Guild Wars 2

So I’m leveling a staff ele in eotm. I’m still very new to the class and I’ve never played a class with so much aoe. In ZvZ I’m finding myself getting slaughtered by retaliation when I use frost bow etc… frost bow 4 in a group is often enough to kill me.

Is there a way to help mitigate this?

Don’t use frost bow…

maeggle.6021:

Don’t use an upleveled, and don’t go EOTM

FTFY

Anyway, yeah retal is annoying on fast hitting AOEs classes ( >>>engineer<<<). Frost bow is a good utility as a 80 berserker spec’d ele against non-heavies zergs, so basically a pug environment. It could work for organized raids, I used it sometimes back when i could bear zergs, with fb4+ meteor shower+ tornado ( wich is nerfed but even without that’s good aoe damage), but as an upleveled you’ll do less damage than the retal tick.

oxtred.7658:

maeggle.6021:

Don’t use an upleveled, and don’t go EOTM

FTFY

Anyway, yeah retal is annoying on fast hitting AOEs classes ( >>>engineer<<<). Frost bow is a good utility as a 80 berserker spec’d ele against non-heavies zergs, so basically a pug environment. It could work for organized raids, I used it sometimes back when i could bear zergs, with fb4+ meteor shower+ tornado ( wich is nerfed but even without that’s good aoe damage), but as an upleveled you’ll do less damage than the retal tick.

This ^

Besides as far as boons go retaliation is useless in 1/3 of the game due to the fact its better (and much more possible) not to get hit at all in PVE.