{"id":4222,"date":"2015-03-21T14:40:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T18:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.beniesbuilds.com\/benie\/games\/?p=4222"},"modified":"2015-03-21T14:40:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T18:40:08","slug":"once-more-with-dying-a-lot-as-a-melee-char","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2015\/03\/21\/once-more-with-dying-a-lot-as-a-melee-char\/","title":{"rendered":"Once more, with dying a lot as a Melee char"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been told before I joined Guild Wars 2, to play as a Warrior. Little did mfish know, I wanted a simple, easy to understand rotation (also with not a lot of effort put into it).<br \/>\nRanger, so far, has been that class. Yet I&#8217;ve learned now, there&#8217;s no real &#8220;true soloing class&#8221;. People actually hate Ranger for some odd reason. With Ranger, I can range a target (or I can choose to go up and personal and CLANG my target to death with my Greatsword.<\/p>\n<p>I thought for sure, I would be able to do the same as a Warrior. And also have heavier armor to protect me better. Well, I can still do that. I can use a Broadsword, and I can use a Bow or a Gun. Survivability&#8230; that&#8217;s a different story. Without a pet, I have to really be pumping the DPS out.<br \/>\nI try, yet I feel so&#8230; squishy at times. Seeing how fast my Health drops, and going down constantly is not fun.<\/p>\n<p>Asking for help&#8230; why do I even bother, when I never do the advice? This one reply, said to go with an axe &amp; shield\/Greatsword combo. That I must learn when to bash with said shield, dodge a lot. Use this. Use that. Don&#8217;t do this. Do that. Ugh. So much WORK! So much EFFORT!! D:&lt;<br \/>\nBy the way, I&#039;m serious. This is why I don&#039;t play Melee chars. On top of that, I can&#039;t go with that setup if I was to take down that undead dragon at the end of the game. There were several times when we were told to use ranged attacks.<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#039;t know what I&#039;m going to do with my Warrior. I.. wanted him to keep Tybalt&#039;s bravery alive. Yet I&#039;m having a very hard time doing so. And also&#8230; he looks nothing <span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">like<\/span> Tybalt.<br \/>\n*sigh* The game looks so simple, that you can play any class. But to <em>master<\/em> said class, it&#8217;s an entirely different story&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>MMORPGs can be fun, and can also be downright frustrating. As in, they&#8217;re unlike other games. They have no ending. They have no &#8220;Hey, I&#8217;m done!&#8230;.. What do I do now?&#8221; empty feeling as a Single Player game would, that has freeplay after the last boss fight.<br \/>\nYet mastering the damn thing, is as painful as &#8230; something really painful without going all too graphic. Put your hand in an active blender? Manually extract a tooth out of your mouth (without letting a professional Dentist do it for you)? Watching some rich kid on Youtube throw a perfectly good iPhone in a tank of acid, just to see what happens? Anything like that. They(RPG&#8217;s) are a bitch to master, for me.<br \/>\nNot knowing what gear I need, the correct rotation, the correct buffs, the correct place to be&#8230; why fucking bother with all of that shit?! This is a reason why I don&#8217;t join Guilds.<br \/>\nI guess I&#8217;m suffering from NPE (New Player Experience). It&#8217;s a urban dictionary term, to describe a player who refuses to listen to advice on how to play better(even though they suck and need help).<\/p>\n<p>This is why I ignore &#8220;How to play better in WoW&#8221; videos. They are complicated as hell. So much math. So much&#8230; learning. FUCK THAT! And I&#8217;m NOT being sarcastic here!<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>EDIT: I managed to get ahold of mfish after an event on the MRT that I was a part of. His realist answer was &#8220;well, Guild Wars 2 is designed for team play. Sorry&#8221;. I..I dunno what to do now.<br \/>\nYet if it&#8217;s &#8220;designed for team play&#8221;, then how come I managed to solo to 80 as a Ranger? Maybe because I&#8217;m used to Ranged classes, and not Melee? Maybe I just lucked out. I dunno.<br \/>\nThough it was a 95% solo. I still did that Level 30 dungeon run. And of course needing help with my final Level 80 Story quest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been told before I joined Guild Wars 2, to play as a Warrior. Little did mfish know, I wanted a simple, easy to understand rotation (also with not a lot of effort put into it). 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