Guild Wars 2

I have decided I’m going to have a light armour class a an alt but I’m not sure what one to go with. I’ve played each of them up to level 5ish to test them all out but I don’t know which one I like best.

I think mesmers are cool but I find they die a bit if the enemy focuses on them instead of clones or phantasms, but I think I’m leaning towards mesmer the most.

I think eles would be good for pve because of their adaptability but I’m not really sure about playing them.

As for necros, using mind them but I don’t really like their playstyle, because they are a glass cannon ish class from my point of view.

I don’t really know what to pick. I think I’ll go with a mesmer but I’m not exactly sure. I play mostly pve and I don’t really like PvP that much. I’m not too sure of their extensive play style because I only played a bit so I am not entirely sure about my overviews but that’s what I think so far.

Just go with whichever you like best; pretty much anything is viable in PvE if you’re keeping alert and halfway decent with your class. I’ve played through with both Ele and Mesmer, and while some parts are challenging on their squishy bodies, it’s nothing insurmountable.

Personally, I love Ele the best, especially for how flashy their spells are, but Mesmer is a lot of fun as well. If you keep playing and decide later you don’t care for it, you can always go back to one of your other characters for a while.

Necromancer is definitely the least glass cannon out of them all in terms of pure stats. The necromancer philosophy is pretty much to just take hits to the face and keep going. Their area damage is supreme (in PvE at least), and they’re very powerful in solo play. They’re pretty slow, however, and their lack of mobility or defensive options is well known.

Mesmer is a little faster pace and kind of weird and tricky to learn. They’re also rather hard to level due to being highly dependent on traits. You can trait into making your clones explode on death and into creating clones by dodging, which allows you to handle groups more easily. Mesmer plays almost completely differently by the time you reach endgame PvE.

Elementalist is the fastest and most fragile of the three, as well as the hardest to learn and play. Even a simple fight will be complex as an elementalist, and more difficult fights will give you plenty of options to use. You really have to be twitchy with the dodges and blocks, and most of the time it will be your own fault if you die as opposed to having everything on cooldown or being in an unwinnable situation.

Mesmers are a bit hard to level, but at later level they get much more stronger with the right traits, at level 80 with a phanton build and the new healing signet mesmers have a much easier life.

Elementalists are very glassy, I’m leveling one now and it bother me a bit, but they are versatile for sure.

Necros are very tanky, highest HP base along with warriros, and Death Shroud gives even more HP and have many playstyles, condition, power, minion master, I really enjoyed leveling my necro.

Both amiavamp & Belzebu are dead-on with their descriptions of each class.

My suggestion to you though is to play them all a bit more to get the “feel” for them. To be honest, level 5 is a poor yardstick for measuring a class; you’ve got no utilities nor traits. If you enjoy them, play them until level 20 before making a final decision.

Your other option is to take each to the Heart of the Mists (PvP lobby) where they will be upleveled to 80 while there to get a feel for how their skills play out.