Anet likes to play favorites and let everyone know which class takes skill and which are just lazy, low skill bar ez mode classes for people who are just not that smart.
Here’s a simple list of how anet likes to decide which classes are for smart people and which are for not so smart people.
High skill ceiling, carryable, playmakers. So smart. lots of buttons.
- Engineer
- Mesmer
- Elementalist
- Revenant
- Thieves
Medium skill ceiling. Deceptively higher skill ceiling.
- Guardian
- Warrior
- Ranger
Dumb people. Easy splashable unfocused/ambient damage. Lowest skill ceiling. Uses large health pool in place of more reactionary, skill-based, active defenses. Has one job. Needs a higher skill ceiling class to hold their hand. Like a handler for a handicap person.
- Necromancer
You’re welcome. Anet would even fully admit thats how they’ve designed it pretty much only they’d probably be less honest about how difficult it is to play some of these classes since they don’t want to look biased. Which they are.