Is Ursan a savior or is it ruining the game for you?

I've heard a lot of different points of view on this. While Ursan surely has it's merits, the lack of variety of builds to play has me now completely bored with the game.

It seems to me like Ursan is the only thing people want to play these days and the only thing people are looking for in the elite mish areas. I find myself longing for the days before consumables and Ursan where a good player was better than a 5 skill palm smash build any day and where a little thought was actually helpful toward the build you played.

Are others becoming disillusioned with Ursan also or is everyone still loving this "skill"?

People were allowed to make their own builds and choose their own skills from the begining. Ursan is a skill..and people never take it if they don't want to.

There's been 1000 threads like this one, and there will be 1000 more.

For me personally it's a Saviour. Saves me grinding the books for EotN reputation, i just steamroll the quests with Ursan. I run Balanced in missions usually, (Ursan if it's a hero heavy party).

Neither one; I'm indifferent. I find it a boring skill, so I don't play it. It's just a different kind of PuG spam for me to ignore.

Quick solution: Don't run Ursan and don't play with those that do.

I will admit I was all excited about it, but now seeing that people have stagnated their builds and just run Ursan, it got boring. So now I don't ever use unless I'm doing Mallyx and I request that anyone doing a dungeon or whatev. doesn't use it.

Guys ... if everyone else is playing Ursan, I'd have to play completely alone to not play it or wait around in town not playing for at least an hour to find a balanced team. It seems to me that at least 30 Ursan groups will form for every balanced group. That's quite a queue.

I think if they don't nerf this skill soon, it will mean the end of the game for a lot of people, myself included.

I pray that by creating this thread frickaline, a flame war will not ensue.
But, looking at your join date...I will comment on your thread..because it looks to be an honest question from you..and not a trolling attempt.

At first, I was highly dissapointed at ANet's attempt to 'dumb down' this wonderful game, by introducing something as mindless as the ursan Blessing.
Then, with more thought..and active gameplay within my guild WITHOUT ursaners...my mind set has changed.
GW1 is going to hell in a hand basket.
In major areas all you see is: " r8-10 UB LFG"
Then watch as they argue that such and such a proffession can't go because their armor is too low? Hahahahaaa!!
Let the kiddies have their fun. I don't have to play with them, and any 'accomplishments' I acheive will proudly be proclaimed with the line: 'Done without UB'.
The economy is a joke..there are NO more elite areas...
So, in the words of the immortal John Lennon:
"Let it be."
~Peace.
P.S.

May the Gods have mercy on GW2.

Quote: Originally Posted by frickaline

I for one don't use it but then I haven't really gotten into EoTN. It is beginning to look like I and everyone that wants to continue playing will be forced to acquire the skill and grind away enough reputation points to make it useful. I did enough grinding in NF so for the moment I'm going to wait for the nerf...

It is an honest question, Trub, and I have never posted anything like this before. I have loved this game since the original World Preview Event and never really had any complaints ... until now.

The reason I ask the question is this. If others are not sick of ursan nor becoming sick of it, then there is no hope for me to find interest in the game because I will never have people to play with again.

Sure there is ALOT of people who use Ursan in partys (In Elite missions/grinding it's obvious these days) But sure, it is frustrating to see it in normal partys. Like they don't even try to make a fitting skillset for their profession... Otherwise i have no problem with it.

I never use that skill myself couse i love the skill building/mixing. Don't wanna be chained to one skill... So i'm sure there are people still using skills out there, don't you loose hope

Quote: Originally Posted by Albert Algorn

Quote: Originally Posted by frickaline

to free runner,

because every area now every pug is saying "ursan blessing lf 5 more ursan blesssings and 2 monks !!!!!!111" or "starting a vanquish team URSAN BLESSINGS ONLY !!!1!!" ect.

I like Ursan. Without it, I would never have been able to do DoA on my para. Now I got a nice monkey statue, and I had fun. I have done it a few times in UW aswell, but it doesnt stop me running a balanced team.

Ursan is neither ruining my game (because I don't play with it or anyone who do) nor my savior (because I don't need it).

It is, however, an annoyance. It's very existence insults me, as I really like Guild Wars, and Ursan...
a) teaches & rewards people to play like rusher wammos,
b) destroys the whole concept behind guild wars: that you can adapt your skill bar. Ursan is a one-size-fits-all skillbar,
c) makes a lie of the Guild Wars motto "skill over time",
d) is boring as hell to play (yes, of course I've tried it),

and last but not least is the nail in my soul that I know that no matter what class I am, no matter what skillbar I design, it could be improved by removing 7 skills and replacing the 8th with Ursan.

It is stupid and boring and anti-everything-guildwars. Yeah, I hate it. But it's neither ruining GW nor saving me.


EDIT: Incidentally, if ANet is reading this: it'd be very easy to fix ursan and bring it more into line wrt power to the other PvE skills: make the AoE knockdown single-target. That's all it takes. The power of ursan is the power of damage mitigation through knockdown.

To those of you that are running balanced (which seems to be everyone in the thread), where the heck are you?

How is it everyone here "really only runs balanced" when its clear from the town spam that everyone is running/looking for ursan?

There seems to be a disconnect here ...

Quote: Originally Posted by frickaline

Quote: Originally Posted by Free Runner

yup clever people play in ID1 or even korean district but thats a bit laggy

hmmm ID1 ... if it's bear-free, I'm moving in!