Sep 13, 2009, 07:22 AM // 07:22
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Missouri
Profession: R/A
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Most and Least Popular Classes Today?
Hey guys! I made this thread 1 or 2 years ago, and I was wondering if I would still get the same responses. Back then, the most popular classes were the Monk, Warrior, and Necromancer (when MMs were becoming popular). The least popular were Ritualists, Mesmers, and Paragons. Did this change today, especially with the buffs and nerfs like Ritualists faster casting time?
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Sep 13, 2009, 07:57 AM // 07:57
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Academy Page
Join Date: Mar 2007
Guild: Hey Look At My Hardcore Tatoo [MOM]
Profession: P/W
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Nope, still sounds about right.
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Sep 13, 2009, 07:58 AM // 07:58
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Jan 2008
Guild: Servants of the Dragon Flames [SODF]
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Its a loaded question, to be sure. Most popular for what? At any rate, a quick search would have turned up plenty of other threads with this exact same topic.
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Sep 13, 2009, 07:59 AM // 07:59
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Missouri
Profession: R/A
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Most popular in PvE.
But I guess you could add in PvP, too. ^_^
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Sep 13, 2009, 08:35 AM // 08:35
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Canada
Guild: Keepers Of Twilight
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Primary rits are actually becoming fairly popular in PvE after spirit spamming became viable. During the past couple days, I've found more ritualists in the outposts than elementalists while doing zquests.
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Sep 13, 2009, 09:19 AM // 09:19
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: Feb 2009
Profession: R/
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Rits are starting to come up in the game. Thank SoS and the spirit buff for that. Not to forget Sins with SF. Other than those, everything is pretty much the same.
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Sep 13, 2009, 02:33 PM // 14:33
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#7
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Ascalonian Squire
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Assassins are very popular (mainly farming).
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Sep 13, 2009, 02:44 PM // 14:44
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#8
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Forge Runner
Join Date: Dec 2006
Guild: The Overacheivers [Club]
Profession: Mo/
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To be honest i never see warriors that often in groups
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Sep 13, 2009, 02:53 PM // 14:53
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Pre-Searing Cadet
Join Date: Aug 2009
Profession: W/
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SmithyBen
To be honest i never see warriors that often in groups
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I play a War an I don't need no stinkin group
kidding aside I see way to many Sins
was gonna make one as I haven't beaten factions yet and want to do it with a
factions toon but there are SSSSOOOOOO many Sins running around I didn't bother just gonna take my War through.
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Sep 13, 2009, 03:52 PM // 15:52
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Older Than God (1)
Join Date: Aug 2006
Guild: Clan Dethryche [dth]
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Long story short, skill changes made the Factions classes much more popular and made Warriors much less popular.
Assassins and Elementalists are now much better at surviving damage than a Warrior can ever be, and ridiculous armor levels make Warriors less than efficient at dishing out damage in Hard Mode. Classes that use the monsters' attack speed buffs against them in HM are now more efficient at killing things.
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Sep 13, 2009, 04:34 PM // 16:34
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Krytan Explorer
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: East Coast
Guild: Soldier's Union [SU]
Profession: N/Me
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Assassins are the new aggro managers in groups: Slap a dungeon in HM, one perma in the group, a whole group of ranged damage dealers and casters with spells that don't cause scatter...and it's go time.
Best of all...they hardly ever need healing. One less person for healers to worry about.
I still think warriors are more popular, however. H+H still make warriors viable primaries; and even in HM there are ways to buff warrior damage outputs to silly numbers. The number of useful warrior elites may have tightened, but they're still out there.
Just looking at outposts OTHER than Nicholas farm spots... Ele, Monk, Warrior. Still. Assassin and Necro round out the top five.
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Sep 13, 2009, 04:44 PM // 16:44
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#12
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Older Than God (1)
Join Date: Aug 2006
Guild: Clan Dethryche [dth]
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Quote:
Originally Posted by englitdaudelin
I still think warriors are more popular, however.
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Path dependence. We already had them before SF became just stupid OP.
Quote:
Originally Posted by englitdaudelin
H+H still make warriors viable primaries
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Huh? The problems Warrior has with running Discordway are well known, sticking you with running less efficient solutions and/or two player/six hero builds.
Quote:
Originally Posted by englitdaudelin
Just looking at outposts OTHER than Nicholas farm spots... Ele, Monk, Warrior.
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Has it occurred to you that all the sins are in the farming outposts? If you're arguing that Warriors are more popular in the remnants of the player base that play missions and such, you're probably correct. When you add in the farmers, it is much less likely that they are more popular overall.
Last edited by Martin Alvito; Sep 13, 2009 at 04:47 PM // 16:47..
