My experience is mostly from WvWvW, so take this with a grain of salt:
After April 15th balance update, I have noticed that there are less enemy engineers roaming around. Sometimes I can play 6 hours without seeing an enemy engineer. The most common roaming professions are still the same: thief, mesmer and warrior. The amount of mesmers seem to have doubled and enemy elementalists have gotten aggressive, thanks to their buffed survivability. But that might all be attributed that most our match ups have been against SFR, who really likes mesmers and thieves besides the usual melee train. Guardian Warrior Elementalist Necro = GWEN has always been the meta in zergs and that is still the case.
In open field battles engineer is far weaker than defending and decapping nodes (spvp/tpvp). Engineer is weak against focus fire, conditions and has weak access to stability. The long cool down of stun breakers and many builds more or less forced to run with no stun break or with just one stun break alleviates the latter problem. If I see an enemy group I almost always focus on their engineer, ranger or necromancer first as those 3 professions are the easiest to chain CC and kill. Warrior and guardian have so much better condition cleansing and access to stability, also arguably much better stun breaks. Playing a warrior and guardian in WvWvW feels so easy, that it is almost feels like cheating. From spvp/tpvp point of view this game might appear fairly well-balanced, but in WvWvW the balance is totally skewed towards GWEN (+ thieves & mesmers in roaming).
Most players select the easy mode. If you can achieve much more playing warrior and guardian than playing an engineer using the same effort, why to do the latter? The answer is challenge and fun.
Deniara / Ayna – I want the original WvWvW maps back – Desolation [EU]
