Guild Wars 2

My god i just fast forwarded threw the Pro Leagues and wow it was bad. Anet your coming out with a new patch and i hope the HOT patch isnt going to be a recurring thing. Completely killing and creating new builds for the sake of creating a new meta is atrocious to me.

This is 5 vs 5 conquest and it needs to have a Pro basket ball feel to it. Some teams should be able to be successful playing defense. Like a radioactive before and some teams should be able run a high paced numbers game like the TCG of before HOT. Many teams in the NBA run different styles of teams and have the same amount of success. In the game we currently have there is only 1 style.

Seriously when you bring in the next patch think about the styles of play that you can do. Watching all the WTS was awesome but i dont even dare to try and watch the current Pro League matches live. I really hope you guys can turn this around because having 2 EU game where is 200-300 and 2 NA game with 300-400 games would be a combined 2 hrs worth of time watching paint dry.

I do agree with you but there’s a catch; in order to figure out such styles, which at the same time should be viable, they need to test.

Anet doesn’t have the amount of testers, nor do the testers there have a clue about high-level conquest to reproduce on the site.

Basically what I’m saying is they’ll need us as guineapigs to fight out for weeks, like a League season.
Problem on using us as test is that there will always be 1 “style” of meta, like we always had.

So its kind of a vicious circle.
In other words; it’s impossible unless they revert back to the HamBow meta, which seemed the best period of balance and fun in PvP.

Despite ppl calling it a bunker meta, I think everyone right now (except those adoring their faceroll specs now) would be happy to switch back to the HamBow meta.

Every single class, including Ranger, was used in top tier play. (yes, even when ppl called ranger unviable, there were 2 EU top teams using a ranger and winning all their games).

HoT wasn’t a conspiracy to shake up the Meta… This game is primarily an MMO.

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I do agree with you but there’s a catch; in order to figure out such styles, which at the same time should be viable, they need to test.

Anet doesn’t have the amount of testers, nor do the testers there have a clue about high-level conquest to reproduce on the site.

Basically what I’m saying is they’ll need us as guineapigs to fight out for weeks, like a League season.
Problem on using us as test is that there will always be 1 “style” of meta, like we always had.

So its kind of a vicious circle.
In other words; it’s impossible unless they revert back to the HamBow meta, which seemed the best period of balance and fun in PvP.

Despite ppl calling it a bunker meta, I think everyone right now (except those adoring their faceroll specs now) would be happy to switch back to the HamBow meta.

Every single class, including Ranger, was used in top tier play. (yes, even when ppl called ranger unviable, there were 2 EU top teams using a ranger and winning all their games).

That was my favorite meta as well. Simply put multiple classes had multiple builds comapred to now. A few tweaks to some classes here and there and we could of had more viable builds. I mean ele alone, we had bunker staff- the all powerful d/d and s/f burst builds. No its run tempest with shouts or dont play at a high level.

My issue is it took Anet 3 years to get to that point. Them talking overhauling PvP just scares me because of how bad the HOT meta has been. We are having Pro Leagues Seasonal now and i just want the game to be fun instead of grind when these events happen for casuals and serious players.

I mean each game should feel differently. If you have a team who runs all bursts builds the match should feel quick and a bit random spamming. If your playing all bunkers you should be able to slow down the game a bit and bring out rotation aspects of the game into the highlight reels. Not every team should look like 2 mesmers and 2 revs!