Guild Wars 2

I’m a new player to the game and looking to make one of the classes above. I am mostly just looking into which one will be the most easiest to level up with (Since I don’t know much about the game). Also which one is the most fun and most useful at later level dungeons?

guardian for versatility

Don’t worry about leveling up, both of those will be fine for that. Leveling just sort of happens. Guardian really is good for a lot of things though (I have an 80 Guardian and a70 Warrior). The game isn’t meant to rush through to 80.

I do find myself grabbing my Guardian for any dungeon runs, though. She’s so useful in so many ways compared to my Thief main.

Donari.5237:

Don’t worry about leveling up, both of those will be fine for that. Leveling just sort of happens. Guardian really is good for a lot of things though (I have an 80 Guardian and a70 Warrior). The game isn’t meant to rush through to 80.

I do find myself grabbing my Guardian for any dungeon runs, though. She’s so useful in so many ways compared to my Thief main.

Is Guardian hard to learn? I understand every class has a learning curve but how bad is theirs?

I found warrior much simpler, as most guardian skills have x1000 different effects. Just a pain to learn and figure out which combos work for you. But my main is a warrior, so I suppose I’m just used to a very easy to learn profession (which is why Elementalist is doing my head in.)

Both classes are useful and relatively easy to level. Which one is the most fun is subjective. In general, guardian is more defensive, while warrior is more offensive. Really, the best way to get a feel for what you like is to level both classes to 20 or so.

I didn’t find guardian hard, but I spent most of my time learning the game on my thief. That plus having to quickly scan new skill sets when I picked up things like ice bows taught me how to get a feel for what a skill does in a hurry.

Though it really helps to go into the hero pane and read through the various weapon skills once you know enough of the game to understand the tool tips. Do that, and unlock all the skills on a weapon before you rotate in the next one, and you’ll find the set you like. I really like maining scepter/focus with a swap to sword/shield because those weapons move fast and light. But sometimes I have to use a hammer (Lovers fight in AC Story) or staff (bandits in butler path in CM) and it’s good that I opened up and learned all the skills.

My warrior’s settled in on rifle/greatsword, more for the visceral satisfaction than for any theorycrafting reasons. Plus they fit her RP personality. I’d say warrior is even simpler than guardian for the basics — but hanged if I can match the expertise of a warrior charr I know that can solo AC explorable and usually lets a few of us tag along just to speed things up.

There’s always a someone who’s a master at the profession -grins-

I had struggled with this problem myself for a while, and I think I found an answer to help you out;

The choice really comes down to your play-style, not the damage it deals or the “tankiness”. The warrior is an aggressive, heavy-hitting class that anyone can play, being very versatile with the weapons he/she can use. The Guardian (my personal preference) also has great damage, but the difference in his/her play style is that it has a support option, which does not take away from the fact that Guardians can be heavy-hitters as well. While with the Warrior you’ll mostly be shooting/swinging towards the enemy, Guardians have the option to do that or help out their teammates. Both great classes, I’d say Guardian is a bit more demanding (of course not as much as a Thief of Engineering), but more flexible in terms of his/her uses.

I wouldn’t say the guardian is more flexible overall. They’re just flexible in different ways. The guardian has more support options, yes. The warrior, however, has a lot more going for it in terms of mobility and ranged attacks. Don’t get me wrong: a warrior can still support and a guardian can still be mobile, but they pay a higher price for it.

I would take the warrior, being a guardian myself..

Only thing about the guardian is a lot of our skill’s are reactionary. You send a lot of your time auto attacking till you see a mob doing something that needs to be countered.

Donari.5237:

I didn’t find guardian hard, but I spent most of my time learning the game on my thief. That plus having to quickly scan new skill sets when I picked up things like ice bows taught me how to get a feel for what a skill does in a hurry.

Though it really helps to go into the hero pane and read through the various weapon skills once you know enough of the game to understand the tool tips. Do that, and unlock all the skills on a weapon before you rotate in the next one, and you’ll find the set you like. I really like maining scepter/focus with a swap to sword/shield because those weapons move fast and light. But sometimes I have to use a hammer (Lovers fight in AC Story) or staff (bandits in butler path in CM) and it’s good that I opened up and learned all the skills.

My warrior’s settled in on rifle/greatsword, more for the visceral satisfaction than for any theorycrafting reasons. Plus they fit her RP personality. I’d say warrior is even simpler than guardian for the basics — but hanged if I can match the expertise of a warrior charr I know that can solo AC explorable and usually lets a few of us tag along just to speed things up.

There’s always a someone who’s a master at the profession -grins-

I’d have to see it to believe it, I can solo all of it but the event that varies between paths. It can’t be done, path 1 you can’t destroy burrows whilst keeping them off hodge. Path 2 you cant survive against, and kill, THAT many gravelings, half of them just Zerg rush detha anyway. And finally one player does not have enough DPS to clear the burrows quick enough on path 3, they would be overwhelmed instantly. DOES NOT BELIEVE. THE REST OF THE DUNGEON IS EASY, BUT THOSE NO.