Guild Wars 2

When I first started playing the game, I took a mesmer. I was a mesmer in GW1, and I started with that here. And lo, it was good. My second class in GW1 was an assassin, so I made a thief. And lo, it was better. THen I made an elementalist, and I hate every moment of it. Sorely underpowered, lacking in defense. Just terrible overall. And I remained that way for a long time, until I sat down and played with the mechanics. And I learned how to play as an ele, and turned into a kitten fine elementalist.

I’ve come to believe that there is a right way and a wrong way to play any class. Certain weapons work, others don’t, at least for solo PVE. However, I tried to make a necro, and I cannot make it work. But people insist that the necro is viable, so I’m asking: How do you play a necro? What weapons do you use? What utilities do you carry? How do you make this class viable? With all the nerfs lately, is it viable at all solo? It has to be, because WvW is meant for level 80s, and you have to, more or less, solo your way up there.

ZaxanRazor.6235:

It’ll be one of the relays somewhere between EU and their servers in Dallas that’s broken again. That was the problem last time, and it’s also been the problem in the past with Guild Wars 1.

If you’ve got access to a VPN that allows you to take a different route to their servers in Dallas, it’ll work.

Changing ISP in the same country? Won’t change a thing.

I don’t know that even that will help. I actually live in Texas, and I’m a half hour drive to Dallas, and I’m getting lagged OUT of the game. It’ll slow, then stop, then I get the big bad disconnected notice and kicked back to character select. Then 50/50 whether it will FURTHER kick me back to the log in screen. So whatever the problem is, it’s not in the middle there. It has to be something on the server. The problem is too widespread to pin it on simple geography.

Well…here’s my two cents, and I don’t play an ele.

I have an engi, and engis are underpowered. And I started several engis before getting kitten at the game and deleting them. But, I made an asura, and engi fit, so I stuck it out. Now I’m level 30, and not only am I -NOT- underpowered, but I can hold my own against champs alone, which even a warrior might have trouble with simply because of my versatility and mobility. Eles are similar.

I’m a crappy ele. I was in GW1, I am in GW2. But that doesn’t mean the class can’t shine in the hands of someone that knows how to utilize all its elements at once. It takes a lot of switching attunements and understanding all FOUR of your skill bars PER weapon to survive. But once you do, they can literally be a force of nature. They’re still made of glass, that will never change, but if you can kill everything before they get you, you can make it.

Star Ace.5207:

I love purple and fuchsia-that said, the original colors of the Memer ARE green, believe it or not. Check out GW1. It just so happens that Mesmer’s SKILLS themselves were purple, (even on GW1) and as a byproduct, now most people seem to believe Mesmers are “meant” to look purplish.

I do like the purple scheme with the right dyes and skins. I wear purple in real life-it’s an really awesome color, and have nothing against purple wearing Mesmers, despite their “Green Honet”-like beginnings.

I played a mesmer in GW1, and in GW2 I still wear the traditional green, with the legacy appearance from the Hall of Monuments.

RIght, that’s a lot of back and forth. My two cents:

I carry three weapons on my engi. I have my pistol shield default. That lets me spam conditions against a single target. Bleed/Poison/Blind/Confuse/Burning(w/ Incindiary Ammo) will take down just about anything I’m going after in short order unless it’s a vet or higher, then it takes a few rounds of it.

Tool kit is for melee range. ’nuff said.

However, if I’m up against baddies with conditional resistances, or a BUNCH of baddies at once, it’s the Flamethrower all the way. Just being an AOE with good damage means I can hold down the sidestep key(a or d) and keep the camera moving so I circle around the targets and burn them up. I can hold my own against vets and champs solo this way and with some fancy footwork come out on top. There is nothing wrong with the FT. And pair it with the Net Turret to slow down your targets and you can completely outmaneuver everything on the field while keeping it in the hot seat, literally, until they fall over in flames.

Flamethrower is fine.

I’m getting this now as well, and I have NEVER had a problem with disconnects before. However, since the small update a few days ago, I’ve gone a few hours without being kicked out of the game on occasion, but my average seems to be 10-30 minutes at best usually towards the lower end of that.

I have noticed something that may or may not be relevant though. As all my characters are fairly low level, 30 and down, I’ve been running the starter maps and I haven’t been getting as many disconnects. It’s only when I get into the higher level areas that it seems to be more prevalent. However, I cannot see the population of those maps to theorize if it could be a population issue or something more mechanical going on in the code. I will say this though: The game is nearly unplayable as it is. Every time I get DCed, I come back in dead. I can’t make any progress because I can’t finish anything. It’s more or less a waste of my time as it is now, and as much as I love Guild Wars, I will not waste my time on a game I cannot play.