Guild Wars 2 - Page 300

When I play this game I can't help but notice how dumbed down it is.

I can think of so many examples

No aggro bubble, means that any tactical movement out in the "wild" is pointless. You never know the aggro distance so why even bother? Most areas also have stagnant enemies you 100% always have to fight no matter how careful you are. Imagine F.O.W. with no agrro bubble, it would be insanely harder because of how the mobs scale in power. It takes a huge chunk of thought from the game never needing to always be aware of your surroundings.

The skills are just so bland. Sword has no feel, axes have no feel, hammers are the same. In GW1 hammers were the KD bots that would backline/camp monks. Swords would apply pressure through bleeding/gash, and axe would do tons of spike damage. Eles would do mass AoE with fire, earth was defensive with wards to protect allies, water was also defenive but by hindering your opponents and air was the spike damage with armour pen. Now it doesn't matter you just run into the fights and spam "1" and hit other stuff off cd. There feels like zero depth. I don't say oh this area has so much hexs I should bring extra hex removal I just run in with my sword/shield and hit stuff and spam my heal. Even skills that punish hurr durr button smashing are gone such as Reckless haste/mark of failure/Spiteful Spirit/gash/the entire prot tree.

Conditions do nothing blind is much less powerful, cripple is the same as water slows/ bleeding doesn't mean anything/ neither does poison. It's just another invisible number acting on your health bar. In GW your health bar got a massive chunk taken out with gash, turned a nasty green when poisoned, turned purple when hexed you knew what was up and it was vivid.

I can't imagine builds like Hexway will ever exist in GW2. Builds don't have any synergy with other profession. You can't abuse anything such as the low level of hex removal skills and the limited energy regen on a monk. You can't halve the amount of monks on a team using vamp spike because prot doesn't work against life steal. You can't have a pet to use IWAY on.

So many countless examples of other staple builds Eviscerate Wars w/Shock, Rangers with burning arrow/apply poison/pindown. I always imagined the rangers splitting off during GvG as the ultimate test of skill. You both have the exact same tools, even your weapons were the exact same, you had the same around, same health, same level of skills. This was a battle man on man whoever was the more skilled player WOULD ALWAYS win. ALWAYS, look at cristi she always won her battle on ranger. All the of highest skill level players are gone. Rangers are no more, Shock wars are gone, prots are gone, infuse is gone, and flagging is gone.

I can't imagine a game she didn't and this is because she was a better player. Now with the silly "life after death" mode it just turns into a crapshoot. You lose all of the tactics of using a life steal bow/+33% crip time/+33 poison time/+20% sundering and the defensive set with the countless shields for the damage type.

The whole armour system is so retarded imo. It is just way too complicated. It was so easy to set up a PvP char from a Pve one. You just needed mats for the armous, a few runes, a few marks, a few weapons, and a few components for the weapons. Now you need to actually level your crafting skill, figure out the whole power/vitality/precision stuff and how that actually works on your skills, get 4 or 5 different parts for each weapon and armour piece and the actual stats on weapons vary so much too. It GW1 you could get a longsword with 15-22 and no matter how expensive or beautiful or rare or new sword would EVER have more than 15-22. Now you have swords with mods that also change in power and the actual base stats. This seems insane to me. How can PvP ever be competitive if your items do not match 100%?

I felt so strange going to fight stuff as a war with no monk. I was like how the fuck will I last? Not needing monks and bringing in "self heal" is also another example. Instead of needing a decent backline you just herp derp spam your heal spell. You can just grab whatever and run into every fight without a single shit about who is with you since you can just heal yourself. In GW1 monks were ESSENTIAL, imagine gvg with no monk?

Not having GvG/HA/TA which were what showed how important team work is in GW1 is another way. Imagine GvG in Gw2 it would just be stupid. No splits would work because every one has self heal anyways, spikes wouldn't work with the skill slot wasted on your basic attack and there is nothing with pure burst heal/prot just wimpy ball-less self heals so any spikable skills would be nerfed to fuck.

Everything about the game feels like it is much more solo oriented. Everything works so well together and nothing is really bad I guess. You can roll with 5 wars into pve and just kill stuff. In GW1 you would die to the first mob or maybe slowly slowly crawl to the end.

Don't get me wrong I do enjoy this game very much and I plan on playing it a lot. I don't think it will have the magic of GW1 for me. I put over 4000 hours of my life into that game and I still never get sick of it and the nostalgia is just insane. Being able to dual one on one with the set up in GvG excites me so much even know. Tactics and skill will win games in GvG and knowing you as a team beat another 8 players with your wits and skill is such an amazing feeling. Nothing in my gaming experience has ever made me feel so fucking pumped to get to champ range with you guys. Fuck me and tri holding off 2v8 was so crazy and I laugh out loud every time I remember how the atmosphere in vent exploded when we held off and came back and won the game. Every single game when the GL dropped was such a huge rush. That's what I miss the most, I wanted to be part of a team again this game sadly will not provide that in the near future.