Guild Wars 2

I’ve been gone over a year, and I’m considering returning for WvW gameplay.

Has WvW changed much in the past year? Has it gotten better or worse?

Which classes are the most needed in WvW right now? Which classes are the most nerfed and to be avoided?

How bad are queues? I see the server I’m on (Tarnished Coast) is T1, am I always going to be waiting in queues? I’ll only have a couple hours of playtime a day, I don’t want to spend most of it waiting in a queue.

Thanks in advance!

Merkator.6351:

Has WvW changed much in the past year? Has it gotten better or worse?

People here will say worse. Technically, it’s correct for ANet to claim that they’ve made significant changes to WvW in the past year.

The base 4 maps, however, do not feel or play any different than they did before the changes.

Merkator.6351:

Which classes are the most needed in WvW right now? Which classes are the most nerfed and to be avoided?

Meta is warrior, guardian, elementalist, necromancer, with mesmer and thief assist. GWEN for short.

People still bag on Ranger all day, errday. Rangers still roam.

Engineer is kinda like playing Ranger, in regard to prevalence and its players attitude toward the meta game and zerging. It doesn’t get bagged on like Ranger, though. Non-engi knows less about engi than non-ranger knows about ranger.

Merkator.6351:

How bad are queues? I see the server I’m on (Tarnished Coast) is T1, am I always going to be waiting in queues? I’ll only have a couple hours of playtime a day, I don’t want to spend most of it waiting in a queue.

You have the EoTM map to play in while queued. I doubt that even T1 has queues like you remember. I’m T2 and fought against them during tournament that just ended.

The meta has… Changed… It’s not better or worse, just different. GvG guilds have gotten better though as the GvG scene becomes more mainstream

The core classes hasn’t really changed since a year ago

There are no such things as queue anymore except on reset night. There’s been a huge drop in population since a year ago. Of course, if your server decides to zerg it up, you’ll get a queue in a map, maybe. Doesn’t really happen though

For TC you will experience queues. They will be ridiculously long on reset (this goes for other T1 servers too) but shouldn’t be more than 30 mins max on other days.