Guild Wars 2

Alright, so. Open world, I used to be a big P/P and S/P player. I still am! But recently I’ve swapped to D/D for my dungeon work, and I’ve adapted it to open world solo play, too. It’s really not too bad. I find my best thing to do is hit them with cloak and dagger, then follow into backstab. Auto attack til revealed is off, cloak and dagger again, backstab, heartseeker. That can generally be repeated however long is needed. If something gets low on health, heartseeker tends to take care of it. Managing your dodging carefully and don’t blow all your stamina at once.

If you’re playing S/P, I always liked to close in with infiltrator strike (Gives you a quick out to avoid an AoE), pistol whip for the evade, and black powder shot.

P/P is a bit… Trickier. Lots of kiting with unload for how I used to play it. I’m not sure if they’ve changed that weapon set up any, but Unload used to be just about the only real viable thing about P/P.

I have been! I really am quite fond of setting up my turrets and luring things over to beat up. It’s been quite a pleasure! And yes, thief has always been a rather… ‘Selfish’ class when it comes to group support. I cannot speak for end game yet, but in the level 20-30s range on my engineer, I’m already getting an idea for how it’ll be at endgame and I must say that I’m rather impressed. And sad that I put it off for this long!

Sorry I was away for so long! But yes, I’m asking from a PvE standpoint. Everything is ‘viable’ in PvE as we all know, but I like to know just what kind of level I’ll be operating at when it comes to being able to help a team in a dungeon. (I hate feeling like dead weight. Conversely, the more helpful I feel towards achieving inevitable success, the better.)

That said! If anyone has any PvP tips to share… I might be interested! I’m not much of a PvPer, but I may poke more at it in the future on an engineer, in which case it’d be handy to know. And I shall keep that in mind, Xyonon! I may take you up on that offer to see some end-game demonstration.

I see! Yes, I’m not surprised it is better than the thief in many regards. Fast button pressing is no concern of mine, as I’ve practiced having to do that in many other games.

So it is sounding like it has a lot of group support, then, that’s good! How is its solo play?

So! I’ve been a thief since the launch day, but I’ve always enjoyed the engineer type archetype. I’ve finally caved and purchased another character slot that could fit an engineer, but my question to you all is this:

How does it compare to thief? I’m not just asking “Is it better?” or anything of the sort, but rather, how it performs in a PvE point of view in comparison. Where do its strengths lie? Its weaknesses? Coming from a thief, what sort of things will I have to be aware of that I might not have had to watch for in the past?

There’s a lot of lovely information in your thread (And it’s not as full of Doom and Gloom compared to ours) but I’m looking for a more… Centralized source of information, and any that you lot would be willing to share would be very much appreciated!

Thank you!

Tarnished Coast is pretty bustling. Back in the early days it was the official unofficial RP server.

I can’t really say.

My opinion is also biased, as I think that the medium armour looks pretty nice on my Charr. I haven’t had any problems with it, at least.

As for your second question about the stories, I’m not quite sure what you mean. Do you mean to ask if the story line continues all the way to 80? If so, it certainly does! If that’s not what you mean, feel free to correct me and I will try again.

I’d say… 6/10. Not because it’s a bad name, of course, as the name itself is fine, and the reasoning behind it is sound. Mostly because “mane” seems to be fairly common.

My Charr thief is Merringer Skyshot.

The reason: The Sky Warband earned its name when it was still young through a tactic they employed in one of their earlier missions. They wanted to try to sneak up on and ambush a target, so to do so, being as young as they were, they had the idea to dye their fur to match the colour of the sky.

The “Shot” portion of the name comes from the simple fact that Merringer was an accurate shot with her pistols.

I sort of liked how the story panned out by the end, but I definitely see what you’re getting at.

The early portions of the personal story were my favorites. I haven’t done every possible combination yet, but I really liked how the Charr personal stories start with solving issues that were in your back yard. It felt more… Personable.

Every character would want to stop a world-killing dragon, sure, but most people wouldn’t care about some scrap thefts in Ascalon. My character does, though. There’s a time and a place for the large scale, but I think it’s good to have a mix of small-scale things in there, as well!

I’ll have to snag some screen shots next time I’m on!

Well, I don’t think it was mentioned, as I only skimmed the thread, and I don’t know why, exactly, but:

Easy. It’s turtles all the way down.