Guild Wars 2

As the question states how many of the hundreds of possible builds are actually viable? When I say viable I mean builds that generally do not necessarily “win” but do allow you to affect the course of battle to you or your teams advantage with great effect.

Depends on the class really.

Thieves have a few builds for instance:
stealth utility
stealth backstab/unload
PW
DB unicorn

Ele’s really have 2:
Gibatron AOE doombringer
Bunker

Guardians have a plethora:
Roamer
About 3-4 different bunker builds
Offensive support variations

Engi has a few
Condineer
rifle roamer
bunker (a couple)
support roamer
etc

Mesmers…. well it’s hard to go wrong here tbh
Phantasm lazy build (I don’t want to play tbh)
Shatter
Hybrid (what I’m currently running, it’s kitten strong)

Necros…. I’m actually seeing more and more now, but we’re still developing the meta for them
Bunker
Condimancer (what I run cause it’s fun)

Rangers I only ever see 1 build tbh
1-spamming-trap/roots master
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;)

Warriors…. I haven’t actually run into a warrior in a serious TPvP team in a long time now. In theory though
Hammer control
GS roamer
Axe/mace roamer (I see oppa running it I guess so it’s worth a mention, I think defektive promoted the build as well on the forums)

But really I just don’t see any real teams with warriors anymore lol.