Guild Wars 2

I am just wondering which class is the king/queen of fastest pve leveling via killing speed, number killed (aoe), travel times etc.

Having leveled a Ranger, Warrior, Thief, and Mesmer to 80 I’d say the Thief was the fastest on land, the Ranger was the fastest in the water, and the Warrior was the best at tearing apart large groups.

Got ranger and warrior 80 lvl. warrior is faster killer and elite skill give 30 sec swiftness and have only 60 sec cd.

Think guardian is super too.

Engineer for DE leveling

Ranger. For fun roll one with a Bear as your pet, give your character an ambiguous name and then look for the other rangers with bears. Follow them.

I’d say Ranger. Warrior beats them (and everyone else) while on land, but Ranger is (IMO) untouchable in underwater combat. When taking both land and water into account, Ranger comes out on top.

I thought granade spamming Engineers in underwater were pretty imba, I’ll have to try a Ranger then!

Also, in no particular order (very few things could change if you take utilities and traits into account) :
Killing speed->Thief (Dagger/Dagger), Warrior (Axe/Axe+Greatsword), Elementalist (Dagger/Dagger or Scepter/Dagger), Engineer(Rifle+Granade kit), Mesmer (Sword/Sword), Ranger (Sword+Warhorn/Dagger/Torch), Guardian (Sword/Torch Greatsword or Hammer), Necromancer (Dagger/X).

Numbers killed (AoE)->Guardian (Greatsword), Elementalist (Staff), Warrior (Greatsword), Engineer (Granade kit, Bomb kit), Ranger (Axe/Axe + Lonbow), Thief (Shortbow).

Travel speed->Thief (Shortbow), Elementalist (Dagger or Scepter/Dagger), Warrior (Sword/Warhorn + Greatsword) ,maybe Guardian (Greatsword + Staff), Ranger (Sword+Warhorn), Engineer (Rifle+Med kit).

There are obviously other effective combinations, but those are the ones that came to my mind first.

In short, chose a Warrior, best overall (or most effective) PvE profession right now (according to your previous terms, of course).

Too be honest there all pretty quick and i wouldn’t worry about finding a class to rush lvling with as there is not a lot of reason to rush to 80 for anyway.Enjoy the journey.

Thief, simply due to burst dps, stealth and 25% always up (except in combat) movement speed.

I have 80 warrior and 80 thief. Both weren’t hard to level unlike some professions, but I have to give Thief the edge mainly due to movement speed, kill speed is the second contender.

Staff elementalist for sure when properly utilizing cross profession combos.

Ranger. Name yourself “sdjafhkjh” and keep your pet named “Juvenile Whatever”

Get 4 friends to do the same, then run around mid-level zones focus-firing on only yellow mobs.

Oh wait..

I’d say warriors are probably the most efficient. Perma run speed with warhorn + signet, strong AOE with GS, the option to fight at range for DE’s or boss fights. Long bow is great for tagging stuff (3 aoe’s/penetrating) and rifle penetrates if traited.

Guardians are very steady, almost as fast as a warrior, but if things go bad they can recover better IMO.

Rangers are non stop chain killers and I was able to solo vets that were +4ish levels for skill points, etc. and also managed to solo a few champs for kicks. Not worth it for xp, but still fun.

Ranger. Name yourself “sdjafhkjh” and keep your pet named “Juvenile Whatever”

Get 4 friends to do the same, then run around mid-level zones focus-firing on only yellow mobs.

Oh wait..

Might as well since Anet condones it.

I got 80 warrior, 80 guard, 60 thief.

Thief is the fastest by a long shot so far, we’ll see at 80.

Braxxis.7062:

Having leveled a Ranger, Warrior, Thief, and Mesmer to 80 I’d say the Thief was the fastest on land, the Ranger was the fastest in the water, and the Warrior was the best at tearing apart large groups.

Did you not abuse Nine-tail strike as thief? Blocking and countering endlessly with tons of healing going on (signet of malice) is a good way to slaughter stuff.

Warrior. Grab your 40 precision for every unused signet with your first 10 points and enjoy 100%+ crit until level 50~. Picking up signet of rage and for great justice at 30 lets you have nearly 100% swiftness uptime (100% with warhorn) and 100% fury (+20% crit chance) uptime. No regular mobs will survive for more than a few seconds, and survivability doesn’t matter when you practically insta-gib groups. Eat a cheap “restores hp on crit” food and you’re pretty much immortal with perma swiftness and the fastest consistent kill-time in the game with an AOE weapon (gsword).

Thief can do well too, but warriors just more powerful for basic leveling.