Guild Wars 2

Common question, I know, but right now my highest level is a level 24 mesmer and I dislike it because of its race aha… no racial discrimination ofc, just used to being a human in real life lol. Well, I would like to know which class would be best for WvW and PvE. In WvW I like small groups or roaming, I like zergs too but wouldn’t mind if I was just average in that. PvP I can make most classes work. So, your opinions? Also, I’m looking at a guardian but it sucks how you can’t really kill with it

Guardian not being able to kill stuff?? Yeah, no. Here’s a great guardian guide by one of the best PvE guardians out there.

I’d suggest warrior, but I’m biased.

Guardian is trait dependant at high levels, meaning you can’t really jump in level 2 and be a killing machine. All classes can work in solo roaming, in group settings you’ll pretty much always want a guard, then it depends on what you like. Generally speaking, here’s how meta builds for each classes feels in roaming:
ele: Difficult class to master, D/D has some really fast animations, it’s one of those classes you always want to play for the swag, damage isn’t that good if you want to stay in the fight more than a few secs but some hybrid dps/tankish specs can pump out respectable damage while being tanky. They are countered by heavy burst.
Guardian: gets stronger in a group, their groupwide boon application is just insane. A well played guard can takes aggro all day long, they do lack mobility except if traited for meditations.
Warrior: Easy to play class at an average level, really resistant with any www build, good cc/mobility/ single target burst depending on the sepc.
Thief: bursty deceptive class, mainly single target burster, it’s a high skill ceiling class imo and it lacks condi removal usually.
Mesmer: Deceptive class just as thief, good stealth uptime, fun skills, but always get nerfed to hell so it’s less and less exciting.
Necro: I don’t like playing my necro much since it feels slow and just not that fun but others may not agree
ranger: not that great in small scale roaming, good in solo with a condi tank build but they doesn’t give much to a group setting outside of pve frostspotter.
enginer: great and fun class really powerful in group, stupid aoe condition application, lacks condi removal and burst mobility but really fun to play.
Tl;dr: mesmer and thieves are “stealthish” classes if you’re into mindgame and all, ele and engis are about explosions everywheres and good survivability with moderate aoe damage, ranger and necros are imo slow and not that great but many players could prove me wrong, guardian is a great group class, war is easy to play, think i’m done. ^^

For pve, ele is just king.

So, a guardian would be a good choice?

I’m gonna make a mesmer as a Sylvari. Would that be good or should I stick to a guardian?

I myself have 2 guardians, one for pve and one for small scale roaming, it’s a really powerful class but since they lack mobility especially with a shout build, if you don’t play with 2 3 other players you’ll just be too slow to do anything. By all mean main guardian, it’s a great class, but remember those few things guards rely on active defense, especially in pve, so you’ll need to understand what to block, what to do etc; there’s some stickies in the guardian subforums with great players for all game modes, you should stay those. Guardian is a good choice if we’re speaking about how they perform compared to other classes, in pve they bring to the table a lot of damage mitigation, aoe stability and condi removal, and reflects. In pvp/ roaming, they are kings of boon spam and can remove condis quite effectively. So yeah, guards are always wanted in all games modes; you should test the classes and you’ll probably end up playing multiples. Welcome to gw2

Mesmer suffers from a lot of problems right now, in pve they aren’t really wanted except for a few portal tricks so you can’t really take a mesmer in dungeons if you don’t know what to do, they kinda are cheap guardians with more reflection uptime but less damage. Pve as well, they just so lack burst damage you won’t be as useful as an ele or a guardian. In pvp, shatter specs are powerful for aoe bursts but you’ll lack condi removal and be squishy. Some 1v1 builds are really op ( mainly PU stuff, check mesmer subforum) but that’s about all. There’s maybe an hundred bugs for that class no one wants to fix. Pick what you feel is fun though, you can succeed as a mesmer and a skilled mesmer is 10 times better than any guy sticking to what’s the best. I played mine quite a bit before switching to other classes in www roaming and their stealth, boonstrip, and control are really good. Their damage is lackluster apart from shatterburst.

I’m throwing things out of my heads not really in the order so that may be not that useful, just some advantages/disadvantages in endgame.

Looks like I’ll stick to guardian, time to study up on some builds

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/guardian/Guide-DPS-Guardian-for-PVE
this guide is just the only thing you need pve wise, made by one of the most talented guards in gw2. I do not know the other guides on the guard subforum but they should be up to date. If you have any questions about guardian you can hit me up ingame, although i won’t be here for a week. After that, i’ll be glad to show you some tricks or how to improve, if you want it