Guild Wars 2

If you’re like me, you hate this meta. I’ve been theorizing about team comps that are strong against builds like Shoutbow, Cele Ele, and Ele Engi. There’s also more annoying builds that are popular like LB Ranger and Turrets.

By now you may know I really like Skullcracker on War. While it’s weak to 1v1s with mesmers and some blind spam teef specs, it’s very strong vs Cele Engi, Turrets, LB Ranger, AND Shoutbow (just save the stun for after they use “Shake it Off”). While it would take to long to be practical outside of duels it also generally beats Mediguards. You either force they to spend all their counter measures, or they just don’t have an answer to your huge stun. Pair it up with any sort of spike build and chances are your target is dead.

So my question to you is, what other non-meta builds do you find counter the current meta. I also have another question, wanna team up and try it out?

Ive seen some people run some things that were crazy to me but crushed other people.

I saw this guy run a mace/shield, Greatsword with traits 6-0-2-0-6. I saw him trucking threw people left and right. It was awesome, now give it it was against mesmers and eles who were using other awkward builds but my thing is if your good your good. Builds are important but i think skill and timing is still more important.

kdaddy.5431:

Ive seen some people run some things that were crazy to me but crushed other people.

I saw this guy run a mace/shield, Greatsword with traits 6-0-2-0-6. I saw him trucking threw people left and right. It was awesome, now give it it was against mesmers and eles who were using other awkward builds but my thing is if your good your good. Builds are important but i think skill and timing is still more important.

I wish more people thought about this and were more adventurous with builds instead of copy pasting metabattle.

I think alot of us try weird builds all the time…. we won’t take them into ranked though….. People don’t always cut and paste from metabattle…. alot of the time they are using a build for a specific purpose….

kdaddy.5431:

Ive seen some people run some things that were crazy to me but crushed other people.

I saw this guy run a mace/shield, Greatsword with traits 6-0-2-0-6. I saw him trucking threw people left and right. It was awesome, now give it it was against mesmers and eles who were using other awkward builds but my thing is if your good your good. Builds are important but i think skill and timing is still more important.

Where they using 3 physical skills by chance?