Guild Wars 2

I am always interested in class distribution and couldn’t really find an up to date topic on this subject when I bought the game a couple of weeks ago.

Thought I would post my observations for anyone interested and please feel free to add your thoughts.

From running around in the game world and doing quite a bit of spvp here is how I would rank the classes based on how often I see them.

1. Thief…by a lot
2. Mesmer
3. Elementalist (90% of which are D/D)
4. Warrior
5. Guardian
6. Ranger
7. Necro
8. Engineer

And like all MMOs since the dawn of time the stronger a class is the more people you see playing it and the weaker a class is the less people you see playing it.

So I think the above list would also do pretty well to rank the classes in order of pvp power.

Balance seems to be generally pretty good overall but I would say there are definitely have and have not classes. The top three being particularly strong (definitely playing from the ladies’ tees with these) and the bottom three being more challenging.

I always wondered why some dev doesn’t put in place a buffing/debuffing mechanic where if there are a ton of one class on at any given time they receive a debuff and if there are very few of another, they receive a buff. Seems like it would be a good way to
even things out while they are working on class balance.

I don’t think class balance is too skewed. Necros are really powerful and Engineers are annoying to fight. Guardians are used a lot in spvp because they can hold points well.