Which profession are players most hostile towards?
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Just curious and I want to know how things have changed over the years.
(In terms of kicking people because they play a certain class or bashing them for it)
Well, I see myself getting very toxic towards rangers because they're annoying and useless. Even the druid is bad because there are classes who can outperform a druid in healing. Still don't know why it's still meta. Also it's a noob class. Every time i see a ranger I block them.
(This goes for mostly WvW as I'm more active in this game mode but currently I'm taking a break from it since the community on my server has been split up and arguing over something. And yes, this also goes for PvE since every kitten ranger doesn't know what pet on passive is, nearly everyone uses the ugly bear and I see them mostly running this useless longbow which only causes more annoyance due to only have 2 useful skills and the rest being absolute s.hit. Is this class not hated by everysone anymore? I remember everyone hating it and labeling players of this class as noobs)
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Well Mesmer(PvP)and thief, warr and necro maybe too.
For PvE it's mainly all professions with frequent knockbacks(open PvE).
Or necromancers for Group content due to low group utility.
All these poles giving Anet some decent information. It sure is useful to see what people feel.
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This poll wont give any useful information. For start mesmer has 3 votes and it's a class that currently (and for the past few years) has not just viable builds, but the optimal builds in every single game mode and every type of content in it. You dont want to kick mesmers, you want them in your party. People will just vote for the classes they hate because they get 1-shotted by them, classes that got buffed to above-their-main-class' dps, classes that they have no idea about but they heard that other people hate them etc. but none of those have anything to do with groups and kicking, which is the point of this thread.
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In what mode?
In WvW its no doubt thieves and mesmers.
Just a couple of days ago a duel specced spellbreaker complained about me being a mirage in whispers. And a single autoattack from him would at one point literally have downed me while he was still 50%+ hp. I am not good at fighting warriors to begin with. When I pointed out he could have won that pretty close fight it was just nope. You are a mirage, hence you suck.
Of course sometime later we went 2 mirages vs 1 sb (not the one above) and 1 vanilla warrior and they just roflstomped us both.
But nope. Mirages are worst and he only lost because I was a mirage and mirages are OP, not because he could in any way possibly have been a worse player.
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I think it's a war issue. Most of the time when you lose to a spellbreaker, it's because you suck, you're a noob, or whatever. When they lose to you, it's because you run a cheesy build/spec. Many wars seem to think they're entitled to be the strongest. Getting killed by a light armor class seems unbearable.
No doubt thief in PvP. People complaining about Deadeye because they're too stiff to dodge or don't know how to counter them. Necromancer and mesmers as well.
I think overall and historically, Thief.
Possibly Mesmer...
That's for sPvP and WvW though. People just love complaining about the Stealth and Mobility these classes have and always use it as a reason to shout for nerfs...
In PvE... No clue.
Think anything really goes there..?
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nah Ranger.
one guy wanted to do a bounty and said 'rangers need not apply'
so i blocked them. Don't need that before my morning coffee.
Mesmers gonna say mesmer.
Thieves gonna say thief.
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I would have to say necro, and I don't even have a necro lol. I see them being harassed more than anyone though. In PvP it's for not being on the right points at the right time (due to their lack of mobility) along with people complaining the loudest when a necro kills them and everyone always shouting "focus the necro" before the match starts. In pve they still get harassed for not switching to something else in group content and excluded from some groups entirely. In wvw they're usually fine if they stick to the blob. I primarily PvP though, so that's where my opinion comes from.
op you block every ranger you see? even when he doesnt say anything?
necros are the first target because they are easy to pressure down since they lack defensive stuff and a freecasting necro is deadly, so yea kill him first obviously
Yeah, my post was worded badly because I'm on my phone so it looks like a bunch of garbled nonsense but that's basically what I meant lol. I didn't elaborate on common strategy because that's not the topic though. I was more referencing the verbal abuse they often get after they're focused down, from both their own team and the opposing team.
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Mesmer and Warrior.... You shouldnt be the best at all the things...Its greedy
thieves in pvp. Haven't played my thief regularly in a year or more, but when I did it was terrible. I'd have good games, bad games, I was mostly mediocre. But according to every team I was soley responsible for winning or losing every game. People expect you to be everywhere at once as a thief and teammates don't understand if a thief is being countered or shut down. These days I've dropped my thief and ele and mainly only play my two rev's, but I still see people on my pvp teams just throwing a constant barrage of insults at thieves even in quickplay.
