Guild Wars 2

But majority of the time I pug, I get teamed up with a warrior using a rifle.
Not that I’m against warriors using rifles but what I don’t get is… why even at range are they afraid to open the attacks?

I mean just yesterday, doing AC, in the graveling tunnels, I was standing infront of a warrior waiting for them to come in range, I moved back acouple of steps, he moves back, so I tried to move back somemore to see if he would stand infront of me, nope he made kitten sure he was behind me.

Me a squishy medium armoured meleeing thief… he wanted me to pull the aggro on myself before he would open fire.

Not that I have a problem with being main target of aggro from pve mobs as i can dump them easily with a quick stealth but what puzzles me is why play a profession with high raw armour and high raw health when you’re not brave enough to open the first attacks.

Do most warriors just range whilst pugging in dungeons?

Some warriors are just that bad, yet at low lvls warriors in melee dungeons get pwned hard, as levels go up you can go melee happy all the time.

Lyonell.1753:

Some warriors are just that bad, yet at low lvls warriors in melee dungeons get pwned hard, as levels go up you can go melee happy all the time.

Did I mention the guy was 80 and in COF gear?

Rizzy.8293:

Lyonell.1753:

Some warriors are just that bad, yet at low lvls warriors in melee dungeons get pwned hard, as levels go up you can go melee happy all the time.

Did I mention the guy was 80 and in COF gear?

doesn’t surprise me in the least.

Warriors going melee in dungeons require a lot of attention. Keeping your skills popping, keeping on the mob and watching your health. We have a high health pool, but even with a ton of toughness it can vanish fast and we have to take evassive action. I would take a guess that some warriors either havent learned to cope with the damage or they just simply cant and go ranged.

Some encounters I will just stay ranged as I have a balanced spec with high health, mobs tend to like me, or just simply because the encounter is better ranged, like Lupricus. But mostly, I go headfirst in and stack some bleeds like a good melee should.

Well given the fact that warriors get downed very easily, seeing warriors switching to range to stay alive is very common

I carry a rifle for times when I don’t feel like melee. The damage is pretty equal to my Axe build. I ran an entire dungeon in rifle because I felt like not dodging or strafing :P. Rifle is just fine for damage, and for fights like cm or when I am pugging and running glass cannon than I roll rifle. I have no interest in dying repeatedly because no one is running support.

I have support gear and I have glass cannon gear. Some days, my guild is taking a break and I want to do a quick pug, but don’t feel like swapping my gear to more support. So I roll in with a rifle until I find out if they have a good defensive specced player.

As a side note, my guild runs 3 support players (guardian, ele, Ranger) though the ranger goes full dps sometimes. So running defensive is something we don’t need anymore. When we first started running dungeons, I ran double maces, soldier runes, shouts and 2600 armor. However, we wanted to move a lot faster, so they asked me to swap out to my axe gear so I now run Berzerker, rune of the pack, with 2100 armor and a ton more damage. On days where I don’t feel like avoiding damage a lot I swap to rifle and shoot things down.

I’ve just ran AC with 2 elementalists, 2 thieves and me.Had to school the ele’s on actually using their water aoe heals…one was 80, other was 4×...
It was a nice solid hour and a half run on path 1 with lots of hair pulling caused by people who didn’t know what their skills do.Maybe it is just me being spoiled running all 3 paths for 1 hour total with competent people, or maybe that is some sort of elitism…don’t really know.
What I do know is that you all will meet every sort of player in dungeons, and most such meetings will be far from pleasant.