Guild Wars 2

Why are Elite specs now mostly required to be competitive?
This is just plain bad design. What if I don’t like to play an elite spec and still want to be competitive?
Jesus just stop focusing on elite specs and make vanilla specs on the same level as elites or nerf the elite specs hard.

I personally am not happy because I love thief and stealth mechanics. I don’t want to be a kitten martial arts monk.
At the moment it is close to impossible to be successful as a non DD Thief. It’s just frustrating to play.

Just allow us to be competitive with old specs, if not, what’s the point of using anything but elite specs?

Or, ya know, buy the expansion and enjoy the fact that the game is getting some new, original builds to shake up the meta…

Shake up the meta? Or replace all old builds?

I posted during the F2P announcement you could potentially create an environment where people would be looking over at those who’ve paid to have access to the Elites if not balanced correctly and call “P2W”. It’s going to be interesting.

the HoT is actually: Buy 2 be your opponents useless (in competitive)

I made a topic yesterday about it
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/pvp/Are-specializations-stronger-then-old-builds/first#post5688006

Looks like old builds arent viable anymore

I don’t expect them to be balanced right away and I’m fine with that as long as they fix it within a reasonable amount of time. Berserker need some love.