Guild Wars 2

I think Arena-Net should re-design the current pvp default character set-up because the traits and weapons aren’t really competetive. Maybe they should offer a choice of 2 – 3 different premades for each class with a short descriptions. I am sure the community would contribute to ensure the builds are actually viable. (At one point in time that is how it was in GW1. Unfortunately, the infamous Hamstorm-Warrior was an example of how it shouldn’t be done.) Just let us vote on a couple of popular builds to decide which one would be the best to introduce new players to a class.

Concerning balancing:

Instead of balancing all skills and traits A-Net should create five equally viable builds for every class and only allow these in tournaments. If a build is too good it will not be part of the five builds.
These builds will not be the five best builds that could be created. The idea is to have five builds that are equally good (or bad by current standards) compared to the other builds of other classes.

If every profession had five premades there would actually be more variaty than there is now.

could work

but sounds kinda boring

I actually enjoy tweaking my stats and traits

The best part about competing is doing it your own way.
Only 5 pre-made builds sounds horrible. Like watching a game of football where they can only run 5 different plays the entire game no matter what.

I believe there was an update at some point since release that refreshed default weapon/trait assignments for each profession to make them a bit more effective/relevant. I imagine this will happen again at some point during the year considering all of the balance changes made.

Yes… take all the customization from our characters out. That will make the PvP community happy.