Guild Wars 2

Hello I’m back to the game after stopping for a couple years, I’ve been mainly playing guard necro or elem before, I’m only playing wvw and I plan on doing zerg and gvg mainly as I’ve always done before.

Thing is, I’ve done a little bit of zerging and I have a feeling that people only want guards… I’ve started playing my rev but most of the zerg was asking me if I didn’t mind switching to guard .. I’m mean come on, I’m fed up playing my guard !

What are the classes beside guard that are highly valuable to a Zerg and/or a GvG ? What classes are the most useful and which shall I really not go into as for this very purpose ? I just want to be useful to my team without playing guard.

BTW, I am not looking for an OP class, just one of the useful ones

Revenant is actually really powerful in the current meta, and you should probably ignore those guys.

Since they’re asking for guards, they probably keep getting their stab corrupted.

So my suggestion? Dwarf/Mallyx, start the fight with bricks from dwarf, swap to mallyx and use pain absorb when the condis fly.

If your commander has half a brain, he’ll call for pain absorb. If he doesn’t, you’ll just have to wing it like I do on mesmer 90% of the time.

Speaking about a zerg. Guard/Rev/Necro are indeed the MVPs. Mesmers can bring a lot too with their support and boon ripping. It really just depends on the commander though.

Everyone says “Stay away from thieves”, but I’ve been part of a small group that just ate apart a zerg from behind while the 2 zergs went back and forth.

If you’re going to play thief in a zerg, you should do it as an organized group of thieves with voice chat, and pick apart zerg’s tails. You can turn quite a few fights for your server into your favor doing that.

Just don’t expect to get any “thank yous” for it. Nobody likes you, everyone hates your class, and they all think you do absolutely nothing.

Edit:
Oh, and as an aside. Don’t run metabattle builds with their suggested stats.

Frontline sustain herald with Marauders? You’ll die if you’re not a god with your class.
Run tankier stats, you’ll thank me later.

Guard/Rev/Necro is the WvW meta right now

Thief is the only class you should avoid bringing in a zerg fight….

Since TDS just closed their doors and BoRP is on “break” (probably dead as well) the GvG scene is officially dead once more. KEK is the last of the top guilds… I assume the lesser guilds will still continue fighting each other every once in a blue moon though.

For WvW Guard/Rev/Necro (Reaper)/Ele (Tempest)/Mesmer (Chrono)

@TheOneWhoSighs Thank you very much for your answer, I can see clearer now and I think I’ll stick to my Rev. My server isn’t so strong about wvw but who am I to criticize since I haven’t played for so long. But I feel like they want at least 2 guards per group of 5, that’s so much, half the blog is guards !

If I don’t get my builds from metabattle where do I get them from ? I mean okay I should learn to play and find out. But as for the players who can’t play this much, “meta” builds are kind of a great way to get started

Guards are the most essential class in the game because of their stability and group sustain.

Yeah, tbh 2 guards to every group is pretty important too. Having 2 bursts of stab that you can call for & rotate is essential for longer fights (Not to mention purging flames). Especially with all the boon corrupt.

I don’t know if I would demand a rev swap off for it in a zerg tho, but ehhh~.

Metabattle is “okay”. (Most guilds I know of have their own builds that they run)

But if you’re going to run a metabattle build, you’ll undoubtedly want to run tankier stats than they do.

Like I was saying for example, marauders on their front line revenant build? You’ll die if you’re not experienced. Sort of a trial by fire.

You might incorporate some nomads gear, for instance, to some of their builds. That way you can get quite a bit beefier, and scale back into marauders or whatever as you get more comfortable.

And the tankier gear will probably never be useless, since there are some times you might just have to run it to survive in some situations.

You server (depending on which one your on) may also offer builds to new players. The one I’m currently on has lots listed in our discord. And many players that are willing to help understand “x” class.