Guild Wars 2

So as the title says I’m looking for a class to exclusively play pve with. I have not played any pvp or wvw and have no intention to at the moment. I have leveled up Rev to 40 and I’m enjoying it so far but herald is a far ways off and I hear that’s where it gets real enjoyable. I’ve also been wanting to try out Necro cause I’m a fan of dot damage/ape damage and they seem like a class that will fit that bill but I’m not really sure where they sit in terms of dps/enjoyability on a whole. Thanks for any insight

I’m currently loving playing the Reaper, fun skills and I feel as though I’m actively moving about the battle with my greatsword. Boosted a revenant to 80 when I got HoT, but haven’t really played him.

I played revenant at 80 but felt it was lack luster but was told it becomes a lot more fun once you fully unlock herald which seems like a lot of grinding, which i dont mind but not if its gonna be a horrible choice. How does reaper hold up? Is base Necro fun to play as well?

Necro all the way.

It depends on what you do in PvE. Both classes are great fun. Both play very differently. Planning on doing raids? Rev is better choice. Want to solo a lot? Necro can melt hordes of enemies. It’s a hard choice to advise you on unless I know what your PvE goals are.

Alternately, do what I did. I have 2 revs and 2 necros (and 1 of each other class), and I play the Revs and Necros the most.

I’m not going to say I have no intention of raiding but I have not touched them yet. I mainly just solo or try to solo whatever I can. The only times I’ve renamed up with anyone us just for content I couldn’t complete myself or in situations where teaming up got me better loot haha. But yeah I plan to solo whatever I can

I’d say necro/reaper easily. I have a Rev/Herald, and just don’t like it that much. Necro/reaper, in my opinion, is just a lot of fun to play.
I play a “wells” build specifically with only the flesh golem as a minion. Staff/GS for weapons. Easy enough to do a decent amount of solo stuff. I’m sure there are dozens of people on the forum that will claim it’s a “no skill” class, but I find that skill/practice does make a difference.

If you like doing open world metas in HoT I would go with a Reaper over a Rev for one reason (it is my biggest reason for not playing Rev very often), Reapers have a signet that gives them a 25% mobility buff. That might not be a big deal to some people, but for me it annoys me to run around in characters that have no speed buffs. I assumed all characters had them when I made my awesome Charr rev. I get so frustrated because not only is he slow, but he feels even slower because he is a Charr. It actually puts me in a bad mood to play him. But your mileage may vary.

Actually, I main a Reaper, I like other classes but Reaper = love for me… it is just so much fun to play.

Don’t Revenants have a speed skill?

The only speed skill Revenants have is the facet for permanent swiftness but that requires a heavy investment in the Herald line. I like revenant and necro both, but necro has an easier time getting things done.

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I played revenant at 80 but felt it was lack luster but was told it becomes a lot more fun once you fully unlock herald which seems like a lot of grinding, which i dont mind but not if its gonna be a horrible choice. How does reaper hold up? Is base Necro fun to play as well?

Unlocking herald took me a couple of hours. No big deal. It’s really just full with herald.

If you want a DoT reaper is great and very easy to play. Check out the builds on metabattle.