Guild Wars 2

Ghostwind.4380:

Starbreaker.6507:

I feel a little saddened by what I’m seeing across the board in this forum…

I was an FTP up until a few weeks ago and bouncing around on different race/profession combos until I decided to play Guardian.

I really fell in love with the style as a whole and from what I’ve toyed around with in PvP (unranked mind you) I’ve enjoyed Dragonhunter.

I’ve yet to get to 80 and do ‘end game’ stuff, but a lot of the posts I’m reading paints a pretty bleak picture. Would you recommend I stick it out and see what/if I can do at 80, or should I really be looking to jump ship (well…techincally not board it since I’m still new)?

I have a character for each profession at 80 and all specializations unlocked. I really don’t think Dragon Hunter is as bad as people claim, at least not for solo\group pve exploration. If you are dead set on pvp and on raiding then yeah some other classes in the current meta are going to do better\be more optimal. But if you just want to enjoy the story, do events in the new HoT zones, explore, unlock hp’s and mastery points, etc, the Guard will do just fine. I’ve found DH to be an extremely fun way to play Guard, with bow coupled with strong traps.

Don’t let the min maxing deter you too much. I’ve been playing since release and almost every profession has it’s day in sun or shadow for some aspect of the game. Not surprisingly the classes that are at the most extremes are almost always considered part of the meta. Warrior for example because it does insane dps and can wear heavy armor – yet still has crappy support and frankly is pretty boring to me. And Mezmer now because it has extreme support with alacrity, but has terrible dps.

This has to be one of the more level-headed responses I’ve seen, so thanks for that.

I perused around the other profession forums today and it was an interesting read, if not comical.

Almost every class felt they needed buffs of some sort and a few were even saying they felt their elite specializations weren’t that great. From best I can tell the only professions that had a legitimate gripe seemed to be warriors and thieves.

I think I’ll just stick with this for now and if it turns out that it truly is bad it’s easy enough to whip up another character and jump into PvP.

Ghotistyx.6942:

There is a lot of misinformation in this thread

Care to elaborate?

Someone like myself who’s still new to the game doesn’t know the difference in what’s right and wrong on what’s being said and it would help out a great deal!

Hunter.4783:

I would jump ship asap. No reason for you to stick around with a butchered and mediocre class. In pve I highly recommend anything else but thief and guard. Trust me you will not be disappointed.

Spvp is completely separate. You can play a chrono in raids and fractals and spvp with guard. But please strongly consider switching at least for pve and exploration

For the record, I have over 4k hours on my guard. Now all my guard does is stick by the forge for crafting

That’s too bad.

Oh well, guess I could try Engineer since that was the next class that seemed fun from what I’ve played. I’m trying not to be one of those FotM players, but after living through Warrior on WoW in early Wrath of the Lich King days where we got dump-trucked on by the other plate-wearing classes and got relegated to second-class citizens I’d prefer to not have that happen again.

Another question. Did the elite specializations from HoT make the game worse in a sense? This could be naive thinking on my part, but it seems like that if you don’t run your profession’s elite spec you’re doing a disservice to yourself and your party.

I feel a little saddened by what I’m seeing across the board in this forum…

I was an FTP up until a few weeks ago and bouncing around on different race/profession combos until I decided to play Guardian.

I really fell in love with the style as a whole and from what I’ve toyed around with in PvP (unranked mind you) I’ve enjoyed Dragonhunter.

I’ve yet to get to 80 and do ‘end game’ stuff, but a lot of the posts I’m reading paints a pretty bleak picture. Would you recommend I stick it out and see what/if I can do at 80, or should I really be looking to jump ship (well…techincally not board it since I’m still new)?