Guild Wars 2

Hello all.

In my time playing gw2 I have been involved mostly with wvw. Lately I’ve been playing a lot more spvp and am really digging it.

I recently was asked to be involved with a group tourney, and when the commentators commented on each individuals build they said that my engi had a “common” build, and that it was “sort of sub par”. And regarding one of my teammates who was rolling a d/d ele at the time, I heard them comment that it had been a very long time since they had seen an ele of any sort in a tourney.

Here’s the question: What toon is “acceptable” to run in spvp if one is a bit more interested in getting involved with the more competitive side of things? Or what class is typically desired by a team who is involved with tpvp? Is this all variable or am I missing something?

So with all of that said, if your immediate response would be “well what type of game play do you enjoy?”, my response would be:

- I enjoy running my engi, mesmer and warrior through spvp.
- I enjoy bunking on a point with my condi/tank engi
- I also enjoying running disruption and roaming throughout the map killing as many people as I can.

Most of my experience has been in hot joins and solo/team queue matches.

Thx all for any tips/suggestions you can provide me. Ciao.

Nax.

What is deemed acceptable is defined by the community that evolves the current “meta”. This changes over time as people discover more effective ways of doing things. Certain builds and/or profession will come in and go out of flavor.

To keep up with the meta you can either

• read the forums/twitch-streamers
• look at recent tournaments teams
• experiment and experience through lots of team arena/scrim

Take it with a grain of salt. There maybe better builds out there but your build could be better. That being said that doesn’t usually happen with “common builds”.

If you roll a bunker guardian you will fit in every meta. They are OP for holding point for very long now and no nerfs seem to be coming. If you don’t like guardian take a mace/hammer, hammer/lb warrior with healing signet and you’ll have easy time palying