Where's the timing and skill?

[Zekent.3652]

It's all just spam + pve rotations builds dominating the game now, where's the timing and skill?

[Azure The Heartless.3261]

1 hour ago, Zizekent.2398 said:

It's all just spam + pve rotations builds dominating the game now, where's the timing and skill?

 

Unviable

 

no place for timing and skill when the moment you are vaguely threatening to a particular build, they unfurl the scroll of "things I can press to not die right this instant" and never reach the bottom.

Timing requires windows of opportunity. 

[Fueki.4753]

13 hours ago, Zizekent.2398 said:

where's the timing and skill?

It slowly went down the drain.

The older the game gets, the more powercreep and spam is introduced, making skill and timing less and less relevant.

[Arheundel.6451]

13 hours ago, Zizekent.2398 said:

It's all just spam + pve rotations builds dominating the game now, where's the timing and skill?

The new generation of players can't stand complexity, rewarding hard work ahd the beauty of strategy and tactics. Literally all the new generation cares about and want is to go in, faceroll on the keyboard and get kills. And it's all fine and dandy if they can do that on any class...but they will start shouting bloody murder if somebody else does the same thing on another class.

If you want complexity and hard fought battles...search for older games as these days any game requiring hard work will meet its demise within months from launch ( Wildstar anyone?)

Edited January 4, 2023 by Arheundel.6451

[Khalisto.5780]

15 minutes ago, Fueki.4753 said:

It slowly went down the drain.

The older the game gets, the more powercreep and spam is introduced, making skill and timing less and less relevant.

Yes, EoD was the feb 2020 depatch

[Jagdtiger.2517]

Well scepter ele is the dominant spec right now and a lot of its damage comes from instant lightning strikes which you can only dodge by random dodging, so they can start off by nerfing scepter ele.

[Arheundel.6451]

50 minutes ago, Jagdtiger.2517 said:

Well scepter ele is the dominant spec right now and a lot of its damage comes from instant lightning strikes which you can only dodge by random dodging, so they can start off by nerfing scepter ele.

That's what I mean for "new generation can't stand complexity"...I can't imagine current gw2 players being able to survive in a pvp enviroment from over a decade ago..when you had to rely on strategies like fake cast to avoid interruptions, spacebar side steps to avoid CC, precise kiting etc etc etc etc 

A GW2 player being able to respond to a magebane spike? hammer warrior bala strike? invoke ele spike?....hmm..anet would need to host an additional website to hold all the whine threads alone

[Zekent.3652]

2 hours ago, Jagdtiger.2517 said:

Well scepter ele is the dominant spec right now and a lot of its damage comes from instant lightning strikes which you can only dodge by random dodging, so they can start off by nerfing scepter ele.

Basically this and every similar build with high damage and sustain.

[Khalisto.5780]

The timing is 2 secs till it drops, the skill os dragon's tooth XD

[TrollingDemigod.3041]

Timing and skill vanished when HoT was released.

[Morwath.9817]

On 1/4/2023 at 1:55 AM, Zizekent.2398 said:

It's all just spam + pve rotations builds dominating the game now, where's the timing and skill?

 

I'd like higher CDs across the board in sPvP. So players have to use skills wisely rather than just rotate them.