Guild Wars 2

As a different perspective, I recently came back and also did the claw island story on my new guardian. The key was really to listen to what the NPCs are saying and do that. I had no issues with the instance, and it really felt like an overwhelming battle that the Lionguard weren’t prepared for. It did not feel frustrating to me though.

I didn’t have to kite anything or just run around, I went from baddie to baddie and headed to the objectives the NPCs were telling me to do.

The followup mission isn’t the one I did (I’m Vigil), but in both cases it sounds like you might be trying to AoE everything down in the beginning and taking too much heat yourself. I know in the Claw Island one there are a ton of NPCs that help with the fight, and in the Vigil defense instance it was the same. Make sure if there are other NPCs near you that you let them get a piece of the action. You’re not supposed to be a massive one-man army taking on everything.

As has been mentioned, there should be no discernable difference between clones and the mesmer. Phantasms are easy to spot, but clones can confuse even allies. The memser downed skill to create a clone even makes allies waste time ressing the wrong you! :P

Yes, the downed skill creates a ressable clone. Or at least it did a few days ago the last time I partied…

LiquidOcelot.1508:

I find the fact that you can detonate the cluster bombs useless and annoying. Its very unreliable and i find myself accidentally popping it and it blows up no where near my target.

You get 3-4x the damage per use if you detonate it right before impact. You can rack up massive damage and bleed stacks with proper detonation.

Also, while it is way in the air you can pop it to push a smaller amount of damage out further. One small bomb flies out from each direction when you detonate, including further away from you. If you time it right after the arc apex, you will notice the cluster hitting much further out than your targeting circle went.

What crafting profession are you using? I’ve never run into “grinding” (neither needing to farm mats, or grinding items) on any of my characters, up to 250 skill so far.

1) Only craft via discovery. This is simple for the armor professions, just make a new set of armor every 5 levels.

2) If you are a tailor or leatherworker, always ALWAYS break down drops for cloth/leather unless you need to wear it.

@Suzuka: It is impossible to have everything of your level discovered and not unlock the next tier. Impossible. You either let your crafting slip under your level by ignoring it for too long (and thus craft low level items), or you didn’t do discovery properly somehow.

All 5 of my characters are in their 30’s+ and have always been able to craft above their level.