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I have more of an issue with the people that harp about things like this then people running them.  Personal reward and the ingame goals they help accomplish are largely what keep players coming back, and petty squabbles and discrimination only drive players away.  I can't bring myself to care what someone else is running in the group with me and I am always turned off by the players that do.

And the only reason the guy said what he did was because there's so much backlash from the super-serious tryhard gaming community about it being "bad for the game" because they lose 30 seconds of a boss fight to someone wearing it.

It is my thread. It is my suggestion. The suggestion wasn't made because I want to play with less waypoints, the suggestion was made because I suggested the game is fundamentally broken. If someone wants to argue that point that is perfectly fine. But to say that I shouldn't use waypoints is missing the original point of why I think less waypoints would be better.

Just to clear things up:

1. I played every class in GW1 to level 20 (except my pre-searing ele) and never had a problem finding a PUG to do a mission and I finished at least one story line on every single character. It wasn't hard to find PUG groups, and guild groups were even easier to form.

2. With the sole exception of DoA, I never ever had to come up with a predetermined group of 8 classes and 64 skills to finish anything in the game. A few skills were very beneficial in certain areas, but never a requirement to win.

3. I never ever played PvE as tank, healer, nuker in the traditional sense of balling groups up, etc. So, that is not necessary.

Many of the assumptions made by people who like the changes in GW2 seem to say that it makes those 3 things better. Unless you were terrible at the game, you didn't need to do any of those three things.

Now, to address the one class can do everything argument: You are wrong.

Not every class can do everything anymore than they could do in GW1. You still have about 1 self heal per class. You still have a few utility skills per class. What has changed is that you don't have classes dedicated to healing or utility. DPS has stayed relatively the same, but you cannot heal or use utility skills like interrupts/diversion/hexes in any way close to the way you could in GW1. Therefore, content is now easier, because it must allow for you to get through it without needed to have efficient healing - because there is none. Similarly, content must be easier because you don't have enough utility to game plan around more advanced strategy or tactics by the AI.

What you have then, is not the ability to do all things on one character any better than GW1; instead, you do not have the ability to heal or provide utility because every class is focused on pretty much DPS with 5 DPS weapon skills, 1 heal, 3 utlity skills (of which 1 is usually a stun break/movement skill and one is a condition removal skill), and an elite.

The illusion of having more choices is just that - an illusion.

What has changed is making an 8 person party interesting. Because instead of choosing from DPS, healing or utility, now you get to choose from DPS, DPS or more DPS.


EDIT: I would like to add that an 8 person team in GW2, if ported to GW1, would not be able to get through the game because of the lack of efficient healing. For the same reason, should an 8 man team from GW1 meet an 8 man team from GW2 for a deathmatch, the GW1 team would win, because the GW2 would not have efficient healing.