most common profession

gabehm

Pre-Searing Cadet

Join Date: Aug 2006

What is the most common profession? which do people play the most and why?

Zinger314

Zinger314

Debbie Downer

Join Date: May 2006

N/Me

Warrior, because it's a freaking Warrior.

More specifically, the Warrior/Monk, or W/Mo (or wammo)

Wammos were never hugged as a child.

Lampshade

Lampshade

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2005

USA

Xen of Onslaught

Quote:
Originally Posted by Zinger314
Warrior, because it's a freaking Warrior.

More specifically, the Warrior/Monk, or W/Mo (or wammo)

Wammos were never hugged as a child. But they still have 8 more years til they arn't one

Opeth11

Opeth11

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

Richmond, British Columbia, Kanada

Demon of the Fall [Opet]

Mo/Me

Warriors because it's believed that all you have to do is run in and watch what happens.

Markaedw

Markaedw

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

N/

there does seem to be an abundance of warriors, simply because the high warrior armor is more forgiving than the others.

But then again if we really want to count the pure volume of characters the m/w for bots might just top the list.

majoho

majoho

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

Denmark

Quote:
Originally Posted by Opeth11
Warriors because it's believed that all you have to do is run in and watch what happens. ... and then cry like a 8 year old (probably the real age) blaming the monk for not healing properly.

Dr Strangelove

Dr Strangelove

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Dec 2005

Wasting away again in Margaritaville

[HOTR]

W/mo's, by far and away. It's pretty easy and a lot of players are confused by tactics, skill management, energy management, choosing a build, or just being original in general, so they make wammos and merrily swat things in the brains.





Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Scavenger Rage

Scavenger Rage

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Apr 2006

Brazil

dTe - Do The Evolution

N/Mo

I would say w/mos as well...

Simply because people new to the game (or old players that are just not all that bright) dont wanna spend time making build or whathever, so they just put mending up and go on "tank some damage" until they are dead and start saying "WHAT A FREAKING BUNCH OF NOOBS U GUYS ARE!!! Cant kill em fast enough / cant heal me fast enough / cant play on the same level as mine and blablabla...".

Oooo well, i am glad that this is not all of the warriors i see (i actualy have a warrior lvl 20 on my own whitih over 1 year of playtime...i can say now confident that i got over mending ;p), even thought 90% of them are ^^ But oo well, 90% of the PVE gamers on all classes are crapy so thats not a big news ;p

Later.

anonymous

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

Wammo would be the most played proffesion. As to why, I guess they think it is their job to heal the party. Wrong. Its the healer monks job to heal the party. Warriors should do damage.

Opeth11

Opeth11

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

Richmond, British Columbia, Kanada

Demon of the Fall [Opet]

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by anonymous
Wammo would be the most played proffesion. As to why, I guess they think it is their job to heal the party. Wrong. Its the healer monks job to heal the party. Warriors should do damage.
I have never, ever, seen a Whammo try to heal the party. Are you sure you know what a Whammo is? They heal themselves through mending and healing breeze, never anyone else.

Vermilion

Vermilion

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Mar 2006

NY

I'm sure than people not interested in PvP at the start would less likely to end up as menders..unless influenced by existing W/Mos I suppose. When I started playing, I made a Wammo because it was seemingly the easiest (as I was told) but because I never even made a pvp character until months later, so I never used mending outside of farming. No Paladin Prebuild=no Whammos, imo. I never fully grasped the concept of tanking either...I would just run in first and attack whatever the called target was..never used many stances except balanced during THK..got sick of giant stomp.

Lando Griffen

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2006

Most people start as a warrior/monk because it is arguably the easiest and most profitable profession. It's very easy to get your other characters started when you have your primary character to make money.

Crispie

Crispie

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Feb 2005

Michigan

Lords of the Dead

Mo/

I feel like a noob, my first character at E34E was a Wammo hehe.

Opeth11

Opeth11

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

Richmond, British Columbia, Kanada

Demon of the Fall [Opet]

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by Crispie
I feel like a noob, my first character at E34E was a Wammo hehe. As long as you evolve from the original Whammo-style character, you should be fine =)

Terra Xin

Terra Xin

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Mar 2006

New Zealand

Me/R

Warriors... this seems like a very easy question. Is there another point to this thread^^?

lg5000

lg5000

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2005

Australia

Assassins would be a close second At least, new ones when factions came out.

