Elrond.9486

Stop being so extra

Lmao where are all these people getting 11k-16k(!) damage on Mesmer downstate? Im full glass dps and the most I got was on another full glass light armor with 8k. Which is still crazy, but 16k?? Twice as much?

Take a shot everytime someone in these balance threads say diVeRsITy

I know that what you're saying makes sense to you. But this is like the Allegory of Plato's Cave. You are staring at a mere shadow of what could truly be a beautiful world outside the cave, but because you've lived in this cave for so long, that the cave has become your accepted reality. I've played Gw2 since it's inception, and gw1 since the release of factions. I also can appreciate the beauty of the real world and how diversity has shaped it over millions and billions of years. Gw2's diversity is a mere shadow of what it usto be, and that is in itself a mere shadow of what gw1 usto be, and even gw1, a great and highly diverse game is a mere shadow of what it could have been in comparison to the real world, which they could, given the amount of choices, can be realistically achieved. They really aren't that long. Perhaps a Tiktok video explanation would be more to your liking? Pretentious knob. Diversity is wack anyway. Why are we acting like it should even be a goal? We've got more than enough viable builds. Unless it's an organized setting basically anything can work in ranked if you're good enough at the game.

You can scrap raids too and focus only on Open world bosses...honestly design the game in a way that egomaniacs are not enticed to buy the game So in other words create a 100% casual snoozefest? Hardcore content keeps games alive. You're so traumatized by words on the internet that you'd remove anything challenging and competitive from all future MMOs? What an absurd thing to say. Competition breeds friction, in any setting, if it hurts you too much to read, it's not for you. Which is ok. But to then advocate the removal of game modes in even any upcoming MMOs, just bc you can't personally deal with it? Yikes.

Troll power rankings are so boring

Some would say it doesn't matter at all. This is true, it really doesn't. At this point we kind of know anet isn't going to give us what we want. You can either quit or keep playing if you still find fun in it, may as well not be depressing about it. Low population this, low population that, it's not anything we can affect (unless you want to try getting more people to play by not ragging on it 24/7). If us complaining on the forums worked, the game mode would be perfect by now, we do enough of it.

Daredevil is already dead anyway why people would want that? Only S/D Core thief is left for us. Might as well nerf that too so we can stick to Shortbow'ing #5 around the map since it's our "role" and we aren't allowed to actually fight people. It's called thief, not stabmaster. Want to be a master of stabbing play a stabmaster. Thieves take what don't belong to them. Maybe you should open a dictionary.What an absurd justification. We should just delete all thief skills other than steal and mobility/stealth skills then? How ridiculous. The literal name of a class isn't the eternal arbiter of all a class is allowed to do, especially when there's years of precedent that says otherwise.

Man this post sure is full of bias the fact remains that top players, while they may have played in core even the ones you mentioned were still complete randoms. I think it’s ironic that these new players are so toxic(calling everyone randoms and stuff) that no one even wants to play with them. Fing biased and ironic if you ask me. I'm not saying all of the top players were competitive back in the day but there are a good amount of them that were still recognized as skilled PvPers. Also, Eurantien, Zeromis, and Supcutie were all very well-known even back in core GW2. They all played in Pro League/World Championships so the fact that you're telling me that they "were still complete randoms" means you have literally no idea what you're talking about lol If you're talking about high-rated streamers trash talking people, it's normal. It happens in nearly every competitive game across the skill brackets. In fact, high-rated streamers are generally justified. The reason they are high-rated is because they know how to play the game better than the majority of other people. Thus, when they point out specific randoms (which is not inherently toxic, it's no different than referring to them as PUGs), they usually have good reasons to do so. Now, this is different than players in gold or below who have a weaker understanding of the game/mechanics. In other words, when a gold player starts to complain about another person, it's usually just because they're salty and want to blame someone else instead of focusing on their own gameplay. I do know what I’m talking about players like zeromis at release time were not big, except in lol. As I remember he was only big after he learned how to play from an old player named lixion. And dude I’ve seen how toxic these guys are to everyone and no there is no reason to be toxic to some one just becuz they have weaker mechanics. I don’t understand why u would defend ppl like that, it just makes your post seem more troll...What is actually your point? That people who weren't automatically good became good after years of playing, and that somehow means they shouldn't talk shit? What? People of all levels and all ranks talk shit. Some silvers talk shit, some plats talk shit, it is what it is. You just made 15 posts to cope with the fact that you were bm'd by some dude. Literally who cares.

why would anyone who actually wants a skill based game play this mess? i came back for a few days after almost 2 years gone, didn’t last. pvp is powercreeped skillless spam right now, i literally killed people with just arc divider. this game is a joke, & anyone with even half a brain will realise this & quit. thats why population is low & players suck, it’s a reflection of the quality of the pvp experience. I agree completely here, but god kitten... The combat system in GW2 is a million miles better than anything else out there. Nothing. Comes. Close. no gw2 pre trait rework into specialisations was good combat all the nuances of that combat system have been ruined by powercreep. gw2 in it’s current state has some of the worst pvp out there. it’s an absolute jokePlease tell me which MMO has mechanically better action PvP and I'll dive right in. Have tried the PvP of the other big MMOs and they feel so floaty and disconnected/clunky.

Dueling is literally funner than the "real" PvP game mode. Who cares if it wouldn't be some perfectly balanced premier game mode, it's just plain fun. Not like gw2 PvP is some serious pro thing, formalize it and let us mess around with it and have a good time.

I really want 1v1 queues, that'd be fun af. It'd probably be a shit show due to the rock paper scissors nature of classes when at a similar skill, but it'd still be fun I think

Imo it's the right direction but maybe should be toned down a bit. I'm happy they're making some kind of change at all. EC previously felt empty to me. Specifically, I think mid is great, sides are too cluttered.

It's not just one shot builds that scrapper makes un-fun.

Such garbage BS. They balance around rp and theme instead of what is actually over or under performing. Literally no reason to play PvP when this is the trash being put out to "balance."