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If you're unsure, you can try both. The lvl 80 boost needs to be confirmed before it's permanent. You can create one class or the other, try it out, then revert and try the other one.

Personally, I think you're better off using it on the Guardian and slow-leveling the Elementalist. If you're unsure with the game play of either, you'll be at a disadvantage no matter what, but I think the Elementalist will be a steeper learning curve. You can learn the Guardian a little quicker and work towards one or both Elite specs at your own pace (not sure what expansions you have).

Above all, have fun!

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@crashburntoo.7431 said:If you're unsure, you can try both. The lvl 80 boost needs to be confirmed before it's permanent. You can create one class or the other, try it out, then revert and try the other one.

Personally, I think you're better off using it on the Guardian and slow-leveling the Elementalist. If you're unsure with the game play of either, you'll be at a disadvantage no matter what, but I think the Elementalist will be a steeper learning curve. You can learn the Guardian a little quicker and work towards one or both Elite specs at your own pace (not sure what expansions you have).

Above all, have fun!

I have both Expansion packs

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I did my first 80-level boost on a Guardian. I only slightly regret it. Mostly regret since I haven't learned the character as well as some of my others - but I don't play that one as often, which also doesn't help.

My elementalist was my first character and second in play time only to my ranger. I'd encourage taking that one slower since so many different pieces to learn. I'm still learning and I've had this character for a good chunk of time.

So my vote would be 80-boost the Guardian between those two.

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How easy or difficult to learn depends largely on what you plan on doing with the character. A lot of the learning that will be required is also independent of character and class. That is learning about the various encounters and mob types and their behaviors.

Both require active defenses for survival but guardian probably has a bit more available as a baseline.

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I recommend against using a L80 boost on a character which profession you don't master yet. If you don't use boosts and just level the old-fashioned way to 80 you will learn your class and get the time to try the different weapons. Ele is a fairly versatile class with both good ranged as close combat options. The major drawback is its survivability. Ele is the most squishy class. This can be somewhat mitigated by using Celestial stats which boost your armor and healing power at the cost of some DPS. Using celestial I tend to survive well during battles with legendaries and champions in PvE while I rez many others who apparently did not survive. (Not just Ellies die here :p)

I play scepter/dagger which is fairly uncommon but I found this a good compromise between the safety of ranged combat (staff) and the quickness of dagger/dagger close combat. When needed I can equip a staff to nuke arrow carts on tower walls in WvW.

PvP has been a valley of tears to me as Elly, because lack of survivability in combination with my mediocre responsiveness to sudden attacks. For some reason that only Dwayna knows, I still play it anyways.

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@TheQuickFox.3826 said:I recommend against using a L80 boost on a character which profession you don't master yet. If you don't use boosts and just level the old-fashioned way to 80 you will learn your class and get the time to try the different weapons. Ele is a fairly versatile class with both good ranged as close combat options. The major drawback is its survivability. Ele is the most squishy class. This can be somewhat mitigated by using Celestial stats which boost your armor and healing power at the cost of some DPS. Using celestial I tend to survive well during battles with legendaries and champions in PvE while I rez many others who apparently did not survive. (Not just Ellies die here :p)

I play scepter/dagger which is fairly uncommon but I found this a good compromise between the safety of ranged combat (staff) and the quickness of dagger/dagger close combat. When needed I can equip a staff to nuke arrow staff on tower walls in WvW.

PvP has been a valley of tears to me as Elly, because lack of survivability in combination with my mediocre responsiveness to sudden attacks. For some reason that only Dwayna knows, I still play it anyways.

I been playing Ele a lot lately and its a much more fun class really squishy for pve I haven't played much pvp but honestly Spvp I can just play any other class since I don't need to level them :bleep_bloop:

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The best classes to use a 80 boost on are Mesmers, Revenants, Thieves and Engineers. Mostly because their Class synergies aren't apparent without Grandmaster traits, which make them abnormally difficult to level. Thief is something of an outlier on this; as they're actually ok in leveling, but being a heavily PvP centered class, their nuances go almost completely unused in PvE. If you already understand basic combat, you already know everything you need for Thief/Daredevil in PvE, and simply need to acclimate to how glassy it is. At that point you can start adopting WvW or PvP builds and practice in open world, to get used to executing tricks and skills before going onto those game modes.

Or you can save them for classes you want to take straight into WvW, and skip the leveling process. I did that with Rev, from level 20, after reading about how they're designed around Elite Specs. And to my surprise, the whole class made perfect sense once I got access to Herald.

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Guardian, imo.If you're still new-ish to the game, then guardian. Elementalist is a class which, not only needs to be learned in terns of skills, but due to it's squishyness you also need to learn general mechanics to survive, as ele the first class i played i learned where to stand and not to stand on bosses and their mechanics FAST because ele's cannot handle more damage than what they can't avoid when sheild/dodge is down. Made doing ex-pac & LWS3 content easier when i got it though, because i didn't really need to learn too much new stuff, i already learnt how to dodge from leveling ele - so leveling ele properly will likely teach you how to git gud as well.

And if you're not new...guardian again imo. Because while both guardian and ele are very squishy with base stats, guardian has WAY less mobility than ele does - a lot of guardian's best skills will stop movement in order to use them, even. This means you can't dodge as much, and aegis is useful but you need to learn how to use it first. lv80 boost gives you free soldiers stats - power, toughness, vitality - you'll want this more on your guardian than your ele because your guardian will take a lot more damage. If you know to dodge and move then you'll be fine without soldiers gear on an ele.

That being said, i personally found ele way easier to learn how to use properly than guardian. Staff ele especially, is actually super simple to use, while it can look daunting it's really not- most of the time no matter what weapon you use you can get by fine by staying in fire and switching to water when you need heals, and the traits are way easier to understand than most other classes, since they just follow the elements - so if you don't use one element much, then just don't pick that specialisation. Other classes specs are a little more complicated. Guardian on the other hand I found harder to learn, especially dealing with it's lack of mobility- so it may be better to boost ele since having to level guardian will make you learn the harder class.

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