Guild Wars 2

I know this is purely utopy to ask but:
- when the expansion will come out, can any top player not share their builds that are the main reason they can create a meta?
I know many builds will remain the same as now and it’s not that hard to identify a build from a live stream but still I would like to see if in this way we can see different kind of builds at least for a while.

metabattle will instantly start spewing out their nonsense about the perfect builds for the new meta.
No chance.

Doesn’t matter if they share it or not, the builds will get shown on ESL and tournament streams.

I actually doubt that anyone besides build copypasta-ers will just grab builds from streamers. A lot of people enjoy theorycrafting. And since you can look at warrior and already tell that there’s more than one killshot build to try, let alone one ultimate warrior build.

Realistically, it’s not gonna happen. But it shouldn’t matter if ANet does the specialization system well.

With the new specialization system, the choice of trait line is dependent on the roles you want to fulfill. Some lines may not exist on some professions, but you typically see the following: personal survival, group support, group/area damage, condition damage, class-mechanic specific, single target damage. A bunker would pick personal survival and support. A bruiser probably picks personal survival, but may forgo support and probably take a trait line for single-target damage.

Within each line, the choices at each tier should be competitive with each other and you pick the one that fits your playstyle or group composition the best. Some may depend on weapon skill choice.

The end result is that variations by role are small, but the line selections of each role will be different.