Guild Wars 2

I’ve been playing GW2 since pre-release and all the betas. I’ve adored this game since it started. I’ve stood behind most of the changes they’ve made, let’s face it anyone who supported “every” change is naive. I had an 80 in 19 hours. I’ve conquered Dragon Lieutenants. I’ve organized and stood beside a unified Tyria. I’ve explored the land to completion and completed Dungeon Master pre-nerf Arah P4. I’ve stacked with my fellow Toasts to drive the satanic hordes of Jade Quarry.

Through all this though, I still haven’t found a single character that has fully engaged me. My elementalist was closest and also my first character, but the mobility nerf to it destroyed my in-and-out playstyle. I felt I couldn’t be nearly as aggressive and while I still don’t understand the 40 second cooldown to it, I shelved my ele so it’s negligable now.

After my ele was my thief. Thief was fun for a while but it was too forgiving. Even GC 2 signet spec’d for fun I rarely felt in danger.

Mesmer helped with my enjoyment of toying with my enemies plus it fit my playstyle. Comparatively to eleand thief, mesmer felt much more all in. I enjoyed it for a while but being a GW1 Mesmer main it felt lacking since I liked playing interupt builds. I tried a S/P and GS with Daze mantra and while it was fun, it paled to my GW1 mesmer so I passed along.

Ranger was a god awful experience all together.

Engineer, while fun, I fail hard at. It feels clunky and clumsy. I run a conditional build and I can never seem to find the proper traits/utilities. Just seems too “packed” for its own good. I spent tons of money gearing this character and feel she paid off the least lol. Which is a shame, after watching teldo for so long I still don’t understand half the crap he gets away with.

The reason I bring all this up is because this is the only game I’ve had difficulty finding a main. I’m actually starting to get frustrated at the game itself for not having something that I’m drawn to. Probably a bit more of a rant than intended but I adore the game and it’s frustrating to feel the classes are so… I can’t even explain it. Maybe I’m just going crazy

I saw this happening when I heard that no class (or role) is “needed”. You don’t have a class that has a sole purpose and you fill that niche when you play.

shrug I like both styles of gaming. I love vertical progression and the holy trinity of raiding and I also love this game.

I have 3 mains; One for WvW, one for Dungeon runs, and one for PvE/open world. I have been playing since the betas also and knew then that I would not feel the draw to any one character as I did in other MMOs where I felt I was meeting a need and filling it with my character choice.

Yeah I don’t know maybe it is a bit of “trinity” lack that I feel. Having played SRO before though, there wasn’t a trinity there either in all reality. It just makes me feel like my character is hollow where as I would bond to some of my characters. FF11, my corsair was amazing. SRO my 2/1 hybrid was unexpectedly useful and fit my aggression. It goes in with pretty much every game I played, like my SinX in RO.

Here, I just can’t get that ‘feel’ if that makes sense. I wish I could just settle on a main lol.

I feel you, believe me. In Guild Wars, I mained a Warrior for almost 7 years while my alt was a Monk that I routinely did SC’s on since Wars really didn’t have many other than FoWSC’s and even then, were usually out-shined by Dervishes or Assassins running a Derv Build.

Coming to GW2, I rolled a Warrior immediately. Leveling was a huge issue, as I kept rolling new toons pretty much everyday; 2 Mesmers, around 4 Guardians, ( for my Monk fix ) I think two Eles, ( I really want to love them, but I just can’t in GW2 ) and one Ranger. No Engineers, Necros or Thieves, because it’s not really my style of playing.

In my opinion, get back on the one that you found the most enjoyable ( Ele, I think ) and stick with it. You got to keep in mind that the game is still young, and there definitely is a feel of overall “blandness” with the classes. New skills are on the horizon, and you do still have an IMS as an Ele in the form of a Signet I believe. It may not be optimal, but in PvE, it shouldn’t hurt too much on your overall build. So stick with it, if you do, I think we both know it’ll pay off in the long run.

Part of the issue is that your character is mainly defined by the weapons you’re carrying. The cooldowns are normally longer on your optional skills and can’t be relied on for your damage/utility.

This has really diminished everyone’s ability to target a specific niche or come up with innovative builds. If I’m a warrior, and I want to do damage, I’m almost certainly carrying an Axe/Mace and a Greatsword. You now know over half of the abilities I use and how I use them. You can also probably guess the last set of abilities as well.

Yes, there were cookie cutter builds in GW1, but, with seven customizable characters you could bring with you, there was still plenty of room to try out a few things.

I just don’t feel the same attachment to my characters here I did there either. They feel very fungible, both because their purpose is all the same and because there is less customization available.

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Part of the issue is that your character is mainly defined by the weapons you’re carrying. The cooldowns are normally longer on your optional skills and can’t be relied on for your damage/utility.

This has really diminished everyone’s ability to target a specific niche or come up with innovative builds. If I’m a warrior, and I want to do damage, I’m almost certainly carrying an Axe/Mace and a Greatsword. You now know over half of the abilities I use and how I use them. You can also probably guess the last set of abilities as well.

Yes, there were cookie cutter builds in GW1, but, with seven customizable characters you could bring with you, there was still plenty of room to try out a few things.

I just don’t feel the same attachment to my characters here I did there either. They feel very fungible, both because their purpose is all the same and because there is less customization available.

Like I said though, new skills/traits are coming out in the near-future. They’ve ( ANet ) also mentioned new weapons, and making existing weapon sets available to other classes as well, which opens up more build variety/diversity. Combine that with new Utilities/Elites, and I think we’ll be good by early next year, if not sooner. Just got to stick it out!