Guild Wars 2

Hey GW2, I have not played since about 2 months after release due to some personal issues that I was dealing with.

Looking at the game now I feel with all the events and I am sure there has been a ton of patches/changes since I played last, I was hoping to have a few friendly folks give me an idea or two of the state of the game. Since I am getting ready to jump in once more!

I plan on starting from scratch with my character thinking that this will be the best way to learn the class I chose from the ground up, instead of relearning a character I already have (they are both only mid level anyway). Any input on race and profession would be great! I am the kind of person that has one of every class in almost every game I play. I really do enjoy playing multiple characters / play styles so I am just looking for the biggest bang for my buck.

Also any help with picking a server that has a good population would be helpful too.

At this time I do not know anyone playing GW2 so finding a friendly and active guild would be helpful as well.

When I played last, I played an Asura engineer and a Charr Warrior. Found both to be fun but, i wouldn’t shy away from one of the other classes either. To help you guys out I mostly enjoy PvP / WvW when I played. And do the necessary amount of leveling of course.

Anything constructive would be very helpful, I have been looking over the site and will be digging through some fan sites as well. But would really appreciate real feedback.

Thanks for your help!

Race and profession is relative. I enjoy all races and found 3 professions to be amazing (mesmer, ranger and ele) 3 to be ok (guard, necro and thief) and 2 I have not played to any extent.
Look on the server list when it asks you to select and you can see which are high, medium and low pop.
Good luck finding something you yourself enjoy. You will get a lot of very biased answers about which is best though.

Thanks for the input. Bias is OK as long as its not just complete stupidity (i.e. Class X is teh roxxor and class y is teh sux).

I would like to hear people opinions that’s why I posted.

Thanks again.

Hmm there isn’t really much to say. If you play any given class enough to understand how the tools provided the class works then it will be mostly fine. Sure some will have rough edges but it’s not the end of the world. However a lot of this also depends on you. Judging from various posts, for some people the only ‘viable’ class/build is one that can faceroll everything. Obviously for those people anything affecting that combo is going to be game breaking.

Thanks for your input, yeah I am not looking for a faceroll class more like a good place to start. With out personally knowing all the abilities yet of the classes I was hoping to get some outside input on the overall performance of some classes.

I know what you are saying though I have been scanning the forums and it seems like there is a lot of crying going on about almost all the classes which doesn’t help the process, LOL.

Every class cannot be horrible. I have to say I was looking at thief, engineer, Warrior or possibly even one of the caster classes memer/necro/ele.

I decided against Guardian and Ranger at this point and actually on the fence about Necro I have never been a big fan on relying on pets.

Necros don’t necessarily rely on their minions. I leveled my necro using a well build with staff and axe/dagger and enjoyed it.

Chaialyna.1023:

Necros don’t necessarily rely on their minions. I leveled my necro using a well build with staff and axe/dagger and enjoyed it.

I level mine using ….
scepter/dagger + staff with wells spec with mostly power and precision with a bit of condition damage later on.

Not the most optimal setup but it still works fine. That being said necro was not my first character so skills/techniques were transferred over from other classes.