Guild Wars 2

I basically played the game for 6 months when it came out trying to find a class that clicked and stopped playing due to life events.

During that 6 months I tried every single one of the classes. Each one had something about it that I didn’t like…be it something major like the overall mechanics of the class or something minor like the weapon selection. The ones that came closest were Warrior, Necro, and Thief.

I bought the expansion hoping it would address some of my issues but so far I’ve been running into the same problems as before.

I would really love a class where I could use greatsword with dual weild swords and have it be optimal but it seems like no such class exists. One of the goals I had was to one day get a legendary but I only like a couple of them… and now I’ve just read that they aren’t coming out with more of them even though the website makes it sound like they are coming out with new ones for each type.

A perfect class for me would be to take Revenant’s sword skills combined with Warrior’s greatsword skills. Why they gave Revenant staff is beyond me. There are only like 2 ‘combat’ looking staves in the game. How the game shipped without some sort of a Darth-Maul style weapon is beyond me.

I am having fun exploring the new maps and I like the gliding but I really would like to fall in love with a class and so far I just haven’t been able to.

Anyone else feel that way? What did you do?

Well I used to be torn between playing all the scholar classes, because they were all really interesting and fairly unique. I liked it. But I wanted to focus on one character, meaning one class, so I mained ele, and have been maining it for 2 years now.

I think all you need to do is just keep experimenting with classes. You could try mesmer, but it’s not much like Rev or Warr. Though it does get GS-S/S.

If you can’t figure it out, you could try playing 2 characters? It’s up to you.

I’m fine with all the classes. You could do S\S Mesmer, it’s still viable and even suggested for chronotank mesmers.

Yeah, I’ve felt that way. It’s part of the reason why I have so many characters. Some of them exist simply to provide one type of gameplay without my having to switch equipment and traits around to get it.

As for the Legendary weapons, they still plan to come out with a new one for each class, but that’s been put on hold for now. The basic problem was that the way they were doing it was a ton of work for a small and flawed result. It’s put on hold until they can get other things up and running, and then they’ll have to go back and take a long look at how they’re doing it and maybe come up with something better.

Finally, have you tried a greatsword/dual dagger Reaper? The daggers are quick and flashy, not really melee but they do give the “in your face” and fast feeling that you’d expect of dual swords. And the greatsword attacks are big, slow, and hit like a truck, with some magical effects and attacks thrown in there as well.

Will.9785:

I would really love a class where I could use greatsword with dual weild swords and have it be optimal but it seems like no such class exists.

Out of everything you typed, I feel this got as close to your problem as I can understand w/ the info you typed.

…namely the word ‘optimal’ caught my eye.

From my experience ‘optimal’ is chasing the jackalope. There are many viable builds, and that’s intentional so a person can better meld their play style with the options available.

If GS + Sw/Sw is something you want to do, then I say do it and find the build that makes it work. Kitten optimal. For the Warrior, you’re looking at a hybrid build and there a few solid options that will make you feel like you’re wrecking your opponent…. even if you’re not considered ‘optimal’ by others.

I apologize if I glommed on to the wrong part of your text, or misunderstood something. But it does seem to me like you might be chasing the wrong thing to make you happy.

~EW

Yeah, don’t try for “optimal”, try for “fun”. You’re not going to get optimal.

Everything has drawbacks you basically need to choose which drawbacks you want.

Like you can have damage, DoT, surivability, utility, mobility but never all at once.

That’s one thing I like about GW2. In other MMOs all the classes do the same stuff but in different ways. In GW2 you got classes that do different stuff in different ways. It helps keep the classes feeling unique.

You should level rev and war then alternate playing both. I am very proficient at 5 professions that I can raid/dungeon/fractal with and I rotate between them because sticking with one class as a “main” is boring to me after a week or so.

Weapon swapping for both rev and war are minimally used. Rev you swap for CC to staff or hammer if you must ranged. War you swap to maybe mace/shield for CC or just sword/warhorn for mobility then rifle or longbow if you must range. Weapon swapping isn’t used much for either profession and of course war uses greatsword mainly and rev uses sword mainly. You could get away with rev doing sword/sword I stress of mets sword / axe.