Guild Wars 2

Jemmi.6058:

Quortza.1235:

Jemmi.6058:

Hey there,

I somewhat agree; however, I think you are judging to simplicity too soon. Yes, you only have those skills on your weapon slots, but you are missing other things.

1. Traits, these affect how you use those skills
2. F buttons, these can change depending on your class/trait/weapon set up
3. Utility Skills, you have quite a few to choose from and the 3 you choose are important
4. Elite skill, you have a cpl to choose from and generally it’s an easy decision

5. Dungeons, the combat mechanics in dungeons are much different than the open world, and it is much harder to keep alive. You really need to be on your toes and use the right skills at the right times (As you are penalized with long cool downs which sucks if your timing is off) I did a dungeon the other day and my roommate came home, he asked me to hit the button on the TV cuz I was beside it and I did, I lost half my health in the 1 second I wasn’t paying attention to what I was doing.

The utility skills are also annoying though in the fact that some just outclass others completely.

I have started to unlock traits, but it takes a good few levels before they really become anything useful, like, a really good few.

And annoyingly I am far from dungeon level, not to play hardcore fan, but the fact warcraft has low level dungeons to play through and level up with was pretty good, it gives you something else to do from constant questing or event grinding.

There are low level dungeons in GW2 as well, start at level 30.

Yes some utility skills outclass others, but as you come from WoW you can appreciate that many skills outclass others in WoW as well.

Also the effectiveness of utility skills varies depending on
1. Traits
2. Equipment
3. Playstyle
4. Group make up
5. What you are fighting

This adds a lot of depth and variety to what you can do.

Yes true with the utilities, but again with the whole, unable to change during combat, you can only really have them set for one thing at a time e.g. personally I use the next 5 shots will always crit as one of my 3 traits (I forget it’s name) for my elementalist, for obvious reasons, but this is really only useful in fire attunement as the other elements are simply too weak. (IMO)

As well as the burn trait which inflicts burn and a dot, which in turn benefits fire attunement abilities which deal more damage on targets which are burning.

Aeonblade.8709:

Try a different class. I found the lack of weapon swap crippling for Ele’s as well, was much happier as Guardian and Mesmer.

I have seen a few mesmers on the battlefield, I’ll admit they intrigue me, mine like level 2, really must start to play her :P

Will give that a go instead.

Jemmi.6058:

Hey there,

I somewhat agree; however, I think you are judging to simplicity too soon. Yes, you only have those skills on your weapon slots, but you are missing other things.

1. Traits, these affect how you use those skills
2. F buttons, these can change depending on your class/trait/weapon set up
3. Utility Skills, you have quite a few to choose from and the 3 you choose are important
4. Elite skill, you have a cpl to choose from and generally it’s an easy decision

5. Dungeons, the combat mechanics in dungeons are much different than the open world, and it is much harder to keep alive. You really need to be on your toes and use the right skills at the right times (As you are penalized with long cool downs which sucks if your timing is off) I did a dungeon the other day and my roommate came home, he asked me to hit the button on the TV cuz I was beside it and I did, I lost half my health in the 1 second I wasn’t paying attention to what I was doing.

The utility skills are also annoying though in the fact that some just outclass others completely.

I have started to unlock traits, but it takes a good few levels before they really become anything useful, like, a really good few.

And annoyingly I am far from dungeon level, not to play hardcore fan, but the fact warcraft has low level dungeons to play through and level up with was pretty good, it gives you something else to do from constant questing or event grinding.

You are pooping me…of all the classes, I pick the stupidest

Edit, I suppose they do get to change elements, but with some having little to no damage output, that still sucks

Yeah I’m talking about you water staff…

I bought this game about a month ago at the same time as a friend so we could play together.

I was expecting the usual mmo concepts:

Difficult to master;
Complicated classes;
Many abilities/skill sets.

But alas, I was regretfully wrong.

Let’s face it, the game is far too simple!

I have 5 abilities which are set for each weapon type, and some weapon types simply outclass others for different professions making them pointless (lightning daggers on elementalists compared to fire staves)

There is no variation on these without changing weapon type
Though this cannot be done mid battle (which would vastly improve on combat IMO)

Admittedly, I am still a low level as I really find it hard to put effort into this game so keep going astray and try different professions.

So simply put, I find the simplicity all a bit too boring and come to ask here…how can I get hooked

(p.s. I do want to get hooked, spent £50 on this game -.- might as well not go to waste)