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xalvi
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in Guild Wars 2
During BWE1+2 i only picked the classes that i thought i would be intrested in, but during this stress test (because it was only 4 hours) i decided to just give other classes a go, and i have to say my main wont be the class i chose for BWE1+2 instead it will be a necro which i would had never thought. I also tried other classes that i thought i would be bored but i didnt.
So in conclusion maybe you guys heard this before, i know i have, try the classes you wouldnt think you play just to give it a go and see where it takes you, or heck try all the classes to see your best fit. If anyone had this experience feel free to share 
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Trouble is that every time I try a new class I change my mind about what to main at launch...
I have to agree with you on this one, my main has been a Mesmer through every beta and stress test sp far. today I decided to try a Necro and all I have to say is Wow, they're so much tougher than my Mesmer and deathshroud is awesome. what surprised me the most was how different the classes were, Necro's hit freakin hard but my mesmer (other than my Duelist Phantasm) hits like a wet blanket lol.
I started with a warrior in BWE1, because I figured it was the profession I was least likely to play after release and I didn't want to spoil any of the others for myself. Turns out the warrior is great fun...I've played one in every event since. I will definitely have one after release. I'm thinking that all the professions will probably be like that, so diverse in play style and fun to play that I'll get addicted to each one for different reasons. I'm trying not to spoil any of the others. I think I'm definitely going to need at least eight character slots.
The big question now is which race to pair with each profession. I know I'll have a human guardian, a char warrior...probably a sylvari elementalist...so many important choices.
It's definitely one of those games where people are likely to find a number of matches for their playstyle, but the best match may not always be the ones people expect based on playing classes of similar flavor in other games.
I've found professions I thought I'd love that just didn't match my play style and others that have been great for me.
The profession I've played the most is Elementalist, which I just got to level 31 during the stress test. I love the complexity of juggling attunements and I'm pretty sure it will be my first profession at launch. However, I absolutely love Warrior and Necromancer, so I might decide to shake things up a bit and chose one of those instead. I'll eventually play al the professions to 80, but I'm really excited about my top three.
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It's interesting in that you don't really know how the professions will play out if you try to compare them to the archetypes in other games.
I thought I would hate the Guardian but it has ended being my favorite profession so far.
Necromancer is a name that describes the theme of the class. It has nothing to do how the class plays or what you should expect.
I completely agree. At first I ignored guardian. Watched an interview that it was a "support" class. Since I played healer in traditional MMO's I wanted to give something else a shot. Ranger? Nah dont care for the pet evidently. Engineer was a blast. Then I went ahead and tried guardian. SO much fun. Its true each class plays almost completely diffrent.
This. I assumed guardian was a paladin thing but upon playing tonight i have discovered that it plays like no paladin in any other game. I went from mace and sheild to sword and sheild to sword and focus...wow.
There is NO miracle patch.
95% of what you see in beta won't change by launch.
Hope is not a stategy.
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I started off trying to stick to the classes that I didn't think I wanted to play when GW2 goes live... but that didn't work out. I like them all and am having a hard time trying to pick one to level first. It's definitely a good idea to try each class during the beta so that you can focus on the one you like when it goes live.
I'm thinking it'll take me about 3 weeks (give or take a week) to get my first 80 and then I'll have to decide whether I want to go for gear or start on a new alt. They give us 5 slots... there are 8 classes... so I'll have to unlock 3 more slots after about 4-5 months of alting... assuming I spend relatively little time in PvP, running dungeons or chasing DEs and doing jumping puzzles... which isn't very likely.
I'm hoping that I'll settle on a main/first during the next BWE and like it well enough after GW2 goes live that I don't do a whole lot of alting in the first few months.
Yeah, I initially played a Guardian because I figured it wouldn't be a class I would want to play at launch, but so far I've really liked it a lot.
I just wish Thief wasn't so... underwhelming. I had intended to main one until I actually tried it out. A movement-based class without a triggerable swiftness boon equals major fail in my opinion. That, and ArenaNet seems to have forgotten their own mantra regarding class roles, i.e. Thief shouldn't solely be a squishy DPS class.
I think I'll try a Necromancer next.
With how "innovative" GW2 is trying to be, it's a real shame they are pigeonholing us into just 1 class per character.
Don't give them any ideas. The multi-class system in Guild Wars was horrible.
Yea I wasn't a big fan of sub-classes, but I do like systems where you can change your class on the same character. I love playing different classes, but hate alts =/.
What some finds horrible, others found it to be one of the best features of the game. I loved the multi profession aspect of GW1.
I went into the BWE's with the same idea.
I had a Ranger in mind for launch (I love tameable pets, reminds me of Vanilla WoW days, when I went with my low lvl Tauren hunter to the Nightelf starter island, don't remember the name anymore, to tame one of those fancy panthers there). After I played Engineer, Warrior, Mesmer, Elementalist (the last one I really liked a lot) I decided to play a Thief.
Usually I don't like stealth classes. I am a simple minded guy, all this stunning, rooting, strike from the shadows, jump into his back, attack him from behind just is to complicated for me. But in GW2 it's different. Just the fact that I can choose to play a ranged dps thief is cool. Even cooler though is mixing ranged with close combat. They implemented so many fun mechanics to mix both styles with really neat animations that my Thief felt a mix between a cowboy and a knife-wielding ninja!
And one of the male human faces in character creation looks very similar to Clint Eastwood. When I went double-wielding pistols I felt like the nameless hero from a Sergio Leone Western!
id think that would be quite obvious .. but good advice none the less. when I first started playing mmos I was the typical dps noob who probably wiped a lot of groups and didn't know what the hell I was doing. it wasnt until about 4-5 years later that I actually tried a healer and another long while before I played tanks. now I dont play anything but healers and tanks .. which makes me nervous about this game .. but still interested
LFD tools are great for cramming people into content, but quality > quantity.
I am, usually on the sandbox .. more "hardcore" side of things, but I also do just want to have fun. So lighten up already
During BWE2 I more or less decided that I'd be going with an engineer at launch. Last night, I played around with it a bit then tried the thief I had been levelling. Then I found myself enjoying the thief again. Going to be tough to decide which class I'll be going with.