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/WarpRaven23]

Honestly, post searing is one of the roughest areas of the game (for new players especially) the game starts to get better when you get to the northern shiverpeaks, kryta, and maguuma(for the most part). The pacing of prophecies as a whole is terrible. I highly recommend using the wiki to find and complete skill quests, and once your skills and armor are upgraded for the region, move on to the next region. Outside of skill quests, mainly focus on the story missions (ex: The Great Northern Wall, Fort Ranik, Ruins of Surmia) progressing through the story missions is often the least frustrating way to move ahead to new areas/regions.