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Guard/DH is worth a spin especially if you liked Guard previously. Main difference in play style is that you get a bow that can do a good bit of damage, and if anything gets close to you, switch to mace etc and be very solid.
Just the thing for HoT maps!
Additional getting the Hero Points for the Elite Spec is likely to be much easier as travel in HoT maps is no longer culled by massive mob numbers and fast re-spawns. You can also get them from WvW if you’re on an active server. HoT maps give 10 hero points per mode, WvW gives about 10 per rank increase. Core gives one per node.
Apart from the HoT maps and Elite Spec there hasn’t been much changed, imo – although quite a lot was broken (but has just recently been fixed again).
Yea … where to start. I would recommend reading the following two patch notes …
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-October-23-2015
which is the HoT patch notes, ignore the Halloween event info.
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates/Game-Update-Notes-April-19-2016
which is this weeks which “fixed” issues with HoT.
The major wiki topics are
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Specialization
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Mastery
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Revenant
I’m about playing what you feel like, forget whatever is “meta”. Since you like hitting things you may like Revenant. Not sure if it’s a class you should instantly level to 80 in but … it’s the ele of heavy armor melee.
RIP City of Heroes
