Guild Wars 2

I’ve currently got a level 50 d/d elementalist, but just dont enjoy all the attunement swapping and how quick you can die after a mistake.

Also got a 35 gs/staff mesmer which is fun.

Tried engineer but just not got into it, necro and ranger are ok but don’t feel right for me.

I want to try one of the heavy classes next, will try both but wondering which is more suited to me from the above, suggestions? (PVE btw)

If you want endless survivability, go Guardian. At 80 with an AH/Crit build and assuming I am not being kited by multiple ranged characters I can go toe to toe with any melee or short-range class and stuff their face in their underwear with a few swings. With a bunkerish build, (20k hp, 3.1k armor) I can stay to toe with an entire zerg long enough to set the stage for the group behind me to begin breaking them down, and most of the time I can use just my shouts with Soldier runes to stay alive for the duration of the ‘omg burst’ stage.

The Guardian IS the opposite of the Elemental though. Limited range, high health and toughness, heals team-mates by being in melee range, doesnt have to go through 4 sets of swapping to achieve a combo (you can really stick with one weapon if you’re not being a frontline pusher if you don’t want to).

Try it out, it’s not as up-front face-mashing as Warrior (which I found boring), but it has serious potential. It’s more of, you and your friends can’t possibly kill me in the time it’ll take for me to kill you.

just taken a guardian to lvl7 with a gs and it was great fun. Tried the same with warrior and it was ‘meh’

Will stick with guardian for now, like the sound of staff for alt weapon.