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Bedrokk · Jan 24, 2010, 10:40 PM // 22:40

I wanted to get a few opinions on some select questions about Guild Wars from a few of you Gurus. I'm not looking for any links or facts to back up what you have to say, I just want your opinion on the subject.

1. What is, in your opinion, the most over used combination of classes?

2. What is, in your opinion of course, the least played combination of classes?

3. What is, again and this will be the last time I state this, in your opinion, the best combination for solo farming?

4. What class are you always glad to have in your party?

5. What class do you think Guild Wars could do without?

That's all I have for now.

Olle · Jan 24, 2010, 10:55 PM // 22:55

1. A/E& P/W&N/Rt's
2. E/W&...
3. atm? A/E..
4.W/Mo <3333 | Mo/e
5. sin.

HellScreamS · Jan 24, 2010, 11:11 PM // 23:11

1) R/Mo R/P W/P P/W D/Mo A/W A/E Rt/any Me/Mo Me/N E/any N/Rt N/Mo
2) what you don't see above
3) A/E Mo/any [depending on the area]
4) Rt Mo P
5) in terms of PvE, I sadly find mesmers really underused, they need a buff imo.
I won't speak up in terms of PvP, I'm not an expert.

**Marty Silverblade** · Jan 24, 2010, 11:13 PM // 23:13

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1. What is, in your opinion, the most over used combination of classes?

N/Rt perhaps.

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2. What is, in your opinion of course, the least played combination of classes?

Things that completely don't synergise, like soft casters in melee (though there are exceptions). E/W, Me/W, etc

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3. What is, again and this will be the last time I state this, in your opinion, the best combination for solo farming?

Currently A/E, but thats getting nerfed sometime this year.

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4. What class are you always glad to have in your party?

Monk, but I don't pug so this is a pointless question.

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5. What class do you think Guild Wars could do without?

No profession as such, but some skills shouldn't exist, like Shadow Form.

drkn · Jan 24, 2010, 11:51 PM // 23:51

agreed on 1 with kajus.
2. me/any. there are much more anybutme/any than me/any. especially me/w or something along those lines.
3. any/rt, mo/me, a/e.
4. rit, monk. imbagon if played well.
5. dervish. then sin.

e: e/w is often used for stances, especially in some terratank variants.

zelgadissan · Jan 25, 2010, 12:01 AM // 00:01

I'll do only PvE perspective - since you asked about solo farming, I'm assuming that's all you care about.

1. W/Mo, N/Rt, A/E, Mo/E, Mo/Me
2. E/R
3. A/E
4. W (unless you're talking a "tank")
5. A, Rt, D, P

MagmaRed · Jan 25, 2010, 12:23 AM // 00:23

Notice everyone who responded listed more than one, when you asked for the MOST/LEAST/BEST? Its because everyone sees things differently, and nobody sees the same things.

I'll only answer one of them, and that is because it is the least likely to change due to skill changes. #3, the best for farming, in my opinion, would be Monk. Monk can solo farm with 55 in many places and team farm anywhere. If you want to duo farm they have the 600/Smite, but that may disappear soon. All classes have SOME option to team farm, but Monk has the most options. And 55 farming has been around for longer than anything else except W/Mo melee farming, but that is quite slow and limited in what you can farm.

Farming isn't needed though. I'd make a character for playing the game, and if you want to farm later, do that. Only reason farming exists is because people want shiny things that are hard to get so they look cool. I think my characters look cool, and I spend little time farming because I didn't need big bucks to get what I wanted.

kupp · Jan 25, 2010, 12:52 AM // 00:52

1. What is, in your opinion, the most over used combination of classes?
A/E and other perma variations, Mo/E, Mo/Me, N/Rt, N/E, N/Mo, W/P. Off the top of my head these are the ones I see the most but of course I'm missing a few E/'s and I might have the W/P wrong though (come to think of it, I don't really see them much at all).

2. What is, in your opinion of course, the least played combination of classes?
P/anything, D/anything, etc. This question doesn't make much sense, since it relies pretty much on the most used builds. As such, any variations are not directly part of said builds will obviously be the most underused combinations.

3. What is, again and this will be the last time I state this, in your opinion, the best combination for solo farming?
A/E until the Shadow Form nerf sometime next month; Mo/E; Mo/Me; some E/ variations, not sure wich ones but /A, /Me, /N, /Rt definitely fall somewhere in there.

