Curse

entropy · Oct 31, 2005, 08:25 PM // 20:25

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 · Oct 31, 2005, 10:52 PM // 22:52

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 · Nov 01, 2005, 05:34 AM // 05:34

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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 · Nov 01, 2005, 06:49 AM // 06:49

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 · Nov 01, 2005, 01:41 PM // 13:41

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 · Nov 01, 2005, 01:45 PM // 13:45

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 · Nov 01, 2005, 11:38 PM // 23:38

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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.