Guild Wars 2

Thinking about coming back for awhile. Used to play pretty hardcore. PVP is all I do. I left because the game had gotten stale, everyone was running the same builds and it was getting harder and harder to find a structured team.

I main Necro and make a pretty good Thief. I don’t much care for the other classes, but have dabbled with all of them. I don’t know whats changed in the last year.

Has balance gotten better/worse?
Has the meta changed at all?
Are structured teams common, or is it all YOLO Q?

Just curious for some insight from those who stuck around.

Thanks!

Balance got worse, the meta changed to mostly AI and celestial builds, and structured teams are very common because otherwise you just get steamrolled by said structured teams. That about sums it up, but that’s just my own opinion.

Kryshade.6075:

Thinking about coming back for awhile. Used to play pretty hardcore. PVP is all I do. I left because the game had gotten stale, everyone was running the same builds and it was getting harder and harder to find a structured team.

I main Necro and make a pretty good Thief. I don’t much care for the other classes, but have dabbled with all of them. I don’t know whats changed in the last year.

Has balance gotten better/worse?
Has the meta changed at all?
Are structured teams common, or is it all YOLO Q?

Just curious for some insight from those who stuck around.

Thanks!

There hasnt been a meaningful balance patch since april 2014 i believe. So balance could be the same as a year ago when you quit. Balance is very good in that every class is viable. The issue i have with balance is some strong specs like turret engi and power ranger are not fun to fight against.

Hmm, lets see, last time I played I think it was MM Necro, Some stupid AI Mesmer build and a flood of engi’s spamming conditions. Turret engineer wasn’t a think back then but it sounds like it’s just more AI playing the game for you. I’m not too hopeful but we shall see!

I’d say it’s more balanced overall because a lot of old builds still work pretty well, but their are a few specs that are meta and way more common for one reason or another. Turrets are really strong, dealing really easy hard to avoid damage, while applying boons to nearby allies (braindead easy build). The celestial meta is dominant in the high levels with builds that bring aoe healing, a fair amount of tankiness, and decent sustained damage with both conditions and direct damage. The meta roamers are thieves, and meditation guardians. This is all due to the changes last year around this time.

I’m about the same as you OP. Haven’t played over a year and wondering where we stand. AI builds, passive gameplay, hambows, it was bad.

funny that you post on here the same day i did. 2 years later i post and 1 year you do? wtf kind of coincidence is that. anyway i posted 6 hours before you so i came back first. also my post got locked for some reason? guess they remember me lol.

balance is kind of a joke right now in that bunker builds are heavily favoured, leading to very boring games