Guild Wars 2

I left quite awhile ago, didn’t like where each class stood at the time and it just was a big bore fest. Sounds that the “meta” for sPvP is still the same, but what exactly changed specifically though?

When I was playing, the following classes had these roles:

Warrior: Had quite a bit of viable builds. Hammer builds for zerg trains or point control, sword/lb condi build. and the infamous 1 trick pony 100 hundred blades build.

Guardian: Bunkers, that was what the class use to be named.

Mesmer: Clone busters, not much else.

Necromancer: Faceroll condi damage,

Engineer: Condi build and the occasional bunker.

Thief: Well . . . burst. s/d dueling, d/d infiltrator, d/p moderate size confrontations, and the very rare p/d thief.

Ranger: Bunker/condi/evasion build, that was it.

Elementalist: Was nerfed hard, so was either a bunker you ignored completely or a burst build that was incredibly unreliable and had little to no actual survivablity.

I have a feeling that this hasn’t changed too much, since the last time I was here anet was still playing the “We’re talking about it” card to everyone then just continued to focus on the (personal opinion) brain dead living world.

Here’s how it pans out right now:

Warrior:

1. Hammer/longbow (tanky teamfight and home defender)
2. Axe/sword longbow (roamer/teamfight)

Guardians:

1. Bunker
2. Meditation burst (solo queue only)

Mesmer:

1. Shatter/phantasm hybrid (portal bot)

Necromancer:

1. Dhuumfire conditions (teamfighter)
2. Minion Mancer (Solo queue only)

Engineer:

1. Bomb-nade (teamfight, roamer)
2. Decap farpoint troll

Thief:

1. S/D acrobatics (roaming, teamfight burst)
2. D/P trickery (roaming, teamfight burst)
3. s/p trickery (roaming, teamfight burst)

Ranger:

1. Spirits SB/ Sword/dagger (teamfight/home defense)

Elementalist:

???