4. What class are you always glad to have in your party?
Necros for minion bombers and to some extent, curses; Warriors for high damage, Earth Shaker, and SY spam; Mesmers for interrupts and shutdowns mainly to easily disrupt the enemy's healing; Monks of course, for obvious reasons. Everything else is welcome too since they all have some particular utility like the 4 above, but these are my favourites.

5. What class do you think Guild Wars could do without?
Assassins hands down, enough with the Shadow raping on PvE and the seriously lame almost instant kills they can make in PvP. I somewhat dispise sins.

Captain Bulldozer · Jan 25, 2010, 01:01 AM // 01:01

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Originally Posted by Bedrokk

1. What is, in your opinion, the most over used combination of classes?

Its a 3-way tie between W/Mo, A/E and R/Rt. Virtually every new warrior who doesn't really have the game mechanics down is a W/Mo. Due to the extremely over-powered skill Shadowform, virtually every assassin is set up to perma. Finally, because bow damage kinda sucks, most if not all rangers run a volley/barrage-splinter weapon setup, or use a lot of spirits to supplement damage.

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2. What is, in your opinion of course, the least played combination of classes?

There are many here as well. As Marty pointed out above a lot of combos just don't make sense due to completely different skill sets. Still, many of the least played combinations are of the form P/Any and Me/Any (mesmers are used a lot in PvP of course).

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3. What is, again and this will be the last time I state this, in your opinion, the best combination for solo farming?

There's no single "best" combo in my opinion, but for the moment A/E is drastically over-powered for farming thanks to Shadowform. Other notable choices include Mo/Me for a variety of builds including 55s, E/Me for terra tanks, and Rt/Any for spirit spamming.

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4. What class are you always glad to have in your party?

Every group needs healers, so a common answer here will be monks. Other good answers are healing/support ritualists, spirit spamming ritualists, and mesmers who actually know how to pwn things (even in PvE).

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5. What class do you think Guild Wars could do without?

I have advanced characters of all 10 professions, so I wouldn't want to see any of them removed. However, even though my alliance leader would kill me for saying so, I don't see much use for the paragon, short of spamming one particularly overpowered PvE-only shout. Also, Elementalists are mostly crap in the later stages and in Hard mode, though they do have some decent utility builds.

Good hunting.

Lord Dagon · Jan 25, 2010, 01:11 AM // 01:11

1.A/E
2.P/Me
3.E/me
4.Mo/E
5.paragons most deffinatley.

SithLord2064 · Jan 25, 2010, 01:36 AM // 01:36

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Originally Posted by Captain Bulldozer

Also, Elementalists are mostly crap in the later stages and in Hard mode.

Good hunting.

On this, I MUST disagree. My main, title-grabbing character is my elementalist, and all of my in-game friends are glad to see me in their group. The high level of damage per second, plus area of effect damage I bring has made many a vanquish laughable. On top of that, Legendary Guardian was also a joke with my ele. I would hazard to guess that most Elementalists you've had in your groups suck ass. I <3 my ele

Lord Dagon · Jan 25, 2010, 01:37 AM // 01:37

also, i like the way u asked for the info so nicely. You usually u get some fool asking like this:"yo, give me ur opinion now or im gonan cap u". So +1 to u for asking so nicely ;D

also i whole heartedly agree w/ sith on that subject(my main title erpson is also my ele

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Chthon · Jan 25, 2010, 02:04 AM // 02:04

1. A/E (perma)
2. P/R
3. A/E (perma, for about a month)
4. N
5. D

Pleikki · Jan 25, 2010, 05:24 AM // 05:24

1. What is, in your opinion, the most over used combination of classes?

A/E Perma. Meh, so glad it gets hit soon

2. What is, in your opinion of course, the least played combination of classes?

P/D

3. What is, again and this will be the last time I state this, in your opinion, the best combination for solo farming?

Mo/me!

4. What class are you always glad to have in your party?

Necro

5. What class do you think Guild Wars could do without?

Dervish

Zodiac Meteor · Jan 25, 2010, 07:04 AM // 07:04

1. What is, in your opinion, the most over used combination of classes?

A/E, it's sad, I mean REALLY sad that you have to ask the A/E if they are perma, because 50% of the time they are. Some reason people can't figure out, Perma + non speed clear gimmick team = fail. Last time I checked there isn't a speed clear for Vanquishing North Kryta Province

2. What is, in your opinion of course, the least played combination of classes?

P/D or E/W, mainly because they can't mix well.

