring and didn’t impact my gameplay much. Than I tried ele, engi, everything one by one. If not ranger class I wouldnt be playing this game anymore, it is still bit boring but not because of my class choice waiting for some additions to pvp modes / pve combat so I can get hooked like I once was by WoW.

As in title, any1 tried it? How is it doing? Does it do high dmg? I am thinking of running full berserk gear, blood is power, lich form and … something else. What do you think?

I found this guide, I want 1-80 quickly via proffesion. Will this work?

http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/56511-chef-cooking-0-400-guide/

Than just make DPS meters only for our own character??

YES PLEASE. Add them. Because why not? If someone doesn’t need one, he won’t use it, zero change for him. I am curious how changing gear affects my character’s DPS, same with traits. I want to know the numbers. Please add it.

Oh the ignorance in this post… 9 out of 10 of your pseudo arguments are false.

This thread lol… OP do you really think that people that complain are the ones that do badly in dungeons? Get real man, its not about that. It is about the fact that everyone is doing exactly same thing in the dungeon and almost every fight looks the same. Just use ur cds, use ur heal, and do dmg, oh and press V for dodge roll when you stay in red circle. It is too simplified. Now there are three options : bring back trinity or at least allow us to make builds that support trinity based gameplay for those that want to play that way, fix current system (somehow), or change all encounters in the game to be more than just what they are now.

projectcedric.6951:

Przemek.6835:

projectcedric.6951:

Przemek.6835:

I am playing more or less frequently because the game is enjoyable for me which doesn’t mean it is perfect.

Why not?

It’s a video game. You say you enjoy it. What else is missing in the equation?

You misunderstood me. I enjoy a part of it wnich is exploring, crafting etc. Aka doing stuff that for me always worked as a sort of “addition” to pve and pvp wnich in this game makes me alt f4 after 5 minutes of it. Boring. Skillless. Repetetive. Etc Etc Etc. I can write an essay of trakittenalk about the problem but why would I if you don’t get simple statement. I draw you an illustration to help u understand what I mean

TERRIBLE—-NOT BAD—-GW2—-GREAT——————————-PERFECT

On the contrary, I think what you’re saying here is simple.

You bought a game with a set expectations of what you consider a “perfect” game, and found out that more than half of the game didn’t meet your expectations. While there are some aspects which do and still keep you playing ‘enjoyably’.

And now you are…“suggesting”… that they change the game according to what you want, so that it will become the image of the “perfect” game you had in mind.

So what do we say that?

Boohoo.

Soz for double post, this is going to be my last one. Gonna play some LoL. Neither your opinion or my does matter. There are 2 opposite directions that this game can take. Maybe more. What matters is wnich direction more players will like. We dont matter.

Osculim.2983:

No thank you no trinity otherwise i would play other mmos but im not.

couple of reasons :

1st you have healers and tanks thinking they are more important than everyone else in a group which in turns breeds a horrible community.

2nd There is no way in wow that a dps player get a quick group you always wait much longer than a tank or healer.

Also whats the point of standing still in a fight thats the most boring thing in other mmos for me doesnt matter what you do you always gets hit that is just not realistic its like standing still in front of a person with a gun and just wait for him to shoot you and hoping for the best.

It is not as if you didnt know that there is not gonna be a trinity either if that was your thing why switch to another mmo. If the wow type machanics is your thing then play wow that is the exact same reason i moved to guildwars the trinity is not my thing so i left wow and im happy.

Speaking about the realism… how realistic downstate is? You lay down and raise your hand so you can magically get back to fight endless times?

I won’t comment on finding party because I haven’t tried much yet. Looking at other posts tho it seems that finding one is easier with certain classes/specs. For me it doesn’t matter if I have to look longer because bleeds dont stack past 25 or because they already have 3 dpsers.

Looking at your post you are another one that thinks trinitiy=wow and thats the game on wnich you are basing your opinion. Well than I did every raid and dungeon in that crappy game and I hardly ever stood still during encounter, and I only stood still because I couldnt cast while moving and every second of not casting counts as dps loss.

