I’m coming closer to lvl 80 slow but steady (currently at 76) with my mainly Condition Damage-orientated mesmer. I’ve read a lot of people say that the mesmer only ‘blooms’ after lvl 60 or so but frankly I’ve started to feel myself pretty weak lately. I can still kite stuff from here to eternity but the enemies aren’t melting as fast as they’ve previously done. The traits that I’ve been using so far (20/0/30/0/20) are just from a random build I saw when I started to play.
The build itself with utilities and such looks like this. I’m currently only interested in soloing PvE but I’ll probably try dungeons in the future if I can just find enough people for them.
I’m not really using my GS unless there are turrets or such that can’t be affected with conditions, so I’m also interested in what to have there instead.
I’m currently in Timberline Falls with my ~60 Staff/Condition Damage-mesmer. I prefer kiting and survivability over pure damage and as such I’m usually capable of beating the group events that have me fighting against just one bigger boss (and give me enough room to kite without aggroing too many other enemies).
These events should be the ultimate test (outside of e.g. dungeons of course) for anyone and especially if you’ve got the nerves to try to solo them. Well, after kiting something for 20-30 minutes, what do you get? Practically the same crappy amount of xp and karma as any other event taking 5 minutes would give. Time well spent indeed.
What I want is better rewards that make it worth the while. The amount of xp and such could correlate to the number of players participating in group events or something. E.g. two players battling against a boss would get more xp each than five players doing the same thing later. It shouldn’t correlate too much, though, because seeing other players entering a fight should be something to look forward to (no for xp stealing or damaging the rewards that others get!).
I’m not sure how exactly they could be increased but the main thing is that the current rewards are a huge letdown after a long battle.
Yes, I wanted to play against all expectations and decided to roll a male mesmer charr. After equiping a greatsword I can say that I don’t think its autoattack is working as intended… The light effects seem to be messed up so that he looks like he’s stretching a rubber band between his paws or something.
I don’t know if the same thing occurs with a female charr and my character slots are full so I can’t test it.
Can I just say that I dislike all of them and the proportions are all over the place. The one in the third looks like a duck o_O
It’s possible to make a manly character but the default faces do look rather awful. I wouldn’t mind if they added a few more customisation options (to all of the races).
Here’s my guardian. The eyes could be a bit smaller but overall I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out.
I’m a guy and only one of the ~20 chars that I’ve created has been a female (a sylvari mesmer, I’m not yet sure whether I’ll keep her or not). I practically always choose males in games if there’s a choice, though I do prefer to have a female Witch Doctor in Diablo 3.
Really guys? Death isn’t punished nearly as much in GW2 than in many other games.
Even the point in dying is to take note that you A) are not good enough with your character, B) you’re in areas that are way out of your league, C) you aggroed too many enemies at once, etc… To die is to LEARN something and do it differently next time. If death wouldn’t be penalized at all, anyone could make progress just by dying from one enemy to the next untill all were dead. And I’m pretty sure that’s what neither you nor the game developers consider ‘fun’.
I think that the cost should stay where it is or even be increased.
Yay, I’m not the only one. The ones I’ve liked most so far are Thief and Mesmer but all of my characters are still low level (because I’ve been deleting quite a lot of them to try new ones) so nothing is written in stone yet..
Another thing I’m having problems with is choosing my race. I’ve been playing mostly with human males but I’m starting to be pretty fed up with the model (the all look and sound just the same) so I’ve recently started playing with a couple of male sylvaris. Charrs look pretty neat but the male voice is so shallow that I can’t imagine myself playing with one that isn’t meelee. I’m not a fan of neither the male Norn nor Asura models. The first looks just way too clichéd and the former is too small for my liking. So human, sylvari or possibly charr..
