Guild Wars 2

So I am almost level 20, and a level 16 monster, and probably player can kill me easily, and by easily, I mean take out big chucks of my health. My armor is for my level, why is it that before I could fight multiple enemies, and now I die in seconds, in pvp or just in the game. It is becoming very annoying. A little while ago, I tried to fight a level 5 elite, and died twice by him. Then I watched a level 6 player kill him herself. I wear medium armor, but still die VERY quickly, Why?

Toughness and vitality are your friends. When you have armor and such for your level, it basically means you have the baseline for making a build for that level. If you forgo toughness or vitality, you’re going to suffer heavy damage regardless if you’re level 10 or level 80.

I think it can depend on your class at lower levels. Some characters I’ve died very little on and some I died a lot more. Different zones, even with the same level range, can also be harder in my experience – I’m looking at you Inquest mobs in northern Metrica Province.

GoZero was right saying that toughness and vitality are your friends. Have you traited into one of their lines. That’ll help you survive at lower levels and you can trait into other lines later on.

You do lose a lot of health from attacks in this game and going from full to near dead in a few seconds is very common. If you’re fighting a group it can be handy to take one mob down to low health then leave them and concentrate on the others. Then if you’re downed you can switch back to the mob who’s nearly dead anyway, kill them quickly and rally.

Remember your level will be downscaled to the area you’re in as well so you may effectively be lvl 16 when facing that lvl 16 mob and that lvl 6 player may have been a lvl 80 player downscaled to lvl 6. You’ll still be more powerful than a non-downscaled player but if it’s from lvl 20 to lvl 16 you won’t feel that benefit as much as lvl 80 to lvl 16 for example.

Don’t despair. I’m sure you’ll soon find things easier, especially when you hit lvl 30 and you get your first elite skill which can be a great help in difficult situations.

Well, I can tell you that I am a ranger if that helps.

You die often as a ranger? What pets do you use? Do you actually kite the mobs, circling around them, trying to stay ranged? Have you tried using traps that cripple or chill to slow down your enemies? Do you dodge when you see the mob preparing for a bigger attack? Which weapons do you use?

Personally, I found not-dying on a ranger fairly easy…(I hardly ever use my elite though, because I’m not very fond of either of them on the ranger :/) I am using shortbow/sword&torch (or axe/torch in Orr) and traps and find it pretty survivable.

Well I’ve got a lvl 25 ranger and have also found him pretty survivable.

I’m probably doing it all wrong but I use a brown bear pet and longbow/axe&torch. My armour is mostly blue/green lvl 20 gear and none of it has toughness or vitality. With signets of the wild, hunt and stone in utility. I’ve traited 10 points into beastmastery to get master’s bond. I generally use troll unguent for healing when I’m soloing and healing spring when in a group. The pet tanks whilst stand back and if anyone gets close I can knock them back or switch to axe/torch.

It might not be the most efficient build or suitable for later zones/dungeons but so far it’s served me well. You could always ask on the ranger forum for better advice.

Yea go with the bear, that thing is a beast, and just circle around your enemy.

You dwnscale with the zone youre in too.

What server are you on? It sounds to me like we need to look at your play style and to do that the best thing to do is to play with you for an hour or so to see what you are doing. When I was level 16 I could take down level 25 mobs with little problem.
I am on Sorrows Furnace – if you are on that server send me a PM.

My first character was a ranger as well, and to date has about 248 deaths, my latest level 80 is a elementalist with only 33 deaths (mind you thats my 5th level 80) why such a large difference in death counts? Over time I learned to play smarter and my elementalist has yet to do a dungeon lol..

Now mind you, I am not saying that you don’t know how to play, but in time you’ll learn which of the skills work best together, what traits are the best, what armor stats help the most and which pets are the best for the different fights.

Like others have mentioned, at your lower levels focus on vitality and toughness, these stats will allow you more time to learn the rest of the stuff as you go. As you get higher in level and get a better grasp on the game/fight mechanics then you can place more focus on power and precision stats.