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Seriously?
You were not able to do any of them solo?
Thats odd, I always thought that the skill challenges were there to test your skill, and playing on my Guardian and Engineer, I was able to do MOST of them solo.
Some I was not able to do solo simply because when I did them, there were people around and they helped out.
And on the topic of challenge.
They did provide me with quite a challenge, every one of them forced me to use every skill in my disposal and forced me to dodge and run around waiting for my skills to go off cooldown.
So I honestly don’t understand why you were not able to do them solo.
Maybe you tried to face roll through them, without spacing and dodging.
Or maybe the Engineer and Guardian are simply a better PvE characters.
People say that this game does not require skill or anything, I think they are wrong, proper spacing, and utilization of your skills makes a world of difference, there is a reason why I was able to take on a ranger and a warrior 2v1 on my Guardian yesterday and come out victorious, and its not because the Guardian is omfgbbqsause OP, but because people don’t utilize their skills properly and don’t pay attention, and think that just clicking auto-attack and blowing all your cooldowns at the same time is the way to win, it is NOT.
Please read what the OP said before you post a reply. Your reply is irrelevant to the issue he has with skill points.
I’ve been a huge fan of this game since the release. I personally love the playstyle and have enjoyed the leveling process thoroughly.
That being said, I would love to disagree with your post but it would be strictly biased. After reading your post through twice, I agree with you. I will wait for improvements because I have to give ArenaNet the benefit of the doubt since the game has only been out for a few weeks. If I don’t see ArenaNet put some effort into giving the game a bit more re-playability, then I have a feeling it will fall flat.
Your gear paragraph made me actually realize something I was missing before. I always enjoyed playing my WoW character after he obtained the staff that dropped off of the boss that nobody on the realm had killed yet. It gives a sense of pride in your character that you can’t achieve by simply buying gear from a vendor. This game may take a lot of skill, but half of the time you can’t tell who has the skill and who lacks it. ArenaNet has done a poor job, in my opinion, of allowing players to ’show-off ’ what they have achieved.
Oh and I will throw in one of my biggest annoyances so far…no enemy cast bar and the lack of a more obvious aggro indication. If they want to leave out the enemy cast bar, then they really need to make pve boss animations a bit more obvious for things that one shot clothies. These are things that should have probably been caught in beta.