Guild Wars 2

I’ve been away for about a year now, and have found myself missing the combat of GW2 pvp. A quick look at the forums does little to fill me in on what’s happened in the past year; I see complaints about the leaderboards and matchmaking, discussions of why we aren’t esports, and all the same stuff I saw last year. So what have I missed? What’s better now, what’s the same, what’s worse?

other than qol, not much changed

log in and see by yourself

mrook.4163:

I’ve been away for about a year now, and have found myself missing the combat of GW2 pvp. A quick look at the forums does little to fill me in on what’s happened in the past year; I see complaints about the leaderboards and matchmaking, discussions of why we aren’t esports, and all the same stuff I saw last year. So what have I missed? What’s better now, what’s the same, what’s worse?

balance changes, meta is different, some more balance changes coming this month, totally different rewards in pvp now, matchmaking is different, no more solo vs team queue

hmm idk what else.

Solstice.1097:

balance changes, meta is different, some more balance changes coming this month, totally different rewards in pvp now, matchmaking is different, no more solo vs team queue

hmm idk what else.

No more solo vs team q, as in back when it was just one combined q and everyone hated it?

mrook.4163:

Solstice.1097:

balance changes, meta is different, some more balance changes coming this month, totally different rewards in pvp now, matchmaking is different, no more solo vs team queue

hmm idk what else.

No more solo vs team q, as in back when it was just one combined q and everyone hated it?

there is ranked arena and unranked. either arena you can queue as a team or solo.

Well that’s…. probably a step backwards. Without getting too detailed I’m wondering a bit about the current meta. Is it still a boring bunker meta? Burst? Condition? And finally, before the game finishes updating and I can see for myself, where do guardians currently fit in?

its more of a hybrid sustain meta.

almost every top team has at least one celestial amulet d/d elementalist and at least one engineer. thieves are still pretty standard but they have moved more to S/D rather than full on burst. hambows are much less common than before, often replaced by celestial amulet shout sword/wh LB. not too many necros or mesmers around, but they are not completely missing. spirit rangers are virtually non existent anymore. the rangers that we do see from time to time are power LB snipers.

guardians are less common – every team used to have one and that is no longer true. a lot of top teams still use a bunker guard but its no longer required for success. as far as the bunker guards themselves, the builds have not really changed.

i’d suggest just go watch some of the recent ESL tournaments to get up to speed.

Thanks for the info, I’m sure I’ll be back up to speed soon.

I think youll be glad to know that meditation guardian is officialy more viable than bunker guardian at the moment.

mrook.4163:

Well that’s…. probably a step backwards.

it is indeed

bring back soloq