On a side, in WoW after every encounter I knew I could have played better. I messed spell priority a bit, or I popped my cds a while too fast. I don’t have that feeling in gw2 there is no self improvement.

projectcedric.6951:

Przemek.6835:

Sylv.5324:

I don’t remember who it was who said that gamers have a habit of buying a game that is stated to be one way, in the hopes that it will change. When this change doesn’t happen, they get upset and rage that this is why the game fails, etc etc.

People bought this game knowing there would be no trinity. That’s been said right from the start.

Why are people raging now? Claiming that’s why it fails etc, etc— you knew what kind of game this was! Why do you feel the need to sneer at five years worth of dev time, up-front statements during all that time, beta testimonials, etc, that this was not a trinity game?

Why are you disappointed that it’s not a trinity game? You knew what you were buying!

Buy the game as it is, so you won’t be upset when the devs don’t about face on one of the core principles of the entire game’s design.

Fail argument. Again. People like you fail to understand that someone bought the game because he thought that no trinity will be ok. ATM it is not, either bring trinity back, or fix the no-trinity system or however you fanboy call it so it will involve some skill and strategy that will keep players …playing.

It is like ordering a pizza that you never tried before. You order it because you think it might be good, when you try it, its not THAT good so because you are kind you suggest the chef what to change to make it great no? Because you don’t say that you knew what were you buying and you have no rights no complain or criticize? Cause if you do… well than good luck irl.

People like you fail to understand the difference between complaining and demanding.

You can complain. And move on. But you do NOT demand that they change something according to what you think is right, especially when obviously more than half of the people at least in the forums -who also paid for the game, btw- thinks and feels otherwise, despite of how reasonable you build your arguments.

How can you assume ANY numbers. Like… to you it is obvious that MORE THAN HALF (at least the half that is using the forums, wnich is not half, not even a quarter but nvm) think otherwise. That being said I am wrong, because the majority enjoys the game and the forums are just full of “thank-you” letters to ANet for creating the best game ever with absolutely no flaws. AmIright?

In case THIS isn’t obvious (it should be but w/e). Only a little little little % of people are using the forums. And from reading it I see that not everyone is happy with the way that the game is now. About the demand/criticize. I do criticize, I don’t demand, as every player because demanding something isn’t my thing. If I will get bored of the game I will quit and so will everyone whether he likes the game or not. Boredom = quit. Criticizing something is like saying “hey, this is bad, and gets me bored if u think I am not the only one, fix it”

projectcedric.6951:

Przemek.6835:

I am playing more or less frequently because the game is enjoyable for me which doesn’t mean it is perfect.

Why not?

It’s a video game. You say you enjoy it. What else is missing in the equation?

You misunderstood me. I enjoy a part of it wnich is exploring, crafting etc. Aka doing stuff that for me always worked as a sort of “addition” to pve and pvp wnich in this game makes me alt f4 after 5 minutes of it. Boring. Skillless. Repetetive. Etc Etc Etc. I can write an essay of trakittenalk about the problem but why would I if you don’t get simple statement. I draw you an illustration to help u understand what I mean

TERRIBLE—-NOT BAD—-GW2—-GREAT——————————-PERFECT

Sylv.5324:

I don’t remember who it was who said that gamers have a habit of buying a game that is stated to be one way, in the hopes that it will change. When this change doesn’t happen, they get upset and rage that this is why the game fails, etc etc.

People bought this game knowing there would be no trinity. That’s been said right from the start.

Why are people raging now? Claiming that’s why it fails etc, etc— you knew what kind of game this was! Why do you feel the need to sneer at five years worth of dev time, up-front statements during all that time, beta testimonials, etc, that this was not a trinity game?

Why are you disappointed that it’s not a trinity game? You knew what you were buying!

Buy the game as it is, so you won’t be upset when the devs don’t about face on one of the core principles of the entire game’s design.

Fail argument. Again. People like you fail to understand that someone bought the game because he thought that no trinity will be ok. ATM it is not, either bring trinity back, or fix the no-trinity system or however you fanboy call it so it will involve some skill and strategy that will keep players …playing.

