Guild Wars 2

My first question is:
-Is it too late to switch my main class now? (I have, stupidly, commited 100g on my ele already and wasted 35 laurels for an ascended ring)

Second:
What can you guys advice me to switch?

My playstyle:
I usually go on WvW following zergs – I dislike the idea of staying in the back casting stuffs thats why Staff ele didnt work for me while D/D ele although a bit more fun and dynamic I find myself useless when our zerg is faced with another since I cant really just dive in and do my stuff (it’d be suicidal with all nukes and sieges)

Thinking of:
-Mesmer
-Thief
-Warrior

I was gonna go for a thief but after I heard that stealth is gonna get hit badly on the upcoming patch I decided to ask you more experienced guys about this since I dont wanna spend another 100g for nothing..

Thanks in advance

First question?? Why spend 100 gold!! on a character??.

Beside the three books (3g10s) you don’t have to spend anything when leveling a character.

Second Question: Are you sure you wanna switch? You might want to go ot the ele section and ask around there for hints an tips. Or find a good WvWvW guild on your server and ask them for advise. I know an ele can really well be build as a tanky-ish character. People consider them squishy, but that doesnt have to be the way. It is all in the traits. Yes it might be that the playstyle needed is not your thing but that is not the classes handicap, but your own. So your statement that it is suicidal with all nukes and sieges would mean imo you blame the class for your own problems and then you will hit it with any other class (sorry to put it so blunt, but specially in WvWvW there is no class that has a -push a button and win- option, so failing at an ele and not fully understanding why means it is hard to make a different class as well).

Mesmer and Thief if played right are the two best options for WvW. There are some amazing builds out there that are relativly easy to play. I don’t think the upcomming update wich is against culling and not against stealth is going to change a lot.

Warrior isi nice and ok. Easy to play and indeed more your playstyle if you don’t want to think bout survivability. Just keep in mind that a warrior if played badly is as bad as an ele.

Hope you are not offended by the way im putting things. I’m trying to help you

mercury ranique.2170:

First question?? Why spend 100 gold!! on a character??.

Beside the three books (3g10s) you don’t have to spend anything when leveling a character.

Second Question: Are you sure you wanna switch? You might want to go ot the ele section and ask around there for hints an tips. Or find a good WvWvW guild on your server and ask them for advise. I know an ele can really well be build as a tanky-ish character. People consider them squishy, but that doesnt have to be the way. It is all in the traits. Yes it might be that the playstyle needed is not your thing but that is not the classes handicap, but your own. So your statement that it is suicidal with all nukes and sieges would mean imo you blame the class for your own problems and then you will hit it with any other class (sorry to put it so blunt, but specially in WvWvW there is no class that has a -push a button and win- option, so failing at an ele and not fully understanding why means it is hard to make a different class as well).

Mesmer and Thief if played right are the two best options for WvW. There are some amazing builds out there that are relativly easy to play. I don’t think the upcomming update wich is against culling and not against stealth is going to change a lot.

Warrior isi nice and ok. Easy to play and indeed more your playstyle if you don’t want to think bout survivability. Just keep in mind that a warrior if played badly is as bad as an ele.

Hope you are not offended by the way im putting things. I’m trying to help you

Not at all, your reply was insightful but to answer your first question

I spent 100g cause I want my main class to be an eye candy so I spent a fortune for those glowy items, quaggan backpack etc..

and as for thief stealth, the one I heard isnt about culling but rather thieves would get the “Revealed” debuff after it goes out of stealth

I have a thief, ele, and guard at 80 and do a lot of WvW so I can give you some info. from my experience. I mained ele for quite awhile but decided to switch to thief recently since hearing that the upcoming 3/26 change will contain character bound progress.

Thief is great for the playstyle that you described, as you can sit mid-zerg/front-zerg and use clusterbomb for some great damage. If you decide to play solo, thief is also fantastic for that as you can easily solo supply camps after some practice. The upcoming stealth fix shouldn’t influence your decision – it just means thieves can’t spam cloak and dagger to repeatedly stealth. This really won’t impact the playstyle you describe. None of my builds are going to be affected by the change if that gives you some perspective.

If you are into any sPvP, I’d recommend making a thief and checking out some builds so you can see if you would like the class before committing to it, but I must say that I like having both a thief and an ele for WvW. Hope this helps and sorry if it’s a bit unclear, I’m tired

simple, make a zerk/valk thief and play behind your target, kill fast and you dont even bother to go stealth unless to reset when facing multiple adversaries.

This is my prefered Mesmer build, good at solo roaming in WvW, it shouldn’t cost as much as your ele has but it is on the higher end of the gear mark.

The gear also works well for the glamour build so you can swap quickly between roaming and Zerg fighting.

My mains an ele D/D, mostly do WvW.. currently running a 10/20/10/10/20 PVT build with runes of the earth, I do ridiculously well diving around inside enemy zergs and I switch to ‘Zerker trinkets for small scale fights also switch to staff for tower defence. Don’t discount your ele just yet! They are one of the best WvW classes in the game