Guild Wars 2

For fun, let’s guess what the team composition is going to be for the final 2 teams.

My guess:

HS Hambow
HS Condi Warrior
Bunker Guard
PW Thief
Spirit Ranger

vs

HS Hambow
Bunker Guard
PW Thief
Spirit Ranger
DPS Guard

What’s your guess? Let’s see what kind of amazing team compositions exist 1.5 years after GW2’s release.

Yea, we get it. You’re mad.

hambow
bunker guard
spirit ranger
thief
engi/necro/mesmer

vs

hambow
bunker guard
spirit ranger
thief
engi/necro/mesmer

You really think a comp with a DPS guard is going to make it to the finals?

Jasher.6580:

You really think a comp with a DPS guard is going to make it to the finals?

^

Jasher.6580:

You really think a comp with a DPS guard is going to make it to the finals?

One can dream.

Yeah, the dps guard is my wildcard!

Thedenofsin.7340:

Yeah, the dps guard is my wildcard!

DEVIANCE WILL BE SEVERELY PUNISHED

ellesee.8297:

hambow
bunker guard
spirit ranger
thief
engi/necro/mesmer

vs

hambow
bunker guard
spirit ranger
thief
engi/necro/mesmer

I’m betting you will see bunker ele pushing bunker guards for that role at mid. They will have more evasion, equivalent amount of cleansing, more cc of the opponent, the capability to secure stab-stomps every 10-12 s, great boon-sharing for the team, and fields that can be finished for huge effect if played well.

Combined with guard vigor reduction, and the ability for ele bunker to take energy + intelligence sigil (to proc renewing stamina for perma-vigor), and lower CD’s on armor of earth put the power levels close to one-another.

A tanky s/f or d/d ele build could also push on hambow for side-node spot, especially with stone-heart giving them even stronger presence vs. thieves and longbow being fixed.

Thief will still be nearly mandatory, however. I also think most teams will choose engies over necros if they want condi-pressure, as engies have much greater self-survivability even though they lose the mirror-match with necros.

I won’t speak for the other professions, even though I understand them well enough, I don’t have an intimate enough understanding of their strengths/weaknesses to project how some of these changes are gonna play out.

The meta will change after the April 15th patch. For the tournament though, I think we will see very similar classes played as today. I doubt a lot of established teams are going to change a lot 2 weeks before the tournament.

Fox only.
No Items.

Final Destination.
Go!

Bunker staff ele
Condi + spirit guardian
Power ranger
Support necro
Frenzy HB warrior

Vs

Condi d/f ele
Condi thief
SD engi
DPS guard
Bunker mesmer

DanyK.3842:

Bunker staff ele
Condi + spirit guardian
Power ranger
Support necro
Frenzy HB warrior

Vs

Condi d/f ele
Condi thief
SD engi
DPS guard
Bunker mesmer

oh you…. I know what you did there

stobes.9254:

Jasher.6580:

You really think a comp with a DPS guard is going to make it to the finals?

One can dream.

e-hugs, it’s going to be ok.

Wow. Can’t believe no one says decap engi yet?

Sunshine.5014:

Wow. Can’t believe no one says decap engi yet?

People still play that????

Haven’t seen them in team arenas in a long time.

power ranger
condi ele
rifle warrior
condi guardian
turrets engi

on both teamz

Sunshine.5014:

Wow. Can’t believe no one says decap engi yet?

decap engi sucks in high level teamplay. Its only good for soloq

Zoutsha.1093:

Sunshine.5014:

Wow. Can’t believe no one says decap engi yet?

decap engi sucks in high level teamplay. Its only good for soloq

Pretty much this.

no elementalist for sure. non bunker. bunkers=worthless.

silvermember.8941:

no elementalist for sure. non bunker. bunkers=worthless.

apex plays ele, I expect they’ll do well

i rem. during guild wars 1 top guild will run meta build but guild like the last pride will run balance build and still won. those kind of players are gone in gw2. they prefer playing OP build because they rather win honorless than not win at all.

Zoutsha.1093:

Sunshine.5014:

Wow. Can’t believe no one says decap engi yet?

decap engi sucks in high level teamplay. Its only good for soloq

vVv played a “Decap Engi” in their comp and it kind of worked. Extremely cheesy though. Their whole comp revolved around being annoyingly tanky and just never loosing points.

Lord Hammer Hand.4815:

i rem. during guild wars 1 top guild will run meta build but guild like the last pride will run balance build and still won. those kind of players are gone in gw2. they prefer playing OP build because they rather win honorless than not win at all.

GW1 had healers tho. GW2 is “build how you want” which ends up being a lot less organized. They traded customization for standardized classes, which can safely be said has backfired in a bad way for PvP.

Staff elementalist
Bunker Guardian
Spirit Ranger
Trickery Thief
Hambow Warrior

BlackBeard.2873:

I’m betting you will see bunker ele pushing bunker guards for that role at mid. They will have more evasion, equivalent amount of cleansing, more cc of the opponent, the capability to secure stab-stomps every 10-12 s, great boon-sharing for the team, and fields that can be finished for huge effect if played well.

Combined with guard vigor reduction, and the ability for ele bunker to take energy + intelligence sigil (to proc renewing stamina for perma-vigor), and lower CD’s on armor of earth put the power levels close to one-another.

A tanky s/f or d/d ele build could also push on hambow for side-node spot, especially with stone-heart giving them even stronger presence vs. thieves and longbow being fixed.

Thief will still be nearly mandatory, however. I also think most teams will choose engies over necros if they want condi-pressure, as engies have much greater self-survivability even though they lose the mirror-match with necros.

I won’t speak for the other professions, even though I understand them well enough, I don’t have an intimate enough understanding of their strengths/weaknesses to project how some of these changes are gonna play out.

Interesting thouhgt!

I think its certain both teams will have a thief.

Probably its certain both teams will have a guardian.

Its interesting how there’s loads of qq about other classes but both those classes are just accepted, ‘as the meta’ and all other classes revolve/play around them.