Guild Wars 2

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Perfect.1274:

alcopaul.2156:

“Open-sourcing” is the only way so it won’t be build wars.

It will be good for new players who have little experience with building. They can learn from the pros, get the right builds and improve and be at par with the top players in no time. that’s how you grow the community.

New players have access to ample builds and resources to assist in copying a viable build or making their own. One persons hard work, testing and understanding of the game mechanics should not be public information if they do not wish it to be. You should not be restricted in your game play or punished for using your brain to make your own builds.

If such person wishes to make the build public that is their CHOICE. Individuals should have a choice if they wish to give their work away to the masses without being restricted to playing in non-spectator mode games.

Theorycrafting is a skill, button mashing is a skill. ’’Pros’’ should be skilled at all aspects of the game, not just button mashing. Newer players can copy public domain theorycrafting and work on their button mashing skills until they want to work on their theorycrafting skills.

I agree, plus if you find a build through hours of testing & tweaking which can be consider strong, someone shouldn’t just be allowed to copy it and make it the new FOTM until it gets nerfed next month.

Not everyone runs the meta builds, and usually they tend inspire players to try new things and different builds. it feels good seeing players trying to duplicate your build because you know they are going through the same thing that you went through with all the test & tweak which is fun, and personally I don’t mind helping them. but i will never be like the build is exactly this this and that.. that just makes builds feel cheap

There are so many combination of builds that some how give some uniquity to players. By cloning builds, GW2 PVP become degraded. For new players, they were already given a default build. To help them grow and be fun, just create few newbie servers that only lv 1 to 9 can join. Players should have a ‘disable trait and skill to be seen’ check box to op out.

All general rooms were also spectator enable? It is very sad to show all trait and skill. Eventually there will be clone every where. And since pvp gear cost 0 fee, situation will be worst than WOW and Diablo3. Can’t people just go and create their own trait instead of copying the top players? GW2 pvp now no longer unique.