Guild Wars 2

Hey peeps,

What I’ve been thinking about lately is what character to progress.
I switch quite often between them to do different parts of the map, but the haven’t been specialized yet in a particular region or dungeon gear-wise.

I’ve started accumulating some of the components to make Ascended armor, but as you guys might know it’s quite expensive and time consuming to craft. Next to that I was thinking about splitting the effort and slowly working towards my first Legendary also.

The choice is limited between character of mine. A Warrior and and Elementalist of which both I really like to play. Even my Ranger is fun to mix is a bit, but I’m disappointed in the implementation of the pets AI. So I left my first ever character to collect the bits and pieces of my progress.

My question now to you guys and girls is: What do you think would be the best profession to build out further? Taking future also kind of into account.

Both profession are nerfed with each patch in some way, but are still wanted in Dungeons a lot. Which is what I am to do most of the time, together with some World Bosses. Next to that the only really difference is the weapon choices each profession has and the difficulty of gameplay that comes with each. Warrior is a bit easier, but Elementalist can be made easy also with a Staff for example.

I would really appreciate some advice so I can finally start getting at least one maxed out character after pre-launch. ^^
If only ArenaNet would flip out the Fiery Greatsword Elite for a new one and give the Elementalist a regular Greatsword. Or that the skins on the conjured weapons can be swapped out also my decision would be much easier. xD

Looking forward to some great replies.

Regards,

Are you the type of player that likes to min-max your characters or do you just want to have fun. It sounds like you enjoy your Elementalist more so I would gear up that character first.

If you are good with your Ele, then your Ele. I prefer a well-geared, well-played Elementalist over a well-geared, well-played Warrior in my FoTM groups. They are just so darn useful and have amazing DPS.

Got my first 4 pieces finished. The last couple of bolts of damask cost me over 180g :/ Went for Ele in the end And indeed I do like the Ele’s versatility.
Thanks!

Just keep in mind that in terms of material costs, the Ele Ascended Armor is going to run you 2-3 times more….(unless you have dozens of stacks of Silk lying about).

(sounds like you already figured that out….)

Sad enough, yes :P would cost aprox. 700g if I would buy all the mats straight off the TP.