Guild Wars 2

Hello I started playing guild wars 2 days ago,I am really troubled choosing a class I used to play aion for 3 years as a spiritmaster but I really hated how fragile it was which class is really recommended for hardcore pvp also which one is the most annoying class ? I heard that thief is really hard to play and it doesn’t have permanent stealth like other MMOs ! Which class do you suggest for me to play to survive in world pvp ?
I forgot to mention that I like long range classes.

I appreciate your advices

Professions are in a bit of turmoil at the moment because of changes in the trait (talents) system, as well as some other profession changes.

At the moment, Mesmer is really, really crazily strong in PvP and other 1vs1 situations.

Every profession can go ranged to some degree so you have nothing to worry about there, though some profession does it far better than others.

Thief is not exactly hard to play, and it’s really annoying to meet. It’s true that stealth is not something you can be in forever but it’s almost close to it and damage does not reveal you. You can spam skills that makes you jump in and out if stealth, and it’s one if the very best ways to absolutely confuse your opponent. Thief also got good ranged option.

yeah.. perm stealth isn’t really a thing in this game.

with shadow arts with your thief you can make good use of playing scout in open world pvp.

if you want to feel less squishy, you can do this on any profession. it’s all about the armor and the trinkets you select.

with long range open world pvp and a desire to mess with people, Id try Mesmer or Engineer. these classes are both fairly unpredictable and tougher to master than the others.

Farzo.8410:

damage does not reveal you.

Unless it is an engineer with the trait that does reveal you.

Thanks for your advices !
So in the end I picked engineer not sure if it was the rift choice tho !
How good is engineer in end game pvp and WvW ?

Engineer brings alot into PvP in terms of damage, support AND survivability.

Some people like to call Engi the allrounder class, because you can literally run everything with it, depending on your build.
If you dont already know, engineer uses different kits which all have different abilitys from supporting heals or boons, to simple burst damage or damage over time (conditions).

I guess its a hard class to start the game with because its so versatile and hard to play efficiently, but thats all trainable.

So yea, as soon as you found ur favourite playstyle you can choose from different builds to play engi your way, wether its condition damage, burst damage or tanky survivability build.

EDIT: I HIGHLY suggest you to watch some youtube videos about your class. There are many pvp and wvw videos about every class which can help you choosing ur favourable playstyle. Just search something like “gw2 wvw engineer roaming” or something like that.

Thanks !
I will continue playing engi ! But there wouldn’t be a problem to choose a build since at level 80 I can unlock them all right ? Or I got that wrong ?

You can change your build whenever you like for free, unless you want to change armor stats as well, then it will cost you to get new armor of course.