Guild Wars 2

So I have 5 lvl 80 toons and I’m at the point now where I want to set at least one to exclusively use in WvW. I’ve only dabbled in WvW but the new Seasons has me a little excited and I want to jump back in.

Which Toon should I convert to an exclusive WvW build though?

Warrior
Guardian
Engineer
Elementalist
Thief

The builds for all 5 are currently just decent PvE builds. They mostly all have Exotic armor and weapons and a couple Ascended trinkets each. Which would be the easiest to convert? As my Guild does not really WvW I tend to play as a solo roamer and join the zergs every now and then.

Help me WvW community, you’re my only hope.

I’d say warrior or thief. Personally, I’d lean more to warrior.

Go Engi. Pry bar>everything else

It would depend on whether you want to run in small havoc groups or run with the zerg. I mostly follow zergs so my comments would just be for that.

For ZvZ, Ele, guardian, or warrior would be the traditional choices. Ele would be hard to convert to WvW because the standard wvw ele runs celestial gear.

Guardian or warrior should be relatively easy to gear with knights or PTV, add some melandru or soldier runes and you’ll be good to go in zvz fights.

Thanks for the input guys. So far all 5 professions have been suggested

I may have to take a close look at the gear of the 5 to fully factor in the build costs. I have the most fun playing my Guardian, Ele and Eng so that may help me in deciding too. I like my Thief, but I’m just not a fan of the stealth builds. Everyone runs a Warrior so that’s why I hesitate to use him.

I would prefer to run in Havoc groups.. but I would need to find one of those first ha

Engi, Warrior or thief for solo roamer. Guardan or Ele, for zerg/teamplay.

As someone who plays Guardian in WvW mostly, I never felt needing to specialise my build for WvW, I play mostly Support/toughness builds for high healing and survivability with traits, but then go Power/Prec/Tough in weapons/armor/trinkets with Melandru runes.

I use this for both PvE and WvW and having a ton of fun out there.

But here’s the few points that can help choose or avoid the guardian.

Pros:
-Very tough, can survive a zerg after all your friends die, and run, even while being constantly attacked to your nearest base! (Yeah feels cheap sometimes)
-With Staff, great cone ‘1’ attack and mark for team speed buff and AoE damage, also, giving 12 might to you and some allies is fantastic. Also, that wall CC skills in choke points can save the precious seconds you need to keep the enemy zerg in a hot AoE spam!
-Scepter for range, AoE and Immobilise, great for chasing enemies, I use shield offhand for the push back on ‘5’, use that on enemies rezzing their friends, then do a finisher on said friends!
-With clear of voice trait, you convert 1 condition to a boon for every shout you make! I always have at least 2 shouts, Retreat and Stand your ground, if crippled, use a shout it’ll turn it into swiftness! Very cool to get you out of tough spots.

Cons:
-Low Damage, yes, it’s the reality of support Guardians wielding staff/scepter, as an alternative, I’d equip GreatSword instead of Scepter/shield if roaming in smaller groups. In Zergs, staff is still the best since the cone of your ‘1’ attack can hit dozens of enemies at the same time without getting too close!
-Harder to keep swiftness for very long in comparison to some other classes without using a staff.
-Not very good in small fights in comparison to most other classes, Warriors/Rangers/Necros are all better choices in most cases.
-Elites are lacking in most WvW scenarios, either you get invuln for 3 seconds, recharge your virtues, or use a tome of courage to inflict massive AoE damage and burning for a couple seconds. The latter is finicky because of low range and when skill lag starts, you waste your Elite as you end firing off maybe 3-4 blasts tops during your time limit, but if you time ‘5’ off right, you can stop a pretty big zerg at a choke point for a few seconds, assuming they didnt have stability.