Its been said from the release of HoT that power creep has ruined pvp(and lack of content). Sadly before expansions PvP combat was great. You could telegraph just about everything and saving you dodge for the right time was actually important. Anet simply abandoned PvP after they released the failure that was stronghold. Now they've dug themselves such a deep hole that if they wanted to balance PvP they'd have to rework classes entirely just for PvP, which isnt going to happen. Just quit or play PvE content.