Guild Wars 2

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Downed state and the downed skills.
Downed state “should” give a second chance to save your precious existence. Instead of that, being downed almost automatically means defeat. Why? Most downed skills are almost useless Okay, when an enemy is about to “kill” you with his last hit before u kill him you can save yourself.
-The useful ones come on Cooldown, high enough to get killed before u could use it…..at least make a trait for all classes so downed skills worth more than #&@?°!%.
-Best of the best is, when ur just about to get saved and then a random trash mob “randomly” respawns, with just enough strength to kill you, which also brings the problem that if u stealth or move while downed, mobs have like 2x aggro range if u try to get away with stealth, and ofc they mostly crit when ur downed OR try to use healing skill.
-Probabbly useless to mention but I’ll do: players can be revived from downed state too! No —-— Sherlock! YAY.
So then. Knuckles up, ready, set, discuss!

“Downed state “should” give a second chance to save your precious existence.”

It does.. & once you understand (I’m not going to explain, some things are better learnt through time/experience) you can use it to accomplish far more than you could normally. The only problem with downed state is in PvP, in PvE it’s a wonderful feature. You’re either undergeared/over extendending/not playing your class optimally. Sorry but this is definitely a player-side issue, not a design issue. Most games, once you’re HP hits 0, you’re dead K.O. Sorry to say but can’t justify this.

I partiallly agree and disagree you. You’re absolutley right abou that if in all games ur hp hits 0 ur dead, game over. BUT! My main problem with the downned skills is that they come on cd….ur also right abou that that this is (mostly) a player-side issue. “Downed” saved me also so many times(when there were alos friends who revived me or rallied)…..and also right, maybe dont try to solo a group event with a thief in Orr…..only the Cd… o_O okay, the cooldwon after use can be high so u cannot spam it (except the basic attack)….

I actually like the downed state, it’s saved me so many times.

Trick is, if it looks like you will go down, try to leave the ones with the lowest health alive and damage those with the most, then it’s easier to keep on getting up, in the downed state kill those with the lowest hp left.

I’ve never played a thief but my friend got one to Lv.30+ and he told me it was hard to level since you take a lot more damage than say warrior/guardian. So it’s also the class has medium armor and depending on your build will be trickier to play. Heck, I find it hard to solo group events on my 3k+ armor guardian. So if you pull that off with thief that’s even more of an accomplishment Good luck!

Mujen.2089:

I’ve never played a thief but my friend got one to Lv.30+ and he told me it was hard to level since you take a lot more damage than say warrior/guardian. So it’s also the class has medium armor and depending on your build will be trickier to play. Heck, I find it hard to solo group events on my 3k+ armor guardian. So if you pull that off with thief that’s even more of an accomplishment Good luck!

Thief was mY first I leveled to 80, It’s fast to level but did die more than the other classes I’ve leveled.

Guardian rarely died and good skills especially greatsword.

Mesmer, slow to level but was using the staff, glad I did as now at 80 with loads of condition damage it’s great.

Leveling a warrior atm, feels like you’re playing a godess although it struggles sometimes on the tougher mobs due to the cd lengths (using hammer). Which is only lvl 25 atm.

My first lvl 80 was Engineer. As with him, so with the thief: rely on control: Blind, Cripple, and Weakness OR kill faster. Problem is, ofc ourse, that especially later, long condition durations keeps you in combat so u cannot regenerate. Mostly depends on playstyle but shortbow is strongly recommended for…ehhem…“crowd control” (AoE dmg + condition) or against single targets: dual pistols. Melee weapon well…I prefer sword+pistol (Infiltrators Strike + Pistol Whip, the firt one is also handy because breaks stun and cures condition upon reactivation, plus shadowstepand immob.), but also seen p/d combined with d/p build put on condition damage(bleed). I played Warrior in GW1….but here I dont like it (along with the Paladin.oo sry Guardian). Simply. Too. Easy. Tons of armor and passive regens/blocks….I’m not judgemental there is no challange playing those chars…(played both warrior and guardian until ~lvl40, built offtank spec…) Thats my point of view, I dont want to hold back any1 from playing as a Warrior or Guardian.

But what I really like to play as an….well we can say off-support is the Blood Magic (or also called Vampire) Necro. d/d and staff, draining health from enemies to restore mine and/or for my allies. (also funny for the primary downed skill of the necro)

Azala Yar.7693:

Mujen.2089:

I’ve never played a thief but my friend got one to Lv.30+ and he told me it was hard to level since you take a lot more damage than say warrior/guardian. So it’s also the class has medium armor and depending on your build will be trickier to play. Heck, I find it hard to solo group events on my 3k+ armor guardian. So if you pull that off with thief that’s even more of an accomplishment Good luck!

Thief was mY first I leveled to 80, It’s fast to level but did die more than the other classes I’ve leveled.

Guardian rarely died and good skills especially greatsword.

Mesmer, slow to level but was using the staff, glad I did as now at 80 with loads of condition damage it’s great.

Leveling a warrior atm, feels like you’re playing a godess although it struggles sometimes on the tougher mobs due to the cd lengths (using hammer). Which is only lvl 25 atm.

I rather add a blinking on the mini-map where the downed players are so they will be more visible to help