[The Death of Thief]

Anyone that played since launch knows that all the classes had to be balanced around thief. I imagine its not the same dev team anymore. The old team threw logic out the window in favor of class themes in such a way that every other class had to pass a thief survival test (which for a long time necro never did).

[Revenants are harassing PvP for 6 years now - lets talk about some effective nerfs]

Type Ctrl + F and search "escape". If you do not see anyone other than myself mention Revs lack of escape consider this thread irrelevant and back away slowly.

[Whats preventing you from coming back to play Guild Wars 2 ?]

@"Anchoku.8142" said:There is no creativity value in the game.

• Cannot build structures of our own design and share them with friends or have them collaborate
• Recipes are fixed. While there are "discoverable" recipes, they are not flexible in ingredients, method of making, or results.
• No fishing or other super casual ways to pretend being productive when chilling in-game. (Would need fish recipes, too.)
• No clothing design options. Let fashion wars fans be creative fitting new designs to characters using a model interface tool.

Combat mechanics can still be improved.

• Combinations are very simple. Increase their complexity and teamwork dependency.
• Mob aggression mechanics could be changed to be less driven by a defensive stat and more driven by player actions.
• Mob AI could be updated to respond like players in PvP by dodging, interrupting skills with tells, focusing on low health individuals, etc.
• Rework boons and conditions to make them more meaningful, scarce, and balanced. Limit high value boons and conditions to specializations with clear opportunity costs.

Quality of life improvements

• Allow more than 5 guild memberships or the option to purchase guild slots.
• Make a training mode for raids and fractals that reduces mob defense and permits WP use when dead while the group is in combat.
• Create a more sophisticated auto-grouping tool and add performance feedback options for all instanced combat.
• Add native VR support for multiple platforms.
• Add an option for a web-based client even if it costs the user a monthly fee.
• Increase maximum texture and model detail
• Improve model physics
• Add a check box in on the BLTP to hide recipes and skins already learned.

I forgot mobs AI ..mobs is a huge one its actually the main reason i stopped doing PvE. I dont think they understood how annoying it is fighting against intelligent players tht force you to be engaged in pvp and then going to pve to deal with really bad AI. The story script would have been fine if not for this. In fact the bad AI is why the story felt so boring not 100% with the script itself.

However I think you are being unrealistic. Maybe its because you don't know whats reasonable to execute in an online game. Web based client, better graphics, better physics. There is a reason why downloaded games look better than web based games. Unless you want massive downgrades, streaming all that detail isnt reasonable.

Upgrading graphics and physics isnt necessary and wont do anything to enhance the experience. For its time, GW2 is the best looking MMORPG. BDO came in later with better graphics, though the art style is completely different.

For a small studio like Anet taking devs to develop VR is also not reasonable especially with VR not being mainstream yet.

AI to be able to respond like humans? I dont know about that, also that is vague because humans do so many things in so many situations. They could make a vastly more intelligent AI. Maybe you are talking about something like OpenAI to look for optimal ways to drop the players health to zero with movement and skills. That would be interesting.

One thing no one mentions is inventory management. This is also one of the main reasons i stopped playing. The filters, the sorting the salvaging. They could have done infinitely better with these things.

[Whats preventing you from coming back to play Guild Wars 2 ?]

They don't really understand how player movement affects combat. They kept designing skills to satisfy their own creative whims without considering how they will be used or abused.Shield bubbles that dont follow the caster.Clunky movements on necro that got it abused by thief. Slow is fine but it shouldnt be slow for the sake of thematicsspammable stealth, blind and teleports on thief that caused way more problems than it should have.Ventaris heal is very awkward in mobile combat.

They kept trying to balance on extremes (evade or nuke everything or die, or tank everything or do no damage) which does not work

In PVE legendaries are glorified skins, and not a good enough reason to keep me invested when my bought skins were already pretty good.

The way the story was told was extremely boring to me. I think the writing was intended for a 10 year old audience which is fine. I just kept thinking, "nobody talks like that" and got bored of following the story after a while.

[Do You Like the Trait System?]

The game is too different now to compare the two.