Help with picking a profession
This isn’t really an answer to your question, but I had a similar situation… I started with a guardian when I first started playing the game, got him to 80, geared him out. However, playing guardian did get boring after a while (maybe because of the simple class mechanics?), so I decided to try mesmer. I loved it. Repeat this for about 5 professions, and that’s where I’m at now To be honest, eles can fit just about all roles, but like you said – they can only specialize at one at a time (apart from cele builds in pvp). I would think about what you like doing in gw2 most, then decide on a profession that fits your needs!
Guardian is good for multiple things, it has good survivability and healing, a lot of support abilities and good dps. Not only that but a decently wide variety of weapons.
Started the game with a warrior, have like 500 hours put in him, but did get boring, too easy.
So i raised a Thief, now this is a class i love. It has good damage, good conditions(on shortbow/pistols) it is kinda squishy so you must always pay attention…a small mistake could kill you. It’s quite a challange to play
The elementalist is also interesting from what i’ve seen (only got mine to lvl 15)
Depends on what you search for..if you want a challange pick a Thief or a Elementalist…or even Engineer