Guild Wars 2

basicly want to lead some trial runs for newbs and although I now know the fight am good at it ect most my time was spent on my character and p[paid little attention to what the leaders where doing I know some the classes need however if someone can say a basic list or point me to a basic list of what all classes ya need that be great as I have moved to helping new people and will recruit as well. dosnt have to be perfect but good enough to possably win on pre-trial or trial will pay closer attention to team setup in future but want to expidite things a little cause way I feel anyone can do hard raids as long as ya know ur character got the gear and can learn the boss. also want to cut down on having to use pugs or a good group getting destroyed cause someone aint good at being on the green circle in time basic really. don’t need to know anything but a typical setups 3condis, tank, healer dps I think is about right what classes for each is best. I know some just wanna be accurate to lead a fresh group tryls if ya will. sorry if I ask a lot of questions most times I already have the basic answer to in forums ha tend to do that often but post are legit am perfectionist sorta

metabattle.com

ask people what their builds are, compare them to the metabattle ones, ask why they make differences

really, a decent loose standard is just having them run stat spreads, gear and traits that make sense together

Top 3 classes that every raid group wants and why, roughly in order:
Chronomancer (quickness and alacrity)
Warrior (banners and efficient source of might. also provides Empower Allies)
Herald (boon duration and efficient source of fury. also provides Assassin’s Presence and can provide protection)

You also want CC for breakbars. Herald, berserker, and chrono happen to also be very good at breaking bars.

ok an 3condis one being an exp. engineer? then at fight during split phase all on blue condis red and any paticuler person pull the green guy? anything I miss go ahead. also are the moves the same for every boss green dot wipe, ect same basics also can same team builds do all bosses without changing people

Herald is definitely not top 3 classes, it’s pretty worthless if your chrono is spec’d out in boon duration gear (which isn’t on metabattle yet since it’s out of date). Herald is actually the worst class for raids right now imo.

I almost never find chronos in boon duration gear.
Herald’s value indeed goes down quite a lot if the chrono has that, and is no longer near mandatory, though it still gives good fury, ferocity, and additional might and protection, and great cc. Anyway I’d put tempest in the #3 spot in that case.

winterlove.6834:

ok an 3condis one being an exp. engineer? then at fight during split phase all on blue condis red and any paticuler person pull the green guy? anything I miss

for Vale Guardian, yes. not for the other 5 bosses
Engineer is nice to have at VG for easy knockbacks on seekers, and the AoE heal for ally sustain. Engineer is more generally applied to any group, though other class combinations can work just as well.

I feel like you’re completely forgetting about druid :P, warrior, chrono, and druid are all required to have a decent raid composition.

druid is good for sure, but nothing like warrior and chrono

reikken.4961:

Engineer is nice to have at VG for easy knockbacks and soft cc on seekers, and the ability to res players through lit floors

ftfy, the soft cc from engineers is phenomenal at keeping seekers away from the group to the point where you only ever need 1 knockback per seeker spawn

reikken.4961:

druid is good for sure, but nothing like warrior and chrono

Forst spirit, sun spirit, grace of the land, glyph of empowerment, heals, it’s very important to have one. As much as warrior or chrono? no, but I’d certainly still make it #3