Guild Wars 2

Thank you so much for all the advice, I had a couple of those level 20 boosters so I ended up buying myself 2 extra character slots so I didnt have to delete any characters to try the other classes and tried a ranger and a warrior, the warriors bow abilities seemed a lot more fun.

That dungeon mentor things sounds good. I never got to end game the first time around that I played. Its nice to hear as well that groups that arnt speed running accept most classes, you guys have taught me more in this thread than my week of reading through the class specific forums.

Mesmer is the last class I have to try, from what I heard about them they are difficult to level till 40 and get big trait points.

Thanks for all the help and thanks for those guide links too, that was another issue I had when googling was that a lot of stuff wasnt from the current patch

Firstly sorry, i know there is another similar thread to mine that was posted recently but I had more questions than were being covered in that one and I didnt want to hi-jack the guys thread.

I have recently got back into GW2 after about a year and started a new thief and leveled it to 80 and I am very much enjoying it but I also want to be leveling a second class that I can play with my friends other than just the thief.
When I originally played I leveled a lot of classes to 25/30 ish but then always started again and couldnt settle on one class so getting a thief to 80 was a big deal for me, lol.

My main issue is out of the rest of the classes everytime I read the forums in the relevant class section all I can see is ppl complaining the class is bad or ppl dont let that class into dungeon groups.
Can people please give me a brief run down of like 5 most useful class/build combos in a dungeon?

My current understanding is that:-
Thief – Only good for straight DPS, must go D/D or S/D and not do conditions
Ele- Tons of builds for dungeons from what ive seen
Guardians- Tanky/support role – average damage, dont know too much about them
Warrior- Havn’t played one before but all i read is they are great in all aspects of the game

other than those 4 all I know is that Rangers, Necros and engineers arnt normally welcome in dungeon groups and that mesmers can only build for reflect and nothing else.

All information is much appreciated to help me decide what to have as my second class that will be useful to my friends and dungeon groups