It is like ordering a pizza that you never tried before. You order it because you think it might be good, when you try it, its not THAT good so because you are kind you suggest the chef what to change to make it great no? Because you don’t say that you knew what were you buying and you have no rights no complain or criticize? Cause if you do… well than good luck irl.

The amount of ignorance in this thread is just beyond imagination… I will post what I want to say in simple adnotations because judging by other posts anything more complicated would be inapropriate…

First of all why does everyone here think that if a game is trinity based it is automatically a copy of WoW and vice versa if a game has no trinity it isn’t WoW. How stupid that statement is. WoW has many flaws, and many good things and you can’t just say that wow=trinity and don’t care about the rest.

Secondly, for now both pve and pvp are terrible. Zergfest. That’s what it is. All I do is push random buttons when they are off cooldown, I dont have to think if I should save them for later, I dont think at all I just push buttons and the sad thing is that it works both in pve and in pvp.

On a side note a “why you are still playing than” question is not an argument. I am playing more or less frequently because the game is enjoyable for me wnich doesn’t mean it is perfect. Same goes for WoW – I have been playing for years, and it was only fun cause of friends, the game was and still is crap, but there was nothing to choose from. It was crap, but the best what I had, now there is gw2 with it’s hipster community that desperately sticks to looking for new solutions for every problem because they want to call themselfes “modern MMO players”.

Whether you like it or not. This game NEEDS serious fixes. Adding trinity is the easiest solution not the best tho, but leaving it as it is is worst possible thing to do. Bosses are zerg. PVP is zerg. There is zero tactic. I mean seriously everything was dumbed to “move outside the red lines”, and “ress other players”. The downstate system imo is completly bad but thats not the topic so I am not going to write another lithany about how annoying it is in pvp and what impact it has on pve gameplay and ppl mindset overall. The reason that trinity is not that bad is because it by its nature involves teamplay that this game lacks a lot atm. And please, to anyone that thinks trinity takes no skill and is gear based. Stop talking. You just embarass yourself. That’s just… laughable, trinity takes a lot of skill and thats just understanding other’s role in the party, than we can add difficulty through encounters that force people to change their playstyle accordingly. Don’t tell me it forces any1 to any playstyle you got a choice of DPS, healer, tank blah blah blah everyone is playing what he likes in the end and with the current system you have to change ur skill setup and maybe even traits each time you go to FOTM because others expect you to use skill X because thats the easiest if not the only way to beat encounter (abusing downstate any1?).

@Zen
So tell me, do you have to get full exotics now? Or full ascend? Do you have to do anything to keep the game as fun as it was before the news? Because your post AND signature clearly states that you stopped having fun after you read the news.

I forgot to add that if X content will reward Y items, that will have the same stats, than Z player won’t have any new content because he will not like the look of items and thats the only thing he gets from them. Don’t forget about that.what is the point in doing X content more than once if there is no reward? It gets extremly repetetive if there is no goal to aim at. People are already grinding, for looks. Whether its for stats or for looks, its still GRIND. How long till majority will understand…

They don’t have to incrase the stats on new ascend content. Just add first tier of progress, let it have the 5 or 10 more stats on gear. When the second tier is added nerf first one so ascend items have only looks, and they don’t reward stats. Also, the bonus few percents of stat bonus fades from first tier items. Thus forcing people that want to keep up the very best gear to challenge the second tier, that is hard, and not yet nerfed.

Logun.2349:

People speak out for what they want, everyone has that right.

To each their own, but if you want an endless gear grind end game, that game has been done and copied at least a dozen times. Can’t GW2 be something different instead of pandering to players that just want to graft the mechanics of the last 13 years on to this one.

This will just cements that whole gear progression mentality into the game. How long do you think it’s going to take before you start to here …” no sorry we are only taking players into our “Guild / Group / Party/ Dungeon Run” with full Ascended sets …sorry try a noob Guild.

I think this just goes against the whole design template for this game. GW2 was about taking down the barriers that prevented players from interacting, and tiered gear systems that lock out contents is a 360 to that core philosophy.

