Guild Wars 2

Hi (hopfully) friendly and smart people on this forum.
My friend and I are returning players, and haven’t played guild wars 2 since 2013 late summer, thus I believe that there has been a lot of updates to the classes and therefore we were thinking about to lvl up new together characters in order to be more familiar with the classes. The question is: Which classes should we roll?

We both already have lvl 80 chars. My firend: a theif and a warr, whereas I have a lvl 80 ele. So please don’t suggest those classes, becauce there is no point having two lvl 80 with the same class.

We play quite a bit of together PvE, thus the classes must be able to quite easily fit into almost any party because no one bothers to wait 10 minutes to get into a group. We tend to avoid Www, because my bandwith can’t handle it (too much lag), so no need to take that into consideration.

When I play RPGs I usually play healer, and if that doesn’t exist: caster. For him it doesn’t matter too much and even I am quite open for new ideas. Oh, and it would also be good if we could somehow save some gold on gear by resuing our old characters gear. But who knows; the stats of the gears may be very different now days.

EDIT: Should probably have added that we used to do a lot of Fractals due to “lack” of demand for dungeons. Are fractals still “popular”? and is it still an excess demand for mesmers and warrioirs, and no one wants necros?

Though healers don’t really exist here, role play wise I do go with guardian for that role. It’s a fun class you can make a healer for funsies with caster weapons like scepter and staff (and if you want to do dungeons you can swap traits and weapons easily). I also really love mesmer. The caster duelist aesthetic is nice. It’s a dangerous class when played well, and has some great utility (if you’re good at jumping but your friend isn’t the portal can come in handy for Vistas and puzzles). Generally I like ranger as a solo class because you have your pet, but it is very good for group support (spotter and frost spirit). Those would be my recommendations

It’s true that necros aren’t desirable in dungeons these days. They don’t bring much helpful buffs or utility for the group. Since thief, war, and ele are off the table, I would recommend guardian, mesmer, or maybe even engie. Guardian brings the most buffs and group support. Mesmer brings lots of useful utilities such as reflects and portals. Engie can also bring reflects and useful combos. The only thing ranger seems to be useful for is frost spirit and spotter.

Addendum to necros: They are very strong in pvp and wvw, so don’t count them out completely!

Addendum to dungeons: They provide a strong source of income these days. You get at least 1 gold for completing a path, plus lots of champ bags, tokens, and loot drops to sell. I make from 10-20g a day running the “easy” paths. Takes roughly 2 hours with pugs.