Not Trying.4901

Talking about a dodge frame that lasts maybe a second, has a visual blur effect, that seemingly every class can do, but me? Like I said I have seen a variety of classes do it, so it's not a mesmer thing. I remember a guardian doing it also.

I seen warriors do it, hunters, mesmers of course, and I'm sure other classes too. They use it while channeling a finisher right on top of you, without interrupting the channel, has that mesmer blur effect to it, I tried doing a dodge (as a revenant) during my finishers, and It does nothing. What gives?

How would any of those change the situation, I've tried them all, care to specify?

Every Single skill that has any ranged compacity, any gun, or ability that shoots out, such as " [Launch Personal Battering Ram] " and " [Flame Jet] " just goes into the ground for me. Should I want to move mid combat with right click, and spray my flamethrower around, or shoot into an area where I know a stealth enemy is, I can just forget about it apparently. Is there seriously no fix to this?

I'll likely end up playing every class just up until I unlock all achievements tied to them I.E pvp achievements, elite spec weapon achievements, etc. But at the end of the day I'll be hard stuck to one toon to do literally everything on. I got OCD and when I got a main, they must have maxed professions, 100% finished all story, 100% ALL world exploration, including guild halls so there's less fog, etc, etc. interesting, didn't know holosmith counted as a weapon swap. I do like the sound of the class in general, but I just feel I've always been more of a scrapper.

Nou My problem with thief though is Champs and groups of mobs are impossible to take on, unless you build non-squish, but then I feel that defeats the purpose of the class.

Why yooouuuu!!!

I know there's been many posts like this, but mines comes from a more experienced and technical stand point. To start I have one-itis so toon swapping will never be a thing for me, alts are nothing but daily parking farm spots, storage, and birthday present accumulators - even my retired mains. Mesmer - The whole aesthetic is rather lame to me, sorry! - Only redeeming quality for me is the portal, but that's not nearly good enough to carry it on its own, plus I don't like being a clothie, let alone one with low HP Elementalist - Never played one, sounds good on paper, gives me the vibes of potentially being the best class if you master the extremely high skill ceiling compared to the other classes, but my gripe with it is it's so kitten squishy, you get jumped by something unexpectedly, especially in pvp or wvw, it's over. Granted the downed state movement skill is busted. - The aesthetic isn't really there for me either, and no skills besides the down state 2 stand out to me, staff fire 5 is kind of OP in wvw zergs, but that's it. Necromancer - I love the skull mask, the high hp pool, minion master, and the tankyness from shrouds, but that's it. The rest of the class feels rather, sluggish, harbinger is meta and overplayed, I really try to avoid overplayed classes (going to mention this a lot in the hunter bit). The aesthetic really isn't there for me either, and all other skills are a snoozefest. Ranger - Has some potential, all the specs sound entertaining in their own right, traps are always a thing I like, would be fun to collect all the pets, longbow range is where it's at, aesthetic is o k a y, I'm not much of a nature person, and pets are a boon, not something I really want. But that's about it for me for the class. I'd be playing it souly to abuse the longbow 5 on zergs acting as a impromptu arrow cart. The rest of the skills are rather boring to me. But then you're basically just a mage using fire staff 5. Thief - Also has potential, the rogue look is good, but the concept of constantly hiding in a fight is not only just annoying in general (to fight), but I would have to be in the mindset of just trolling, otherwise I would feel like a complete chicken, a sissy, a letter P kitty cat. I like the idea of just one shotting people with some burst builds, but then the ability to solo any big group of enemies, or champions basically goes out the window, due to stealth resets, and general squishiness, ESPICALLY if you're using a rifle. Not to mention it suffers from the boring skills situation. Engineer - I feel like this is my calling, all skills are generally hilarious, cool, and unique, (except for you mechs), I LOVE turrets, but sadly they're generally garbage., all the gadgets are nice, it's tanky and can pretty much do everything - but here's where the problem lies. Toolkits, and weapons swapping. Since you're unable to weapon swap, you're basically required to use toolkits, I dislike all toolkits because either the whole kit isn't fun, or just sucks. Here's my POV, flamethrower, just spam skill 1, everything else MEH, fun and funny, useful in some scenarios, but feels gimmicky. - Bombs nobody uses for obvious reason - grenades & mortar same thing, boring aoe spam - elixir only used for the condi purge and leap, boring - Toolkit the pull and block, boring - Medkit has ALL the potential of being the GOAT, but sadly a complete lack of bandage dropping and self sustain involved ruins it for me. My 2nd most played class. Warrior - Another class I feel like I could main, SUPER tanky, funny physical skills, bladesworn is fun in pve, but here's the problem for me. Lack of any form of good ranged combat. You're basically required to chase people around all day, and in big zerg fights you're basically useless, bow, and guns are boring, so I would basically build it to be a tanky gimmick character. Revenant - Most played, over half my played time souly because of the vindicator, just all around strong and hilarious to play, I hate revenant completely, outside of it, I hate being so slow, I hate my lack of range (Hammer is boring and sucks don't @ me), short bow is only 900 range, you can't work much with that, I HATE not being able to switch any skills out, only stances. You may ask then "Why don't you just play revenant then, you play it so much you clearly have a preference for it" or something along those lines, the answer? - I'm literally just playing this because I'm the most familiar with it, and only play it to farm for my eventual main, I'll sooner have a full set of legendaries, before a main at this rate... Plus I don't want to have to re-gear another toon I don't even know if I'll like anymore than what I'm playing now, and wasting time doing so, I've done this a lot, as to why I'm making this post. Guardian - Generally boring to me, and overplayed. I love the traps but I feel I must build pure glass cannon to even make use of them, but then it ruins most gameplay in the game, because you'll be generally garbage as a full trapper, not to mention they ruined the nearly perma stealth perma superspeed with the removal of the trapper runes. Firebrand is a hard no due to it basically being the most overplayed thing in the game outside of soulbeast, and willbender is up there too. Summary / TLDR - All of my playtime has been just toon swapping to find something I like, haven't truly found it yet, skill quirkiness means a lot to me, as well as survivability, and the ability to solo most content, having a good ranged compacity is a huge plus, as well as some mobility that doesn't require very much if at all no investment. Having the quickness boon up nearly 24/7 is a plus.

