Guild Wars 2

hello.
rather new to pvp.
main a warrior in pve which I enjoy. I find warrior kind of sucks in pvp currently compared to other classes.

I have very little time to play these days so Id like to know, if you only had 1-2 classes to really master/play then what would you pick?

Id like to commit to getting good with at least 1 class. I have a good understanding of all other class mechanics aswell.

I mostly soloq

cheers

what rating are you ? ele is good as a healer in high tiers. lower tiers just go damage. No point supporting people that don’t know how to play.

Necro condi in soloq can work well too

War is the worst class in pvp rn. There are fringe scenarios where their gs mobility and armor add up, but they really are outshined by most other classes.

For soloq, condi mes is the best rn. DH is the most popular soloq class. Power shiro is fun but is awful till you learn it well.

Mesmer>theif; the mobility and killing power of these classes allow you to carry pretty hard, you can clean up mid fights quickly and split the enemy up with constant decaps and back caps if your team is struggling to win mid. You also have good ressing power through stealth and distortion e.t.c. and both classes can disengage fights easily.

These classes work in synergy together and are great to play solo in ranked. I highly recommend getting good at both of these classes and having a 3rd bunker class to use in emergencies.

Guardian will stomp hard up until around gold the impact lessens, it would be decent option to take guardian as an emergency class because it is quite a bit easier to play and has good impact vs theif and mesmer.

Another great class is engineer, which also has good impact vs everything but power necro and power warrior, but in my opinion the difficulty of playing engineer is quite a bit higher or rather less forgiving than mesmer or theif because its disengaging power and mobility isn’t quite as good, but, it is a very good bunker class that can support your team, waste enemy time 1v2, do heavy damage, can double ress, double stomp and also has good disengage potential through stealth gyro. This would be a great option to take in case your composition has no sustain whatsoever. I play mesmer>theif>DH but plan on getting better on engi to replace DH during the next off season so I can make more impact when I’m forced to swap.

The remaining classes in my opinion are heavily reliant on having good team mates that can survive and rotate well. Ele can heal but can’t bring your team mates back from the dead. Necro does heavy damage but gets targeted hard and has little sustain with bad mobility. Druid can waste time in 1v2s but can’t do damage and finish fights. Warrior can 1v1 and waste time 1v2 but gets hit hard in team fights especially after the recent nerfs. Finally we have revenant which is a solid +1 class, has good damage, sustain and mobility but doesn’t exactly excel at anything.

Thanks for the reply’s
Did my first 10 ranked games just now, after spending last 3-4 few weeks in unranked practicing various classes(Sorry for those paired with me)
Ended up with rating t3 silver? Just below 1200 points I think.( don’t judge me)

It’s funny you mentioned engineer , it’s the class I chose to do ranked in. Got recked with warrior, so I found scrapper was so easy to do well with.masks my misplays a lot. Combo to heal team mates and decent Damage/kiting ability.

I’ve tried all other classes in unranked except Mesmer. I’ve got a 80 Mesmer but it feels extremely complicated. I find good Mesmer players totally destroy me though.
Any suggestions for starting To learn Mesmer? Is the meta condo build good starter in lower ranked games?

Thanks all!

For training, duelling > unranked. Duel server players are usually low plat and unranked is usually like silver.

Use the condi mes build on metabattle, and ask people in duel servers to show you the ropes.

bhaldor.9837:

Thanks for the reply’s
Did my first 10 ranked games just now, after spending last 3-4 few weeks in unranked practicing various classes(Sorry for those paired with me)
Ended up with rating t3 silver? Just below 1200 points I think.( don’t judge me)

It’s funny you mentioned engineer duster , it’s the class I chose to do ranked in. Got recked with warrior, so I found scrapper was so easy to do well with.masks my misplays a lot. Combo to heal team mates and decent Damage/kiting ability.

I’ve tried all other classes in unranked except Mesmer. I’ve got a 80 Mesmer but it feels extremely complicated. I find good Mesmer players totally destroy me though.
Any suggestions for starting To learn Mesmer? Is the meta condo build good starter in lower ranked games?

Thanks all!

Yep engineer is really versatile, a very good option.

The meta condi chrono is the only build you should use, your only other option is power mesmer which has no sustain and is utterly unforgiving.

Check out lord helseth’s videos on youtube of him playing condi, particularly the ones since the patch, watch them over and over between playing unranked and you will pick it up fairly quickly.

One thing I will say is that since the recent patch (illusionary reversion requires 3 clones to proc instead of 2) I have been playing gravity well instead of moa because I find by the time I have moa’d someone in a 1v1 I really don’t have a lot of burst left to finish them.

That and I play solo queue so half the time regardless if I target someone when I moa or not, my team mates don’t finish the kill so I waste my moa, whereas I have found gravity well more forgiving in 1v1’s. In team fights or outnumbered smaller fights I can pop 3 clones up, get a nice long continuum split and pop double heals, double gravity wells, double chaos storm while unloading all my shatters into enemies trying to ress/stomp e.t.c.

You might find gravity well more forgiving like me but I advise trying and using both to see what suits you, moa is absolutely better if your team can actually work with you and finish kills.