Guild Wars 2

I don’t have any toons max level or that have even seen half of the content in this game. Haven’t had the time but am getting back into it. I’ve leveld a Mesmer to 35 and Guardian to 25 and they are both great fun. I’m kind of partial to how a necromancer plays though. I’m a balanced player. I love PvE stuff and PvP as well.

Basically what I’m wondering from those more experienced players is, in your experience, what classes do equally well in both PvE and PvP? I want to be able to do both effectively

You can play any profession you want in PvP without wasting any effort.

If you mean PvE and WvW, I’d probably point you toward Warrior. My reasoning is that it can be easily optimized for Max PvE damage, and can be extremely good in any size battle in WvW with a different set of armor.

Chaith.8256:

You can play any profession you want in PvP without wasting any effort.

If you mean PvE and WvW, I’d probably point you toward Warrior. My reasoning is that it can be easily optimized for Max PvE damage, and can be extremely good in any size battle in WvW with a different set of armor.

Yeah…I wanted to try. Although I played one for a bit, and quickly came to the conclusion that a lot of others have seemed to come to: They’re so freaking boring. Awesome damage and whatnot, sure. But I hate just rolling my face over my keyboard and killing things.

Guardians are fantastic for everything.

- For sPvP, they’ve been the classic midpoint bunker since launch, IIRC
- For WvW, they provide vital walls and blast finishers
- For PvE, they’re not shabby on the DPS, and they have great group support options

Mesmers are good for PvE and vital for WvW, but not so good for sPvP as I understand
Necromancers are nothing special in most gamemodes, probably one of the more middle-of-the-road classes. If you enjoy how they play, though, don’t let that stop you.

Sarrs.4831:

Guardians are fantastic for everything.

- For sPvP, they’ve been the classic midpoint bunker since launch, IIRC
- For WvW, they provide vital walls and blast finishers
- For PvE, they’re not shabby on the DPS, and they have great group support options

Mesmers are good for PvE and vital for WvW, but not so good for sPvP as I understand
Necromancers are nothing special in most gamemodes, probably one of the more middle-of-the-road classes. If you enjoy how they play, though, don’t let that stop you.

I’ll probably stick with the guard for now then. I have a weird need for being wanted in these games, lol. I’ll probably just play Necro in my spare time if I get bored. Thanks though for replies.

Crayonmuffin.1473:

Sarrs.4831:

Guardians are fantastic for everything.

- For sPvP, they’ve been the classic midpoint bunker since launch, IIRC
- For WvW, they provide vital walls and blast finishers
- For PvE, they’re not shabby on the DPS, and they have great group support options

Mesmers are good for PvE and vital for WvW, but not so good for sPvP as I understand
Necromancers are nothing special in most gamemodes, probably one of the more middle-of-the-road classes. If you enjoy how they play, though, don’t let that stop you.

I’ll probably stick with the guard for now then. I have a weird need for being wanted in these games, lol. I’ll probably just play Necro in my spare time if I get bored. Thanks though for replies.

You could do alot worse then picking Guardian as your main. There are small problems with the class but you won’t have to worry about parties in pve and you an fill some petty key rolls in a PvP (or WvW group once you get yourself to 80.)

If you chose to run a zker guardian for PvE you can kill almost as fast as a warrior but you still got to be on your toes the whole time to avoid getting nailed.