Guild Wars 2

PvP has always been my biggest interest in GW2, and as the title says, I haven’t been playing for roughly 6 months (perhaps more).

So what’s new? I read a few posts regarding solo queue (as in LoL style solo queue with ELO?)

Also what are the FOTM (flavour of the month/popular) PvP builds at the moment? The last time I played, PvP was filled with greatsword Warriors running quickness, and quickness thieves too.

Condi Necros, Spirit Rangers, Stunlock Warriors, Condi Engis, S/D Thiefs (and ofc Guardian) are the FOTM

A brand new map 92.873628% of people hate. That’s about it. Come in three years if you want to see something new worth mentioning.

What about sPvP meta right now?

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Game_release

Go through these, you’ll see what you missed. In short, SoloQ/TeamQ with ELO rating and leaderboards and Custom Arenas with Spectator mode are the most important.

Tournaments have been organized and the first official GW2 tourny is happening at PAX at the end of this month I believe with a prize pool of $10 000.

most people responding on forums are heavy QQ’ers exaggerating 90% of the time.

i would suggest you, as far as it is a b2p game and you have no extra cost in reinstalling and logging in, try it out yourself!!

the game over all is really great and always worth a try

kito.1827:

most people responding on forums are heavy QQ’ers exaggerating 90% of the time.

i would suggest you, as far as it is a b2p game and you have no extra cost in reinstalling and logging in, try it out yourself!!

the game over all is really great and always worth a try

Downloading right now

The game is great, but the meta is rly rly bad.

Most of the base game is the same.

New FOTM, new gimmick maps.

The only real basic change is the shift towards countering boons – 6 months ago, boons had no hard counter, so boon bunkers were a tough nut to crack, and everyone ran as many as they could. Some changes to thief and warrior (Mostly thief) shifted the meta a bit. Thieves can steal boons on one of their stronger weapon sets atm (S/D), so perma vigor/protection/regen boon bunkers aren’t as safe as they used to be.

Stun breaker was recently added to new utilities across most (all?) classes, giving players other options for stunbreaking with utilities that didn’t used to see much playtime.

Warriors finally got a buff – they’re undoubtedly in a better place, though I don’t know warrior well enough to know if they’re still “in trouble”.

Conditions currently rule the scene – the consensus is that they’re much too easy to place, keep up, and do excellent damage. People are further annoyed because condition damage is the only thing you need to do good damage with a condi spec (as opposed to Power/Precision/Crit damage in a power based spec) – this makes it easy to invest in defensive stats and still have excellent sustain.