Played some turf take over. There were zoologist, marine biologist, and chemist literally hiding in plant spawn and the plants couldnt even leave their spawn. If you did manage to sneak by them, an electro brainz is just camping a rooftop zapping you. If you hide behind cover, everyone now knows where you are from the HUD indicator and come and pick you off. Turf takeover is no fun being on the assault side as plants. Aren't scientist meant to be medics? They are more assault now than the soldier. I give up on TRYING to like this game. Going back to GW1 and will never recommend this game to friends or family!

Scientist>sunflower, pirate>cactus, imp>rose, superbrainz>citron, all-star=chomper, peashooter=soldier, corn=engineer. THE PLANTS ARE UNDERPOWERED! Scientist need to be toned down ASAP or this game will sink faster than it already is.

This has been the main topic of conversation since last patch. Sadly the game is not good any more and since rose was down graded the plants are now extremely weak and the 3 main zombies, scientist, supper brains andAllstar are now running amock in the games, a lot of users kicked off with the massive power of rose and agreed it was needed she was mask and covered a bigger problem of just how underpowered the plants really are , but now the zombies needs bringing down.I also feel that the game is now sinking into the ground as to much was changed for gw2. We all needed a better game than GW1 but gw2 is seriously lacking in fun of gw1. I am a plant player I have no interest what so ever to play zombies. All my hard earned play time is spent upgrading my plant collections and the characters I like to use, once I get to were I want to be I will not bother using and upgrading other characters as to me and my boy, the game play is the most important thing.I've gone back onto gw1 but there is something about gw2 that is positive and good which I think will keep the game afloat for the moment but there is only so much people will take before they say enough is enough. But the biggest fun is multiplayer and trying your new character out with upgrades you have earned with lots of hard play time. But constantly getting smashed to oblivion all the time takes its toll and the fun is now gone. On average it takes me under 2 sec to get killed as a plant by a scientist as a pea in this situation my power is completed limited and pointless in the fight.

I won a game on Turf Takeover last night with plants. It was on Moon Base Z. With the zombie side severely handicapped with only 3 people against 6 on plants.In all seriousness though, this game is a joke. Play any kind of team vanquish and the entire enemy team is All Stars, Super Brainz, and Scientists. And they will still smash the plant side with all kinds of variety characters.

Never seen the plants win on attack since the patch. ..I've played for hours and topped plenty of leaderboards but not a chance...And if I'm on zombies we have steamrolled the plants when they are attacking....never lost more than 1 garden/graveyard...Game still needs balancing...but I'm sticking with it...

Sun flower is a much better healer than the scientist to be honest. Also the Cactus still does more damage than the Pirate in long range, also the Citron is the counter to Imp....Super Brainz can literally be taken out by a chomper easily if he is in range. I feel people just aren't counterplaying. The engineer is alot similar to the Peashooter now, except slower and no area denial. One thing the zombies lack, The plants have the garlic drone, chili bean bomb, and Corn's butter strike which's name I forgot. The zombies have point accurate attacks like ZPG and Super Ball. Eggsplosion for the parrot I guess, but the plants have the Artichoke drone as well right now. Rose is support and really does help the team, thing is, people stopped playing her. I feel plants should just counter pick more and get used to a class that isn't the old overpowered version of Rose.

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27 Replies

Anonymous
10 years ago
Scientist>sunflower, pirate>cactus, imp>rose, superbrainz>citron, all-star=chomper, peashooter=soldier, corn=engineer. THE PLANTS ARE UNDERPOWERED! Scientist need to be toned down ASAP or this game will sink faster than it already is.
kumaxking
10 years ago
I won a game on Turf Takeover last night with plants. It was on Moon Base Z. With the zombie side severely handicapped with only 3 people against 6 on plants.

In all seriousness though, this game is a joke. Play any kind of team vanquish and the entire enemy team is All Stars, Super Brainz, and Scientists. And they will still smash the plant side with all kinds of variety characters.
FiremanAl
10 years ago
Never seen the plants win on attack since the patch. ..I've played for hours and topped plenty of leaderboards but not a chance...

And if I'm on zombies we have steamrolled the plants when they are attacking....never lost more than 1 garden/graveyard...