That’s what people are upset about because this is exactly what was preached for the last 5 years by the Dev team. No surprise here that this has caused an uproar of epic proportions.

First of all the point in “something diffrent” is to satisfy everyone, no? Explorers, crafters, casuals, hardcores, pvpers etc etc. Its already much diffrent than other MMOs, you can’t say “hey let’s create something diffrent, how do we do it? Oh I know let’s remove one of the main aspects in typical MMOs and call it a new era MMO”.

Secondly, you can’t generalize people like that. People are creating guilds to find people that share their interests/goals in game. Do you think that now every guild is a mass of random players? That there are no PVP/RPG/PVE/WHATEVA specific guilds? If so, than I am sorry to burst your bubble but you are very wrong sir.

About the menality problems… the problem with people’s mentality in general is that they can’t share things. They want to feel special. That’s why people are raging about gear progress they want to be like “LOL YOU NERD PLAYING WOW? I AM PLAYING GW2 THERE IS NO GEAR PROGRESS GET A LIFE”. They want to feel that they are part of something unusual, the problem is – How to tell them, that dividing mmos into pvp/pve/with gear progress/no gear progress/whatever you come up with is not the only way to make MMO special. Why can’t gw2 be good for everyone?

Nalora.7964:

Your last statement says it all: “The game is meant to be fun.”

But, sadly it is not. It is work. It is grinding, excruciating work. Crafting is a joke. It has no merit, nothing you craft is worth anything. “Farm Events”? Repetitive grinding is not “fun” in my book. Perhaps I am just not the right kind of gamer for Guild Wars.

Most of my friends who began the game with me in BWE1 have already left. Most “well brained” people do not enjoy tedium. I am only still around because my last spark of hope for Guild Wars has not yet been completely snuffed out by their idiotic decisions.

I have been a hardcore MMO gamer but I decided to slow down in gw2. I am doing events only once unless I like them, I craft a bit and sell on Trading Post for a little money. If I would be you I would either find something fun in this game, or look for other game instead of torturing yourself while playing it. Atm I am playing alone, and still I enjoy the game, and I am going to enjoy it even more after full map completion, getting max lvl in pvp, getting the gear I want (for looks obv), I wont make legendary cause shortbow looks crappy. BB and hf.

Quick and short : when I started playing I had a feeling that people are so nice and you know … “well brained”. Now when ANet tries to do something for A LOT OF PEOPLE that were just getting bored everyone else is crying about it. What I thought is the best, turned out to be the worst, people have a mindset that if there is any gear progression they have to participate in it else they feel inferior to others that have 5% stats more. If you don’t like gear progression, even as little as ANet wants to introduce, either stay away from the new dungeon and help gear up people that want to try it out (because you will need exotics before stepping there) or go craft, farm events or do whatever you want. The game is ment to be fun, and your “fun” doesn’t have to collide with others.

If not remove, than leave it as it is but give an option to cast a ranged finisher to everyone, way slower, but possible to cast while moving.

First of all we are not talking about my skill personally I think that I am doing just fine for the time I have been playing.

Second, if you think downstate will help you avoid zerging than GL getting back up when you have few people around you.

There is no healer class because there is no trinity, everyone has a few skills to defend and few to replenish health I dont see a problem at all there. If ANet says “hey, we want all of you to be able to take care of yourselfs so we are removing holy trinity and we give you the abilities to survive” than what is the problem oO.

I have seen a ton of complaints about downstate, I wonder if this people only post QQ in general or spvp forum or do they actually try to look for a solution…

Anyway there is no real reasoning before downstate existance idk why some people want to keep it. Probably cause they are playing premades and they abuse it to insanity… or they zerg with the masses.

Oh and if you see something that is done badly or something that shouldnt be done at all, you adapt to it? If so, I am sorry for you.

