Guild Wars 2

Ok, so Ive been playing a while already and got myself a Guardian to 30 lvl and run the first dungeon a few times. I admit it was kinda an experiment into melee and it failed.

So I would like to ask you which class can you suggest me that can do decent support(I normally played healer in standard MMOs) in a team and have some variation as to builds – meaning not only one build. I dont mind if the class is even broken or UP, also dont mind the smaller dps than others. I was considering ele or necro so ii’ve played them a few lvls but soloing cant really tell me much. Does any of them get better synergy with team at later lvls?

So any advice on what might suit me better?
P.S. I dont care about pvp, I mostly like to do dungeons and events.

First off all, There is no decent healer class. the same as there is no decent melee class nor casterclass. This game doesn’t follow the trinity like many other mmo’s do. So with any class do not expect to use any of you past experience in other games and be totally open to playing titally different then what your used to.

Having said that my second point. Failing at the first dungeon is very usual. do not blame it on yourself or others, they are just very very hard. Do not judge your class on a dungeon.

Now back to your question. You are, as stated have always been a healer. The first thing you have to ask yourself is what you liked bout it.
- Is it the out of combat feeling? well there is no way to do that in this game, but the lower your armor the better.
- Is it the healing and protecting bit? Then the guardian was you best pick and you should stick with it
- Is it cause you hate loosing (in the way of being dead)? then again guardian is your best pick.

The bottom line is that as a healer in other mmo’s you have to re-learn to play (wich is true btw for most players of the old school mmo’s). My advise would be to start using the middle classes (medium armor) so Ranger, Engineer or Thief. The reason is that you have some good flesh around the bones to survive, but you also have good attack and support skills, and can stay back from the fight if you need to. Also find a guild of people who understand where you are comming from and are willing to help you through a process of re-learning how to play this new style of MMO. My personal favourite is the engineer. cause your supporting skills mostly benefit you and your party (like the medkit, the healing turret and the elite supply crate).But don’t be fooled, the main thing bout an enigneer is to nuke and nuke. Use turrets to distract enemy’s and use kits for either high damage, high healing or not a kit but e.g. your riffle for something in between.

Try different classes though to lvl15, then birng them to the heart of the mist and train on npc’s (I know it is a pvp area, but there is a difference with porfessions at low level and on high level, this is the way to have a glimp on how it is on high level).