Guild Wars 2

OracleofSilence.2741:

So thats a difference of opinion…

In PVE an ele can deal more damage than any other class (by far, like seriously, insane damage). But getting that damage is hard. You need an organised group who know what to do, you need to get your rotations right, you need to stay alive – and that’s harder with Ele than with any other profession – and you need to heavily use conjured weapons (lightning hammer, frost bow, flaming greatsword), which to some is very un-Ele like (I know staff is an exception, but you won’t be getting any might from anywhere else in an average Pug).

A warrior can’t hit the same heights of damage but it’s easy to deal very high sustained damage, all while being relatively durable even when fully geared and specced for DPS. It’s also a very forgiving class when played in very disorganised groups. In practice I’ve usually seen Warriors dealing far more damage than Eles in Pug groups because they are always able to go ‘full on’ while Eles have to hold back from dealing maximum DPS just to survive.

There are exceptions to the above and very good Eles who can survive and do everything a Warrior can better, but they’re as rare as female thieves not wearing tier 3 human armor.

1. Necromancer (Need PVE Love, make them wanted)
2. Engineer (Ditto, also buggy)
3. Elementalist (Too squishy)

What’s the build for? WvW, PVE?

Really nice vid. I main a big Norn mes and it’s nice to see some gameplay with a bigger char instead of the usual purple pinballs bouncing around….

Inspiring stuff!

JonPeters.5630:

I just had a wacky idea that might make some aspects of MH sword less frustrating. I’ll test it out when I get in to work and report back.

Jon

Thank you so much for having a look at this. I understand some people like it but for many more it’s something that stands as a real barrier to enjoying the class. I can atunement swap/kit swap to my hearts content and everything purrs along with no problems, but the MH sword is an enigma to me. Even a little change to make it less frustrating would be wonderful. This is my first MMO and it’s really nice to see this level of responsiveness from devs (didn’t get this in TF2….).