Guild Wars 2

Stopped playing pve because its become extremely boring even for a grinder like me, and was waiting for warrior balances for a long time. How were the finals, and how is the class balance currently

From Observation:
The Best Balanced Team Comp: Tempest, Chronomancer, Berserker, Herald, Druid and/or Scrapper
A-S Classes Individually: Dare Devil, Reaper
B-A: Dragon Hunter, Vanilla Meta Battle Specs
C: Nothing that has been optimized is so far behind that it is a “C Class”, in my opinion.

Edit:
As far as the rest of your question, for the finals, Astral vs. Rank 55 is a must watch series. The rest can probably be skipped, unless you want to watch Helseth “1v2, and win”.

Condi-based Berserker builds are really strong right now.

What are you looking to play? Solo? Team?

yeah but if you have a more casual team and u don’t practice for a tournament the best team comp would actually include 2-3 revenants, 1 ele, and the rest mesmers/warriors/engis

You’ll have whiners still complaining about balance even though the meta has included more classes than ever before. Warrior is looking much better now than 5 months ago, especially if you go conditions.

One of the most balanced metas ever, everyone has an equal shot except for DH

One of the most brain dead meta’s. while they are half balanced every meta build currently is pretty much on auto pilot.

BeepBoopBop.5403:

You’ll have whiners still complaining about balance even though the meta has included more classes than ever before. Warrior is looking much better now than 5 months ago, especially if you go conditions.

Inclusion is not balance. This game is still way overtuned in many combat mechanics. Passives, boons, conditions, low cd high damage skills, minimal tells.
It is a big mess that has found a way to include each class in some form or fashion. But far far far from balanced.

Individual class balance is pretty decent, DH are out of the meta due to the prevalence of reflect and their support options being inferior to druid/ele, but other classes are all decent.

Matches are still often lopsided, either due to poor matchmaking or due to poor team comps.

classes are more balance compare to during HOT release.

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BeepBoopBop.5403:

You’ll have whiners still complaining about balance even though the meta has included more classes than ever before. Warrior is looking much better now than 5 months ago, especially if you go conditions.

Inclusion is not balance. This game is still way overtuned in many combat mechanics. Passives, boons, conditions, low cd high damage skills, minimal tells.
It is a big mess that has found a way to include each class in some form or fashion. But far far far from balanced.

Balance = the equality of abilities and viability between classes and builds. In that sense having 8 classes be considered meta is the best state of the game we’ve had.

What you’re complaining about is power creep. Too many boons passives etc. does not impact balance if EVERYONEis using them.