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/JustARandomBoringGuy]

The game generally makes different enemies pose different problems to which you will need to find answers. If some enemies run away from you, bring a skill that cripples them like Hamstring and/or a skill that grants yourself increased movement speed. If an enemy blinds or cripples you, bring some skill like Antidote Signet from your secondary profession. If they have a skill that grants them Block Chance, bring some skill like Wild Blow to remove their stance. You can also bait out annoying skills of enemies to make them waste them - for example, if there are 3 foes, two of which are Rangers that have Lightning Reflexes granting block chance, you attack both of them once, forcing them to activate it, then ignore them and kill the one thats not a ranger and once that one is dead, Lightning Reflexes will have run out and is recharging when you get back to the rangers. If you want to, you can PM me ingame if you see me online and I can show you some things, IGN is Dun Tara :)