Guild Wars 2

Hi all,

Im a completely new player on GW2 and have come from a background of WoW and SWTOR. My question is which is a good class to start with, because so far i have chosen and elementalist and although i find it fun i have read this is a hard character to get a hold of as a first character.

Not only this, but im a little bit lost in the ultimate goal of the game, as in in WoW I hit X level raided got gear yada yada… is end game just WvW? and im confused when i go into one i just seem to follow the crowd with not really understanding what or why im doing it. Any tips would be appreciated.

Apologies for the noobyness, but I guess we all got to start somewhere.
Thanks in advance for any help

If you are having fun with the elementalist, continue playing with the elementalist. The professions CAN be a difficult first character, but that’s not always true. Warriors tend to be considered more noob friendly, but its not for everyone (If you saw me playing a warrior, it’d look like it was the most difficult profession to play. I main an elementalist and make a lot of content look easy with him. Basically, the noob friendly profession is hard for me to play, while one of the more difficult professions was easy for me to play) The way I see it, you probably got lucky and found your main on the first character creation. If you need any tips on playing an elementalist, just send a whisper or in-game mail my way.

As for end game content in GW2, its more about how you want it to be. Do you want to have the best looking gear in the game? Do you want to travel the open world and discover its little secrets? Maybe you’d rather take on difficult content such as dungeons or fractals and test your skills? Prove your world is the best in WvW either by fighting as a soldier or commanding its armies? Be a competitor in PvP? It is literally what you want to be, and if you want to be a commander in WvW someday, try asking your world’s lead commanders about why they choose to take a particular keep or why have a different group attack a tower on the other end of the map (when they aren’t busy).

Profession pick is really subjective. It’s hard to give you advice with so little info of what you like.

The Warrior is the easiest profession. It’s very straight forward.
Some other professions that I found easy to get into is the Ranger, Guardian and Necromancer.

The “Goal” of this game is quite blurry… you have a bunch of options, but they are not as clear as in other mmos (i.e. grinding, gear-treadmill -> Raids…).

Once you reach level 80, you quite quickly get full Exotic-gear. After that, one usually progress their character aesthetically. This is, atleast for me, the main goal.
Much more fulfilling than getting a higher number on your attributes.

Although I’m happy with the current items that my characters have, there is always that item that would be really awesome to have.

What makes this game for me, is the Dungeons (and FotM), with the occasional sPvP. And ofcourse the amazing game design… I’m always having a blast when I play, due to how I’ve chosen to build my characters.

Then you may progress towards Ascended-gear, which is hardly needed to do anything well, but there’s a boost to your attributes. There are also Ascended Weapons which takes a godforsaken amount of time to get. Then there is the “grind” for a Legendary-weapon (few 100s of hours) which is pretty much generally the most awesome items in the game.