I went Guardian first. Because they had that healy-damage-utility kind of vibe. Also heavy armor is a bit of blessing while you learn this games combat.
But I found his utility so good that I kinda felt he was not living up to his potential when i played solo.
But what to pick next? I pretty much tried them all (altho I did want to try warrior, I didn’t want a different type of guardian).
Ele is very cool, and so was mesmer, but I had trouble not getting stomped in combat.
Ranger was ok. Combat was easy, damage was good, but it just wasn’t very furfilling. It didn’t feel like there was much to do as a ranger.
Engineer grabbed my attention for quite a while. They could do anything you wanted. Be as simple or as complex as you’d dare. However I think mine wore a little thin because with effort they were a little too good solo (or it was very hit and miss, nothing inbetween).
Thief never really took off for me. I could see the damage potential, but just couldn’t stick it out to realise it. And I don’t naturally lean towards builds that would make him effective.
So after facerolling my ranger to lvl 52 I made the switch back to Mesmer (mostly just to get the daily ach xp bonuses). But he quickly grew on me. Now hes level 51 and well on track to be my main.
Once you learn combat and damage with the Mesmer, you can do almost everything with them.
However I’d give my left one for my copies to not die along with my target, but when I left combat.
