Guild Wars 2

I haven’t logged any time into the current PvP meta, but I will often check Metabattle to see where things have shifted (as I assume most people still fotm roll based on that website).

Last I played Bunker Mesmer and Condi Reaper/Rev were incredibly OP FoTm and poor Elementalist was nothing more than a condi-removal bot with a heal attached to it. I was granted no leeway with changing my builds, so if I wanted to run Ele in any form of ladder game I was forced to play D/F Condi Removal.

This lead to my team disbanding and me inevitably leaving the game for good, but it’s hard to stay away – I’m looking to come back, but more casual this time around.

Does anyone have any feedback on how the meta is right now? Is FoTm rerolling every patch still a major issue, and have they fixed much in the way of PvP overall? Am I able to play Elementalist without being forced into that god awful build?

You arrived right when the new meta patch hit, literally just days ago. Everyone is either raging, depressed, indifferent, or glad. In that order. They lowered damage across the board while also lowering all classes self-sustains. The kicker is, some meta builds (currently on metabattle as of this post) will no longer be ‘meta". There’s going to be some changes.

What hasn’t changed? Ele is still a support build.

Saiyan.1704:

You arrived right when the new meta patch hit, literally just days ago. Everyone is either raging, depressed, indifferent, or glad. In that order. They lowered damage across the board while also lowering all classes self-sustains. The kicker is, some meta builds (currently on metabattle as of this post) will no longer be ‘meta". There’s going to be some changes.

What hasn’t changed? Ele is still a support build.

Still support build but with far more damage (but still lower than pure dps ofc).
From my point of wiev, ele is good now, if you like support class.

But as you can see above – powercreep was nerfed (good), condi was buffed (not so good but not bad) and some balance changes were made.
And after few days of playing my mesmer and war (and I’m not glad for war changes), this patch is atleast good direction.