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Ok... these are just my own personal Rants and Raves. These are opinions, and have nothing to do with policy, or anything else, I just wanted a space where I could just vent. If my opinions spark discussion on the Discussion page here, that's cool... just please don't flame or vandalize.
| Ursan Blessing? or Curse?
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| I HATE this skill with the passion of a white hot sun going super nova. It is so overpowered, and in my opinion has totally ruined ALL of the elite areas of Guild Wars. It is also ruining some very cool, very elite players. I was a HUGE fan of the Domain of Anguish. I spent literally hundreds of hours with my my guild/alliance there, and I met some really cool, really great players of this game. Then Anet nerfed it in July, made Mallyx virtually impossible to beat with any of the normal builds or skills that had previously worked. Why they did this, I'm not really sure, as it was a popular place for elite type players, and the rewards were still economically viable (prior the whole duping thing which deserves it's own separate rant at a later date) and there was still 2 months to the launch of GW:EN. Ok, so your average Joe Ritualist wasn't very popular there, so what??? You can point to ALL sorts of places in this game that are VERY profession specific (The Deep, Urgoz's Warren just to name two), any player that deserves to play in an Elite area should be able to make it work. We even had an Assassin tank build that was showing real promise. The nerf opened up the flood gate to every Joe Schmoe who wanted to be LEET without the work or time involved. Well... this was the beginning of the end of DOA as an Elite area, and by the time GW:EN was released it was a virtual ghost town. Enter GW:EN and Ursan Blessing.... sigh.... now you can find people in DOA again, but they all just want Ursanway groups..... ugh... where is the challenge in 4 or 5 people with bear form going in for mass slaughter and being done? How is this Elite play? Plain and simple, it's not, it takes no brains, no skill, and no strategy. One of the finest players of Guild Wars I know is now so crippled by this skill that he won't even consider going anywhere in the game without it.... it's sooooo sad. Here is a nerf that can't happen soon enough for me... KILL URSAN BLESSING! Oh... I forgot.. it's a PVE only skill, and Anet doesn't really care about PVE only players... all the skill nerfs are geared at PVP... man I feel like a second class citizen sometimes.......
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| PvE vs. PvP
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| I'm sooooo tired of the PvE vs. PvP attitudes. The vandalism by a disgruntled PvP player today because of the changes to the GvG mechanics was just about enough to make me leave here. There is so much to this game, and while everyone thinks what they do is 'the best' it is not ALL. I will openly admit to not liking PvP play at all. Not just in GW, but in ANY game. I don't get any enjoyment pitting myself against people who 'live for the kill'. It says absolutely nothing about my playing ability, I consider myself a decent player, not 'the best', but certainly not 'the worst' either. I believe that ArenaNet has done a decent job of providing an all around game, that can satisfy a hard core PvE player like me, (10,000+ play hours has to say something), as well as provide a challenging if not always satisfying PvP game for those out there who want to play that way. I am just really frustrated by the attitudes of some people that insist that the game can't be both, or that their needs/wants/concerns are by far more important that those of others. As for the previously mentioned vandalism of this wiki, I think it says LOADS about the attitude of the person who did it that when he was asked to stop, his response was... I don't give a shit. This kind of disrespect for the community and for fellow players, since it's the players who have created, maintained, and run this wiki, is exactly why I don't enjoy PvP. The trash talk, the disrespect, the 'I'm better than you' attitude that prevails in PvP is just a total turn off for me. I play GW to have fun, and that doesn't include dealing with morons who think they are the be all and end all of gaming.
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| Refocus on Purpose
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| I would very much like to see a refocus on purpose within this community. The purpose of this wiki is to document the game Guild Wars. And while the community is made up of people who play and love this game (or hate it as the case may be), this isn't a social club. The community's focus should be on providing the most complete and accurate documentation of the game. I see far too many community members flitting around from one talk page to another, spending hundreds of hours creating these magnificent userpages, but not providing a single contribution towards the documentation of the game, or even taking the time to participate in the processes that determine how this wiki is run and maintained. They type thousands of characters worth of complaints to ArenaNet on what a bad job they think they are doing because their favorite skill got nerfed, or because their particular suggestion has not been implemented (well, whose has?), without typing a single character in mainspace to even correct a typo. They write walls of text about what a bad job the community selected administrators of this site are doing, yet they do nothing to change the policies those administrators are guided by, or step up to the plate to become one of those administrators themselves. There are a number of projects that have been proposed, discussed and adopted as being things that would benefit this wiki and further it in its purpose. They cover any number of areas, from technical expertise, to filling in identified holes in the documentation. Most of them are being worked on by less than 6 people each. This to me is sad. I got involved with this wiki because I love this game. I have made some wonderful friends in the time I have been here, and have earned the community's trust to do what is best for the wiki, proven by the fact I was recently granted the role of sysop. But what has to stay the most important is fulfilling the purpose of this wiki. I feel I'm doing my part... are you?
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| Personal space
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| I'm beginning to feel a distinct lack of personal space. I go to a fair amount of effort to keep my userpage interesting, and aesthetically pleasing, and I am pleased people seem to like what I do. I don't mind if people want to use my templates, that's what I created them for. I don't mind if they customize them, or want me to help them customize them. I am, however, starting to mind that they are taking my graphics (while I realize that everything here is GFDL, can't we be a little original?) and encroaching on my playtime while I'm in game. If you want my help on the wiki, ask on the wiki. If you want my help in game, ask in game. Is that so tough?
While the layout for the pages I've done for other people may be very similar, I try to make them personal with color and by doing some sort of custom graphic/logo, and I would like that same thing for my page. Currently my page is decorated for Halloween, my favorite holiday of the year, and already, my Halloween logo is being used on other pages. So much for being uniquely mine and part of my personal space.
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