Necro, Engineer, Ranger or Ele?
Compared to leveling a mesmer you will likely find leveling warrior overpowered or even boring. Ele will probably provide the closest comparison of challenge to what you have already faced.
Necro and Engineer are in the middle and both have their own benefits. Engies have a lot of fun kits that change their playstyle, but you will not get to spend much time looking at your weapon skins. Necro is one of the most powerful open world soloers in the game while leveling and are also surprisingly good at getting event credit with staff, however they feel even less powerful as a summoner than mesmers do which is depressing to anyone who associates the necro class with gw1 or diablo 2.
By far the best thing I can recommend though is play all 4 to level 20 and see how they feel, then decide.
Compared to leveling a mesmer you will likely find leveling warrior overpowered or even boring. Ele will probably provide the closest comparison of challenge to what you have already faced.
Necro and Engineer are in the middle and both have their own benefits. Engies have a lot of fun kits that change their playstyle, but you will not get to spend much time looking at your weapon skins. Necro is one of the most powerful open world soloers in the game while leveling and are also surprisingly good at getting event credit with staff, however they feel even less powerful as a summoner than mesmers do which is depressing to anyone who associates the necro class with gw1 or diablo 2.
By far the best thing I can recommend though is play all 4 to level 20 and see how they feel, then decide.
I got my Mesmer to level 37 so far, on my first game I used to play a Necro, but I’ve heard they’re a little different in this game.