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Cause that's not super creepy or anything

The majority of players do not engage with any game outside the actual game. They don't google or youtube. ....or use the forums.

Everyone has the same controls.

Just wanted to throw in my agreement on this one. Mai Trin's original VA was some of the best done lines in the game. My friends and I used to recite it line by line ala Rocky Horror Picture Show every time we did the fractal while on discord. It was over the top and just plain fun. I get the reason for the change, in order to provide proper continuity for the character between the encounters in EoD, S1 and the Fractal. But the changes just removed a bunch of the charm from one of my favorite encounters. Not a big deal, but just one of my favorite parts of the game that lost a little shine.

With regard to WvW: Untrue. Build and gear are much more important in WvW than any other game mode. This is why WvW specific guilds usually mandate new players to run, gear and learn very specific builds. Skill is certainly a large component of the small scale roaming game, but as soon as you are talking about groups larger than 7-8 people (the vast majority of WvW play), the only skill involved is typically positioning, staying on tag, and fufilling your role. While certainly more difficult than the vast majority of PvE content, "stack on tag" is not what I would call skill expression.

If you are building for Thief Open World the only build I found that was really viable in Celestial was a condi-focused Spectre. Other options I tried simply did not cut it. If you are building for Power your absolute best choices are either full glass cannon Berserker's or what I found the best balance between Damage/Survivability: Marauder's. Marauders gets you right up to the crit cap with a little jimmy leg and gives you enough HP to take a few hits while hitting hard enough to get by. Zerker's is great if you have enough skill, hit all your dodges and can meaningfully leverage the class' mobility and evasion options. Otherwise I will go with a Marauder's Daredevil every time. The reasons Cele is not great on Thief are largely covered in the responses here. It generally (though not always) favours condi focussed builds that generate a lot of boons. Things like Tempest, Catalyst, Renegade, a few different Mesmer options, and a few flavors of Engi are great in Cele gear. A few Ranger builds are really fun in Cele. But power focussed builds on Thief and Warrior don't gain much from the boon duration as they perma the few relevant boons they generate (Might, Fury) without needing the Concentration, leading to a lot of wasted Stats and overall milquetoast performance.

People are still running SIlverwastes and Drytop metas (though not 24/7).

The idea of splitting your role (damage and support) AND your damage type (condi and strike) is objectively poor. As has been mentioned: -Plaguedoctor's, Zealot's, Magi's, Harriers, Marshall's, Celestial ect would all be preferable to what you are suggesting. -Build and Equipment templates can be hotkeyed out of combat at any time.

It's entirely possible your original suggestion is hot garbage.

Shooting down an Elder Dragon with giant lasers while riding an airship (in a fleet of them) was about swords and sorcery?

As both a player and a youtuber I would run for the hills at any involvement of Games Workshop in any franchise I was interested in. Games Workshop is a litigious player-unfriendly company who attacks fan made content and will always favor their bottom line over EVERYTHING. I love the 40k lore. But I vote with my wallet, and seeing Anet allying themselves with Games Workshop would disengage me from all their products including the Guild Wars franchise.

Core Engineer with Flamethrower.

Or they design the maps for Skyscale and create Ziplines.

Balance is a reason.

Cool soapbox.

The term "Gamer Word" stems from gamers initially trying to downplay the use of hate speech in online video games. It was an attempt to minimize the impact of terms like ni****, re**** and fa**** as "just things gamers say when they are heated up." The meaning eventually evolved into it's current use that includes many common curse words that are generally filtered in online games and often the cause for account related action such as suspension/ban. Current meaning: Gamer Word=Swear Word/Hate Speech

TLDR:Less content pls

My friend and I were able to duo this. Add me as a friend and send a PM in game when you see me. I should be able to help

Teapot hardly plays the game from a narrow perspective. He is constantly running Meta trains in OW, participating in WvW, running instanced content like strikes raids and fractals, organizing PvP tournaments, running fashion contests. As far as content creators/streamers go, I am hard pressed to think of anyone else that showcases and participates in the breadth of content he does. More to the point however: I am primarily an open world player and I agreed with the changes as well.

Teapot is responsible for the downtuning of these traits? I must know the rationale behind this claim.

An MMORPG cannot survive by catering to just one portion of the playerbase. There are a lot more casual players playing FF14 than there are playing Gw2. In order for an MMO to be popular it must draw in both players. WoW does this by offering Mythic Plus Raiding and Pet Battles. FF14 offers far more than any MMO for Roleplayers at the same time as offering Savage raids. This zero sum game of Animal Crossing or it's Dark Souls is just part of the divisive rhetoric pushed by faux-casuals in an attempt to wag the dog.

These kind of semantic word games do not serve any real purpose.

The "toxicity" that is being blamed on casual players is largely due to the false rherotic and babyrage on these forums and to a lesser degree reddit. Actual casual players don't engage with these. By blaming the ugliness on casual players, you are just feeding into the label they choose to cloak themselves with and giving them credibility. Actual casual players don't have post counts over 100 and argue for the firing of developers. They don't shout repeatedly "I'm casual, so Anet should do x".

The truly casual player does not engage with the forums. It's important to not paint an entire sizeable portion of the playerbase by the same brush as the truly toxic players on this forum invoking the work "casual" in self interest, entitlement, and attempts to wag the dog.

Why would you want to use PvE balance for duels?