Guild Wars 2

This probably isn’t going to be a popular post, but I thought I should give my feedback.

I mained a mesmer since GW1 and barely touched another class, I played GW2 to play mesmer. Recently though, I just couldn’t take what they’d done to the class, again and again, the recent nerf to alacrity was the last straw and I’d loved druid like classes in other games so I decided to roll a druid. I’m definitely a casual player, though I don’t think I’m clueless or bad, especially roaming I think I handle myself okay.

I love my druid so much, it is so fun. I run a tank build in wvw (= eotm now) and whatever in pve, both power based no condi. I love the style of sustain the druid has, and I love healing others in meta events etc. (even if it doesn’t make a huge difference, it’s super fun). Everything seems to work very well, abilities do what they should, I like the effectiveness of my pets, it is just an awesome experience overall.

I know some of you are reading this and your eyes are bugging out, based on other posts I’ve read, but I’m sorry to say in terms of abilities being worthless or not working, pet woes, damage woes, nerfs, or really any kind of woes, druid has nothing on mesmer. Mesmer is an absolute train wreck of a class right now, and I know people have a hard time fighting them, especially the condi variety, but really the class is a buggy piece of garbage at this point. Druid does not come close to the level of bugs and unplayable design of mesmer. I don’t have to work so hard on druid just to barely compete with other players, in fact I feel like every fight is a fair fight on my druid. I never get roflstomped and feel like no matter what I did I would have gotten roflstomped. Even against Anet’s chosen children (DH etc) I feel like I have a fair shot. This is in stark contrast to mesmer.

There have been times in the past where mesmer did feel OP, before it was almost instanerfed into nothing again, but so far the druid feels about right. Not OP, not weak, just in a pretty solid place. It is very nice to play.

As of right now I just can’t really complain about much, aside from very minor QoL things, like seeing buffs on my pet for example above it’s health bar.

So, there is some druid feedback from a new player to the class. Obviously very contextual coming from mesmer main.

So, I sincerely hope we don’t see any super nerfs to the spec, love the druid.

Have to say I fully agree, there’s a lot of doom and gloom about regarding the class. But Druid has finally brought me back to Ranger and I couldn’t be happier.

From a raiding perspective, I’d say Druid right now has the largest number of viable options/builds available when compared to any of the other nine classes; so you’re never stuck playing the same thing for too long.