Guild Wars 2

I’ve been seeing alot of people complaining about how GW2 PvE is just about zerging. As far as I’ve seen I think that players are missing something. From what I’ve seen and felt in the mechanics their are Roles in GW2. Except the roles are not as strictly defined as in other MMO’s every class has a plethora of option available to them. Think about it along these lines. You may remember that the developers have already stated that the role system is developed around the idea of Damage, Support, and Control they have also stated that every class is capable of performing these roles in different ways. In the attached file I have attempted to dissect these many different options in order to help players understand the re-imagined role system in GW2. In order to inform the community. Keep in mind I have not played every class and am not a “Power Gamer” so don’t be expecting me to know every role or “Sub-role” as I will be calling them or alot of numbers to let you just mow through your enemy with the “power of math”. I also am not a developer so I could be wrong about some of this.

After reading this I hope you get what I’m saying. Also keep in mind you can have a build that has multiple roles and is still effective in all of them. In fact you probable don’t have a valid build if it can’t be used in a number of ways to support your team or devastate your enemies.

What do you think? Did I get it wrong? Was I spot on? If so How? I would like to hear everyone’s opinions. This is far from complete.

Seems like a decent evaluation of the different (I hate to use the word but suffer for a lack of a better one) roles each class has.

I love the diversity my Engineer has in terms of what I can do on a per fight per loadout basis.

Yah roles might not be the right word. But people need to realize that this game isn’t all about zerging or self reliance. You have to build your character with different DPS, Support, and/or Control options so that you can be an asset to your party not just another body for the zerg pile.