Guild Wars 2

Some of us are not as nimble as others and as we get older, it only gets worse so my question is is there a class that doesn’t have to move as much to be reasonably effective in combat? I almost exclusively play PVE.

For example in GW1, I played every class, but my favorite was the Ritualist because I could summon a pile of spirits and hang around behind them as they nuked things.

I’m currently primarily playing an Elementalist right now and the finger contortions are taxing my dexterity

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Nah give up on the Ele… go Ranger !

Ranger has to be the laziest class we have, pick a target, send in your pet.. shoot the bad guy from where you stand…lol

And if you’re feeling frisky, have a sword as your secondary wep and do some CQC, if not, your a stand still killing machine and job done

:))

I haven’t played a engineer (so engineers dont flame me here) but they appear to just setup turrets and let them do alot of the work in PvE.

Daredent.2961:

I haven’t played a engineer (so engineers dont flame me here) but they appear to just setup turrets and let them do alot of the work in PvE.

Actually that’s a deceiving thing. Turrets drop facing the exact way your character is facing. A well played Engineer will be running all around since the turrets drop at your feet (until you have a high end Trait) and will be aimed based on your pin point directioning. For a person who has true constantly moving around, I would never recommend an Engineer (based on what I’ve heard back from the Engineer that I know).

Now if you’re looking for a low movement key class, a Sword/Pistol wielding Thief might be up your alley. While most people design them as mobile glass cannons, you can also design one to act more like a quasi-tank.

Both their class Steal mechanic and the Sword #2 move will teleport you into melee. Then you use Pistol #5 to AoE Blind everything near you. Cut them down with Sword #1. Drop down a Smoke Screen to block ranged projectiles from enemies which you haven’t locked down. Rinse and repeat.

With a more defensive Trait spec (such as a Venomous Aura build using Deadly Arts 20 / Shadow Arts 30 / Acrobatics 20), you can actually play a Thief which isn’t required to dodge a lot of the time.

Ranger sounds like it might be the easiest but I’ll give the thief a shot as well. The goal is to get every class to 80 eventually, but learning to move with the keyboard along with the skills of the class are pushing my old dexterity to it’s limit. This is why I don’t play console games anymore.