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Class Roles.
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Engineers have very good aoe
Damage with using grenades to primarily defend towers/keeps especially when getting the ability to throw am extra grenade. Have made many an attacker back off from
Grenade bombardment
Asuran Engineer (Lost)
Still? They reduced the damage by 15% I heard. Good to hear Engineers aren’t useless! I’ve got one parked at level 40-something.
“Check your inbox. Infractions for everyone!” – Oprah
Still? They reduced the damage by 15% I heard. Good to hear Engineers aren’t useless! I’ve got one parked at level 40-something.
I think the damage reduction was sPvP only
Gungnir Aurus – 80 Guardian
[AUX] Isle of Janthir
To qualify OP, I’m not sure about a sense of progress where things are going from “mindless zerg activity to thought out action.” The good players were thinking out smart uses for their classes and skills since day-1 while everyone else does whatever it is they do, regardless. Also, I’ve been on bottom tier, top tier and mid tiers (which I prefer) and the only difference for the most part is raw wvw numbers and coverage, not tactics. Certainly the former #1 HoD held their spot with numbers (including mindless zerg power!) and NOT special strengths in strategy or organization.
About classes fitting into roles, except for a few niches like mesmer portal, it’s not so clearly defined (which I think was one of the design principles).
I have theif and warrior but minus a couple great support skills, thief is pretty obvious and 1-dimensional tactics-wise so ill go into warrior.
GS mobile strikes warrior is actually more mobile than theif and with good awareness can do all the behind enemy lines work like disrupting supply or even soloing supply camps if left alone for 5 mins. But with stealth, theif is just king at disrupting supply lines.
Warrior can stat boost zergs with banners, shouts, and trait aura, or speed yaks with warhorn and banners. Longbow has 2 very good aoe skills for taking down siege on walls. And of course warrior is a great tank and burster. Rifle is a glass cannon (theif) killer. What else? Basically a warrior thinking ahead before the fight starts has tools to bring to every situation.
All classes have a common role for all people:
Play to have fun.
“Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.” Sun Tzu