Guild Wars 2

My guardian and elementalist are within 10 levels of each other as I like them both. However when it comes to personal story, the difference is painful.

On my guardian I’ve taken personal story missions that are 2-3 levels above me with no problem at all. On my elementalist, I almost always outlevel them now because of aggravation early on in the game dying so much. Often, it still doesn’t help that much because I’m downleveled to the mission level.

Today for example, on the priory line around level 68 mission I’m supposed to go escort a guy to blow up a ship. Moving along okay and a shark comes up and begins a not so fun instakill session whereby the zombie shark kills me as soon as my dodges and cc’s are on cool down.

Or the one before that with power suits in the volcano where there are so many grubs and fire waves flying and a kittened suit that can’t hit the beam in front of me half the time, It takes at least one death per beam to kill it. I’m guessing this one has something to do with the low base health of an ele and how it scales to the suit but it’s so very frustrating.

I’m sorry but there needs to be more balancing done. A player shouldn’t cakewalk a personal story on half the classes and be in imminent danger all the time on one or two. I have no issues on any other class I’ve played a chunk of story on (guardian, mesmer, warrior, ranger). The missions that are most painful are usually ones where I don’t have access to normal tools – underwater I lose most of my utilities and lack my normal mobility or in one of the gimmicky use-this-weapon-or-suit missions. Which would be fun were it not for feeling like I’m hamstrung by the gimmick. If you’re gonna give a player a fire suit in a volcano, getting hit with a fireball shouldn’t take more than half my life away.

Apologies for the long post, I love the game but it’s times when my elementalist cannot survive a story mission without a crazy repair bill that make it not as enjoyable as it could be.

I very much agree with you, even though I havent been playing the Ele much now, I played a Ele all through Betas and I do dislike the set up of the Ele in a way with having, to be out of combat_go into INV_ or Hero menu_ to switch weapons… Anyway the skills on the ele are great and at times the Ele can be really dificult to keep alive but there is a price to playing a powerful professtion, yet the Guardian and Necromancer is more OP than Elementalist, so some things about the Ele is really unfair but it has so many skills, but each atunement is just kindah changeing those skills a little…

The Elementalist seems to be the most chalengeing to Trait and use the skills without getting any blows.

I play an Elementalist main, and currently leveling a Guardian (70 at the moment), and yes, Guardian is a ton easier than Elementalist. With the Elementalist I had some trouble on some quests, and had me die some times. As Guardian I barely ever come close to dying, and that’s with using much less skills and less dodging than I had to do on my Elementalist.

There’s a few quests which heavily favor ranged classes. But in all the rest guardian was easiest. Generally guardian > ranger > necro > mesmer > ele for the characters I’ve played since release. (In personal story, other times it’s totally different). I had a really hard time with thief in the betas, but I can’t say for sure what’s been adjusted.

Some of it though is really understanding how to trigger next phases of the story. i.e. should I kill everyone or is that impossible and I need to run through? Mesmer generally didn’t have the dps to outkill anything with respawn. Ele would be fine if there were a few NPCs to “tank” the mobs and useless solo.