Guild Wars 2

Greetings!

So, long story short I’ve been hankering for some PvP and fishing around with my options. GW2 came to mind and I remembered that WvW has always been pretty shaky (at least since I started) But structured was fun.

Not needing to grind up a character and things of that nature (…right? Or do we need to do PvE content to participate efficiently now?) actually fits amazingly well with my now pretty limited play time.

What’s the current state of PvP, as a whole? Is it active? Balance and meta stuff is actually way above me, and I have no big preference so I could run whatever interests me of the “better” builds.

Thanks a bunch for responding! Hope to see you all around.

The average Queue times this season for me are between 1-2 minutes rather than 4-5 of previous seasons. So it does feel active. The season has been pretty good for me.

Neat!

iirc, I have a Necro, Thief, Mesmer, and Engi at cap (though that doesn’t matter iirc?) And a Warrior. Was thinking of making a Revenant and picking between Necro and that.

Is…Is MM Necro still a thing? Or are most builds locked Reaper? Excited to give it a shot since I have yet to experience all the HoT changes and stuff, anyway.

What league are you targeting to play at? Necro is generally in the niche of focus target #1 because if they are allowed to free cast, they can wipe out the enemy team. In addition they don’t have many escape mechanisms so it is encouraged to focus them. Reaper specialization is pretty much a strict upgrade from any kind in necro, as it provides instant cast pulsing self stability, along with more aoe pressure than vanilla shroud.

Minion matter can probably work at bronze to silver.

I’m pretty new to sPvP so…no clue whatsoever!

I’ve ran around in hotplay with a few characters but not much else.

I’ve mainly always been a Thief and Necro player, want to like Warrior and Engi as well, but I always muck up as the latter. The former never really stuck.

I’ll probably be jumping around Thief/Necro/Revenant to see what’s what, and I may look into Mesmer and see how things have changed.

In that case you can do like all the others in your boat. You can spam the custom lobbies to rank up faster some ex guild members reporting 3 to 4 hours from start before being able to queue up for rank.

After that you can join them in making more actual GW2 PvPers so jaded to the point they stop playing PvP because you are only there for the rewards and to train and don’t really care about winning. Thus completely possibly making upto 4 players on your team each just flatout want to stop playing, or at the bare minimal to play for only a half of the fraction of the time they usually do. Either case it’s truly upto you.

But who can pass up on that free gold right? Not like you have to win in order the get it anyways. So you might as well troll the other players trying to advance.

Well, I planned to stay far away from ranked until I’m actually competent ‘3’ no worries there