Guild Wars 2

I’ve played sPvP for the last 6-8 months, and I love it, but I’m still on the way to becoming a good player. So here’s my question: if you play different classes, how do you choose which class is best for what map?
What is the thought process that you put into choosing a class for a specific map, and if you have randoms in your team, how do you decide which class is best for the team? (are there rules like dont stack too many of this and that?). I’m really interested to know how some players just see the map and team comp and instantly go “changing to xyz class”.

There are very few professions, who have problems in a specific map or shine in a specific map. E.g. Longbow ranger shines on foefire and has more problems on Nifhel. If you are not playing of those very rare cases, I would not change my profession depending on the map.

Most players who are changing their profession are doing that depending on their own team composition or the team composition they are facing. E.g. if you are playing support but your team already has two of those. Or if you are normally playing a profession who is good vs reaper but strangely you are now facing thieves where you have problems with.

AOE’s are good on khylo and niflhel, skillshots and single target users are good on foefire, it’s a mix on temple IMO

mastergreki.8017:

I’ve played sPvP for the last 6-8 months, and I love it, but I’m still on the way to becoming a good player. So here’s my question: if you play different classes, how do you choose which class is best for what map?
What is the thought process that you put into choosing a class for a specific map, and if you have randoms in your team, how do you decide which class is best for the team? (are there rules like dont stack too many of this and that?). I’m really interested to know how some players just see the map and team comp and instantly go “changing to xyz class”.

Well in the old meta you had hard counters like DS ele was to necro, this meta most meta builds can deal with everything and the counters are soft. Profession stacking on the +1 role especially is usually bad e.g. two thieves, 2 shatter mes but other than that most meta builds do fine in all maps and versus anything. If anything the traits and sigils are what you want to look at more than switching professions if for example against no condi or no power; adjust your build accordingly <3.