Guild Wars 2

And I’m not even gonna talk about how OP warriors are.. There are plenty of threads for that. The thing is I’m getting sick seeing so many warriors per tourney game (I suppose in other modes is the same, I just don’t play those often). There are like 2 in one team and 3 in another. Rarely I see less then two warriors per game. I don’t even remember when I saw a game where there were no warriors at all.

It’s almost become like a game with one profession. But I guess if Anet won’t fix this class, every one that just goes for FOTM (maybe we should call it FOTY – flavor of the year?), chooses warriors and it just gets duller every day.

Same with thief and engis ._.
kitten them mate. kitten them.

Start a new warrior meta.

CMstorm.8679:

Start a new warrior meta.

Wanna help?

Tatsuo.1478:

CMstorm.8679:

Start a new warrior meta.

Wanna help?

D/F ele meta. Let’s do it.

What meta are you talking about? The warrior/condi spam meta is pretty new, one year aint suffice to adapt to it. Like Anet said, we need more time to settle the meta, else the new comers might get confused!

Start a new warrior might-stacking meta. Use Discipline I (mighty defenses) with Short Temper (Strength iv) and 6 runes of the guardian. make it work somehow.

in recent couple of days i’ve been seeing way less of them.

FOTM is currently hambow, spirit ranger, and decap engi.

Enjoy

style.6173:

FOTM is currently hambow, spirit ranger, and decap engi.

Enjoy

FOTY*

Come up with new metas and force them on everyone lol

oh wait, so you think hambow meta is actually worse then tanky aoe condi spam? lol kittened, i would choose to deal with hambow any time over aoe conditions spam.

also the meta is not just hambow warrior, idk where have you been, zerging in hj?

The meta is almost picture perfect, where tanks are tanky, conditions actually do stuff, glass cannons don’t literally 1-shot kill but are still dangerous, and builds with a good balance of offense/defense feel strong and useful as opposed to weak and useless.

But of course, this is not enough to satisfy the GW2 PvP forum lurkers. Oh no, of course not.

zone.1073:

The meta is almost picture perfect, where tanks are tanky, conditions actually do stuff, glass cannons don’t literally 1-shot kill but are still dangerous, and builds with a good balance of offense/defense feel strong and useful as opposed to weak and useless.

But of course, this is not enough to satisfy the GW2 PvP forum lurkers. Oh no, of course not.

Says the Warrior lol. I’m sure this meta is awesome from your POV. This meta is a joke compared to the old meta. The general skillcap was much higher before with d/d eles, shatter mesmers, condi engis, pre duumfire necros and glass 100b wars. Now its Hambow wars, Spirit rangers, PistolWhip thieves, Decap engis and tanky condi spam.

Remember the days where killshots were insanely common and everyone died after two hits? Yeah, that’s so much better than the current Meta. Definitely some issues here with everyone going the route of passive gameplay, but I’d take that over glass cannons any day.

MailMail.6534:

Remember the days where killshots were insanely common and everyone died after two hits? Yeah, that’s so much better than the current Meta. Definitely some issues here with everyone going the route of passive gameplay, but I’d take that over glass cannons any day.

I can honestly say I probably haven’t been hit by a number of killshots above single digits in spvp.

Ironically I feel sorry for warriors now. They too have to deal with the pistol whip madness

My abundance of ret loves pistol whip.

ANET has always been doing FOTY BS. They’ve done this before and obviously right after Warrior’s Frenzy got nerfed. They DID NOT compensate that nerf properly and I’m still really mad about that. Now they’re doing the same thing to Ele in which the old Signet of Restoration would be balanced at this point.

And even if they did bring back the old Ele, the game would still be a game where everyone is aiming for time-outs and not kills. Its getting redundant and ANET refuses to accept that they are WRONG for doing this.

I think no matter how u spin it, with rare balance patches and only 1 game mode there can be only 1 meta it will change very slowly.

For more frequent fixes and patches there are positive and negative claims, but what is sure that if there was more then 1 game mode we would have seen a “meta” for each of them.

If you look at duel server some eles are doing pretty well, good mesmer can kite hambow to death when they don’t have to stand on point in their fire field, and no decap engi is going to win a deathmatch (unless it’s in skyhammer :/).
So we probably be seeing post like: “ele is garbade in point cap” “else is OP in quick DM” . Yeah it would suck if your class is not viable for a certian game mode, which might happen for every changed meta (warrior 1 year ago), but it would be so much better than now because that class will probably be useful or even OP in another mode.

MailMail.6534:

Remember the days where killshots were insanely common and everyone died after two hits? Yeah, that’s so much better than the current Meta. Definitely some issues here with everyone going the route of passive gameplay, but I’d take that over glass cannons any day.

They did tone down that meta with the quickness nerf, so it’s fair to say that, at one point in time, GW2 was at a better state than it currently is. More specifically, GW2’s best balance peak was probably before the june patch.

Till this day, the game is still recovering from that patch.

The june patch wouldn’t even be this big of a problem if Anet reacted faster. Sure, they’ve made some mistakes. They were tempted into giving more buffs to satisfy the community, and ended up going against their own “shaving” balance philosophy. But that’s fine. The good thing about mistakes is that you can learn from them. The real problem is that anet was so slooooooooooooow, and continues to be so slooooooooow at reacting and hotfixing the meta.

I like their “shaving” philosophy, but it does not works when patches take so many months to come. Shaving is excellent for monthly or 2-weekly balance patches/ hotfixes. A steady release of tiny nerfs until the situation gets fixed. However, it’s a pretty underwhelming balance practice when patches take 2-5 months to come, and players must wait for 3 balance passes a whole year until the balance shaving hits the spot.

That’s why the previewed changes announced so far for profession’s skills should have already been out.

All roll BM Jaguar LB Ranger – Because it is so much fun being able to negate eachothers damage by pressing ADADADADADADADADADADA

Prysin.8542:

All roll BM Jaguar LB Ranger – Because it is so much fun being able to negate eachothers damage by pressing ADADADADADADADADADADA

CATSASSINS – GO!

what makes me sick is Anet for not fixing them

welcome to wow number two where classes stay op because developers are too lazy to change something
pity because they started this game with mood and now its another dumped down mmo

Yup getting tired of only seeing 4 maybe 5 class/builds in pvp. Part of it seems to be due to balancing and part of it is the fact we only have sit on a small point capture mode.

Anet said they care equally for PvE and PvP, but they have like what 2 people for sPvP? Two years and not much have changed. At such pace there won’t left anyone to see those promised “big” changes.

FYI, if you hotjoin, I created a new custom arena on US servers:

“No HS Warriors”

That’s at least 1 place you can go where it’s warrior-free.

DiogoSilva.7089:

I like their “shaving” philosophy

Kinda like how they shaved warriors to the position they are currently?

Countless

shrug

l2adapt

I’m having a blast going back to my old trap Ranger builds. It throws people for a loop when they expect to see me with spirits and instead get a load of condi CC spam.