Guild Wars 2

New to GW2
Whats the normal kill time per enemy?
lvl 60 ranger
average 1 min a kill
Have all best stuff I can find in trade post
Build is “OK” for newbie

Im not new to MMO’s I have played many in my day and it just seems im so underpowered it makes the game no fun.

I just want to know is it just ranger or just how the game is?

If you are being serious you are doing something wrong. I run a very very offensive build. A normal enemy will never take more than 10 (rarely more than 5 seconds) to kill. With average gear, maybe add 2-3 seconds. For defensive gear, add another 5 and you’re still at MAX 20 seconds to kill an enemy

For example, an ettin around lvl 60 will take me 45seconds-1min if I just use auto attack and 1-2 attacks.

Ettins have a lot of HP and toughness, so they take longer to kill than other mobs.

Never really timed myself…Uh I know I’m not the fastest at killing things, but I would still say it’s generally under a minute for 1 enemy. I run a condition-based build though, so a lot of my damage is more over-time than just y’know I shoot you in the face and you die.

Anyways I really like the rangers and stuff and while yeah they aren’t gonna necessarily be like warrior, bashing greatswords at people and killing super fast, they can still do a lot of damage if you build them right. Just work on your build as you keep leveling up and decide on how you wanna play and stuff.

I don’t see the meaning behind timing this, but I don’t know of any normal mob (veterans included) which takes much longer than 30sec…

Treeline.3865:

If you are being serious you are doing something wrong. I run a very very offensive build. A normal enemy will never take more than 10 (rarely more than 5 seconds) to kill. With average gear, maybe add 2-3 seconds. For defensive gear, add another 5 and you’re still at MAX 20 seconds to kill an enemy

I run a more defensive build (0/0/30/30/10 with high condition damage if I remember – I’ve been switching it around a lot to try new things). With sword/torch I kill regular mobs quickly enough that by the time I run to the next mob Throw Torch (15 sec cooldown) is usually ready to be used again. So about 10-12 sec per mob?

When I was farming young karkas in Southsun, they were going down more quickly so I had to take the off-hand training trait and lower the throw torch cooldown to 12 sec. So probably 7-8 sec there. I actually switched from cats to drakes to slow down my kill rate. With the cats I was killing stuff, then having to wait for throw torch to come off cooldown. With drakes I’d still kill stuff before the cooldown, plus they were more useful if I got more than one mob at a time.

I tried off-hand axe for whirling defense against the karkas, but the 25/20 sec cooldown was too long to use on every mob. I ended up only being able to use it every other karka, and even then I would frequently mistime it wasting most of its potential. Throw torch and bonfire are totally under my control, not reliant on me reacting to something the karkas do. And serpent’s strike lets me evade most of the damage from the karka’s missile attack so I’m not taking any more damage than if I were using whirling defense.