Guild Wars 2

I need yalls help deciding what profession is a worthy alt to the engineer. After playing my Engi to 80 and running hours of WubWub, most other classes are a yawnfest. I get bored easily with the few skill choices they can employ at a given time.
I guess Elementalist may be the closest with the number of attunement swaps needed
but all I hear is complaining from that class and scared to get invested…

any input from my fellow mixologists out there?

**NOTE: I mainly WubWub / Dub-vee-Dub / WvWvW, not looking for faceroll killing, just well rounded fun.

I enjoyed Guardian when I played with my Engineer. Gives you an entire new way to play compared to the Engineer.

well right today i gone back to my first lvl 80,the thief.

I levelled an egnineer to lvl 80,cause i liked a lot the turrets idea.
But turrets give only problems,and Anet don’t seems oriented to improve anything.
On the Elementalist forum at least they wrote they are working on something….but here,they seems let us understand that engineer is fine as it is now….with their silence on everything.

As u , i run mostly WvW.
I never had big issues on engineer,just little things that after 1 month start to give some pain.

At the first i was missing survavibility on my engineer,so i found my self stuck on elixirs.because i mostly run alone in WvW,and elixirs are the only things that give you a bit of chance to survive.

But,the randomness effect of elixirs (that was meanted to be fun FOR Anet designers),today,make me definitely go back on thief,where if i use a skill,i’m sure what will happen.
-all my skills/traits works;
-my thief trap (ambush) spawn another thief who TARGET MY SAME TARGET (not random things like turrets) and also my elite skills do the same without target issues;
-all my skills have a specific function with no random effect,even the steal give no random skills!

Back on theif,i must admit is the way more fun than the elixirs randomness or the long CD turrets that target the nearest things.

On the thief i run a trap build ,and belive me if i say is super fun if you use traps,and i’m also fairly killable,i don’t like heartseeker/backstab spam thief(with all the rispect for em).

Let us know what alt you will make.
Sorry for my anglish.
Regards!

I feel the exactly the same way as you but towards necro..everything else is ehh to me. I haven’t tried enginner past level 20 but i will give it a try again thanks to you haha, maybe you should give necro a try.

Yeah I’m in the same boat. Engineer was the only class that held my attention to 80. Have a warrior that is 60, but kind of got bored of the faceroll press one button ftw. Have a Guardian at 52, but he’s a bit of a faceroll as well, but much less than Warrior and he shines much more in group/dungeon situations. My ranger is 45, definitely boring there.

The only class I think I may consider is Mesmer, they loos very very hard to play correctly and I think I’ll enjoy that.

Mesmer is an interesting class to play, I think. It doesn’t have the sheer breadth of options available as a kit-Engi, but it’s very tactical and forces you to make difficult decisions on the fly. Should I be shattering my phantasms now, or later?

Beyond that, Elementalist won’t stay kittened forever, so if you like the playstyle, I suggest you go for it. In MMOs, class balance changes so frequently that it’s really not worth it to play or not play a class just for how powerful it is in a given patch.

I would suggest you try Mesmer. It is a tough class to learn, requiring allot of finesse. The players that put in the effort and time to master the Mesmer can pull off some really cool stuff though.

Sniper-warriors are fun. Not the hugest effectiveness but entertaining. Thief with two pistols is a nice ‘hyperactive’ class. Dodging all over the place and spamming bullets, yay!