Guild Wars 2

If you had asked me in Sept what my favorite profession was I would have said ranger, and I would have probably added that warrior would be my last choice. I’ve played many RPGs, and have never liked simple melee in any game that I’ve played prior to GW2. However, I had a name from GW1 that I didn’t want to lose and created a warrior in October to hold onto that name for me. Then I played it a little, and…I played some more…and… Holy Skritt! I’m having so much fun spinning and jumping and shouting.

Anyone else discover a new favorite profession that took them by surprise?

Well…..my favorite is still the ranger I think. I have an alt the for every other profession and I find myself really enjoying the Messer and the Thief as well.

Favourite has always been Thief. Swayed towards the Warrior when I rolled an alt, but was too…basic. Can’t describe it, it just doesn’t feel as interesting as a Thief playstyle (in PvE at least).

I have always played casters similar to the elementalist in other games. I leveled one here to 80 and have strayed from it lately. Leveled a ranger to 80 and both classes feel underpowered to me. More so the ranger, but everyone things the ranger needs some work.

Now i am leveling a mesmer and a thief. Mesmer is just good for doing jumping puzzles. Set a portal and explore. If you fall just set the other one and move back up to where you were. Love it. Thief has been fun because of stealth and the skills from stealth. Probably going to go towards condition damage on him.

I guess i dont even have a favorite here. Least favorites though would be engineer and warrior.

Not really, it’s still engineer. I’m surprised I didn’t like thief as much as I expected, though. I actually got rid of my thief and remade them as a ranger. (I know, I know, go ahead and point and laugh.)

I also stayed away from playing melee classes because it’s so close and personal. I looked over each profession and decided to start with Guardian.

I. Love. It.

I like being able to lead my party through monsters to ‘skip’ various parts of dungeons, and to bring their hp up and protect them from damage. ^__^

i have 1 or more of each class, except guardian.

couldnt say who was my favourite other than saying who i have levelled most overall,
which would be Warrior.

after her, my Thief, Elementalist and Engineer come second,
the others follow slowly after.

Ranger is much much weaker now than it was in beta, and the pets are still bugged.

I started with a ranger then a thief and then a mesmer. Currently the mesmer is my favorite, although I may try an elementalist. I started a warrior but gave up after about 40 levels.

I’ll answer your question in both the way you intended and the way I thought it meant.

No. My favorite class hasn’t changed in that I do not have a new favorite class.

Yes. My favorite class has changed in that they haven’t fixed any of the on land abilities or balanced the pve damage ratios leaving it broken and difficult to play. (condition damage nerf)

:)

My first 80 was a ranger. I still have him of course, but he often falls off the login-screen. My first 50-win achievement on a character was a thief who’s now relegated to storage.

I’m spending my play time on my guardian (2nd 80) and ele (who’ll hit 80 this weekend, unless we get distracted by pvp).

Favorite is, and always has been elementalist.
However, I went from loving the staff to being D/D only. This saddens me.
Being an asura, my weapons are smell enough! Having daggers makes them practically invisible.

My consistent favorite is Engineer. It’s just very dynamic and fun.
What I really didn’t expect was to hate playing a thief.. I don’t hate all melee, but I dunno, I can’t really get into it.

At the start I loved the idea of the mesmer, and he is my highest level character. However, I’ve recently started a necromancer and I am surprised by how much I like it so far, despite what their subforum thinks of them.

The only change for me has been going from S/D to D/D with my elementalist. Been playing this class since BWE1 and still find it the most fun by far.

My favorite was the Ranger. But un-needed changes where made and we where lied to about those changes and now I haven’t touched my Ranger in over a month.

At first I waited to see if they where going to help the Ranger class out by utilizing Rangers other short bow skills, like they said they where going to do but it never happened.

I have played the other classes Warrior and Elem are fun, but never as much fun as my Ranger was.

I haven’t changed, my favorite has been Mesmer since BWE3
I love the class though it has certainly changed since then, but I adapt.

I also like Elementalist and have one as my main alt, my next in line is Thief but I have trouble getting into it- I think I am missing something fundamental there.

My Guardian trails behind…..
Oh and I made a second Mesmer

Guard since day 1