Guild Wars 2

Where is the balance, Anet?

What eventually happens (for any particular meta):
Everyone gets bottle necked into running a handful of different builds on a combination of professions in order to compete….. then next patch everyone must instead run a different handful of builds on a different combination of professions… which, to be completely honest, is absolutely no better than it was last update… its just different.

With this last update, lots of pvp equipment was removed…. and I do understand the thought process behind the idea.
(To attempt to encourage build diversity)

In doing so, however, nothing was accomplished save abolishing the old combos of builds/professions and creating new ones… (with fewer possible choices. )

Whichever builds/professions land on the top of the pile after they fall out of the “balance” blender is the new “meta”

You need to BALANCE your game…. in order to encourage build diversity.

You don’t just take an egg beater to the game and then say “Look, Build X isn’t overpowered anymore” ….because Build X isn’t the problem….. the problem is that imbalance is allowed to exist for so long and stagnate…. and good old Roy boy…. the pvp balance lead thinks its 100% okay to rotate the selection of overpowered builds instead of balancing them.

“These builds will be history with the next balance patch…… as it will be something else overpowered for the next update… so its okay”

There is NEVER balance this way…. and there never will be.

Fire the slug in charge of pvp balance…. Roy Chronacher….. he has no idea what the kitten he is doing…. and if that hasn’t already been made painfully obvious by now…. than maybe the person in charge of reviewing his “balance updates” should be fired also.