Guild Wars 2

Okay, so here it is. I’m playing GW2 for the first time in 2 years and understand a lot has changed. I made up a new class, and I’m starting over from scratch with little knowledge of the game. What I’m looking for here is a little guidance.

Currently, I’m level 25

Weapons and playstyle (leveling)-
I really enjoy running Shortbow primary, and Sword(or Axe)/Torch secondary, swapping back and forth as needed to keep poison/bleed/burning up on foes while maintaining my mobility. I like Axe/Sword better, but started experimenting with sword recently. I dislike that it’s basically just spamming auto-attack, due to a lack of options that keep you engaged with your foe. Time will tell how that pans out I guess.

Given this, what kind of build am I looking at? Seems like Wilderness Survival/Skirmishing. Should I be stacking con/precision/power? I feel kind of at a loss. All the guides say LB/GS or LB/SwordAxe etc so they’re not much help to me in that respect. I’m not looking to optimize raid DPS or anything, because I’m obviously still leveling here and often solo.

Guys, this is clearly a troll post. Look at that score.

LOOK AT IT.

15 points? You’re not even playing the game! Was that your first match? You know you have to stand on the little circles, right?

Not all builds are good against all players. Not all builds are for all playstyles. These are facts people need to learn to deal with.

I’ve seen a necromancer roll a Guardian, a Thief, a Mesmer, and an Elementalist that are all quite skilled. That player was quite good at using the tools she had. She was a minion specialist btw.

I’ve seen condition necromancers roll all kinds of people before as well. I’ve also faced condition necros as a heavily poison reliant pistol bleeder and pulled a victory out of certain defeat somehow because the other person completely failed on their part.

People also seem to cry about Elementalists being underpowered, but honestly I find them to be very powerful in the right hands, so I don’t know what they’re talking about. Bring the player, not the class.

It’s player skill (timing, positioning, objectives, and skill selection), and build matchups that determine a lot of what happens in pvp. The rest is group numbers and coordination/tactics. Just hope you can learn something from what you’ve experienced and move on. It’ll make you a better player in the longrun.