3. What is, again and this will be the last time I state this, in your opinion, the best combination for solo farming?

A/E or Mo/Me, those will both be nerfed due to being to powerful.

4. What class are you always glad to have in your party?

Any melee/Dervish or Dervish/anything. I PvE a lot with my ER infuser and as soon as I see a Dervish with AoE attacks I send them an invite. Great Dwarf Weapon + AoE attacks = mobs dead.

5. What class do you think Guild Wars could do without?

Paragon, if it wasn't for "Save Yourselves" they would be dead right now... I didn't realize the irony until I read what I wrote

Pursh · Jan 25, 2010, 08:51 AM // 08:51

1. What is, in your opinion, the most over used combination of classes?
Probably in PvE it would be A/E (SF), for PvP it would be Me/N (bspike)

2. What is, in your opinion of course, the least played combination of classes?
P/A or Me/R

3. What is, again and this will be the last time I state this, in your opinion, the best combination for solo farming?
A/E or Mo/R Mo/N

4. What class are you always glad to have in your party?
Monk

5. What class do you think Guild Wars could do without?
Although each class has a unique aspect to it, it would be Paragon, PvE and PvP wise.

Quaker · Jan 25, 2010, 03:30 PM // 15:30

1. Don't know
2. Don't know
3. probably Mo/Me - although that's for 600/smite - not exactly solo.
4. Monk
5. Depends upon what you mean. GW could do without every class, but if you are implying what class GW would be better off without, I'd say "none" - they all have their good and bad points. I would say that Paragon would be missed the least.

Dzjudz · Jan 25, 2010, 03:37 PM // 15:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bedrokk

I wanted to get a few opinions on some select questions about Guild Wars from a few of you Gurus. I'm not looking for any links or facts to back up what you have to say, I just want your opinion on the subject.

1. What is, in your opinion, the most over used combination of classes?

2. What is, in your opinion of course, the least played combination of classes?

3. What is, again and this will be the last time I state this, in your opinion, the best combination for solo farming?

4. What class are you always glad to have in your party?

5. What class do you think Guild Wars could do without?

That's all I have for now.

1: over-used is negative, but if you're talking about most used, then A/E.

2: least used is probably mesmer and paragon, and combinations probably melee classes with caster secondaries (P/N, P/E, like that)

3: there are a few good solo farming possibilities, I think it's a tie between A/E, A/Me, Mo/? and E/Me.

4: I'm always glad to have necro heroes in my party. If I'm going 6-way discord with a guildie, I'm glad if it's a ranger or paragon human.

5: I think GW could readily do without Dervishes.

Obrien Xp · Jan 25, 2010, 04:24 PM // 16:24

The most overused is A/E imo

anything soft with melee

rt/any or r/rt probably atm

a healer derp

I'll have to admit, paragons aren't the best when it comes to overall. However, I love my para and it's always fun to use. I'm not in to pvp very much but I've heard that they're garbage there. In pve, they can be great though.

chessyang · Jan 25, 2010, 04:48 PM // 16:48

1) in PvE. Paragons
2) in PvE monks
3) Assassins/Ele or monk/Any
4) in PvE Ele
5) Assassins

Jan 24, 2010, 10:40 PM // 22:40	#1
Bedrokk Pre-Searing Cadet Join Date: Jan 2010	Your opinion, please, if I may acquire it I wanted to get a few opinions on some select questions about Guild Wars from a few of you Gurus. I'm not looking for any links or facts to back up what you have to say, I just want your opinion on the subject. 1. What is, in your opinion, the most over used combination of classes? 2. What is, in your opinion of course, the least played combination of classes? 3. What is, again and this will be the last time I state this, in your opinion, the best combination for solo farming? 4. What class are you always glad to have in your party? 5. What class do you think Guild Wars could do without? That's all I have for now.

Jan 24, 2010, 11:51 PM // 23:51	#5
drkn Forge Runner Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Wroc??aw, Poland Guild: Midnight Mayhem Profession: Me/	agreed on 1 with kajus. 2. me/any. there are much more anybutme/any than me/any. especially me/w or something along those lines. 3. any/rt, mo/me, a/e. 4. rit, monk. imbagon if played well. 5. dervish. then sin. e: e/w is often used for stances, especially in some terratank variants. Last edited by drkn; Jan 25, 2010 at 12:08 AM // 00:08..

