Guild Wars 2

I’ve had a lot of fun playing my 80 ele in WvW but I’m looking for a new experience.

So, if you could force that random PUG next to you (that would be me) to play a particular class, what would it be and why?

BTW, pretend my potential class preferences don’t matter, I’m looking for objective opinions! The only caveat being I like to kill things once in awhile.

Effective options seem to be:
Guardian tank
Guardian healer
Thief ganker
Thief cluster bomb spammer
Mesmer support
Warrior rifle
Engineer grenadier
Engineer elixir
Necro conditionmancer
Necro pet master (aka rendering preventer)
Ranger longbow/shortbow

Thanks!

Well as a player of a level 80 Ranger which utilises, Long + Shortbow, I can tell you it is one hell of a class. Survivability of a ranger is top notch with the right Utilities, in terms of Assassinating that poor lone person dashing across the plains, it’s great as multiple stuns, dodges and cripples keep them back and the heat off of you. You do lack the AoE though, you literally have your barrage and that is it. With that said normally when defending your the one who picks off the melee characters as they try to run back for healing. Attack wise you obviously have the range and sometimes can hit the siege no one else can, you can obviously do this while defending as well. You can also run a great combat medic, in terms of that you can use a Utility to send your pet to revive one downed player and use yourself as another.

I have also played a Conditionmancer. Which is great fun to use a Signet of Power/Plague Signet + Epidemic. But with that you also have crappy survivability. Although there is also the ‘Fishing’ fun you can have using Spectral Grasp to yank people off the walls ;P.

Well that’s all I got. It’s late so I’m sorry if that makes no sense at all ;P.

TL;DR: Rangers are strong in alot of places but lack mass AoE capabilities, it’s fun to player fish with necros.

i havent even taken my engineer past 26 in WvW but i can say that granades are awesome, you can kill lots down from walls aswell as great weapon for up at people ON walls, and with the toolbelt granade attack that already does between 1500-2500dmg in WvW on everyone in a large radius yuo can have great fun holding a wall or attacking one. something i dont think other classes has except maybe sorc alittle, but not as a basic attack that hits up on walls.

Also you get a mortar at the end with 1400 basic range

In my guild, so far the most helpful player to have in a group is a Thief Tank. Yep, toughness, Vit, and those evasion traits…he runs into 10 hostiles by himself and just dagger storms them and confuses them easily for 40+ seconds without going down, it amazes me every time he does it. And then we slaughter them because they have no idea whats going on.

there really is no “right” class. for example, I prowl northern borderlands with a rifle, as an engineer

cliffs are fun