Guild Wars 2

I’ve leveled up a warrior, an elementalist, and a thief. All builds are glass cannon-esqe; the warrior & ele emphasize crit damage while the thief is more power & condition damage.

I love playing the thief & warrior, but I find the ele frustrating, I guess just too hard. Mobs kill me while I’m trying to cycle thru air/fire/earth, etc.

If I don’t have fun with an ele, think the necro would be too hard for me?

Coming from warrior, ele and thief (especially), the necro will take a while to get used to. Necro is, bar none, the least mobile profession, however once you get used to it the necro can become one of the most durable characters in the game.

There’s not much else that plays like the necro does imo, for the most part we’re attrition fighters who might not kill as fast as warriors or the like, but we can outlast almost anyone. You mentioned you got frustrated with the ele’s squishiness, that will rarely be a problem for you as a necro.

While on the whole necro’s aren’t sitting atop the pvp meta, the varieties of builds we do have are all fairly viable, so as a whole it’s rather difficult to go wrong with a necro.

The only other thing I can think of off the top of my head is how helpful a lot of the necro community is, the But of Corpse crew have some great video tutorials for the finer points of the necro and are all very friendly and helpful in my experience. I haven’t found anything similar with other professions yet.

Hope I’ve been able to give some food for thought on your next character.

If you need char for PvE , then take Necro, if for tPvP take ranger .

Ranger! Take the Ranger! Good grief, run while you still can!

Ranger is the worst class in the game for pve. Necro has some issues but atleast they can be strong in both pve and pvp.

necro berserk d/d and staff it’s very good, with well,corruption, retalietion/specral
it’s easy the best animation

I’d say play them both and see what you enjoy. Necromancer is going to be the easiest to transition from PvE to WvW to PvP with, without being put in a bad spot, but realize that haters gonna hate. Both are very fun classes, and I have a Ranger alt that I have been leveling up, its just a matter of playing one until you know what you like.

Thanks, all, for the great replies!