As WoW player that left the thread mill, I thank you for this. Love your content.

Loving your videos, just bought GW2. I've been playing WoW since Vanilla, you did a great job with the comparisons!

You deserve an A - NET partnership, love GW2 and your content.

As a new GW2 player and 19 year vet of WoW thank you for your awesome content. Good takes and keep up the good work.

Left WoW a year ago and never looked back. GW2 is amazing, thank you for the content 😊

I played WoW for years!!!!!!, mainly Combat Rouge with DK mixed in with a few other classes. Now I play GW2 (54 days and counting ;) as a necromancer/Reaper. Never thought of it before but I think your comparison between a DK and a Reaper is spot on in many ways!! Thanks for all your great content, your videos has taught me a lot about this game!!

I haven't played WoW in over decade but what I do remember compared to my 11 years playing GW2, this is a very well done comparison.

I’ve came from wow myself. I like the side progression system since my time is limited. But I’m so stuck on picking a main that I’m just not progressing 😅

very good video again CDG!

I'm really suprised that you didn't compare the scourge elite spec of necro to a discipline priest in wow

i like your work man, i watch your video more than i play the game.

Such a great idea and video!

Thank you, this was helpful!

Honestly when it's stance dancing giving you sets of different abilities you'e locked into I'd say rev's closest comparision is druid mechanically, just not thematically. xD

Deadeye is very similar to Rogue. While Rogue has combo points, DE has Malice -- they function very similar.

with the engineer, i think it did lack more thought into it. Holos remember a lot fury warrior and scrappers enhancement shamans a little, especially considering the utility of the gyros or even the turrets. Also. mechanist can play a little like warlocks (of course not considering it's thematics, but mechanic wise).

Great video! Bit of a weird train of thought here but humor me... Engineer and shaman have overlap, because the _turrets_ act like rudimentary *totems* 😀

Mesmer is a tough one to compare. Personally I compare it to Shadowpriest, the Greatsword being akin to Mindflay and both class fantasies revolving around mind-manipulation. And the Shatter abilities are like spriest dots. That being said, the Mirage is more like a Havoc Demonhunter due to how important movement/evades are for dealing damage. But that’s me 😄 Anyways great job my man, love the vid!

Catalyst ele is a much better enhance shaman than enhance shaman is. Scrapper engineer is a much better enhance shaman than enhance shaman is.

I lead an AOTC guild on zuljin in WoW. Gw2 is perfect for our downtime between seasons/expansions. Gw2 is kind of like a Nintendo switch as It's a fantastic companion to your PC, right? It's easy to jump back into gw2 after we've done all of our ksm/h and AOTC shenanigans.

Ok now,I have a question.When we will get the the weapon variants for the classes; for example staff for the Warrior or sword for the Necro...?

I think EliteSpecs is where Gw2's combat shines. The base professions are like wow's classes without the Talent system. Band and boring-ish. Many other commenters are highlighting comparisons between EliteSpecs and Specializations. I too think that would be most important. Example: DragonHunter does not fit well the Paladin archetype.

this is want u want to play but u are force to play meta if u want raids,strikes , someone one to take u

Guild Wars 2 Professions are essentially WoW Classes on steroids! 😂

I know even less about Dracthyr, having not played WoW at all, but from what I hear it sounds like another spellslinger, so elementalist probably is closest. Mind you, it depends what the player is looking for. If the goal is to have something with a dragon theme, there are three suitable options: The most obvious is a herald revenant: they channel power from the memory of a heroic dragon who died shortly before the game starts, and therefore has abilities involving manifesting ghostly dragon claws to slash at the enemy, wings to blow enemies back with a gust of wind, or breath on a target area. Combining it with pretty much any of the core legends will work (particularly since you can justify all of them having some connection to dragons), but the most natural if you don't think about the lore is probably combining with Mallyx for a condition herald: mostly because mace as your primary melee weapon allows you to regularly set the ground in front of you on fire for a similar feel to dragon breath. Dagger elementalist is also a good choice - any elite specialisation would work, although I'd probably go with catalyst or weaver over tempest. This lets you do a lot of breathing fire (and occasionally cold) on your enemies, and a lot of the other skills can be viewed as elemental manifestations of other dragon attacks. Warhorn is probably the best offhand for this theme, as a lot of warhorn skills feel a bit like they're emulating elemental breath attacks or magic-infused roars. Guardian is a bit less obvious and doesn't make explicit dragon references like the other two do (apart from the dragonhunter Dragon's Maw trap, which when triggered manifests as ghostly dragon jaws that snap around the victim, confining them in place). However, if you run a condition guardian with torch, guardian too can breathe fire (and throw fire around in general). This probably works best with firebrand or willbender: firebrand can potentially be throwing a LOT of cones of fire around if you build for that, while willbender tends to zoom around the battlefield generating fires all around them. However, this is very much something of a 'dragon knight' style rather than a full dragon style, as any guardian build is still going to be relying mostly on more conventional weapon attacks, either martial or spellcasting weapons. Unfortunately, while you'd think soulbeast merging with a drake or wyvern pet would count, the way soulbeast works means that doing so won't give you the breath weapon.

