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kk thanks all. I'll go with reaper starting off as it's less than 1g per piece (exotic) going zerker compared to viper's/trailblazer that I can grab later on for the scourge.

For general running around in open world farming mats, doing these new 'return to' achievements (and older ones I missed out on since I just got back) what is generally better between reaper and scourge? I have no plans to pvp or raid right now. To me it seems like it would be scourge after this recent condi buff as you have the barriers and a reaper cannot heal in shroud. Also, how would these be comparitively to a staff mirage(or mirage in general) for what I want to do?

Sorry my thread turned out into ele talk but I'll take it! I always assumed that ele itself wasn't the hard part, as it's easy to memorize what abilities in each element do. The hard part to me would be memorizing all the combo fields you can do by like going from fire element skill into an air element skill. I actually ended up going with a renegade in trailblazers, and a guildy helped me with runes of torment. It's hard to die because of the mechanics, but it's also intensive so I'm rolling a ranger on the side to help me learn the base mechanics of the game before I really deep dive into the ren. Play ren, get aggravated, hop on ranger, cool down. lol. Thanks everyone for all the input tho! Learned a lot!

My rev is 44 now so about to get the 2nd traitline and it's fun so far. Swapping between dwarf and assassin to keep up fury/might and yes, impossible odds active and just activating AA makes Shiro crazy. Is there any way to gain more energy besides the F2 on use? I find that if I'm in like Shiro and I want to use his teleport I can't really use Impossible Odds for more than a second as the energy is gone (which is okay as sword 5 is a teleport)

I had a reaper and it made me lazy af and then I quit like 9 months ago and now I'm back. When I say solo I mean be able to go into like HoT/PoF content and not have to rely on other people to help me kill some mob. Guard seems like the 'go to' but it seems a little complicated having to time blinds or your aegis, and what does a firebrand do if you come across a fire immune mob? War seems straight forward but also seems like if you miss one of your cooldowns you can straight up die. Mesmer going mirage seems fun as I watched vids of the staff mirages just rolling around (and IIRC going sword as a mes you feel like a duelist which is cool). I'd also like to be able to do some pvp as I never tried it out, going after achievements for completions, etc I understand you can have multiple characters and everyone does, but I'd like to settle down on one for the time being and once I understand what classes would be good for this or that fractal and the like move forward. Everyone has that 'one' main they always play and I just overthink everything. I also think getting my necro to 80, then immediately hopping on a point train to get the reaper just burnt me out as I quit shortly after that.