Class suggestion
Revenant, Guardian, Druid, Scrapper.
You will be ok with one of those.
Will help if you explain what you like.
The “standard” newbie class is warrior. Its easy to learn and can be really good in groups.
You can provide lots of Damage and Might Buffs (Might icreases your DMG output)
My second suggestion would be Engi. Its somewhat hard to learn but is by fat the most versital class in the game. You can provide pretty much anything and have lots of different options to play. Kinda hard to get it rolling tough.
If you have HoT Expansion then I do not recommend Warrior for some reason, Berserker is not really amazing right now, If you don’t have HoT then Warrior is a choice but this class have boring animations.
If you do open world solo PvE alot these are my order :
1. Ranger/Druid nothing can beat this class in solo open world, after HoT condition build on ranger is awesome, and i think we do have a place in Raid because our Healing is best.
2. Revenant this class somehow can replace Warrior in HoT because it bring so much better team support with Glint, strong damg output.
3. Guardian one of the most strongest class in game, if you have HoT then definitely have to try out, but the weakness is this guy is the only class in game doesn’t have 25% movespeed benefit from skill nor trait.
Note : Warrior can have 25% movespeed but with berserker you either have to sacrifice movespeed to get dps or dps for movespeed so they pretty much the same with guard but guard can do just better atleast for now. A lot of ppl waiting for Warrior fix.
4. Necromancer i know you don’t prefer light armor class but Necro/Reaper have very high HP pool and with elite specs you can pretty much kill anything stand in your way, good AoE, HP regen, minions can keep aggro very well, strong survival. But Necro are alway been a selfish class not much team support tho.
If you are new stay away from Thief, Engi, Ele
I missed Mesmer but sorry i did something stupid with mine mes so i won’t talk about mesmer.
If u like solo, good group utility and smth new player friendly try to pick up revenant. It is quite easy one to play, has a lot of mobility – good mass CC via elite in Shiro stance – healing and versality in dmg type (power or condi). Stay away from ele and engi, they can be a bit complicated due to mechanics. All others are quite nice, but remember one more – necro is the king of solo play, but its group utility isnt so cool, quite a selfish class or can be outperformed by other classes.