There's some concern in the pvp community about the potential for a less deep PVP system than Guild Wars. The main things about this that worry me are:
Less skills, the death of the "deck" skill system.
As a GW player, I spent most of my time and had the most fun with combining skills that most people wouldn't think about using together to make my own unique "builds" for PVP. With the demos, people were given a set of 5 skills dependant on weapon, some of which essentially did the same thing as others, and couldn't swap or even rearrange them on the bar. With the removal of energy in the game's system, this sometimes meant a simple "cooldown" playstyle of who can hit off their skills the quickest and most efficiently. This can take away the timing, strategy and consequence of using a skill from the game.
Using GW as an example, it is possible to load a skill bar with attack skills (eg. Power attack, protectors strike, pure strike etc.) and use them as they become available. That's a viable playstyle, I'd just like to know if it WILL be possible to switch out your 5 weapon skills from a bigger list to ensure that those of us looking for a deeper experience will be able to build our characters as we want. Us skill whores want more!
No energy. I said this already, but without energy there is no immediate cost to using a skill other than the activation and recharge time. This means that the potential for basic skill spamming as the most effective use of a build is pretty high with some weapons.
Elites are crazy powerful. It seems that if you're using an elite, then everyone has to GTFO, use their own elite to counter, or curl up and die. Elites in GW1 were a great way to determine how you chose or used your other skills, and although some were OP at times, it was a fairly balanced system and created smoother, more contestable battles. I'd hate to see a battle system where whoever activates Tornado or Lich form gets the cap point.
I absolutely loved GW1 and despite my concerns, I have no doubt that GW2 will be a better game. Of course, it will be a different game than 1, but I think the thing I'm looking the most forward to is seeing how the game changes after it comes out. You've always listened to the community to make the game as good as possible, hope you keep it up!
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There's some concern in the pvp community about the potential for a less deep PVP system than Guild Wars. The main things about this that worry me are:
Less skills, the death of the "deck" skill system. As a GW player, I spent most of my time and had the most fun with combining skills that most people wouldn't think about using together to make my own unique "builds" for PVP. With the demos, people were given a set of 5 skills dependant on weapon, some of which essentially did the same thing as others, and couldn't swap or even rearrange them on the bar. With the removal of energy in the game's system, this sometimes meant a simple "cooldown" playstyle of who can hit off their skills the quickest and most efficiently. This can take away the timing, strategy and consequence of using a skill from the game. Using GW as an example, it is possible to load a skill bar with attack skills (eg. Power attack, protectors strike, pure strike etc.) and use them as they become available. That's a viable playstyle, I'd just like to know if it WILL be possible to switch out your 5 weapon skills from a bigger list to ensure that those of us looking for a deeper experience will be able to build our characters as we want. Us skill whores want more!
No energy. I said this already, but without energy there is no immediate cost to using a skill other than the activation and recharge time. This means that the potential for basic skill spamming as the most effective use of a build is pretty high with some weapons.
Elites are crazy powerful. It seems that if you're using an elite, then everyone has to GTFO, use their own elite to counter, or curl up and die. Elites in GW1 were a great way to determine how you chose or used your other skills, and although some were OP at times, it was a fairly balanced system and created smoother, more contestable battles. I'd hate to see a battle system where whoever activates Tornado or Lich form gets the cap point.
I absolutely loved GW1 and despite my concerns, I have no doubt that GW2 will be a better game. Of course, it will be a different game than 1, but I think the thing I'm looking the most forward to is seeing how the game changes after it comes out. You've always listened to the community to make the game as good as possible, hope you keep it up!
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