Guild Wars 2

It works like this: They go behind you, you are a goner. The camera angle turns in such an awkward way and your left wide open for attacks. This needs to be addressed.

Searingarrow.4637:

How about this… You just suck. There is nothing wrong with melee combat in this game. What probably happened is somebody beat you, you were too immature to consider it was your own lack of skill that lead to you being defeated, and then you came to cry on the forums.

This forum needs a upvote and downvote system that closes threads below a downvote percent threshold so threads like these are swiftly taken care of.

You really shouldn’t hate on others just because you haven’t experienced the same problem. I don’t see a problem with melee in PvP, but I can understand OP’s point. Range has a lot of advantages, and for some classes melee is absolutely terrible.

More on the point, OP you told us nothing. What class are you? What class countered you? Why can’t you just turn the camera by right clicking, or was there another problem?

There is not enough info here, nor any suggestions to work on.

But also, as Deboog said, flaming someone just because you Searing have a different experience is not helpful to anyone, and it is just trolling. You don’t know what problems the OP had in melee. (frankly, none of us do)

It is either helpful to not post at all if you are going to be like that, or ask questions to get to the bottom of the issue, or post your own examples of why you do or do not see any problems.

From the description, it sounds like they have a problem with people walking through their attack while the camera bugs out flipping around to auto-follow the target. In which case, I have that same issue and would love the camera to stay far enough back that it isn’t making the field of vision disappear into a super close up. It is usually because the camera is getting stuck on something nearby, like a wall or post, and being “pushed” forward and ruining our view.

Or the only other issue I can think of is being in a melee animation, and the person is moving, and you can’t have your animation follow along to cause damage. You are stuck in the direction you started the animation in. But this is only with a few melee moves, and seems part of the natural flow.

I’ve been playing melee (mace+shield) guardian from the beginning and during some betas. I’m playing support build, but I have no problems killing ppl, even contrary – I am leading assaults of groups of people and tend to never die. I have scepter+torch for stopping runners and retaliation to deal with those nasty rogues.
Playing melee class one has to understand, that you are not expected to kill rangers standing behind enemy lines, your guardian is a tough meat shield that protects your mates and heal them when needed.
When your forces a attacking a keep/tower, guardian shall not try to kill ppl on walls, he is better of taking a small group of melee players and move a little bit away, looking for incoming enemy reinforcements. Just don’t try to play the class the way it’s not meant to be played.

i play melee and it seems fine really. vs melee and ranged alike.

and the camera turns really well imo. same as other popular mmos.

i have no idea what the OPer is talking about.