Anyone else play a specialization that they suck at?

[Shrike Arghast.3856]

I'll go first: I'm currently maining a Weaver, and I am flat out terrible at it. I cannot remember the skills, I routinely forget which elements I'm currently using (thus swapping to bad combinations on the next change), I am constantly dying even in PvE because I forget that the thing is a glass cannon with absolutely zero sustain. Overall, I'm just bad. But I really, really like the aesthetic, and the playstyle is almost a siren's song - aggressively baiting me with "wow, this might be really cool if you keep at it!... too bad you suck, though."

I can't be the only one doing this.

Edited September 22, 2022 by Shrike Arghast.3856

[Antycypator.9874]

The only class I suck at is Catalyst — I don't even know what my skills do, but it's fun.

Did you know Weaver has a lot of sustain in water skills? Water+Blast/Leap combo = healing.

[DanAlcedo.3281]

Noob:"Man, you have 15k Hours, over 41k AP and you are full legendary. You must be a really good player then!"

Me: "Yep! Watch THIS!" ( Spams all the AoE CDS from scourge under the enemy blob)

Noob: " WOW! You did so much dmg!"

Me: "I know what im doing." (Nervous sweating)

Edited September 22, 2022 by DanAlcedo.3281

[Mortime.1359]

I mostly play an elementalist, which is one of my mains that i've completed the entire story on...and I also absolutely hate playing melee professions. So yeah, there is that. Not too many ranged options around on elementalist that are worth playing.

[lezbefriends.7516]

You can’t suck at a class if you copy a meta build and read a guide once. 

[Scalacious.4139]

I want to play Weaver as well, but I suffer from the same problem as you 😂

[Randulf.7614]

The key to weaver is to press as many buttons in any order as fast as you can. Something cool is bound to happen and you will look awesome to new players doing it.

[Eekasqueak.7850]

I suck at the rotation but I enjoy playing harbinger. Same thing with condition renegade. 

[Xaint.7461]

4 hours ago, Shrike Arghast.3856 said:

I'll go first: I'm currently maining a Weaver, and I am flat out terrible at it. I cannot remember the skills, I routinely forget which elements I'm currently using (thus swapping to bad combinations on the next change), I am constantly dying even in PvE because I forget that the thing is a glass cannon with absolutely zero sustain. Overall, I'm just bad. But I really, really like the aesthetic, and the playstyle is almost a siren's song - aggressively baiting me with "wow, this might be really cool if you keep at it!... too bad you suck, though."

I can't be the only one doing this.

i mainly play SD Weaver, been doing so for years, weaver is surprisingly tanky / bunkerish  with right stats / gear.

For Pvp i play Sage amulet + Weaver  Rune

and  for anything else i play Celestial +  Antitoxin rune.

so here's 3 key ingridients to become a tanky weaver beside of stats + gear -

bolstered  elements (trait) in weaver +  stone resonance (utility) + primordial stance (utility) = so much barrier that u  shouldnt  die in pve unless u  tryin something that isnt meant to be soloed .

Enjoy .

Edited September 22, 2022 by Xaint.7461

[pfuetzi.5421]

My problem is that I like all the classes and different builds, so I suck at all of them because I switch all the time 😄

[Strider Pj.2193]

I tend to ask myself a question of what I would prefer:

Do I want to to awesome damage, or do I want to enjoy the ride..?

 

Sometimes those two meet in the middle.

 

Some of the vids and guides can show you awesome rotations for huge numbers.  Personally, unless I am wvw’ing, or going instanced content, I find a build that lets me just play through.  Marauder’s is my go to for damage, as it gives me more health.  
 

Many of the slot skills I use depend on the area as I’ll swap out more evades for damage depending on my comfort with an area.  Then I just work on getting comfortable with the skills I use regardless of their damage.  
 

I think some players pay less attention to where they are in relation to the enemy than they should.  Positioning is a skill that REALLY helps most of the ele specializations.

 

Also, if you want ele help, you might try posting in the professions forum.  Just be prepared for some….  Well..  just take everything with a grain of salt 🙂

[Tsakhi.8124]

Yep, I play Berserker and I'm absolute garbage at it...but it's fun. Setting Mordrem on fire is fun. Melting enemies is fun. Numbers go up, enemies go down. Very satisfying. 

