beadnbutter32

This kind of team structure is really only good in CoF path 1.

That's only one dungeon out of a whole world of content.

All they need to do is patch CoF path 1.

Anywhere else you need a well balanced team to do things, made all the more obvious by the many threads posted by 'zerkers' on forums about how this or that area has too many vets or champions or mobs that hit too hard (such as assorted complaints after the last patch's changes to Cursed Shore). People on balanced builds / teams have no problems with that stuff - but zerker's can't glitch it, so complain its broken...

Patch CoF Path 1, watch the zerkes light up the forums in rage, but the rest of the game community will be better for it.

so many problems with that game, tons of useless traits, useless utility spell, no diversity.

You brought this up 3 months ago and pinned it on the players. You can't change player behavior without changing the game - so it is a developer problem. Sorry, but while you had the right idea that it is a problem, your insistence that the players need to change their behavior is not realistic or even the problem.

The problem is that this game is made largely for solo play. As such, every class must be able to survive on their own. Which means that in their limited skill bar, most of the skills are related to DPS and self healing. There isn't even enough space to add things that make teamwork and other interesting gameplay viable without nerfing the ability for each class to go through their personal story and open world solo.

Of course, it doesn't help that balance is so screwed up that things like conditions don't even work as well as straight up DPS.

If you step back and take a look at what ANet was trying to do, which is create a game without the negative effects of the trinity, they did a lousy job. Mostly because they fell into the same class stereotypes that are in trinity games, and kind of rely on the trinity. Why, for example, would you roll a class with a lower armor rating and DPS than a warrior for PvE except to take advantage of a couple of really great utility skills such as the mesmer has? There is no real reason as it relates to effectiveness in PvE.

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The new pet archetype, boy what a bit of BS that term is.  Rangers have been asking forever that ranged pets get the smarts to stay at range and not commit suicide by running to withing the targets melee range. Instead, they hard code it so that ranged pets will run behind the target, which will usually put them in the midst of other foes and within melee range.  So now in WvW and a ranger targets an enemy at the edge of a large zerg, the pet will run around behind the target, and deep into the zerg, instant pet suicide.  Same thing in dungeons, target a boss minion at the edge of that group of minions and the boss, pet runs around behind the minion, to end up sitting right next to the boss and in the middle of the other minions.  It's obvious, this was never tested in WvW or PVE and only conceptualized in sPVP.

As usual Arenanet antagonizes players by doing the exact opposite of what is requested.

The two devs involved obviously show enthusiasm for certain classes in PVP and their demeanor gets sullen and bored when talking about other classes,

Try this little experiment, mark down the time codes for when they talk about thief, eles, warriors, rangers ,engineers etc.

The turn off the sound and make a note of the visual cues they send during those portions.  They get all animated and smile often when on the topic of thieves, eles, and warrors, and turn dour, frown, and take defensive body positions when on the topics of rangers.

They go on and on about adding more micromanagement to thieves as a good thing, while they pooh pooh a single additional improvement to Ranger pet control as too much micromanagement.  That's just plain bull. Seeing those two stances so close together just illustrates how biased they are against Rangers and PVE balancing in general.

Like this above poster said, sticking with your greatsword in melee range will do more damage than swapping to your rifle every HB/whirlwind. Why not use an axe/mace swap?

This is a common noob behavior you see in the starter zones, players firing off thier skills in some mechanical order regardless of whether the benefit is needed at the moment (knockback, block, distance closer when your already face to face, etc.)