Sheobix.8796

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Just tired of the bunker builds. If you down someone today, good luck stomping. There's so much CC and passive healing going around that actually finishing a kill is a luxury if there are 2 people.

So, I have been playing GW2 since release, mained necro for years, saw the metas come and go... Some people can google sheobix juggermancer gw2 and see that. I've been here since the beginning. Tank metas suck and killed PvP every single time. Cheese traits that 100% invalidate damage sources kill the meta as well. Back in the day, when eles had diamond skin that made them take 0 conditions above 90% hp combined with bunker/shield setup made them unkillable. People left the game back then. (this was pre-HoT in 2013). At the peak of organized and streamed sPvP, like pre-Nos era, bunker mesmer became the longstanding meta. sPvP matches hit timer, and they could hold points indefinitely. People left back then too. HoT released, chrono made it even worse with phan ether resets, illusion spamming and portal kiting. Now after this patch, I'm playing warrior; mainly the mender/shoutspam heal bunker build and I am literally braindead on a warrior-- hop into ranked matches and I can literally unbind WASD and just condi cleanse 4x, shout invuln onto target, drop banner and pop might and just autoattack people to death and never drop below 50% while my entire team gets healed for 2k per shout. I nearly AFK'd a steamroll win on a class I have ZERO mechanical muscle memory on. I am legit going to bind all my utilities to a darn digital maraca or bop-it and shake it to heal myself for fun and show you how much of a joke this meta is. People are going to leave again. Stop it with the bunker metas. You guys need to implement DR mechanics, or make healing more potent AND have less uptime to provide a counter-window. PvP should be hard, loose, and fast. Make a mistake and eat abilities-- you deserve to die. Likewise, landing abilities should feel rewarding. Right now, entire class themes/rotations and abilities feel useless. But this constant drip-feed of passive healing based on class mechanics like shout spam, illusion spams, condition immunity, etc. STOP.