Guild Wars 2

Been playing in the arena a lil bit lately, while of course we win some we loose an awful lot to. Sometimes it seems like we come into conflict with a team who we can not damage at all hardly.

I was wondering what would be a good team setup to go into the pvp arena with and what setup should they use or whatever? Many thanks in advance as always

Just watch tournaments and see what comps the top teams are running if you really need to know what the most viable ones are.

so noone knows of any good combo of teams at all i take it?

4 celestials + thief

Or you could get crazy and run 3 celestials + thief + (medi guard / mes)

At least the above seems to be what 90% of all tournament teams look like /random guess from personal experience.

Ele Ele Engi Engi Necro is the best comp. You 1-2-2, win everything because you have the best matchups in the game, then 3 cap all game due to mobility and sustain. IDK why people don’t do this anymore tbh, burst comps simply can’t match the might of celestial.

most teams run 3 sustain and 2 DPS….

In terms of sustain, there are:
- DD/Ele
- Staff-Ele
- Shoutbow Warrior
- Celestial Rifle Engineer

In terms of DPS, we often see:
- Panic-Strike Thief
- Shatter-Mesmer
- Power-Necro (not seen too often)
- Fresh Air Ele (not seen too often)

Then, there are certain builds that are kinda in between:
- Meditation-Guard
- Terror-Necro (not seen too often)
- S/D-Thief (not seen too often)

What comp you wanna run depends heavily on your strat. If you want to for example teamfight, Staff-Ele is obviously very strong, if you want to use the sustainy Ele for roaming and decapping and winning 1v1’s, you’d rather run a DD/Ele.
There are certain builds that team up very well, like Terror-Necro and Shoutwarrior (shoutwar gives extra heal and vigor for necro and necro has heavy CC, which helps out the war).
another good double is Meditation-Guard+Staff-Ele, cuz of all the roots and the circle of the Guard that keeps the enemy in the AoE and the Ele supports the Guard with lots of sustain, protection, Ice-armor etc.

5 P/P Thieves all with dual-Quips.

1 Power Necro
1 Medi Guard
1 dps War
1 Thief
1 Cele ele

- Turret Engi
- Turret Engi
- Turret Engi
- Turret Engi
- Turret Engi

Jokes aside, I’d probz go for as mentioned above, cele Ele, Power Necro, Medi Guard MAYBE thief and then something heavy like warri.

D/D ele, shoutbow, cele engi, medi hammer guard, d/p panic strike thief. Lots of sustain, lots of immobilize, lots of burst.

full condi spam team with at least one necrosis with epidemic is pretty ruthless. overlosd those cleanses.

4 turret engis, one trapper ranger…
Never done it and it probably only works, if you show up with something else and switch to the classes just before the match starts.

On a more serious note, have a good ele and a good thief and go from there. You probably want some meat in the form of shoutbow+meditation guard.
The last slot… Well, it can be anything.

2 cele DD elementalists, 2 cele rifle engineers, & 1 shout hambow warrior.

Actually i would love to see something less meta.
Say, maybe:
-Decap Engineer
-Bunker – Sentinel Spectral Necro
-Phantasm Mesmer
-Terrormancer / Condi Mesmer
- Power Ranger

My perfect premade team?
Bwah… whatever people feel like playing… it is not that I put much emphasis on the joy aspect anyway…

Aside from that, if I were to go semi-serious:

1) D/D Celementalist – Reason should be obvious
2) Shoutbow or Axe/Warhorn Warrior – Need someone else to occupy a node… Though I would prefer a Shoutbow – it is far easier to burst it down than an Axebow, and the preferred meta in EU seems to be power
3) Teef – A good one… I don’t care which build, a good Thief can make me play easy mode
4&5) – Damage orientated roamers, think of Medi Guardian, Power or even Terror Necro, Mesmer, Bananas or Pineapples

…

Obligatory Engineer left out, not because I don’t see their strength, but I prefer a tripple DPS comp over a duo comp because it is fun

Five good minion master necros all named “Generic Necro _” .

2-3 celes and 2-3 zerk is meta.

Bunkers and full condi don’t have a place in the meta anymore. Bunkers because the lack of damage and the condis because of shoutbows and d/d eles.

Why do so many people suddenly think power necro is good? It’s a trash build. Watch The Abjured get 500-0ed by TCG in WTS because Nos only has 1 stunbreak and no mobility. Considering nobody actually coordinates AoE condi clears anymore and just spams them (even in top teams), condi necro is still a better pick IMO if you play it well.

A team without mesmers and rangers.

- Mace/Mace & Hammer warrior with physical utilities and rampage, preferably a naked norn with a moustache.

I’m going to pretend Anet has a system in place that forces teams to not be able to stack classes because stacking Engineers, Eles, and a Thief would be too strong.

Mid

• Celestial Warrior Shoutbow
• Celestial Engineer w/ Tool, Nade, SS
• Celestial Staff Elementalist

Close

• Meditation Guardian

Escort then Roamer

• D/P Shortbow Thief

What I hope can happen in Post-Specialization GW2 is that there can be more classes that can compete.