New Guild Wars 2 Guide - Which Race and Profession do I pick? What Can I Change Later?

Guild wars 2 has been around a long time and new players are suddenly confronted with a lot of difficult choices. Some of those are important and some are nothing to panic over. This guide is going to attempt to point new players in the right direction and highlight the choices that they are going to be stuck with as well as those that really won't matter in the long run.

Loading up any game for the first time mean being suddenly faced with a huge number of choices with limited information about the consequences of those choices. Which choices are you going to have to live with and which can you change later. Which choice are important and which are trivial. Am I going to be stuck with this face and race and profession? What is the best type of character to begin with for a new player of Guild Wars 2?