Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone,
I have a few question in PvP and I do want your opinions. Feel free to answer any question or you can suggest new stuff:

1) What would be a “good” combination of the professions in a team-play (5 vs 5). That doesn’t necessarily involve different professions; like you might suggest a bunker warrior paired with a condition warrior. A spec.ed team of 5 is appreciated.

2) How do you figure out the right time to do interruptions, apply combo fields and finishers? I feel like in order to do such stuff I should play every class possible, know their abilities / animations and counter them in order to perform better. I’ve only been filling a predetermined, constant role in each time, trying to perform right skill rotations, on the right person and on the right place but that’s it. How do you go about timing the interruptions? Do you ever coordinate combo finishers with your team-mates?

3) Are there any other roles in a team other than these?
All the following could be ranged or melee:

• Bunker
• Condition DPS
• Power/Precision DPS
• Burst DPS
  If not, say a condi. necromancer and a condi ranger could be comparable in terms of DPS and survivability. So what’s the point of having multiple different classes that can fill the same role (where 1 would be obviously worse)?

Thanks.
KhaLa

this what i want in my team.

1. mid bunker (heavy) pref. guardian
2. home bunker/roamer pref. engis, necro, ele
3. power roamer any class
4. condition roamer any class
5. support class with stable dps like support warrior, spirit ranger, dps guardian, dps ele.

1) First off a good combination of professions is one you and your friends feel comfortable with. That being said it is ideal to have 1 of each heavy class and at least another semi-bunker or condi-bunker so you can apply pressure on points and the risk of being out-rotated is lower. You can have 2 other characters that are not as tanky. Ideal choices for new teams are: thief and meditation guardian, mesmer is hard to pull off but is possible, ele is not viable yet and necro and engi can both be countered but can also bring a lot of damage and fill different roles.
So in short:

1. Hambow warrior
2. Support/bunker guardian
3. Spirit ranger
4. Thief
5. Necro
   This is the setup ran by ESL, one of the top teams. You can also run mesmer instead of necro to get the 55HP monks setup or run a condi warrior or decap engi for far point pressure, like CM did.

2) This is very situational and so it’s hard to give you an exact answer. Generally you should look at players that have their healing skills on cooldown when you’re bursting a target but if they use a healing skill and you have the pressure to get them down in the next few seconds go for an interrupt. Also interrupting stomps and revives is important. As for combo fields: the ones I use more frequently are my fire field for might stacking in combat, smoke field for stacking stealth for engage and water field on the ranger healing spring which is worth blasting for some AoE heals.

3) The way I look at it roles in conquest are:

1. Tanky dps – hambow warrior
2. Condi bunker – ranger and some engi builds
3. Condi roamer – like necro, warrior and some engi builds
4. Node fighter – any class with high AoE pressure and 90% 1v1 winrate or higher
5. Decapper – pushes people off points, like engineers, some ele and guardian builds
6. Support – shout guardian, shout warrior, regen banner warrior
7. DPS roamer – thief, sc/X ele, SD engi, offguard…. etc.
8. Utility roamer – mesmer

You should also consider that some classes and builds counter others, like condi necro will kill a condi engi and a thief has higher chances against eles and mesmers than they have against the thief. Condition warriors beat almost everything in a 1v1 unless they get outplayed.

Hope that helps!