Hmm, with most build sites being out of date often, this could prove to become very valuable content. Never been one to convert to the meta, but it's always good to know what you're likely going to be up against!
I really enjoyed this snapshot of the meta. Great video as usual :) Maybe a breakdown on the strengths / weaknesses between the major meta builds being played would be cool to see as a WvW main peeking into PvP 😊
Please keep making these, I love to see more hype and analysis around the MATs! Also, I've been playing a lot of PTCGP and PTCGL recently and this song's 3:18 been in my head, but I haven't been actively listening to it, so I thought I was hallucinating for a second when it actually started playing.
Correction 1: TAKE TROOPER RELIC ON CORE SUPPORT GUARD Correction 2: the winning willbender took berserker amulet, warrior rune, and conceited curate. The 2nd place willbender took the build shown in the video Sorry I messed that one up!
Awesome vid Homage. I’m sending that to my friend who still denies WB being op/meta 😂 Also I love this new idea, definitely something that is missing on youtube. Keep it up! 🤘🏻
Cool seeing wb be successful at the highest level rather than be relegated to ranked menace like it has been, spear was a big shot in the arm for us. Thanks for the video!
This series is awesome!!! Such an awesome recap of the last mat. Btw: i couldn't really understand what u were saying during the match, somehow the music was loud :)
Hey thank you for your feedback! Audio mixing is definitely something that I'm not very good at. So I'll keep that in mind for next time to keep the music a bit quieter!
Thank you for posting this. GW2 PvP is pretty hard to learn, and as much fun as it is to try to figure out what to run, it's helpful to see what the best players are using. How do people find other players who want to team up for PvP, or how would someone go about finding players who are willing to teach them how to play?
@@matthewmcguigan4293 PVP is definitely hard to learn, and it's tough to find people to play with! But I actually started a guild with a discord server for people to meet and find others to play with. And so far it's been really great! You should come check it out, it's linked in the description
There were few other builds that worked well like Hammer Cata by Draz and there was quite a bit of Nature Power Untamed. Can you also include a bit less meta picks next time.
Crazy how they win with staff tempest when it’s so hard to make work in solo queue cuz there isn’t any coordination. These tournaments and ranked are basically two different games.
@@NDfeerer10 Very true. Support is a two-way street. You need to actually play around your support and accept heals. There is actually a support tempest main in my guild who is ranked platinum from pretty much only support tempest, so if you have any questions about making it work in ranked I can direct you towards him
@@homage3 I float between p1 and g3 on support tempest but I had to use dagger/dagger hybrid to support myself and stay alive. When I use staff my team just runs away from me all game. Maybe with guardian runs and relic of rivers it’s better. I think I was using dolyak and trooper/antitoxin for cleanses.
@@homage3 So I played 10 games today on staff support and its really disheartening the state of this game. I went 4-6 which is fine, but every game had a disparity of points by 420 points except for one game which I lost with 372 points. I was ranked 1499 at beginning of day. The amount of teleports and burst damage, especially the condi builds, is embarrassing from a balancing standpoint. condi herald, mesmer, guardian, necro just jumping around the map exploding everything in their path. There is no time to learn anything, no counterplay at all. pop all cds and use dodges and you're teammates still die and then I die. the amount of cc is out of control. this mode is very bad rn
Like the commentary on the vid. But my man fighting words on warrior spear. I do agree about the damage nerf and change to spear 4, but spear 5 should be unblockable. Either that or the core burst still does an evade frame. They made it total trash now, since it only does power damage and no condi. I really hope mesmer spear gets balanced in the same way soon.
@@StagWithLag I thought having the ability to chain 3 evades in a row JUST from a weapon is a fundamentally overpowered idea. I also thought that the animation on the 5 was too subtle for how important of a skill it was to dodge. Also being tethered by the F1 from range was incredibly obnoxious. Overall I think it is a poorly designed weapon and needs a good reworking in order to be both fun to use, and fair to fight against. Just my opinion.
