Guild Wars 2

Hello all. I am brand new to Guild Wars 2. I have played for about a week, and yesterday for 3 hours before the servers went down for the roll back. I come from WOW, which I have become bored with. I tried Rift and it is fun but at the suggestion of my friend I came to Guild Wars 2 and so far I am really enjoying the game. To go into the reasons why would result in a long ramble. I will spare everyone that. I am looking for advice on which of the classes fit a solo pve playstyle? I am also looking for an active guild to join

Either use the guild forum to find a guild or, when in game, keep an eye out for which guilds advertise and join one of those. You can join up to 5 so you could join a wvw guild, a pve guild and a roleplay guild if you so wanted.

All the classes are good for pve and each race is also worth experiencing. I’d start with a guardian and a necro but others might say warrior and mesmer. Pretty easy to level so try them all.

All are pretty good but if you want a easy class just to get the basics of the game or for early exploring you really can’t go wrong with ranger.

Having said that tho I always suggest people to create a class and go straight into the pvp lobby and test out all the weps/skills/traits there. It’s a great place to check this stuff out as you are level 80 and have everything unlocked (skills/traits). You can also beat up the golems and npcs to see which class/build suits you.

Welcome to the game and good luck!

Warrior tends to be pretty forgiving for first-timers. Necromancer can be fairly forgiving as well, but it’s more difficult to feel like you’re “doing” something with them. I couldn’t decide on a build until much later in my GW2 experience. If you’re into pet classes, Ranger can give a smidgen of the WoW-hunter experience (sort of).

Elementalist and Engineer are some of the more high skill/high reward cap characters, if you’re confident in your MMO skills.
Guardians are generally fairly desirable in groups, though I find them a tad squishy for a heavy armor class. Low HP, high damage mitigation/regen.
Revenant is a solid choice, though it needs some more polish. Legendary Assassin stance is your friend on a Rev.
Thief is your typical rogue-thing: high burst, decent evasion, squishy. Much more active an experience than most MMO thief types.

I suppose what I’m saying is that most classes are decent, depending on what your play style to be. :P

As for guilds, start here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/community/lookingfor

But also do a few Google searches for GW2 guilds. There should be a few aggregate sites you can cruise.