(edited by BlankHearts.8216)
Returning player, issue keeping up with meta
If you’re just running around open world PvE and dabbling in WvW, then why change your gear at all? Why follow a meta? Better to perhaps tweak your traits and utility skills if you find that balance changes have lessened the desirability of skills and traits you were using.
If you’re just running around open world PvE and dabbling in WvW, then why change your gear at all? Why follow a meta? Better to perhaps tweak your traits and utility skills if you find that balance changes have lessened the desirability of skills and traits you were using.
I’m not sure, am I playing incorrectly? Can I use Berserker gear for WvW and EotM?
Most of my characters use Berserker gear.
Hello, one of the problems I’ve been facing for a very long time is that I’ll stop playing for a few months or a year and I’ll come back to find my builds would become obsolete because of balance changes.
I’ve never been one to go for ascended/legendary equipment, I always run with exotics but having to keep buying new sets of exotics and superior runes costs me a lot of karma/gold. I was wondering if perhaps I’m missing an easier way to acquire such equipment to keep up with the ever-changing meta?
I don’t raid or do dungeons, I strictly stick with PvE content or maybe dive into the Edge of the Mists for a little PvP. I usually use WvW or Fractal/Raid builds as a foundation to create PvE builds.
Don’t sweat the meta stuff for world PvE, whatever gear you had should still be fine. My general go to gear is the exotics you get for karma in Orr, and that is sufficient for any PvE. MY ranger is wearing the same set that she got in 2014 and she has been through just about everything the game has to offer.
If you’re just running around open world PvE and dabbling in WvW, then why change your gear at all? Why follow a meta? Better to perhaps tweak your traits and utility skills if you find that balance changes have lessened the desirability of skills and traits you were using.
I’m not sure, am I playing incorrectly? Can I use Berserker gear for WvW and EotM?
Most of my characters use Berserker gear.
Sure, you can use it there. You will do more damage, but be more prone to death, than the average, but … whatever.
You can also pick one set with a mix of offensive and defensive stats and be a bit better off, or mix and match pieces.
The “meta” is actually “the builds that are the most theoretically powerful right now”, rather than a rule you have to follow. The real world difference is usually small enough that player skill makes a much bigger difference in how things play out than the mechanical differences the meta works with.
This is doubly true in player vs player situations, where an extremely skilled player in poor gear, with a build they know well but that is far from the meta, can counter a player who is wearing the flavor of the month build, but doesn’t know how to use their defensive skills well at all…
The meta (in PvE) only matters if you regularly do dungeons, tier 4 fractals and raiding.
Far Shiverpeaks
Don’t sweat the meta stuff for world PvE, whatever gear you had should still be fine. My general go to gear is the exotics you get for karma in Orr, and that is sufficient for any PvE. MY ranger is wearing the same set that she got in 2014 and she has been through just about everything the game has to offer.
That’s one of the things I love about this game – no gear treadmill required.