Guild Wars 2

I’m just a bit confused, I mean this game was fairly balanced, at least when compared to other MMOs, and then without the devs doing much at all OP classes/specs have all of a sudden popped up out of thin air.

I mean eles for one, they havent really changed all that much, maybe had a few things be nerfed in fact, and then all of a sudden we’re seeing high burst eles running around, full healing 2-3 times in seconds, and constantly removing conditions.

Theres also that “new” 100nades engi build that I’ve only run into once but heard A LOT of QQ about. I mean grenades were nerfed, twice, then all of a sudden this new build shows?

A little while ago there was that perma stealth thief build as well, I haven’t seen it as much lately (cause it isnt as bursty and we all know most thieves like to one shot people, or at least try to lol). It’s not that big of a deal but in tourneys dealing with a thief who can indefinitely hide is frustrating. And this build showed up out of nowhere without the devs doing anything.

I mean I really do like this game, and the ability for people to build whatever they want for any class they want is amazing, but the amount of these “specialized” classes that can either do absolutely everything all at once or just do something ridiculous is getting annoying :/

But I guess it’s better then in WoW where its like “we’re nerfing dps shamans again even though they’re the worst class atm then we’re gonna buff frost mages even though they are the best pvp class in the game right now” lol

Anyway am I the only one who sees this? Am I going crazy or is it just due to me playing warrior and necro mainly, two of the classes who havent gotten some sort of OP spec recently :P Also how do you deal with one of those burst eles who can full heal in seconds multiple times and remove all conditions continuously? Besides just being a better player then them I mean, cause I know I’m not better then all eles out there lol

absolutely nothing has changed yet. same specs dominate 6 months later, with more d/d eles facerolling everywhere. im hoping the aoe nerf is coming soon because it would make many, many other specs viable.

I don’t think there have been very many new builds popping up—d/d ele is really the only one that’s significantly more feared now than 4 months ago. Grenade engies have always been around, but there have always been so few engies total that no one has ever really noticed them. I see far fewer permastealth attrition thieves now than I did a few months ago.

Still, it’s kind of cool that d/d eles rose to the top without huge buffs.

same with rangers and necromancers, they both thought they were a joke of a class and without any substantial changes people just learned how to play the class and make good builds

Sometimes it takes a bit of time for people to work out good builds. And also for those builds to get popular enough for you to hear about them.

Also sometimes better builds get discovered when previously good builds get nerfed and force people to think a bit more

You’re just seeing more of them than you did.

Bunker Eles have been around for a while now but it’s taken a few month for it to trickle down into your standard WvW

I mean it took 4 weeks into release for someone to post the Thief instant-gib combo in a youtube video but it wasn’t until November that this build and play-style really became wide-spread.

I wasn’t seeing many D/D Bunker Eles in WvW until about December.

Pistol/Dagger Thieves are a build every Thief tries once in a while but then quickly leaves behind because it’s boring as kitten and makes you hate downed-state more than ever.

The only new build I’ve encountered in the past weeks is the Ranger Bunker build with traps and lots of leaps combined with a very high Protection uptime. It too has probably been around for a while but most Rangers seem to prefer damage builds.

I would say there alot more stealth balance fixes that go unnoticed