Guild Wars 2

In Tier 1 you don’t need agony resistance (only apllied to ascended gear) until lvl 20+, so you can start with no ascended gear. By the time you reach that point you’ll have enough relics to buy ascended rings, start building agony resistance and continue from there. All in all, ascended trinkets are easy to get so you can easily get around 50 AR, which will allow to do fractals around lvl 40.
To answer your question, you shouldn’t be intimidated, jut jump in and enjoy yourself.

I’d roll with human since the story is writen with a human character in mind. Plus, most armors look really good on humans and the spellbreaker’s lore is based on human lore.
Personally, I like warrior animations the most on norn, and the charr have the best warrior aesthetic IMO.

Some obvious ones:
Jennah is propably the strongest mesmer
Rytlock the strongest revenant(the only one as I am aware)
Gaheron is the most powerful elementalist from what we’ve seen

The rest of the professions are a bit tricky, especially for rangers and warriors. I would guess that the strongest warrior is either Knut Whitebear or Bangar Ruinbringer, but really we can’t really tell. Same goes for rangers, the only one that seems to stand out was Eir. For the strongest thief i would chose Malice,being the Imperator of the Ash Legion and all. The strongest guardian is normally Logan, but currently Braham(with the scroll).
What really intrigues me are the engineers. Is the strongest the one who fights well or the most resourceful? Whatever the answer, the decision boils down to Scarlet or Smodur. The first one being a genius in mathematics and physics, and the latter being the brilliant mind behind most of the Charr innovations and advancements. However, if these two would figth, I’d my money on Smodur…

As the OP stated " the most powerful NPC", I only included characters that appeared or are active in the second game.

Skoigoth.9238:

I don´t think they are trying to nerf us into oblivion, they don´t have reason to do so. We are and always were bottom-tier (arguably).

No,in the beta and at launch Necros were OP.Deathshroud was ridicoulusly strong…

The Charr are the most likely to win by far. ALL Charr are trained soldiers,whether they follow that career or not. The Charr no only have the highest population but they have the highest Soldier ratio. Now Kryta is in despair, aside from DR it only controls Queensdale,Gendaran,Kessex and Harathi.And only the first 2 are in good condition,Kessex Hills were destroyed by Scarlet and the Harathi Hinterlands are overrun by centaurs. The south maps belong to the independent nation of Lion’s Arch. The Iron Legion controls all of Ascalon(although it is plagued by ghosts,flame legion and the Brand) and from the in-game map we can see that the Blood legion controls a HUGE part in northeast.We don’t know about the Ash legion but we can speculate that it controls a respected landmass.
The Charr win by numbers,by experience,by weaponry,by tactics and by leadership(Smodur is considered one of the most progressive people in Tyria)

The Charr are definetly the strongest,their whole culture is based on war. In the first game it was implied that if the Mursaat hadn’t stop them they would have conquered most of the continent. Also,in the game we have only seen the Iron Legion,which is mostly engineers and inventors. From what we can assume, the Blood Legion has the highest numbers of soldiers and the best trained on battle.

The Norn are the worst in terms of military might. While they are very strong individually they lack the numbers and the organization the other races have.In other words they don’t have an army.

As far as the Asura go, we don’t know much about their military but ,if they have any, it is based on magic and golems. And the Peacemakers seem more like police to me.

The humans have strong numbers but we know for fact that their army is weaker than the Charr one. They were holding the ground against them but they didn’t attack them.The Charr had them cornered before the truce.

We can only speculate about the sylvari. They are very new to Tyria and their society lacks a lot of things. The army is the least of their concers. But who knows they are dragonspawn.

Well,people are exaggerating. Necro isn’t that bad.For general PVE necro is great,in dungeons he has gotten a lot better but still notas good as other classes.I dont do much WvW so i can’t say anything.As for PvP,necro is very good,decent sustain and great survivability.
Guardian on the other hand facerolls eveything,he has great dps,great conditions and amazing survivability and requires little skill to play well.

About to slay the Shaman!

BANHAMMEREDDDDD

Just another day in Tyria.

There we go, my guardian.