The combination of longbow damage and your pet’s abilities makes it easy to customize your attacks. I think as a general rule it's worth viewing "difficulty" as two distinct problems: Generally there is confusion between these things. There is never a "one-size-fits-all" playstyle for Mesmer. Mesmer was really hard to get into in the beginning, but the rotation is nowhere as complicated as Engi's. All of these can be fun If I had to rank them from hardest to easiest overall in PvE, it'd be something like: On the survivability side, Mesmers are fairly squishy, and the standard Chronomancer build often has the heal skill as part of the rotation, so they may have no access to an on-demand heal in group content. from the four classes you said you have at max lvl i would recommend revenant, its okay for roaming and good for zerging , mesmer is better for roaming but way worse at zerging imo, with that said if you want to start lvling a new char you can do a war or ele, they have both good roaming and good zerging abiltys. Mesmer is really hard to play well. Engineer isn't a class that's hard to survive on, but the DPS rotations are hard to pull off consistently. you just mash f1, 3, dodge, 1, etc. Not to mention being solely responsible for two of the most important boons/effects within the raid group. Needs to keep in mind CC timing for most comps. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. you will never get more joy then popping Tornado up against a cliff and just fucking an entire zerg over the edge. It's taken for the most part, because of it's elite skill Winds of Disenchantment(bubble). P.s what i mean is for example ele is considered very hard because of all the constant switching between stuff. Requires mostly mechanical skill. If effective, swap to sword+dagger for roaming, and possibly get something for more sustain as well, rather than full berserker...but well...maybe once when I will get that legendary armor and will be able to swap instantly for free, that will be best time for that. Totally depends on the context and how demanding you are of yourself. Yes, the highest. Neither have complex rotations that punish you badly for doing something out of order. High HP + Armor means that most enemies don't really do all that much damage to you in the first place, and high damage + mobility is sort of their thing (they're the second highest mobility class after thief, and have the easiest time outputting large amounts of damage, even if they're not even in the top half of potential dps from classes. And top revenant can pull of mad stuff in pvp/wvw while a average one gets farmed. I have played all the classes and I have a several hours on each of them. Ahh thank you i tried ele some bit ago and my god was it hard haha, Thanks everyome for your input think im gonna go down the road of the necro :) so thanks all. Couple that with their already massive health bar and (if you wish) passive toughness traits from their Death Magic trait line, and you have a class that can survive anything short of an internet failure. Requires mostly knowledge of their class and encounter, and some mechanical skill. Press J to jump to the feed. Revenant is underappreciated. Each of these classes has two elite specialisations. And awesome. Almost impossible to die on and has very simple rotations. They also have built-in evades in some of their abilities, decent mobility, passive defences built into their traits, and the ability to just facetank anything without a care in the world. Hmm strange 1 i have a engi to found it pretty easy but here goes 3rd time lol ' i must of been playing it totally wrong lol. As another class with the lowest health pool in the game, Guardian's survivability can be a bit low at times. In open world and casual PvE, rangers are among the easiest classes for soloing because of their good sustain and their pet mechanics. Even when your endurance is down, you have lots of skills that have built-in evades, tons of blind fields for trash mobs, and stealth if things get a bit too nasty. ). It gets a bit more complicated when you have 2 Reapers in one squad, due to the need to time Epidemic, but this is pretty easy to get down if you practice. Awesome thanks! Regardless of their role, they have good off-healing … Minstrel firebrand and celestial(for the most part) scourge. You basicly take chronomancer for it's CC(gravity well, focus pull and shield 5 are some of the strongest CC in game), it's ability to spam boons all over and some unique utility(veil, portal). For example Ele is my sidekick character and I have absolutely no problems with him, on the other hand I didn't spend that much time on Mesmer or Revenant and don't have much experience with them so these classes are hard for me to play. This would be a longer term goal in terms of getting good gear for all of these seeing as atm I only have one full set of ascended on my Mirage and I’ll admit my ascended crafting has been slow alongside my legendary Crafting. In addition to being a ranged attacker, your options include laying traps (triggered by enemies with results like damage or various negative conditions) and also use of an animal companion ("pet") that can help in fights. Warrior can be a simple class, particularly if you just grab a Greatsword. With a large selection of cosmetic items for appearance addicts, there is also a great variety of account upgrades, or helpful items. I have never died to a roaming Guardian on my Scourge. I'd say 8/10 eles isn't capable of doing anything much. It works with power and condi, with chronomancer and mirage. Warrior is very easy, but still plays a big role in all high level content as a buffing machine. They need to time their skills correctly though. Plus, most Rangers play a healing role in raids, and healing is always a difficult role to play. Simple rotation and good survivability. Running tornado is almost always questionable. They're also really easy to survive on. