Guild Wars 2

I am recently coming back to GW2.

I started originally playing as an Elementalist. I didn’t love it. I found the class to be low on damage and and squishy.

Can anyone suggest what profession I should start a new character as? Or should I just invent more time in learning the Elementalist?

(I mostly like to play ranged damage dealers in the other games.) I like to PvP and do solo PvE content.In PvP I like to play roaming damage dealers as well. So I’d like a high damage character that isn’t very reliant on a group to succeed.

If it helps, in other games I play:

WOW: Frost Mage, Warlock
League of Legends: Zyra, Ahri, Swain
Diablo: Wizard

Thank you for taking the time to answer me!

the ele has one of the higher skill ceiling of the professions. Also, it would help if you told us what weapon set were you using for your ele? also, playing as an ele often requires kiting around mobs while continuously switching between elemental attunements.

^learn the ele. I have never played an ele, but I’ve dungeoned with some and my dear lord they kick KITTEN. Properly traited they deal damage like I’ve never seen ( a thief and an ele alone solo’d Coe bosses in 30 seconds or less). I wish I could tell you the build this specific ele was running that blew my socks off, but if I had to start somewhere I’d start with something like this build: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVqU9-Rrack

Go with Guardian and Warrior good denfense and good damage

Ele, Mez, and Necro are the 3 typical ranged magic damage dealers. However ele is the squishiest.

I think you should stick with your Ele if you truly love the archetype, it is the highest skill floor class so you might not have used it effectively.

But if you really want to change then I’d say Necro. It is the tankiest of the three, has the lowest skill floor (not lowest ceiling), but relies mostly on conditions to kill stuff rather than burst.

Thanks for the advice.

I’ve almost exclusively played S/D. D/D didn’t really interest me since it required melee. Staff seems kinda blah.