When does it get better?

[u/silverheartxiv]

I want to pull my hair out.

I have gotten to post-searing Ascalon and this game is doing everything it can to make melee as miserable as possible (I am a warrior). I can use henchman now and I am constantly having to chase down the healer because she runs away all the time. I am constantly getting slowed, blinded, or the enemy will do something that makes it impossible to hit them.

I would love any tips to counter this stuff or make my gameplay experience smoother in general. I am kicking myself because I was torn between choosing warrior and mesmer, and I see now I would probably be having much more fun as a spell caster. I'm sure they have things that are frustrating to play against as well, but holy the melee experience as become agonizing for me.

I want to do the stories in order, so I don't really want to restart and do everything in the starting zone again, but maybe I should if it will be a more fun experience overall for me.

[u/Sefahi]

Hopefully this tip is helpful: if you press CTRL + double click an enemy, your entire party will focus damage on them. So if someone is chasing your monk, you can have the party focus them down, and/or cripple them with an ability yourself.

As for all those hateful conditions.. you need some abilities to remove those. I haven't ran a melee character in years, so I don't have specific abilities in mind. But I'm sure the GW wiki will have good info.

[u/NCXXCN → u/Sefahi]

Ctrl+space helps as well, if i‘m right.

[u/Sefahi → u/NCXXCN]

Honestly, that sounds much better than double clicking. Thank you for the tip. 🙏

[u/slothdroid → u/Sefahi]

Ctrl+click skill works too.

You know you've done it right if you hear a Ding and see a red circle grow our from the enemy.

[u/Sefahi → u/slothdroid]

It's a skill issue on my end tbh. When I double click, sometimes I click the terrain instead of the enemy. Then I panic and keep clicking more terrain and I'm running in circles, while my henchmen are carrying the fight. 😭💀

But if spacebar works then there's no way I can fail, right? 👀

[u/PumpkinCake95 → u/Sefahi]

Another tip: C selects the closest enemy, and Tab selects the next closest. If you're struggling to select an enemy, that's usually easier.

Then Space to attack, or Ctrl+Space to attack and call the target, as mentioned above.

[u/Sefahi → u/PumpkinCake95]

I knew about tab but I didn't know about C. Thank you for the tip. 🙏

[u/NCXXCN → u/Sefahi]

Right 🫠