Guild Wars 2

Guardian or Ranger imo. Thief is a tad harder to level.

All the classes are quite fun.

The only advice I would have, is both myself and my wife could decide if we would like the class after the first tutorial quest.

If we felt right playing that, we have enjoyed the class afterwards. If it just didn’t jive, we ended up not enjoying the class as we spent more time with it.

The nice part is that this game very much allows you to play whatever you want.
My favorites are my Ranger and Warrior.

Warrior with a hammer lets me get right in the middle of things and doesn’t feel too squishy.

Ranger is great, and is a blast to manage my pets and their abilities to try to adapt to situations.

I recommend to try them all out, and activate all their weapon skills. You can do that at lvl 2-3 without any problem. Once you have seen all their weapon skills, you will get a better idea of how the class plays. Weapon skills are pretty important, and are the skills we will use the most throughout the game.

So check out the weapon skills for the 3 classes, and then pick the one you like best. Should not take too long (a couple of hours or so).

I went a Guardian as my first character, thinking I’d probably not enjoy it as I’m normally not into that sort of class. But 80 levels later, and it’s probably my favourite class in-game right now. Very fun and you can do a lot of things with it!

I have a level 80 thief, I levelled him to 80 in 3 days, I was 80 when the game launched. Thieves are not hard but they are not easy either.

Although my account got hacked and all the early progress went down the drain, as I still dont have access to my account now and its been several days now.

Anyway thieves are great fun, thief is a valid choice if you want to have oodles of fun.

you are asking a question of, Melee, Ranged or Hard Mode.

Which is it you want?

Thief is a lot of fun but if you are new to the game and are not skilled at kyting then do teh ranger.

Right after you complete the very brief tutorial you can travel to the PvP area called the Mists. Once there you will be max lvled with all weapon, utility skills unlocked, and the full 70 trait line points. In the practice area you can use training golems for target practice and square off against npcs of the other playable classes. Great way to test classes and builds. Hope this helps.

GrimShade.8091:

you are asking a question of, Melee, Ranged or Hard Mode.

Which is it you want?

Thief is a lot of fun but if you are new to the game and are not skilled at kyting then do teh ranger.

Any thief who is not using dual pistols dont need to kite at all, stealth and shadow abilities does it for him and Sword/pistol theif with signet of malice dont need shadow and stealth abilities either, unless its one of those very bad and unfortunate pulls.

Melee thief needs toughness, dont ignore toughness and you’ll be fine.

don’t play thief, there are too many thieves already

Guardian.

Eventually pets wont be able to hold agro like they can at lower levels. Even by level 45 my ranger was starting to pull agro off my bear with just auto attack and poison volley with a full condition build. Id go Guardian. Pretty much unkillable with the right builds and can still mow things down with 30 zeal and greatsword.