Guild Wars 2

Ignoring my complaints about MMR (I keep getting matched against the #3 on the legendary leaderboards, and I’m only T1 Legendary), I wanted to talk about the current meta builds that pop up frequently.

If you look at build websites such as metabattle, most of the top ranking builds in PvP have absurd levels of tankiness. There are exceptions, of course. Thief has never been particularly good at tanking, especially in large group battles. Even with all the evades, AoE simply does them in.

Tanks aren’t inherently bad — it is a winning strategy to bunker down on a held point after all. But with the current level of tankiness in the meta, point capturing and exciting fights simply slow to a crawl. I have seen fewer interesting fights in this season than I’ve ever seen before — and that’s including the OP turret engineer build in the past. Most conquest matches simply boil down to the large group fight and which side can tank it out the longest, not about fast reactions or clever tactics.