Guild Wars 2

Hey!
I was exactly in your shoes 2 or 3 weeks back. Now my character is level 72 and I cant wait to hit 80 for all the fun stuff to do.

What GW2 excels at is rewarding you for just goofing off in the world. I sticked to doing some hearts, most events that I came by and getting vistas, waypoints and points of interest.

At some point I recommend you find a guild, if you haven’t already done that. I went to reddit guildrecruitment and read through some of the guild advertisments. Although I would advise from avoiding the normal reddit, this one is worth it imo.
Once you have a guild and reached lvl 35-X, you can hop into some dungeons for massive exp. Each dungeon has 1 story and 3 explorable paths and they all give good exp. Best thing, you can do them once per day and still get exp everytime.

I would recommend not getting into sPvP and WvW until you played a bit more. I did, and felt overwhelmed and confused because I a) didnt understand what to do except for buttonsmash whenever I saw some other coloured players and b) I didnt and still dont understand the whole potential of my class.

One last tip, play the class you want to play and avoid going with the meta. Many people advised me against ranger when I first started off, and I still enjoy it heaps. This game is very alt-friendly, so once you feel you need something different, create a second character.

Cheers
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So you deliberately want to have less fun by avoiding the class you know you’d enjoy the most? Don’t get it.

I also struggled with chosing a “main”. Always favor ranger-like classes, made the mistake to google the typical “what class should I chose” and got overwhelmed by how disappointed the community is with this clkitten

up rolling a ranger anyway, lvl 68 now, enjoying it.

Back to your issue. Go with ele, this game offers so much content, that you will not run out playing your favourite class. And if you still do, only because ele has a ton of skills to choose from doesnt mean its the most complex to play. I believe you can still find pleasure in other classes/builds after playing an ele.
This is coming from a fresh player though.