Guild Wars 2

I love, love, LOVE my engineer. I have played him through the entirety of GW2. I even left the game for over a year, came back, tried some other classes, and ended up playing the engineer again.

I need to expand though. I need another character to really dote on and spoil with upgrades and whatnot. I primarily PvE and run dungeons, though I’m starting to try my hand at WvW again. SPvP doesn’t hold my interest.

As of this post, I have leveled to 80 my engineer, an elementalist, a guardian, and a ranger.

I enjoy how hard the elementalist hits, but get frustrated with how often he gets downed. I’m good enough to keep from dying, but don’t like the squishiness. I also have a hard time over waiting to swap attunements with their cooldown (I’m used to the instant switching of the engineer), but it’s mostly about the squishiness.

Guardian is an interesting one that I just haven’t been able to figure out yet. He “seems” squishy, but not really. I can’t seem to figure out the rotation or skills quite yet or settle on a specific weapon set that I like to use. My main issue has been his lack of an “easy” 25% movement increase. “Retreat” works ok I suppose. I also don’t like his lack of a good ranged ability for world boss battles (scepter’s orb feels lackluster).

The Ranger bored me out of my mind. Got him to 80, and then parked him. Managing the pet annoyed me at times, though I enjoyed running around and collecting the different pet options. Felt like I did little more than auto-attack with an occasional second skill when it eventually came off of cooldown. Ran LB/GS with him, though I also tried axe/warhorn.

The engineer has been fantastic for me, though not perfect. I like his movement speed (either 25% or 33% perma are fine), enjoy swapping kits to fill any particular need of the moment (particularly in regards to switching ranges). I like that he’s pretty tough and can get out of a jam. I love the flamethrower’s cone-area-of-effect and mid-range. I DON’T like that his hardest hitting abilities don’t have an auto-attack and require constant ground targeting.

SO… after this overly-long post, what would you recommend I take as a second class (or revisit from the ones I’ve already tried)? Maybe wait for the revenant? Mesmer? Necromancer? Warrior? Thief?

Any advice is appreciated!

I enjoy playing ele after playing engineer for a bit more than a thousand hours. The class is fun, the rotation are involving and there’s that feeling of putting things on fire like engi does. You can overcome the squishiness with practice. Guardian is, in my opinion, a great class, but it’s mostly about defensive support so the gameplay is really different from engineer. Thief would take a spot of an engineer in a meta comp, so I guess you could try it. They do things really differently though.

The other classes all have their flavor obviously, but if you’re looking for similarities with engi, I’d look toward ele/thief more.

Thief was the profession that immediately screamed out when I read your post. It can be squishy, but there are plenty of ways round that with stealths, evades and high leeching.

Go with a necro, you can’t get more second class that that.

Seriously though stick with ele, if you are already dexterous enough to play an engy, ele should be right up your alley. The ability to mitigate damage will come to you over time along with the timing for switching.

Tommyknocker.6089:

Go with a necro, you can’t get more second class that that.

Seriously though stick with ele, if you are already dexterous enough to play an engy, ele should be right up your alley. The ability to mitigate damage will come to you over time along with the timing for switching.

If you PUG dungeons, necrophilia might not be the choice if you want to do meta runs as a lot of meta groups will kick necro for various reasons.

Seera.5916:

Tommyknocker.6089:

Go with a necro, you can’t get more second class that that.

Seriously though stick with ele, if you are already dexterous enough to play an engy, ele should be right up your alley. The ability to mitigate damage will come to you over time along with the timing for switching.

If you PUG dungeons, necrophilia might not be the choice if you want to do meta runs as a lot of meta groups will kick necro for various reasons.

That was my point. In the second paragraph I suggested he stick with an ele. I guess as people say sarcasm doesn’t transfer over the text very well. Feel free to insert a /s after the necro comment.

It’s sounding like elementalist is the best bet. Guess I need to to learn how to play it better.

Though Thief is an interesting recommendation from Randulf. I always saw them as a squishy melee class (a real paradox).

Elias.3204:

It’s sounding like elementalist is the best bet. Guess I need to to learn how to play it better.

Though Thief is an interesting recommendation from Randulf. I always saw them as a squishy melee class (a real paradox).

eles are simply the best, if you run celestial accessory items with power/condi/XXX you can kill anything and never come close to dying.