Guild Wars 2

Hey folks, I am sure this has been asked a few times, but as of now Aug 9 2015. What class is the easiest to play. I like PvP a lot, i suck at it and i suck at using lots of hotkeys.

My play style is 90% solo, I am no good at strafe fighting and swapping weapons, so i thought maybe a stealth archer? I pretty much want to just bash a few buttons. I don’t care too much if i win every fight, i just want to survive a bit.

Thanks everyone

Just don’t take thief,its currently hardest class to play.If u want easy,take elementalist.Ele is atm most overpowered class with huge burst and def as well – broken as hell,just how u like it.

Ranger or Warrior are good class and not as hard as ele,but ele if you want the best class.

Yeah, I wouldn’t play elementalist if you’re bad at hotkeys. I’d probably say ranger is one of the easier classes the play, and it has quite a bit of survivability. The longbow skills are mostly pretty good (Especially skill 2), and most enemies will be too busy attacking your pet to even bother with you. Even when you do get downed, your pet can continue attacking the enemy or help revive you. Ranger is also in the medium-range as far as their healthpool goes, with pets also having a lot of health.

I’d say ranger for what you describe, sit back at the edge of your long bows max range and shoot away with 1 and 2, take utilities for survival and you will be good to go! You won’t be the most optimal but, for what you are describing I think that would be the best fit.

Ranger is the easiest, go for that

@saalle lol I hope you’re kidding? Ele is by far the most overwhelming class to play, seconded by Ranger because of pet micromanagement. Thief is quite easy to play. Quick fights, no cooldown to worry about, has the best access to Stealth. And basically you roll through your skills until you kill something. With a bit of thinking you can be really good though.
Edit : forgot to mention that you can also decide do completely disregard pets and sit back with a longbow with a ranger, you’ll get most things killed efficiently, but it’s the type of gameay that’s the most hated on for selfishness when you’re in a group scenario

I’m pretty sure hes serious…. https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Will-we-ever-see-fix-for-broken-combat/first#post5353555 <—— was talking to him about it here.

I still think Ranger is the OPs best bet. Long range and it doesn’t have a crap ton of buttons to hit (long bow). You can take a decent amount of survival utilities for when you really need it. Though I guess following this train of thought, any prof with a decent damage high max range weapon could fit the bill. I just personally feel like the OP would get the most out of rangers 1 and 2s

I agree with ranger. It’s very easy and collecting the pets can be fun!

Though at the same time in pve it’s a bit of a snooze. But that’s because I run longbow so its pewpewpew move onto next target.

Ranger by far. Good all round and traps are great at stopping thief’s sneeking up on you.

Ranger and warrior are most friendly to newer players, Thief/engi/ele will be much harder duo to either gameplay mechanic or keybindings.

Welcome to the game anyway!

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@saalle lol I hope you’re kidding? Ele is by far the most overwhelming class to play, seconded by Ranger because of pet micromanagement. Thief is quite easy to play. Quick fights, no cooldown to worry about, has the best access to Stealth. And basically you roll through your skills until you kill something. With a bit of thinking you can be really good though.
Edit : forgot to mention that you can also decide do completely disregard pets and sit back with a longbow with a ranger, you’ll get most things killed efficiently, but it’s the type of gameay that’s the most hated on for selfishness when you’re in a group scenario

I think you’re forgetting engineers and the spreadsheet you need to use their rotations optimally.

Thanks so much guys/gals. I really appreciate all the answers. Think i will try the ranger.

Thanks again