Probably in order of most to least..

Warrior
Ele
Assn
Ranger
Monk
Rit
Mes

No actual idea about it though

TheMadKingGeorge

Banned

Join Date: Dec 2005

None

Mo/W

So Sorry But Its Mo/W

Opeth11

Opeth11

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Oct 2005

Richmond, British Columbia, Kanada

Demon of the Fall [Opet]

Mo/Me

Quote:
Originally Posted by TheMadKingGeorge
So Sorry But Its Mo/W When you could Elona and Droknar's International only.

xiaotsu

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Feb 2006

Doomlore Shrine

Just Us Gamers [JUGs]

R/

Sadly, W/Mo's are the most common I made one the first time I played...then I switched to ranger and haven't gone back, bwahahaha!

Lordhelmos

Lordhelmos

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2006

Sentients of Shadow (noir)

Me/E

People play wammos because the game calls for them. They are easy to use, and alot of the mission and objectives can be easily reached through the use of warrior and monk skills. I started guildwars as an ele and played one since beta, but after the nerfs and ele drama I recently gave up on that class. I started my new character by first creating a W/R thinking that I would just take apply poison and a ton of conditions and just spam away for huge damage. At first it worked great... until I started running low on cash.

Farming and getting the moola was soooo slow as a W/R. There were many things I couldnt do as a solo farm because of the long casts of troll and lack of instant self heals. Eventually I said screw it and went with a W/mo profession change. As a Wammo I rake in TONS of cash, more than any other profession I played. Easy runs net me a plat here and there and its so easy to tank mobs with a healing hands warrior. I've cleaned out sorrows so many times with my W/mo and just sold tons of greens left and right. Before I knew it, I was halfway to FoW armor. W/mos are ideal for farming and are the only class that can run high level areas such as droks. W/mos can even farm the IDS and the troll cave.

The other class I know for a fact that rakes in tons of money is the Mo/W 55, just because of 55/SS abuse in UW and ectos galore. Now what do you see the most of in guildwars?

W/mo and Mo/W

Blame it on human greed and the economy. If you want to farm diversly and make big money in order to get your FoW gear you gonna have to make one of these sooner or later. Either that or Ebay.

Edge Martinez

Edge Martinez

Jungle Guide

Join Date: May 2005

NC

DKL

Mesmers. Those guys are like roaches.

nugzta

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Nov 2005

whammos everywhere, they think healing breeze and mending make them invicible against mobs and just charge in. Then got shattered and blame the monk.

Merlin Munk

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Apr 2006

Mazters Of Doom (MOD)

Mo/Me

W/Mo and Assassins are then one I see most of in both chapters. I have a W/Mo too and I use mending. Now before you start flameing me ;-P lol , Reason is it helps a little with healing so monk can concentrate´on more than me, and secondly cause I have some Vampiric Weapons that gives me a -1 degen on health. Oh And I never Blame a monk if I die, probobly cause I am a monk my self mostly lol.

majoho

majoho

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jul 2006

Denmark

There's nothing wrong with having a Wammo... for farming purposes that is

|pyro|

|pyro|

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jun 2006

Me/

A lot of Wammos, I started to build one but i gave up at lvl 11 coz it's boring for me, I stick to my Necro-SS/MM/Battery Ele-Geomancer/Nuker, Monk-Bonder/Healer/55hp,

The Last Preacher

The Last Preacher

Academy Page

Join Date: Jan 2006

UK

None and looking!

N/

W/Mo

Easily said.

Warroir, he has the best armour so he must be the bestest!

And Monk can heal and stuff so you have the best of everything!

Paperfly

Paperfly

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jun 2006

Quote:
I have never, ever, seen a Whammo try to heal the party.
You have no idea how lucky you are.

The really unnerving bit is when you're playing a mission in the Tyrian jungle somewhere and (a) player count is low, so you can't get a monk and (b) character levels are split evenly between level 13 Tyrians and level 20 Canthans.

...To cut a long story short, I've had half a dozen level 20 Whammos condescendingly explain that we don't need a healer because they're, like, half monk, okay? And can heal the party just fine.

