Actually, I think you didn’t understand my point.
I’m not saying we need specific roles. I’m not saying we need gear for that. We’ve got all of that. Before taunt was ever mentioned, you could take one of the stat-sets and become pretty much any role that befits the usual trinity, was inbetween the three or even had a bit of everything. The game itself allowed for you to become pretty much everything you want and emphasize on the playstile that you liked.
My point is that the game currently is designed to give rewards mostly per dps. You don’t get a reward for anything else.
As you mentioned yourself: Everyone does a bit of everything.
You dropped down a reflective wall and saved a dozen of dps-ing players?
The game doesn’t care.
You just pulled the conditions from a small group of players?
The game doesn’t care.
You dropped one of those weak heals and saved a bunch of players with it?
The game doesn’t care.
Your cc’s kept the mobs away from the squishy, crucial NPC and dps-ing players?
The game doesn’t care.
I think it should. Those are importan things and the only thing the game cares for is dps, even if it comes from a player that is downed half of the time.
Let’s go with an example I encountered multiple times in the last few weeks:
Everyone is zerker and half of the players can’t dodge, because they lack the skill.
Let’s say I’ve got five of them(sadly it’s mostly more) and they all down at the same mob.
Now I have two options:
-Give a kitten about them, I’m self-sufficient, I keep dps-ing and ignore the five players in downed-state. I can dodge so I stay alive.
-I get them up and switch into the water-attunement. I may not dish out any dps, but I keep those five less surivable players on their feet with the healing and together we blast out more dps than I would have done it alone with the fire attunement, resulting in the boss being slain.
What do you think would be smarter? And what would you think would the game reward me with, for being a healing team-player, instead of the fiery solo-zerker?
You mentioned players want trinity-roles so they can be the best in one of the fields “bro”.
To be honest, this statement is so ridiculous I don’t even know what to say. We got that with dps right now. This will always be a thing, even if there is just one role/stat the people care for, instead of three, seven or 201643 roles.
Let me tell you something about my tanky celestial build:
One of it’s core-elements is the combination of “Written in stone”, “Evasive Arcana” and that neat little trait that refills your endurance with signets and arcane spells. Trait-points: 0-0-6-2-6.
With the signet of air I keep mobs from landing that killing-blow on someone while I achive 25% higher speed. I use the earth-signet to bind enemies in AoE’s. With the endurance gained from that, I dodge, switch into the water-attunement and take some conditions from players who need it, right before I switch into fire, drop a fire-field, attune into earth and dodge-roll into the field to blast might around and give an extra-bit with the arcane blast utility.
I see someone downed in a dot-field. With all my hp, refilled endurance and the toughness from earth I get there and pick him up, then heal him again.
All the while I barely get a single hit on me, except for that brief moment the dot-field damaged my while I rezzed the player in there.
When no one is in need of support and the mob is nicely pinned, I switch to fire and dish out some dps. As to expect: It’s a tiny amount compared to a zerker-set.
But in the end I kept a lot of players on their feet and held the boss where he got hit.
The only tunnel vision here is that zerker has to stay the only way to go in GW2.
No one has to be a specific role. No one should have to be bound to the specific role of dps with a bit of everything else.
If someone is good at certain tasks(plural), he/she should be able to fill them, get rewards from the game and players acknowledging it.
