I've never tried using a controller for more than a few minutes. It puts you at a huge disadvantage since you can't rotate the camera fast enough and also, most classes have a lot of keybindings.
While you can make chains and limit how many keybindings you actually have to press, this really nerfs your potential skill and effectiveness, and the fact that you need to be able to instantly move the camera around alot to position your attacks for back crits makes a controller really limit your skill level.
I've known people who will grind easy stuff with controllers but for anything challenging and want to be good don't use a controller. Classes like reapers where you can spacebar chain almost all skills may work alright on controller but you still have that sluggish camera control problem you just can't compete with fast mouse. Slayer is another one that is very playable using chains but requires very accurate aiming where the controller would fail badly at... and archer requires even more precise aiming, can't image playing that on a controller. Don't even bother pvping with a controller you will be destroyed instantly, the pvp is unbalanced enough as it is.
So just to sum it up, controller is possible and playable for probably most classes, just will limit your skill level greatly.
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