Guild Wars 2

Hello, I’m a former WoW player that recently migrated here due to friends’ recommendations.

I used to mostly play a Restoration shaman and Fury warrior in my WoW days.
I’ve read quite a number of guides on profession selection and am indecisive in choosing my profession

I’m looking for a more personal approach to what I may be more inclined to based on my WoW experience….

Any advice is much appreciated
Thanks loads

I have not played WoW, so I don’t know anything about the classes there. But I can give you some advice based on my experience.

Many say that the Elementalist has a higher learning curve, which means it’s tougher to get the hang of, but is more effective once you learn how to play it right. Its defense is more active, so you have to use defensive skills and healing spells to keep your character alive. Even though this is a bit of a disadvantage, they have almost twice as many skills to utilize in battle, since they have four attunements, each with five skills, instead of two weapons like most other professions, each with five skills.

A mesmer uses clones to confuse the enemy. Clones look just like your character, but as far as I’ve seen, deal no damage. But that’s what phantasms are for. Phantasms deal damage in different ways based on what kind you summon. For example, a phantasmal duelist shoots physical projectiles for combo finishers. Combos work like this: A combo field is put on the ground (or in a sphere in water) by a player, and if a combo finisher is used inside the field, or passes through the field, better effects can take place, such as area healing, or area might, which increases damage. Combos can be used with all classes, not just mesmers.

These are the only professions I have enough experience with to talk about, but I hope this was helpful.

You can never really go wrong with warrior. They are regarded as one of the more polished classes in the game. The only problem is that they are a dime a dozen, so if you hate being the popular class, turn and run. They are however quite often desired in groups.

Thanks for the input….
Besides the typical usual warrior, what would be a fairly challenging profession yet fun and enjoyable?
And how steep is this elementalist learning curve?

My first character was an ele. For the first 40 levels, it was rough and I died about ever 20-30 minutes. After that, I finally got the hang of constant movement and died a lot less. Eles are a blast, and I love playing them, but you always have to stay on your toes.

Engineers are the other complex and versatile profession, but people seem to find them less fun / more bugs than eles. IDK, my engineer is lvl 2.

I also do like warrior – it’s a fairly straightforward class for when I don’t want to have to work very hard.

Guardian is a very survivable class that a lot of people like. I haven’t leveled it at all though.

Thieves can do super-high OP damage, and their stealth mechanisms and special moves are interesting. They’re in a middle ground between eles and warriors I think.

Here’s my idea on those I’ve levelled a bit
I also played ele and after a bit of a tough start, I found it was easier, using dodging to my advantages. They are also the best support class, as there are no true healers you’ve got to rely on other means – ele is the best imo. Also instead of just 10 weapon skills, you have 20 which is an added bonus! Just watch out for your naturally low health and defense. It is though a complex class and the learning curve is steep to begin with – but levels off once you pick up attunement dancing

Guardians are tougher fighters, and can give out a fair amount of damage as well. But they also are very good supporters if specced correctly and are very useful

Warriors are very fun and there are a wide variety of builds… not to mention being the toughest. not played it as much as the other 2, but they are a solid and easy to pick up class.

Thieves (GW2’s equivalent of rogues -_-) are like Gilosean said, seen as OP with massive damage and elusiveness. They’re a bit more complicated than warriors but nowhere near ele’s.

Necromancer is a fun profession as well, and has a very interesting mechanic – Death Shroud – which is essentially another health bar with some very cool abilities. Also the amount of different builds you can make with this class gives it great vesatility!

Well that’s my look! Good Luck in-game

You really have to forget most of the things about WoW when dealing with GW2. Same standard classes (kind of),.. but play style is very different. Really you can’t go wrong with any of the classes. My recommendation would be to go to the mists and it will bump you up to 80, you can then play around with different classes and see which you enjoy. Keep in mind though to use different weapons as well with each class as your weapons will completely change your plays style 99% of the time.

What Damaskinos said is the best advice. Try out professions in the Mists.

The elementalist learning curve can be considered higer than others. To play one well, you need to master the skills in all your attunements and switch to them appropriately. So you are managing 20 abilities.

I play a Ranger mostly and love it. Have to pay very close attention to your pet and treat it as an extension of yourself.

Thanks everybody for their input again…
I think I’ll try my hand at the mists but elemental seems an attractive option…

See you all in game
Cheers