Guild Wars 2

I took a very long break from Guild Wars 2 and with the new expansion coming out my friends were going to start playing again. I’ve been having a hard time figuring out what profession to pick. Can anyone give suggestions and what play style each profession fits?

Well, i wouldn’t rely on suggestions from others on what YOU Should play, because everyone enjoys a different type of class.

For me, personally mages are my kink, so that makes me heavily favour elementalist, mesmer and necro.

What you need, is someone to tell you each class, what category they fall into, then decide for yourself which you want to play, based on previous game experiences.

Necromancer – your pet/dot class basically, like warlocks and such.
Elementalist – your versatility 4 element mage, fire, ice, earth and air.
Mesmer – your basic illusion, trickster mage type.

Guardian – i guess the closest thing i could describe it from other games, is maybe a paladin? Idk
Warrior – your basic hack and slash fighter class.

Hunter – a bowman with pets, the usual hunter archtype.
Thief – as always, kinda stealthy assassin, has multiple stealths, backstab mechanics , ect.
Engineer – the mechanic class, does damage with weapons such as flamethrowers and rifles, uses static tower defense units aswell.

Well, thats the basic outlook on the classes, try and figure out what fits you most.

My main is Guardian, and that’s pretty great IMO. Play style differs a bit with what you want to do.

PvE – You’ll mostly be using shouts to buff the party / for situational needs. As usual, DPS is king
PvP – Couple of options here, but I prefer a meditation build for high aggression and burst DPS
WvW – Depending on your involvement here, you could go bunker for heals and survivability, or be more aggressive. I’ve been using a medi build, and it’s been fun so far.

Most of the professions have several options as far as play style goes, so it’s hard to classify based solely on that, but hopefully this was slightly helpful anyway.

It’s all so versatile there really isn’t a single option for any. The current meta trends are for everyone to wear berserker gear and use their face to press the keyboard keys, but you can take any profession you want and focus on dps, heals/support, condition and control, or whatever else you enjoy doing. One of my favorite sights of this past week was watching a Cleric healing engie and a Magi support thief running around together in PVE just tearing the place up, lol.

Since everything is so versatile what would be a good way to choose a profession

Kyokkaku.7451:

Since everything is so versatile what would be a good way to choose a profession

By whatever looks/sounds interesting to you. You could also do it by what type of gameplay you plan to do (PvE, WvW, sPvP), going for classes that do well in that/those particular areas you plan to play in.