Guild Wars 2

Hello. I wanted to know what professions is hardest to use from most to least. Thinking of making an alt. Thank You.

Hardest to Easiest:

Mesmer
Engineer
Elementalist
Necromancer
Guardian
Thief
Ranger
Warrior

This is my opinion.

I’d agree with the above list for the most part, except I’d move guardian to below thief.

They were actually even on my list, but I put Guardian above because of the intricacies of both classes playing at full potential.

Mesmer
Engineer
Thief
Elementalist
Necromancer
Guardian
Warrior
Ranger.

My experience, hardest to easiest.

Elementalist
<a long gap>
Mesmer
Guardian
Necro
Engineer
Warrior
Thief
Ranger

Guardian could probably slide down a little, but I was already bored of the game by the time I played that class, so it felt grindy, also I did not enjoy the weapon skills until I used hammer, which wasn’t till I 80’d. Likewise thief was my first, everything was still fresh, so it could probably go up 2 spaces.

IMO:
Engineer
Elementalist
Thief
Mesmer
Necromancer
Guardian
Ranger
Warrior

I bet none of you (i didn’t for sure) meet a max skill cap thief yet.

I take thief to dungeons and it fares better than either iron class or any silk class I own. Only the ranger does a better job.

No I am not trolling.

I think it really depends in some cases whether you’re talking about PvP or PvE.. in some cases a class that is very difficult in PvP might be easy-ish in PvE…

Yes, very dependent on PvE/PvP/WvW, need to specify which.

Theres a difference between “hard to play”, “high skill cap” and “easy to start out with” ^__^.

Imo all professions are fairly easy to start with, but probably warrior is the easiest as all you have to do for a build is take damage traits and add some defense. (I dont know that much about warriors so i may be wrong here).

The hardest to start with profession is probably mesmer, mesmers have alot of viable builds, each combines certain traits to maximize effectiveness, but those traits will be completely useless in ofher builds. Making a balanced build is possible, but new people will be easily distracted by many not optimal (and fun!) traits.

Skill cap means how many different things there are to learn, how long you can keep going without having learnt everything the profession has to offer.

I consider myself a fairly above average mesmer, and ive played mesmers for nearly 1800 hours (i think), i can happily say that i still make a lot of mistakes, and i simply learn new things every day by making those mistakes.

The mesmer skill cap is especially incredible in pvp, where you can build glass cannon and rely completely on our amazing active defense!

Learning required to level:
Mesmer/Elementalist/Thief (most ditficult, die quickly and real power/defense/survivability comes from traits and gear later on. Require alot of active defense)
Engineer/ranger/necromancer (they all have easy to use survivability like kiting with bombs, use the pet to tank, deathshroud)
Warrior/Guardian (you can tank pretty much everythijg except champions without risk of dying)

Skill cap:
Mesmer
(Very small gap)
Engineer/Elementalist
(Very small gap)
Thief
Necromancer
(Very small gap)
Warrior/Guardian/Ranger

Im not saying that warriors, rangers and guardians are very easy to play, im just saying that the skill cap is relatively lower than other professions (especially in pvp).
For example, all you need as a warrior is: a viable build, other basic pvp skills (cooldown management and countering your opponent)
But for example with mesmers: you start out with the same as warriors, you find a viable build and learn basic pvp skills. A step in the next direction would be to not use skill rotations but instead improvise, all skills have atleast 2 different ways to use them :D!

TL;DR: see the lists ^__^

thanks for the reply. I was specifically talking about all aspects wvw/pve/pvp and i was thinking theif was the hardest to master and use because they have a lot of viable builds tht work compared to other classes. I think ele comes close to it but wanted other peoples opinions.