Guild Wars 2

Hello guys,

I’m a very eager player, I read a lot. I play a lot. I started the game three days ago, so far I’ve leveled a Warrior, Thief, and an Engineer until level 25.

But I’m still very much so in doubt. I need your advice on what class to play and below I’ll list what I like.

ps. I did not write warrior as a choice because it looks like there are so many of them out there, and they are a bit of everything but not good in one thing so;

What I like:

- Be useful. I would like to play dungeons/fractals from time to time and be a useful asset to my party however this is not my priority.

- Be deadly. I would like to put a good amount of damage. With the right items and the build I want to be able to be a 1v1 beast.

- Be good in sPvP and WvW. self explanatory.

- Not be too squishy. (I have this problem in thief)

- Be able to farm one awesome gear set and build for sPvP, WvW and open world farming / casual dungeons-fractals so I do not have to spend too much time farming different sets of armours/weapons for different events I would like to do.

I would appreciate any advice and tips SO MUCH. Thank you all very much in advance. The help I got in these forums have been impeccable so far.

In all honesty, you just described your ideal main as a warrior. Down to a t.

1) Gear. 1 awesome gear that work everywhere? Its a rare situation. In PvE you want full Zerker, so you need a profession that can work full zerker in WvW, which only exist if you gonna do some roaming, because that won’t work in ZergvsZerg. I play full zerker on my thief in WvW and it work. But your still limited if you only take 1 gear. Keep in mind that a gear in exotic is really really really cheap to get, so no reason to limit yourself there.
2) Dungeon and Fractal? Everything can be good there with Necromancer being the less useful. You just need to build it right (I still prefer to have a good Necromancer than an Ele with a bad build). See the link with point 1), don’t limit yourself to one build/gear for everything or you’ll be bad everywhere, whatever the profession you choose.
3) 1v1? Thief, Necromancer, Mesmer, Engineer and Warrior are usually on TOP, but most profession can do ok.
4) sPvP and WvW roaming, check number 3. You can add Guardian in sPvP for node protection. In ZvsZ Guardian, Warrior, Ele, Necro and Mesmer are pretty usefull.
5) Squishy is important in PvE. Learn to deal with it, or you’ll always be stuck with casual friendly build, no good one.

Thank you, may I ask what type of armor should I get for my thief to play in sPvP or roaming WvW if I wanted to burst down with s/d or d/d ? There are many different opinions on this, dont know what to follow – would appreciate someone’s ideas who plays a thief.

So I have a Necro and a Thief at Level 80 and I can without any doubt say that my favorite is the Thief over every aspect except maybe the support condition damage role in big zergs (which I don’t usually do because I found it boring)
I enjoy the thief in tpvp and spvp, I love roaming in wvw with it and doing map completion really fast having the thief the ability to stealth and move really fast.
I’m always been a fan of stealth and rougue type characters and the thief in GW2 is the class that better fits the assassin role wich I seek in an RPG.
I can’t speak for the other classes as I didn’t try them yet but between the two the Thief surely fits better my playstile even thought in large zergs and dungeons the Necro is easier to play and, I feel, more useful.

For the spvp question I’m currently running a 2/0/0/6/6 s/d build and I find it the more balanced for pvp but I’ve also tried d/p.
For spvp you don’t need a gear because the stats of the gear don’t matter but just the build itself so you can run pvp since level 2 just find the build that better fits your playstile.
For wvw you will need to be level 80 and have at least an exotic gear (very easy to get through pvp reward tracks) I personally took mine in 1 week of pvp doing the Flame Citadel reward track unlockable doing the story mode of the level 70 dungeon.
To decide which class is better for you I suggest trying them all in Pvp and then levelling the one you prefer or even all of them, it’s up to you.

MrSimpleMan.6194:

Thank you, may I ask what type of armor should I get for my thief to play in sPvP or roaming WvW if I wanted to burst down with s/d or d/d ? There are many different opinions on this, dont know what to follow – would appreciate someone’s ideas who plays a thief.

Well there is different opinions because not everybody play the same way. Use a mix of Beserker and Valkyrie gear to reach ’’your’’ comfort zone. There is no best option her.

I use full zerker with valkyrie weapon, while another friend use full zerker and another one use 3 piece of soldier gear and that a lot of ppl like valkyrie armor and zerker trinket/weapons. It also depend on your build. I use a lot of zerker, but my trait are mostly defensive to compensate.

well since your name is Mr. ‘Simple’ man, I honestly think warrior is best for you. it is good for people who are starting out since the mechanics are quite simple (yes that is why u see so many of them). Just because you see so many warriors shouldn’t discourage you from making one, in fact I simply picked warrior as first class becuase I had leveled a ranged class in other mmos like WoW and people said I sucked at it. In this game warrior won’t disappoint, they are frontliners and probably one of the best classes to sustain lots of dmg without falling. they have huge room for error, decent survivability overall. however their dps does slightly suffer, though for ‘casual’ groups they should be more than adequate. warriors have average to above-average dps in general, and while they won’t match an ele with FGS in hitting big numbers they are still solid dps for most cases. Another good reason to get them is for offensive support, in casual groups one PS/banner warrior alone can boost the group’s dps by a whole lot. Their simple design also allows for same set for both PvE and WvW, since full zerk warriors aren’t that squishy as other classes. While zerk isn’t really optimal for WvW it is at least doable, which is not the case with Ele for example.