Guild Wars 2

I say this looking over what I’m currently running between 5 of my classes and only 1 of them is condi (War lb+s/s). I play engi 50% of games and I stopped running full condi builds around a month ago as they became less useful in the current meta. Which might sound strange, but:

Rangers, necros, warriors (which are the 3 most popular classes atm) make conditions for the most part ineffective.

I’ve found that power/CC is on the whole more effective and while I still make use of a lot of conditions such as cripple/immobilise/chill I’m no longer relying on them for damage as much as I was a month ago.

Condi builds still seem to tear up hotjoin if I jump in. However in tournies with competent players, most people have adjusted to the meta and found decent counters.

Anyone else found this to be true?

Crickets chirping

If Rangers had a real non-condi option in this game i’d be playing it.

Who moved in?
/thieflife.

Yup, I’m doing the same. Much more effective in tourneys Iv’e noticed. So much curing going on, I could never hold conditions on people very long.

I wish I could at least try a power build every once in a while but power necromancer just isn’t there yet.

I also dislike how there’s no power / precision / toughness amulet and jewel. If they added those, there would be a lot more build diversity almost immediately.