Guild Wars 2

Hey guys!

In preparation for the Stronghold open beta I made a quite short and concise introduction to Stronghold. Along with that, I’ve also made a list of 3 builds for each class that can be used in Stronghold.

And you can view a few of the builds from the video in the list below. Should you not understand my use of any terminology (like Attack Lane or Defense Lane) just check out my Introduction to Stronghold video and it will give you the quick run-down of what it all means.
Check out the list and let me know what build you think will be good in Stronghold.

Elementalist
Build: Fresh Air Ele
Role(s): Offence or Defence
Position(s): Attack Lane/Defence Lane
Best Teamed up With: Thief, Engie, Necro, Warrior
Useful For: Clearing out NPCs fast, CC, Projectile deflection

Engineer
Build: Tourette’s Engie
Role(s): Defence
Position(s): Defence Lane or Trebuchet
Best Teamed up With: NPCs
Useful For: Distracting NPCs and being a general annoyance

Guardian
Build: Medi Guard
Role(s): Roamer
Position(s): Attack Lane or Defence Lane
Best Teamed up With: Well Necro, Engie, Ele, Mesmer
Useful For: Trapping things in a pokeball, CC, In-combat Mobility.

Build: Tirzah’s Consecration Guard – 6/6/2/6/6
Role(s): Everything
Position(s): Everything
Best Teamed up With: The Esteemed Goddess’ build needs no one
Useful For: The Esteemed Goddess’ build is good at everything.

Mesmer:
Build: Shatter Mesmer
Role(s): Roamer/Supply Runner
Position(s): Att./Def. lanes/Supply Depot
Best Teamed up With: Thief, Ele, Guardian, Engie
Useful For: Mobility, Burst Damage, CC, Boon removal.

Necromancer:
Build: Well Necro
Role(s): Roamer
Position(s): Att./Def Lanes
Best Teamed up With: Hammer Guardian, Engie, Warrior, Staff Ele
Useful For: Immense AoE DPS, Lich Form.

Ranger
Build: Spirit Ranger
Role(s): Support
Position(s): Def./Att. Lanes
Best Teamed up With: Ele, Necro, Engie or Mesmer
Useful For: AoE buffs to NPCs, Spirit Rez

Build: Trap Ranger
Role(s): Roamer/Supply Runner
Position(s): Def./Att. lanes/ Supply Depot
Best Teamed up With: Staff Ele, Hammer Guard, War, Engie
Useful For: Taking out NPCs, running supply, harassing the supply area with traps.

Thief
Build: D/D Condi Thief
Role(s): Roamer/ NPC Clearing
Position(s): Attack/Defence Lane
Best Teamed up With: Ele, Hammer Guard, Engie or Necro
Useful For: AoE Bleed Stacking, Constant Evades, Survivabilty

Warrior
Build: Hambow
Role(s): Roamer
Position(s): Att/Def lanes
Best Teamed up With: Necro, Engie, Shatter Mesmer or Burst Ele
Useful For: CC, Rez Banner

Build: GS/Rifle
Role(s): Roamer/Supply Runner
Position(s): Att/Def lane/Supply Depot
Best Teamed up With: Guardian, Ele, Necro or Thief
Useful For: Incredible Ranged burst, Mobility with GS, Downed Cleave, CC with Rampage.

NO!
Do not encourage the perpetuation of the turret engi plague. We need to kill it before it spreads further.

Gern.2978:

NO!
Do not encourage the perpetuation of the turret engi plague. We need to kill it before it spreads further.

Don’t worry, I’ll get to that in a bit.

you forgot the shadow arts thief headshot 500x while you try to channel supplies and laugh with his sentinel amulet

Booms.3952:

you forgot the shadow arts thief headshot 500x while you try to channel supplies and laugh with his sentinel amulet

I lol’ed. I imagine you can just break the channel with any damage though, like the buffs on temple.

kaikalii.4198:

Booms.3952:

you forgot the shadow arts thief headshot 500x while you try to channel supplies and laugh with his sentinel amulet

I lol’ed. I imagine you can just break the channel with any damage though, like the buffs on temple.

No, only CC can interrupt the channel.

I hardly think this is list is accurate

Just grab your pve build, you’ll be fine.

My 2 copper:
I think hammer/greatsword may be better than Hambow on stronghold since the AoE cover from lb won’t matter as much, but the added mobility from GS will be a great benefit. Plus NPCs won’t dodge hundred blades.

rifle warrior. lol

Gern.2978:

NO!
Do not encourage the perpetuation of the turret engi plague. We need to kill it before it spreads further.

Plague of conditions upon turret engi ftw.

P.S. This actually does work.