PvXwiki:Premade Builds Policy

General Information

This is a sugested Policy on how to handle Premade builds and what can be done to improve the quality and availablility of this information. This section is aimed directly at, very new, PVP players and attempts to get them moving towards self improvement of their PVP skills. A lot can be done to further Expand and Improve this area.

• This policy currently aims at preserving the existing information allready on this site.
• If this policy is rejected by the comunity, A Training Guide, or Learning Builds section does need to be created to adress the lesser skilled members of the comunity and teach them basic fundamentals of PvP play.
• This section is NOT aimed at the usual assumed target audience (full unlocks, complete familiarity of the game), so will contain builds that are easier to absorb their role, or are more simplistic in nature.

Section Arcetecture

The following Categories are used in this section:

• Premade builds - The starting builds and the recomended uses and skill unlocks as documented by the PvP Primer.
• Primer Follow-up - Also taken from the PvP Primer. These builds were specifically aimed at improvement of understanding PVP play and team oriented builds. And are natural learning builds to the basic PVP character roles.
• 'Organization', 'refrence', or 'consolodation' pages can be created as needed to better organize and make availble the information posted in these area's.

Section Rules

• Currently, any build posted to this section is documented in the Guildwars.com PVP Articles. Any future builds must be hand selected by the administration to adress the lesser skilled, learning, target audience.
• Builds here are exempt from vetting, alteration or PX:Well- They are to be basic build theories and trainers that teach or illustraite PvP concepts and roles to new players in an easy to absorb fashion. They will be sub-par when compared to our elite builds, but alteration to these builds may reduce their effectiveness at teaching new players. The exception to this rule is when in-game skill balancing occours and shifts become necessary.
• 'Guides' will be written for this section by comission of the PVX Admin only.
• Every build will be Specifically written for each section, and followed by a parenthasis suffix for easy identification.
• Builds in this section are not part of the normal vetting procedure, and to not exist in any other category than the one it was written for. These builds will not appear in favored, un-favored, build stubs, PvP, or PvE categories at any time.
• If the build is taken from a guide from an external source, source documentation must be used.
• Builds will be appropriately labled with a parenthasis remark in their title to clearly designate it as a trainer build. Premades will recieve (premade build) and secondary builds will recieve (primer follow-up) after their title.
• All builds in the (primer follow-up) section will have a recomended link to the tested PVP category of this site.

Reasons for keeping the section

• All of these builds routinely show up on this site, submitted by our user base. This will help mitigate these builds and give further justification for PX:Well against these copy cats.
• These builds teach the core fundamentals of PvE at a very basic level, and are very easy to use.

Counter Argument = Just send the users to our really Good builds and tell them to have a nice day.

- This is the equivelent of taking someone who just bought the game and running them from AC to Droks and buying them max armor and then telling them to play the game. They have the build, yes, but not the understanding of their role and how to use it. These builds channel a new player into playing and understanding a specific role that preps them for understanding our advanced builds.