Guild Wars 2

I was wondering what class allows the most builds (diversity) preferably with a single set of armor, that allows changing weapons, traitsand skills quite easilly… goal is being viable/acceptable for open world content… both solo as well as with others…

While I’m not sure about a single set of armour, I’d wager Elementalists were by far the more diverse profession.

For open world content I’d wager elementalist. The ideal, however, would be if you could afford at least 2 sets of armor (I don’t see why not, you can pretty easily build 2 full exotic sets, and even ascended might take some time but you’ll be enjoying content on your exotics while doing it). Thing is, you might want to go full blown glass cannon at times for bosses and such, and other times when you’re just going around (specially with HoT content), you want to be a bit tankier so you’d need a support set to properly do it. Even then, if you want to stick to a single set of armor, I suggest valkyrie or commander’s since you specified open world content, zerker is the most damage but you do take a beating easily. You also have a lot of diversity on your playstyle by switching weapons, not to mention the attunements midfights.

But all that is assuming you meant diversity of playstyles and not only diversity of content. If what you actually want is to wear a single piece of armor and wreck havoc on anything without ever looking back to your inventory or build panel, I’d go with the Necromancer. It is certainly behind most classes in damage but it’s far beyond anything else in survivability. You can simply drag a mob train to yourself and watch them drop as they helplessly try to kill your high HP kitten .

Also, if you want a true wildcard just go engineer. You’ll have quite some diversity in what to pick and the kits add a lot to changing your playstyle at all times. It is, however, not the most popular class for anything, so if you want to eventually partake in lfg stuff you might get some looks on you (not a trouble at all outside of raids, even fractals are fine if you want to play engi).

EDIT: Mesmer deserves an honorable mention in that, while not being diverse, it is very fun to play because the utility you bring is unparalleled. Open world content is seldom done by yourself, there’s always someone coming along to help you kill stuff/doing hearts, etc. and Mes is the ultimate harbinger of good buffs and fun times.

Mesmer is diverse-ish. You can certainly do a lot with it, and the new map, Bitterfrost Frontier, really allows our interrupt builds to shine (HoT maps crippled them to hell and back with breakbars everywhere), but its not the most diverse class. I would say go for elementalist or engineer

Lahmia.2193:

While I’m not sure about a single set of armour, I’d wager Elementalists were by far the more diverse profession.

Nononono, no… no. No.

The celestial ele is a jack of all trades build, you can do a lot of things with it, that’s not the same thing as having build diversity, which the ele probably has the least of compared to any class.

The celestial ele can survive anything while outputting a decent amount of utility, support, and DPS, but is hardly modular at all. It requires a very strict and unchanging selection of traits from arcane/water trees, and a full suite of cantrips in your utilities. The only modular thing about it is that you can choose between staff or DD and either work fine.

I would honestly say if you want a lot of builds in a single class, go with the warrior. You can get a set of tanky power gear or tanky condi gear and with just swapping traits, utilities, and weapons; have a DPS build, tanky DPS, tank build, support build, and even off-utility builds that not all classes have like interrupt builds.