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Like many people I know, I’ve decided to leave the game. Guild Wars 2 has the potential to be the most amazing MMO ever made, but there are a few flaws which for me completely ruin the experience.
First, what I love about the game:
1. The graphics, animations, and sounds are just mind-blowing. It’s obvious that a great deal of creativity and love went in to the fine craftsmanship that’s evident everywhere I’ve travelled.
2. I love the various quests that I’ve done — both personal story missions as well as the DEs.
3. I’ve tried out each one of the professions, and the combat for all of them is fun.
Now, what’s driving me away:
1. Diminishing returns on loot. This literally incentivizes NOT playing the game. I understand that Arena.Net has to put in measures to prevent inflation, but diminishing returns makes playing the game for any span of time completely unrewarding.
2. The dungeons are death-fests that don’t reward smart play and smart builds. Instead, they seem to be designed to make sure that players die a lot — no matter what — to incur high repair bills.
3. The +healing attribute has incredibly poor scaling on abilities. One of the things that I love to do in MMOs (and in single player games) is to design characters that are basically Immortal: very low DPS but basically unkillable. The strategy is to wait for mobs to die of old age. I especially like to do this with pure magic users. This is unfortunately not possible, and it’s mostly due to the extremely low coefficients for +healing, especially self-healing. Guild Wars 2 was marketed with a message that characters could be built in any way that the player wants, but the truth is that really there’s only one way: just enough survivability through Vitality and Toughness, and then stacking damage.
I sincerely hope that Arena.Net reads this and other posts like it, and gives players what they are asking for. I for one would gladly pay a $100/month subscription for an MMO if it gave me gameplay that I enjoyed.
I was able to login earlier, but was disconnected several times. Now I’m not able to login at all, even after several attempts over the last 10 minutes.
I was barely able to login to the website too — it took a long time, and I got a network error once.
Thank you for the great posts. I’m not sure though if everyone here realizes though: most other professions in PvE farming builds routinely solo 8-10 mobs at once, and take them all down in less than 15 seconds. That’s outside of DEs.
No joke, and not hyperbole either.
Also, one of the posters stated that Mesmers aren’t a DPS class, but instead a support class. Warriors and Guardians both offer phenomenal group support — much better than Mesmer. Both professions are phenomenal farmers too.
Just to make it clear – by Most classes are you mainly referring to Warriors/Guardians?
Please do keep in mind ALL Melee classes do far greater damage than ranged/Casters.. more so casters. This is to balance the game. If casters did the same damage as a Melee class then Warriors/Guardians would have zero chance in PVP.
Necromancers, Rangers, Thieves, and Engineers can also pull this off. The only other profession that struggles in solo PvE vs. many mobs is Elementalist, as far as I know.
Check out the forums on the fansite guildwars2guru.com. There are videos there for each of the classes that I mentioned, as well as discussions about farming builds and their performance.
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Thank you for the great posts. I’m not sure though if everyone here realizes though: most other professions in PvE farming builds routinely solo 8-10 mobs at once, and take them all down in less than 15 seconds. That’s outside of DEs.
No joke, and not hyperbole either.
Also, one of the posters in this thread stated that Mesmers aren’t a DPS class, but instead a support class. Warriors and Guardians both offer phenomenal group support — much better than Mesmer. Both professions are phenomenal farmers too.
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You know you’re playing too much GW2 when…
- You start driving around in a random area looking for heart quests.
- You see a nice shirt when clothes shopping, and wonder what stats it has.
- You ask a merchant if they accept karma points.
- You go in to your closet, and start breaking down your old clothes for crafting materials.
- You have 250 sticks of butter in your fridge.
- You’re kicked out of a zoo because you tried to tame one of the juvenile animals.
Hi,
Mesmer was the profession that I had the most anticipation about playing — I love playing pure magic users (not necessarily glass canons), and the concept of a control heavy caster had me stoked. Before taking a character to max level in any game, I always do a bunch of research as well as supplement that with my own play experience.
What I’ve found — and please do correct me if I’m wrong — is that Mesmers aren’t anywhere nearly as efficient at solo PvE farming as all of the other professions in the game.
The videos that I’ve watched of Mesmer tactics, although very cool to watch, demonstrate two problems: the time to take out a group of mobs is exceedingly slow, and there are survival issues.
From my own play experience, my Guardian, Ranger, and Necromancer (in that order) are far, far more efficient at taking out a group than my Mesmer, and all of them with far better survivability than my Mesmer. My Guardian and Ranger absolutely plow through mobs; my Necromancer plows through mobs in a Wells build, but is hampered by well cooldown to be as efficient as either my Guardian or Ranger.
To give an objective, measurable definition for efficiency: it’s the number of mobs that can be defeated in one hour.
Farming is the endgame PvE activity for all games. In GW2, there are three types of farming: solo farming, DE farming, and dungeon farming (in a group). It’s important for each profession to be able to perform well in each of these use cases.
Again, if I’m wrong, and Mesmers are able to plow through mobs like other professions, then please do educate me. If they are not, then by definition they are terrible at the solo PvE farming usecase, and this is something that Arena.Net will have to correct.
Thank You!! I love Guild Wars 2 — wonderful game!!