Guild Wars 2

Returning players looking to pick a class for group play (fractals – raids).
When I left (2 years ago) the break down was roughly

Overpowered
Warrior
Mesmer
Ranger

Balanced
Elementalist
Revenant
Guardian

Trash
Engineer
Necromancer

Has anything changed?

You can use pretty much any of them except Revenant reliably in pugs if you’re using meta builds.

The most common to see however are Warriors, Rangers (druid specced), Mesmers and Elementalists, or Condition Rangers for bosses that are better with it, though it’ll get a hard nerf because of food so I don’t know how it’s going to be affected.

Some people still cry when you take necromancers into raids, but if you have the LI and good dps I don’t see why not unless you’re going to constantly epi the slubling.

edit: Elementalists aren’t great anymore, go with Dragonhunter for power DPS. Condition thieves are great now for condition DPS.

Warrior, mesmer, ranger. No particular order between the three but they are all an order of magnitude above the rest.

Trash
Necromancer

That won’t ever change it seems.

It will be in flux, likely until sometime after expansion launches.

• Engineer has moved out of trash because of condi meta and they have condi buff aura.
• Necromancer still considered “trash” in most encounters, but utilized to some degree in fights with adds (e.g. Overseer) as they can epi bounce.
• Revenant has been overshadowed by other classes in both support and DPS. I would say they are in “trash” tier past year.
• Thief is in balance tier past few month with their DPS.

voidvector.2780:

It will be in flux, likely until sometime after expansion launches.

• Engineer has moved out of trash because of condi meta and they have condi buff aura.
• Necromancer still considered “trash” in most encounters, but utilized to some degree in fights with adds (e.g. Overseer) as they can epi bounce.
• Revenant has been overshadowed by other classes in both support and DPS. I would say they are in “trash” tier past year.
• Thief is in balance tier past few month with their DPS.

Condi thief does 35k realistic benchmark (according to new videos, if you do the rotation correctly) now, so they are pretty solid dps I’d say.

vicious.5683:

Trash
Necromancer

That won’t ever change it seems.