Guild Wars 2

Right, didn’t want to start a new thread, so I’ll just post here since I’ve got the same sort of question.

I’m looking for a class that is tough to kill (ie high damage reduction, high health regen, maybe evasion), has decent mobility options and preferably ranged. I was looking at rangers, but they seem to be melee for the most part. I prefer outlasting my opponents to bursting them down (kill them through attrition).

Any recommendations would be most welcome.

I’m torn between an ele and an engi (returning to the game after quite a while). I liked playing my ele when gw2 originally came out, but I prefer to be somewhat less squishy. I would mostly play WvW with some friends (roaming around in a small group), maybe some pve from time to time.

My main problem with ele is basically the whole implementation of the attunement system. While it is interesting and looks great on paper, it creates problems because we are forced to switch due through unreasonable CDs and then on top, the switch CDs are too long unless you invest a lot of points into arcana, so you even become viable.

Switching elements should be encouraged and supported, not forced through long cooldowns, which only make sure that once you do your first burst (using dmg for example, could be applied to any role really), you’re forced to switch your role untill your skills are ready again.

I mean, I recently started a warrior alt and am just amazed how easy it is to do stuff. Yeah, the ele can do some of those things better (ie more boons, longer swiftness etc), but the warrior simply has incredibly short cooldowns and only uses one button to get the effect, while the elementalist will have to blow 2-3 skills with double the CD to get a slightly better buff.