Other than that I never really see any other specific professions get targeted for hate. Rev used to all the time because of all the internet hate, but it has died down and no one complains about me playing it anymore.
I mostly play PvE so I put Necro which is in a terrible state after they nerfed it yet again. I swear someone on the balance team has a grudge against them.
Don't forget condi is still a major salt magnet. I got way more salt on my condi trapper no stealth thief build when I killed someone than I do on my deadeye, and I'm hitting people for up to 29k currently. But it's ok, because that's power and therefore skill (sarcasm, there's virtually no skill in a one shot build on any class).
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People don't even know what the thief weapon skills do and still rage about things you aren't even doing while playing the class.
Whenever I do play my thief, I routinely get salty PM's about how overpowered my permastealth is, how resetting is overpowered despite the fact I run D/D + S/D core on all-offense traitlines and never OOC, and don't even play with Shadowstep, Roll for Initiative, or Signet of Agility. People just absolutely cannot accept the fact they get totally out-played when they do and are quick to blame things that are exclusive only to a few builds.
Mesmer is up there, but it's also currently overpowered in the PvP modes, so there's that.
For PvE, though, it's probably necro or ranger, just because no matter what you do, people are going to be salty you're not playing another class for more DPS.
It's not really skilled play to play Dire/TB anything to be honest, so that could be why.
SA DE is definitely cheese, but it's way more killable.
You sure that Sniper idea is as good as you thought it was gonna be?
Because I think my original idea is better.
Of course, that's kinda my point. When you think about which professions people hate, the professions that are usually condi are probably gonna be higher on the list just for that.
To be honest I don't care how skilled a build is considered to be, if I'm solo roaming and repeatedly running into things that counter my main power build I'll swap to condi if it gets better results, and vice versa. If the other guy is dead and I'm not I call that a win.
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For me it's ranger.
Every profession can be played good and I would never kick someone for their profession before giving them a chance.
However every profession can also be played bad and while it's easy to ignore most badly played professions and just silently carry them, a bad ranger can really ruin your day. A bad ranger is actually worse than leaving the spot free.
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Mesmer. I really wish it got deleted from the game. But that's just personal preference.
Alright, to clear things up a bit:
I did play ranger (mostly druid) in the time of return after a year long break (from a previous account from 2012 to 2014 which isn't existing anymore due to contact adress loss and more) in 2015 but I've seen the hate for this class still persisted and so I just tried to go with the flow and get into the toxic elitism squad too because I'm too afraid people will think badly of me if I don't do it. It's sad to see that you can't play how you feel like anymore without everyone thinking you're a bad player. It's sad to be judged by choice of class, skins (choosing a decent and realistic style rather than legendary over the top flashy weeb anime s.hit), weapons, races, if you're a RPer or anything else. And since I became a very anxious and paranoid person this affects me a lot. Yes, I know my stuff and I play meta builds if they're required for content such as raids, dungeons or WvW (Even if we have our own community created and concepted build for our server). I don't mean to spread anything. I actually just wanted to share my thoughts on how sad I find it how the game has become compared to the good old days and now. I also wanted to share my thoughts on this because I feel uncomfortable playing certain characters of mine even though I really want to because of the fear of getting judged from everywhere. I just want to enjoy the game again like I used to earlier, that's all.
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In PvE at least, I despise playing with Necro's - usually to the point where I audably groan when I see one join the party. More often than not, people who play Necro play it because of the sheer tankyness, so you often have to play around them and the minions they set loose on every mob.
PvE.. can't say there is a reason to hate any class..
PvP/WvW I don't care for Mesmers and Thieves simply because of their abuse of (cheap)stealth mechanics and how easy it is for them to get cheap kills.
I've mained a Longbow Ranger since Gw2 launched so I laugh at OP's comments regarding us as useless noob players.
And prior to HoT the Jaguar.
I guess he doesn't quite understand how effective the companion system is when it comes to survival nor what the strengths of the Longbow are.
