Guild Wars 2

I am returning to see what has changed and what is new after the latest patch, I have not played for quite some time and I am having a hard time sorting through the new and old facts and discussions regarding classes I enjoy.

Basically im starting fresh, I moved my account from an EU server to a US one before I stopped playing before and so im starting over at level 1. I play mostly PvE but I want to also play WvWvW

My favorite classes thematically

*Necro
*Mesmer
*Engineer
*Thief

I am not a fan of standard “warrior” style classes, I much prefer casters or interesting class mechanics (IE the engineer). Unfortunately all I see on their respective forums is frustration and posts about how useless/underpowered or unliked they are. Seems like necros are jumping ship wholesale.

Is this just the frustrated rantings of people not liking mechanic changes? Or are these classes all the unloved middle children of the GW2 world? Also which ones if any are in fact quite good for pve and WvWvW?

For the most part it’s veteran players who have played the classes complaining about bugs that haven’t been fixed (which is especially true for necromancers and mesmers). Thieves and Engineers, from what I understand, just recently got some buffs and tweaks to put them in range of warriors and other power classes, so they’re now more viable in PvE and WvW. But as always I would just go with whatever you like, the classes aren’t too much different from what they used to be. Their core mechanics are still the same.