Guild Wars 2

So I’m trying to decide on a class that is a ton of fun and still viable in PvP. I’m new to the game and don’t care about complexity. It seems like PvP warriors dominate as well as the guardians with the other classes lagging behind. What are your favorite classes that are fun and still have decent ways of killing people. Classes I was interested in were elementalist, necromancer, engineer, and mesmer (though I heard this is a hard character for a new player). I kinda like the sound of elementalist, but everyone makes it sound like they completely suck end game pvp and WvW. Thoughts? Any and all help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Well I have played all of these classes, and my favorite has to be elementalist. With the elementalist, people say it sucks end game because they have no idea how to play it. Elementalist is one of those classes that you are either really good, or really bad…no middle ground. I enjoy attunement swapping and having the diversity of being able to run whatever spec I want to and still be effective. Now keep in mind that elementalist is the “Jack of all Trades” class meaning that it isn’t going to be the best in what ever you choose, examples include: "DPS, can be out DPSed by a thief….Support, multiple classes, maybe a Guardian? and Bunker, Guardian. Now dont get me wrong elementalists can do all of these things really good, but not as good as the classes designed for these specific purposes.

Now mesmer is really fun, maybe has a bit of a learning curve, but not much of one. A good mesmer will never be “found” in the midst of it’s clones.

Engineer: Havent really played much of this class, but what I have played I’ve always bunkered. Engineers have a ton of condition removal along with a ton of heals, thats about all I can tell you about Engi’s.

Necromancers: In my opinion one of the easiest classes to play just because of the massive health pool(s) you have. The meta spec right now is quite good (Minion Master or MM), but will probably be nerfed soon, but Necro’s have always had a pretty good meta spec.

Warriors: Giant healthpool, good CC, good Bunker, good damage, easy class, easy learning curve.

In my opinion these are the hardest classes to learn in order from hardest to easiest
1. Elementalists
2. Mesmer (depending on what build you use)
3. Thief (depending on what build you use)
4. Guardian
5. Ranger
6. Engineer
7. Necromancer
8. Warrior

Now this is just my personal experience with all of these classes, so many people are probably going to disagree with my ordering of how hard the class is to learn, and be good at, but yeah thats meh list.

All the classes can be fun and good in pvp. Its just a matter of difficulty learning and how much time you put in

Awesome, Thanks for the help so far everyone, it’s greatly appreciated.

Narrowing my choices down to elementalist and necromancer as these were the two classes I was enjoying while doing PvE. Any recommendations between the two? Things that are completely different in playstyles between the two? Any and all help is still greatly appreciated. Thanks!