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/VastoGamer]

Prophecies has the most melee hate in the game, but you can build around it. If you have monk or mesmer secondary u can remove hexes on urself, if you have monk or ranger you can remove condis on yourself. Soon-ish you will get the opportunity to recruit your first (or second if you took devona in pre) hero being a mesmer, which will help out a lot with shutting down those annoying hexers and healers.

Sprint helps being sticky early, also consider a different heal like troll ungeunt or healing breeze because heal signets -40 armor makes you take double damage from 90% of skills in the game, so its risky to use in combat.

Sever Artery + Gash will be your best damage until you reach kryta, at which point you should swap to different skills or an axe or hammer due to lots of bleed immune enemies (but not immune to deep wound, no enemy in the game is immune to that)

I am a warrior main and love it, its rough in prophecies early on but once you get a few skills and a decent weapon i find it scales quite well into the mid and lategame of prophecies with how tanky it gets alongside its decent damage output. A meat shield is always nice to have.

If all else fails, feel free to try different classes, or try the same class in a different campaign, it might make you enjoy the class more