most common profession

Warriors are indeed the most common PvE profession due to what some would call ease of use. The attraction to these characters are that they are melee,meaning that the user gets right in the front of battle clicking attack skills praying they will be healed. People tend to incorrectly catalogue this as the easiest profession which obviously isn't true. It's one of the most important professions that is rarely played correctly which makes them the bane of the community.

1. Since the majority of new GW players pick warriors to start with that means they are commonly the most risky PUG member in a groups team.

2. Picking a profession that is so large in abundance means you can easily be replaced and that will make it more difficult to progress in later parts of the game. I don't recall ever saying "GLF Warrior" in Hell's Precipice.

3. Warriors are often looked upon as the group leaders when they tend to be the least experienced. For obvious reasons this is umm.....BAD. Generally it's the warriors job to call targets, aggro, call retreat and to give other various commands to your teammates. Since we established that most Warriors tend to be the most inexperienced bunch this obviously creates large problems for groups. I have a feeling the Pargaon is being introduced specifically because of problems such as this.

4. Warriors don't tend to experiment enough with different builds. They often make some form of WAMMO build and rarely change that style. Or in PVP they tend to flock to the IWAY or comperable build. This lack of learning on the users part in turn not only hurts them but the rest of the community as well.

In conclusion, DONT MAKE A WARRIOR! I wouldn't suggest making a Mesmer if your a first time player either. People tend to prejudise them due to their rarity in the game and belive that to be because they are weak and useless. That of course isn't true but nonetheless that's what people think.

If your just starting up I'd strongly suggest making a Monk. Most people will take a crappy monk over a good warrior anyday. As you progress later through the game you will notice they become rarer and rarer. Which makes it very easy to get a party invite. And after you finish the game you can do some serious farming with them. So get really good at monking and make lots of money and once you think you've mastered the game go ahead and make another character.
Speaking as an experianced monk, i'll take an unskilled monk over an unskilled warrior anyday, An Unskilled monk doesnt contribute much to the team (and i can make up what he/she is lacking) Where a warrior can (and often will ) aggro anything on the screen

Oh and im not referring to them rushing each group as soon as one battle ends, it is extreemly rare for me to hit < 40 energy at the end of a fight, e-management ftw

(and BIP is for spoiled Monks)

besides warriors arent easy to use, I GvG regularly and I normally play either shock axe or bulls charge sword in usion with another guild player playing KD warrior. Our job isnt as easy as the 'softies' make it out to be, all they see us do is run around hitting things with heavy sharp things...... I think, though, that a lot of people watching GvGs on observer mode don't realise that the reason you can run around and chop people into little bits is because of the huge support network from the rest of your team, keeping you clean of hexes and conditions, and healed.

I know when I'm on observer mode playing a warrior (it never happens when playing my mesmer), I'll get random tells from people asking to join my guild (even if I'm just guesting for another guild).

I have to say, though, that playing a warrior in GvG is very satisfying:

"You built?"
"Yeah"
"Spike on #4 in 3-2-1..."
Shock/Eviscerate/Executioners, Sever/Gash/Final
<Sound of female monk dying> (monks are all female you know)

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

more like classes..
A real MMORPG differs between the two.

A Mage, Rogue, Warrior.. etc is a class
An Enchanter, Leatherworker, Blacksmith....etc is a profession

The fact that GWs refers to the different class choices as "professions" shows that even the creators are complete and utter morons.

Professions relate to your "job" persay and how you make your money. Oh yea I forgot GWs doesn't offer REAL professions just allows you to take a secondary class.

rant over

Warriors are indeed the most common PvE profession due to what some would call ease of use. The attraction to these characters are that they are melee,meaning that the user gets right in the front of battle clicking attack skills praying they will be healed. People tend to incorrectly catalogue this as the easiest profession which obviously isn't true. It's one of the most important professions that is rarely played correctly which makes them the bane of the community.

1. Since the majority of new GW players pick warriors to start with that means they are commonly the most risky PUG member in a groups team.

2. Picking a profession that is so large in abundance means you can easily be replaced and that will make it more difficult to progress in later parts of the game. I don't recall ever saying "GLF Warrior" in Hell's Precipice.

3. Warriors are often looked upon as the group leaders when they tend to be the least experienced. For obvious reasons this is umm.....BAD. Generally it's the warriors job to call targets, aggro, call retreat and to give other various commands to your teammates. Since we established that most Warriors tend to be the most inexperienced bunch this obviously creates large problems for groups. I have a feeling the Pargaon is being introduced specifically because of problems such as this.

4. Warriors don't tend to experiment enough with different builds. They often make some form of WAMMO build and rarely change that style. Or in PVP they tend to flock to the IWAY or comperable build. This lack of learning on the users part in turn not only hurts them but the rest of the community as well.

In conclusion, DONT MAKE A WARRIOR! I wouldn't suggest making a Mesmer if your a first time player either. People tend to prejudise them due to their rarity in the game and belive that to be because they are weak and useless. That of course isn't true but nonetheless that's what people think.

If your just starting up I'd strongly suggest making a Monk. Most people will take a crappy monk over a good warrior anyday. As you progress later through the game you will notice they become rarer and rarer. Which makes it very easy to get a party invite. And after you finish the game you can do some serious farming with them. So get really good at monking and make lots of money and once you think you've mastered the game go ahead and make another character. My first character was a warrior and I did choose it because I knew it would have a larger margin of error than other classes as such I thought it would be my best choice for first character.

Problem is because of the large margin of error in playing a warrior you are not forced to get better at playing it. Of all your points #4 I think is the most important. I played my warrior right through Tyria and beat the game prior to making other characters. I thought I was pretty good at playing a warrior (probably was better than most bad tanks but still was not good.

Once I played other classes as primaries (monk, ele, necro, mesmer, ranger) I was forced to experiment with different builds. Now that I know how important a good build is I am a very good warrior and I probably still play my warrior more than any other character. BTW, to all those reading, there is nothing wrong with mending in PVE. With exception to areas high in mesmer class monsters a healing hands build with mending does make you almost invinsible when played properly. In fact I'm currently re-mapping Tyria with my warrior for exploration title and have soloed (true solo, no hench) almost everything right up to the desert using that build.