Worst spvp meta?

[Kuya.6495]

What, in your opinion, was/is the worst spvp meta the game has ever had? My personal opinion is that bunker chrono was the worst. Games ended as soon as you got your bunker chronos to sit on two captured points and it was gg after that since you needed 3 people to kill that chrono or 5 if the chrono had a tempest to baby sit it.

 

Also if there's an option you didn't see on the poll for most unregulated celullar proliferation meta, please comment about it below. 

Edited April 16, 2022 by Kuya.6495

[Myror.7521]

Hate all of them since bunker plus damage is always boring af 

[CutesySylveon.8290]

I don't think any if us who remember Chronobunker in its prime will ever be convinced anything else can be worse. It was legit game breaking.

[Multicolorhipster.9751]

All of them and any more of them if you put bunker in the name. Bunkers are boring and should not exist.

 

Besides the Scourge/FB rez one. I didn't so much mind that one because damage was in a good place back then and rez skills were actually decent and reasonable picks.

[DanAlcedo.3281]

How is that even a debate? 

[Lucentfir.7430]

Chrono bunker meta by far. Something went terribly wrong if top end of play is first to cap the node wins the match. 

[ArthurDent.9538]

Bunk chrono meta was weird. At top tier play it was clearly broken and not counter playable but in normal ranked q's bunk chrono was far less oppressive due to its passivity. It was a weird meta where everything felt invincible but once a target ran out of defense they got blown up extremely fast as both sustain and damage were extremely high at that time. I think that this meta inarguably did the most long term damage to the gw2 pvp scene as they tried to push esports during it yet because the top level play was excruciatingly slow and boring to watch that movement died after one season.

 

I ended up voting for early PoF meta as the top level meta and the ranked meta were basically the same as anyone could face roll on scourge or spellbreaker and dominate all the pre pof specs. I always hated early scourge in particular because all the shade skills hit like a truck and were completely instant so there really was no counterplay for melee.

[Infinity.2876]

This thread made me want to try all of these so thanks I didn't know these existed

[Eurantien.4632]

If you didn't vote bunker chrono meta, you weren't there.

[Rider.6024]

5 hours ago, Multicolorhipster.9751 said:

All of them and any more of them if you put bunker in the name. Bunkers are boring and should not exist.

 

Besides the Scourge/FB rez one. I didn't so much mind that one because damage was in a good place back then and rez skills were actually decent and reasonable picks.

Rez skills are the wordt iteration of bunker metas.

[agrippastrilemma.8741]

1 hour ago, ArthurDent.9538 said:

Bunk chrono meta was weird. At top tier play it was clearly broken and not counter playable but in normal ranked q's bunk chrono was far less oppressive due to its passivity. It was a weird meta where everything felt invincible but once a target ran out of defense they got blown up extremely fast as both sustain and damage were extremely high at that time. I think that this meta inarguably did the most long term damage to the gw2 pvp scene as they tried to push esports during it yet because the top level play was excruciatingly slow and boring to watch that movement died after one season.

 

I ended up voting for early PoF meta as the top level meta and the ranked meta were basically the same as anyone could face roll on scourge or spellbreaker and dominate all the pre pof specs. I always hated early scourge in particular because all the shade skills hit like a truck and were completely instant so there really was no counterplay for melee.

This is actually true, if you look back at competitive vods it looks like the game was unplayable but it was actually decently fun because in ranked you could play stuff like power shatter chrono instead of bunker chrono. People wouldn't stay inside the wells anyway in ranked.

I voted bunker chrono meta but honestly I regret it, I think I would choose guard-scourge-minionmancer meta or the condi mirage meta.

Vamp rune meta back in core was also absolute aids.

Edited April 16, 2022 by agrippastrilemma.8741

[agrippastrilemma.8741]

23 minutes ago, Eurantien.4632 said:

If you didn't vote bunker chrono meta, you weren't there.

Or you played ranked and not 5v5, ranked wasn't that bad back then.

[Stand The Wall.6987]

55 minutes ago, Eurantien.4632 said:

If you didn't vote bunker chrono meta, you weren't there.

if you remember the 70s you weren't there, man

[Buzzbugs.1236]

They're all bad. Meta's are inherently anti-fun. The fun of this game is experimenting with builds and coming up with different things. I'll never be pressured into playing something just because it's the new Meta (unless it just so happens to be what I normally play. yay, I guess?)

[Multicolorhipster.9751]

8 hours ago, Rider.6024 said:

Rez skills are the wordt iteration of bunker metas.

Yeah but back then if you used a rez skill on someone there was a 50-50 chance about of them just dying anyways as soon as they got back up

And normal rezzing was really unsafe, as it should be

[CutesySylveon.8290]

4 hours ago, Multicolorhipster.9751 said:

Yeah but back then if you used a rez skill on someone there was a 50-50 chance about of them just dying anyways as soon as they got back up

And normal rezzing was really unsafe, as it should be

We had quickness stomping back then as well, but also some stupid rez traits like Heralds old Infuse Light on rez that got changed from healing the downed person to healing the Rev reviving. 

[Azure The Heartless.3261]

Chronobunker because it caused technical problems with its egregiousness followed closely by scourge/guard due to it being boring.

[Eddbopkins.2630]

They were all essentially unfun condi specs to play and play against.

[Crimson Shi.5047]

Bunker Chrono meta was the worst, . Developers at the time were also tossing out boons wily nily on everything. This is also when Necro had chill death where its chill condi did damage which I loved but was taken away which I still haven't forgiven anet for to this day.

 

Edited April 17, 2022 by Crimson Shi.5047

[UNOwen.7132]

Its a close one between the first and the second, but I gotta give it to Chrono Bunker. Chrono Bunker was just miserable to face, and games stalled out like no ones business. It also basically erased skill gaps because chrono bunker played itself. Cele Ele was worse for variety (because teams were 3-5 Cele Eles and the rest were maybe 1 thief maybe 1 random class (Dont even remember what it was) and no other option), but at least you played the game.

[cek.5478]

You guys are kidding right? Chrono meta is nothing if you gonna compare with this one.

 

Chrono meta : Yes it was unkillable kind but it was only chrono and almost every single team has a chrono in their teams.

Scourge meta : Was broken because of scrouge barriers.

Current meta : Every single OP and kittenous classes has that barrier thing now. Vindicator, Bladesworn, Specter, Mecha, Weaver, Catalyst etc + most broken and easy gameplay mode core support guard.

 

Current meta is the worst one, i never ever seen such a kittenous gameplay like this. Barrier shouldnt be exist in PvP!!

Edited April 17, 2022 by cek.5478

[mistsim.2748]

GW2 never had a meta that didn't melt my brain. Maybe a short period at the end of vanilla, right before HoT released. Those were pretty good times.

 

 

 

[Creativity.3816]

The best meta is the one that gets updated regularly

 

Unless you count elite specs, nothing has changed in pvp since February 2020

 

Can't wait for the next blog post guys!!!!! 

[Pimsley.3681]

1. would definitely be the unkillable chrono

2. the scourge/guard rez

 

The d/d ele one you could easily counter with boon stripping necro...this was before the xpacs when that's what necros did. Also warriors countered the d/d ele.