Game still needs balancing...but I'm sticking with it...
Boolerex
10 years ago
In mid and long range,plant offense is fine,but they really need something for close range...
Anonymous
10 years ago
This has been the main topic of conversation since last patch. Sadly the game is not good any more and since rose was down graded the plants are now extremely weak and the 3 main zombies, scientist, supper brains and
Allstar are now running amock in the games, a lot of users kicked off with the massive power of rose and agreed it was needed she was mask and covered a bigger problem of just how underpowered the plants really are , but now the zombies needs bringing down.
I also feel that the game is now sinking into the ground as to much was changed for gw2. We all needed a better game than GW1 but gw2 is seriously lacking in fun of gw1. I am a plant player I have no interest what so ever to play zombies. All my hard earned play time is spent upgrading my plant collections and the characters I like to use, once I get to were I want to be I will not bother using and upgrading other characters as to me and my boy, the game play is the most important thing.

I've gone back onto gw1 but there is something about gw2 that is positive and good which I think will keep the game afloat for the moment but there is only so much people will take before they say enough is enough. But the biggest fun is multiplayer and trying your new character out with upgrades you have earned with lots of hard play time. But constantly getting smashed to oblivion all the time takes its toll and the fun is now gone. On average it takes me under 2 sec to get killed as a plant by a scientist as a pea in this situation my power is completed limited and pointless in the fight.
ScreenhogRSnail
10 years ago
Sun flower is a much better healer than the scientist to be honest. Also the Cactus still does more damage than the Pirate in long range, also the Citron is the counter to Imp....Super Brainz can literally be taken out by a chomper easily if he is in range. I feel people just aren't counterplaying. The engineer is alot similar to the Peashooter now, except slower and no area denial. One thing the zombies lack, The plants have the garlic drone, chili bean bomb, and Corn's butter strike which's name I forgot. The zombies have point accurate attacks like ZPG and Super Ball. Eggsplosion for the parrot I guess, but the plants have the Artichoke drone as well right now. Rose is support and really does help the team, thing is, people stopped playing her. I feel plants should just counter pick more and get used to a class that isn't the old overpowered version of Rose.
Anonymous
10 years ago
@FiremanAl wrote:
Never seen the plants win on attack since the patch. ..I've played for hours and topped plenty of leaderboards but not a chance...

And if I'm on zombies we have steamrolled the plants when they are attacking....never lost more than 1 garden/graveyard...

Game still needs balancing...but I'm sticking with it...
I keep seeing people say this but I find it very, very hard to believe. I've won many games as plants, and also lost as zombies; I honestly feel it's fairly balanced now bar electro brains splash damage and possibly imp health. Being zombies is not an auto win by any account, and if you're top of the leaderboards each time then either a) you are always stuck with bad players b) always playing against better players c) you're team isn't counter picking or d) despite being top you're not influencing the game enough ie going for kills instead of captures. not taking rose when the teleporter is down etc.
Anonymous
10 years ago
There are many young children who play play gw2, this con be confirmed listening to mic noise in between games. Trying to tell and give the understanding to these young players that they need to play tacticly is going to be impossible, this is the reason GW1 worked so well is you don't need to work in that manor and kids and adults of any age can pick up the game and play either way and succeeded well in the game as all characters are balanced.

Gw2 is going to fail for a lot of kids and adults who were excited to have the game, in its current state of play gw2 going to be impossible for the first time player and children to pick up and succeed , this will be the downfall of the game as you need new players to make a profit to then able to improve the game.

The Rose issue just masked a bigger problem in that it covered up the limited success you will have as a plant. Rose now nerfed and so the bigger plant issue has been shown.
KnowsNoLimit
10 years ago
I find the plants to be weakest in Herbal Assault.
You bring up a very good point about the Scientist being OP atm. He has to be one the strongest supports I have seen and trumps the Sun Flower in ever way. I really don't know what he's supposed to be atm. He was like this in GW1 as well, warp in kill, warp out use healing station or heal ball on himself.
However Soldier's over shadowed him in that game, especially the Super Commando.
In this game he's alot more known now to be absolutely devastating.
Anonymous
10 years ago
Plants team is weak.(specially turkover offense)
- zen cactus need more damage or splash damage. zen cactus is weaker than shark bite.
- cactus's drone is weaker than pirate's parrot.
- citron's primary weapon need more damage or more fire rate.
- pirate >(stronger than) cactus
- scientist > sunflower
- super brains > chomper
- Plants team is weak, but rose do not need additional balancing.(rose balance is very good)