Greyrat.2378

ARR did not age well, Heavensward is kind of decent, Stormblood upped the difficulty and made the game more engaging (at least for me), Shadowbringers were fun, Endwalker was.. ok I guess? Game does get better after level 50, and in general it does lot of things well (story, music, aesthetics), which justifies the monthly sub. Combat though feels for lot of classes quite samey, even if it looks different, which is probaly my main gripe with that game. Does not matter how flashy the skills look if it plays same as another dps/tank/heal class, after a while it just feels bland. Would be nice if ANet made spear fun to play, regardless of whether the skills look shiny or not.

*70, not sure if Dawntrail is going to raise it again and include Shadowbringers, so far it's up to Stormblood

No reason to keep playing mode where you feel like 3rd class citizen. Yes, you can argue that key to have fun is to not care about win ratio, rank etc., which is true. Yet personally I've found myself more chasing these "fun" moments while being constantly barraged by situations that makes you feel frustrated, rather than having actual fun, which eventually wears you off. In the end, it's simple question of why settle for less when there are better options. ANet did over past few years very little to give people reason why they should stay, outside of fun combat, and it's too late for any meaningful change anyway. Stick around for a ride and have fun if you can, but don't expect anything to drastically improve.

My body surrenders, but my spirit... will not!

Ranked is 50/50 most of the time, Rush does not really have anything to do with it. Depends on your rank as well. Higher you go, higher chance that you will run into same folks. Although not sure how much the playerbase shrinked past few months, perhaps it's noticable in lower elo as well.

Hardly unpopular. PvP is, and was for some time now, garbage experience, and eventually you will get tired of it unless you are addicted to that specific moment when you actually get good quality match up and situation where combat in GW2 actually shines. Problem is that moments like that are very scarce and you get far more often thrown into situations that are hardly fun for neither side. Fact that it took them that long to fix the signet cata for so long, only to nuke it in worst possible way (as is custom), speaks volumes on how much they care, and it often reeks of unprofessionalism which is not something I am willing to tolerate when it comes to someone like ArenaNet. To be fair, I had my own share of fun in this game, including PvP, but it feels kind of sad when the mode you enjoy most turns into something that feels more like a chore and leaves you with bitter taste in your mouth after each match. I don't necessarily blame them though, since they never really promised to revitalize PvP, so it's partially me being foolish for thinking that they would surpass my already low expectations. In the end you have to ask yourself, what's the point of playing if you are not having fun? For me, if it's not fun, it's time to quit the game. Which is what I did. Good luck gamers, was fun playing with you. 🤗

Why are people still arguing about it? Is it toxic? Kind of. Just like one trick pony mesmers with moa signet and stealth, bursting you with very little counterplay. Or scrapper stacking every possible damage modifier and again, abusing stealth to get unfair advantage and burst you down within few seconds. Out of all these borderline degen builds, I find gunflame zerker the least annoying to fight and easiest to make sure that he does not leave the spawn area. edit: btw I don't particularly want any of these builds to disappear from the game. It's annoying but that's about it, and most of the time it's fairly easy to kill them if they fail their burst. If people are having fun while playing these builds, good for you. But let's not pretend that builds like that does not crumble the moment someone jumps on them. It's all about element of surprise. Once it's gone and your opponent is alive, you are in deep trouble.

Spellbreaker and Bladesworn. Bunker condi zerker build is not exactly fun to play even if it's kind of effective. Power zerker is useless. Core does not bring anything extra. Hard to play something else when you don't have that many viable options tbh (and they all play more or less same).

In plat and above most likely yes. It might be still played in lower ranks simply because people refuse to move out of Ghastly Breach and then wonder what is killing them (hmmmm). Obviously it gets shut down easily by ranged.

It's interesting how they introduce new problem that can be solved just by reverting the change, but instead they proceed to do some mental gymnastics and nuke everything around it. 😀 I guess it's too hard for them to swallow their pride and admit that WiS change was dumb in first place. edit: Labelling it as bug fix is a bit questionable as well. Feels more like rushed decision or plan B in case that the previous nerf would not be enough.

Thanks for the build btw., very fun indeed.

was fun while it lasted (good that they quickly fixed it)

PvE mechanics take care of that. While GW is slowly getting there in terms of interesting mechanics that players need to do, FFXIV is miles ahead when it comes to raids/trials etc. It's also way more flashy when it comes to skills and their animations, so designing combat around stacking like in GW makes very little sense. It's far from being perfect but it's also very different type of approach.

shh, let me enjoy my degen scourge gameplay edit: combined with specter it's very tedious to take them down in teamfight

GS could use rework in general so it's actually fun to use. Buffs are nice but I would still prefer to reverse the animation change instead of cosplaying as Ryland with his orange slice.