Roll an Ele and never look back.
Seriously, the skill ceiling is the highest of all the other professions, and you’ll need to use your brain to play one, and actively defend/heal yourself and allies while putting out damage on enemies, but once you get the hang of it, you’ll have complete understanding of the game mechanics, and be a very accurate and articulate player in your actions and cooldowns.
If you want to just roll your face along your keys while not really learning a thing because you don’t need to dodge/evade or use active defenses, then play a warrior. Seriously, Healing Signet heals for you. You don’t even have to press your heal as it’s passive. So absurdly mind numbing for me personally. People keep saying to “play a warrior while you learn the game,” but the double edged sword here is that you won’t be challenged to learn a thing as a Warrior has so much just handed to it in the form of damage/CC/defense that you can get to 80 without having to learn much of the mechanics as they can all be cheesed.
Anet has also claimed in some red posts that they’re “looking into the warrior,” and how some warrior mechanics are too easily accessible. Also, Ele just had some of their nerfs from previous patches rolled back. Ele’s have returned and are better than ever thanks to strength runes!
In the end, it really comes down to your playstyle. Are you tactical? Do you think about supporting your team while fighting? Do you like attunement dancing? Do you like having to swap into water attunement to heal yourself and allies? Do you like utilizing combo fields for maximum boon uptime? Do you like the looks of heavy armor, or light armor?
Depending on how you respond to those questions, you’ll know which is the better option for yourself. Personally, I like Ele as I love attunement dancing, handing out boons like candy, healing, and doing some of the best damage in the game all at the same time. You can also have perma swiftness on an Ele. Try that on a warrior.
Where can we get blade shards now? I’m trying to make spinal blades!
This totally exists and is awesome. I just found it today. I’m a returning player and this is very handy.
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What order did you join on your Elementalist, and why?
I joined Order of Whispers as I like playing D/D and by being in Whispers I feel Lore wise like my Ele could be a hybrid of an assassin/mage like character. Also, I just love the idea of belonging to a secret society.
Why do you like your order?
My Ele, protecting the Queen like any good citizen of Divinity’s Reach.
~<:o Bazuul The Profound o:>~
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If you are not dodging the warriors CC despite their HUGE tells then you are going to have a bad time
Admittedly, I’m not good at dodging their CC’s, and once one hits me, then they can just keep the train up unless I pop armor of earth then /lol at them wasting CD’s.
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It’s objectively terrible for the game, regardless of anyone’s personal opinion of it. The vast majority of players are casual- they want to feel at ease with being able to play the game when they want to play the game without missing major things. And the more at ease players are, the more likely they are to be content with the game and to spend money in the gemstore.
Relative to permanent content, temporary content offers only nebulous advantages while having significant negative impacts, like:
-The world never feels like it’s actually growing, which makes the game feel more and more stale the further from launch it gets. The longer it goes on, the bigger the vacuum gets and the harder time they’ll have playing catch-up.
-It actually discourages intermittent players, which are the majority, from returning to the game because they start getting behind in the story and can never actually experience it – at that point why would you bother? You just stop playing and move on.
-The content never needs to be of particularly high quality because it’s always removed a couple of weeks later, providing a cop-out for the design and development teams and leading to an overall lack of polish and failure to iterate.
It’s really quite simple – if Anet doesn’t feel like they’re making enough money and wants to ‘force’ the players to play (and shop) by controlling the game experience schedule, they’re going to lose. They already have, but it isn’t too late yet. It will be soon if they don’t take major corrective action.
I definitely feel this. I’m gonna hold into my virtual reality Asuran library dream because I think that could help them a lot. If people found out they could replay content they liked, or missed(could even have varying levels of difficulty which reward better loot), I think we’d see players sticking around longer, and gaining new players.
Plus, they’re just now releasing this game in China. How must those players feel to pay a comparable fee for a game with even less content than we’ve seen? That won’t make ANet any money. People will play the game, hear about the story, then realize they can’t take part in it, and just leave. Cool! A copy of the game was sold, but said player isn’t spending money in the cash shop, or engaging the community in the game. It’s hard for me to feel connected to a story I haven’t taken part in.
I’m tellin’ ya. Asuran virtual reality library would be the coolest answer to this issue.