Costume Brawl! Opinions?

So costume brawl is now out and people have had some time to experience it.
What do you guys think? Is it fun? boring? lame? etc...

Personally I think that the idea of it was a good one. Set skill bars are kind of like the sealed deck tournaments and basically whoever has better tactics and uses the skills better will win. However, some of the skill bars are a bit....yea...
The monk bar is a bit lame but I guess its to balance things out. If a team had a ZB prot monk they would completely roll a team that didn't (assuming player skill is the same). It's kind of meh for the monks but I guess its understandable.


Warrior, Ranger, Eles, Dervs have good skill bars. Necros Mesmers Rits have pretty decent ones although I'm not sure if a degen necro is the best for this type of arena. The Sin can only spike someone to about half hp so meh...Monks got shafted pretty hard on the skill bar but I guess its understandable.

I dont mind it, just got 9 wins in a roll, but started to get boring after the 2nd win

What if they just made the monk bar a pure smiting one?

totally imbalanced but that was expected using game skills

Shrine capping makes it suck for me, games fell a tad over long too .

The rewards suck, but it was pretty fun for a while.

Really Terrible.

Just looking at the Build's Show this was well.

Also:The fact that the new arena's are for Hero Battles.Which no one cares about.

1 word

LAME.

The builds are about what you'd expect, nothin too fancy, but nothin too awful... Except that is for the monk bar. wtf is that supposed to be?

Hmm. Some of the builds are pretty bad, especially the monks. I do suppose its to balance for a team that maybe does not have a monk, but in that case, it should be pure smite, as was said. Rewards are pretty bad too, at least, in and of themselves they are no encouragement to play.

I was interested in it until I researched it out a bit. Now, not so much. I might try one round though just so I have done it. Wish they could have done better, as at least the idea had merit.

The monk build is supposed to be bad IMO. After all... this is Halloween, not a love fest of healing and happiness.

Die well, have fun.

Didn't enjoy it, but I'm not a fan of PVP anyway.

The monk bar is horrible, the ritualist not that great either and as a result of that the elementalist one completely shuts down warriors. I mean, I had a team with a monk and a ritualist and fought one elementalist, didn't hit anything in the whole match. Will only get worse when people figure out the monk is indeed horrible and stop using it.

So short summary, typical Anet. Could have been great, turns out horrible.

12 expertise on the ranger one makes me cry.

I liked it at first...but after a couple of runs it got be bleh..

I love it, even the crap monk.

The mesmer build was great considering it countered what was nearly on every build and could do its own shatter enchant,energy surge,energy burn spike and hat 3 interupts.

Healing breeze alone would be bad. Non-max healing breeze even worse. But combined with smite, it's a disaster.

Ranger, warrior, ele and dervish have somewhat decent builds. At least they work as they're supposed to.

Necro build is quite cool, not really for killing, but melee shutdown is always nice.

It's fun the first few times, then the fixed builds get really boring.

Wow... Just wow.

I think it is a fun diversion. I just finished 10 wins with my rit. Not a great skill set, but it worked. Great? No. Fun for a few goes? Yes.