Guild Wars 2

I’m trying to cut down on my tendency to spam alts in MMO’s, so I’ve decided to go with only one profession per armor class (for now). I’m playing a thief for medium and a warrior for heavy and I’m enjoying them thus far. So I was hoping that I could get a few opinions on which light armor profession I should choose.

I guess I’d want a character that levels fairly quickly and can stand well on its own. As far as end game considerations go, I don’t like PvP that much, so it doesn’t really matter to me how well the Mesmer, Elementalist, or Necromancer do in that arena. I would like to play a character that deals solid damage and brings good utility to dungeons.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions and advice. I’m still new to this game and I’m loving it thus far, so I’m hoping to play a caster that can be as enjoyable as my melee characters.

PS: I guess it isn’t as important, but which race would you suggest? My thief’s a Human and my warrior’s a Charr. Would you guys go with Norn, Asura, or Sylvarri?

Any character I’d always make asura or human from now on. I’d suggest you to do same, these are the best to play on.

From these light proffesion each is unique. Necromancer has pretty good condition damage skills. Mesmer hides behind illusions and with cannon build deals extremly high damage without getting any close to opponent. Ele had decent far skills + supporting ones (healing, slowing enemies) and D/D (dagger & dagger) is known for high mobility and pretty fast attacks.
Personally I don’t see anything special in necro. On PvP it’s not any strong profession. I, for example, play D/D ele and enjoy it very much on WvW.
I’d suggest that if you want to attack from far, mesmer will be better. But if you want to tank and run around, D/D ele will be something for you.

Depends n how much effort you want to put into this alt, elementalist are great for support but are also the toughest class to master, that being said it is extremely rewarding to play

Mesmers are probably the best DPSers of the light armor classes and have some unique mechanics to their play style, with a very good variety of builds to try out