Guild Wars 2

I did Snowblind Challenge mode yesterday in a pug. It was most likely my favorite experience in gw2 ever. We had to actually change and refine build everyone until we suceeded. It wasn’t a mindless meta spam fest. Just wanna say gj, A-Net.

Technically meta works fine for that challenge as metas generally are the most effective by definition. The real issue is that the average player doesn’t have the skills to perform at the level some builds require.

This is often brought up by Brazil, the gw2 youtube guy. When he released his take on the reaper fractal run he was original criticized that it wasn’t optimal. While it’s a fair point, the feat wasn’t for optimal play but play many could pull off. Same is happening with his chrono tank build video, the build is tanker than the average chrono so it does less damage. However, the play is significantly easier and lets be honest we weren’t expecting huge deeps from chrono anyways.

Anyways from my personal experience my first attempt at it sucked because my pug didn’t play too well and couldn’t keep their hp up. It took maybe 7 tries. I did the same challenge for a friend with people I knew on meta builds and it went well the first time.

Meta will work, but in pugs it is not as effective. The new meta with healing reduction is slotting stuff like phantasmal defender, regeneration, and protection skills, because you don’t need to heal if you don’the take much damage. However, the meta assumes you heal like normal, so you don’t get the extra passive damage reduction.