Jan 25, 2010, 05:24 AM // 05:24	#14
Pleikki WTB q8 15^50 Weapons! Join Date: Nov 2006 Guild: ???oo ???ugs ???lan [?????????]	1. What is, in your opinion, the most over used combination of classes? A/E Perma. Meh, so glad it gets hit soon 2. What is, in your opinion of course, the least played combination of classes? P/D 3. What is, again and this will be the last time I state this, in your opinion, the best combination for solo farming? Mo/me! 4. What class are you always glad to have in your party? Necro 5. What class do you think Guild Wars could do without? Dervish __________________ -->My Buy Thread!<--

Jan 25, 2010, 04:48 PM // 16:48	#20
chessyang Not far from Elite Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Florida Profession: W/	1) in PvE. Paragons 2) in PvE monks 3) Assassins/Ele or monk/Any 4) in PvE Ele 5) Assassins __________________ Let's use our Voices! The Chapter Selection Screen GW Wiki or Guru Thank You

Jan 24, 2010, 10:55 PM // 22:55	#2
Olle Furnace Stoker Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Ign: Miniature Julia Guild: Teh Academy[PhD] Profession: W/	1. A/E& P/W&N/Rt's 2. E/W&... 3. atm? A/E.. 4.W/Mo <3333 \| Mo/e 5. sin.

Jan 24, 2010, 11:11 PM // 23:11	#3
HellScreamS Krytan Explorer Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: wouldn't you like to know? Guild: ^yea KFC just subscribed to me for 1 year^ Profession: P/	1) R/Mo R/P W/P P/W D/Mo A/W A/E Rt/any Me/Mo Me/N E/any N/Rt N/Mo 2) what you don't see above 3) A/E Mo/any [depending on the area] 4) Rt Mo P 5) in terms of PvE, I sadly find mesmers really underused, they need a buff imo. I won't speak up in terms of PvP, I'm not an expert.

Jan 25, 2010, 12:01 AM // 00:01	#6
zelgadissan Forge Runner Join Date: Feb 2008 Guild: The Warrior Priests [WP] Profession: Me/Rt	I'll do only PvE perspective - since you asked about solo farming, I'm assuming that's all you care about. 1. W/Mo, N/Rt, A/E, Mo/E, Mo/Me 2. E/R 3. A/E 4. W (unless you're talking a "tank") 5. A, Rt, D, P

Jan 25, 2010, 12:23 AM // 00:23	#7
MagmaRed Furnace Stoker Join Date: Mar 2007 Guild: Our Crabs Know True [LOVE] Profession: R/	Notice everyone who responded listed more than one, when you asked for the MOST/LEAST/BEST? Its because everyone sees things differently, and nobody sees the same things. I'll only answer one of them, and that is because it is the least likely to change due to skill changes. #3, the best for farming, in my opinion, would be Monk. Monk can solo farm with 55 in many places and team farm anywhere. If you want to duo farm they have the 600/Smite, but that may disappear soon. All classes have SOME option to team farm, but Monk has the most options. And 55 farming has been around for longer than anything else except W/Mo melee farming, but that is quite slow and limited in what you can farm. Farming isn't needed though. I'd make a character for playing the game, and if you want to farm later, do that. Only reason farming exists is because people want shiny things that are hard to get so they look cool. I think my characters look cool, and I spend little time farming because I didn't need big bucks to get what I wanted.

Jan 25, 2010, 12:52 AM // 00:52	#8
kupp Jungle Guide Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: The Shiverpeaks Guild: [KISS] Profession: W/	1. What is, in your opinion, the most over used combination of classes? A/E and other perma variations, Mo/E, Mo/Me, N/Rt, N/E, N/Mo, W/P. Off the top of my head these are the ones I see the most but of course I'm missing a few E/'s and I might have the W/P wrong though (come to think of it, I don't really see them much at all). 2. What is, in your opinion of course, the least played combination of classes? P/anything, D/anything, etc. This question doesn't make much sense, since it relies pretty much on the most used builds. As such, any variations are not directly part of said builds will obviously be the most underused combinations. 3. What is, again and this will be the last time I state this, in your opinion, the best combination for solo farming? A/E until the Shadow Form nerf sometime next month; Mo/E; Mo/Me; some E/ variations, not sure wich ones but /A, /Me, /N, /Rt definitely fall somewhere in there. 4. What class are you always glad to have in your party? Necros for minion bombers and to some extent, curses; Warriors for high damage, Earth Shaker, and SY spam; Mesmers for interrupts and shutdowns mainly to easily disrupt the enemy's healing; Monks of course, for obvious reasons. Everything else is welcome too since they all have some particular utility like the 4 above, but these are my favourites. 5. What class do you think Guild Wars could do without? Assassins hands down, enough with the Shadow raping on PvE and the seriously lame almost instant kills they can make in PvP. I somewhat dispise sins.

