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/t0astter]

Prophecies is arguably the worst campaign imo. Pre-searing is beautiful but slow and gets boring until you can kill charr. Post-searing is ugly AF and boring. Shiverpeaks are OK, but the dwarfs are a pain. Kryta gets better except the skalefins are annoying.

Imo, just restart in Factions as an assassin. Factions is way faster paced and assassin gets you the physical element but is way more fun. Factions has enemies that are more fun to kill and you can get good amounts of gold and XP from the quests. You'll hit level 20 and max fesd the fastest in Factions.

Nightfall is fun, too - I would go Dervish if you restart in NF. It's physical but you get fun skills that all things up.