Guild Wars 2

I like how ANet said we do away with the holy trinity, play as you want!

Err not really, every serious tpvp team requires one of the new holy trinity: burst, bunker and condition. No balance builds need apply.

Good luck in team fights.

Balanced builds work with a good team and half of condition builds are balanced lol.

milo.6942:

Good luck in team fights.

team fights? you mean 2v2 node skirmishes? Didn’t you see the last SS for TP vid, 2v2 fight was the biggest team fight there was and consisted of bunker guard + burst mesmer vs bunker thief + burst mesmer

It just so happens that sPvP is objective based, therefore there will be a need for a few particular roles. The same goes for just about ANY other objective based sport (ruling out boxing, mma, etc)

Let’s take soccer for example…

You have players trying to score goals (strikers, forwards, attackers, etc), players trying to defend from goals (defenders, sweepers, goalies, etc), and players moving the ball cross-field (midfield, left/ring wings, etc). There’s really only 3 roles, and that’s in a 11v11 game! Take any other sport and you’ll realize just how few roles there really are.

There’s really no difference between those and this. You have players to defend points, players to capture points/map objectives (Chieftan, for example), and players to roam between points you already have captured. There are only 3 roles because that’s all the GAME TYPE requires.

Also, the whole Holy Trinity thing is silly…. Come on now…