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So, with the Meta all the damage has been stripped away so hard its unreal tanky minstril blobs comprising of about 80% minstrils and 20% dmg guys. This is the pinacle of god tier skilled gaming imo, and I got to thinking why dont we just cut to the chase and hit for 0's?? I mean we're close enough now and its a super family friendly game anyway. I guess it just seems like from an attracting new players perspective and a longevity view of things it would just be better if we did as close to 0 dmg as possible so we could focus on sitting on our mounts afk in towers and chilling with our friends open field in the tonics we all love so much. More passives too that can protect us from any potential dmg coming in, like auto protection and regen when hit by anything even if its an accident. That way it would solve all the griefing and bullying issues that may still be lingering. That would help with roleplaying and costume brawls without the bullies hurting our fealings, we could hold hands and cap towers and maybe get some friendly "Blows Kisses" emotes for the guys on the other team. Seeing as we will never have damage back again and moves that should be avoided but arent because u can just sit in them like meteor shower are gone forever lets just finish this up with single digit numbers on massive attacks that should be avoided we're way more than halfway there anyway. We can sit around and have stories about how the game used to be, and how Gw2 was built around the basis of not healing other players back when it had a playerbase and wasnt broke, and we can all do this while sitting around those cute little campfires. This would open soooooooo many RP event doors and costume brawls, and maybe the festive things like fireworks and toilet paper rolls would be appreciated more. I dont see why we havent already done this. Anyway cheers everyone hope this gets some upvotes 🥰

Some of the pets are sooooo good and are my favorites!! The crow is legit, the Smokescale is pretty MVP its hard to not be using the smokescale, the bears are pretty decent in soulbeast merge. Anyway i could go on and on, I just think it would be kinda cool if the pets that pretty much never get used by literally anyone where improved, idk just a thought. How about everyone else maybe we can expand this conversation what do u guys think?

I hear ya 100% Panda, I do think it would be cool if we had a variant to choose from tho. Like let players have the classic ugly ones we have now, and then give us skins for better looking ones 😘

I hate to be the guy that needs to bring up the Elephant in the room but, why does the Gw1 flesh Golem look AWESOME!! and the Gw2 flesh golem looks...... I mean it would take no time for someone to reskin this thing. How do I know this? Are we not aware of how many skins there are for mounts and costumes??????? Anyway just a thought, hell Anet put minion skins in the shop Ill even give u monies for it plz just cmon.

If your new to wvw I can break it down for you in 2021. Every blob you fight will be a map que of 90% minstrils with likely 40% firebrands. Dmg no longer is a factor bc it is so low now it doesnt seem to determine much, the group with the larger numbers and most stability uptime wins regardless of skill. Thats Pretty much all you need to know, Bet you wont stick around for longer than a month before quitting. And the game caters to new players not veterans enjoy ur brief stay.

I love how your trying to move the conversation in another direction cause u got math'd, "oh crap! losing the argument better change subjects!"

Yes, this is why I made a troll ele build that was able to serf a 30 man blob indefinitely until I got bored and got tired of getting rage PMs. Bc toughness is balanced. Thank you for removing the veil from my ignorance and showing me the light.

