Guild Wars 2

Let me just say from what I seen the community here is pretty good when it comes to helping other. I bought the game as well as the guide just weeks after launch and enjoyed the look of the game and the races. My fav being the plant guys which I will most likely be making.

What I need help with like always is choosing my class. I haven’t gotten very far getting to about level 30 archer which I like over all but the melee seem a little screwy so I was wonder if maybe another class would be better. I post because yes I have the book but as a mmo things change all the time so a lot of its information is most likely lacking.

I’m interested in pvp and WvW. My play style leans heavily on a more Support like role. Almost always opting for working in a party then soloing anything. I never had the Killer instinct and enjoy enabling others to do the bulk of the killing. I also prefer to be in the mid mine. By that I mean not in the way back or directly in the front. I looked/like Mesmer because it had a neat mixture of close and long range attacks but from what I read on the Mesmer area it might not suit me.

So please any thought or should I just keep trying to master the Archer class.

So your playing a sylvari ranger but your doubting it’s melee capabilities and you are looking for something of a midline supporting type class for WvW and PvP mainly.

I would say a Elementalist might be your thing, in PvP celestial staff ele can do wonders for your team, having access to soo many things to help your team out, while being fairly hard to focus at the same time

In WvW I feel that the ele’s are the backbone of a zerg enabling it to keep going by smart use of heals and other support skills, while at that time guardians and warriors take up the front and the heavy damage, while necro’s tend to be the artillery of the zerg.

So yea Elementalist in my opinion, keep in mind it’l be way harder then your current class, but elementalists have a place in every aspect of the game, and are worth the effort

The best class for a support role in-game is an elementalist.
You get to enjoy stacking might and fury for your teammates, dropping fire fields, ice bows, CCing bosses, and using backup reflects. In short, the perfect support class.

One thing I would like to point out, given your original comment, is not to judge melee combat in this game based on your experience with a ranger, especially if you were using a 1H sword. Ranger sword auto attacks are very sticky and tend to move your character in very wonky ways, or even just miss entirely in some cases. No other class has this issue with their melee attacks and most are much more easy to control and use.

That aside, as the others have said, the elementalist is probably the best support class right now, thanks to their access to a wide variety of different combo field types, group healing, group condition removal, the ability to stack might and endless fury for the party, CC. and the ability to summon weapons like frost bows for allies to use.

Another alternative to the elementalist for a support class that sits in the middle of the action, is the guardian. They focus more on defensive support than offensive (though they still have some offensive support), but they bring a lot of useful skills to the table that can really get a party through a lot of content, like group stability (which the ele mostly lacks), projectile reflects and blocks, condition removal, protection and group blocks in the form of aegis. Two of their elite skills are also solely support oriented and they have their class mechanic, virtues, which also offers an extra layer of free support, which can be quite potent when traited for.

Out of the two classes (elementalist and guardian), the guardian is the easiest to play for new players. Eles can be quite squishy and it can take some time to get used to cycling through elements and using the proper skill rotations to maximize performance or use combo fields/blast finishers properly (not really a friendly class for inexperienced players). Guardians, on the other hand, are a lot simpler to play (hit button x to get effect y) and are generally easier to survive with for new players.

I want to thank everyone in helping me decide to try out my new character which is a Human Ele. Everyone’s advice has been helpful and it was nice not to get flamed instantly like you would on other games.

I never did really judge my sylvari ranger as bad and I will keep him to play later.

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I want to thank everyone in helping me decide to try out my new character which is a Human Ele. Everyone’s advice has been helpful and it was nice not to get flamed instantly like you would on other games.

I never did really judge my sylvari ranger as bad and I will keep him to play later.

I’m glad this helped you, and I hope you find more great help on the forums and in the game in future. Have fun.