Guild Wars 2

I’m looking for a little advice on my level 80 boost. I’m not looking for anyone to tell me what to do, but to share their experiences so I can decide for myself what I’d like to do.

I have a level 80 boost, and I’d like to use it. I have 3 80s right now that I leveled to 80 and basically stopped playing, because I like leveling so much. So I’d like it to be a class that’s painful to level (I’m a casual player), but enjoyable to play in the HoT area (some survivability because I tend to die a lot in HoT), and also get world completion so I can get all my HPs.

Right now it’s a choice of Mesmer (most likely), elementalist (lots of fun with this one at 80), necromancer (lots of fun, too!) and thief. Thief I’m having fun leveling right now so it’s the least likely.

I already have a guardian, engineer and ranger at 80. I’ve tried the level 80 boost on all the classes mentioned. I like ranged weapons over melee. For example, I really liked the mesmer with a great sword, the elementalist in general, and necromancer in general (like the pets, too!), because I could stand off and not have to worry too much about dying.

Also, I’m looking for a guild if anyone would like a casual player. I’m in NA, east coast, play some evenings after work (7ish) and weekends. I don’t pvp, but would enjoy the guild quests, and grouping for other activities.

Thank you!

Mesmer – Painful to lv and painful in HoT too, you will have to fight a lot of trash mobs at once and clones/phantasm gone after one trash mob die make use suffer a lot of pain, but very good in solo champ at HPs, very useful to help other get around.

Thief – A fun class for open world roaming but you will have to melee most of the time and that is what im not recommend in HoT, P/P has strong single target damg but mostly just spam #3, SB is very good to move around and avoid danger, a lot of dodge, squishy class., take time to master.

Ele – Has best ranged dps above all with massive AoE, squishy but unlike thief we do not have many dodge instead we have big and heavy damg AoE help us rally alot, can take down a lot of trash mob at once, will have hard time to solo champs but if there is someone else take aggro for us then you can watch champ melt, versatile build with a lot of healing, boons support for team.

Necro – A monster in PvE mode with minions, HP steal, massive HP pool ( 2 pools ) with good damg output make this class perfect for solo pve contents, you can faceroll almost anything throw at you but necro is a melee fighter with little ranged option except condi build, Axe make a fine single target ranged dps, and staff is very good for tagging stuff from distance.

Have to mostly/completely dissagree with Eros about what was written. Experiences differ, when I went into HoT I took my mesmer first through the maps and story because it was easy. Ran into a vet smokescales and 2 regulars up above the bugs in branches adventure when I was first in the map doing some exploring and did not break a sweat on the mesmer, other characters of mine not so easy.
Thief played mostly dagger/pistol and sb and was not too much of an issue to move around but it is squishy. Ele very squishy, really need to look at your build.
Necro I always hated mininons and never run with them, still one best profs to play especially when you get the elite specs.
Look a Revenant they are a lot of fun to play, sword/axe for roaming and hammer for ranged combat, wish I could have staff as well since it can be a lot of fun in melee.

Thanks guys. This is the type of stuff I was looking for.

I tried out the ele again with the temp 80 boost in Silverwastes. I love how versatile it is. But I got overwhelmed and went squish a few times. I took a necro into the same situation and with a staff and scepter/dagger, and all the minions, I could take on almost anything. I never died, but came close. Still learning to play the class, though.

I’m going to try out the mesmer again and decide after that. I’m still hard pressed to make a decision. I like both necro and ele. Mesmer I may not like as much, but I’ll see. Thief I’m going to wind up leveling at some point.