Alright, put some thought into this one. I know most of this will fall on deaf ears bc 99.99% of the community omni blobs with a map que or doesnt play at all so here goes. The future of WVW will be greated with MORE dmg nerfs i know its hard to believe but its coming u can bank on it. This game was initially created on the idea that you would heal yourself. That is and has not been the case since April of 2014 the official date the game went full woke. Now all u will have are advocates that state dmg is fine, learn to play all that jazz. Also, it will fall on deaf ears because most of the player base that "would be" at or above the 8 year mark are virtually non existent. Most players are new and dont know how things once where. So now the current state of things is group up with tons of "friends" and cc spam the ever loving hell out of some dude and condi nuke him. Conditions used to not be a spec it wasnt something u would run into very often about the only condi you would encounter is an Engineer or a Necro. Everything else was so bad at it it wasnt even worth attempting in favor of something that took more skill. Now that monetization is an issue as the loyalist playerbase has left or is leaving you have the newer ultra defensive casual gamer dads coming in, perhaps due to unforseen circumstances or perhaps Covid related.In may of 2014 ranked pvp the minstrel amulet was added to pvp. A BAD all caps druid was quite literally un-killable. This has stayed the course, if u are a competent veteran who knows what their doing u can troll an enemy in berserker gear indefinitely. Toughness has never been balanced and never will be so its scaling is out of control and people know this. If a subpar tank with say 2700+ toughness fights a rank 1 pvp god in berserker amulet the better player isnt just going to lose, hes going to get absolutely ruined. Ive seen the evidence in players that are infinately better than I am. So instead of just complaining like a big baby and getting nothing accomplished i have a proposal.WVW Map vote poling. I am almost certain across the playerbase everyones favorite map by quite a bit is EBG. The distance u travel to get from one place to another or to rejoin the fight is the shortest.Create a clone of EBG except give it a new name and make it the que map for waiting for the main ebg, instead of a castle in the center just make it a keep.Now, since toughness auto invuln procs and builds with 100% uptime on protection will NEVER be touched because of how hard it carries , I propose an Elite EBG with better rewards!The elite EBG would have the same setup as the one we have now except the player will be met with a choice of the CURRENT pvp amulets - Devastator or whatever the tanky one is called. They will earn pips at a higher rate, and the downstate HP will be 66% less. If met with limited toughness and lower downstate hp the fights will be much faster and more fun. And it can be a choice! wanna stay terrible and get carried by passive invulns and infinate protection coupled with 3000+ armor and duel ppl to bm them??? u can!! You could just join the Vanilla EBG. The likelihood of this proposal is coming to life is -5000% chance but atleast its a thought that was put out there. The only people who are complaining about the game state as far as I can tell are veterans, the newer folks advocate for more tankiness, more passives and more Map que size friendly changes, Im simply proposing a new way of thinking that would be more appealing to people at the higher skill level that dont need rediculously high tankiness and passives to save them to enjoy the game. Do i wish desperately this conversation would go somewhere? Absolutely, will it? More than likely no.I appreciate anyone who plays alot because if we all didn't play Gw2 there would be no Gw2 to play. Im simply trying to incentivise bettering oneself as a player rather than betgging Anet for more automatic carrie type abilities and infinate Dmg reductions that have gone a little out of control.If you choose to slander my post based on your current experience its very unlikely you played Vanilla Gw2 - Pre carry.Side not, Adding to the topic of the elite EBG the conditions would be reverted to thier original state and would not be stacking. I hope we can get some thoughtful contributions to the conversation rather than no scoping literal bots in blue and greens that have no idea what thier doing. <3

Idk about u guys but ALL these blobs are minstrils and the pace of battle is unbelivably slow and boring, the game was more fun when we had damage. The current meta reminds me of when Overwatch meta shifted to 6 tanks in thier Esports league and thier viewership plummeted. I know this is about to get ripped apart by 4-5 pages of snowflakes who dont want anything to happen to thier 50 man map que cc spam no brains perma protection heal to full every second ELITE gameplay but anyway. Just a thought. Oh and everyone be sure to post ur roaming videos of u one shotting literal bots in blue and greens to dispute my stance, that will definately help the discussion.

Well, its 2020, soon to be 2021 and we still can dye The Ascension or Warbringer. Idk... would be kinda nice tho <3

So there i was derpin around smc, when a lil minstrils or nomads idk, scrapper shows up. Ive got the most offensive food on "Cilantro Lime Sous-Vide Steaks, Writ of Masterful Strength and im on berserker gunflame with scholar runes all zerk no hybrid no mix matchy stuff all zerk. The guy decides to humor me, and let me wail on him pop sig of fury and unblockable, go in for the gunflame traited for garanteed crit and..... I get a 2127. I load up using the heal get a 1717. Is this really how we're gunna play gw2 now? I wailed on him for about 3 minutes and he never got below 70% hp, why is this the direction of the game. No why has this been the direction of the game since 2014. is the point to get where there is no dmg and we just /emote each other? Build campfires and just sit around? Theres other games that do a much better job of this. I get it its 2020 and no one wants to feel like there a bad player and all but this is just rediculous I think toughness and dmg midigation is literally out of control now, and its fully in favor of Mega blobs that are 90% supports. It takes player skill completely out of the equation. And trust me there comes a point when even the mega blobbers are gunna sit in discord together and think thier amazing bc thier unkillable and be like this games too ez. Look at all the guilds, ENTIRE guilds that have left the game. Gw2 ur taking too much player skill out of the equation, and believe me the moment a better option with similar gameplay comes out everyone's gunna jump ship. People need to adapt, not just wear tankier crap. Plz take the training wheels off so we can all have fun again. Thats all im asking for. Now dont get me wrong some stuff was HILARIOUSLY broken b4, like revenant 5, Im personally glad it got nerfed into being un-usable but the problem was mainly the way it 1 shot literally anything. That is not skillful gameplay, anyone can 1 shot something, theres no counterplay to it at all, "oops one shot u lol ur bad" -no not advocating this at all. But for a fully decked out zerker to get no where literally against a tanky dude thats literally by himself??? Idk, this is gunna fall on deaf ears and get no where but whatever I tried I gess. GG fun game =/

it could "sound normal" if I had it and always before.But, if they were attentive, they would see what I wrote, before I did not drop the FPS. Reading this was painful, and i literally have no idea what u where trying to say lol. Please proofread ur post b4 u submit it =D

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