Rangers can achieve very high survivability as a Glass cannon simply by manipulating aggro and swapping between Range and Melee when opportune.
And I don't use Bears either :P
I use the Jungle Stalker and Smokescale if you must know
My main LB Ranger has never once been elite spec'd either.. in fact the only changes made to his build since the current 3 traitline system was put in place are the swapping of Jaguar for the Smoke Scale and swapping his secondary weapon set from Sword/Axe to Sword Warhorn.
Besides those I've been running the same build for years in every area of the game besides raids.
Lmao I've seen that before too so I took his bounty and soloed it before he got there xD
Elaborate?
I know Rangers can really annoy some people with their point blank shot knockback but I don't see how a bad player can utterly ruin your day..
Minion Masters are not always tanks.. you can run a glass canon MM and get very good damage from it..
I prefer Soldier stats myself.. very tanky wihout crippling damage.. more than enough to solo just about anything in the PvE game.
The problem isn't their damage, but that the Necromancer's minions spread out the mobs, or hold the boss in a disadvantageous position. Plus Necromancer's tend to be played by players who tend to facetank everything, and tend to be the sort to blame the party for "noob" tactics like skipping, stacking or stealth. They are also the most likely class to break stealth in dungeons, since many of them don't know that their warhorn and scourge swiftness spells are actually attacks.
Not all necro's are like this, but the moment a necro starts summoning minions, that sets off the warning bells for me.
I honesty don't care what people think of me or the class I play.
How sad that people have to forge an opinion because they are worried what others will do or say.
No class should be made to feel noob, unwanted or useless.
In open world it's their point blank shot. When you've stacked 2 or 3 long lasting aoes directly under a veteran mob and the veteran suddenly leaves the aoe circles, it usually doesn't take long for a pet to trudge right after it. Somehow rangers seem to believe that the damage bonus they get from auto-attacking at max range is totally worth knocking a mob out of aoes or another player's melee range.
Now I haven't had any bad rangers in raids yet (mostly because I don't pug), but in dungeons a bad ranger is painfully obvious. The mobs are spread all over the room instead of gathering in melee range for a quick kill? Guess who's standing in full line of sight of all ranged mobs happily pew-pewing at them. Because bows deal more damage at range. The ranger who is neither specced for dps nor shows proficiency in anything resembling a dps rotation claims his insignificant dps increase is more important than what 4 other people could do!
Most of what @Westenev.5289 mentioned about necromancers also applies to rangers. The only difference is that the necro has to actively pick minion skills. If you have a ranger in your group, there's a 100% chance he's bringing his stupid pet.
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In my experience in WvW zerg there are many commanders who autokick any Ranger & Thief sub classes.
(IMHO it is quite stupid, especially because when I go to WvW with 100% selfish power Mirage build no one gives a kitten and I am well welcomed in zerg.....)
xD, kicking a thief is bit beyond me anyway staff thief in proper group is dangerous if u ask me.
i mean i have absolutely no problem staying alive on thief in blob fights as im pretty much on perma dodge + i blast all kitten on ground so with all guards around i constantly blast healing fields.
but nope thief bad cant be in WvW thus why i barely help out these blob players nowadays i just watch em getting picked off by enemy thiefs or w/e
Rangers can control their pets, and generally (if you're polite), you'll find they're making an honest mistake. Pets are hard to control if you're not paying attention - minions can't be controlled without running away from the fight, and what necromancer runs from a fight?
But, yeah. That's the reason why I don't mind Rangers so much.
"The classes that beats my main!"
Funny. I've never seen "Thieves and mesmers will be Kicked" or "Focus the thief or mesmer". I have seen "Necros will be kicked" and "Focus the necro" though.
I've not played with many other MM's so I can't say I see those problems much.
From my experience most enemies tend to ignore my minions and focus direcly on me or other players instead (unless I intentioanlly start combat with a minion skill).. that said manipulating aggro is something I as a MM but also a Ranger main am experienced with and actively focus on while playing.
I do enjoy facetanking things but not at the cost of the team.. if anything stacking is highly advantageous for me since my MM build isn't just a tank it's also a healer and a focused reviver.. so it's a lot easier to keep people alive when they're right at my feet.
