Guild Wars 2

I recently bought GW2 over the couple days, since I no longer have fun in WoW. With that being said what class would usually fit my playstyle, I used to main Mage back in WoW, i like magic oriented class, classes who normally crowd control, and overall a range class. Would appreciate if i could get an insight into what class will suit me the best given the previous points mentioned.

Engineer, Ele or thief.

Mesmer or Engineer probs

Mesmer, Engi, Ele.

Engi. Or Ele.

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Ele sounds like your play style. Mesmer might be the 2nd closest thing.

Thanks for the input everyone i decided to go with ele, lets see how this works!

Spoonsify.2513:

I recently bought GW2 over the couple days, since I no longer have fun in WoW. With that being said what class would usually fit my playstyle, I used to main Mage back in WoW, i like magic oriented class, classes who normally crowd control, and overall a range class. Would appreciate if i could get an insight into what class will suit me the best given the previous points mentioned.

Since you like magic oriented classes: Elementalist, Necromancer, and mesmers are suited for you as they are spellcaster classes.

Even Guardian is kinda magic oriented.

I would say start Guard because it’s an all-time easy mode class since launch.

Welcome! You should try at least the three light armor professions.

Mesmer, in power builds at least, require you to be constantly switching between range and melee, and are less of a traditional “mage” class (they use swords and greatswords), but they do offer a lot of interrupts and daze.

Elementalist ressembles the mage of WoW, but its best build at the moment focuses on melee. Some range builds (with staff or scepter) are on the other hand perfectly viable. It doesn’t rely on CC that much, on the other hand.

Necromancer relies on CC on condi builds (fear mostly), and is mostly a ranged profession. It seems to fit what you’re looking for in that way. Power builds are a bit more melee focused and don’t CC that much.

Finally, you should try ranger. It’s not magic-based, but it excels at range (with both short and long bow), and in crowd control (mostly immobilisation). You might like it.

Most importantly, unlike in WoW, you don’t have to invest much in your characters to perform well in pvp, since all traits and stat sets except a few are unlocked, and your gear doesn’t matter. It means you can play with a lot of different professions to see which one you like the most. A lot of pvp players even have four, five or even more favorite professions. Have fun!

BlackTruth.6813:

Even Guardian is kinda magic oriented.

I would say start Guard because it’s an all-time easy mode class since launch.

It’s melee focused. So I don’t think that’s really what was asked for.

Elementalist it is, then.

I’d recommend staff for the beginning. It’s a reactive playstyle. Instead of hopping between attunements like crazy to create combos, you just switch to whatever attunement you just need to provide a cc or heal and then go back to camp in fire and dish out damage.
Yes, this is a gross oversimplification, of course, there’s also a lot of combo stuff happening with staff, but it’s nowhere near to the level of scepter or dagger.

Always go necro you can never be disappointed.

Sagat.3285:

Always go necro you can never be disappointed.

Are you crazy? It would scar him for life…
He’d just instantly go back to WoW, if his first experience in GW2 was playing a necro in pvp.

naphack.9346:

Sagat.3285:

Always go necro you can never be disappointed.

Are you crazy? It would scar him for life…
He’d just instantly go back to WoW, if his first experience in GW2 was playing a necro in pvp.

Sir please calm down, I’m pretty sure the devs show unbiased love to all classes. Necro can’t be that bad even if it was why would the devs leave it like that?

Turret engi. You’ll thank me later

Sagat.3285:

naphack.9346:

Sagat.3285:

Always go necro you can never be disappointed.

Are you crazy? It would scar him for life…
He’d just instantly go back to WoW, if his first experience in GW2 was playing a necro in pvp.

Sir please calm down, I’m pretty sure the devs show unbiased love to all classes. Necro can’t be that bad even if it was why would the devs leave it like that?

Well, they added Dhuumfire. Of course, they totally understand what’s wrong with the necro class and know, how to fix it :>

Don’t have much experience with other classes but you could give staff/gs mesmer a try. Both ur mainhand and ur offhand weapons allow you to attack from a distance, although staff auto is more efficient in close quarters.

By the description given, everyone should have said Staff Ele. Magic, Range, and CC is certainly Staff Ele.

http://metabattle.com/wiki/Build:Elementalist_-_Celestial_Staff

This isn’t the only way to Staff Ele but, it’s pretty good.