Guild Wars 2

I’m looking for a profession that suits my playstyle.

80s I have: Warrior, Ranger, Necro

Problems with my 80s: Warrior too squishy when I go berserker (Dodging is something I’m pretty trakitten for melee, I can do it okay from range when I see stuff coming)

Ranger too reliant on pet damage, when it goes down I feel weak.

Necro (condition build) feels like it does no damage. I mean, maybe I’m wrong, but eh..

My preferred things: Range. Some sort of passive survivability (Health regen, a trait that reduces damage taken, idk)

Things I’m bad at: Dodging in melee range of bosses, soloing content (Though leveling will be easy, because if I like the class in a group but can’t solo things, I’ll craft), using utility skills.

Things I plan to do with it: Dungeons, Fractals, probably eventually mapping.

Things I absolutely will not do: Any sort of PvP.

The easier the better.

So out of Engineer, Elementalist, Guardian, Mesmer, Thief, which would be best suited to me?

If not for preferring range you might want Guardian.

Maybe try Engineer, though you’ll need to give it time to get comfortable I imagine. Grenade kit for long range, flamethrower or rifle or pistols for mid range, bomb kit or tool kit for close range. Trait for backpack regenerator and you can have constant regen with any kit equipped. Lots of very useful support tools for dungeon/fractal groups. Solo map completion will be a bit tough but doable.

cpg.7140:

If not for preferring range you might want Guardian.

Maybe try Engineer, though you’ll need to give it time to get comfortable I imagine. Grenade kit for long range, flamethrower or rifle or pistols for mid range, bomb kit or tool kit for close range. Trait for backpack regenerator and you can have constant regen with any kit equipped. Lots of very useful support tools for dungeon/fractal groups. Solo map completion will be a bit tough but doable.

Yeah, I tried an Engineer (Admittedly didn’t get through level 3) but the only thing that seems cool about Engineer to me is turrets, and if they’re not permanent (which I doubt they are because utility skill? Idk though) I don’t feel like I’ll like them

Turrets are there until they die or you pick them up. They’re not as useful as you might think (though healing turret is good for water fields and flame turret is good for smoke fields). Of course as you’re leveling you can play around with them, and there are traits that make them stronger or make them placeable via ground targeting… but they’re probably not something you’ll want to build around. Kits seem to have more potential.

cpg.7140:

Turrets are there until they die or you pick them up. They’re not as useful as you might think (though healing turret is good for water fields and flame turret is good for smoke fields). Of course as you’re leveling you can play around with them, and there are traits that make them stronger or make them placeable via ground targeting… but they’re probably not something you’ll want to build around. Kits seem to have more potential.

See I don’t even know what fields are. And darn, I’d probably only play Engineer to build around them. So I guess we’re down to 4.

There are combo fields and combo finishers, completing combo gives different effects based on field type and finisher type. You might also want to try elementalist or mesmer along with guardian

If you already leveled warrior you could try swapping your gear. just because everyone says Zerker, Zerker….. doesn’t mean you can’t use Knights or Soldiers for extra protection. It is something to consider before level another job.

Talyn.3295:

If you already leveled warrior you could try swapping your gear. just because everyone says Zerker, Zerker….. doesn’t mean you can’t use Knights or Soldiers for extra protection. It is something to consider before level another job.

Yeah, but when I tried that my guild just gave me crap about it and act like because someone else in my guild has some broken stupidly strong Warrior build I should be exactly like him.

Go Mesmer . Its a slow leveler at first but once you get going its a great class

Castiel.7345:

Talyn.3295:

If you already leveled warrior you could try swapping your gear. just because everyone says Zerker, Zerker….. doesn’t mean you can’t use Knights or Soldiers for extra protection. It is something to consider before level another job.

Yeah, but when I tried that my guild just gave me crap about it and act like because someone else in my guild has some broken stupidly strong Warrior build I should be exactly like him.

Why do you find it so hard to dodge in melee when bosses are normally gigantic monstrosities with blatantly obvious attacks?

Yeah i think you should learn how to dodge. Dungeons and Fractals rely on dodging so its important that you learn even if you are a ranged class. I used to have difficulties but i switched my key binds so dodge was more accessible and its a lot easier. And if you just pay attention in the fight to what the bosses are doing, you will most likely be able to dodge the attacks.

And elementalist is fun. Mesmer is good but its a little….i dont know when i play it i feel like its mostly just useful for timewarp/ reflect/ pull

Sounds like thief is the way to go. They have alot of dodging abilities, as opposed to pressing v/touble tapping. Got range and melee too. Engineer…I didnt enjoy that class until I was level 60+ and after I finally started using the kits. If Flamethrower had a mastery achievement, it would be very full up.

Not entirely sure where you’re getting the fact that I’m completely unable to dodge, but when I’m at range I can see the fight better and see the attacks coming. When I’m in melee range, all I see is a whole bunch of different crap piled on top of each other and suddenly I’m dead.

I would pick Guardian if I were you, but of course Guardian doesn’t have ranged attacks. However, due to Guardians being sort of a “tanky” kind of class, it could fix the issue where you’re “in melee range and all you see is crap piled on top of each other and then you’re dead.”

Not entirely sure where you’re getting the fact that I’m completely unable to dodge, but when I’m at range I can see the fight better and see the attacks coming. When I’m in melee range, all I see is a whole bunch of different crap piled on top of each other and suddenly I’m dead.

Then you’re not paying attention. Give an example of a fight where you can’t see anything.

I would pick Guardian if I were you, but of course Guardian doesn’t have ranged attacks

Yeah, no ranged attacks besides the highest ranged DPS weapon in the entire game, scepter. Do people even play this game?

I would pick Mesmer if I was you. Clones act as a passive defense. They easy access to regen in certain builds and the one melee weapon they have has a evade built into it.

…Scepter, Focus, Staff, add a few teleport-like skills and weapon attacks and the Guardian is one of the most mobile classes out there (which is kinda surprising for someone walking around in full plate), with decent to good ranged and melee attacks (at least in my opinion)

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