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These sort of issues are almost always management issues and I doubt its any different in this case.

Either a spear or trident as a condi weapon choice would be cool to see. Variety is the spice of life after all and its always been bizarre to me that they have all these weapons already in the game with all the artwork finished and all they need to become land weapons is some code and animation work.

You can only go up from the rock bottom. If its not a hit after a decade of neglect then you should give up hope completely. Core weapons are still absolutely terrible, they had the gall to nerf torch, sword had to be buffed on like pretty much every skill and greatsword is nothing but a stat stick that lets you hit a few arc dividers in between your axe rotation. Bladesworn is an incredibly cool e-spec dragged down by association with this class and the forced heal build obviously doesn't work because why would it work? Who thought it was a good idea to make bladesworn alac-heal over spellbreaker?

You take what you can get. Fingers crossed for some love to hundred blades next.

Its pretty viable, easy to learn and suprisingly hard to master for a spec thats often mistakenly considered shallow. Thats not a bad thing though, there is a lot of joy in mastering all the bits and tricks of a spec and getting really good at it. As for your specific questions, its one of those builds that takes a while to ramp-up dps, I won't lie to you this is something you'll generally have to learn to live with on condi specs and condizerk has to deal with not only condi effects taking time to ramp up but also the ground AoEs you apply that the bosses might just walk out of. There are advantages to it too(big AoE means big cleave) but if you're allergic to condi builds you might want to try powerzerk instead which just as viable and I'd argue much easier to play at a viable level (you can hit 30k+ with a blindfold on on powerzerk). If you're rolling a warrior toon anyways then I recommend you make one of both and see which you like better.

Most commanders are very friendly, almost to a fault. This is how I started my raiding journey I just started joining experienced raids and explaining commanders that I do not have experience but have confidence in both my dps and mechanics knowledge. Most commanders I've interacted with were positive and if not they were at least willing to take a chance with me. This is already a lot better than my experiences trying to get into raiding in ESO or WoW. GW2 PvE scene gets a bad rep for absolutely no reason. I've witnessed some people getting the boot the kind of people you describe but it does help the group in the end and it gets results.

Yes the bare minimum effort because when you participate in group content its no longer just about your own enjoyment, which you could understand if you had the social skills to do so. When you get booted off of a group for eating every red zone and racing the healers you're the one creating the problem, its not everyone else being elitist gamer words. They don't want to give you a free ride at their expense.

In my opinion GW2's PvE community are a bunch of softies constantly coming up with ways to show these players that it can be done, constantly encouraging them. While in a lot of other communities you'll just be told its a skill issue and everyone will move on. Its a mentality problem that the players you're trying to encourage just want to make excuses, they don't want to put in any real effort. Anet should just give these people easy mode, call it story mode or something and move on. You shouldn't need to go out of your way to interact and encourage people who don't want to put in the bare minimum effort. Thats absurd to me.

Its a low hanging fruit, I see people make all sorts of cool stuff with housing in ESO, from jumping puzzles to PvP arenas.

Play a different profession, different spec, different game.

Lmao okay buddy whatever you say

So your imaginary opinion of what I must be thinking of you doesn't make sense to you? I don't remember asking your opinion or ever pointing fingers at you.

I love how you take it so personally even though I took no part in the debate myself.

You literally get FREE ASCENDED GEAR out of WV now please for the love of god stop making these pathetic excuses for lazy players already, I'm so sick of the sob tears of people who couldn't spend 10 gold for exotics or put in 20 minutes of rotation practice. How convenient does it have to be for you all to stop making excuses for these players? Does Anet need to automatically assign them with BiS gear upon character creation and also put an auto-rotation button that does the fighting for you?

Unfortunately you're having this disccussion in the den of whales OP, it will not go very well for you.