Current Zerg and GvG Meta
Thieves at the very least have blast finishers. Rangers and engineers? It’s not news that they’re useless professions. Bring it up with anet.
I see a lot of Hammer Warriors in Zergs
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Is this meta healthy for the game as a whole?
No.
/bitter Ranger playing Warrior in WvW ctas
I posted about this a month ago here. Title: WvW recreates the Trinity.
Hammer/Guard Tanks, Ele water fields + Guard blast finishers for Heals, Necro wells for AoE DPS.
The problem is, this Trinity is available only to the larger, organized WvW guilds who have the numbers to make it happen.
Tell me my engineer is useless while I’m raining grenades on your group from a keep wall. Or onto a keep wall from a mile away. Boom boom boom. Ha.
Is this meta healthy for the game as a whole?
No.
/bitter Ranger playing Warrior in WvW ctas
Stop complaining and go play your warrior.
Also there is a bit more build diversity than that in GvG’s and the meta as a whole. But you have indeed picked out the biggest ones.
The one that did confuse me was portal for mesmers, do those things still exist. I thought that unless you had golems, portals were just loot delivery systems for the enemy.
7.2k+ hours played on Minesweeper
theres actually a lot more diversity than that…
BUT I AGREE
Thief, Engineers, and Rangers are not as IMPORTANT as the most common class:
Guardian
Warrior
Elementalist
Mesmer
Necromancer
Mesmers in large group play I think now have some of the worst build flexibility. This is mostly because they’re told to keep at least 3/4 utilites that are either Veil, portal, nullfield and their elite is either TW/MI. I’ve started playing my engineer more recently mostly because doing mesmer like that got boring…
People need to learn that mesmers != veil/portalbots! It is very boring play for us to just be veilbots when we have so much more! (I’ve seen a person berate a mantra mesmer because they didn’t have veil slotted for not being a group player…)
Mesmer – FURY
Rank 55 – Bunker Engi, Top 300
Mesmers in large group play I think now have some of the worst build flexibility. This is mostly because they’re told to keep at least 3/4 utilites that are either Veil, portal, nullfield and their elite is either TW/MI. I’ve started playing my engineer more recently mostly because doing mesmer like that got boring…
People need to learn that mesmers != veil/portalbots! It is very boring play for us to just be veilbots when we have so much more! (I’ve seen a person berate a mantra mesmer because they didn’t have veil slotted for not being a group player…)
I feel you
Out of the my only 3 level 80’s, the Mesmer was the first I leveled after launch. I quit playing the Mesmer in late September of 2012 because I knew the profession was pigeonholed into the Veil/Portal/Null Field support bot role (which is super boring). Good luck with your Engineer. I bet its a lot funner to play ATM.
TW ran a GvG against RE last night, where RE employed 2 GC thieves to pick off anyone separated from the main group. It was surprisingly effective for a while.