Just like in title. It is so unnecessary and kinda lame, big fight is going on and I am lying down on a ground either throwing stones or any stuff like that or raising my hand till I will be able to get up. I mean, seriously? Downstate crushes balance, it prevents good people from killing 2 even the biggest newbs in spvp at once. I am not saying I am good, I am still new, I can burst tho and kite quite well today I kited 2 guardians for 5 minutes. It was a 2v1 game and I killied one but he got rallied, than I killied another one, same thing. It is so broken its not even fun. I can’t imagine even the best player atm killing me and some random newb that will just auto attack, why? Because I can rally him so easy. I know it is against the casuality of the game, and I know it is hard to destroy your own work. But I have also read that ANet wants this game to be an e-sport, I also read that they think it feels epic not to get killied but to lay down a while and than get back to fight. No its not. I am sorry to say this, because I had high hopes for the game but atm MAINLY because of downstate I am just going to complete map and pvp in WoW or LoL. I am pretty disappointed because I bought the game to pvp and aimed to be good at it. I was like “I will get used to it”, but I won’t. And I am sure many players share my thoughts, if you do so (or not) write here, lets get ANet attention around this. They need to add more maps for pvp, more modes not just conquest, they need to balance the classes and the game itself, there is much work to do, but first of all downstate has to be removed.

HEHO.2109:

“Gear progression is only an endgame if WoW was your first MMO.
My endgame is PvP with rewards to keep improving your character. they have WvW, now they just need the reward system. Im not talking about gear, im talking about stats increases, skills and abilities, chance to crit, hitpoints, ect….”

And whats the gear improves ? Length of ur hair and nails?

As veteran WoW player I can tell you that I did not care about gear progression, after such long time played I didn’t need the gear to perform on a decent level. Also, I was mainly a pvp player, I didn’t need a gear or rewards there either because it was fun. I have made a 50k hk and I would made even more but I have often been switching characters. Honestly? It was just fun, here pvp is crap. Total crap. They replaced world pvp with chaotic WvWvW, sPvP has only one mode (capture and def) maps are too small for 15vs15 and don’t even get me started about class balance. A game in wnich single player has no hard cc chain or stuff like that anything that is slightly better than anything else completly wrecks people.

I could write a lot more of this trash-talk but I am just going to end this and tell you that – I got disappointed and I regret buying this game. Probably I will just finish my personal story and go back to WoW.

Forgot to add that this needs separate rewards and points for guilds cause the game is named guild wars. Just everytime you kill/die you add points for your guild.

One big map like WvWvW with many environments and various terrain. No incrasing level to 80 when you join, no free gear, no free skill points. You join with what you got. Everything is allowed. Free roam mode. The goal is to kill as many as you can, and die as rarely as possible, the more you kill, the less you die the more points you award to your killer and the more points you lose after death. A season lasts let’s say… a month. At the end of each month everyone’s points are resetted and top few players receive a massive rewards. And a penalty for first week of next season (like from -10 to 3% outgoing damage, or incrase in damage taken). A lot of ideas can be added to that like a mini-daily-quests that after complition give you a scroll that can help you track down certain player. Or mounts, or generally anything awesome that can make a “kill or be killied” game even more awesome.

To me WoW pvp despite all of its numerous flaws was the best among many mmos I played. Skill based pvp? It is like that in every game more or less. Solo roaming in WvWvW is a good point but I would like it to be supported in some way, and I am sure many players share my thoughts. Like… a huge map WvWvW like based on “bounty hunt” style, free roam mode, large map with lots of environments, players dropping items after death, the more people you killied, the more items you will find, and the more items people will loot from you after your death (they won’t loot your own stuff from inventory just a bunch of random crafting materials and rarely some exotics, or recipes for them). In such map, your level isn’t maxed wnich means you have to level up all the way to 80 to be most effective. Also, you don’t get any gear when you get there. You join with your regular items and regular level, no additional skill points, no rules, everything is allowed, kill or be killied.

I did lots of research and I knew there is no WPvP, although I didn’t know that the replacement (spvp and WvW) is inferior. You can’t just stop reading the post at the beggining of it and post a comment that has no connection to the topic because this only shows how ignorant you are. The topic is “opinions about pvp” not “I dont like the game I am quitting and here is why show me what I did wrong”. I still like the game but the main reason that I bought it for (PVP) is crappy designed and the sooner ANet will realize that the sooner they will work on a solution.

