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Originally Posted by Mesmer in Need
As a side note, I believe Rachthoh is the biggest hypocrite of this thread. He is complaining how UB is ruining pve. Have you ever looked at this guy's fow clearing pictures? 6 paragons spamming TNTF and SY! with all the gw:en consumables working their magic. Rachthoh got legendary vanquisher before gw:en even came out. Oh, how the (somewhat) mighty have fallen.
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Firstly six paragons with TNTF would just be a huge waste of skill slots when every paragon is running at least 12 leadership, ditto for SY considering the lack of physical shutdown in FoW; we hit the impalers before they drop Dust Trap and usually spread out for Blurred.
Second, by no means are the consumables and pve only skills necessary for us to complete FoW. It's FoW, I've been there so many times I know all of the patrols, popups, group compositions, you name it off by heart. And hell, cleared every quest with a group of three people with prophecies only skills (Skull Cracking one second casts before it got buffed to 1/2, boo ya
). The use of PvE only skills and consumables merely
speed up the process allowing us to play recklessly in a zone that almost put me to sleep tonight (but I had the heroes, I can't exactly take a quick snooze
).
Ursan to me is fine in that sense; when a player is fully capable of displaying the skill required to complete a task go ahead and abuse what you want. What I can only hope is that once players get tired of the bear they'll attempt what they resorted to Ursaning for with a more balanced approach. At least try and apply what you learned about the zone after you've had your fun with it. We took the opposite route; cleared it with the more balanced approach first before exploring the possibilities.
Think about it this way; they're well aware of what PvE skills are allowing players to do. If they kill every PvE skill responsible for the current state of 'difficult' content those of us who took the time to study the area will be able to continue playing the same zone as a result of past experiences. I would wager that most Ursaners (I would guess based on some of the silly things I've read in the recent skill update thread) would just outright stop whatever they were using the bear for if the skill is touched negatively. This is what I fear; the people who will immediately quit because they don't know how to apply what they learned and adapt. Personally I would much rather be with the group that adjusts than the group that sits around until someone else figures it out for me.
If a PvE ONLY skill helps Joe noob to be able to play more areas than he could before .. why nerf it? To keep elite areas elite so people can feel pro? UB is no worse than the generic OB tank standing around with the cookie cutters. 
