Guild Wars 2

The balance preview we’ve seen has some enormous changes to the current meta.
Though it makes me wonder will we not end up in another meta where certain classes are completely unviable at high level play and other are mandatory?
We have the removal of certain amulets that were some of the most used ones.
We have removed quickness and slow from affecting rezzes and stomps.
We got a nerf to Diamond Skin for elementalist.

Will anet be up to the task of actually iterating more balance patches more frequently? Or are we going to end up once more with a lopsided META that is going to be left in place for a very very long time.

My personal opinion is that they’ve tried to do many things in one sprint.
To much will change with the three afore mentioned changes. Maybe they need to wait out results after those changes alone instead of a random buff to thief AA or necro AA.
What do you guys think will once more have a stupid imbalanced meta for another couple of months?

Ele and mesmer will be out of the game, 100% sure.

Revs MAYBE because they have absolutely nothing that will be able to stand against a boon corrupting necro.

As an elemtalist main, I do agree that elementalist is going be excruciating but we’ve had our OP times before, just a shame that instead of balancing it out one by one we get the combined removal of celestial and a DS rework.
I’ve watched Helseth’s stream, and he knows alot more about the class than I do and I belive mesmer will become quite unviable at high end PVP, because any good thief will just go full ham on the mesmer. But that is if the preview is all changes we’re going to get .

I’d wait to see before claiming x or x class are going to be out of the game.
Ele will see nice changes which may give a new face on fresh air build, added that DS rework may finally make ele capable of getting out of water line and that bunker meta is being ripped apart, I’m curious to see how it’ll go.
As for mesmer, if they rework scepter correctly, we could see condi emerging from that… I don’t know yet, I try to stay hopeful. Alacrity will still be effective, just less so.
Amulets clearly needed to go, especially celestial… it was cancer, so was durability and energy needed that nerf…

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I’d wait to see before claiming x or x class are going to be out of the game.
Ele will see nice changes which may give a new face on fresh air build, added that DS rework may finally make ele capable of getting out of water line and that bunker meta is being ripped apart, I’m curious to see how it’ll go.
As for mesmer, if they rework scepter correctly, we could see condi emerging from that… I don’t know yet, I try to stay hopeful. Alacrity will still be effective, just less so.
Amulets clearly needed to go, especially celestial… it was cancer, so was durability and energy needed that nerf…

I’m happy to see some changes don’t get me wrong I’m delighted. But my point was that they’re all going live in one go and we know ANET and hotfixing or reverting is quite scarce. My question is if THIS TIME they won’t let it drag on for so long if thing do indeed go wrong for certain classes.