Elementalist, Guardian, or Thief?

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Posted by: Ericio.3124

Ericio.3124

I’m having trouble staying with one class and I narrowed it down to these three. I’m worried that guardian and thief will get boring because of few skills but I also heard that elementalists have a lot of trouble in pve and pvp. So which class is the most fun and strongest in pve and pvp?

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Posted by: NaotsuguLH.8915

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I’ve only played guardian and I really like it so far.

Edit: where the other half of the post went, I do not know.

Guardian is mostly close range, though staff and scepter are long range. Greatsword is the number 1 Guardian weapon, and Sword+Focus is good DPS. They are pretty good at self-sustainability.

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Posted by: zerorogue.9410

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I’ve played all 3 classes, My favorite is Elementalist.

Elementalist is essentially a class that is good at everything and great at nothing. Staff ele’s are very good at supporting and damaging form a distance while having a few get out of trouble spells ready. Daggers give the elementalist amazing burst damage but you have to make sure nothing hits you. scepter builds are very good balances between the two and often can get a lot of boons up in very little time.

Guardians are excellent team players most of their skills help out (or can be traited to help) nearby players. I run a greatsword/staff build that allows me to get into the thick of combat while shrugging off damage, and when I need to support allies I can jump back equip the staff and give my allies great boosts in power and health.

Thiefs are basically hit and run classes that can hit very depending on your build. I started thieving as a P/P berserker build. you use stealth to keep yourself out of danger while causing devastating damage on your enemies, while I was using it in WvW I did at least 25% of an enemies health with my 3rd skill quite often i took berserker past 50% of their health. And If you ever really got in trouble just drop the house(Shadow Refuge) and sneak away. Recently I switched over to a p/d condition build that deals allot less damage in exchange for increased durability and more target control.

I hope this helps your choice

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Posted by: Saint.5647

Saint.5647

Yeah…P/P thief is trash. What are you on about? Ele absolutely IS a great class. Top tier DPS with lava font as well as the quickest and most reliable way to stack 25 Might in addition to Fury.

OP, the classes in this game are very solid. There are some pros and cons that you will find as you play. That’s ok. You will need to adapt how you play to the class and the situation. Each of these classes is a very solid choice for either PvE or PvP.

As far as Eles having trouble, I doubt that. Eles are in a very good place as a class. There is a bit of a learning curve to the game but the sooner you learn that you can’t stand still and get hit for no reason, the better you will get. Also worth nothing to not waste your dodges on small attacks either. There is less wiggle room on Ele than say, a Warrior. Each class has some solid ways to mitigate and evade damage. Focus on those and really learn how to play the game.

Once you do, you’ll have no problem pushing good damage with any of these classes and providing unique but equally useful benefits to your party such as Might/Fury, Ele weapons, fields, reflects, stealth, Aegis, blasts, etc…

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Posted by: Esmee.1067

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Like Saint said, whatever someone told you about Elementalist is rubbish, they’re a wonderful class. Almost every optimized team in PvE has 2 Elementalist due to their Might/Fury stacking potentional and top-tier dps. In PvP their traits off-set their squishiness, where-as their might-stacking off-sets the dps-loss from doing so. Solid class. (So are Thief and Guardian and I can’t say either of those ever bored me either. ^^)

I’ve got a fair share of experience on all 3 of these classes (likely the closest to ‘mains’ I’ll ever get) and all 3 are excellent choices. There’s no perfect choice, they’re all unique.

I’d base your choice on what kind of role you wish to fill, for PvE the choice being between Defensive Support (Guardian) Offensive Support (Elementalist) or Stealth (Thief) since that’s more or less how the game works, every class deals good dps in PvE (some a bit better than others) it’s about what else you can offer to the group.

I personally only enjoy Thief in (semi-)organized groups because a lot of the things you can offer become negligible if the group doesn’t understand them (stealth-skips) except for the blind on trash mobs. That being said, I’ve made some friends over the months and I play Thief nearly 50% of the time. Elementalist and Guardian I both easily bring to PuGs and they always add plenty to a group in their own way.

In sPvP they all shine in their own aspects aswell; High-burst, High-mobility roamer (Thief) semi-Bunky dps (Elementalist) and Teamsupport Bunker (Guardian)

Thief is more or less a one-trick pony with a highly mobile, high damage build, allowing the player to quickly cap/decap points and go for map-essentials such as the Svanir Chieftain, or enemy Trebuchet. I recommend trying it out, Thief will either be a big hit or miss for most people.

Elementalist tend to fill the role of a bunky-dps with decent mobility, though they can opt for a squishy high-dps teamfight build or full bunker support-build if desired. In the meta-builds (D/D mainly) their traits and utilities are almost completely defensive to compensate for their squishiness, due to this their damage is highly defendant on their might-stacking (Firefield -> Blast, Blast, Blast) how-ever their survivability is rather easy.

Lastly most Guardians play a bunker-team support build. They allows them to be extremely survivable, stand on the point in teamfights and ressurect allies / stomp enemy players without much risk. One could say they’re essential to any team, at the least they’re incredibly helpful. This comes at a cost of quite a bit of mobility.

If you have difficulties picking I’d value your PvE desires over your sPvP desires. In sPvP a lvl 2 is equal to a lvl 80, having access to the sames runes, sigils, traits, weapons, where-as in PvE a lvl 80 has a clear advantage over a lower level.

(PS: Since there’re endless options with classes in gw2 I based what I said off the meta-builds, such as found on: http://metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki, not some yolo set-ups.)

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Posted by: Swish.2463

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I would put it this way as the skills get old fast on all classes..

Ele has a steep learning curve but a wide variety of things it can do. Cheapest to gear up for weapons.

Guardians are solid but don’t play them if you ever want to go ranged and feel powerful. All their good stuff is melee.

Thief only play if you enjoy smashing keys and learning very strict rotations on skills as the lack of defenses leaves almost no room for error. Very limited as to viability in pve and PvP.. only a few weapons and builds worth picking up.

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