Guild Wars 2

i have been gone from the game for about 15 months now and i am returning to the game. I have all Professions to level 80 other than thief and engineer. I play PVE like 98% of the time and solo like 99% of the time. I like mainly a ranged class but the ranger for some reason just is not doing it for me this time. I want to know what peoples opinion is on what profession is best suited for soloing pve and being mostly ranged. I say ranged because i hate having to keep someone close enough to me to hit . Nothing makes me more upset than to hit a skill and they are not in range of my attack. Any input on this would really be appreciated. I also don’t care to level one of the 2 class i don’t currently have to 80 if it might be best for what i am looking for.

Again thank you for any and everyone’s input on this matter!
John Reaper

Dragonhunter with lb and sceptre/focus would work, same with necro staff_sceptre/dagger (condi build, obvs) and mes with gs/staff. Rev hammer isn’t too bad i find, tho slow aa is frustrating (shiro-impossible odds helps a bit) and there’s lb/rifle warr, tho i have no real experience of playing that at 80 as mine is a lowbie still^^. I’ve never played ele so i can’t comment. Good luck

If there is a class that can close the gap fast I don’t mind them neither so much. Just hate having to run after something while it is killing me with ranged skills if you know what I am talking about.

I love the ele but I hate how easy she dies. I think that make me more upset than anything in this game is dieing all the time. Every once in a while ok np I might laughter but when I die 4 times in 5 min that is to much haha

I play the ranger so I won’t of any help here. I can recommend this class though (unless you’re too stubborn to try it). Your pet can tank pretty well (unless you run happily into too many enemies of course) so it wouldn’t be you who gets all the damage and while you can use two weapon sets one of them will probably be a bow – so that combined with your pet and all the stuns and slows you can apply will allow you to keep your distance safely.

But that’s the ranger. I don’t have enough experience with other classes to say anything about them. :P

JohnReaper.4058:

I love the ele but I hate how easy she dies. I think that make me more upset than anything in this game is dieing all the time. Every once in a while ok np I might laughter but when I die 4 times in 5 min that is to much haha

Use some defensive stats. My Celestial Ele never dies. Do not go blindly after the meta. Not everyone can handle pure dps builds.

Try the Revenant. I’m running Hammer with Sword/Axe and Jalis/Glint and Commander gear.

The hammer gives me good range and some evasion/blocks for survivability. Sword 3 and Axe 4 are gap closers and Sword 2 has Chill to slow things down. If I’m surrounded Vengeful hammers + Sword 3 works well and Glints facets give some nice buffs. Forced Engagement and Hammer 5 can decimate a breakbar if its not massively upscaled.

Its not an overtuned build for massive DPS but I’ve got excellent survivability in HoT and I still manage to have good burst DPS. Unless I accidentally aggro too much I usually don’t have much to fear.

Also Necros with wells and life siphoning builds have medium range and are very tough. I can solo things with my Necro that I’d never try with other classes; I can simply siphon health nearly as fast as they can take it away and I have shroud which gives me another effective HP pool. I also use a condi build so the high toughness of a lot of HoT monsters isn’t a big deal.