Guild Wars 2

So , i just bought the game , and its awesome , but i do not really know what each class does or what race does so here are my questions :
- Do races change something exept physical appearence and story line?

- What class do you reccomend for a guy thats playing for the first time , loves high damage and pvp?

Thank you all for your replies , <3 you all!

Races have a few racial skills but they are all inferior to the regular skills and in PvP they are blocked, so in the end race is just an aesthetic/role play choice.

Currently elementalist is very strong in PvP and have a high damage potential, but in change they have the lowest defense and HP pool, not particularly easy to play.

Ranger is an easy class to play but not easy to master, it is kinda ok in PvP, and good damage in PvE.

Guardian is the most balanced class in the game imo, great in pvp, good damage all around, many party utilities, low HP pool but high defense and healing skills.

Those are the classes I recommend, in no particular order.

I used to play a very long time ago, as such, my information might be a little outdated. Races provide no bonuses to any stats, races simply change your starting area. I believe thieves are pretty strong, or at least they were back when I played. I’d recommend a thief, weapons of your choice, I went with the dual daggers/shortbow and also got my thief to level 80. I browsed the forums a bit and heard that thieves got nerfed somewhere, I can’t confirm this, however. Regardless, it won’t be long until a GW2 vet comes sees this thread and corrects me.

Thanks a lot , mate , but tell can you please tell me what do you think about Warrior? I have been looking at it , how is it? Good at pvp/pve ? Not good?

Again , thanks for your reply

Welcome to the game! Glad you’re here and hope you enjoy playing!

-Races don’t really change things too much, aside from a few Utility Skills you can get later on, none of which are huge game changers. The tiniest Asura can crank out the same amount of damage as the biggest Norn or Charr.

-As for Class.. That’s a little harder to say. Best advice I can give is just to try them all out and see what you like. Look up some builds and then run with what you enjoy.

Warriors are really good in PvE, good DPS, good mobility, high defense/HP pool, in PvP there are a couple builds that are good, but I personally think it is a boring class to play, it sure is easy, maybe with the specialization system in the expansion warriors may get more interesting.

To give more options, I really like engineer for PvP and WvW, quite hard to play, actually if I didn’t have extra buttons in my mouse I wouldn’t be able to play it at all, in PvE it is ok at best. The versatility is what makes it good in PvP and bad in PvE, the most interesting class imo.

If you’re min/maxing for PvE, warrior is a must to faceroll content. High health and armor, ridiculous damage, and great passive regeneration even when not specced for it makes it an overall easy class to play. “Thousand blades ALL the things!” will get you through 90% of open world content and the vast majority of dungeon content, especially with the stacking mechanics.

On the flip side, warrior is currently underwhelming in PvP since other classes have access to better damage, conditions, mobility, support, and even sustain when built for them.

I personally don’t really like warrior for these exact reasons. Too mindless in PvE and not that fun or great in PvP.

I personally like guardian and ranger the most. Ranger is my preferred PvP and open world class, while I use guardian almost exclusively in dungeons and fractals.

As for race, I strongly recommend playing a Sylvari. They’re a unique and creative race with excellent lore (especially considering recent story developments), they look really cool (especially at night with the glow), and have the most interesting cultural armor imo. A huge plus that they have over other interesting races such as Charr or Asura is that since they are human-sized, they have very few clipping and almost no stretching issues with armor skins.

Have fun and welcome to the game!

race, it doesnt really matter, different race have different sub skill, normally not much player use those skill,
different culture armor, and weapon and story line.

first time, high dps go for warrior.

warrior, guardian is a bit easy for beginner.

ele and eng is hard to play.

mesmer is hard to lvl

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So , i just bought the game , and its awesome , but i do not really know what each class does or what race does so here are my questions :
- Do races change something exept physical appearence and story line?

- What class do you reccomend for a guy thats playing for the first time , loves high damage and pvp?

Thank you all for your replies , <3 you all!

You love PvP and high damage ? → Thief all the way. Ele is strong but only has one competitive build. Thief has more replayability in PvP.

Your race only influences the story from level 1 to 30 and your racial skills. Racial skills are not used in PvP and are generally considered subpar in comparison to “normal” skills.