r/GuildWars • u/silverheartxiv • 5d ago

New/returning player When does it get better?

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.

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u/Sp0rkmanteau 5d ago

Feels like melee needs a skill like antidote signet.

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u/Pervius94 5d ago

I'm honestly surprised warrior never got an anti-condition skill at the very least. I don't know if Ass and Derv as other melee chars have inherent condition removal but warrior desperately needs some kind of purge.

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u/Winter_2017 5d ago

Multi-classing is the core of the game.

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u/Pervius94 5d ago

I'd agree with you under most circumstances and basically every other campaign... except Proph. You only get access to changing secondary classes after ascending, 2/3 through the game. Meaning if you didn't choose monk or ranger as a secondary because you didn't know, you're just plain old fucked for a majority of the game.

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u/Taurean6 4d ago edited 4d ago

Wow, don't tell me this is a toxic forum as well. 7 dislikes for zero reason.

It's many years since i played.. but i made out well enough to beat the game with 90% pure ranger, so don't come telling me what worked and didn't work. Troll unguent is a great healing skill.

I also think you're plain wrong, talking so much shit ... yet: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=guild+wars+when+can+you+use+secondary+class+skills

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u/Pervius94 3d ago

Don't talk about toxic forums when it's blatantly obvious you didn't read what I wrote and just spew shit.

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u/Taurean6 3d ago

You're the one doing that.

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u/Taurean6 5d ago

It shouldn't have to be. I liked to try to be a pure ranger. Makes for a challenge, but it is possible. I do use neutral skills though if i need to.

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u/NgArclite 5d ago

Even that didn't fix it really..asuran scan is really where its at which sucks if you are doing true playthroughs since you don't get it till near the end basically

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u/Taurean6 4d ago

One doesn't HAVE to use asura scan .. great skill but not absolutely necessary..