Guild Wars 2

So here’s the deal. Been playing GW2 for about 2 months and straight off i chose thief. In all the mmos i played i have always been a thief/rogue and because i feel very confident playing that class/profession.

Now I have come to a point that i am getting bored of this proffesion but cannot seem to find another which I feel quite as confortable to play with? What would most of you suggest for an alternative. I do mostly pve normally but I’d like to get into pvp in GwW

Which aspects of playstyle from the Thief profession do you most like and would most like to carry over into a new profession if you could?

Engineer

If you enjoyed Thief with its minimal cooldowns and comboing of skills, then Engineer will feel the same but will provide it in a new flavor.

Instead of swapping weapons for Initiative combos, you’ll be swapping kits for increased effectiveness and flexibility.

Another option is Elementalist with their Attunement swapping.

Well I like fast paced combat, I really like melee normally however seeing how casters on gw2 ara quite different to any other game i have played I woulnd mind trying a caster, mainly mesmer cos I like the GS.

vulpinus.4726:

Well I like fast paced combat, I really like melee normally however seeing how casters on gw2 ara quite different to any other game i have played I woulnd mind trying a caster, mainly mesmer cos I like the GS.

If you enjoy weaving between melee and mid-range, Mesmer does excel at that. Leveling is a little more slow/difficult in the early game for Mesmers, because a lot of their great utility skills are buried in their list. Mesmer picks up significantly at level 30 with Time Warp.

Also, if you liked the style of deception and combos that thief had, Mesmer could give you that from the perspective of both a melee fighter and a spell-caster.

Elementalists can also get up close with daggers, and you constantly have to dance in and out of attunements (instead of weapon swapping), which can make for fast gameplay. Engineers have kits that you swap to, which also requires a lot of fast thinking and quick fingers on your part. They both have good traits or skills that allow for great mobility as well, which is a big plus in this game.

Mesmers carry over a few of the stealth mechanics (with different skills, obviously) that you might have liked about playing a Thief. And, as Malchior points out, they are good if you like swapping between melee and mid-range. They are, however, very slow at killing things at early levels and don’t really come into their own until later (though I would also say the same about Thieves).

I have tried engi but i could not get myself to get him past lvl 15. Part of the reason i would like to reroll from thief is the look of medium armor. Heavy looks so much better but i feel guardians or warriors too slow for my liking

Oh ok. Well, Warriors actually have quite a lot of mobility, and because they can use longbows and rifles, you have decent ranged options as well as melee. It is probably one of the more versatile classes, and some would argue, the easiest to play (it is definitely easier to do ok on a Warrior than, say, an Engineer).

Guardian is slower and doesn’t have a lot of mobility options, which is a pain, but if you prefer boons and more support/control oriented builds then Guardian does this better than a Warrior. They have the lowest health pool in the game, afaik, but they are very durable as they have loads of cc and blocks etc. Guardians also use a mixture of magic and physical weapons – don’t know if that appeals or not.