Guild Wars 2

I played at launch for 6-7 months
I have 1 of each class at 60
2 Char characters (necro + gaurdian)
1 norn warrior
1 asura mesmer
1 human thief
1 sylvari elementalist

I bought a new slot with ingame gold to ‘re-learn’ the game

What race and class should i go with….
I’m leaning towards norn/human…

Your lack of ranger is disturbing
You already have a medium armor human, so I suggest a Norn Ranger.
You’ll be able to find the pets across the world, the gameplay isn’t as dull as people makes it seem to be, specially if you go as a melee ranger.

To me, humans have a better city and starting area, and norns feel slow due to their animations (plus they are among the harder races to deal with jumping puzzles due to their size). Most armor looks best on humans, as it tends to just stretch and clip on others.

On the other hand, I have friends who adore playing norns and seldom do any other race. It’s all in what appeals to you.

For profession — I see you don’t have ranger and engineer listed. Not that I recommend them, as medium armor professions have proven my least favorite. Of those two, I’d go with ranger because it has standard weapon swap and that’s an instinct you want to have. Engineer does swap out via the utility keys, making you fling your fingers all over the keyboard (assuming you don’t re-map) for every fight.

My favorite professions game-play-wise are mesmer and guardian. Again, highly subjective, each player has his/her own preferences. For learning the game, I’d say guardian. Fights will take longer but you’ll die a heck of a lot less. Though … I barely dodge on my guardians whereas my thief is all over the place, and dodge is another thing you want to get into the instinct level.

I hope you enjoy whatever you choose!

did i mention i quite like pvp

Nope I can’t help you there. My comments were all aimed at PvE play.

I’d continue leveling the classes you already have to 80 so you can get a feel for each and decide what you want to level again.

my bad there all 80

Norn Ranger?
http://www.gw2armor.com/norn/male/medium_list.php
this might help you make a decision.

Asura might be more fun but I think the sylvari and humans have better medium cultural armor.

went with a human ranger, used that lvl20 boost, currently trying the melee stuff on it

I’m saving up for new character slot because I still need a mesmer, already have 60+ tomes of knowledge and one of those scrolls for the first 20 lvls :p

currently level 40
not feeling it in Wvw

gonna try a shortbow/longbow build
and then a GS/S+D build
but i think i will need another 10 trait levels to get an idea

Iambeastx.6805:

currently level 40
not feeling it in Wvw

gonna try a shortbow/longbow build
and then a GS/S+D build
but i think i will need another 10 trait levels to get an idea

Please don’t ever think about using a double bow build on ranger for any content ever. Its the most terribad idea I’ve ever seen.

GS/S+D is better, since melee ranger skills rock, but for WvW or eotm leveling I’d recommend axe/horn (or OH axe) and GS. The axe is midranged AoE, and the GS is strong defensive melee cleave and mobility (swoop is wonderful).

Anyway about bows on ranger, they typically suck. Especially shortbow, its a boring condition hybrid weapon that is now somewhat outclassed by Axe/dagger for condition/hybrid builds, but theres a patch coming up in like 2 months that will make axe completely outclass shortbow, by giving the axe autoattacks grant might to the ranger on hit. Shortbow is not recieving any buffs, so there will be barely any reason to use it.

Longbow is also receiving buffs in that patch, mainly with the cast times/speeds of skill 2 and 5, which will make it better, but it will still be a bad weapon for group PvE and it will still be suboptimal for organized WvW, but it will be strong for glassy pvp and roaming builds.

nearlight.3064:

Well that kinda kills the whole point of a ranger….

Is any ranger build viable for solo WvW…

Iambeastx.6805:

nearlight.3064:

Well that kinda kills the whole point of a ranger….

Is any ranger build viable for solo WvW…

Why does everyone think ranger means ranged?

rang·er
?r?nj?r/
noun
noun: ranger; plural noun: rangers

1.
a keeper of a park, forest, or area of countryside.
2.
a member of a body of armed men, in particular.
a mounted soldier.
US
a commando or highly trained infantryman.
3.
a person or thing that wanders or ranges over a particular area or domain.
“rangers of the mountains”

Anyway, linguistics aside, double bows is just a joke. And you mean solo WvW. Ah. There are actually a lot of ranger builds for solo WvW that work very well, but none of them use two bows as the two bows provide completley different roles.

I reccomend a settler’s/apothecary condition tank ranger build with high regen uptime. You can use either shortbow with S/D or axe/dagger with S/Torch, but due to offhand training being a must, I recomend axe/dagger and s/torch above shortbow, and shortbow has like 1 good skill (poison volley) while axe/dagger has 4 good skills and will have 5 good skills when the balance patch buffs the auto. Condi tank focuses on health regen. Youtube videos are a good example of it.

Trap builds use the same weapons, and are moroe offensive with rabid gear usually.

You could run a glassy longbow/GS build, but right now its mostly inferior to condition builds for roaming AND spvp (spirits or traps mainly).

Rangers are great in WvW roaming (AKA solo), look for trapper and cond/regen builds in the ranger sub forum.

And yeah, rangers are not particularly good at ranged fight, the future update will help a bit in that matter, but till then dual bows is a no no.

Ok, i am investing a bit more into melee ranger over the next few days.
I’ll have to swap zerkers for something a bit more tanky though as i feel so squishy

nearlight.3064:

Why does everyone think ranger means ranged?

A predisposed opinion caused by multiple MMo’s and SP games using that class name to define a ranged gamestyle to multiple generations of users…

:D
:P

Lol yeah that’s true.

You can still use zerker for Melee ranger in pve, and you should, you just have to learn how to cancel the sword auto chain to dodge lol.

hmmm suppose i could test run stuff in Spvp…
deffo gonna need that engineer next…