Guild Wars 2

Is there any reason why this change would not entirely fix the berserker meta? When enemies attack more often, players can’t rely on their two dodges to avoid everything, and now players start actually taking damage in fights.

That just means more blind/aegis is needed, which makes the already heavily favored thief/guardian another step ahead of ranger/necromancer/engineer. Or if the attacks really become so fast that it’s hard to keep most blinded, the new slow becomes king, and mesmers are pretty much the only choice then (that we know of so far, other specs might get good slow applications).

Shifting the meta is not fixing the meta. You can’t fix what ain’t broken.

Captain Unusual.9163:

Is there any reason why this change would not entirely fix the berserker meta? When enemies attack more often, players can’t rely on their two dodges to avoid everything, and now players start actually taking damage in fights.

people still take berserker against dredge, even before they nerfed the dredge fractal

so no, it would not “fix” the meta.

move along now.

Why do people say “fix” the zerker meta like it’s a problem that needs to be fixed? Several things are already being fixed, such as condition application, condition effectiveness (fire stacks, woo!), strengths and weaknesses of each class (mesmer finally being able to be a tremendous asset through slow every third crit) are being polished. The zerker meta is just that, a meta.

I in no way condone the elitist behavior that sometimes wiggles its way into this forums, but it’s for entirely different reasons than the margin between demographics. How anyone can promote the zerker meta when my debit card has a higher purchasing power than all of your puny meta builds is beyond my understanding.

Cuddy.6247:

Why do people say “fix” the zerker meta like it’s a problem that needs to be fixed? Several things are already being fixed, such as condition application, condition effectiveness (fire stacks, woo!), strengths and weaknesses of each class (mesmer finally being able to be a tremendous asset through slow every third crit) are being polished. The zerker meta is just that, a meta.

I in no way condone the elitist behavior that sometimes wiggles its way into this forums, but it’s for entirely different reasons than the margin between demographics. How anyone can promote the zerker meta when my debit card has a higher purchasing power than all of your puny meta builds is beyond my understanding.

+1, would read again, even though you forgot /doctordoomvoice

Zerker meta isn’t a problem, doesn’t need fixing, and shouldn’t be stopping your from forming your own groups to run the stats you want.