I levelled up a mesmer as my main. These days, it's effectively my goto-toon for WvW. I seem to find it the most fun there. But for dungeons and fractals, I have the most fun on my guardian. I'm now thinking of leveling up a warrior just to easy-mode my dailies in world pve.
Anyone do the same? If so, what classes do you use for what? How'd you decide on that?
Posted Feb 3, 2013, 10:41 PM UTC
I had all 8 professions spread across various races -- all of them level 80 -- and then I decided that Asura is the master race, so I bought more character slots to reroll those professions that weren't Asuras into Asuras.
I now have 14 characters, of which 10 are level 80...
I use guard and mesmer for dungeons, necro for WvW, whichever alt I'm levelling for daily, and the rest for ori camping. At one point I had some of them stationed at the dragon spots for event farming, but I got tired of that.
How many hours logged in?
Way too many.
Hush.
I am, but.. I just.. have to get world completion for all of them.. AHH!
I only did completion on my 1st, the rest only get the zones that award exotics for completion.
I have a 80 Thief, Mesmer, Necro, Ele and Guardian. I just do everything with one profession when move on to another.
If you have multiple level 80's it allows you to build one for WvW, one for dungeon support or dungeon dps, and another for solo PvE, maybe with a magic find set, so you can do whatever you feel like without having to change up traits or equipment.
I have four level 80's which I use for this, but also four other alts that I'm leveling for the fun of it, and to find out more about the individual classes so I know what I'm up against when I face that class in WvW.
I usually use my engineer for WvW and my Ranger for dungeons. Though I'm slowly thinking about just making the engineer my main.
Do eeet
Engineers are really fun to play in all types of PvE nd PvP :)
Yeah. I leveled mine to around 30 in PvE then did mostly crafting and WvW to 80 so I never really got a chance to play with them fully in PvE.
I've done a few dungeon runs with him and I really started to like all he had to offer. I just need to get better about using all the various tools instead of getting stuck in just one kit.
Yep but you should focus on one kit when you make your build, but try out a lot of builds! ;)
Right now I'm liking Pistol/Shield Grenade/Elixir S/Tool Kit for WvW, and Pistol/Shield Grenade/Elixir R/Elixir Gun for dungeons.
I have all classes now. I found the classes I enjoy the most for different aspects of the game, and outfitted them as such.
Necro, Thief, Warrior: Farming, MF gear
Mesmer, Engineer, Elementalist: WvW, Exotic defensive or all around gear
Guardian: Everything, gear specific for what I want
Ranger: Nothing, Sits in green gear doing nothing, because the class is boring and uninspired.
you could use your ranger to mine ori and do the wvw jumping puzzle :D thats what i am doing with my ranger after seeing how bad he is in dungeons
bad at pretty much everything. So many other classes are so much funner. Not a fan of jumping puzzles(I get enough badges in a day that I don't feel the need to do the WvW puzzles) Aaaand, don't need ori, I get more money farming Pen with my Thief then I would running my thief around collecting ori. lol
well then you could use him as a mule ;)
Pretty much what it is. lol
I use them all, for everything, all 8 of them, and nearly got my 4th to lvl 80 (lvl 78 now) by crafting, WvW and mostly PvE. Though i like dungeons more with non-glass cannons like my guard/necro.
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I have a Mesmer that I main in WvWvW and a Guardian that I plan to use for Dungeons and fractals. I have a Warrior as well that I just use to to do WvW or run around Orr.
Close, warrior is for wvw, mesmer for spvp, theif for dungeons/fractals, and a new alt (cant decide between ranger or necro) for dailies? Its so hard to choose!
When character slots went on sale, I bought 3 more, so I could have one of each profession. I tried to made sure my profession choice made sense with regard to my personal story, ie an Iron Legion Charr Engineer. I took some liberties - my Asura Thief probably likes to steal ideas more than booty.
Out of my 8 characters, 4 are 80. I like to run dungeons with my d/d tanky/support Ele, and use my Thief in MF gear to tag mobs in Orr. There's nothing I dislike doing with my Guard or Mesmer.
Character slots went on sale?
It was a while ago. Right after christmas, if I remember correctly
Guardian, All day every day. (Maxed, over 1100 hours on it)
Warrior, to WvW, or if my group really lacks DPS. (Maxed, about 550 hours on it)
Mesmer, to look sexy and grab daily. (Around level 35 or so, about 200 hours on it.)
I have other alts, but these are what I enjoy the most. I PvP on these 3 the most as well.
You seriously already have around 2000 hours played? Jesus Christ.
I have 875 hours played in the past 4 months and I thought I was ridiculous.
Hahahaha... Nearing 1900, actually. 5 Months.
I love achievements. Probably going to hit 5k points by the end of the week.
when they give out retroactive laurels, can you post here how many you get? :D
also.. holy shit 5k points.. :O
If you think that is holy shit http://i.imgur.com/zhGsO.jpg
I have a Mesmer, Ranger and Guardian - all 80, all fully geared and I enjoy all of them in fotm :P When I finish 100% map completition on my mes (Ranger and Guardian have them already) I'll move to necro while still playing the other chars :)
I'm not really sure what to consider my main anymore since I play all of my characters but I use them for different things. D:
Engi - world completion, WvW, sometimes sPvP, HotW, underwater kills daily, starting explorable instances when nobody else can (only char I've done all of the story modes on)
Guardian - fractals, TA, sucking up my money buying cool armor/weaps
Mesmer - sPvP, CoF p1, WvW, dancing in town naked because naked dancing sylvari are the best
Then for every other dungeon that's not HotW, TA, or CoF p1 if I don't need to open the instance I just pick whichever I feel like playing or whichever I feel the group needs.
Guardian for dungeons and Orr farming, Ranger/Elementalist/Thief for WvW :)
EDIT: I decided on this because I didn't like being a guardian in PvP, but he is my main and I know how to play him well in PvE and I just love it for his abilities to survive/support in dungeons. I rarely die. Altho lately I've been going down the same path with my ele cause he has cool survivability + support too :)
guardian for coe and wvw. mesmer for cof. ranger for mining ori :D.
Complete soloer so i dont use them for different parts. I do have 1 alt at each dragon, however.
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Hammer/Staff Guardian for dungeons, D/D Ele for WvW/sPvP, low level alts for everything else.
Yup! I don't really use them for specific things, I just use them whenever I feel like playing them. My elementalist is my Fractal character though.
I recently posted my 80s to a GW2 subreddit, check 'em out!
Warrior = dungeon
Thief, Mesmer = WvW / sPVP
New alt = daily
it's not a bad idea to FINISH the daily on your highest level character. You get 5 silver as opposed to 1-2 silver. It's not a huge difference, but it's a nice little bonus for not doing anything other than a character swap.
I personally prefer having the last part of the daily and the daily's exp on my alt than an extra 3 silver.
exactly this except except im leveling a thief at the moment
Yep, those dailies give a good bit of xp.
Same here, except I don't play my Mesmer much. I'm horrible with her.
Rolled a warrior first. Used him in WvW for a long time. Got hooked on dungeons, that's all he does now, alts do WvW.
Pretty much the same except I'm using an Ele and and a Necro in WvW/sPvP.
Exactly the same except I'm using a Guardian for dungeon.