Guild Wars 2

I think the OP has put forward a reasonable suggestion. Further to some of the reasons already given above, the majority of traditional sorcerer/mage damage dealing professions in other MMORPGs, 1) don’t have self-healing spells; and 2) if they do, the profession does not have to heavily rely on them due to other mechanics of the profession that helps compensate.

I would very much welcome an increase to our base HP.

My Human Elementalist:

The first ever MMORPG I played was EQ1. Thereafter, EQ2, WoW and GW2 (and a few others not worthy of note).

Just like you, I have always played (and very much enjoyed doing so!) a ‘wizard’ type profession like you mentioned. In EQ1, EQ2 and WoW, playing such a profession has always, in my opinion, been quite similar (especially in PvE) – once you learn how to play it in one game, it’s pretty much the same concept in the next game.

However, I got a big shock when I started playing GW2 for the first time and picked an Elementalist, staff wielding glass-cannon! It was nothing like the similar professions I had played in previous MMORPGs. I had a terribly difficult time trying to adjust. I gave up at first, and played a Mesmer instead for a while. When I finally returned to the Elementalist, after some time, I improved.

Upon returning, I think my road to Damascus moment came when I finally accepted that I needed to cast from my mind everything I learned about playing a glass-cannon-wizard type profession from the MMORPGs mentioned above (especially EQ1)…this included the way I learned to play such professions in games using a ‘generic combat system.’ Once I did that, I found it somewhat easier to mentally adjust to GW2’s combat system and play a glass-cannon-wizard a lot better, even after years of being used to the same old bland combat systems in MMORPGs that came before GW2.

It will just take some time to re-adjust. Don’t give up!