Guild Wars 2

Every game it’s the same thing, thieves, mesmers, 100 blades warriors and spirit weapon guardians. Occasionally I see other classes. We wave at each other and do our best not to die when our stun breakers are on CD. Every day is an endurance test to see how long I can stick with a class because I like it’s playstyle instead of being anywhere near as useful as these other 4. Feel free to leave me your awesome comments about tournaments being way more balanced, how I need to stack toughness (lolz) or start packing utilities of nothing but stun breakers.

Well, isn’t that the benefit of hotjoin? Leave the server, find another within a few seconds, continue playing? I play 5 separate half hour sessions of 8v8 every day, on separate servers due to my work schedule. I rarely see over-representation to this extent. Sure, these four classes tend to show up more often than others, but not to the extent this screen shot is trying to convey.

I stuffed around with builds in hotjoin yesterday for a good few hours and got into a match that had 4 out of 6 as rangers on both sides, other matches that had 0 thieves in them. Wait long enough and you will get games with any combo you want in them to post a screenshot of.

If you end up in a game with less than 5 thieves in it, go buy a lottery ticket. Obviously I was exaggerating, but c’mon, the majority of hotjoin games I usually get are loaded with thieves, mesmers, 100 blades warriors and unkillable guardians. Usually 4 of the people in a match are not one of the above, and there’s a pretty apparent reason for that.

If its not thieves , its mesmers , warriors and the next fotm class of the week. Untill ANet implements a class limit it will always be like this dont blame the thief class

that’s the fun of a metagame. what’s popular is usually not what is strongest, but what gives the most reward for the smallest effort.

bull’s rush > 100b can give great reward with 2 key presses. that doesn’t mean it is strongest.

keep soldiering on with classes that suit your style, tweak your builds, & yes, you need CC breaks. this is PvP, CC breaking is a universal constant.

Paranoid.9542:

I stuffed around with builds in hotjoin yesterday for a good few hours and got into a match that had 4 out of 6 as rangers on both sides, other matches that had 0 thieves in them. Wait long enough and you will get games with any combo you want in them to post a screenshot of.

I think that applies more to your example of your match filled with mostly rangers tbh.

I cant count the times i entered a tourny even where the other team had 3 to 4 thiefs or mesmers. 4 out of 5 rangers? maybe like you say , if i wait long enough i get to make that unicorn screenshot.

same applies to hotjoin.

i’ve seen 3-4 thief teams in tpvp… they (may) gain the upper hand in the first minute, but afterwards they can’t hold points and they die quickly in team fights.

spvp just needs more incentive to win the match, and less for top scores

I stuffed around with builds in hotjoin yesterday for a good few hours and got into a match that had 4 out of 6 as rangers on both sides, other matches that had 0 thieves in them. Wait long enough and you will get games with any combo you want in them to post a screenshot of.

Exactly. I see games with more of every class than Thieves regularly. People always post these screenshots of a match with a lot of Thieves or Mesmers or Guardians to try to prove some point that doesn’t exist. I played a 4v4 with 4 Elementalists yesterday, 3 of which were Bunker speced and I didn’t come here and complain. I played multiple games with 3-4 Bunker Engineers. I also never pick a game with more than 8-9 players.

I once got into a match of 6 guardians and 2 mesmers against 7 thieves and a warrior. :/

Aether McLoud.1975:

I once got into a match of 6 guardians and 2 mesmers against 7 thieves and a warrior. :/

This sounds like my personal version of hell.

Man I wish I had that game, Id be tearing up with my Necro. Thiefs love fighting Necromancers oh yes…

:)

Aether McLoud.1975:

I once got into a match of 6 guardians and 2 mesmers against 7 thieves and a warrior. :/

I once got into a rare 5v5 where the entire enemy team was Mesmers. It was a literal army of clones and illusions. On Capricorn.

Yeah, I stopped playing my thief as much because they are everywhere. Now, when I play my engineer or necro, I’m like the only one on the team most of the time.