Guild Wars 2

PistolWhip.2697:

Also to add, both these professions use some form of kiting to achieve survival, so if you are looking for a profession to literally stand toe to toe with enemies without budging and still doing respectable damage, in my opinion unfortunately, Guardian or Warrior might be a better choice for you.

I appreciate that. I tend to gravitate towards ranged characters in games because while I don’t like kiting, I also hate BEING kited I hate having to chase down mobs, and during events where the screen is totally covered with effects so much you can’t even SEE the champ, it just gets annoying trying to melee.

I appreciate all the comments. Unfortunately they don’t really help lol. I’m still stuck squarely on the fence. They are both fun, just in different ways.

For now, at low level, what i’m finding is Mesmer is more survivable. Elementalist is better at AoE and maybe a hair better at dps all together.

How do they stack up in utility? Just plain getting around for example? So far it seems my Mesmer can move faster due to the #4 skill on focus.

Oh to add to this:
I PREFER not to kite, so if one of the two is better at simply standing toe to toe with mobs in PvE, that would be an important factor for me.

Hey all,

Yes I know this gets asked a CRAP load in the forums. I spent about 30 minutes reading through other threads of the same topic, and got SORT of a feel but I still can’t decide.

Unfortunately most of the other threads tended to focus on PvP gameplay which really I am not interested in.

Specifically I want to solo PvE, and do Dynamic Events. That’s pretty much it!

I’ve played both to 10ish and I like them both, and flip flop any given day on which I find the mokittenn, so choosing is proving to be REAL hard

tl;dr For solo PvE and dynamic events only, which would you suggest?

Onshidesigns.1069:

Low level players can level fast in this game. Just complete hearts in all beginner areas and do DE’s. Do some crafting and personal story too. And remember upgrading traits and armor. A casual player can get to 80 in 3 weeks.

DON’T only farm to level up! That will take forever.

Please don’t turn this into a “its easy to level whats your problem?” post. The point of this wasn’t about leveling but why living story content seems to not be accessible to lower level players.

1) Not everyone plays a lot. Especially a free to play game like this, where there is no drive to “get your subs worth”. As I said in the OP I work close to 80 a hours a week, sometimes more, and only play GW2 a few hours a week.

2) Not everyone WANTS to level fast. Personally I hate games where the game actually starts at max level. The journey from 1 to whatever should be fun. That should be the game just as much as the end game is.

Living story content should be fun for people at lower levels just as much as higher levels.

Honestly, this really does NOT work for low level players. I can freeload on events, but at my level upped to 80, i’m pretty much useless in there

Thanks everyone.

Thank you for your kind reply. So maybe the game or ArenaNet just needs to communicate that better to people who don’t know the game very well

So my level 8 thief is in Divinity’s Reach. How can I get to, and participate in, this new Southsun event?

I only started playing the game, very casually, about a month ago. I work a lot and only get to play a few hours a week.

I don’t know much about the game, and i’m still in the initial racial zones.

The end of the Living Story before seemed to be taking place all in areas that were too high level for me, but I thought that might just be because it was going on for a while.

But now a new one has started and it too is in some area i’ve never heard of.

Are these events always only for high or max level players? Is there ever any living world content for newbies and low level players?

Thanks for this. It worked for me. Odd things is though, its not like I should have any bad settings or anything. I just got this mac, installed GW2, spent a few hours downloading, then clicked play and it errored out. I deleted the application settings as specified above and it worked perfectly.

Not sure how I had bad settings ON A BRAND NEW INSTALL lol