Guild Wars 2

I was looking at another thread and it occurred to me that certain classes seem to have much better synergy with their own classes than others. And this makes it hard to understand if a class is overpowered or not because it’s very dependent on whether you look at the class in isolation or as a 2 man unit for instance.

For instance, I think I can kind of out play a DH that’s roughly my skill and avoid the fricken traps, say 50% of the time. But when there are two of them and I have a companion there’s nothing I’m going to do to stop them from getting me while still trying to contest point.

A double fight against necros is me running away for like 90% of the match…. and being frozen whiled doing it. Where my condi clears are just a little insufficient against 1, because they both hit the exact same vulnerability and can hit serveral with this duplicate effect, thus overwhelming 2 simultaneously, it becomes insane to try to stand on point and contest.

Now I thought about what 2 engis do for each other, and I generally don’t see two engis trying to hold a point against commers, because they rely a lot on mobility and running off for a bit. At this point in time they are not really able to help each other. A standard engi can probably keep up a fairly high level of might, so having another to add might is not particularly useful AND you’d have to be standing in the same place to make use of it. If your facing to AOE folks that’s instant death. What you could do is use your lighting fields in succession or alternate hammer leaps I guess. But just doesn’t seem to have the same devastating combo goodness.

So I guess I’m interested in understanding

1) what factors make for the best synergy for a class to pair most synergistically with itself.

2) If we had those class wars like they did very early on (teams of one class only competing), which class would currently win Capture.

3) Ideas for how you’d even go about balancing for intra class synergy, or do you insist on hetrogeneous teams where there are no duplicates and that’s the only solution.