Guild Wars 2

cranked.3812:

Zerk is the meta for a reason, not because that’s the way people want to play. This games design is, for the most part, a DPS race. A Large part of that stems from lack of creativity in game mechanic design and hard hitting mobs/bosses with large health pools.

That makes me question why play the game at all. Because it sounds like playing a meta setup simply for efficiency and not because you like it.
I simply can’t bend my head around the idea of spending my free time playing a game for fun when it’s not fun.
Hence my assumption people use meta setups because they like the playstyle. Efficiency alone can’t make me do that. But of course that’s just me.
For me efficiency is an important part of the eqation that makes GW2 fun for me. But I can’t see it as the only viable dogma.