The only problem i've had with skipping though is that some people don't understand the concept of a decoy.. I tell people to run while I tank the aggro but they don't listen and try to jump in and fight instead.. That's hardly my fault though when they die, I did tell them to run while I give them an opening to do so.
I see.
Yeah those are fair criticisms.
I'm all too familiar with the point blank shot one as well as having done it myself a many times albiet not intentionally.
When communication with the Ranger doesn't exist (no discord etc) it's very easy for the Ranger to fail to notice AoE setup and knock an enemy out of it.. from personal experience I've often done that while my intent being an interupt not to screw up someone elses burst attack or AoE.
I can understand how annoying that is though having been on the recieving end of it as well and wasting my Hundred blades etc
That said I usually save my PBS for breakbars when playing group content although while running around openly I use it for interupts, knockback (occasionally into someones AoE) and general lulz which is the most common time I screw up some random guys attack because when fighting something alone I'm just not expecting some random to jump in every time I use it lol
The bow range dmg increase is definitely not worth sacrificing a good might stack for.. no experienced Ranger player would deny that.
The only advantage I know for a LB Ranger not to stack in melee range is to take advantage of a piercing burst.
This is something I think non Ranger players either ignore or are unaware of..
The bulk of a Rangers longbow damage doesn't come from the range dmg mechanic it comes from careful positioning and piercing arrows.
Longbows single target DPS isn't that great we all know that.. and a Ranger is far better off in Melee range stack with a sword against a single target.
However the ability to multiply their Barrage/Rapid fire combo damage by 5 accross 5 different enemies is absolutely worth breaking away for.
Imo when Rangers can pull that combo off on 5 enemies the combined damage can greatly exceed any other classes single AoE damage with exception to probably epidemic.
That said it's tricky to pull off and most of the time the Ranger won't max out the damage due to an enemy breaking away or dying.. so it's a gambit.
This is a mechanic I play with a lot so I am very familiar with how important my positioning is when i'm aiming to do a huge burst of AoE damage to multiple enemies.
due to hitbox locations and enemy size being in melee range with a longbow is utterly crippling to this mechanic.. half the time your arrows are going to be aimed stright up in the air at a single enemy so the Ranger must break away to get his arrow trajectory to line up with multiple enemies or he's just wasting his highest dps attack.
But this is all highly situational and in all honesty I don't know many Ranger players who actively incorporate this damage method into their playstyles.
As for the pet though.. pet control is a core part of the Ranger class (an OP one at that when used right) and far too many players simply ignore it.
I did too for a long time thus earning my main pet the name Leeroy as he got me and my group killed many times in my noobish days XD
It's really not hard to control the pet though.. I really like playing with enemy aggro and a big part of that is manipulating the pet to take it.. for solo play this has allowed me to easily solo some dungeons with a glass Ranger as well as numerous group events in the open world and bounties.
What the Ranger looses in overall stats he makes up for in his pet.. simply letting your pet run wild and ignoring it is a really bad way to play a Ranger.
Necros can actually control their minions... to an extent but not to the level a Ranger can control their pet.
Rangers naturally get the attack, come back, aggressive, passive etc commands where as Necros have nothing like that to work with.
That said the minions will always attack the Necromancers priority target so long as the Necromancer actively attacks it or orders a minion to via skill.
Necromancers can use this to manipulate their minons position.
It's definitely a tricky thing to work with and i've long supported the idea of adding a command for minions to break combat like the Rangers come back F3 skill.
However it's important to note that the priority target doesn't need to take damage to force the minions attention..
The Necro can simpley target a distant enemy and swing their weapon around in the air hitting nothing or use a minion skill and the whole group of minions will disengage their current target and swarm the new one.
It's not perfect and it can be a pain to work with but a skilled Minion Master will often take advantage of it to minimize enemy spredout and other common minion problems.
Nah, every class beats my main, only a few of them uses stealth, which is the strongest skill in the game in the right hands.
i will say this i find mes and rangers and thiefs hated prity evenly in this game. now mes is mainly for the wvw/ pvp seance. ranger and thief are just hated in all game modes becouse of thief doing stealth and only being ok at the job of dps and ranger becouse the pet makes players rage for no reson even if the ranger knows whats going on and they still get hate. i find when i play my ranger i get kicked more becouse i am a support class and not supper strong in dps but i loss the dps and bost everyone in the part by like 10% to i think 20% so why they hated its becouse of the dps output the dont add. this is all from what i have experianced in gw2.
