Shinimas

Don' t you dare to infect spvp with gear progression. You farmers already did that to world versus world and we now have ascended gear, if you don' t like playing spvp for the sake of it and need a prize to motivate your lazy bum than spvp isn' t suited for you. Turn spvp into gear based skirmishing and gw2 will just be another wannabe wow.

ANet doesn't care about PvP.

General Typhus, on 22 November 2012 - 07:36 AM, said:

No, we demonstrated that it's not just our opinion, it's simply a fact that the game took a direction opposite to the one they have been advertising before and for 2 months after release.

FotM gone?

If anything there's going to be more than ever...

I don't know who's balancing over at ANet, but they've got no idea how to balance a class.  Maining a thief myself, I was hoping the BS build would get toned down and other builds buffed slightly.  Instead ANet decided they want everyone to run D/D...

I've shelved my thief and honestly I've lost a lot of interest in PvP after this patch.  Another patch like the last one and I'll probably just uninstall.

Legendary doesn't have higher stats than Exotic.

Azure Skye, on 13 November 2012 - 04:43 AM, said:

Did I have fun spending hours in WvW to get my gear with tokens for WvW? Yes.
Am I going to enjoy being forced to keep up with a power curve by grinding a PvE dungeon with gated content to keep an even playing field in WvW when my time is already limited? No.
Do I care all to particularly about the dungeon token gear? No.
Do I care that they are slipping down the slope of a power creep which murdered every aspect of GW1 from its PvP to its PvE? Yes.
Do I care that they gated their content with a nonsensical mechanic that I will have to keep updating to do more content? Yes. (So much for skill > gear. So much for everything GW1 stood for...)

Next up, they add gear progression to PvP because "thats what everyone wants".

I'd have seriously taken a dungeon full of Kohler as trash, boss, and mega boss mobs rather than some gated garbage. What is the point of gating? To add an artificial delay on the progression of your content. This has been WoW dance for as long as I can remember, locking people out of raids for a whole week after a single run. Why? To pad out the progression. And in there case it made sense, you were paying them monthly. In this case it makes *-all sense.

And there isn't a single reason provided for why the gear couldn't be exotic stats + best in slot gem + infusion slot. None.

Screek, on 05 October 2012 - 09:25 AM, said:

Most games were never anything 'competitive'. People understand that world pvp, the type that existed early on for the most part, was inherently unfair and thus didn't worry about balance too much. A good example is Vanilla WoW to TBC. Vanilla was largely imbalanced but because the pvp was focused on world pvp and large battlegrounds the issue didn't come up much. In TBC they focused on significantly smaller battles and made a ranking system so suddenly balance was very important. It helps that high damage or larger group numbers tend to water down balance issues by making correct decisions mean more also.

People complain about balance more when games or pvp modes are marketed as being 'competitive'. Things like Arena or tpvp make you want as fair a competition as possible because there is a ranking you are getting (or should be in the case of tpvp).

But why would a person want to improve oneself if the game is poorly designed? I mean, even if I'll be as amazing as I can be - that won't change the fact that 8v8 and Capricorn make GW2's hot-join into a complete joke. Or the fact that asura are the default PvP race. Or the fact that FoV is beyond shit and you can barely see anything that's going on. Or the fact that mesmers and thieves really aren't that enjoyable to play against. Or ...
If your castle is made out of shit, you might be the king of your castle, but you are still living in shit.


I pushed myself in SC2 and DOTA2 and I improved.
I don't see a reason for doing that in GW2.

Less than a week.....I really think they released the game not finished.....