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. FB is basically responsible for everyone’s life and it’s your fault if your party dies on tag. i have ranger and thief while good at taking care vetern, but have trouble taken care champion. The catch is that the survivability of a Thief doesn't lie in tanking hits, but actively avoiding them and repositioning, which makes them a bit harder. But sweet thanks! In any fight where your damage matters; you will not do more damage. Every class has multiple different specs of varying difficulty in different game modes and gearing changes things too. The damage rotations are easy. They place down their banners and whack away with an easy DPS rotation. Sorry for the blurry footage, I'm still getting used to the capture software. MetaBattle content is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Deadeye. So I think it's interesting to measure these differences separately; we could name them something like "inaccessibility", "mechanical demands" and "game knowledge demands". Thief is ran by guild groups for smoke fields(you blast smokefield for aoe stealth), but not used in pugs. Easiest and complicated are a bit more feasible to note without getting into opinions. They seem a bit boring, but I honestly don't know. Complexity is what really drove me to place Mesmer at the top of the difficulty list. Best: Agent Pea. Mesmer is difficult because of their initial counter-intuitiveness. Ranger. Elementalist doesn't have hard rotations (unless some older, previously meta builds rise to the top again), but they're the most fragile class in the game. You have a geared mirage. Can't comment on ranger or enginer as i never played them at all. It's a great roamer, and hammer rev is very easy to gear and very useful in larger groups. So I started dabbling in WvW when working on a gift of battle and started to enjoy it a fair bit, for the most part I’ve just kinda run around on whatever character I happen to be on at the time, but I’ve considered getting more into it and trying to actually build up some skill. Ideally I’d love something that can be fairly versatile without me having to constantly have to switch full sets of gear. The soldiers are the answer to “What is Guild Wars 2 best class for tanking?” They dole out a huge amount of damage thanks to the weapons and abilities they use. Jump to navigation Jump to search. And because I know I’m going to get asked: for the most part I just roam capping camps and the like, but if there is a good Zerg going I’ll join up. They time their party-wide blocks for hard-hitting abilities, cast their reflects in the right places and at the right times, etc. Bad positioning will get an Elementalist killed before any other class. Often has involved roles within the group such as reflect upkeep. Unless you're willing to practise ele in WvW for hundreds of hours, you'll most likely perform considerably better on scourge. This page was last edited on 3 November 2020, at 01:00. If you're not having very high pressure on ele then frankly you're not doing your job. Full healing druid is very easy to play but the DPS counterparts (Condi/Power) are much more difficult. For instance, being the very best violin player and being the very best piano player is about as difficult because the skill ceiling is very high. Difficulty comes in different areas. From Guild Wars 2 Wiki. Best Thief Builds. I’m open to recommendations as to what class/specialization you think I should pursue. Also, positioning is really important because a few skills you'll often use lock you in place or have really long channeling times, meaning you won't even be able to dodge. Guardian's move so slowly I want to rip my hair out when I have to walk across the open-world alone. There's a bit of mechanical skill involved in their CC rotation, and you're punished often fairly severely for screwing up your energy management, but it's nothing too difficult, and having your utility skills all predetermined takes a lot of weight off of build management. Wow very nicely put thanks for that thinking of going down the necro root :). New Guild Wars 2 players often ask, “What’s the best class?” This question often starts a big argument in guild or map chat, but the only true answer is, “The class you enjoy playing the most.” Every profession is best at something, and some classes appeal to some players more than other. Not such a popular opinion but I feel revenant is harder to play effectively than most people let on. Your knowledge of the class with his strengths and weaknesses is the key here. Necro is 10 times easier to actually be useful with and 8/10 staff eles in WvW should just relog already. The classes within the categories aren't in any particular order, because it really comes down to what you as a player find the hardest thing to do. The level 80’s I have are Mesmer, Necro, Ranger, Guardian and Revenant. However, they have a lot of active defences and can hold their own, if you know how to use them. Thief is weird. On the other hand, people like to blow up the difficulty of Elementalist's spell rotations, which I really don't agree with. Awesome thank you! Easy peasy to play and extremely difficult to die on. Warrior is notoriously easy to play, in no small part due to it being innately the most tanky class, with heavy armour and the largest health pool in the game. A tank? Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Welcome to the Guild Wars 2 Leaderboards. At a high-level, the class becomes quite difficult to play, due to its reliance on pet AI and fairly involving rotations. I play spellbreaker and usually I can whittle them down given the time needed. so i'm curious to see if others has build that can take care champ pretty well. All trademarks and copyrights on this site are owned by their respective owners. Check out our highly-opinionated class guides! The playstyle is also very easy, especially the Metabattle build which focuses on party buffing. Requires mechanical skill in the form of quickly reacting. Something in between? Best: Agent Pea. Often dubbed as the king of the open world, the Necromancer can absorb as much damage as it can deal with essentially… Ide consider myself just over a standard player but no way near ele standard lol, PvE(raids): Engi>Ele>Mes=Ranger>Guard=Rev=Nec>War>Thief, PvP(ranked):Thief>everything else>GuardDH. Join the most op wvw class there is. 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