Guild Wars 2

Ranger would be my favorite, but I like my pet classes to have the pet as the strongest member of the “two” toons. Think WoW’s Beastmaster Hunter (I used to pet tank heroics). No, I don’t want to go back. Beastmaster was the only part of the game I liked by the time I left.

So, with the pets not being very strong, me using them mainly for buffs, Ranger is not it.

So far my favorite is sitting between Guardian and Mesmer. I kind of like that two polar opposite classes are my twin favorites. I am surprised to find that I have good survivability on my Mes along with dealing solid damage.

Least favorite? Warrior. Warrior was a huge disappointment to me.

Favorite: Ranger – Love my pets and traps. I also love nearly all of the weapons. Still not great at MH Sword, but getting better at it.

Second Place: Guardian – I generally am a hack’em slash’em girl and play heavies who just get in your face and obliterate. Warrior seems lackluster and is great for the damage, but if I’m playing a heavy class…I want my guard. I love the reflects, boons and sustainability while still being able to put out good damage.

Dead Last: Thief…It’s just not my playstyle. I’ll play thief when it’s a PvP Daily or when we run CM, but that’s about it. I can solo the first bit of CM explore 1 on my thief and have gotten decent at it, but it just isn’t my forte.

Favorite: Ranger. I’ve spent the most time on this class and I play rangers in any MMO/RPG game. Love traps or pew pew for WvWvW roaming.

Second: Warrior and Guardian, both are fun to play, no matter what I do I don’t seem to die on the guardian.

Last: Engineer, just can’t get into it for some reason,.

Favorite: elementalist
I love its playstyle, it’s fun, versatile and an “all-over-the-place” that I simply love.

Least: From what I’ve tried Necro is quite low on my bottom lists. But maybe it’s simply because I can’t grasp the class well and is just way too different from elementalist, mesmer or thief (which I love)

Favorite Necro
Least favorite Mesmers i call the the pink joke class………

Fave: Guardian

Least fave: Ranger and Engineer,

they are the only 2 profession I can’t bring myself to level all the way to 80. I have a engineer sitting still at lvl 28 and I recently deleted my lvl 32 ranger so I could make a 2nd guardian.

Since I like a ‘wrist friendly’ playstyle, my list.

Favorites:

- Guard has been my go-to character in anything ‘serious’ like dungeons / fractals, WvW etc because its forgiving to someone who does not have good reaction time (or in my case, sometimes hitting the wrong key, because a finger cramped for pushing too hard). I can still build in good DPS, while having enough defense/heal to not die when I’m forced to take a hit now and then.

- My Engi and Necro are mostly used for general exploration. The engi is the closest I have to map completion (just need WvW), mostly because of the shortcut hops available from rifle (he’s never used pistol or shield). Necro is a minion mancer, and it works for me since I treat him as leading his own private strike team; Being able to switch from melee to ranged is nice too, and makes him the character I always bring to help folks doing Crab Scuttle.

‘On the Fence’ list:
- Mesmer and Ranger. My two newest characters – both max height Charrs :-) – are probably being tarnished in my personal review because they are affected by the Traits changes. Ranger has been better there, she does well without picking traits so far, but I’ve also settled on GS/LB due to how general PvE tactics work with my own limitations. I did settle on birds/cats as my main pets though, the utility is better for me (and I have general aversion to bears anyway). I’m still needing the WvW wolf to round out my general pet list…

Dislikes:
- Thief, Ele, and Warrior (in my own case only). I love all three classes, love their mechanics, and have seen some amazing feats done in all three by former guildmates and various live streamers. But I don’t have the dexterity and reaction time (let alone enough painkillers) to play these effectively. Regardless, my hat’s off to those who can.