The Elite Specializations That EVERYONE Plays In Guild Wars 2

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Personally, I run Mirage with Greatsword//Dagger/focus. It's not a powerhouse, but i enjoy it. I like that the dagger ambush, like the sword ambush hits defiance for a 100 pts, and if traited, your 3 dagger clones will get that ability too. But, unlike the sword, you can do that 400 pt defiance strip from 1200 feet away.

How do you get the keybinds to S+1 etc...?

Firebrand is stupid imo willbender all the way

Scourge is far more popular and played than reaper. Thje data is in on that one and not debateable...

Can you do a video on soul beast? I haven5 played since 2015 heart of the thorns.

I played Weaver at first, then got addicted to Mesmer, played Chrono and Mirage, and I loved Mirage in most game modes. Then a balance patch came in, killed Mirage by taking it's second dodge as a way to "balance" the class. Oh it certainly balanced it alright, by making it feel awful to play in PvP and I quit because I couldn't deal with it.

Then EoD released, bringing Virtuoso, a spec that took me a while to master because you do have to learn how to play without clones, something Mesmer has you relying on constantly to add to your survivability. But damn did Virt flow well. And now im a Virt main, condi virt is my love and was the first class I got full ascended on.

Willbender is fun, so I do play that on the side, and mostly in PvP, but its not as comfy as Virt is

i just realized this guy hasnt touched his field of view lmao

DD Condi Deadeye is probably the best open world spec in the game as of the most recent patch. Been maining it for a while. I'm shocked it's not higher up.

"Firebrand, Firebrand...!!!" - Well, imagine there are other specs beside Firebrand, Mech, Chickenbeast... It would be understatement to say that I do not like meta hoes

Soulbeast forever❤

and classes like warrior get nothing out of it cause all the spec weapons are useless outside their specs

I like playing with the different jobs, but I hate having to redo all the content to open things up. With it was an open once and be done.

Berserker is boring af

Essentially, popular class = braindead + versatile.

Anyways, I still prefer holosmith due to its high tech skill animations, versatility, complexity, diversity and high skill ceiling.

Great, now do the same for wvw guild builds, and wvw roaming builds.

Hey CD, thanks for the video! I will say I think what you said about Soulbeast is inaccurate. The Mechanist being the most popular shows that. It's not that people dislike pets, it's that people generally like simplicity. Druid is traditionally known as a support and Untamed feels like playing the piano. Soulbeast feels the most like core.

Thanks for the video , Entertainment as always ,
How about a tutorial for WvW for beginners? it will be a blast for sure!

my favorites are thief and revenant cause I feel a lot of other classes often comes down to "keep everything on cooldown, except the stuff that is worth less than your auto attack".
I know it's not 100% true, but even though I can play weaver and engineer pretty well, I've always just preferred fewer skills used correctly with a good feel, rather than fast paced piano.
Biggest gripe I've always had is probably the hidden cooldowns. Would love an option to show a bar of abilities on cooldown that isn't currently shown, like on weaponswap/kits/legends/elemental stances.

I'd honestly like it if they changed it up more, gave more depth to some of the archetypes and more choice in using abilities rather than "can only click one thing at a time and this one is the best available at this time". Maybe I've just gotten jaded on the fastpaced whack-a-mole feeling I get from most builds, I find myself getting no enjoyment from them but just get tired.
So am sticking to thief/rev for now.

Thanks for these tips, however, i'm sad that my spec is not that popular lol

What dagger are you using on the mesmer virtuoso?

Herald is overpowered in this expac so is mesmer so is ranger, and other classes will just murder you till you can't see like it changed the fact of gw2 pvp, but pve stays the same cuz it helps them but seriously what about the people without the expac? they will have to expereience the pain of murder of the overpowered classes with power chrono axe/shield greatsword? and herald sword/sword gs? kinda overpowered but help full to the pve people. amazing vid tho caffeinated dad!

Yo Caffinated Dad. I saw you yesterday in the game. I was the Charr necro who sent you a 1 gold in the mail(since that’s what I had at the time) in Auric Basin.

Is the word "straightforward" a way to avoid saying "easy"? This video boils down to one phrase "most people go for the easiest choice". No shame in that. It is what it is.

These are without a miss just the lowest effort power dps to run around in open world with. FB is the only condi exception of course, as most people rather play another class than go WB or DH.

