guild wars and their useless skills

So I just got back from my quick trip outta town, came back to a 4000+ file download. Well first thing I noticed.. more nerfs to the skills. I'm personally getting quite fed up with their nerf of the skills just before an expansion comes out.. It's really just getting rediculous.

There are so many skills for each class right?- WRONG

20% of each classes skills are unusable due to nerfing or orinally planning. We spend all our time unlocking skills (just to unlock them) when in the end, some of 'em we couldn't even incorporate into a build if we spent all year.

This is something that should be addressed by the guild wars community, because like many others, I am fed up with it. There have been so many changes in guild wars which isn't even a bloody "mmo" compared to any other mmo, this guild wars is growing to take the cake as well as the nerfing crown.

Please, if you reply that it is a game that reqiures constant updates and changes, that is just a horrible excuse.

Right now I can name at least 15 monk skils that are unusable, many warrior skills due to recharge times as well as ranger.

The nerf comes from builds that are too popular and as they term it "dominate" the guild wars world. So as to remove this domination, they remove the ability to perform @ 100% with the build. Thus forcing us to create or come up with something else.

Something else? Ohh right, they want us to use the next expansion as our new home for thinking up builds. This happened before the last expansion as well as randomly (whenever they decide to pull the plug).

I find it as a pathetic attempt to ease the next expansion into the guild wars world, because you KNOW there will be a nerf very soon after the expansion comes out, with the dervish who run massive dps and the all-awesome boon prot build torn to peices and will never be used again.. We have to come up with another way to heal at high numbers.

I predict the dervish will be nerfed almost immediatly since they just disabled the boon prot build - which was turned into a template build by guild wars..

Turned into a template you ask? Well they put it up as a template build, so more people would use it (so more test numbers would goto arenanet). Any build as a template, you can expect to get nerfed if too many people use it.

Sad, but it is the truth =(

If I wasn't blinded by the wonderful graphics and pvp, I just might understand this nonsense they pull on us all very regularly.. I have played mmo's and rpgs where upates came constantly and changes came very very rarelly... It is possible =(

Bye then.

Bull, There aren't That many unusable skills. 15 unusable monk skills? it depends on what kind of monk you're playing.

You're just posting this for one reason. Troller

the very fact that you were away explains why your in the dark.

Meh, balance.

It's all pretty much been said...

Please keep the all the complaining about the recent update/nerfing in one place:

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...php?t=10044574

Yes, we know GW isn't like other MMO's. That's why we play it. We don't care about doing stupid amounts of damage with skills that were primarily designed for PvE. This game was supposed to be a balanced symbiosys of PvP and PvE that focused on teamwork more than character level and raw DPS so yes, a lot of things aren't going to be as powerful as you would find in many of the other popular MMO titles. Are you sad that your favorite prolific build isn't as rediculously effective as it used to be? Try altering it or coming up with a new build alltogether. It's really not that hard. Though there are several skills out there that don't quite seem to have a niche, I can just about guanantee you that someone out there has found, or will find a way to work them into effective builds.

If you're so infatuated with PvP, do what the other good PvP players are doing right now: Stop complaining. Start thinking of ways to improve your builds.

This thread is laying down a red carpet for flamers, not to mention the original.

It's for balance. Sure you get angry when your favorite skill gets changed, whether for better or for worse. A good player adapts.

I'd like some examples... instead we get the blind bitching by the OP

what skills do you believe are useless???

same thing came about when factions has some duplicate skills to what prophacies... so mant people bitched about that... yet they totally disregarded the reason fro duplicates was because not everyone had both chapters and the skills that were dups where chapter specific skills...

not to mention i found great use in having 2 of the same skill on my bar for back to back effect...

but seriousely just because some fine some skills useless doesnt mean they are... just ur opinion

QFT, You can see what Anet has done because of all the complaining in game AND out do you? I fyou look at the updates carefully, they just tipped the entire scale the other way.

Moaning about "nerfs" is expected, you can moan about anything...

Purposely taken out of context baby!~!

(psst: This looks like a "My awesome prebuild boon prot sucks and I'm too lazy to find out a solution, so I'll complain here until someone gets angry and spills out their own build so I can steal it" type thread)

No skill is unusable.

Complaints about actual things are fine, but complaints that "I know such and so will get nerfed, so lets start whining already" get closed.