Guild Wars 2

Hello everyone,

Lucky me has finally managed to pick up a copy of Guild Wars. The first handful of hours have been great fun, and full of many low level character creating and guide/wiki reading.

What I am hoping to be able to do is create a true melee caster but not a guardian. To that end I am hoping there are players here who have done the same at some point.

So is it possible? I am open to using any casterish class, mostly for over at this point. The more melee viability the happier that makes me.

Thank you all in advance for your help and time.

Ele and Mesmer are both excellent melee casters.

You could use 2 Dagger’s on Elementalist which is close range, not quite melee. There’s also the Lightning Hammer build, which is one of the highest damage builds in the game.

Mesmer is great with Sword/Sword and Sword/Pistol making use of a Phantasm build. Also one of the highest (albeit single target) damage builds in the game.

I use the Lightning Hammer build on my Elementalist. The trait points are 25/25/10/10/0.

And again I use the Phantasm build on my mesmer. I forget the traits though since I don’t play her much. I believe it’s 10/20/0/15/25.

There’s more info to both of these but I figured I’d give you some options that might interest you until you’re more familiar with the game

Every single class has melee options.
The difference between caster and non-caster in GW is mostly just flavor so unless this is a RP restriction it’s not all that important.

Well there were differences in GW1 but that small difference is now gone as well.

Your most viable options are:

Dagger/Dagger Elementalist (not technically melee but very short range)
Conjure Lightening Hammer Elementalist
1h Sword/x Mesmer
Dagger/x Necro

Khisanth.2948:

Well there were differences in GW1 but that small difference is now gone as well.

I miss my fiery sword wielding N/W. Every time I brought her out in PvP you could almost see the stutter-step of others going “uh…what’s, what’s this all about? <death> Ohhh….”

Thank you very much for the replies. Both the sword/pistol mesmer and the hammer elemental sound great! Now time to read up on both and make both

Seras.5702:

Your most viable options are:

Dagger/Dagger Elementalist (not technically melee but very short range)
Conjure Lightening Hammer Elementalist
1h Sword/x Mesmer
Dagger/x Necro

Khisanth.2948:

Well there were differences in GW1 but that small difference is now gone as well.

I miss my fiery sword wielding N/W. Every time I brought her out in PvP you could almost see the stutter-step of others going “uh…what’s, what’s this all about? <death> Ohhh….”

Actually I was just referring to the fact that some skills that can only interrupt/interact with spells/non-spells.

mawrmawr.1045:

Hello everyone,

Lucky me has finally managed to pick up a copy of Guild Wars. The first handful of hours have been great fun, and full of many low level character creating and guide/wiki reading.

What I am hoping to be able to do is create a true melee caster but not a guardian. To that end I am hoping there are players here who have done the same at some point.

So is it possible? I am open to using any casterish class, mostly for over at this point. The more melee viability the happier that makes me.

Thank you all in advance for your help and time.

Actually – highest damage by all classes are melee. Dagger ele, sword mesmer, dagger necro