Suggested class for me

I know most people hate threads where it asks which class is best or anything like that, but that's not I am wondering.
In most games, I tend to play a support class instead of a fighting one, but not one that the party needs to rely on too much. I like a hybrid class everynow and then. So, is there a class that would be considered perfect for me?

Ritualist or Paragon.

Ritualist sounds like a good choice, they play an important role as a support character with things like [splinter weapon] but the party won't keel over and die if you get the ick.

Paragon would be a good choice as well, again they play an important support role but the party will survive without you for a time.

Necro running a curses build with things such as [enfeebling blood] and [reckless haste] would also fit your style I think.

But overall I would suggest a ritualist.

paragon imo.
you get to play a support class and play the most imba build of all.
win win

One more vote for Paragon or Necromancer here.

Paragons offer the strongest party buffs available and can deal some nice ranged damage. Strong class.

Necros are also a good option if you want something more versatile; can play as 'nuker' (damage dealer), minion master, offensive support with curses and even defensive support with healing (N/Rt for example). Soul Reaping is a good primary attribute and reason I'd take a primary Necro over a Ritualist.

I vote Rit. Paragons are cool, but they only have one build worth playing.

Deffinitly a ritualist. they can deal tons of damage indirectly and directly, as well as heal extremely well. best support class in the game.

Paragons are fun, but theres only one really good build that they can play, where as rits are very versitile.

Ritualist.

Can be extremely helpful to a party, but at the same time, can also be lazy or even AFK and the party won't suffer much in their absence

Dispite how much people are suggesting Ritualist primary, I'd suggest either Necro or Paragon.

Necros are one of the most versitile characters in Guild Wars. Plus you can go N/Rt to provide healing (or as people suggest, Splinter Weapon). the Curses line provides some excellent shutdown capabilities, providing aid to your party indirectly (if that's your style). You could also go N/Me or N/E for some pretty hefty direct damage builds using ele skills or Cry of Pain. N/Me is also good in general for the ability to use Arcane Echo alone.

While Necros can be directly and indirectly beneficial to your party as a caster roll, Paragon can be beneficial in a fighting roll. Aside from the stable Imbagon build, Paragons provide irremovable benefits to your party while keeping excellent energy management, high, ranged damage from spears, and an armor rating comparable to a Warriors. Paragons are ussually the last to go down in a battle, and don't attract much aggro toward themselves. Paragon, however, has little synergy with anything other then Warrior (without getting into the handful of P/D and P/R)

That's my input. I played a Ritualist for a bit, and although they are good support characters, they don't seem to help enough for my taste, and IMO Spawning Power sucks for anything other then minion bombing and the skills associated with them which makes playing a primary less appealing to me then secondary.

anything midline

ele, mes, nec, rit

paragon usually involves fighting w/ spears
so i'd stick wit teh caster midline classes

if u plan on mostly pve...
i'd prolly recommend a nec

I suggest Necro, you can give support either from minion blockades, and shutdown hexes. Also if you want healing and damage support for your allies you could grab 2ndry Rit.

I'd say Rit or Paragon. Paragon can keep the defense high and the condition spam going with Burning skills, where as a Rit can do plenty of healing and some nice spike damage.

Or go N/Rit just for the Energy part. Both Paragons and Necro's never run out of Energy in the right area.

Depends on what sort of support you want. If you want offensive support, you can't go past stuff like [[Ancestor's Rage] and [[Splinter Weapon] on a Rit. If you want defensive support, you can sit there on a Paragon and play one of the most boring builds in the entire game but make your team invincible (i.e, imbagon, look it up). Necro's support is more in the way of shutting down the opponents, though physical-heavy teams benefit from stuff like [[Barbs], [[Order of Pain], etc.

Personally, I'd go Rit because the best builds tend to be offensive/defensive hybrids which not many other professions have the ability to do well.

Rit all the way. Probably my favorite class.

Playing the offensive/defensive class is a beast. You wont get bored of just helping your party (unless you really enjoy that) and you get the satisfaction of the little yellow numbers that pop up after using ancestor's rage (too bad you can't see the numbers from splinter weapon).

While playing ritualist you can switch around between roles. People say that you can use the rit as a healer won't be as good as a monk. In some respects this is true, but its not that the skills are worse, it's just the fact that you don't have such a wide variety of skills available like hex removal or just the number of healing skills in general.

IMO, using Attuned Was Songkai and Recuperation is great in PvE because it helps out the monks in your party by countering annoying conditions like bleeding or health degeneration environment effects, as long as you keep your spirits out of harm's way. Along with your basic healing skills maybe another spirit like Life and you've got yourself a well equipped healer

Para. The most powerful hybrid of damage and support.

EDIT: can be exceedingly boring to play

For all of you saying, "Paragon is boring to play", do you think that spamming SS and Reckless haste on melee mobs is heart-pounding excitement?

You can make really interesting builds with implacable walls of shout-combos if you actually all looked at how the skills work. It's pretty easy to make amazing teams with 3 paragons chaining blanket offensive and defensive buffs without SY!+TNTF!

I was referring to the Imbagon build. Considering 99.8% of Paras take that route in PvE, I consider my statement valid

Team builds are a different story altogether. Paras synergizing with one another in obscene ways, yet another matter.

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I vote Ritualist.
While I agree that Necro and Para are fine choices, PvE could always do with more Rits. You can never have too many.

Aye rit all the way