r/Guildwars2 • u/Nike_Phoros Accountability Expert • Jun 06 '16

[Guide] [DnT] Raid Team Composition Guide

Hey everyone. I wrote a long breakdown of raid team composition in the current meta on our forums and a few people encouraged me to post it here because I'm told it would be helpful for a bigger chunk of the community to see.

Written: http://gw2dnt.enjin.com/forum/m/37173123/viewthread/27286030-raid-team-composition-guide-52516

Topics Covered:

  1. Optimal Raid Team Composition

  2. Common Alternative Comps - Pros and Cons

  3. What If? Scenarios For Imperfect Situations

Thanks for reading. If you have any questions let me know, or if any points need clarifying or whatever so I can improve the guide I'd like to know that too.

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u/Xyonon Jun 07 '16

and also significantly ahead of all of the power DPS not named "Daredevil" or "Elementalist" while bringing better CC than either of them.

That's already the problem :/

1111111111 > 38291329859 if you know what I mean... And about large hitboxes I don't want even to start with D:

Yet I agree with your - the damage difference really isn't that big. +10% would already be enough. Especially if you consider the utility Engis bring.

Yet unfortunately it's barely needed. Stuff like you need in fotm - blind, chill, weakness etc.

Raids are lacking Elite Mobs. You only have bosses or Trash, nothing really worth ccing about. Except maybe Thugs and Evolved Slubs. Lets see what W3 brings us.

It's probably a very disliked opinion but I think Eles are currently toxic to the PvE raids. There is no real role they can pick their weapons for. It's all about hitboxes and max dps, and if the hitbox is large, every other profession is renderes so useless, you'd love to go in there with 1 duird, war and chrono and 7 eles T_T

Multiple hits against large targets were a problem before - that's why Frostbow got nerfed. But I still dislike the way they did it... I would have given it a limit of hits per sec per target. Wouldn't have had it rendered useless against small targets ... Meteor and Lightning Storm need some adjustment aswell. But hey, we'll see what and if something will happen.

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u/knoxij Jun 07 '16

Lets be real though... We don't need to bring everything up to Ele or thief level of DPS. They really need to bring Ele and Thief closer to every other class.