How did you come to choose your first profession?

I’m just wondering how people came to choose their first profession. Since you were new to the game did you just pick a profession that you thought would be easy to control and handle just to learn about the game first? Or did you choose a profession that you enjoyed and you like no matter how complicated you thought it would be?

Well, following the common knowledge that warriors are awesome, I was easily able to choose my profession right off the bat.

I bought it, and read the manual (I'm nerd I know), from what I read Ranger sounded the easiest cool profession to get into. There ya go.

My original secondary was elementalist. Yes I choose ele because I thought "Ranger is gonna be long range...I'll throw some elemental dmg in there too", and one of my first builds ivolved a bow attack build with Ice Spikes (so they dont run away ).

Honestly, I thought the necromancer armor looked awesome. So I went with that.

The elementalist was the closest thing to an arsenal. I just finished Ratchet DL so i was into the one man army stuff.

Warrior because in every RPG i've played i always play a warrior first or some kind of melee character. Then the second prof is ranger and ten whatever is 'trendy' or helpful

i prefer melee combat over magic etc so i chose warrior.

the whole magic only thing doesnt really do it for me.

monk, I like to play support and healing characters.

Warrior, I read the manual before I made a character, and thought I would be able to do an insane amount of damage if I went as a warrior and had a pet. (Took me until the desert to realize it sucked)

I chose ranger... I'm not sure of the exact reason, it was about a year and a half ago. I just liked the idea of the class, being about to attack from a distance as well as up close, command nature, charm a pet, it all sounded really cool.

Mesmer. I'm a snobby intellectual; I know where I belong.

I like seeing things go boom boom....

lol.. that does seem good for a snobby intellectual


as for myself warrior was a no brainer, big armor, big muscles, even bigger.. sword how could i NOT choose one?


also i've always been known as the sword and sheild tard so why shouldn't i choose it?

I've always been a fan of Necromancers, in all RPGs. So it was an easy choice.

I picked a mesmer because when I was deciding to buy GW, I was looking at their main site and happened across an article about the mesmer.
I then decided to go Me/Mo because from reviewing skills at the wiki, I saw that the combination would allow me a playstyle that closely resembled my favourite Everquest 2 profession, the Inquisitor. A profession that deals in mental domination and healing.

I like magic nukeage,the elementalist was obvious.

I first made a monk because I read how everyone wanted monks for their groups (figured I'd get a lot of experience playing that way), then I saw a cool shiny thing on several characters heads (factions ele head-ware) and fell in love with elementalists ^_^

I'm a player who transferred to GW after playing the Dungeon Siege games for many years. I'm the kind of player who loves to strategise, play off enemy weaknesses, and develop an intimate knowledge of the game environment over time. I also wanted to play something different, and after looking at the profession parallels between DS and GW, the Mesmer was the only way to go

I have had fun playing warrior type characters from other games, so that made my decision. Although I nearly picked Necromancer (my 2nd character btw).

first I started with a necro but I didn't like the hair I chose, so I deleted him. Then I saw sins(yes factions was my first gw game) so was going to be a sin then my first gw friend said they were weak so I went to a ranger and while I was playing some with him I noticed that I couldn't play it right and my friend was a rit so I made a rit and fell in love with the many different roles it can play.