Guild Wars 2

Hi guys!
I just want to share with you and see what you classes you are seeing more in pvp.

I myself just see that pvp is completly broken at the moment:

I just see (in order than most popular to less):
-Guard and revenant at EVERY match. I suppose that its due to traps broken op for guards and revenant being a new class.
-Thiefs and necromancer seems to be popular too. I see them quite often but less than revenant or guardian
-engineer
-rangers
-elementalists
-mesmer
-Warrior

In all the matches i have done since HOT start, i see very little chronomancer, strange coz chronomancer it’s pretty strong. And near no warrior (i suppose due to berserker spec), elementalist seems to have lost the op post too and i see quite less. But revenants and guardians are a plague. It seems that there is one in Every game (when it’s not two or three).

So, what do you think guys? Share your ideas about how popular the classes seems to be in pvp (unranked for now) since HOT start. Would be cool to see what classe is popular and why, and why others (like chronomancer who is strong) is not played.

I think we will get more of an idea once ranked starts up, but yeah what you say seems pretty accurate, not sure if that can be called the meta though.

what you see doens’t mean they are balanced or not.

It’s not a flame.
Just saying that somebody just play his class ( not the “most powerfull”).
Or maybe sometimes plays the “daily class” one.

I play Thief, and sometimes happens to be in party with anothe one. and one in the opposite team. which means 3 thieves out of 10 characters.

But usually the team with 2 thieves ( or zerk mesmers, which are kinda like thieves ) lose the game.

btw, i usually see:

-Guardians ( usually 3/4x )
-Necros ( Usually 2/3x )
-Thieves/Mesmers/Hunters/Revenants ( usually 1/2x )
-Eng/Elementalists/Warriors ( usually 1x, but not all 3 in the same game. it’s rare i mean )

I agree we should see the season starts before claiming something about the best clas combinations, thought some classes are cleary better than others.

Or at least we should see come tournament ( ABJ vs ORG for an instance ).

Chronommancers aren’t widely represented because the new elite profession is very different in comparison to its base class.

We need time to treat it as an entire new profession and work around its skill ceiling, but believe me when chronos are ready you will be kissing their glamorous kittens.

Actually I think the order of the most popular classes played is pretty much bang on. That’s what I’ve been seeing in unranked too. I think it comes down too people choosing the highest burst classes and the very mobile hard to hit classes (that can also do high burst). I main chrono, and yes it is pretty strong, definitely stronger than standard mes, but not as strong as the top classes when it comes to damage and sustain.

I think the main weakest of Mes is condition removal, not helped by the buff to condi application, damage and stacking limit increase. If you want decent condition removal you have to pick a particular trait line, and that means gimping your damage. Probably equal to limited condition removal would be phantasms/clones (the main source of mes damage) dying pretty much to AoE as soon as they are created, lowing burst potential. Also power mes doesn’t have the sustain of the top elite classes. All this adds up to is a lower general damage and sustain class that requires more effort and skill to kill some of the other elites. Chrono is definitely viable, but is suffering from an outdated class philosophy. Basically there are easier classes to play that are more rewarding for less effort, especially for new players.

I really haven’t been seeing that many revs when it’s not the daily. I went a few matches the other day without seeing a single one.