Guild Wars 2

Hey all

I play thief on Ruins of Surmia, and I’ve been feeling rather unwanted as of late. A large number of the main guilds here are recruiting anything other than medium armour (which really speaks volumes about the state of those classes), some insisting that you can only bring a medium armour class to a raid with express permission from the leader. I’m not even going to start on how welcome we are in PvE raids.

I’m just wondering if this is a widespread thing really. WvW is the main place where we really shine, and it seems like we’re not even welcome there. Are others experiencing this?

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some guilds are only recruiting war, guardian, necro, ele, well the hardcore ones. it’s nothing unusual it’s been that way for god knows how long.

Why do you want to play with elitists like that anyway?

Come join me on ioj we have lots of stealth ops 1-5 manning towers an keeps. Zerg hunting and harassment, and ganking its alot of fun.

Every good guild I have been in recruits people, not classes. I understand you’re discussing class balance, and I agree that thieves have some issues right now, but just skip the elitist groups that only want to run whatever the FOTM is.

The flavor of the month changes. The people don’t.

wvw: go roll guardian/warrior bro
pve: usually don’t care as long as you are only thief in a group
pvp: go roll a warrior, bro

^^that is my exp so far lol

That’s fair enough, I just wondered if this was a thing really. My guild doesn’t really care what class you are as long as you’re fun to roam with and know your class well, so this approach seemed very strange to me :P

It would be nice if all classes were equally valued, but I guess that’s just wishful thinking.

Oghier.7419:

Every good guild I have been in recruits people, not classes. I understand you’re discussing class balance, and I agree that thieves have some issues right now, but just skip the elitist groups that only want to run whatever the FOTM is.

The flavor of the month changes. The people don’t.

Top GvG guilds recruit classes that are good to keep a good composition. Current meta favours certain compositions too much. Even if you get in with a mediocre class, you’ll have to sit out when they roll which is even worse.

Lol they’re the ones that misses out on fantastic classes atm.
roaming thieves for wvwvw? You cant have a roaming group without a thief.
or engineer? they can leap 1500 range and highest amount of CC but yes ranger suck

Thanks for the perspective guys Like I say, I just wondered if this was the way of things, apparently so :/

As for rangers, I roam with a ranger guildie quite a lot, and we take advantage of his supposed weakness. He has the high toughness/regen/protection thing going on so he’s a sod to take down, I just let him run in first and everyone focuses him whilst I gank things behind him. It’s funny to do, but I kinda feel sorry for him being the dedicated arrow magnet, since everyone expects an easy kill :/