@homage3 that's spellbreaker not spear. The weapons should be fair across all specs and not penalised for 1. Again ok to remove evade from burst, but leave unblockable skill 5. Really obvious and slow cast. Skill 4 had no real tell, but thats balanced fair now for how long the cooldowns are. Also F1 doesn't tether either, the immob is skill 2 and is extremely hard to hit an enemy not already cc'd. I seriously think Mes and Rev need a rework too
Power rev actually does very well against willbenders in a 1v1. Power rev does very poorly against every other meta build though. It does terribly against harb, badly against condi rev, and badly against spear mesmer. Willbender is better into harb, condi rev, and spear mes. So it is the better pick overall. Power rev has sadly fallen out of favor. I still play it because its my favourite build, but I put it away when its time to play tourneys
Video idea is very cool, however some build may be inaccurate, willbender for example was being played with marauder, not valkyre Sadly mAt streamers barely show the builds being played and they have to be pretty much deciphered :/
I think in the NA finals they were using Valkyrie. Both WBs had 20,645 health which matches up with Valkyrie. Is there a combo with marauder that can get 20,645 max HP?
@@homage3i think naru had 16645 wich should be marauder+scholar altough i can't find the vod anymore so if you double checked you're probably right, where did you watch the vod anyway so i can take a second look?
@ramboramb0 You actually are right. I looked again and looks like Naru was at 16k, red's WB was Valkyrie at 20k. I looked at keyba 's and awesumness 's streams for the vods. Neither showed all the builds so I had to do a bit of guesswork. I'll put a correction in the description and comments that the winning WB used marauder
I know the guys on the EU server used different stuff. Mighty Teapot's video about the EU monthly will probably drop any day now so keep an eye out for that. I just wanted to cover the NA side because I don't think anyone is covering it nowadays.
ohh!! this is an awesome series idea! looking forward to more of them. nice job Homage 🔥 hot take!!; revert warrior spear but nerf spb, let the other elite specs shine ✨🥹
Thanks dude glad you enjoyed! I feel like berzerker warrior doesn't work with PVP from a design perspective. I think the lack of defensive skills and the emphasis of just doing obscene damage makes it a spec that isn't healthy for PVP - definitely the GOAT for PVE though. Bladesworn has issues that wouldn't be fixed with a spear, or any weapon for that matter LOL. So for those reasons I think spellbreaker works best from a design perspective for PVP.
This is exactly the type of content we need for PvP!
I truly can't thank you enough for the support, my friend!
Mvp Thanks for doing what other's can't!
I'm so surprised that no one has done a video like this before, love it!
Thank you!
Hmm, with most build sites being out of date often, this could prove to become very valuable content.
Never been one to convert to the meta, but it's always good to know what you're likely going to be up against!
Well said. I mostly enjoy playing power Rev but it's definitely key to know what you're up against
love this content of MAT build recaps. keep doing this!
Thank you glad you enjoyed!
I really enjoyed this snapshot of the meta. Great video as usual :)
Maybe a breakdown on the strengths / weaknesses between the major meta builds being played would be cool to see as a WvW main peeking into PvP 😊
Great idea. I'll consider that for the December video :)
Please keep making these, I love to see more hype and analysis around the MATs!
Also, I've been playing a lot of PTCGP and PTCGL recently and this song's 3:18 been in my head, but I haven't been actively listening to it, so I thought I was hallucinating for a second when it actually started playing.
Such a goated soundtrack! So hype! I love using it with my videos
Correction 1: TAKE TROOPER RELIC ON CORE SUPPORT GUARD
Correction 2: the winning willbender took berserker amulet, warrior rune, and conceited curate. The 2nd place willbender took the build shown in the video
Sorry I messed that one up!
Great content as always! This is especially cool since we get to learn what the best of us are bringing to the table! Keep 'em coming, man!
Thanks a lot man!
Amazing coverage! Another great and useful video man😊
Thank you very much my friend!
This was really good to have the explanations and builds thank you!
@@StagWithLag thank you! glad you enjoyed!
+1 for more of this. Fantastic recap vid.
Thankyou and subbed!
Thanks for the sub! You got it!
Yes, please a lot more like this! Quick variety of current builds is always fun!
@@mattahlschlager7117 Will do!
Yes please keep making these 🙏
Awesome vid Homage.
I’m sending that to my friend who still denies WB being op/meta 😂
Also I love this new idea, definitely something that is missing on youtube. Keep it up! 🤘🏻
Thanks man! Glad I could provide some evidence hahaha 😂
good post, i like how you show what the meta of the monthly builds.
