GW2 may have professions that get out of balance which seeing as Anet wants a pvp esport out of their game, they will keep it in check. Plus as a player, you have more control of what you do, dodge roll, each class can heal and have o-sh*t moves. If you want to just pewpew do it and if you want survivability and support do it. Fix traits different weapons and sigils do what you want without getting new gear and spending weeks to see if you like it. Gear differences in SWTOR are a giant pile of BS. You can't: compete, ask advice, complain, or even do rank wzs if you are not WH geared. Lol....
Answer to everything: "get geared it balances out" - translation "Spends months getting WH and random cue with those in Recruit gear, kick them around and then you can think everything is in balance because you are the BEST!!"
That doesn't exist in a game like GW2. You either outplay you opponent or they counter you and have an easier win. Good player vs good player some specs beat others in 1vs1. If you aren't bad you don't die in 5 seconds in a root stun mess of crap without the help of another class.
Also, gotta love how easy it is to try another class. So you get pwned by someone a few times in spvp....you spend 20 minutes rolling one figuring out sigils traits and weapons, a little time on the test dummy. Hop in and play, find out if that guy was a great player or if that set up fits your play style better.
Plus I love the people in this thread who know nothing about GW2. Wowzerz goblins and orc erywhere1!!!111
I never usually get very upset at losses of team random pvp until SWTOR. The fights are frustrating the loss of character control is unneeded and the glitchy laggy crap that happens is infuriating. Die...stay face down in entrance to WZ, get kicked from wz. Watch a character fall off the bridge, jump down, watch his body glitch between the ground and top level 5-10 times and watch him start walking over the goal...all unacceptable.
I lost some bad matches in GW2 beta weekend, but never getting mad. More of a "..dang.." reaction. Knowing you lost because of bad communication strat or lack of caring about objectives and people just fighting. It was...dare I say it...fun. Seeing the same person 4-5 times in a match 1vs1 and trading kills is awesome. All you are thinking when you engage again is..."what did he do last time?" not "crap this guy is fully geared"