Hello..Help me decide class pls!!!
Guardian. Great class to learn the game on and has great builds for PvE, WvW, and PvP.
If you don’t like how it plays, try a thief. Then elementalist, mesmer, or engineer (requires very active play), or a warrior or necro (less active, but still attentive gameplay is rewarded).
I second the guardian. It’s probably one of the best all around classes ATM.
In PvE, it’s been Warrior, Guardian, or Mesmer as the most desired classes. But warriors aren’t as good in the PvP environments (either t/s PvP or WvW).
Mesmers have been very strong, but have been fairly substantially nerfed in the last patch, so it’s uncertain where the meta will fall out, although they will probably be fine.
Gaurdians are generally solid in each aspect of the game.
Anything I post is just the opinion of a very vocal minority of 1.
One awesome thing about this game is you can roll whatever class you want, do the little starter quest (which takes all of 10 minutes) and got the the Mists and get insta 80 and try the class out for hours on all types of training dummies and against real people in PvP. It’s really an awesome feature of this game. Bear in mind though that it’s just a sample and won’t tell you much of PvE synergy. Consider:
Personally I like Theives. It’s funny – I started this game as a Thief, hated it, rerolled Guardian played with it for a while, thought I liked it, powerleveled it to 80 and after like 50 hours @ 80 I realized the class was dreadfully boring. OMG a hammer Guardian is a complete borefest. The Greatsword is okay, but boring too – it’s all boring. The Guard is survivable as hell though and it’s a great beginner class, but as you really learn the game you may find yourself bored by the class’ playstyle.
Just spend a few hours playing with your class in the PvP area. So what if you waste those hours, it beats wasting hundreds of hours on leveling and post 80 play and probably rl $$$ as well. Plus you’ll learn a lot about the other classes as well making you better in PvP.
But yeah – try a Thief. Oh, you’ll rip people up in PvP too.