In love with Vindicator rn and before it was dragon hunter and beastmaster. I also love my reaper minion master just to create cluster fucks xD

Except for Virtuoso, I play different ones... My favorites are Spellbreaker, Dragonhunter, Untamed, Harbinger, Virtuoso (I havent played all classes)

It pains me to say it but i kinda have a love/hate relationship with daredevil. I love how mobile you are but you basically dont have any burst damage and if you have to dodge all the time you basically dont do any damage. Thats why i personally enjoy d/d on deadeye much more than on daredevil. It has good burst rotation and still can be evasive with the basic thief mobility which is already really good

I think this poll is too early. Dagger Chronomancer is kinda a better Virtuoso.... Hammer Mechanist is a better Scrapper, etc... I think people have not tried that much yet.

I like the untamed myself i am autistic and setting my pets skills to autocast it was just closer to core in my view. I honestly hope we get a relic of ranger that improves both the pet and pcs strike damage. I would also use it on my mechanist just to see if i can do the same thing easier then the thief relics on both.

I like druid for ranger. I've never clicked with soulbeast and unleashing/ambush is annoying on untamed. I enjoy herald over vindicator. Healquickbrand remains dear to my heart for strikes.

Hey Caffienated! Just wanted to say thanks for being such a positive member of the GW2 community! Understandable why mainy of the elite specs are popular as they are very strong and relatively simple to play. Having classes that allow more new players to get into the game is a great thing!

To me personally weaver is ascended elementalist. I'm a huge sucker for magic blade users and the idea of combining various elements into multihitting attacks is just top of the game. I also like that weaver feels the most arcane out of all elementalist builds.

Mained a power SB until SotO. Now it's condi druid. So much fun.

where was this voting happening? I totally missed it :(

nice video

I'm still very new to the game, so going through the phase of which class to main like every other good nooby. One thing I noticed watching your video is, that there seems to be a theme for all popular professions. They are streamlined (feels like you are steamrolling via button mashing), not too complicated, do damage, are mobile. In the first halve of the video I almost got the feeling that the shown professions play the same, just with a different kind of color as their primary skill effect. As an ArenaNet profession designer, I would take a very hard and long look at your video. Or maybe they succeeded with what they intended to do? Is the profession/elite spec diversity just the primary means for player retention? Most players seem to think alike, so the popular professions aren't too surprising, and in the end, you end up playing almost the same way, no matter which profession you chose, gameplay mechanically speaking.

I think the mechanist was most badass in your video, so I'll keep leveling my engineer! Thanks for sharing!

Druid is super fun

Interesting video 📸

Im like one of the 10 people who love to play harbinger lmao but i still main reaper

all ur takes are trash

I have played Mesmer on and off and I like all of the specs that they have. Personally I love Virtuoso (way more than I thought I would when they were announced) and I think it's an absolutely cool take on the Mesmer with the phantasmal blades, and it takes one of the more complicated mechanics and makes it simpler. It also allows a completely ranged Mesmer which I think is something that is pretty desirable from an aesthetic perspective (they are a light armoured mage after all).

Mirage is a spec that I adore and I'm always sad to see when their impact is low, and currently their impact is pretty low and you can get everything you need to do on Virtuoso, so why take Mirage, however I love the playstyle it's just complicated.

Chronomancer is in my opinion a complete missed opportunity and always has been, and that makes me so sad. When you think of "Chronomancer" you think "Time Mage" however since it's release in HoT it's almost exclusively been relegated to power DPS with S/S which feels essentially opposite to the theme of the time mage, in addition to that it's basically been a 'tank' for the entirety of the game, with a complicated rotation, which I think really hampers its playability in most content. Arenanet really did the concept of a Chronomancer dirty and I'll never forgive them for it. :(

Mechanist is definetly an overloaded spec, it's also the easiest one out of any other spec, so it's sort of not a surprise that people would prefer a simple "mega easy monkey brain class" to play the game

Reaper, its loved by all.
Then herald because i think people forgot its a spec and not a core lol

Deadeye > DareDevil
Yeah, you lose a dodge, but you get stealth on dodge, plus relic of the adventurer basically gives that dodge back.
But I've been playing staff/rifle deadeye, so maybe I'm closer to DD than I think lol
I don't really feel as fragile as people seem to think deadeyes are, and I even feel more sturdy than I did back in the days before elite specs. Excluding some of the HoT hero points, I've soloed everything quite easily. Haven't been back to WvW or PvP since coming back to the game, or done any hardcore content like high level fractals/raids, maybe that would change my tune.

Virt is broken and easy (and ranged) tobplay😅

Cata is just core ele with an f5🤭 love core ele though❤

Reaper feels like death itself😅 getting a frkn 2handed sword blew my mind back when the first trailer dropped😮❤