Engineer feels like a shaman to me. Its turrets are like totems and the scrapper is kind of like enhancement.

It was such a feelbad moment, when playing bc way back then, and replacing my super unspeakable hard to get rok delar and lok delar (probably misspelled) on my hunter main…after this point, it was basically an downwards spiral…over many many years…luckily I always played guild wars some amount of time 😅

For the totems, its renegate who got them with their assists, hammer elem can fit the role of an evoker for the damage spec, and for the buff spec, it can be related to herald. But its not really a 1 to 1 comparaison

Revenant's Herald spec is very paladin-like. Not sure if you mentioned that.

I played both. GW2 > WOW by 350%

Mesmer is Arcane Mage + Outlaw Rogue. The clones/blades act like combo points. Shatters act like spenders.

What class would you pick in GW2 if you like healing in WoW?

The comment about wow not getting a tinkerer but instead a stupid half dragon "just another mage" class really hit :D. so true.... Talking about mages, i think it was a grave mistake by arena net to not give the elementalist a long bow to fullfill that magic archer fantasy, that i personally enjoy. instead elementalist got 2 melee weapons with addons, sword and hammer...

I've started gw2 as ranger because he can use totems as a shaman. But it's not true. And I'm happy with current sb's style.

Revenant = Shaman King

death knight + demon hunter had a child and it became a revenant

Comparing GW2 classes to WoW classes is weird. To me Necromancer and Thief are like WoW's Discipline Priest (which sounds funny out loud) since both can shield allies with the assistance of their shrouds

Specter = if a shadowpriest and sub rogue had a baby

I use to main a shaman in wow im guessing nothing similar in guild wars 2?

i love my dractheyr

We need holypriest-like spec in gw2😢

Engineer is essentially if you took engineerING (the craft in WoW) and made it a class in Guild Wars, that's what you get. Also I whole heartedly agree with these takes, yes mesmer is arcane mage, especially Virtuoso. Necro, death knight and warlock comparisons were spot on. And yes ele = shaman with some WoW mage.

summon the sith! ^.^

priest disc > necromancer scourge

reaper = Death knight

Rev is definitely a dk or what a dk as a concept should be specially the vindicator

willbender = Monk

One thing to keep in mind is that guardian has the lowest base health pool of the heavy armor classes. It also has the best healing and support skill, so with a little practice keeping yourself alive while beating the crap out of enemies

The real reason Revenant = DH is because BLINDFOLD

While i like the idea of what you were going for in this video, I feel like it was put together VERY hastely. You constantly switch between approaching thematic and mechanical similarities and don't stick to either or separate them clearly, that just leads to more confusion. A good example for this i think would be Revenant. You compare revenant to Demon hunters while i would never put them in the same boat. Demon Hunters are very mobile but simple class with easy to manage resource. While revenant's resource is way more similar to the Monk's or Rogue's energy. And like come on Rev's sword main hand 3 is literally Rogue's killing spree. Mechanically i would say Daredevil fits Monk well yes, but also fits demon hunter too with how mobile it is with the extra dodge and just generally the thief's kit. I feel like you could have done more research on the classes to compare abilities and show some examples. You focused too much on comparing one class to another in ways that in my opinion felt forced. You could have mentioned that core necromancer can be considered similar to shadowpriest too because shadow priest builds up insanity to go into void form and dish out damage from range. Similarly core necro builds up it's shroud to go into a lich form and dish out powerful damage from range. Not to mention both focusing on DoT damage. Or i think you mistakenly compared specter with shadowpriest because, well both use shadow magic and have like purple shadowy form and both can support their allies so i guess they are similar. But if anything I would say Specter is more similar to Discipline priest, as disc priests do damage to aid their allies. Not to mention both use barriers to shield their allies from damage. Both specter and disc priest can dish out good amounts of damage and use that to support their allies while giving them shields proactively. Only difference between the two is that disc is waaaaay less mobile than specter and disc doesn't have a big focus on dot damage unlike Specter. So yeah, I like the vid but i feel like there could have been way better comparisons. EDIT: Disc could also be compared to scourge necro, and engineer could be compared to druid from wow because both druid and engineer kinda do a stance dance and they both can always pick the right tool/form for the right job

yeah, today i deleted all my WoW characters and made a ticket for my account deletion, GW2 is great^^

Hearing the necromancer's description is honestly a little infuriating as someone who mains necromancer/warlock in every game. No offense to you but Summons and minions are so underpowered and bad you really aren't going to have a great experience with it. Necromancer used to be a great Shaman type character with Scourge but with the unnecessary nerf to shade duration that playstyle was butchered to make it more like everyone else rather than its unique way of playing. Even months after that I'm still really upset about that change.

I wish the Guardian was tankier :( I've been adoring Warrior lately.

I seriously dislike the new engi and necro specs. We could definately go without them. Bad picks!