Guild Wars 2

See, I’m a mediocre Mesmer, better than some, worse than some and I’ve got my good and bad days, but I know what I can do and what I can’t. I’m talking about these situations when you solo/duo/tripleQ while you’re playing a class that’s usually detrimental to stack ( Mesmer and Thief for me, same could be said about Pew Pew Rangers, probably to a lesser extent for every zerker spec ), you’re looking at the loading screen and one of your mates on Teamspeak/Skype shouts out “Welp, we’ve got another Mes.”
Look, I’m not talking about the moments you’ve get some top tier player on your team but somebody who seems to be playing, in my example, a standard build like shatter but you’ve never seen that particular dude.
What is it you’re doing then, what’s your inner monologue? Personally I usually ask those guys in a friendly manner if they might be able to reroll to another class and if there’s no answer at the 30s mark, I bite the bullet and reroll myself to Shoutbow, a spec and class at which I’m terrible at, but hopefully not worse than a double mesmer comp, but almost always with a terrible aftertaste because Mesmers, just like Thieves, seem to be either caught in a permanent downstate or rocking the house, there seem to be only a handful of people on the middle ground.

Really excited for your answers,
Whatever Corax

Trust your teammate.

If you ain’t terribly good then your teammate is probably as great as yourself or if not better (player). Bring your best game and have fun, I guess

meh play what class you enjoy playing. gw2 is far too casual to be caring about composition for random queues.

I think you pose an interesting question, my short answer is you shouldn’t change to something if you personally feel it will make you less effective because it’s not going to change the skill level of the guy your doing it for.

My longer reply would be that I am someone who practices PvP religiously on a multitude of characters so I don’t simply judge the players I’m playing as. Rather I look at the comp in a more broad manner and ask myself questions like what will each player do and what does there equipment say about them. I’m not always correct in my assumptions but I will only switch to something else if I personally believe it can mean I might change the fate of the match in a positive way. That happens vary rarly.

Depends, are you playing seriously or just casually?

Often times, I myself as a fellow mesmer do also groan when I see another join my team. (Which surprisingly enough is generally the only class I groan when I see more than one of…)
I usually bite the bullet though. My spec is usually different than most, so I often hope the difference in builds leads to a benefit than cripple.
It’s usually a toss up if so, but I never assume its a fail. More surprising victories have come out of such plays, that and if the other 3 are decent as well can still be a powerful combo. So, I take my losses and trust they are competent.

as the signature says, i play warrior and engineer. both classes do well stacked, so I usually don’t change. sure, if im on an offclass like ranger i will switch but not on one of my mains. i however always switch to warrior for courtyard, shoutheals are just too good.

I don’t get it, whats wrong with more than one mesmer?
We got steam rolled by a team of mesmers the other day, granted I am a noob, but that doesn’t mean my whole team was, they had clan tags and fancy looking gear, and what not.

Pretending that every1 in your team is a noob made me win quite some a lot, and also receive whispers like ‘Shuttup fag8 I knw wht I’m doingz lel’.

Just a pro tip

No make a team if you want to care. Never trust MMR never.

echo.2053:

meh play what class you enjoy playing. gw2 is far too casual to be caring about composition for random queues.

This – play what you like and see what happens.

Sometimes an unexpected composition can be the most surprising and fun.

I look for legendaries.
If guy has one, I trust him.

If he had enough money on credit card to buy a legendary, he will surely have some to buy the judges and match, too.

:3

Builds and skills are extremely trivial in this game, I trust pretty much anyone to do their job mechanically on any class.

Rotations however are a different story. When playing with a team there are very few players I trust to rotate perfectly. When soloing, I usually look if they have a Legendary Champion title, if not then I check their armor and weapons if they look like they are there first time or not. If they look completely new then it’s probably an alt account of some decent player, if they look like experienced player, then that’s what they are, experienced players, but if they look like something in between I always expect the worst.

Play what you’re best at and assume they are doing the same – if they multiclass they might change themselves. I would never ask someone to switch class, if you feel you can play another class and be more useful than a 2nd Mesmer thats your choice – but it shouldn’t be you pressuring someone else to switch.

Like this? (3 mes, 2 eles, random team comp)

Same vid if first doesnt play (clean version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WPgKnd96os

Take whatever. If all else fails so long as you have 1 turret engie, you can have up to 4 scrub mesmers on your team and you’ll do fine. Am I right? Am I right? ;D

no, but its ok cuz i play engi and having more engis is never a bad thing for your team.

Ross Biddle.2367:

Like this? (3 mes, 2 eles, random team comp)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHXMuHVWnZc

Same vid if first doesnt play (clean version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHXMuHVWnZc

Take whatever. If all else fails so long as you have 1 turret engie, you can have up to 4 scrub mesmers on your team and you’ll do fine. Am I right? Am I right? ;D

Seems like this youtube vid is blocked for “copyright” reasons….. lol….

when i pvp with my warrior i pvp with my warrior. Rest of the team can be 4 warriors for all i care.

echo.2053:

meh play what class you enjoy playing. gw2 is far too casual to be caring about composition for random queues.

listen to him , just play what you want , currently i´m playing medi guard and i also never reroll , even if we are 3 zerk guards on the team, yoloq sould never be taken seriously

The Primary.6371:

Seems like this youtube vid is blocked for “copyright” reasons….. lol….

Dropped the wrong link, was meant to be