Guild Wars 2

How would this have looked without the no class stacking rule in place?

Why arent there more of each class represented in power, condi, and healing?

Why are there only power, condi, and healing “classes”?

Where are you getting your statistics from? Just curious.

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SuperKorean.7345:

This patch is the best one so far.
Just do the statistics and there is nothing to complain.

In terms of class balancing & build diversity, it’s not. If they only implemented the class stacking rule a year ago things would be much, much, different than now. Instead, several items were nerfed/changed/removed because of the class stacking unbalances that the game had.

On a personal note, I think DH are in a better spot than Rangers were back when they weren’t meta. We may have swapped places but DH is very manageable in SoloQ.
(fix our Purification @ Virtue cast times anet)

I would show how op we are in esl except I don’t have a team (jk, not jk)

Well, when you have a no stacking rule then classes are not really going to have a stupidly high representation like in previous ESLs and WTS.

If teams could stack revenants you might have seen double revs or you might have seen double bunker ele come supporting a slightly different comp.

While nice these stats don’t show the big picture and are being interpreted wrongly. It’s like having policies that make it mandatory to employ a diverse staff where by certain ethnic/sexual orientation groups are employed not because they do the job better but because they have to tick boxes.

Nice info. As long as Anet keeps it up we’ll only need stats for “how frequent each build has been used” in the future.

Balance my kitten . You’d see 40% less specs w/o class stack rule.
You can guess why that was implemented

Well its clear from this that we need more DH nerfs.

Balance is horrible for 1 reason : NO BUILD DIVERSITY WHATSOEVER.

Wasn’t the class stacking rule put into place because people were stacking classes? How can you say that the last thing people want to do is stack classes?

If no class stacking rule were to be removed, teams like Herald+Herald+Tempest+Tempest+Druid would be possible, which would be pretty much instant-win teams.
Who would need necros, mesmers, guardians, etc, when you can have full unkillable team?

Indeed balance is in a good shape. They sacrificed diversity which is worse then total balance …