Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone,

I have recently returned to the game after 1 year hiatus. I’m trying to decide which class to main (want to focus on single class for now).
I mainly want to focus on fractals and start raiding after I completely gear my character + some general PvE.
Thoughts?

Though they fixed the toughness scaling in fractals, folks are still taking reapers there.
Dragonhunters now do more dps than tempests for small hitbox targets and are great in fractals and raids for their protection spamming on skills.
Tempests are still going to win on bosses with a large hitbox because of meteor shower and glyph of storms. However, they are by far the most versatile class. You have three ways to do good power dps, two ways to heal, and can also tank and condi.

The more classes you can do, the easier it is to get into a raid group so do not limit yourself too much. But all three of these work in both fractals and raids.

Pompeia.5483:

Though they fixed the toughness scaling in fractals, folks are still taking reapers there.
Dragonhunters now do more dps than tempests for small hitbox targets and are great in fractals and raids for their protection spamming on skills.
Tempests are still going to win on bosses with a large hitbox because of meteor shower and glyph of storms. However, they are by far the most versatile class. You have three ways to do good power dps, two ways to heal, and can also tank and condi.

The more classes you can do, the easier it is to get into a raid group so do not limit yourself too much. But all three of these work in both fractals and raids.

Remember you have Breakbars in fracs

Pompeia.5483:

Dragonhunters now do more dps than tempests for small hitbox targets and are great in fractals and raids for their protection spamming on skills.
Tempests are still going to win on bosses with a large hitbox because of meteor shower and glyph of storms.

Tempests also win on small hitbox targets. But i agree, that DH’s can bring lots of useful utilities.

Thing is, Tempests are still the kings of DPS. Not by my though which is why people grab guards / thieves for the additional utility.

Personally, a good tempest is better to have than a good thief. But an avarage thief / guard is better then an avarage Tempest.