Guild Wars 2

I will rate my preferences from 1 to 10 and you can tell me which profession qualifies
Please

Build bound – 3/10 I’m okay with running a specific build, but it would be nice to experiment something viable

Solo capability – 8/10 I play mostly alone so I don’t want to to be dependant on others

Party capability – 5/10 It is nice to support the party, but I don’t want to fully concentrate on that. (I like supporting with weakness/vuln/CC more)

WvW Zerg Bags – 6/10 Some bags are always nice

WvW Zerg Support – 3/10 I usually just run into the zerg with my other toons and cleave the enemies a few times and then get the heck out of there

WvW Roam – 7/10 Since I play mostly alone, solo flipping and dolly slapping happens often.

PvE Capability – 5/10 I’ll put this in middle because there really isn’t anything special with pve…

Which profession do you think fits my ratings?
I have, since having the game 1 year ago, always wondered which one I should choose, but didn’t know how the game was so I just picked one. After some time, I realised this game has it’s differences but I simply don’t have the time to level 4-8 characters because of college and other matters.

Thank you for reading this!!!

Build bound – Every profession is rather limited in terms of “viable” builds, especially in PvP. Mesmer, guardian, warrior, and elementalist tend to have trait points to shift here and there in my experience, however. Some professions still have a lot of traits that are downright worthless. Engineer may have the most variety due to their design, but I can’t say for sure.

Solo capability – Every profession can do solo content just fine. This is largely dependent on the build you use. However, I would say necromancer ranks the highest here for general solo play, with thief or mesmer being the best at soloing champions.

Party capability – I’ll just break this one down class by class for PvE:
Warrior: Very high demand, high damage, unique support abilities, can build for healing
Guardian: Very high demand, pretty high damage, amazing support abilities, lots of healing
Mesmer: High demand, decent damage, numerous support abilities, some unique abilities, can build for healing
Thief: Medium demand, very high damage, few support abilities
Elementalist: Medium demand, potentially highest damage, numerous support abilities, lots of healing
Engineer: Low demand, high damage + conditions, some support abilities
Necromancer: Low demand, high single-target OR area damage + conditions, few support abilities
Ranger: Low demand, high damage, some support abilities

WvW zerg bags – Necromancer and engineer are definitely highest here, since they can spam AoE, followed by warrior/ranger/elementalist/thief, then mesmer/guardian

WvW zerg support – Warrior, guardian, elementalist, and mesmer are better at this. Basically, water and fire combo fields = good. Area buffs and healing = good.

WvW Roam – Class-by-class:
Warrior: Very mobile, can destroy people with burst damage
Guardian: Somewhat slow despite constant swiftness, decent at roaming
Mesmer: Slowest (weirdly enough), excels at 1v1 fights, can easily escape fights
Thief: Probably the best roamer; very mobile, extreme burst or attrition, can easily escape fights, can fight small groups alone and win
Elementalist: Decent at roaming (can’t say much here), high mobility
Engineer: Has deadly condition build for 1v1 fights, can survive being attacked by zergs
Necromancer: Terrible at roaming, low mobility, does good in 1v1 fights but cannot escape enemies if outnumbered; ironically does counter thieves though
Ranger: Decent at roaming

PvE capability – See party capability

Build bound : Well any profession can experience with several build so I don’t know what to answer here.

Solo capability : Any profession again. For some class its more easy to solo (like warriors) because they use raw stats, while other class need more skill (elementalist) because they rely more on active gameplay and less on stats.

Party capability : Here i’ll give some profession that can support without needing anything in your build to do so. Warrior (offensive boons), Guardian (boons in general and reflect), Mesmer (useful skill and reflect), thief (stealth), elementalist (combos). Note that all profession can support your party but for exemple the warrior can only heal and give defensive boons if you trait it to do so or the Engineer can give crazy vulnerability but you also need to trait it.

WvW Zerg : For that you need to tag fast and personally for that I prefer Guardian Staff or Engineer Grenade. Well anything that don’t need to you to target a specific player and can hit on range. Anyway if you are good you probably gonna be able to tag as fast with most profession that just need more skill and concentration.

WvW Zerg Support : Elementalist combo field/blast, Mesmer veil and portal or Guardian for boons. These are probably some of the best zerg support. At least some of the more popular at the moment.

WvW Roam : Mesmer is usually the class that frustrate me the more in 1vs1, but again if you are good with your profession, anyone can do the job. But usually, roaming build and zerg build are not the same.

PvE kings in the Moment are Guardian, Warrior and Mesmer. But this is usually because good build for these profession are widely advertise on the net and in the community so more people tend to play them with a better build. Some really powerful Elementalist and Thief build exist, but these profession surviability come from an active gameplay so they are hard to master and most pug are just bad with them, its not on the profession but on the player. Ranger sword dps build become more popular too, but the animation of the auto-attack make it really hard to control so most people simply keep dying for a long time before mastering the technique.

Mesmer looks like it fits most of your list.