Guild Wars 2

Hello i just happend to pick up Gw2 today and i been having some trouble picking a class/race

I am wanting a class that is fun and dosent get boring and also does alot of damage

Thanks you for taking time to look at this!

That is very subjective and also depends if you’ll end playing more PvE, PvP or WvW, but overall I’ll say that guardian, engineer and rangers are really fun to play and have pretty good damage.
Elementalist and thief does a lot of damage but they are too squishy for my taste, you may end liking, who knows?

Race-wise, focus on aesthetics. Races will get a few skills available only to them, but they’re often inferior to the class-skills, though have some niche uses.

Class-wise every class is fun to play in my opinion (alts are quite easy to maintain, so it’s normal for people to end up with multiple classes they enjoy playing) and your best bet is to simply try them out. Sadly with the new leveling system it can take ages for a class to set themselves apart from the rest, unless you enjoy PvP in which all toons become level 80 automatically with almost all skills, traits and gear available to them.

For a class that deals a lot of damage, solo or in groups, I think you could be looking at an Elementalist. Elementalist have the highest AoE-damage in the game, but are also very self-sufficient buff-wise (they can provide themselves and the group with Fury (20% more critical chance) and stacks of Might (increases Power/Condition Damage) and Vulnerability (once again, more DPS.) Downside, they’re rather squishy, this gets off-set a little by some of their utility skills (Earth Elementals can be summoned to ‘tank’ tough foes) and the defensive options in traits and the Focus off-hand. They also juggle a lot of skills due to their class mechanics (5×4 skills per weaponset and some utilities change your skills aswell) which might not be beginner friendly, but does keep the class interesting. They’re also one of the few classes that actively use multiple different weaponsets depending on the group/situation (Staff for plain damage, Dagger/Focus for more survivability, Dagger/Dagger burst (leveling/PvP mainly) and Scepter/Focus (/Dagger) for buffing your groups damage.

Close seconds would be Thief (highest single target damage assuming your group gives you the needed buffs and their burst is amazing) They’re also squishy, but juggle less skills and have blinds/plentiful evades to avoid damage efficiently.

A honourable mention towards Warrior, in solo-play their DPS is quite impressive due to their easy-access to the essential buffs (Might/Fury/Banners) whilst having amazing survivability, how-ever in group play their DPS will be some of the lowest and they’re more focused at buffing a groups damage (through Banners and Might-stacking.) It’s also the one class I consistently hear people complain they’re bored with since survivability is often considerably easier than other classes.

Race doesn’t matter outside of cosmetics and initial storyline. Pick whatever you like the look of.

What’s fun and not boring doesn’t help much, since it is subjective and is based off the player. What’s fun for some is boring to others.

Damage wise the highest potential damage is Ele, Thief, and Warrior I believe, but that is mostly highest potential burst damage, which is also dependent on length of engagement. Sustained damage will do more overall then burst in longer engagements, so it really depends on what you want to do.

With how vague your request is, the only thing I can recommend is to search gameplay videos for the different classes on youtube and see which one you like. Also don’t be afraid to try a few out even if you end up deleting them. Since banks, currency, and “important” items are account bound, you don’t lose much outside of time trying out different classes.