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Couldn’t agree more – GW2 is the blind date MMORPG I have been waiting to walk through the door since I ended my financially draining and time consuming relationship with WoW.

The easy pick-up-and-play element combined with the graphics and versatility of characters (played the way I want to play them) is a breath of fresh air.

It might just be because I’m still in the honeymoon period but the people seem nicer too…

still no 80...

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Garb Cost.3718

Hey Mnoster,

I have only recently started playing but I had the exact same problem – I just could not decide what I wanted to play. I leveled a Guardian to 24 and then rolled a Ranger. I leveled the Ranger to about the same mark.

Hitting this point combined with a bit more forum reading and looking ahead. What I read – and at the risk of inducing rants, I want to emphasise ‘what I read’ – was that there are some niggles with Rangers in dungeons (read the ranger forum for more info). At this point I thought “Well, I want to check some of these dungeons out but I also want to maintain the reasons I started playing this game – personal enjoyment” I don’t want to be moaning about my class not working and hell, I don’t even really want to play a Ranger – I kind of defaulted to that from my WoW hunter days (I see now that this is a poor comparison. In fact, you can’t compare WoW and GW2).

Then it struck me. I’m playing this game for me. I was playing WoW quite a bit but stopped when it became all about having to be competitive in order to play the endgame content. It stopped being fun. It stopped being a game for me and my enjoyment.

Bearing this in mind, I reassessed what I wanted from the game. I wanted to play a [relatively] in your face character that required a bit more thoughtful gameplay and did more than just p3wp3wzerg (which GW2 is not about).

This theory made me settle on a Guardian. But hang on, I already had a Guardian I got bored with… OK, so why did I get bored? I hit level 24 and started looking ahead at skills etc. I didn’t see anything in there that made me go “Awwww yeah I need to hit level xx so I can get that awesome skill” This led me to reading the Guardian forums and lo and behold, people describing the specs and roles they fulfil are exactly those of what I wanted to do. Front line versatile support.

This gave me the impetus to get back to the Guardian. Personally, I don’t think it is a particularly flashy and explosive character to play in solo PvE. This made me change the way I approach it. I started doing the heart missions while I was waiting for events to happen. The second I saw one pop up on the map, I was straight to the waypoint joining in the fight.

I found this to be such a quick way of leveling – even if I had already done an event 5 levels ago. It gave the gameplay some pace, some urgency. It also helped develop my understanding of my profession. Whenever I hit a new area now, I run around grabbing waypoints, uncovering the map. This lets me know when events are up and an access route to them. It makes the levels fly by too which is nice.

TL;DR? Here it is: ask yourself what kind of character you want to play. Tough guy? Cunning little devil? Magic dabbler? There is a profession for you.

You can even tailor your profession choice so it is unique to you via the ample weapon combinations so you can truly make the character you want.

Base your character on what you want. Once you play your character a little more, this will develop and you will really get to grips with it.

This is what did it for me. I hope this helps – I certainly feel I can relate to your situation.

Drop me a mail ingame if you want: Scrotbag.9715

Cheers!