Guild Wars 2

Hi all,

I’ve pvp’d a lot in other games and am having trouble in GW2. I’m a mediocre pvp’er, but I’m having a lot more trouble than usual in this game. I’ve tried pvp’ing on my necro and seem to die a whole lot and do poor damage. I think the necro might be too complicated for me to pvp with at first. I’d like to try something simpler so that I can get used to the different mechanics of this game. What would you recommend?

Thanks very much,
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I would probably say play a tanky guardian. This will allow you to survive a long time, and you are less likely to get focused. This will allow you to get used to PVP and what the other classes can do

Yea, guardian. I think ranger wouldn’t be half bad, but use a bow so you stay out of the fight and can give you time to see what’s going on and react.

Warrior, Ranger, and Guardian are generally the least complicated professions. Very straightforward skills and effects, weapons seem clearly intended for either conditions or power, and each has a portion of utility skills with broad usefulness.

Warriors and Guardians can both build semi-tanky without sacrificing a lot of defense, and Rangers can build more heavily towards offense while staying alive by intelligently using ranged attacks. Building with defense in mind for your first few tries, even if it sacrifices some damage, will help smooth out the combat spikes and help you stay alive long enough to make sense of the chaos.

Also, if you haven’t yet, make sure you test out your build on the faux-player npcs in the north center of the mists. It’s a nice, isolated way to focus on how you’re using skills, and how they’re getting used on you. Granted, if you go in with a Ranger, they tend to just attack your pet. So I’d fight them first on another character.

Yea Pinder’s suggestion to use the class npcs in the mists is a really good one. I test professions out there when I’m just getting started.

cool. thanks, i will try one of those classes that you all mentioned. i think, as a long time mmo’er, i’m having trouble getting used to the different combat style in gw2. i keep finding myself standing still to cast spells, for instance. it would be good for me to have a profession that is a little less complicated so that i can get passed my prior game conditioning and figure out the chaos in battlegrounds.

thanks for your help!

1 shotting people with p/w gets me wet

heart-seeker thief…

Guardian, thief, and dont believe people that say mesmers are hard to play. They arent. Mesmer is also a good choice for a beginner as most of the damage just happens without you really needing to think much about it. All are pretty straightforward and can be very effective with minimal buttons, the ownage just comes naturally from using skills.

If you want to get your feet wet in PvP, use a dual pistol engineer with slick shoes. Between that and glue shot, your feet should be coated pretty well.

If you want to faceroll without any skills, pick Guardian, Thief or Mesmer…

WhiteCrow…lol

oh…i should also mention that in other mmo’s i healed in bg’s mostly. going almost pure dps is very different for me (i did play a rogue in rift, but since it’s a wow clone i had very little trouble with it once i got down the ridiculous soul customizability).

Just go Mesmer, it’s like playing in godmode.

You go invisible and let your million illusions, phantasms and whatnot do the work, only to reappear a few seconds later and /laugh.

Take elementalist first, spend 2 weeks playing it hardcore trying many builds and playstyles, mastering complex rotations and learning how to counter other classes and builds.

Then make a thief and faceroll everything np.

kagemitsu.3657:

Just go Mesmer, it’s like playing in godmode.

You go invisible and let your million illusions, phantasms and whatnot do the work, only to reappear a few seconds later and /laugh.

Mesmer has 3 stealth skills.
Veil, which is fairly weak.
An elite, which is way outclasses by the other elites, and torch which is useless in PvP.

an update:

given the option, i didn’t want to get used to an op class, so i chose to make a ranger as per the suggestions here. now, i’m having a lot of fun. i’ve played a hunter in pvp in wow and an mm rogue in rift, and the ranger is very much helping me to get used to the mechanics of the game.

thanks so much for the advice, it was very helpful.

on a side note…are necros broken? i’m starting to wonder if it’s less that i don’t know the mechanics and more that the class is weak. i always assume the problem is me, but i’m having such an easier time of it with the ranger that i have to wonder.

again, thanks very much.

There is no main Necromancer here who doesn’t complain about their class. Just take a quick look at the Necro forum.

Now two are the possible cases:
1. Most of the Necromancer are bad players
2. The profession is broken.
I think the No. 2 is way more possible.

The main upside to start playing as a Necromancer is that when you reroll to another profession, you feel like playing in godmode and I bet you’ve already experienced this feeling.

@untouch

Mesmers go to stealth ability is decoy, which you somehow managed to not mention

sorry about the double posts. it gave me an error message so i posted again.

Arcane.4950
Take elementalist first, spend 2 weeks playing it hardcore trying many builds and playstyles, mastering complex rotations and learning how to counter other classes and builds.
Then make a thief and faceroll everything np.

Lmfao. Did the exact same thing, only with Engineer. Ran pretty much every viable build for him for a little over two weeks, got fairly good, then tried out Warrior and Thief.

Hilarious. … Completely. Hilarious.

I almost feel bad when I play them. Playing Engineer for that long and forcing myself to get better was like weighted training.