Guild Wars 2

And I’m terribly confused. I went with my recently 80’d warrior, and I thought it would be cool to start off because all gear is normalized, but what I got was completely unexpected.

Please keep in mind that I’m not fully aware of what every profession can do, and I may be missing very important things.

At first I tried a defense based build, with a mace+shield and a hammer, and trait thingies that would let me survive longer. And when I actually got into a server, I got my posteriors handed to me. I would constantly get permanently rooted and blasted with every type of condition damage in the game without being able to do anything about it.

That I can deal with, but then there’s the issue with attacking other players. Attempting to harm a Mesmer is a nightmare: when they’re not dodging around, they’re either invisible or among a few illusion things. I find it VERY difficult to do anything to a mesmer, unless I use every stun/knock spell I have, because that’s all I can do to get them to stay still, and not for long. Every encounter I have with a mesmer ends up with a full HP mesmer and a dead warrior.

Then I engage a Rogue in combat, and nothing seems too out of norm- oh wait, I just got demolished. Even with everything tuned to defense, a rogue can devastate me without much effort. This would be okay if they had little defense to make up for the damage, but they seem to have SO many tools to avoid my damage completely! And while also dishing a lot of damage themselves.

And then there are Necros. This is exactly what I didn’t want to face in this game. I don’t know how to explain it, but they just lay down a LOT of DoT damage on me and outheal my (not too great, yes) damage. And every now and then they go into this wispy thing that is hard to hit and deals some pretty good damage, for about 15 seconds. I have no idea how to counter all of that: they easily bypass my defenses, ignore my damage and outlast me.

As I said before, I might be making some very silly mistakes, but please forgive them, as I’m not an experienced player at all when it comes to this. I would appreciate if someone would help me with this, sPvP has been a very frustrating experience to me so far, and I don’t want to dismiss it entirely so soon. I can provide more information about the character I’m running, but please give me some light on this.

Thank you.

yeah its very bad at the begining to deal with mesmers/thief but after a while u can predict their stuff… other than that there is nothing much i can tell you, just do hotjoin till you get the hang of your character and then go to tournies ( wich are lame ) to get more into the game.

and necros well … some ppl say that they are broken some ppl say that they are not so u just have to deal with em.

oh and i forgot to say this game targeting is really really bad but u will get used to it if u keep playing.

Juan Ignacio.8903:

yeah its very bad at the begining to deal with mesmers/thief but after a while u can predict their stuff… other than that there is nothing much i can tell you, just do hotjoin till you get the hang of your character and then go to tournies ( wich are lame ) to get more into the game.

and necros well … some ppl say that they are broken some ppl say that they are not so u just have to deal with em.

oh and i forgot to say this game targeting is really really bad but u will get used to it if u keep playing.

I hope you’re right and experience will make it better for me, cause I’m really upset with sPvP atm. Thanks for responding. :>

I would also highly suggest looking on the internet for a good PvP build. Most of them have been theory crafted and tested by players.

Sometimes it isn’t a bad idea to ask other people for their builds also. If you run into another warrior and you like his play style, you could politely ask for his build or just go into spectator mode and get it from him. Watch how he plays, you might learn something!

After that, just try to get to know each profession and its unique mechanics. Eventually you’ll learn how to play against each of them more successfully.

Hope this helps! You can contact me in game if you’d like some 1 on 1 help. I’m always happy to help the PvP community grow.

There is a way to fix your problems my friend, its a little exploit I like to call: “War G”

Click your 80 Warrior, click ‘delete’, then click ‘create’ and click the shield picture, it should be called “Guardian”, then click ‘create’, using this exploit you can immediately fix all your problems your having with warrior.

Crit chance and Crit Damage (without zerker gear) – pull it off, and you win, sometimes.

Warrior is considered the weakest class in spvp. Necro is one of the best since the last patch. They are like walking thermonuclear devices. You should make a new character of a profession that is considered strongest and get the build that is considered the strongest, and then you will have more fun. I don’t know if you’re aware, but you can start a new character and jump into Mists as level 2, and you will be bumped up to 80 without any problems. I don’t play this game any more because it’s terrible, but you may want to ask around for a good spec and try spvp that way.

Kuzletti.9175:

Juan Ignacio.8903:

yeah its very bad at the begining to deal with mesmers/thief but after a while u can predict their stuff… other than that there is nothing much i can tell you, just do hotjoin till you get the hang of your character and then go to tournies ( wich are lame ) to get more into the game.

and necros well … some ppl say that they are broken some ppl say that they are not so u just have to deal with em.

oh and i forgot to say this game targeting is really really bad but u will get used to it if u keep playing.

I hope you’re right and experience will make it better for me, cause I’m really upset with sPvP atm. Thanks for responding. :>

He is wrong. Experience matters jack kitten in this game, its all about right class, class with most trolling and forgiving after you mess up gives you edge over any other classes. You said you played your warrior, well try thief next time, it will be easier and if you mess up game forgives you and lets you disengage and live so you can come back and finish off whoever you started to kill. Why do you think there are so many thieves in this game? Everyone wants to have it easy while kitten ing around.

In time I can tell you this that you will get frustraited and quit sPvP, like myself and friends I had who started Gw2. I am only one left to play this game and I dont even touch sPvP ever again.