ANet kinda failed when thinking about world pvp. The reason that it is so fun is that you never know when it starts, its like random event. You cant move world pvp to some big zone give people objectives to do and call it wpvp.

You know how I see a good pvp system? A system that allows me to jump into 1v3 situation and either use my gear or my personal skill to kill one or more and get away. In gw2 there is no space for that. There isn’t even space for 1v1. That creates a lack of real competitivness and building fame around your nickname. I know it sounds nerdy but let’s face it we all like it. A 1v1 ranked arena would fix the problem. Maybe the one in black citadel.

I am curious what people think about pvp in this game. I bought it to play pvp and I have to say that I am really disappointed. Sure some ideas are great but the ones that aren’t make the pvp unenjoyable at least for me. I am really surprised that such a great game wnich many say that is focusing on pvp is in this state. I am having fun leveling but when I go and try pvp I give up after 5 minutes. Guess I will go back to WoW privs and wait till things will get better .

0. Totally forgot about the worst aspect, there is no dueling, there is no pvp outside the mists. WHY? I ask WHY? If I can tailor my character’s story, I am making a lot of individual choices than WHY I cant just catch a player out of a town and kill him, why.
IMO maps over level 10 should have optional pvp (you allow people to attack you), and maps over level 40 should be normal pvp (whether u like it or not, you can be killied, unless you are in combat with an NPC)

1. Downstate
Really? Its so unnecessary, it prevents people from going in multiple opponent fights and generally it makes me bored. I mean if someone gets to a downstate he is dead, 99% of time there is no way that you will get out of it unless more than one guy will help you aka kill your opponents and heal you.

2. Class balance
Its not that bad, but atm thiefs burst people from full hp to zero in seconds, I wouldnt mind that if I could prevent them from doing so or do the same but I can’t. Other than that… every time I see a mesmer I am like… come on not another one. Is it just me or everyone hates fighting against them. They could buff some skills to be useful but thats normal, MMOs tend to have problems with balance but mesmers are just annoying to play vs.

3. Maps
Idk why all maps are based on some kind of a siege and capture the point. There is no deathmatch no ctf, nothing just take the points.

4. WvW
What I thought will be the most awesome pvp part turned out to be the worst. Queues are insane, and the game itself is so chaotic. I mean everyone is just smashing random people and a few are working on the victory. In the end what I see is a random fight of hundreds of people that most computers can’t handle.

Dont misunderstand me, I like the game and I would like it to be even better because it has potential to be better, a lot better and I just wanted to share my opinion and see if others agree with it.

Tomorrow I will be creating new character, I will wait for some more opinions about

- pistol thief
- pistol engineer
- rifle/longbow warrior
- any elementalist
- mesmer

Those are the classes I would consider playing as I got disappointed by necro. Thank you for help guys, its nice to see some constructive response.

I was talking about more single target oriented class, I also don’t use pets, but I just dont like necro’s skills and how do I have to use them to be effective. I tried to do some WvW with staff, axe and even melee with dagger but it wasn’t what I was looking for. Please note that

I am not saying necro is weak, I am saying that I do not enjoy it, and I am looking for help to decide who to play insted and the first post is just a quick describtion what I am looking for. Thanks

So uhh… I played WoW for 5 years, all this time as destruction warlock and I switched to gw2 cause I realized that the only reason that I played this game was my sympathy to warlocks but after all this time I finally got bored with it. So I bought gw2 and I am greatly enjoying it, I love the new design of lvling, pvp and everything but I can’t really decide who to play basing just on game guides or a preview of skills. I need someone’s exprinced opinion wnich ranged class/build has good cc/mobility, and lots of burst. In WoW I could adapt to any situation and kill enemy in many ways, I could burst them down, kite them close or long range, chain cc or just run away and heal to full, I have tried necromancer till lvl ~30 because it just looked similar to locks but I think I made a wrong choice.