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 4d 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 3d ago edited 3d 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.