Guild Wars 2

My tailbone is injured so I’m going to be stuck in bed for a few months. I’ve set up my 360 controller to work with Guild Wars 2 (using xpadder) and it’s working pretty well for my warrior. However, my favorite class is engineer but it requires a lot of AoE ground targeting which is really bad on a controller.

What’s another good class that doesn’t require a lot of ground-targeting? Thanks!

I would think for melee, Guardian would be your best bet. Lots of in-your-face melee action, not much ground targeting (only ground aoe that needs manual targeting are from staff and scepter, but they are not the most popular weapon for Guardian).

The only manually placed ground AoE attack for a Ranger is the longbow Barrage (5th skill on the bar). There is trait option allowing you to manually ground place traps, but this is easily avoided.

Necro with dagger/focus or dagger/warhorn and non targetable wells … surprisingly fun to play.

tbh as long as you use the right weapons and utitlities, im pretty sure any class (yes even engi, thoguh they may be one of the harder one to do it with but should be possible i think) with little to no ground targeted aoe’s

The Mesmer, one on the gs and one of the staff and that is all. None of the others are ground aoes.

EsLafiel.4517:

The Mesmer, one on the gs and one of the staff and that is all. None of the others are ground aoes.

Focus also has a ground aoe.
And for utility there’s nullfield, blink and timewarp.

bri.2359:

The only manually placed ground AoE attack for a Ranger is the longbow Barrage (5th skill on the bar). There is trait option allowing you to manually ground place traps, but this is easily avoided.

Axe/warhorn with shortbow are good options for weapons or melee weapons too. For self-made combos without ground targeting murellow/carrion devourer would work well as they both have poison AOE fields. Possibly torch 5 too (can’t remember if it’s ground targeted).

Thank you all for the suggestions!

Have you tried enabling fast cast ground targetting?

Ironvos.9014:

Focus also has a ground aoe.
And for utility there’s nullfield, blink and timewarp.

Yeah. Don’t play a Mesmer without ground targetting. You can do damage, but all your mobility is GT, some of the most important utility is GT, even one of your stealth skills is GT…

Adding a vote for power/well necro though. Especially if you don’t have one yet. If you keep your gear in shape then dagger #1 can almost carry you through everything open world pve can throw at you, wells are player centered unless you get a trait, and while there’s a useful GT skill for necros that use vulnerability, you can do just fine without it. As a bonus, underwater combat with spear should also work great with a controller, and the class allows for great survivability.

Qid.1937:

Have you tried enabling fast cast ground targetting?

I’d imagine this doesn’t help much with a controller as you still need to target the skill with your pointer.

If there were a fast cast on target setting, that’d be useful. But the existing one just casts where your mouse pointer is, exactly like double tapping the skill does when the setting is turned off.