And this is a bad thing how exactly? …
Pretty much everyone asked for an actual challenging content.
To be precise, a small number of forum posters asked for it. For a large part of player community current content is already challenging enough, and many others do not care.
They gave classes much more focused roles in order to provide something that requires thinking and finally get rid of the braindead zerker meta.
No point in removing one meta, if it’s done through introducing another, even more strict meta.
Also, who said that raids will be easy enough to be completed by pugs? You might never see stuff like that on chat once people realise that they need a team/guild in order to actually complete a raid.
Because within guilds there will not be situations where a leader needs to roll a dice to see which of the guildmembers will be forced to play the healer (because all the players that liked playing healer role left 2 years ago). Yeah, right.
Let’s be honest, healers are a bottleneck in other games, because this is a role that is unappealing to a large majority of players. And most players that found it appealing left GW2 long ago.
Last but not least, I’d rather have groups looking for healers rather than Ice Bow providers.
Don’t worry, you won’t see any icebow in action after the next Tuesday. It won’t lessen the desirability of eles in groups in the tiniest.
First of all, anyone who thinks that the game is currently challenging, is brain-damaged., or came to GW2 after 5 years of hack n’ slash games played on easy mode.
Also, it seems you are stuck in 2007 MMO gaming. Cause nowdays, even in super small population MMOs, healers are everywhere, and very easy to find. Games offer various roles for 1 class depending on how you trait. It’s not like you can only heal 24/7 being a X class.
And, yes, Ice bow WILL affect ele desirability. Once HoT launches, elite specs become playable and zerker meta goes bye bye, how many eles would you want for a 5 man group? If any…
I think you must play a healer, because i cant think of a single current gen mmo that doesnt take dps substantially longer to get groups without a healer friend.
What games are you talking about here? Both wow and ffxiv dps takes long to get groups
Of course it takes longer to find healer or tank. Although finding dps and finding the right dps is not the same story.
Its much more difficult to play dps properly than to play healer properly. So yeah, since 80% of dps are n00bs (MMO rule #X) its kinda difficult to find geared dps with proper knowledge in order to kill things before they go enrange and HULK SMASH everyone.
About Q times, in a game with GW2 population, at peak times you wont wait a single bit no matter what role you play.
