Guild Wars 2

The best thing I loved about DAoC were the massive battles. I hated small manning and hated 8v8s. I loved zerg surfing. Whats the best class for doing that in this game? I want to be able to drop tons of damage on people trying to take a keep we own or if running with a group of people and we come across another large group in the open or trying to take the a keep drop serious AoE on them. I could care less if Im glass cannon and die in 10 seconds I just enjoy doing a lot of damage really fast to as many people as possible.

All I read was “Best profession blah, blah, blah glass cannon blah, blah” and thought “THIEF” ftw!

Thieves have an Elite skill called “Dagger Storm” Basically, you run into the middle of the enemy zerg, and spin in circles. If they don’t melee you to death (because you reflect projectiles) They die. This is pretty much exactly what you want, but because it’s an elite and requires you to be in the middle of the enemy, it’s not….. Effective.

The other option that I’ve seen are Elementalists. Staff Elementalist in fire attunement gets 2 AOEs. One is lackluster. The other is pretty much THE way of dealing with seige engines on top of towers/castles/etc. I have wiped out entire armys using this and I’m currently healing specced. It deals less damage than dagger storm, but you can usually get this off and live (and the cooldown is shorter)

Id agree that ele’s are probably the best class as they can do a lot of different things necessary in WvW. AOEs, a great deal of CCs, great abilities such as Ride the Lightning that allow for a quick escape and can do quite a lot from range.

I however enjoy my Rifle Warrior in WvW. So long as I stay at range I can take any one player down and/or finish them with a stupid amount of burst damage.

As for thieves…. dont ever think about glass cannon build. Yes they are very powerful but people are waking up to the fact that the majority of thieves play with this style and they’ll target you. Rest assured you’ll go down quicker than you can say “Ouch!”

^^^ unless RTL sends you flying backwards right to the enemy even after you have clicked away the target…. ugh…

Anyway, I main a Carrion Elementalist, I am not that experienced in PvP or WvW but I was extremely effective with my staff this past weekend in a few huge zerg battles. I recommend Elementalist