Guild Wars 2

digiowl.9620:

I suspect the problem here is that zerker works too well in the rest of PVE. As such, it has become expensive to outfit a toon with it. This leave little room for maintaining multiple sets unless you’re a dedicated train runner.

It’s not the expense, it’s the lack of both storage space and a convenient way of armor set switching. The game itself makes keeping multiple armor sets undesirable.

This is why I spec all my characters with various types of gear. Hasn’t helped here though because there’s no gear that makes CC spam any less annoying…

Awe.1096:

Chrispy.5641:

I specced entirely for defense, condition removal, and healing because of the crazy stuff this map had, and I was able to solo most of it, and I also didn’t die once. It took a little longer, but I didn’t die….Why?

Well, its simple….Glass cannons are going to get 1 or 2 shot, and that’s by design. If you don’t want to die one one hit, you could give yourself some toughness and vitality. But hey, DPS is supposed to be king in this game, so why even bother, right?

Unless you are a warrior. I brought my zerker warrior to that place after playing a bit with other two professions and it was a faceroll like usual. Charge in, spam 100b, stuff is dead and I feel more tanky than my engi with over 3000 armor. Oh well…

I should note that I have ran through the Tower, as a Ranger, with These four gear sets already, and 1 death:::

Cleric(0), Magi(1), Berzerker(0), and Rampager(0). I’ve solo’d it with Cleric and Rampager gear, and was in a group the other two times. Sometimes, I like going full glass cannon, and just killing anything that moves. That includes trading out your precious bears for cats or birds, since you’ll kill things alot faster that way. Other times, I rather be a little more defensive and take things a little more slowly, since it is a literal faceroll if I build the character right, I don’t even have to dodge.

Qaelyn.7612:

I’m sure some players are better than others, and I’m also sure some classes can deal with it better than others. But there are a LOT of downed and dead players on the map so I am not imagining this.

Maybe a lot of players should pay more attention to their surroundings and less on pressing 1 on their keyboards.