Guild Wars 2

Which of the two professions would you prefer in PVE settings.

Which one is the most fun to level and play in open world events?

Do both professions have a role to play in dungeons?

If played to its maximum potential which profession would be able to solo the most content?

Thanks for your time!

If you want Dungeons, definitely Mesmer.

You can do Dungeons on a Thief, you just won’t be as welcomed.

Otherwise, it only matters on how you like to play the game (as they each player quite differently).

I have both. I used to main a thief but the lack of long ranged options was lackluster. Also, they seem to always find a way to neuter the profession. I switched over to Mesmer before the patch and after, I am completely in love with my butterflies. Mesmers can do a little of anything, if built right. We can offer party support, we can do spike damage, we give other targets for things to cleave into rather than our teammates in dungeons, we offer a few forms of reflect, we have portal and ways of mass invisible.

For map completion, getting it with thief was easy because I had Shadow Refuge to sneak past vets to get the skill points and what not. Mesmer I am finding it to be easy as well, I just have to murder everything in my way.

If I were to choose the time spent all over again, I’d go with mesmer 100%. We all look fabulous and we kill with butterflies!

generally thieves are less squishy than mesmer. however glass thief is not that easy either, you might want to try a heavy class (guard or warrior), you honestly will need nothing else for PvE. exception might be mesmer for port or thief for stealth, but except for that heavy class is usually better.

jyaim.3702:

Dg : thief has to dps and blind/weaken while surviving // mes has to maintain dps but also can handle whatever else is needed if well thought

also this is false.

Roll a thief. Stealth/ blinds/ dps/ projectile destruction/ great blast finisher.

Mesmer is nice and all but Thief.

Try them both and play what you like most. There is a lot of misinformation here that I don’t want to address and derail the topic.

I have a level 80 thief but I’ve deleted so many mesmers. I just can stand leveling them but there must but there must be a payoff in the end.

Levelling mesmer is a challenge. I love my mesmer and I would put again all my efforts/time on it I tried thief but seems it doesn’t fit me

Neve.7134:

Levelling mesmer is a challenge. I love my mesmer and I would put again all my efforts/time on it I tried thief but seems it doesn’t fit me

Please tell me why you like playing them so much. I just don’t understand…

I don’t understand how people enjoy playing mesmer either, the class mechanics were too strange and complicated for me so I just gave up on it. I guess everyone likes different classes.. you should try both and see which you like, but don’t give up before you lvl them to 80… I say this because thief was very awkward and difficult for me to lvl, but I am glad I did because I enjoy it now that I understand the class mechanics. I have both a mesmer and thief to 80 but I rarely use mesmer anymore, only for JPs like Obsidian Sanctum where I find centaur runes and portal to be quite handy.

Let me start off by saying that mesmer is my favorite profession and thief is one of my least favorite. I have 3 mesmers and 1 of each of the others, all at level 80. Even though my thief is at level 80 I really don’t understand how to play it that well. I only learned enough to get by, never really investing much time in exploring its intricacies. I might like it better if I did.

With the mesmer I just seemed to have fun from the beginning. Even though I learned the skills for all the weapons (and mesmer as well as guardian can use the most different weapons after the warrior) I favored different ones at different times. Although all professions can use ranged weapons as well as melee most are not that good in ranged. I like using both with a mesmer.

Mesmers also have some fun skills and interesting traits. And here is were the problem is. Leveling a mesmer now will be much more difficult since traits and skills are pushed back to higher levels.

No one but you can decide which one will appeal to you more.

Personally I say go thief. D/D in full zerker spamming CnD with backstab gives some nice big numbers plus SR and SS invises are nice to run past trash. Really the only things I see mesmers bringing when I group with them in dungeons is TW. I mean they might bring other stuff but I don’t notice it. I got both Mesmer and thief and killing on my Mesmer is about as fun as watching paint dry not to mention about as long where as thief its fast paced dead in 3-4 hits. Of course neither is my main as I main an ele or guard in dungeon runs and sometimes my thief. Problem with thief is they have been neutered so many times it would take 3 hands to count em all. Bottom line is try both and see which you like the best.