Jan 25, 2010, 01:11 AM // 01:11	#10
Lord Dagon Desert Nomad Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Inside the Oblivion Gate Guild: The Imperial Guards of Istan[TIGE] Profession: E/Me	1.A/E 2.P/Me 3.E/me 4.Mo/E 5.paragons most deffinatley.

Jan 25, 2010, 01:37 AM // 01:37	#12
Lord Dagon Desert Nomad Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Inside the Oblivion Gate Guild: The Imperial Guards of Istan[TIGE] Profession: E/Me	also, i like the way u asked for the info so nicely. You usually u get some fool asking like this:"yo, give me ur opinion now or im gonan cap u". So +1 to u for asking so nicely ;D also i whole heartedly agree w/ sith on that subject(my main title erpson is also my ele )

Jan 25, 2010, 02:04 AM // 02:04	#13
Chthon Grotto Attendant Join Date: Apr 2007	1. A/E (perma) 2. P/R 3. A/E (perma, for about a month) 4. N 5. D

Jan 25, 2010, 07:04 AM // 07:04	#15
Zodiac Meteor Imma Firin Mah Rojway! Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: At the Mac Store laughing at people that walk out with anything. Profession: E/Mo	1. What is, in your opinion, the most over used combination of classes? A/E, it's sad, I mean REALLY sad that you have to ask the A/E if they are perma, because 50% of the time they are. Some reason people can't figure out, Perma + non speed clear gimmick team = fail. Last time I checked there isn't a speed clear for Vanquishing North Kryta Province 2. What is, in your opinion of course, the least played combination of classes? P/D or E/W, mainly because they can't mix well. 3. What is, again and this will be the last time I state this, in your opinion, the best combination for solo farming? A/E or Mo/Me, those will both be nerfed due to being to powerful. 4. What class are you always glad to have in your party? Any melee/Dervish or Dervish/anything. I PvE a lot with my ER infuser and as soon as I see a Dervish with AoE attacks I send them an invite. Great Dwarf Weapon + AoE attacks = mobs dead. 5. What class do you think Guild Wars could do without? Paragon, if it wasn't for "Save Yourselves" they would be dead right now... I didn't realize the irony until I read what I wrote

Jan 25, 2010, 08:51 AM // 08:51	#16
Pursh Academy Page Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Moscow, Russia Guild: [lion] IGN: Monk Elvara Profession: Mo/	1. What is, in your opinion, the most over used combination of classes? Probably in PvE it would be A/E (SF), for PvP it would be Me/N (bspike) 2. What is, in your opinion of course, the least played combination of classes? P/A or Me/R 3. What is, again and this will be the last time I state this, in your opinion, the best combination for solo farming? A/E or Mo/R Mo/N 4. What class are you always glad to have in your party? Monk 5. What class do you think Guild Wars could do without? Although each class has a unique aspect to it, it would be Paragon, PvE and PvP wise.

Jan 25, 2010, 03:30 PM // 15:30	#17
Quaker Hell's Protector Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Canada Guild: Brothers Disgruntled	1. Don't know 2. Don't know 3. probably Mo/Me - although that's for 600/smite - not exactly solo. 4. Monk 5. Depends upon what you mean. GW could do without every class, but if you are implying what class GW would be better off without, I'd say "none" - they all have their good and bad points. I would say that Paragon would be missed the least.

Jan 25, 2010, 04:24 PM // 16:24	#19
Obrien Xp Krytan Explorer Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Canada Guild: The First Dragon Slayers [FDS]	The most overused is A/E imo anything soft with melee rt/any or r/rt probably atm a healer derp I'll have to admit, paragons aren't the best when it comes to overall. However, I love my para and it's always fun to use. I'm not in to pvp very much but I've heard that they're garbage there. In pve, they can be great though.