1) Play solo often. Why? Learn to survive. Don’t count on heals or buffs from others, or just sheer numbers. Keep yourself alive. Press your luck, take risks. Learn when to run, and learn when to carve your initials in the bosses hide.
2) Go into higher level areas and spit in the eye of the baddies there. You may die, so what. LEARN. So many fear dying like it’s a badge of shame. You die, you rez, you learn.
3) Learn what Kite (get the boss or mob to chase you, while you pick it apart) and Pull (tag a single target and avoid grabbing all the agro, unless there is no choice) mean. Learn what agro (who and how many are crying for your blood lol) is, and how it effects you and any group you may run with. We don’t have the trinity (healer, dps, tank) here, but knowledge of these mechanics can really help you. My thief is a glass cannon, she does more damage than she can take. I’ve kited so many bosses while the group burns them down I lost count. Just remember a player that stands still is a corpse. Learn to stick and move. Run fast, sting hard.
4) Don’t worry about who has done what, how fast they did it, etc.. Chances are it’s pure BS. That is the number 1 profession in any mmo. Don’t just copy some ones build and take it as gospel that’s the only way to run. Experiment, trial and error is a great teacher. Develop your own play style. It’s your time in game. Enjoy it or log off.
Overall PVE is not really that hard. The main thing that makes it hard is mmo gaming co.‘s that can’t figure out what balance is. Too many think making something kitten near impossible is fun. These games will fail, each and every time. Don’t sweat it, it’s not your concern. Playtime should be fun time, or why bother, right?
It takes as long as it takes for you to learn your class. There is no time limit. Especially in GW2, you don’t even pay a monthly fee. If your guild harps on builds and cookie cutter setups, and you are tired of hearing it, split. Trust me there are sooooo many guilds looking for people you’ll have no trouble finding a new one. I tell potential guild recruiters I’m new and want to take my time, if they are open to that I listen. If they walk away, ha.. it’s their loss. I’ve played MMO’s for over 10 years. I could probably teach them a few things. Case in point, I had never done COF. I joined a group and the leader assumed (I’ll wait for the jokes) that everyone knew what to do. I told him before he invited I had not done it. About 1/2 way through the group was wiping a lot. I reminded the leader about this being my first time. Still he didn’t explain anything and did his best Leroy Jenkins imitation. On the final boss, the “experienced players wiped” and kept saying reset etc.. Myself (thief) and a ranger took the boss down. We didn’t even get a thank you. Oh well it happens.
This isn’t meant as a boast, just proof, knowing how to do things, taking your time, and learning how to fight and stay alive was what kept BOTH of us up.
Choice is yours..
(edited by Evon Skyfyre.9673)