As you can imagine, Elementalist is a high skill-ceiling, high reward class. They are incredibly fragile and complex. They also have the lowest armor and health. However, by mastering them, you're rewarded with not only the most powerful damage in the game, but also a very evasive class. 10. New Items. On August 22, two new armor sets will become available. The first, the Astral Ward armor, is thematically tied to the story of Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure and shares the same appearance for all three armor weights. The second set, Rift Hunter’s armor, has unique looks for each weight. Engineer. 3 power builds: Scrapper, Holosmith, Mechanist. All 3 can share the same gear except for the weapons. 2 condition builds: condi mech and condi holo if you wanna play the piano. 2 offensive support builds: power alac mech and power quick scrapper. Can share the same gear with a few trinket adjustments. For PVE I'd say Renegade is a great choice. Revenant overall is probably the best class right now because it has strong DPS builds as well as a strong Quickness and Alacrity build (Renegade is the alacrity build). Renegade is also strong in Open World and the Condition Vindicator build is basically unkillable. 1. Pick the class that you feel with your gut feeling is kind of your "default", the one you think is coolest at a very shallow and aesthetic level. Then play that class. When your brain tries to give you intrusive thoughts about other classes or if you made the wrong decision, just ignore it. Necro, Warrior & Ranger are the easiest to "understand". Hit smash -> You smash. All 3 are quite durable with easy builds and good/great damage and group utility. All 3 are good/great in all content (Open World, Fractals, Raids, PvP, WvW) Feline_Sleepwear • 2 yr. ago. Easiest are probably warrior, ranger and necromancer. As for Ranger as a starter class, the pet can make exploring the world on your first character pretty fun. Ranger also has one of the strongest downstates in the game, making it very forgiving if you die. I recommend it as a very good beginner class that is still top-tier once you reach endgame. If you are giving sites out for newbies send them in the right direction. Those looking to raid will find outdated builds which will hinder their progress, have little info, no benchmarks, no rotations, no tips, no tricks, no videos showing benchmark (which helps a ton) etc. Same for fractals, your build varies depending on 150 vs 221 AR, different sigils, potions, food even. ghhVU.