Guild Wars 2

I’ve had a problem ever since I started, I can’t choose my profession. I knew from the beginning I was going to pick mesmer, but they honestly turned out to be suicide bomber spammers and damage dealers rather than the control that I thought mesmers were supposed to be.

Can anyone recommend a good class, and weapon/utilities to use for that class that emphasize control? IF it helps at all, I play much more PvE than PvP or WvW.

Thanks for the help!

I’m curious how far you went with the mesmer. They’re famously late bloomers.

A suggestion:
Whatever you think you might like to play, take it to sPvP where you can play a fully traited, fully equipped lvl 80 version to see what it’s really like.

Something like the mesmer is very underpowered as a newbie. Engineer, too, til you get some utility slots.

I suggest a Soldier profession (either Guardian or Warrior).

Both professions are noob-friendly, but don’t necessarily imply they have a high skill-cap either. The best thing is the get heavy armor, but still get good mobility/damage output and you will feel strong playing them, which in turn results in fun!

Guardian if you want to be more support orientated (good for PvE)
Warrior is pretty much a guardian but has a better ranged alternative (rifle/longbow)

Thanks for the suggestions! I was curious about as soldier profession and may try that on the side, but I’m looking for something more control-like for a main (I hate tanking.)

I think I’ll go with your suggestion mulch, I didn’t know that about mesmers and engineers. I also ended up hating the engineer because of the weapon skills, which I still feel are underpowered compared to their amazing utilities (but then again, what are weapon kits for?!) Thank you all for your help and I’ll test some of the classes in pvp now to get a better sense of what they could be.

Try the ones you think you don’t want to play, the ones you think you would like the least.
I’m not kidding you. Try it!