Guild Wars 2

I played GW1, and I recently tried GW2. I’ll give my final review here.

FIRST IMPRESSIONS:
My first impressions were very positive. I liked the event system, and the cooperative gameplay aspects. When I did my first world boss in the Queensdale swamps, I loved how everyone got a set of loot from the encounter. The graphics were great, and I liked how quests and events meshed together.

INTEREST RISING: DIFFERENT MODES OF PLAY:
I liked the fact that there were different ways you could play and progress. The crafting system was simple and straightfoward, and was not long and frustrating. My interest in the game had started to ramp up significantly. I tried dungeons, eotm, and small group pvp, and liked it all. Small group pvp had a learning curve, but it was the kind of difficulty that was engaging.

REALLY INTO THE GAME – HITTING 80 WITH ELE AND GUARDIAN / LOOKING TO WvW:
I couldn’t decide between ele and guardian, so I decided to co-main them. WvW was my preferred end-game mode and what I wanted to spend most of my time doing when I got to 80. Both ele and guardian seemed to be great support classes for WvW, and I wanted variety, so I leveled them both.

DESCENSION:
When I hit 80 on my guard and ele, it became time to set up my characters to do WvW. I decided to go with a celestial staff ele and a tanky support guardian. But…I found out that to get celestial gear, I would have to make these quartz crystals which were limited to one per day. I didn’t like that, because I view gearing up as the precursor to play, not as the actual play.

But then I researched ascended gear, and found out what I would have to do to get it. I tried fractals of the mists once, and completed the first level successfully. I hated it. It wasn’t fun at all. The whole time I couldn’t wait for it to be over. Now, this wouldn’t be a big deal since I liked the other game modes (especially WvW). I learned that it would be a major grind to get ascended involving a game mode I didn’t like, and that I would be at a disadvantage in WvW without it. That disadvantage looks to be about 10% all told from my research on the internet, which is enough to be substantial. I deleted the game.

Title pretty much says it all. I’m looking to make a support/heal/anti-cc/anti-condition for large scale (zerg) WvW combat. I’m not looking for a high dps build, or a roaming build, or a build that’s necessarily good in 1v1.

It’s pretty much down to either a support guardian (honor/valor/virtues) or water elementalist. What do you think?

Title pretty much says it all. I’m looking to make a support/heal/anti-cc/anti-condition for large scale (zerg) WvW combat. I’m not looking for a high dps build, or a roaming build, or a build that’s necessarily good in 1v1.

It’s pretty much down to either a support guardian (honor/valor/virtues) or water elementalist. What do you think?

Note: I also posted this in the Elementalist forum, because I want to get opinions from players of both classes. Please be as honest as you can.

Title pretty much says it all. I’m looking to make a support/heal/anti-cc/anti-condition for large scale (zerg) WvW combat. I’m not looking for a high dps build, or a roaming build, or a build that’s necessarily good in 1v1.

It’s pretty much down to either a support guardian (honor/valor/virtues) or water elementalist. What do you think?

Title pretty much says it all. I’m looking to make a support/heal/anti-cc/anti-condition for large scale (zerg) WvW combat. I’m not looking for a high dps build, or a roaming build, or a build that’s necessarily good in 1v1.

It’s pretty much down to either a support guardian (honor/valor/virtues) or water elementalist. What do you think?