Guild Wars 2

I understand someone starts such a topic everyday, so I thought today might be my day, yes?

Hello everyone!

So, I am trying to choose a class (profession) to play. I have no experience playing GW2, so I really hope for some help from you. So, what I need is the easy and nice class for PvE experience only, and what I mean by PvE here is just map cleaning, questing, some events (or whatever), just enjoying the open world of GW on my own – I have no friends playing the game, so the class I need should be good for solo game (I quite enjoy being solo).

The important thing is – I am not looking for any hard content at all, I have enough challenging gaming in another online game with my friends where we do hardcore raids and everything, and GW2 is just fun and rest for me (I love its graphics and atmosphere just so much and want to explore its lore).

So, according to my solo-PvE-openworld-easy-mode needs, which profession should I choose (I have HoT bought, if that’s important)?

Oh, and by the way, the lesser I need to swap my weapon – the better. I really hate the very idea of weapon-swapping during the fight, it just ruins everything for me somehow. I know Ele and Engi have only one weapon, still they are known to be quite hard for beginners, as I’ve read here on forums.

And the last thing – if you have some nice build saved somewhere in your bookmarks for solo open world gaming for any class – you are very welcome to share it, and I will be very grateful!

Thank you a lot for reading this, and thank you twice for answering. I am looking forward for your help and wish you all a good day.

-Easy, nice class to play
-PvE: Mapping, events, questing, etc..
-Good for solo play
-Less need to swap weapons
-Easy for beginners

With all of the above in mind, I would strongly suggest giving Ranger a try. It’s great for solo PvE roaming, and it’s really useful for other game modes that you might get into later on if you become dedicated to the game.

This is my build for pve- http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vNAQJATRnUqA1sitqAGsAEtgl9A7pDcEeawx186fdpJEAOblI3zA-TBSBABmpEkS1fIa/BAeSBXcIAy7CAclyP801EA4A43fz3fDc+5nf+5n3v/+7v/+7QAWB-e

If you don’t want to heal, or you don’t have HoT… then I’d swap druid for probably nature magic. For weapon, you can just camp longbow for the most part.

For WvW I use same everything except: some utility skills, swap beast mastery for wilderness survival, and use better nourishment (buffs from food). Also I use a different alternative pet (I like pink moa as main pet all the time for the funny screetch and daze skill, but that’s just personal preference).

Pretty easy to learn, and still fun. Even with berserker gear, still has great survivability.

I hope this helps.