Most and Least Popular Classes Today?

Hey guys! I made this thread 1 or 2 years ago, and I was wondering if I would still get the same responses. Back then, the most popular classes were the Monk, Warrior, and Necromancer (when MMs were becoming popular). The least popular were Ritualists, Mesmers, and Paragons. Did this change today, especially with the buffs and nerfs like Ritualists faster casting time?

Nope, still sounds about right.

Its a loaded question, to be sure. Most popular for what? At any rate, a quick search would have turned up plenty of other threads with this exact same topic.

Most popular in PvE.

But I guess you could add in PvP, too. ^_^

Primary rits are actually becoming fairly popular in PvE after spirit spamming became viable. During the past couple days, I've found more ritualists in the outposts than elementalists while doing zquests.

Rits are starting to come up in the game. Thank SoS and the spirit buff for that. Not to forget Sins with SF. Other than those, everything is pretty much the same.

Assassins are very popular (mainly farming).

To be honest i never see warriors that often in groups

I play a War an I don't need no stinkin group

kidding aside I see way to many Sins
was gonna make one as I haven't beaten factions yet and want to do it with a
factions toon but there are SSSSOOOOOO many Sins running around I didn't bother just gonna take my War through.

Long story short, skill changes made the Factions classes much more popular and made Warriors much less popular.

Assassins and Elementalists are now much better at surviving damage than a Warrior can ever be, and ridiculous armor levels make Warriors less than efficient at dishing out damage in Hard Mode. Classes that use the monsters' attack speed buffs against them in HM are now more efficient at killing things.

Assassins are the new aggro managers in groups: Slap a dungeon in HM, one perma in the group, a whole group of ranged damage dealers and casters with spells that don't cause scatter...and it's go time.
Best of all...they hardly ever need healing. One less person for healers to worry about.

I still think warriors are more popular, however. H+H still make warriors viable primaries; and even in HM there are ways to buff warrior damage outputs to silly numbers. The number of useful warrior elites may have tightened, but they're still out there.

Just looking at outposts OTHER than Nicholas farm spots... Ele, Monk, Warrior. Still. Assassin and Necro round out the top five.

Path dependence. We already had them before SF became just stupid OP.

Huh? The problems Warrior has with running Discordway are well known, sticking you with running less efficient solutions and/or two player/six hero builds.

Has it occurred to you that all the sins are in the farming outposts? If you're arguing that Warriors are more popular in the remnants of the player base that play missions and such, you're probably correct. When you add in the farmers, it is much less likely that they are more popular overall.

Paragon is prolly still the least popular profession... Mesmers can be seen, way more than in past years at least... Rits too.

Not much has changed...

Ritualists seem to have greatly increased in number now that Spirit Spamming is viable.

So generally speaking, parties usually take one ritualist; SoS Ritualist is, presently, the best damage dealing build in the game.

Only one, though. Very rarely will there actually be two or more ritualists in a party except by accident (2-party factions missions) or in splitting missions.

Year ago:
Most popular: Monk, Warrior, and Necromancer
Least popular: Ritualists, Mesmers, and Paragons

Today:
Most popular: Assasins, Warriors, Elementalists
Least popular: Paragons, Mesmers, Dervishes

Monks are always going to be popular but simply for the necessity, so combined with the fact that Ritualist healers are increasingly popular that drops them out of the most popular running (I'd put them in 4th position if I could).

Assasins are wildly popular, even if perhaps only for farming ventures or specific pvp builds. Seems to be the most favored 2nd profession as well these days (especially among monks in pvp).

Warriors are still overly used (only profession I, personally, detest).

Necromancers while I wouldn't call them not popular, their role has lessened slightly. In pvp, you used to see mms more, but it's still rather impractical.

Elementalists have always been popular in both pve and pvp and I think it deserves a spot amongst the most popular for that reason. Damage dealers have always been popular amongst MMOs.

Ritualists have clearly been bumped up in their role. I wouldn't call them one of the most used classes, but they're no longer the least popular either.

I added dervishes because while many dervish skills are good, nothing you couldn't get by utilizing an assasin primary with dervish skills for example. The primary attribute of the dervish is amongst the worse in the game and Mysticism skills are not so hot either.

Most: Monks, Sins,

Almost most: Necros, Eles

Middle: Mesmers, Warriors,

Least: rest

I think several people stopped playing warriors after getting GWAMM etc. Which is not the case for the other professions. GWAMM eles still can be used for farming etc. It is just my impression and of course it is all biased.

Most popular are Warrior, Assassin, Ele, Ranger, Necro and Monk.

Least would be Mesmer, Paragon, Ritualist and Dervish.

Having been doing zaishen missions every single day since like July, and leading PUGs, I have observed Ritualists have become far more popular due to the Spirits buff (and powerful, too, lol, I always take one).

Mesmers are harder to find but I always take one when I see it - their damage is extremely good in HM (sorry Eles, I really prefer Mesmers). Plus, Mesmer players usually have a clue, contrary to many ele 'nukers' running low damage AoEs that scatter aggro and refuse to change their skills.

Paragons are another very underrated class, and another one I always try to take into my group. TNTF+SY make my job as a Monk significantly easier.

You mean Rangers and possibly Mesmers aren't popular for their interrupts.

Most popular: Warrior, Necros, Eles, Rits, Assassins.

Middle popularity: Ranger, Monks, Derv.

Least popular: Mesmers, Paragons

Used to be it was always Sins, Sins, Sins everywhere. Well, now it is still Sins, Sins, Sins, but with a bunch of Rangers thrown in too. I have no idea where they all came from. Maybe they spawn from trees like Sylvari?

I dunno if I have been hiding the Paras or what, but I see them everywhere, even in totally random Proph mishes. They're usually just doing HM though, so I leave them alone.

I don't see a ton of Monks. Well, I do in Spamadan, but that's not the same. Actually I think it is just the secret monk-jutsu that allows them to vanish completely whenever I am trying to do a mish.

On Mesmers: Mesmers are everywhere, you just don't see them. Mainly because they are pretending to be skanky Eles. It is their pastime, you see, subtly satirizing other classes and seeing if anyone notices. For reals, though, Mesmers are just timeless; the population is steady. They transcend trends.

Nope, I'm not biased towards Mesmers at all, no sirree...

Some numbers here, source is www.gwchars.de . Of course it only lists the characters registered there, not the total amount in game, but I believe it is a good sample/poll value:

Most frequent professions (Number of characters)
1. Monk (11.708)
2. Warrior (10.626)
3. Elementalist (10.557)
4. Ranger (9.035)
5. Necromancer (8.956)
6. Assassin (7.365)
7. Dervish (6.323)
8. Ritualist (5.216)
9. Mesmer (5.131)
10. Paragon (4.162)

Popular professions (% of main characters)
1. Warrior (40.6%)
2. Elementalist (36%)
3. Monk (35.4%)
4. Ranger (30.3%)
5. Necromancer (29.2%)
6. Dervish (23.6%)
7. Assassin (21.2%)
8. Mesmer (14.8%)
9. Ritualist (14.6%)
10. Paragon (13.9%)

It's interesting to note each profession rank on both charts. For example, Monk is the #1 most registered character, however it only ranks #3 as main character (meaning lots of people probably have Monks to use them for farming, or simply like the profession/looks, etc).