Guild Wars 2

Hey downloading the client as I type this, wondering if anyone has server suggestions (East Coast USA) and profession suggestions? Open to all pro’s and con’s but want to be a class that’s needed in PVE and viable for PVP sometime down the road. Appreciate any feed back.

As i’m on EU, i can not advise on servers, but professioins, i can share my thoughts on that

I would suggest that you think a bit about what you want to play. We have melee, ranged, magic and rogue like. So is your goal to beat everything on the head with a mace/club/warhammer, go for warrior or guardian.
If you like more distance between you and your enemy, you have a choice between fysical damage and magical damage.
Fysical would be Ranger or Engineer.
Magical would be Elementalist, Mesmer and Necromancer.
And you have Thief as a rogue style.

If this is you very first character in the Guild Wars universe, i would not recommend Elementalist and Engineer, because the seem to be the hardest ones out there to learn.
Be ready to learn a lot off new things when playing this game. It has nothing to do with WoWplaystyle or any copy off that game. Mobility is key in fighting and your skills are more important then what you have as gear.
I know, gear is also important, but if you have the best gear you can aquire at this moment, and you have no idea what your character can and must do to survive and fight, you will die A LOT!
So learn, try out the different classes and races and THEN decide what you like the best to play as main.

As for PVP later on, i’m sure that all professions can do there part in PVP, so don’t worry about that.

If you want a class that’s easy to play and is good in both PvE and PvP, I’d go with a guardian. Their high survivability and team buffs make them a great asset for anyone, and they’re a reasonably easy class to play when you’re first starting out.

Tarnished Coast is a popular server and is (I believe) the unofficial role play server. Even though I do not engage in role play myself, I find it adds a cool element to see a group of players standing around talking in character as I pass through.

For which profession, as previously mentioned, it depends on your preference of what you want to do in the game.

Difficulty wise, this is my opinion, I would put it as so:

Easiest to hardest by player skill involved to master the class.

Warrior
Ranger
Guardian
Mesmer
Necro
Engineer
Thief
Elementalist

I’ve tried every class but Elementalist, Mesmer and Engineer. My main and only lvl 80 is a Necromancer -

Want to have a pet and be a great mid-range attacker while having access to traps and swords, daggers and torches for fighting up close? (You can light people on fire). Go Ranger.

Want to deal ungodly amounts of in-your-face damage across multiple foes while being able to rotate through defensive weapons that heal you and your allies? Go Guardian.

Want to scream HULK SMASH while you bulldoze through enemies with swords, maces, bows and rifles (and more)? Go Warrior.

Want to read forum post after forum post crying about broken traits and abilities, and how terrible your profession is? Go Necromancer!