When they give a definitive answer as to whether or not they’ll keep adding tiers then it’ll be fine. As it is with all of this double speak and the best we can get is, “Is this going to become a gear-tiered game where you’re constantly on this treadmill to chase after that stuff? My hope would be no. I think that certainly in 2013 you’re not going to see another tier of gear.” I’m incredibly skeptical and it all seems like a waste of time to even gear up at all.
You kind of honestly have to wonder what Anet was smoking when they designed thieves and mesmers. Somehow baking that many defensive options into a class, letting them spec full glass cannon with little to no downside, and then giving them stupid high damage to begin with is considered good class design?
I love pointing out the 7+ thieves or mesmers in an spvp match and seeing them all immediately start crying about how they’re actually skilled. As long as Anet caters to idiots who can’t understand anything, but burst damage spvp is really not worth playing.
Oh man. The Guild Wars 1 mesmer. I miss so much about them:
Like Psychic Instability:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Psychic_InstabilitySignet of Illusions:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Signet_of_illusionsFevered Dreams:
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Fevered_Dreams
God I miss Signet of Illusions. I used to run a spell stealing build with SoI in randoms sometimes just to screw with people. It was really fun looking at the other team’s makeup and being like “should I be their ele, their mesmer, or their monk this round. hmm….” or being paired up against like 4 sins and just having to deal with endlessly stealing all of their healing skills or lynchpin hexes used for starting their dagger chains.
Nothing in GW2 comes even REMOTELY close to this kind of playful skill usage or depth. It’s nothing but nukes and dodges, while all of the interesting skills got replaced with unbalanced gimmicks like stealth and clones. It’s really kind of depressing.
I miss basically everything. Somehow they managed to turn the game’s most complex debuff/shutdown class into a kitten proof direct damage class that’s completely broken for all forms of pvp and ridiculously boring to play in pve.
I like some things about the game, but it’s honestly only Guild Wars in world only. It’s like for every improvement there’s an equal screw up.
Exploration is great and skill points and vistas are fun, but the level cap is so randomly high it locks you out of going where you want. Honestly you don’t progress at all after 30, they could have just kept it low and not locked everyone into 3 zones. It doesn’t help that their promise of downranking and getting equal loot was a complete crock, seeing as downranking still makes you 1 shot everything and the loot is complete crap.
The movement based combat is fun, but then they went and replaced a lot of interesting mechanics with gimmicks like stealth and clones. The entire mesmer class was pretty much ruined for GW2, going from a technical counter class to a generic dd. Class balance has been pretty terrible so far as well.
There was a lot of initial variety for dungeons when they launched, but it only took them 3 months to put in a dungeon that not only introduced a gear grind (which they promised they wouldn’t do) that trivializes all of the other dungeons, but also gates you with both a literal gate and a gear check mechanic. How some of this stuff actually makes it to release I’ll never understand.
I’d probably enjoy this game a LOT more if I hadn’t played GW1 or followed it’s development. It’s hard to care when it leaves such a bitter taste in my mouth that seems to only get stronger with every patch. :c
Honestly unless they go through and make ascended gear possible to get from every playstyle (except spvp of course) this game is pretty dead to me. It’s amazing how fast end game went from “do whatever you want” to “farm fractals constantly”.
Yeah I can’t wait for when their revolutionary take on PVE (copying over the gear grind/artificial gating systems of every other MMO) starts completely invalidating all content besides the most current patch. I feel like such a fool for championing Anet and this game.