I did not what? I have fought sea of sorrows before, and it was kitten as I was on maguuma. Like I said it's not even about the enemies really, more the allies, as they've yet to even take our ebg keep.

I've been put up against servers that completely wrecked us during when I played, like sea of sorrows. But it was more of a outnumbered thing then a complete lack of allied competence. Feel like anet is trolling me people not even know how to los camp guards, like COME ON.

Do you have an actual argument or are you just arguing semantics like someone without an argument? When you're forced into playing with one server for 3 months, only to be forced into another with nobody you now know, that's not an issue I signed up for.

I pray it's just a link issue, because I haven't had a matchup this bad in all of my time playing.

Using the brain, good job, sort of anyways. I only mentioned BP was my home.

Just said I was on maguuma, they aren't the problem to the post btw. Would be the first 2 lines.

No longer linked with maguuma, got forced into my server Borliss Pass. No fun since the swap, nobodies on when I'm on, the people that happen to be on in my team just up and dies in the blink of an eye even IF I'm sitting there healing them, ton of BR players that flood team chat with non-english. Even watched someone die 3v1 to a siege golem, I can't emphasize how bad my play time teammates are. Literally fighting maguuma and blackgate, the wvw titans, so any siege that isn't secret is a wipe, especially with the aforementioned text above. Xv1 is always a fun challenge from time to time, but for multiple hours on end, I'd prefer not having to tryhard, especially since the majority of roamers I run into are running meta (harbinger / dare devil / root druid etc) so the fights end up having to be full effort. Typically active 11pm-6am EST, with 2Pm-6am on my off days. I'm not a hive minded meta copier, so likely any serious wvw guild is out the question, cause I'm not about to conform. Almost tempted to join the least populated server just to have a peace of mind, I just would like to actually have some big fights from time to time, so I don't think that's a choice either. Is there a list of servers somewhere that goes into details on their general active times + quirks? I.E everyone knows maguuma is the toxic smc-or-nothing pip farming champs.