With even more elite specializations coming, here's a look at the best classes in Guild Wars 2. 9 The Warrior Profession. If the player wants a class good at PvE, PvP, and World vs World this Best class and sub class to solo pve upvotes For those not wanting to use Reddit anymore discuss Guild Wars 2 on alternative platforms Guild Wars 2 Discord: https Virtuoso, both power and condi, is incredibly easy. Power soulbeast has multiple variants that use axe/axe and then a different weapon in the set. Longbow, greatsword, or even warhorn. Condi soulbeast uses shortbow dagger/dagger. If you're bored of longbow, learn the greatsword rotation, or the warhorn rotation. Or try condi. Longbow tho is alright feels meeeh, not a big fan, sword is ok but like you i rarely use num 2. Sword/Axe is ok, could be so much better but ok. For now i think sword/axe, longbow and maybe greatsword is the best for power. Condition well shortbow, i love the shortbow but i am not a fan of conditions, still one of my fav weapons as ranger (i 1.9k. Posted September 9, 2023 (edited) Thief imo is the best class for open world exploration and achievement farm due to Stealth, Portals, Teleports, Dash and the ability to Vault across ledges. If you want to sacrifice some of that but have easymode for combat encounters you'd go Engineer. Guild wars 2 focuses on horizontal progression meaning that any class can be made into a passable DPS, tank, support, or a healer by changing your gear and traits. Don't worry about trying to pick the optimal class, as being optimal it's even nessesary for raids. The classes that can technically run double swords are Mesmer, Revenant, and Warrior. From an endgame PvE perspective: Mesmer or Revenant (both will have to be power to run double swords, so you'll be looking at Chronomancer for Mesmer) Both Herald and Renegade can be played with double swords, but Renegade "Support" (it's often just a dps that brings cc and a buff called alacrity, but in some Specter functions best as a hybrid class because it has a decent amount of power and condition damage. The condi damage itself doesn't really shine without condi duration/expertise, but you are losing a significant portion of your damage by not dipping into power/crits. It also provides many conditions and buffs. ZdIn3NU.