[kharmin.7683]

I'm a very casual, OWPvE player so I don't play any META builds or anything.  There are some professions/e-specs that I just don't get so yeah I suck at those.  But then, I just don't play 'em.  For whatever reason(s), they just don't work in my mind.  There are plenty of other professions/e-specs to tinker with, so I don't bother playing ones that I'm no good at playing.  My limited on-line time would be wasted.

Most of the ones on which I choose not to focus are professions/e-specs that (to me) seem to be more designed for group or instanced content.  As a mostly solo player, they just don't work well for me.  For example, as a ranger main, why would I choose to run druid for mostly solo play when practically any other ranger-centric build will work better?  I might swap to my druid build for a world boss event or some other event where there are a lot of other players (Joko's minions comes to mind), but for everything else the druid spec just isn't for me.  /shrug

Same with the latest thief e-spec from EoD.  Just can't wrap my mind around how it plays -- for me, anyway.

[SlipLihte.1307]

I play quick firebrand in fractals from time to time and am absolute garbage with tomes 2 and 3.

[Fueki.4753]

I play Spell"breaker" again since the (albeit small) dagger buffs, yet I'm not too competent at using Full Counter.

And I don't do rotations, I press what I feel like pressing.

However, I don't know if that counts for you as "sucking" at Spellbreaker in accordance to the thread title.

 

Edited September 22, 2022 by Fueki.4753

[Scalacious.4139]

3 minutes ago, Fueki.4753 said:

I play Spell"breaker" again since the (albeit small) dagger buffs, yet I'm not too competent at using Full Counter.

 

Dual daggers is the dream, best espec 🤩

[Danikat.8537]

All of them?

I'm not that good on anything, including my main character (ranger, currently untamed). I can get through the story and open-world stuff, and I've managed to not die too much in some raids and T1-3 Fractals, but I wouldn't consider myself that good on any of my 11 characters. (Which is looking likely to be 13 soon.)

[Doggie.3184]

Only if you count the 30mins I've played on Weaver

[Super Hayes.6890]

Spectre by far. Pretty sure enemy mobs are going to start rezzing me so I can try again at this rate...

[Batel.9206]

Yes, elementalist.

...oh, you said specialization. Well, once I start playing Tempest and Weaver, I will undoubtedly be even worse at it. Still going to try!

 

During the beta tests for the EoD elite specs, Specter was the worst for me. My main's a thief, so I was excited for that one...and I could not figure out how to play it. My poor thief was just wildly waving his oversized scepter around like a nerf bat, with appropriate sound effects: WHIFF WHIFF WHIFF [teleport!] WHIFF WHIFF WHIFF "am I doing anything yet?" WHIFF WHIFF [teleport!] WHIFF WHIFF "hey stop attacking me!" WHIFF WHIFF [frantic heal!] WHIFF WHIFF "oh crud I'm going to--" WHIFF ACK OW GAAAAHHHCCCKKKK....

...rinse and repeat.

[Ariurotl.3718]

I suck at the game in general, the proper rotation non-user skill clicker kind of player.

[neighto.7386]

I play solo pve 90% of the time... I dont run meta builds, and have no interest in "looking up rotations and maxing my dmg"   I have a job in real life, I play this as an escape from that, so NO I wont spend my time researching stuff and working my kitten off just so I can put up big numbers.   Does this mean I may suck at any specific build I may be running?   Sure to some it may, but I really dont care as long as I am having fun when I load up the game.    Some people seem to forget this is a game and take it waaaaaaaay too seriously

[RadiantWolf.2058]

Elementalist specs in general are ones I so wish I could be good at.

[Farohna.6247]

15 minutes ago, Ariurotl.3718 said:

I suck at the game in general, the proper rotation non-user skill clicker kind of player.

Ahh my people have spoken!  Lol summarizes me in a nut shell.  

I look up the builds, the rotations, etc.  Then just mash buttons and see what happens.  Close enough.  

I've settled for "doesn't die a lot, and things die in a reasonable time frame" style but then I'm mostly open world lol.  

I dabbled with vindicator.  Was it bad.  Was I bad.  Who knows.  Finished EoD with it, went back to renegade.

[Randulf.7614]

2 hours ago, Scalacious.4139 said:

Dual daggers is the dream, best espec 🤩

I use mace and shield on my spellbreaker. All blocks and counters and zero dps

They call me simply “The Wall”