Guild Wars 2

Like the title says. I want to create another char but not sure which class…. help please and why.

Have you tried flipping a coin?

My personal opinion (I main ele, so beware of the ele bias).

Ele
+ Lots of AoE’s
+ High DPS
+ Best skill animations in the game
+ Great in all game modes
+ Great heals, protection, stability/invulnerability and stun breaks
+ Permanent swiftness and very mobile with skills like FGS 3 and 4
- Squishy
- No good condition build if you’d fancy that
- No weapon swap

Necro
+ MINIONS! My Necro is a Minion Master
+ Awesome condition build(s)
+ Lot’s of AoE
+ Highest HP in the game (with a second HP bar)
+ Weapon swap
- Besides the HP bar no decent way of protecting yourself (lack of stability and stun breaks in my opinion)
- Really plain animations
- Great in everything but dungeons (which I happen to play a lot)
- Minions suck in dungeons and bug out sometimes
- One of the slowest classes (just one step above Mesmer)

The main reason I like Necro is because of the minions (I really, REALLY like the minions). I like everything about ele.

ELE:
+ Everyone wants you in team.
+ Can build as a fancy, durable roamer with ok dmg.
+ Can build as a meganuker with 0 surviveability.
- Locked range due to no wep swap.
- You need might to be efficient with most builds
- Might got nerfed
- No easymode builds if you want to play relaxed.

Necro:
+ Can do well with both power and condi builds
+ Incredible power damage in deathshroud and lichform
+ naturally tanky with deathshroud
+ Spectral walk is addicting
+ Very efficient in WvW in blobwars
- Very bad stability
- Very bad mobility
- boring animations
- Long cast times
- Not very useful in dungeons

A lot of it will depend on preferred play style.

ELE:

+ Highest AoE Damage
+ Good Single Target DPS
+ Flexible roles and can switch roles on the fly with attunement swapping
+ In high demand for group content.
- Lowest survivability of all classes
- Lack of weapon swapping (replaced by attunement swapping)
- Difficult class to master
- Personal Story and Living World content are somewhat more difficult due to lack of survivability.

Elementalist (which was the first class I leveled to 80) can be challenging to play for the simple reason that the lack of weapon swapping means that your range and play style is locked for the fight. The attunements balances this out and allows the elementalist to be a very flexible class to play, with utility for just about any situation. While condition builds are lacking for elementalists, they are designed for raw damage output.

Solo content, like the personal story and living world story content, can be more difficult due to elementalists being the squishiest of all the classes, so don’t hesitate to ask friends for help if you run into a brick wall.

NECRO:

+ High relative HP due to deathshroud
+ Minions make solo content MUCH easier
+ Weapon swap gives some flexibility
- Lack of mobility and stun breaks
- Limited Utility in dungeons
- Relatively low dps without minions
- Minion AI is quirky

The Necromancer is a rather balanced class and has what is effectively the highest HP of all classes due to deathshroud, making them hard to kill. Minions add in some utility and make solo content much easier, and is about the only use they have in dungeons (more targets to distract enemies). The Necromancer is of the least utility in dungeons due to low dps without their minions, which further limits their utility due to other skills often being of decent use in dungeons, but causing the Necro’s dps to suffer, badly.

Elementalist (PvE)
+ Best aoe damage
+ Very good support
+ Best ranged class in game
+ Can carry bad pugs
+ Very welcome in groups
+ Flashy gameplay skills
+ Has access to 2 tanks for solo content
+ Good mobility
+/- Staff rotation is very simple
- Can’t take much punishment

Necromancer (PvE)
+ High health with the help of deathshroud
+/- Ok damage
- Not great in dungeons
- Poor support
- Some sources of damage and support are dark fields
- Not the fastest of classes

Out of the 2, Elementalist comes out ahead by far in PvE. The only reason I can see for playing necro is if you really adore the aesthetics, find the class more fun than the others, or are into PvP.

Sagat.3285:

Best supported by content would be ele less supported would be necro.

Noha.3749:

ELE:
+ Everyone wants you in team.
+ Can build as a fancy, durable roamer with ok dmg.
+ Can build as a meganuker with 0 surviveability.
- Locked range due to no wep swap.
- You need might to be efficient with most builds
- Might got nerfed
- No easymode builds if you want to play relaxed.

Necro:
+ Can do well with both power and condi builds
+ Incredible power damage in deathshroud and lichform
+ naturally tanky with deathshroud
+ Spectral walk is addicting
+ Very efficient in WvW in blobwars
- Very bad stability
- Very bad mobility
- boring animations
- Long cast times
- Not very useful in dungeons

which builds of any class would you consider easy mode/relaxed builds?