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Sep 13, 2009, 06:00 PM // 18:00
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#13
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Israel
Guild: One Life to Live Again [Life]
Profession: E/
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Paragon is prolly still the least popular profession... Mesmers can be seen, way more than in past years at least... Rits too.
Not much has changed...
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Sep 13, 2009, 08:19 PM // 20:19
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Grotto Attendant
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Canada
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Ritualists seem to have greatly increased in number now that Spirit Spamming is viable.
So generally speaking, parties usually take one ritualist; SoS Ritualist is, presently, the best damage dealing build in the game.
Only one, though. Very rarely will there actually be two or more ritualists in a party except by accident (2-party factions missions) or in splitting missions.
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Sep 14, 2009, 11:37 AM // 11:37
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Academy Page
Join Date: Jul 2009
Guild: Martyrs to the Flame
Profession: Rt/Me
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Year ago:
Most popular: Monk, Warrior, and Necromancer
Least popular: Ritualists, Mesmers, and Paragons
Today:
Most popular: Assasins, Warriors, Elementalists
Least popular: Paragons, Mesmers, Dervishes
Monks are always going to be popular but simply for the necessity, so combined with the fact that Ritualist healers are increasingly popular that drops them out of the most popular running (I'd put them in 4th position if I could).
Assasins are wildly popular, even if perhaps only for farming ventures or specific pvp builds. Seems to be the most favored 2nd profession as well these days (especially among monks in pvp).
Warriors are still overly used (only profession I, personally, detest).
Necromancers while I wouldn't call them not popular, their role has lessened slightly. In pvp, you used to see mms more, but it's still rather impractical.
Elementalists have always been popular in both pve and pvp and I think it deserves a spot amongst the most popular for that reason. Damage dealers have always been popular amongst MMOs.
Ritualists have clearly been bumped up in their role. I wouldn't call them one of the most used classes, but they're no longer the least popular either.
I added dervishes because while many dervish skills are good, nothing you couldn't get by utilizing an assasin primary with dervish skills for example. The primary attribute of the dervish is amongst the worse in the game and Mysticism skills are not so hot either.
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Sep 14, 2009, 11:56 AM // 11:56
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#16
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Jungle Guide
Join Date: Apr 2008
Guild: [bomb]
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Most: Monks, Sins,
Almost most: Necros, Eles
Middle: Mesmers, Warriors,
Least: rest
I think several people stopped playing warriors after getting GWAMM etc. Which is not the case for the other professions. GWAMM eles still can be used for farming etc. It is just my impression and of course it is all biased.
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Sep 14, 2009, 12:20 PM // 12:20
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#17
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Wilds Pathfinder
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Most popular are Warrior, Assassin, Ele, Ranger, Necro and Monk.
Least would be Mesmer, Paragon, Ritualist and Dervish.
Having been doing zaishen missions every single day since like July, and leading PUGs, I have observed Ritualists have become far more popular due to the Spirits buff (and powerful, too, lol, I always take one).
Mesmers are harder to find but I always take one when I see it - their damage is extremely good in HM (sorry Eles, I really prefer Mesmers). Plus, Mesmer players usually have a clue, contrary to many ele 'nukers' running low damage AoEs that scatter aggro and refuse to change their skills.
Paragons are another very underrated class, and another one I always try to take into my group. TNTF+SY make my job as a Monk significantly easier.
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Sep 15, 2009, 12:19 AM // 00:19
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#18
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Hall Hero
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: California Canada/BC
Guild: STG Administrator
Profession: Mo/
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You mean Rangers and possibly Mesmers aren't popular for their interrupts.
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Sep 15, 2009, 04:10 AM // 04:10
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#19
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Furnace Stoker
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Most popular: Warrior, Necros, Eles, Rits, Assassins.
Middle popularity: Ranger, Monks, Derv.
Least popular: Mesmers, Paragons
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Sep 15, 2009, 04:11 AM // 04:11
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#20
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: California
Guild: Lucid Spirits [LIFE]
Profession: N/A
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Used to be it was always Sins, Sins, Sins everywhere. Well, now it is still Sins, Sins, Sins, but with a bunch of Rangers thrown in too. I have no idea where they all came from. Maybe they spawn from trees like Sylvari?
I dunno if I have been hiding the Paras or what, but I see them everywhere, even in totally random Proph mishes. They're usually just doing HM though, so I leave them alone.
I don't see a ton of Monks. Well, I do in Spamadan, but that's not the same. Actually I think it is just the secret monk-jutsu that allows them to vanish completely whenever I am trying to do a mish.
On Mesmers: Mesmers are everywhere, you just don't see them. Mainly because they are pretending to be skanky Eles. It is their pastime, you see, subtly satirizing other classes and seeing if anyone notices. For reals, though, Mesmers are just timeless; the population is steady. They transcend trends.
Nope, I'm not biased towards Mesmers at all, no sirree...
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