Cool seeing wb be successful at the highest level rather than be relegated to ranked menace like it has been, spear was a big shot in the arm for us. Thanks for the video!
Agreed! It's nice to see high damage, high mobility classes being played and not just bunkers lol.
Extremely useful and informative. Notifications are now turned ON !
Awesome, thank you for your support!
I would love to see these regularly!
Great video. Would love to see this each month.
@@EvidensInsania Thanks! Definitely considering making this a monthly thing!
Yes Homage big slay with this video
Big Holts thank you for the slay comment 😂
This is amazing ❤ thank you plz make more!
Thanks for the overview
No problem!
Need more of this!!!
Awesome video. Love to see this content!!
Thank you!
This series is awesome!!! Such an awesome recap of the last mat.
Btw: i couldn't really understand what u were saying during the match, somehow the music was loud :)
Hey thank you for your feedback! Audio mixing is definitely something that I'm not very good at. So I'll keep that in mind for next time to keep the music a bit quieter!
Thx for your work
No problem!
This content is great, thanks for the overview
Great content this is awesome dude!
Thanks very much! Glad you enjoyed
Such a good vid dude. wow wow wow. WAWOO
I appreciate it!
Thank you for posting this. GW2 PvP is pretty hard to learn, and as much fun as it is to try to figure out what to run, it's helpful to see what the best players are using.
How do people find other players who want to team up for PvP, or how would someone go about finding players who are willing to teach them how to play?
@@matthewmcguigan4293 PVP is definitely hard to learn, and it's tough to find people to play with!
But I actually started a guild with a discord server for people to meet and find others to play with. And so far it's been really great! You should come check it out, it's linked in the description
Loved the video! Maybe a tier list for ranked as something for the next video?
Thank you! Will definitely keep this idea in mind
BIG MEECH is back!
We're so back!!!
Great vid!
Thanks!
excellent commentary my dude
@@imjustkentaro Thanks man!
This is so crucial. When I have money I'm giving it to you
@@halcyonrain2209 Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed!
Keep doing these please
Will do!
nice content..
Oh shit... Homage did it again...
I do be making videos
Thanks a lot for this! Maybe il reach plat :D
I believe in you!
@@homage3 Sword/sword for Harbinger or pistol/sword?
@@SirMitsuruji5 Dual swords and a spear
@@homage3 thanks a lot ;)
Holy shit. A non toxic PvP enthusiast.
Be careful btw bro, Nintendo gonna come for this soundtrack 🤣
@@amethystcloud8515 There's tens of us!!!!
I think they're chill about the old music, no problems so far!
There were few other builds that worked well like Hammer Cata by Draz and there was quite a bit of Nature Power Untamed. Can you also include a bit less meta picks next time.
Yep I agree, but I just wanted to showcase the NA side of things. Mighty Teapot does an excellent job of covering the EU gents.
Crazy how they win with staff tempest when it’s so hard to make work in solo queue cuz there isn’t any coordination. These tournaments and ranked are basically two different games.
@@NDfeerer10 Very true. Support is a two-way street. You need to actually play around your support and accept heals.
There is actually a support tempest main in my guild who is ranked platinum from pretty much only support tempest, so if you have any questions about making it work in ranked I can direct you towards him
@@homage3 I float between p1 and g3 on support tempest but I had to use dagger/dagger hybrid to support myself and stay alive. When I use staff my team just runs away from me all game. Maybe with guardian runs and relic of rivers it’s better. I think I was using dolyak and trooper/antitoxin for cleanses.
@@homage3 So I played 10 games today on staff support and its really disheartening the state of this game. I went 4-6 which is fine, but every game had a disparity of points by 420 points except for one game which I lost with 372 points. I was ranked 1499 at beginning of day. The amount of teleports and burst damage, especially the condi builds, is embarrassing from a balancing standpoint. condi herald, mesmer, guardian, necro just jumping around the map exploding everything in their path. There is no time to learn anything, no counterplay at all. pop all cds and use dodges and you're teammates still die and then I die. the amount of cc is out of control. this mode is very bad rn
I could outrun a centaur!
