Guild Wars 2

So I bought this game back when it first came out, but eventually cut my time with it short since none of my friends had the game or a working pc at the time. Now everyone is on board and we all wanted to start a game together, but the problem is, is that I’m completely stuck on what class to pick. The game doesn’t seem to give a good representation of each class’ role. I definitely want to be a magic user (Elementalist, Mesmer, Necromancer), but I can’t get a good read on what one I should pick. I love magic and especially necromancy, so I figured I start as a necro, but a few people I know who have played the game told me they are completely useless in dungeons and raids. So i’m just wonder what the role is for each magic class, and which is the most beneficial for my team.

Since the addition of Reaper attitudes have changed quite a bit towards necros. I am not saying that there aren’t some people that do not want necros, but I don’t have much of a problem finding people to play with. It depends on what your aims are. If all you want to do is raid and dungeons there might be a better class. But if the only reason that you do not want to play necro is that you think no one is going to want you, I have seen people who run dungeons talking about an entire team of necros because of their condition builds are versatile and tanky to some degree.

It turned out necro was really the right fit for me. The new skills make us really hard to kill and there are several ways where we can lend support to other players by sharing our health reserves with our groups. I like PvE, and I am just starting dungeons and fractals, so I am definitely not an expert in what people that do them are thinking about necros.

Necros are great! They do decent damage, they are extremely durable, they have minions to distract mobs if needed, and you still can plow through mobs in melee as a light armored class with ease. My main has been Necro since launch and nothing has ever made me waver from that. Class animosity is only brought on by a tiny portion of the community that is best avoided/ignored anyways.

Necro is great fun to use, I like being king of the minions and go for a minion build though I am looking at starting my own condition damage build necro (I have a necro as my secondary character just for fun so i cant help you when it comes to dungeons etc as I havent a clue) but it has a mechanic where you go into a death shroud which gives you other abilities and something like a new healthbar which gives you even more durability (necro is in lowest armour pool but largest health pool)

Elementalist is my primary class and it is both awful and fantastic. It is in the lowest health pool and armour pool which makes it the most fragile however i think I am right in saying it is the class that deals the most DPS if you go berserker build and staff.
Elementalist can switch between fire, water, earth and air attunements meaning in a fight it essentially has 20 weapon abilities instead of just 5. However, whilst fightiing they cant swap the weapons out like other classes (but still that means we have 20 weapon abilities vs other classes 10) Elementalist is great fun but until you are used to it you will die… a lot