Guild Wars 2

My main is a level 50 ranger and I feel like I can play as the ranger but when I play WvWvW I feel like I offer no help or I’m constantly dying. I want to create an engineer or a thief. I played as a engenieer before but only got past the tutorial. I’m leaning more towards engineer but I’m worried about likening it or not. Many people are complaining about the ranger on the forums and when looking at engineer or thief forums I rarely see complaints. So do you think it would be wise to make an engineer or thief instead of playing as my ranger? And if I should what race should I pick? Would love to hear some feedback thanks!

if you want variety dont pick thief, they have the lowest amount of weapon combinations(before people say it keep in mind engineers kits and ele’s attunements give them more skill sets and variety) and also some of them are very similar, it just gets soooo repetitive , but in PVP they are tons of fun.

Also maybe try not basing your opinion on what people are saying on the forums, if you like the class play it, if people say its crap on the forums who cares make up your own mind

My main is a level 80 Ranger which is amazing for PvE but I made an engineer for exactly the same reason. You might want to look at my “Surviving the Early Levels” thread as people gave me some really good advice for how to make the first levels more enjoyable. (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/professions/engineer/Surviving-the-Early-Levels/first#post833147)

The first 10 are really hard, I admit. Once you get a second skill slot opened up and you can start using the skills a bit better in combos together it’s a lot better, so stick with it!

Besides, you have a bunch of character slots there’s no harm trying an engineer and if you don’t like it scrap them for a thief .

Engineer and Thief are both great in WvW. Both have lots of good options, but the best/most obvious ones are glass cannon ranged AoE (grenades) for engineer, and glass cannon gank (dagger) for thief. Engineers have much better support builds than thieves.

I was attracted to the engineer because I love creating my own builds, and engineers are super flexible and have arguably the greatest possibility for customization. I also like the idea of a fighter who doesn’t have any special talent, magic, or strength. The engineer just creates what he needs from what he has, as opposed to an elementalist, who is gifted with magic, or a thief, who has a natural talent for keeping out of sight.