Returning Player, help appreciated.

Hey all,I haven’t played since beginning of HoT and I had used the boost for a Necromancer. Now I am coming back to play PVE/PVP/WVW.

I am having troubles picking a profession.A little background I am a Veteran Guild Wars 1 play, as with WoW (ya ya I know).In GW1 I played an elementalist.I prefer DPS.That being said does Guardian have any good options? I enjoy survivability but also don’t want to be useless in raids and fractals.Please help. Any suggestion works. Guardian was just first to come to mind. I also like the looks of thief.

https://metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki

I'd read through the classes and see what tickles your fancy. Guardian has it's place in certain areas with certain gear. Word of warning, you play the Meta and you could get burned on your gear with the next balance patch...

Guardian has always had a solid spot in the meta as a dps profession. Elementalist in gw2 is a lot more difficult and different to play than gw1 Elementalist and was nerfed so hard, that only few people can achieve decent dps numbers.

If you want to go dps, then Guardian is a good choice. You can find good guardian builds on https://metabattle.com/wiki/Guardian and https://snowcrows.com/raids/builds/guardian/dragonhunter/power/ .