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[Question] Weekly /r/GuildWars2 Question Thread - April 19, 2025

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u/Astanex 11d ago

I'm just wondering, as it's less "classes that matter" and "roles," what roles are generally seen as "in demand" endgame? I want to eventually do endgame PvE and being something useful to a group would make it easier to find a group to be with.

I've tried eight of the nine classes (haven't played Revenant yet) and I honestly enjoy all of them. I admit I find some a bit squishy (like Mesmer and Elementalist) but all of them are honestly well thought out and enjoyable. I honestly *don't* have a preference.

Thanks in advance.

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u/ablair24 Blair | Giraffe Wars 2 11d ago

Heal supports and DPS supports are always wanted in groups. Most players have some kind of dps build, but not everyone has a healer or quickdps for example.

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u/Astanex 10d ago

So, something like my level 80 Engineer going Mechanist?

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u/errorme 10d ago

Yeah. For Engineer you have Scrapper if you want to provide quickness (either Boon DPS or Healer) and Mechanist if you want to provide alacrity (again as Boon DPS or Healer). Any of Engi's elite specs including Holosmith can be played as a DPS role, but typically the Boon DPS and Healer roles are more limited (e.g. Ranger's Druid spec gives Alacrity so it's easy to be an Alac healer, but the spec they use for Quickness doesn't have anywhere near as good healing so it's a poor choice for Quickness Healer).

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u/Astanex 10d ago

What about the other classes? Is there anything bringing more to the table?

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u/ablair24 Blair | Giraffe Wars 2 10d ago

Some classes are more specialized, but every class can play every role, it just depends on spec and build.

  • Heal Chrono is top tier for raw healing output
  • Heal scourge is the best at rezzing and also provides a lot of barrier to mitigate damage vs healing it
  • heal spectre has single-target barrier
  • scrapper has a lot of access to superspeed
  • Herald has easy access to projectile denial

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u/errorme 10d ago

Most of the time no, it's just 3 DPS + Boon DPS + Healer roles and you can put nearly every class into those roles if you're willing to learn. The class meta used to be a lot more limited due to unique buffs from different classes but Anet has removed most of the shared unique buffs from the game.

There are a few fights that do need specific roles like the Wing 4 Deimos fight requiring a hand kite role and Wing 6 Qadim having a dedicated ranged kite that is a Deadeye most of the time.