Guild Wars 2

I’d like help in choosing a new main to do PvE content with, and I’d like to not spend a ton of time testing out all the builds in the mists, so I’d like player feedback. Heres some things to note.

-I really dislike ground targeted AoE skills, direct target skills are best
-I liked ranged, but would like means of either surviving or knocking enemies back if they get into melee
-I like giving boons to people and reviving people, since I know theres some skills that benefit that
-Armor preference isn’t a big deal, but most medium armor looks bad to me
-Bonus: Would be nice to have a good upkeep of Swiftness

At first I was going to suggest a ranger, since they can give some boons with spirits i guess and have knockbacks…but since you don’t like medium armor and ranger can be frowned upon, i’d suggest going with a GS mesmer. your second weapon set can be w/e, but GS has a pushback and some good damage that you seem to be craving.
Mesmers with centaur runes have fairly constant swiftness, at least my friend does. He’s a Sword/Torch + GS mesmer with the centaur runes.
GS has one ground targeted skill, the rest are direct target.
This is the only class I can think of that meets all those requirements and isn’t mostly useless ranged *cough*guardian*cough*

Rifle + Sword/Warhorn Warrior with Shouts and Battle Standard perhaps. Maybe 0/30/0/20/20. Kind of a support + sniper. Could also go 0/30/0/30/10 for healing Shouts if you want.

Warrior with Rifle + Kick and you have ranged dps with 2 knockbacks. Warriors aren’t boonmasters, but they can provide support with banners, shouts, and warhorn. Warhorn and banners both have swiftness skills with decent uptime.