Guild Wars 2

Hey guys, was watching some old gw2 pvp videos on youtube and found FEEL the Hundred Blades! from Zoose.

Then i felt like the meta was more fun at this time. Or better than the current one at least..
Wich meta since Gw2 has been released is your favourite one?

yes old metas was rly much more fun then current.

nearly all professions have to run faceroll builds atm

only meta i didn’t like was the old D/D ele meta, that was extremely annoying,
matches were full of guys rolling their face across the keyboard, they were nearly invincible, had huge damage and could instantly escape a fight with RTL.
not fun.

but yeah the 100b meta was pretty fun, also if you like the glasscannon style of old 100b you should try a double axe build, its hilarious, i’ve literally one shot people before with eviscerate, and the last hit of the auto attack does around 4-5k dmg lol XD

I think the meta which was around Q2 of 2013 was the best. Necromancers were just buffed and Elementalists were not nerfed to the ground AAAAAND most importantly there were no pEtTiNg ZoO Spirit Rangers.

Seriously, anyone who thinks pEtTiNg ZoO is not OP should die in a Dhummfire.

August 2012 up to the 23rd July of 2013 was mostly a ton of fun (in terms of balance), from then on it just went wrong. (Quickness nerf and implementation of easy-to-use-and-high-reward skills and traits)
In terms of challenge, it goes definately back to when skills were not locked and after the svanir rune fix. I personally find that having had to face 2-3 elementalists on the enemy team and having to be on one’s own toes, it definately gave a good challenge as well.

+1, old meta much better

Every meta had his issues.

Instakill thieves and S/D bunker eles are the most broken example, but indeed power meta was a lot better than this spam fest we have currently.

We also should say that other classes didn’t have viable choices: power necro sucked ( now it’s quite better), thief had only 1 viable weapon ( dagger, aside shortbow), off guardian sucked, warrior sucked, engi skills were bugged etc. etc.

Now that we have more choices, along with the clearly wrong overbuffing on the way, it’s clear how unbalanced some things are.

With a good amount of nerfs and needed overhauls, next meta could probably be the best.

Although 100b still viable, the old one was pretty fun (RIP frenzy), along with daze-lock S/D thieves

I think frenzy/hb meta was only around because 99.9% of the playerbase was quite literally awful. Even with no balance changes made, it never would have survived more than a few months, after people figured out juggernaut engineer, staff ele (with all those blast finishers, lol), BM rangers, etc.

haha i actually remember when staff eles were used in place of guardians as mid bunkers, good old times :P