Guild Wars 2

As someone new to the game but an MMO veteran, i find it very disheartening that there is so little diversity in the meta and the concensus seems to be “which proffs can we take that yeald the maximum dps and boons while having a quasi tank and heal set up that sacrifice as little dps as possible while being able to do the job”

I dunno maybe as GW2 doesn’t follow the holy trinity of Tank, healer, dps like other games then i am expecting too much, but as patches seem to be buffing healing specs/spells i think it would be great if they could have various mechanics that can 1 shot people that must be avoided or blocked in the traditional sense while having more damage that can not be avoided to give people who like to heal or tank things more choice than simply rolling with a meta dps build regardless of your role in a raid.

as i am sure you all have played far longer than me, do you like the meta of stacking dps classes and as many boons/uptime as possible?

genuinely i would like to see the impact of boons reduced significantly and more player skill needed in terms of class and boss mechanics and maybe more need for a dedicated tank or healer so that there is way more diversity in the meta but feel free to disagree.

Yep above poster is right, also on ur point about waiting times after joining a game, this should defo not be changed and here are some reasons why:

1. allows a teammate to afk if needed for a few mins and isnt gonna lose u the game as u need ur whole team to verify they are ready

2. allows u to scout out the other team, determine classes wep combos and trait/utility skills and then discuss tactics with ur team.

3. allows team players to join and scout as above and then return to mists and modify traits/utilities/runes etc before the match starts.

4. allows for trolling other team by equipping fake weps/traits and showing them ot the other team and then going to mists and switch before match (aka mindf**king ur opponents)

i personally use this as communication and scouting time but u can use it to be sneaky too, every little advantage can count in tPvP