Berry bad player
I'm gonig to be the best pvper now ty
Future GOAT in the making
Like the commentary on the vid. But my man fighting words on warrior spear. I do agree about the damage nerf and change to spear 4, but spear 5 should be unblockable. Either that or the core burst still does an evade frame. They made it total trash now, since it only does power damage and no condi. I really hope mesmer spear gets balanced in the same way soon.
@@StagWithLag I thought having the ability to chain 3 evades in a row JUST from a weapon is a fundamentally overpowered idea.
I also thought that the animation on the 5 was too subtle for how important of a skill it was to dodge.
Also being tethered by the F1 from range was incredibly obnoxious.
Overall I think it is a poorly designed weapon and needs a good reworking in order to be both fun to use, and fair to fight against. Just my opinion.
@homage3 that's spellbreaker not spear. The weapons should be fair across all specs and not penalised for 1. Again ok to remove evade from burst, but leave unblockable skill 5. Really obvious and slow cast. Skill 4 had no real tell, but thats balanced fair now for how long the cooldowns are. Also F1 doesn't tether either, the immob is skill 2 and is extremely hard to hit an enemy not already cc'd.
I seriously think Mes and Rev need a rework too
What was the harbinger weapons on the first set, sword/sword?
Dual swords and a spear. You can always see the weapons at the bottom of the traits panel too :)
most important question: What shoe skin are you using?
VERY important. It's from the dapper suit bundle and I used the abyssal ridge dye on it
Given that you're a big booster of power herald/vindicator, how do you feel they stack up to WB in the bursty mobile roaming role?
Power rev actually does very well against willbenders in a 1v1.
Power rev does very poorly against every other meta build though. It does terribly against harb, badly against condi rev, and badly against spear mesmer.
Willbender is better into harb, condi rev, and spear mes. So it is the better pick overall.
Power rev has sadly fallen out of favor. I still play it because its my favourite build, but I put it away when its time to play tourneys
Meanwhile based EU takes two support chrono until they nerf spear/rifle or both to the ground
EU scares me
So is Spear Harbinger that good now? I rarely see it in SPvP.
One of the very best builds
Can i join your guild?
@@rodolfoarturoreina3237 of course! There's a link in the video description
Video idea is very cool, however some build may be inaccurate, willbender for example was being played with marauder, not valkyre
Sadly mAt streamers barely show the builds being played and they have to be pretty much deciphered :/
I think in the NA finals they were using Valkyrie. Both WBs had 20,645 health which matches up with Valkyrie.
Is there a combo with marauder that can get 20,645 max HP?
@@homage3i think naru had 16645 wich should be marauder+scholar altough i can't find the vod anymore so if you double checked you're probably right, where did you watch the vod anyway so i can take a second look?
@ramboramb0 You actually are right. I looked again and looks like Naru was at 16k, red's WB was Valkyrie at 20k.
I looked at keyba 's and awesumness 's streams for the vods. Neither showed all the builds so I had to do a bit of guesswork. I'll put a correction in the description and comments that the winning WB used marauder
make another plssss
Are other countries using the same comps?
I know the guys on the EU server used different stuff. Mighty Teapot's video about the EU monthly will probably drop any day now so keep an eye out for that. I just wanted to cover the NA side because I don't think anyone is covering it nowadays.
weeks without playing pvp and months without touching rev, still i destroyed with this build, is busted af lol
@@lapusso3704 It's very VERY strong. There's a good reason the pros take it!
2 support wth gw2. i am not coming back for that crap lol.
Bidon le pvp . Les joueurs deco tu perds , afk tu perds . Arena net ne fais rien lol
ohh!! this is an awesome series idea! looking forward to more of them. nice job Homage 🔥
hot take!!; revert warrior spear but nerf spb, let the other elite specs shine ✨🥹
Thanks dude glad you enjoyed!
I feel like berzerker warrior doesn't work with PVP from a design perspective. I think the lack of defensive skills and the emphasis of just doing obscene damage makes it a spec that isn't healthy for PVP - definitely the GOAT for PVE though. Bladesworn has issues that wouldn't be fixed with a spear, or any weapon for that matter LOL. So for those reasons I think spellbreaker works best from a design perspective for PVP.