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I’ve been an an impasse with GW 2 lately and also World of Warcraft because I don’t really know what class I want to play. In both games I’ve played a Paladin/Guardian extensively with the most current builds of the game and I’ve been disappointed in either the lack of offensive choice or in general the lack of offense.
I fully understand that generally the Paladin archetype involves the healing or protection role more than offense, however, as both games allow the player the flexibility to choose to be a Paladin/Guardian and focus on offense, I feel like the classes should be better at it at least comparable to other classes.
For WoW, my predicament ends there. For GW 2 it gets a bit further with the weapon skill sets.
When I set out to make a Guardian, without any extensive beta experience or reading, just what I read from the GW 2 website. I wanted to make a character that had low defense, high melee damage and healing capability and used a 1 handed sword and torch. At first that seems like it works really well, but as I played more that definitely turned out to not be the case.
In PvE this is somewhat fine but still unfortunate, but in PvP this is a huge issue to me because I simply do not see a point in not using any of the other weapons over a 1h sword, they all perform their roles much more effectively than the sword does, and more to what my original goal was, the 2h sword certainly has lower defense, high melee damage, and decent support capability, but I don’t really want to use a 2H sword primarily with my “main” character.
So in short, I have a preference to use a 1H sword as a primary weapon, and of course with that would come options afterward that all classes have for their secondary weapon,
While I know that the original design philosophy (at least I heard this in an interview) behind the classes in GW 2 is that everyone can do everything “to an extent” I guess I didn’t really consider how much truth was actually in that statement. At the same time however, I fully know that a Guardian can do really good damage, but it’s not with a weapon or even playing style that I like.
So with that said, I decided to come here for advice, does anyone have any suggestions as to what other class I should try out?
I’ve played a Guardian for about 1-2 month after release, so my opinion on it is fairly formed at this point, but if there’s something I’ve missed about the 1h sword or if there’s a belief that arenanet will actually change 1h swords for the Guardian within a short amount of time, that could also be something.
As for actual things about classes I like :
-If possible, I like the option to dual wield swords
-I prefer melee over ranged, although I can play ranged well in most games, not that I enjoy it that much
-I also like to have a sort of spellsword aspect to the class where the class is able to cast some degree of ranged spells but also empower their melee weapons with spells and use those to fight, the trade off is that usually the class does not have a high defense and is not as skilled with melee weapons as a Warrior would be
-I have no preference in armor since I think they all look good in GW 2
-I also prefer direct damage types over an emphasis on debuffs, DoTs
-I do like having the option to support now and then but after experiencing the Guardian, I feel like I would be fine trading that off for being full offense or defense
I think that’s about it, I’m also aware that the class that has ALL of the points above does not exist (unfortunately), so I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions.
For the second part of my question that requires less description, I was wondering about the state of GW 2 in general. I played for 1-2 months after the release but I took a departure for a bit to play WoW again for Mists of Pandaria, I was wondering if the release of MoP affected anyone’s game/social/server community to any extent?
For me, I’ve seen less people in areas but that was to be expected but it’s kind of unfortunate when most champions are hard if not impossible to take down without a group. I’ve also seen that WvW doesn’t reset everyday which I think is also unfortunate since my new server that I transferred over for a friend, is stuck in a rut. Although I honestly found WvW kind of boring compared to sPVP, so the only thing I miss about it for completely selfish reasons is that I’m at 98% map completion and some other server holds bases I need. Although with that aside, it was fun to be able to jump into WvW whenever and fight for a bit then leave knowing that it would still be there.
So, any suggestions or answers would be appreciated, and thanks for reading.