Guild Wars 2

I swear it seems to me that every skirmish I get into in WvW, almost always its involved wih a group that consists of 80% warrior / guardian. Is it just me, or does anyone else see that class everywhere

There are a few but to be honest i see (well dont see :p) Thieves being more frequent. Not many rangers a few necro’s alot of ele and warrior ..

Thieves are mainly Backstab (Selfish build) or Condition Build (Solo Build) (Flavor of Months)
Warriors are mostly Stun + 1000 blades (Smart ones use retaliation) (Err flavorish for some)
Ele is that Earth thingy .. (flavor of the week)

Health is your best counter for these burst damage peeps ..Run away speed is your best counter for a condition Thief ..

Range warriors if u can but mindful of there Reflect abilities ..

Im a thief and there are just too many of em ..i was here 1st aswell (My build is different from most others)

I have to say that there’s a lot more thieves, and almost all of them are using the generic D/D or S/P + SB builds. Really disappointed in seeing this since it’s making thieves look like they have no versatilities. Using a S/D build and D/D is actually losing in terms of burst and DPS.

I see a lot of GS Warrior/Guardians as well.

Also Choppalong, I think having evades/breakstun/escapes is more important against the burst classes, but that mostly applies in fights no larger than 3v3. HP is more important in large-scale battles.

90% or more of the Guardians i find use GS, and i bet event the stats build are almost the same.

Guardians and Warriors are by far the most popular professions in this game. That’s why you’re seeing a lot of them.

Easy way to win. Get some stability and spam aoe.

Because Guards/Wars win battles. Blitzkrieg war… rush your line to the back of the enemy – they flip out and run. While they’re panicking/running casters nuke them. If they try to focus the melee they take too long to kill and get nuked or die from retal.

Hehe, been thinking the same. Seems like wherever I turn there’s a Warrior or Guardian.

All I ever seem to fight is ranger pets, it’s like a zoo riot

Ishamael.8324:

I swear it seems to me that every skirmish I get into in WvW, almost always its involved wih a group that consists of 80% warrior / guardian. Is it just me, or does anyone else see that class everywhere

You’re not nuts, I’ve noticed the same thing too. Every third player seems to be running a guardian atm.

I can only speak as a guardian. Having played said class since launch, I feel it has several really good meta builds, hence giving it variation in playstyle. I mess around with new weapon combos every other week or so, only to find something new and useful.

I will, however, say that at launch there were guardians and warriors all over the place. Then everyone rerolled a ranged class to be useful during sieges and defense, and now people are figuring out how to be effective in other ways.

HB warriors? Snare and dodge/run to ranged usually does the trick, not to mention they are the weekest class against conditions.

Just like any MMO these class fads seem to go in waves. Then they will nerf something or someone will post a new build for a class, and boom you’ll see tons of those. And since it only takes a week to get to 80 in this game think the sway of class fads will be much quicker then most games.