Better/Modified premades

entropy

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

N/W

Personally I think every single on of the premades is just horrible. I mean the paladin is the most well known one but the DW healer? I mean restore life. I think Anet should devote at least some of their time to learn about the metagame and modify/change the builds every 3 months or so to make them at least a little bit competitive. A fire ele? Sure many things work in CA but atleast give the people new to PvP a better chance.

Align

Align

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Oct 2005

Protectors of Awesome[AWE]

W/

I think the original intention was to cycle them around quite often, so youd never see any particular premade stay on for longer than a month or so... but they got busy with other stuff. Probably best to keep this low on the priority list.

NatalieD

NatalieD

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

Quote:
Originally Posted by Align
I think the original intention was to cycle them around quite often, so youd never see any particular premade stay on for longer than a month or so... but they got busy with other stuff. Probably best to keep this low on the priority list.
It doesn't need to be a high priority. It's not like it's a hard thing to fix...

I wouldn't mind having the same premades all the time if they didn't suck horribly.

Mercury Angel

Mercury Angel

Avatar of Gwen

Join Date: Apr 2005

Wandering my own road.

Some possibilities suggested in the past have been:
  • Rotating from a large database of builds over time
  • Adapting the builds to the existing metagame
  • Cycling in/out builds by top guilds periodically (as they did at the end of the BWE)
  • Including additional skills in the builds so that for a given template, players have more options and variance

All I remember at the moment.
I think a mix of multiple of the above would be best.

Regardless, the existing ones are rather stagnant, not to mention dull and fairly poor to begin with.

mamluk

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2005

Grid Sector X-223b

Carebear Club [wuv]

Agreed, it would be nice to refresh all the pre-mades. Especially that cheesy paladin pre-made. I think some of these still don't have rez sigs too.

But what would they replace them with? Hopefully not those builds they suggested in that magazine as some of their favourites!

schutz

schutz

Banned

Join Date: Jul 2005

wales

W/Me

The most pathetic one is the warriors bane, its a necro/mesmer with only 1 necro skill and has attributes in about 4-5 different things, i also noticed they removed flame slinger, the only half good one ! i think they should add builds for every attribute to make it more fun

Cymmina

Cymmina

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Me/N

Quote:
Originally Posted by entropy
...but the DW healer? I mean restore life.
For those that are unaware, the DW Healer was made by the players. Same with IVEX Trapper and Fi Boon Healer. Read the descriptions. The builds were developed during beta by the top 3 guilds at the end of whatever beta ladder season. A lot of balance changes have been made since then.

But yes, I was hoping they would switch out premade builds a little more frequently than what they've done.