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The original was posted on /r/guildwars2 by /u/Still_Night on 2026-05-27 02:24:46+00:00.

Hear me out. I’ve put a couple thousand hours into the game at this point and while I’m by no means and expert on the game, I’m no noob either.

I have fully explored every map in the game in every expansion to 100% completion, done the story all the way through from beginning to end, gotten 5 legendaries and grinded out some other long achievements. I’ve done countless meta events and a pretty decent amount of fractals/strikes/raids. I have all masteries completely maxed out.

What may surprise you is that 95% of my playtime throughout all of this was on on character/profession - Thief. More specifically, Daredevil. Sounds boring playing that same spec for so many hours, right? Well, yes and no.

I absolutely loved the core thief gameplay when I first started the game and when I unlocked my first elite spec - Daredevil - it transformed the way I played through Heart of Thorns for my first time. All of the extra dodges and cleave damage with the staff made me feel much more survivable with an otherwise squishy class.

Thing is… once I got used to the reactionary playstyle of Daredevil and grew used to always having an extra emergency dodge at my disposal, the gameplay became so automatic for me that I essentially am able to turn my brain off completely while I play. And with GW2 being my main game I use to, well, turn my brain off, and decompress after a long day of work, choosing spend my limited game hours to learn an entire new class or spec rather than sticking to my tried and true Daredevil, felt intimidating and like too much mental strain. Plus, I had sooo much content to catch up on.

Don’t get me wrong, I do yearn to try all the classes and find myself itching to switch up my playstyle. And I’ve managed to put a decent number of hours into Necro/Reaper, and am slowly chipping away at both Mesmer and Ranger. But still, gearing those characters up, reading and learning the traits and abilities, learning the rotations, not to mention acquiring the muscle memory to play those classes smoothly to the point where it feels relaxing again, has deterred me most of the way.

Not really sure what the point of this post is, I guess I’m just curious if there are any others like me who stick to one/few classes for similar reasons? I’m always a bit jealous those who can fluidly and easily switch between characters/builds, play any role in group content, etc. but I guess for me, even though I’ve spent countless hours in game, my lack of class/build variety is the main thing that keeps me at the more casual level in this game. Cheers