Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone! I’ve been a WoW player for 7 years, playing mainly an Enhancement Shaman.

I REALLY like the melee spellcaster that the shaman is. So far, in GW 2, I havent been able to decide wich Profession to pick. So far, the one that resembles this spec a bit more is the Revenant, but its not yet released, and I wanted to start playing right away!

I’ve been lurking around the webs and seen some people talking about Elementalists or Guardians. Could you guys please elighten me and help me choose the class that comes close to the gameplay style? (melee spellcaster).

Thanks a lot!

Navek.5946:

I see. Thanks for the responses, guys. I guess I’ll try the Guardian and the D/D Elementalist and see which one i like the best.

No worries. D/D Ele is a really fun playstyle, but it’s fairly fragile and you do play closer up 200-600 range, you’re just not smashing face. I love playing my Ele. I toss between Ele/Mes/Guard. I played shaman (and druid) as well, way back, so i think you’d like those 2.

Guardian is a melee spellcaster. All the light professions Mesmer, Necro, Elementalist, can use melee weapons, but they aren’t as up close and personal as a melee class.

munkiman.3068:

Guardian is a melee spellcaster. All the light professions Mesmer, Necro, Elementalist, can use melee weapons, but they aren’t as up close and personal as a melee class.

That’s not entirely true… Elementalist D/D can get quite up and close. But if you want a heavy-damaging up-close profession that mainly deals with close-range, Guardian is the go-to profession. Especially if you like magic-y type of stuff.

I see. Thanks for the responses, guys. I guess I’ll try the Guardian and the D/D Elementalist and see which one i like the best.

You shouldn’t play any of the core professions at all. The real profit is in playing an Economancer. As an Economancer, you will have to acquire or utilize your existing proficiency in spreadsheets and data trending in tandem with other existent resources to identify profitable markets and systematically exploit them.

In this fashion, you will generate the class’s core resource – gold. With gold, you can acquire virtually anything you might desire in the game, up to and including Legendary weapons. Via careful cultivation of your class resource you will meet and tackle Trading Post challenges that will subtly differ from week to week, ultimately earning your way into the almighty Legendary flipping market, where the stakes are at their highest and your entire fortune might be multiplied or lost with the shifting of the economic climate’s tides.

The Economancer has no need to pvp – they can, if played to a respectable level, afford to simply buy anything they might desire anyway, with very little to necessarily entice the Economancer to direct involvement.

The Economancer has no WvW advantage except perhaps for the distantly secondary advantage of never needing to bother with it if it isn’t in their interest.

The Economancer will be as specifically suited to PvE as their skill, knowledge and willingness to expend Gold for just the right combinations of gear and utility items to support themselves and a team in dungeons, at world boss fights and even in lower-tier pre-agony fractals allows.

Don’t settle for being a mere peasant-caste vagabond! Play an Economancer today, and learn the powerful truth of that the Golden Rule means that whomever has the gold, makes the rules!

Derigar.7810:

munkiman.3068:

Guardian is a melee spellcaster. All the light professions Mesmer, Necro, Elementalist, can use melee weapons, but they aren’t as up close and personal as a melee class.

That’s not entirely true… Elementalist D/D can get quite up and close. But if you want a heavy-damaging up-close profession that mainly deals with close-range, Guardian is the go-to profession. Especially if you like magic-y type of stuff.

I would go d/d ele too. There is one problem with that the D/D ele is about to get nerfed and also you need gear that is not avaible to you in the first couple of weeks :/

naiasonod.9265:

You shouldn’t play any of the core professions at all. The real profit is in playing an Economancer. As an Economancer, you will have to acquire or utilize your existing proficiency in spreadsheets and data trending in tandem with other existent resources to identify profitable markets and systematically exploit them.

In this fashion, you will generate the class’s core resource – gold. With gold, you can acquire virtually anything you might desire in the game, up to and including Legendary weapons. Via careful cultivation of your class resource you will meet and tackle Trading Post challenges that will subtly differ from week to week, ultimately earning your way into the almighty Legendary flipping market, where the stakes are at their highest and your entire fortune might be multiplied or lost with the shifting of the economic climate’s tides.

The Economancer has no need to pvp – they can, if played to a respectable level, afford to simply buy anything they might desire anyway, with very little to necessarily entice the Economancer to direct involvement.

The Economancer has no WvW advantage except perhaps for the distantly secondary advantage of never needing to bother with it if it isn’t in their interest.

The Economancer will be as specifically suited to PvE as their skill, knowledge and willingness to expend Gold for just the right combinations of gear and utility items to support themselves and a team in dungeons, at world boss fights and even in lower-tier pre-agony fractals allows.

Don’t settle for being a mere peasant-caste vagabond! Play an Economancer today, and learn the powerful truth of that the Golden Rule means that whomever has the gold, makes the rules!

LMAOOOO this should be standard GW2 copypasta for class selection threads

munkiman.3068:

Navek.5946:

I see. Thanks for the responses, guys. I guess I’ll try the Guardian and the D/D Elementalist and see which one i like the best.

No worries. D/D Ele is a really fun playstyle, but it’s fairly fragile and you do play closer up 200-600 range, you’re just not smashing face. I love playing my Ele. I toss between Ele/Mes/Guard. I played shaman (and druid) as well, way back, so i think you’d like those 2.

Thanks! Nice to know you are/were a fellow Shaman. You do understand haha thanks again!

I think you should look up youtube videos of people playing each class. That will get you the best impression of how they play, and how up close and personal they get. Combat in GW2 is very active; every class has to move around. You will pretty much never be standing still casting spells (inb4 ele fire 5 on staff- yes at moments you will have to stand still, but they are very infrequent). I’m not familiar with WoW, so I can’t give a great opinion. I did try to watch some shaman videos, and based on those I think d/d ele or power necro would be close to it. Here is a video I found showcasing the power necro~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBNtDaEp_YY

rhapsody.3615:

I think you should look up youtube videos of people playing each class. That will get you the best impression of how they play, and how up close and personal they get. Combat in GW2 is very active; every class has to move around. You will pretty much never be standing still casting spells (inb4 ele fire 5 on staff- yes at moments you will have to stand still, but they are very infrequent). I’m not familiar with WoW, so I can’t give a great opinion. I did try to watch some shaman videos, and based on those I think d/d ele or power necro would be close to it. Here is a video I found showcasing the power necro~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBNtDaEp_YY

Thanks for taking the time to help aswell! I’ll deff see some videos as soon as I get home.