Guild Wars 2

I noticed on metabattle the burst burning build jumped from good to meta (tier 1), I’m just curious, but what did the build accomplish to make such a large jump?

Simply everyone cry about burn then they thinked that it is a really good build and make it in the tier of good ones.

Then, it’s a really good build, inflict high damage if the enemy let you do it, but in high spvp level it’s not a top build.

But ehi, if they want make some noob use it more frequently, let’s them do that. more players to kill fast XD

Anyway, it’s a good build, really good build. The only proble is that it’s really easy to counter, expecially with the actual meta.

1 high tier player played it and it become meta

thus metabattle is just for new ppl who look for working builds.

take new player with meta build and he wont handle it

Silv.9207:

Simply everyone cry about burn then they thinked that it is a really good build and make it in the tier of good ones.

Then, it’s a really good build, inflict high damage if the enemy let you do it, but in high spvp level it’s not a top build.

But ehi, if they want make some noob use it more frequently, let’s them do that. more players to kill fast XD

Anyway, it’s a good build, really good build. The only proble is that it’s really easy to counter, expecially with the actual meta.

Keep in mind this isn’t me bashing on burning guards or anything, I was actually legitimately curious as to what caused such a big leap.

Pretty sure Messiah’s got it right. It debuted briefly with Orange Logo in the WTS, but if I recall, it was swapped out for other builds as the tournament progressed (Rampage Warrior and PU Shatter Mesmer were the substitutions). If anything, “Burst Burning” has gotten weaker over time because people are more prepared to avoid Purging Flames and cleanse/transfer its high stacks of burning.

I also personally dislike the build they’ve got listed on Metabattle and really don’t think Burn Guards overall should be ranked the same as bunker Guards in an organized setting. It’s not a natural fit with a cleanse-heavy meta and requires a lot of support to function properly, so if they’re going to bump the rating up, it should go under the “Great” category at most. You can’t just slot a Burn Guard into any team composition and expect it to perform consistently in the way that an Ele, Bunker Guard, Thief, etc. will.

Meta doesn’t necessarily mean top tier. It’s prevalence in the Meta as a whole should be what makes the build meta.

But what Messiah said is absolutely true. Someone brought it out in a highly publicized game and has some “success” with it. So naturally people want to copycat. However, it takes a high level player to really get everything you can out of a build. You can’t just take someone else’s build and expect the same results.

What caused this big leap? 2 guys rated burn condi as meta and that’s all. I’m not kidding check it out on the rating portion of the build. The problem with meta battle is that there is very very very few people that actually rate the builds. So really a couple of people can change the classification of a build rather quickly.

Condi Burst will probably do about the same roller coaster as power ranger. People will complain about the burst and the build will be rated high, then people will catch out to play against them and the complaining will decrease, just like their rating.

These are all meta build on the website and the number of people that voted for them.

- Cele Ele : 2
- Soldier Engi : 3
- Bunker Guardian : 2
- Mesmer PU : 2
- Cele Necro : 12
- D/P Thief : 1

On all of these. Only 16 different persons did any voting.