The necromancer is constantly under fire for nerfs. I think players just don't like playing against a debuffer. Necromancer's used to be quite proficient at shredding boons, Now they're still decent at it but don't compare to warrior Gags. They apply a wide range of conditions which players don't like and always think they're losing if they have even 1 condition on them. So they constantly get over nerfed by the devs. Their damage gets cut to ribbons, which reaper for example never had great damage but their chill got cut down and they sat in the back seat for ages because no one likes fighting Debuffers. Scourge had too much control with Shades being very placeble and with highly spammable crippling so their damage was nerfed to balance out the real problem which was the Crippling and AoE coverage. Note: The damage on scourge was never the problem! It was always the coverage and Crippling! But now all they've got is the crippling so they can be a wet noodle again! But the necromancer can't seem to have any sort of significant damage or support because they have the worst mechanic in the game, Shroud. But even when they drop shroud they're still not allowed to have any sort of support or damage because... uh... I'm not really sure.
The excuses Arena Net seems to give for why Necromancer isn't allowed to be good seems flimsy to me. Usually developers can convince me of their decisions and I can understand why they made specific changes, but Necromancer is always a loss to me. Their reasoning always seems to be counterable with another system in the game that's similar that just works far better! lets give some examples of really really bad changes and claims arena net have done to the necromancer that didn't result in anything good.
I could honestly keep going. I could. There is so much more that is just wrong with anet's decision making when it comes to necromancer, I could be here all day listing things that make NO FREAKIN SENSE in terms of their balance. But how has this translated into the game? Half the necromancer community hates the most of their own class, players get locked into the necromancer because they try it first and have to work twice as hard to learn something else because necromancer taught them bad habits, Part of the community seems to think of necromancers as a death knight WHEN THAT WAS NEVER THEIR DESIGN IN THE FIRST PLACE, necromancer are frequently focus fired in PvP as an easy kill, players have put up signs saying "Necromancer's will be kicked", the glaring issues the community can see for miles and miles goes unfixed for half a decade and the necromancer community is so untrusting of anything the devs say about it that some have gone as far as saying that specific devs should be fired!(Note I never said that, because that's just really cruel and mean.) But the community is so beyond frustrated that we've lost a good 80% of the voices in the community to other games because of how broken the situation is for necromancer.
So you asked. Which profession is the community most hostile towards? Necromancer. Hands down, even necromancer players are extremely hostile toward necromancers.
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Won’t change until it does.
Toxic mentality.
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In PvE it's definitely ranger. They attract the worst kind of players, ignoring mechanics and just using longbow/bear and press skills on cooldown. It's horrible. I can't count the times when such an idiotic yolo-ranger kicks an enemy out of dozens of AoE-fields with the stupid knockback lb4 skill. It clearly shows ignorance towards mechanic. Also a typical ranger picture I see almost daily: camping LB and the stupid useless bear (mostly). Even if the enemy is one millimeter in front of their face they camp their longbow instead of switching ONCE to a melee weapon. It's the horror.
Bearbow op, please nerf. 😂
Man, I tried Reaper again earlier this week for the first time since PoF landed...
Couldn't even get through a single rotation in shroud until my life force was more than half gone more often than not, and that was with the perma-quickness trait.
I understand what they were trying to do with the 'faster decay of shroud in exchange for more damage', but...
"Hate a Class" nope.
It's nobody's business what classes I play, and what builds. If you hate me for that, then go ahead.
This hating is toxic.
My main 2 characters are a Mesmer and a Ranger, and after reading this post, stay away from me... Hate Mesmer's huh? Except when they port you through a JP? Hypocrititcal at best.
Seriously, maybe I am getting too old for this, but if you have nothing else to do, but to hate people for what they want to do in a freakin' game, then by all means go ahead. Don't expect any love from me.
Thank goodness I only play PVE and only do dungeons and fractals with RL friends, because I would not want to be part of any group that hates classes!
Hate is a very, very strong word!
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