Guild Wars 2

Sure there is a meta which changes once every 8 months when the 1 part time employee at anet goes in for their 3 hours that week.

That aside, where is the variety now for hotjoin/solo q be it ranked or unranked.

Condi warrior? Seems to be dead in the water and extremely ineffective at the best of times.

Shoutbow? Again seemingly dead?

Is there anything, I mean anything that is 75% as effective as the meta that gives a large enough difference in gameplay that you dont feel pigeonholed into GS/Hammer.

With the vast selection of amulets and runes/weapons I dont understand how there isnt builds with a higher efficiency that would be just slightly behind meta… not THIS far behind.

Ye of little faith, experiment!

I’m currently running a sword/mace /hammer lockdown build with mucho success in hotjoins. I’ll post it in the forums tonight. Hopefully it’s not too gs/ham esque for you to enjoy.

Have you tried rifle since the update? Thanks to our new damage modifiers, I once crited for 36k across 3 people with a well timed killshot. I feel like a killshot build will definitely tickle your fancy to escape gs/ham.

I haven’t tried a full blown condi build yet, but hybrid builds are there. Someone on the forums posted a cele lb / sword/axe build that has very great sustained damage. Lots of crits through signet mastery, decent bleeds, very nice burning with lb f1 + axe 5. I’m thinking of going back to this one now that lb f1 can proc zerkers power.

I hope you come to love your warrior as much as I do post patch.