Draxx

Draxx

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

England Baby!

haha... Its like another Whammo Bashing Thread... and looking at the title WHO is surprised?... *sigh*

I Like My Whammo... Infact he is my main guy, and i havnt touched mending or healing breeze in 1 MILLION Years! ... Only reason i use Whammo is because of both Condition and Hex Removal... for certain situations.

But ALAS...

Yes Whammo is the most poplular Combination and Warrior Is the most popluar Class.... and as much as i HATE to say it... the many have spoiled it for the few in that case... Stupid Mending... Spoiled EVERYTHING.

Big_Iron

Big_Iron

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Dec 2005

The Edge

Tormented Weapons [emo]

Wammos. They're so easy to play and are great when you're first learning the game. Yep, I even have one. I still have mine and still play her sometimes. She's great for soloing and farming. It's almost impossible for her to die.

Metanoia

Metanoia

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Feb 2006

Quote:
Originally Posted by Opeth11
I have never, ever, seen a Whammo try to heal the party. Are you sure you know what a Whammo is? They heal themselves through mending and healing breeze, never anyone else. Don't forget the battle cry.

*clears throat*

"Leeeeeeeroooooy Jeeeeenkins!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlz4wLjyKZo

Ps. (TM)

Arcador

Arcador

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

--

R/N

Hahah, Grenth's footprint quest got an npc DWARF tank that charges the enemies with shout - "Kiiiiillroooooy Stooooonekiiiiin!!" and you can only follow him and try to keep him and you alive :P Btw the whole game is full with such side characters and ideas from many diferent games/movies/stories/books and etc. Very cool

Silent Kitty

Silent Kitty

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Mar 2006

Netherlands

[TYW] "The Young World"

A/Me

I see a lot of elementalists everywhere. Nuking must be just as easy as wammoing

Slainster

Slainster

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Feb 2006

i made a warrior\mo as my 4th character, and actually really enjoy playing her too.. I like been an effective tank, although it is a hard role to fill with PUG's.. anyhow to the question at hand, i reckon its got to be close between w\mo and Mo\w

Numa Pompilius

Numa Pompilius

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: May 2005

At an Insit.. Intis... a house.

Live Forever Or Die Trying [GLHF]

W/Me

For the record, though, W/Mo's really ARE the easiest character to play in the PvE campaign.

Draxx

Draxx

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2006

England Baby!

Quote:
Originally Posted by Numa Pompilius
For the record, though, W/Mo's really ARE the easiest character to play in the PvE campaign.
See Your Point... And by Easiest to Play... you mean easiest to use efficiently...

... or do you mean easiest to wack random skills on a skill bar and just spam to there hearts content and yet stay alive because they have higher armor than everyone else?

Because to be an efficient Warrior/Tank... and be good at it... is not really that easy.

I mean its not as complex as alot of other classes and im not saying it is... but its as easy to tell when you have crap tanks as it is when you have crap monks.

...

Ken Dei

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jan 2006

W/Mo

W/Mo are not all Wammos! In fact most of them are NOT Wammos! No, I'm not joking! The Wammo syndrome is pretty much dead! D....E....A....D, DEAD! Get over it already!

*Is amazed how many ignorant and stupid people still believe in this crap.*

EDIT: I am aware that I didn't paint a very good picture while writing that, considering my class. But this stupidity has gone on for over a year, it's not true anymore and seeing people try to keep it going is genuinely pissing me off.

samifly

samifly

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

Girl Power [GP]

Mo/Me

I would agree that being a really good warrior takes alot of skill...it just that warriors dont have to be good, the way the PvE is.

and yes, W/mo is the most common, by far. If you dont see at least one w/mo in a town something odd is happening.

Lena A

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2005

france

[Ci]

Me/

Quote:
Originally Posted by samifly
and yes, W/mo is the most common, by far. If you dont see at least one w/mo in a town something odd is happening. you selected a id district, so you are alone in the town, I don't see any other way to find a town without wammo

Mithie

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

Rest En Pieces [RIP]

Me/W

Nothing wrong with playing a whammo in PvE. I play a whammo in PvE for purge conditions and a hard res. I still do a crapload of damage thanks to judicious frenzying and cancelling into sprint when I'm getting targeted.

If you bring that crap to PvP though, you'll get laughed out.