Meet the October Guild Wars PvP champs

Another 'State of the Game' piece from the official Guild Wars site takes us once again behind the scenes, this time to have a chat with the winners of the October automated PvP Tournament. The guild, called Delta Formation, passed on some information about their history, their adversaries, and most usefully a ton of insight on tournaments, builds, and GW PvP in general.

In terms of builds, [DF] likes to focus on flexibility rather than engaging in "build wars," where a team attempts to beat others by outbuilding them rather than outplaying them. [DF] plays balanced builds because members believe the effectiveness of the build is directly tied to the skill of the players using the build. If played correctly, they feel their balanced build can beat anyone else. That said, [DF] still runs a variety of other builds in its main guild or its smurfs. Sometimes they might be trying to throw off opponents by running other, less conventional builds. More often, they are trying out various gimmick builds to identify the weaknesses and strengths of those builds. For many gimmick builds the counter is obvious, but for others merely theory-crafting the counters might not be enough.