Best caster starting profession
Any of them are easy to learn the game with……some are just harder than others to play “well”.
Having said that, I would rank them from easiest to hardest as:
1. necro
2. mes
3. ele
(necro being the easiest because with minions, high hp, and death shroud it is quite easy to stay alive)
Necromancer
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Necro is the most straight forward, then Elementalist. Finally Mesmer is the hardest, just because a lot of their skills are weird (in a good way) and unique.
The hardest thing about elementalist is learning what your instacasts are that you can just during channels, and how to blast your combo fields effectively.
The elementalist is the hardest to learn to play, and by far the deadliest of the game, not just of the casters.
With patience, a necro can solo PVE anything in the game. Its low DPS makes it undesired in group situations.
A mesmer is just a lot of fun. It’s not particularly good at DPS and slower afoot than the other casters but wanted in many situations because of it’s rather unique utility.