Newbe help and questions.
We’re going to devote our energies to sports, gardening, all the cultural pursuits;
in fact, we’re going to put the goons to sleep.
Meanwhile – we dig.
in fact, we’re going to put the goons to sleep.
Meanwhile – we dig.
We’re going to devote our energies to sports, gardening, all the cultural pursuits;
in fact, we’re going to put the goons to sleep.
Meanwhile – we dig.
in fact, we’re going to put the goons to sleep.
Meanwhile – we dig.
The great thing about this game is that, for general PvE, pretty much each class has the options to spec into pretty much every role: melee damage, range damage, self reliance, slow playstyle, fast-paced playstyle, single target damage, aoe damage, offensive group buffing, defensive group buffing, direct damage, condition (dot) damage, …
It’s all a question of weapon sets, utility skills and traits you choose, and you are free to switch them on the fly and without cost (in the case of equipment switch to other stuff you’re carrying of course
) whenever you are out of combat.
Your ultimate choice really should mostly depend on which character and what playstyle suits you most, as the classes, while being able to pretty much do everything respectably, play vastly different due to different class mechanics.
Whether you can engage groups of enemies on your own and survive also depends a lot more on your understanding of your class and abilities than the gear you carry around. Sure, my elementalist will do considerably more damage in her beserker gear (full offensive stat set with power, precision and ferocity) than in her soldier’s gear (offensive power plus devensive toughness and vitality stats), but whether she’ll survive a situation or not depends a lot more on choosing the best weapon set and utility skills for a given situation and knowing how to utilize the skills available. The only difference between the two sets mostly is the time it takes to kill stuff .
This game is pretty easy to get into, but surprisingly deep mechanic-wise if you enjoy that kind of thing. You can micro-manage or not depending on the situation and your personal needs. For example, I do have at least two armor sets and most if not all available weapon types on most of my characters, but I often don’t bother re-equipping unless I notice that a situation really calls for going optimal in one way or the other.
Just go with whatever class and race looks most promising to you, and get a feel for the game first. You still have four more character slots to try other combinations later. For example, I really didn’t want to play asura at the start, but at some point, they became my favourite race by far (to the point where more than half of my 80s are asura these days ). I also didn’t mesh with the mesmer class at first, but tried again occasionally when creating new characters, and by now it’s my favourite class (with 3 at 80 and 3 more leveling ).
You really can’t go wrong in this game. Changing builds is quick and easy, getting new equipment is rather painless, too, and if everything fails even maxing a new character is nowhere near as much of a problem as in other MMOs. Pretty much all of the stuff needed when switching alts (including achievements and top-tier equipment) is account-bound anyway, making it very easy to play several characters to top level.
Relentless Inquisition [PAIN] – FA
We’re going to devote our energies to sports, gardening, all the cultural pursuits;
in fact, we’re going to put the goons to sleep.
Meanwhile – we dig.
in fact, we’re going to put the goons to sleep.
Meanwhile – we dig.