Guild Wars 2

if you (the devs) want players to have “more reasons to try different builds” and were “very cognizant of keeping the focus heavily on player-vs.-player combat”, why are you not doing anything about the current limited amount of viable pvp builds per profession?

are there finally some meaningful balance and build updates coming that we don’t know about?

working on the poorly designed stealth and counter stealth mechanics?

what are you doing about condition bombing and immobilize stacking?

any changes to some over the top burst abilities?

are you making more weapons sets and attacks, skills, elites, traits… viable in pvp settings?

Allowing more stat customization in PvP? It limits build options and is a major reason why people, especially WvW’ers don’t like PvP.

Reducing the power of sigils and runes to put more emphasis on profession skills and traits?

Exedore.6320:

Allowing more stat customization in PvP? It limits build options and is a major reason why people, especially WvW’ers don’t like PvP.

That’s because flexibility on stats makes a lot of really broken stuff viable. WvW also uses bonus broken things like condi duration food.

Assuming that HoT adds the specializations for each profession into spvp, its entirely possible there will be a large number of new builds for classes opening up.

Perhaps a little optimistic, but at the very least the first few weeks should be fun.

mbh.8301:

That’s because flexibility on stats makes a lot of really broken stuff viable. WvW also uses bonus broken things like condi duration food.

Not talking doing Dire or Nomad. WvW also has a lot more stats due to WvW buffs and ascended. Just want to be able to get something between Berserker and everything else.

I wouldn’t be surprised it things don’t change too much now until the expansion.

Here’s why. All the balancing they would do for now would likely not be valuable come the expansion.

Let’s say they come out with a balance patch in the next 2-3 months to shake some things up. Who’s to say those changes are even good come the expansion? With specializations and a new game mode coming through, certain balance changes now might not even be the correct call come time of the expansion.

Yeah like said already, the specializations will probably blow the whole meta apart, so a big balance pass before HoT is unlikely to happen.

OP, don’t forget that the exp pack may as well bring up completly new metas…

Personally I’d like to see a lot more build diversity in pvp along with the use of ascended stats and foods. Even being able to choose a mix of stats for my armor and runes would be better than the ’that’s it, go play’ restrictions that currently exist.