Guild Wars 2

In my humble opinion, the lower levels have been extremely difficult. In no other game I have played have I died so much. This is due to a number of factors.

While I can take a Champion by kiting and having plenty of running room, I can also be killed by a single average mob my same level. I think this is a PVE scaling issue with this game. The mobs hit too hard, in many cases will ignore illusions and whichever and just keep coming. Which presents another theory which this game was scaled around other clases such as the Guardians, warriors, rangers and thieves as I see them blast through the content I struggle to survive.

In many zones trying to pull one person often pulls mobs of 3 or more. This may be a lower level only thing, sub 40 I suppose. In one zone I literally pulled the entire town. Again, having trouble with one mob, and now trying to take on 5, surprisingly I have survived in many cases but, I guess that depends on the reasonable amount of time it should take to clear. In some cases 5-10 minutes for 3 or 4 guys at once who cannot be pulled separately.

Lastly I like to solo content, I am not certain this class is very good at that, in the low levels. What I mean is, you can take down mobs but kiting and running around everywhere, works sometimes, other times you run into more mobs which then makes your target run off and go back to full health and/or the mobs you were trying to clear to get to an area, respawn so you must start all over… Makes that impossible without a suicide run. Which is hilarious when a guardian runs right past you, clears everything effortlessly and moves on.

Let me summarize from my point of view. I believe it is more technique than anything. Know your surroundings, try not to engage in close quarter combat, open fields are way better for offense. Try not to pull as many mobs, if a lot pull then use your abilities like clones and such to run away then try again. Dodge, dodge, dodge, no matter what you are hitting because you cannot take much damage. Always try and keep things at a distance especially big crazy looking monsters because the scale of the mob generally reflects the damage. it can do. And understand that you will die, die, die, die…. And then at some point you will not die as much then not at all. Prepare to invest a lot of time… Because of the kiting and running away as a means of offense can take a long, long time.