Guild Wars 2

There’s one thing I’ve noticed lately when I do solo ques in tpvp, all of my team runs the same “build.”

I say it like that because I like to play my mesmer, who is your typical shatter buildwith high power, glassy, cant fight on point. I always get paired with other classes that are often all light or medium armors, very glass cannon, can’t fight on point, etc. Because of this, I often have to bring a heavy like my warrior when I play because if I bring my mesmer, I know I’ll be stuck with a team of five glass cannons that often result in our demise. I rarely see tanky builds anymore, has it sort of shifted since I last played?

I have no idea what you’re talking about.
Most builds I see in soloq are dd cele ele (light), cele engi (medium), turret engi (medium), MM necro (light), medi guard (heavy), survival ranger (medium). Which are all very tanky.
I berly see glassy specs, just a few thieves, lb rangers, and shatter mes…

I believe there’s a good equilibrium between sustained, bunker and DPS. I also think that since medguard should be classified as “glassy”, there are potentially 5 out of 8 classes that could run berserker (thief, mesmer, ranger, guardian, necro).

How optimal is that, I wouldn’t know. But yesterday there were a lot of glass cannons: medguards, thieves and mesmers.

I see a wide range of build types, which unfortunately means I end up seeing full glass teams vs balanced or even full glass vs full Celestial.

It’s just bound to happen sometimes. It’d be nice if these matches weren’t so one sided in higher ranked queues.

Frenk.5917:

I believe there’s a good equilibrium between sustained, bunker and DPS. I also think that since medguard should be classified as “glassy”, there are potentially 5 out of 8 classes that could run berserker (thief, mesmer, ranger, guardian, necro).

How optimal is that, I wouldn’t know. But yesterday there were a lot of glass cannons: medguards, thieves and mesmers.

I wouldn’t call glassy an offguard with all that sustain and blocks…d/p thieves are glassy (s/d not that much..like offguard), shatter mesmers are glassy, zerk eles….but offguard…just no..you can make big (And i mean BIG) mistakes on offguard and still get out alive…this is never gonna happen on shatter mesmer or d/p thief..let alone zerk eles..

There is something I noticed last time.
Not a long time ago my soloQ rank dropped to 90% and then I start progressing again.
I never ever EVER seen support guardian until I reached top1k again moreover
I have to agree with OP – team comp used to be like 5 zerkers/condi vs 5 zerkers/condi.
I have seen a lot of triple mesmers/thieves comp. All of guardians were zerker medi etc.

While my rank started to increasing I noticed more cele builds or even support guardian etc. it was around 98% and higher.
Conclusion: If you want to boost your soloQ rank go cele/support class since most of them are high ranked. And support guard can change whole match while another thief can’t.

@OP:

You must be playing a different tPvP than me. This is currently the age of celestial.