Guild Wars 2

My main is a Elementalist, and despite being low level, I can already tell it’s going to be nothing but pain exploring with him. Granted, my own lack of experience probably doesn’t help matters, but I can’t help feeling that some other professions may have an easier time exploring.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

If your looking for fast and efficient with quickness, Warrior. Survivability and having things be super easy, but slower, Guardian.

Warrior or Guardian, as noted. If you plan to pvp at 80, go Guardian.

Elementalists get much better at higher levels. According to some people their survivability/damage output is so good they’re over-powered in WvW.

I have a ranger, elementaist, engineer, thief and guardian and I’m enjoying using them all (although I’ve played the ranger most). IMO it really comes down to what you enjoy and what playstyle you’re best at.

I’d also suggest a Warrior. Compared to my Elementalist, the Warrior I made seemed to be a lot sturdier and cut through mobs quickly. Definitely was a lot less of a pain for going into dangerous spots alone.

And maybe this is just my bad luck, but for exploring I would not suggest a Ranger. Mine is only level 19, and is a lot of fun, but I think she needs a “get back here you dumb dog!” voice clip ’cause her pet seems to find all kinds of trouble and needs to be monitored carefully. xD

If you only care about exploring, Ranger (much better and more fun than my war or guard)
No other classes can do champs like him, the pet is blessing in those situations, you’ll be able to solo pretty much anything.

Buuut…if you intend to also run dungeons, then maybe something else would be better, because there the pet rapidly turns from a blessing into a curse.

If you want big mobility thou, probably ele or thief. You’ll have more problems soloing stuff but zipping across maps is always nice.

Thanks for the advice guys. I think I’ll try a Guardian though. I’m happy with my Elementalist with everything but exploring. High mobility doesn’t help so much in tight spaces. (especially tight spaces surrounded by cliffs/pits)

My ele rocks for exploring, try dagger dagger and pick up some spy kits for nasty situations.

tbh ele rocks for most things. Just wait til your traits start synergising with your abilities and gear.

If you have issues in tight spaces just use glyph of greater elementals and glyph of storms in earth, huge survivability boost. Also lightning hammer has an aoe blind on every third attack, an aoe stun and a knockback, most mobs can’t touch you.