Guild Wars 2

I love the game (mainly play wvwvw) but getting rather bored with the limited class/build selection as well as limited armour selection.

Basically now it comes down to playing a certain build (or maybe 2 builds if you are lucky) to actually be effective (d/d Ellie, trap ranger etc…) any other build and you become nothing more than cannon fodder for other guys using these builds.
I know it is human nature to gravitate towards the best build, but sadly the ‘best’ builds so outclass the other builds that it leads to little or no variety.

(Observations from wvwvw as every elly I see is a /d ellie, 95% thieves are d/d, Mesmer confuse build) I just wish there was some viable alternative builds as fighting the same skill set/build time after time reeks of poor game design.

Don’t worry, they’ll nerf those builds and then everything will be equally mediocre.

I don’t mind the builds, I just wish there were more viable builds… Been so long since I came across any other Ellie type other than d/d

Well this has been problem from start imo, but anet seems happy with soo few skills and builds its kinda wierd, but hey! who needs important stuffs in game when you have jumping puzzles and quaggan backpacks….

There are plenty of people to blame for the lack of build varieties. First, obviously, is ArenaNet. They’ve not even fixed, let alone balanced, all the traits that would make varying builds viable. The process of fine-tuning an MMO is a slow one, it would seem.

Second, and equally guilty, is the community. I’ll wager half (okay, not half, but more than a few) of the characters in this game were built using build sites with little to no thought going to the why or how the character is built the way it is. MMOs have and will always be played by people chasing the Flavor of the Month build.

The last person to share blame in your problem is none other than yourself, though to a much more innocent degree. If you primarily play WvW (or any one aspect of the game) you’re limiting your exposure to builds that might work much better in the other areas of the game than in the one you’re spending most of your time.