Guild Wars 2

Hey so I am pretty new to pvp (referring to structured pvp) and I have been screwing around in hotjoins lately and having a lot of fun. Since I’ve mostly done wvw and pve up to this point I have never really had a class that I would call my main and I’ve basically just swapped between professions to fill whatever void we had in the zerg/roaming group. I am wondering if that is still something I can do in more organized pvp (meaning not hotjoins) or do I need to specialize more in one class. If I do have to specialize (something I want to do anyway) which class is the most desirable for structured teams? I have an 80 thief, ele, warrior, guardian, and mesmer (I mostly prefer the ele guard and thief) but if I needed to i could scrap some gems together for another character slot and roll something else.

Thanks to anyone in advance who helps this pvp noob out

You can do that in sPvP too. You will be really useful in solo q if what you want to do with your characters is to fill gaps the team needs

If you want to be on a tpvp team, specializing in something is a good choice. Guardian and ele currently will give you the most flexibility of finding a team. Thieves work well too, but you need to be able to edge out all the other thieves (which there seem to be tons) fighting for a roster spot.

If you are looking to just do hotjoins/soloQ, then you can continue to play what you’re in the mood for. If you want to rise in the leaderboard for soloQ, then I’d say stick with something you find fun. Thief/ele/guard can all carry in soloQ so pick whichever you enjoy most.

mPascoal.4258:

You can do that in sPvP too. You will be really useful in solo q if what you want to do with your characters is to fill gaps the team needs

Thanks for responding and I am glad to hear that I can dust off characters from time to time if I get bored with one.

Chaotic.9742:

If you want to be on a tpvp team, specializing in something is a good choice. Guardian and ele currently will give you the most flexibility of finding a team. Thieves work well too, but you need to be able to edge out all the other thieves (which there seem to be tons) fighting for a roster spot.

If you are looking to just do hotjoins/soloQ, then you can continue to play what you’re in the mood for. If you want to rise in the leaderboard for soloQ, then I’d say stick with something you find fun. Thief/ele/guard can all carry in soloQ so pick whichever you enjoy most.

Thank you for your response…..I have been noticing a lot of S/D thief posts lately (mostly asking for nerfs lol) I guess I’ll have to play around and find which role I would like to play (thus adding another level of depth to this decision ) I will deffinetly consider ele and guardian as I have wanted to learn elementalist since i started playing

secretmessej.4750:

mPascoal.4258:

You can do that in sPvP too. You will be really useful in solo q if what you want to do with your characters is to fill gaps the team needs

Thanks for responding and I am glad to hear that I can dust off characters from time to time if I get bored with one.

I mostly play Guard meditations in Solo Q. I used to play Bunker, it can carry and its fun if your team knows how to play, but in solo q you have maps like Skyhammer where bunker are nearly useless if you don’t have the hammer, and Spirit Watch where you can bunk points and bunk while carrying orb but I don’t find that funny. In Team Q depends. If the q is with full team and I’m the only Guardian i’ll go Bunker, if the q is not with 5 I wait till we are in to see if we have or not Bunker there so i’ll switch or not.
I also play Thief but it’s really hard IMO to play in sPvP since the meta now is only 1 build (i you are really good D/P is still an option, I just fought against 1 in Skyhammer that almost carried his intire team, they lost but was like 500 – 48x so really close match) and it’s S/D, so you either like that play style, or to play other you will have double the trouble to be useful in the match. Also in solo q if there is more than 1 Thief in the team, the team loses a lot, and there ar a lot of Thiefs so thats why i don’t like to play it as much. I have 84 wins, as soon as I get title with it I problably not going to even touch it for a while in PvP.
To end I started playing Engi. Really good class for PvP, lot of options with builds. Most popular are Turret Bunker/Decap (annoying and most ppl hate this spec, it can be fun but it’s really cheese, meanwhile it’s the most viable spec with rifle and in Engi rifle is my favourite weapon since I don’t like Pistol/Shield) or Pistol/Shield Condi. 1 Engi is allways usefull if played well. More than 1 doesn’t hurt much. Today I did a match vs 4 3 I think were Turret build but they weren’t very good, we won 500 – 3xx and the only rought part was when the 3 joined in mid and there were so many turrets, but they only did that once, lucky us.

I’d advise ele if you are on the fence about maining one in pvp, tanky staff with the parrot is easy and gets good results.