Now you have done good to get rid of the major exploits and bugs. Now be quick AGS and adjust the dmg in PVP. I get it all the casters be crying now and how hard it is to play caster, but no firestaff caster should light hit a tank doing more than a third dmg of 10k health. Spamming Dodge + Light Attack while Bows and Muskets are utterly bricked. No point in playing Bows, Muskets since a fire staff outperforms any other casting weapon. Couple it with ice gauntlet and you have a pretty broken combo. I usually outplay gauntlets easy but sometimes the game glitches, desyncs or whatever unicorn is doing magic on your servers, I suddently am perma stuck in an icestorm/wall which is either not visible on my screen or the game simply glitched me back into it.
But as of this, PVP is more fun without major exploiters, but still…TOO MANY CCs and TOO MUCH CASTER DMG…ah and by the way…take the dmg of the heal staff and think of some other solution. A heal staff should never do dmg…(I am a healer btw).
Ths game has Meta.
Meta= no skill
Meta= do waht the meta says and push buttons in right order, thats all
this game is heavily itembased.
So no matter how good you are, someone with better gear will click through the meta rotation of GA or FS and thats it.
Actually the game plays like this:
random crowd versus random crowd can be funny but isn really fun in th elong run, because its only chaotic
if you have one team acting together and knowing what to do aka use the meta, they do that and wipe the floor with tripple the amount of players they are.
Yesterday a team of five killed everyone, they were coordinated well, they knew the meta and were perfectly timed and nothing can stand that.
beside that we fought 19 vs 14, 20 vs 17, 13 vs 16…
beside that people with better gear have too much more power in general
I have encountered that as well. And I agree there is always a meta. I just hope AGS would see and understand to create different alternatives to compete with the meta. GW2 done a pretty decent job on shifting metas within a few days of patches and adjustments to counter OP buffed classes. Off course here it would be the weapons and the broken heavy armor.