You clearly have the questionable blessing of being just a little more aware of the world than the majority of players of this game. This, unfortunately, gives you a couple of choices.Vlad333 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 03, 2020 12:12 am I appreciate you mentioning all of these elements. I know some of them, some i do not. I have my buffhead in a standard setting, i just made the icons larger. I know some important ones to look after.
The problem with your reply is that 98% of what you mentioned does not exist in t2. No one does these things. The imbalance does not come from the lack of this knowledge.
I mean, people have no clue what to do on maw of madness. That is the reality of lvl 16+ experience.
1) You can get really really frustrated at how your enemies seem strong and there's no way to deal with it. Down this path lie repeated losses, always due to the weaknesses of others or the unfairness of the game.
2) You can learn *how* your enemies seem so much stronger, and learn how to deal with it, even at low levels. Perhaps sometimes the answer is "That particular character hard-counters my build. I need to be aware of that and keep away, while dealing with these other characters that are much more vulnerable to me.
No, when you're a level 16 DPS Warrior Priest you won't be able to 1v1 a competent RR 70 Witch Elf (unless they're afk, or truly bad). Even with bolster, which is unquestionably almost *too* powerful, if you understand how to make the most of it. But you *can* be effective.
Get a group. Learn about all the things that were mentioned above which you suggest aren't used in T2, because I promise you, they are. I played up a new character from 0 to 30 in the x2 weekend, and I was in a small group, where between us all we absolutely were considering every single item on that list. Not perfectly, but we tried. We weren't wearing special gear, I didn't send any high-level talismans from my other characters. We were wearing standard RvR and Scenario gear, and we won pretty much every scenario we played. When you're with a good group, you will. We also got plenty of kills in T4 open RvR, too, though yes, we were also swarmed down by the zerg and killed by other parties a few times. That'll happen.
I consider myself a pretty average player, in terms of my knowledge of the game, and skill. I respond to that by surrounding myself with the best players that'll take me, learning from them, and taking every death as a lesson. Turns out, you get a lot more kills that way than if you blame imbalance when you die.