Most fun classes to play? Ele/Mes is boring... - Guild Wars Forums

sofakng · Sep 06, 2005, 03:06 PM // 15:06

I bought Guild Wars when it first came out and had a blast in pre-ascalon, but post-ascalon got really boring really fast. I'm thinking that it's because all my elementalist/mesmer does is cast Flare over, and over, and over. He's only level 9 (and barely left Ascalon) but I can't seem to play him any longer because of the repetitiveness...

So I'm wondering what are the most fun classes to play. Maybe if I try a new class the game could be fun again...

Warlock Superstar · Sep 06, 2005, 03:10 PM // 15:10

I find mesmer the most fun, but an E/Me can be awesome fun in pve, double meteor shower using echo is about the most damage you can put out onto a group, casting takes a while, but in FoW its awesome.

Kool Pajamas · Sep 06, 2005, 03:10 PM // 15:10

I love playing my ele/mes the most. You should get some more skills before you make a decision on any profession. Get all your skills unlocked then you can play around and experiment in PvP.

Xue Yi Liang · Sep 06, 2005, 03:11 PM // 15:11

1. Monk
2. Monk
3. Mo/Me
4. Me/Mo

Loviatar · Sep 06, 2005, 03:12 PM // 15:12

ummmmm......

you should have firestorm which is fun plus there are the other elements give it a bit of time and things do get more fun.

nailz · Sep 06, 2005, 03:13 PM // 15:13

use your elementalist as a shutdown mesmer, will an energy pool that large you could be quite effective. It's challenging and interesting.

X-Bomb · Sep 06, 2005, 03:24 PM // 15:24

ele is a bit boring at the start, but once u get a few skills u will love it

Arkayne · Sep 06, 2005, 04:56 PM // 16:56

Level 9 is nothing. And yes the game does get quite boring in Old Ascalon, that place is a dump. The game progressivly gets better after that.

Sir Skullcrasher · Sep 06, 2005, 06:01 PM // 18:01

mesmer/necro was fun class

Episodicfreak · Sep 06, 2005, 06:04 PM // 18:04

I enjoyed N/Me most, although playing pvp warrior is pretty cool.

And yeah, tbh Ascalon and all affiliates is poop.

sofakng · Sep 06, 2005, 06:18 PM // 18:18

"tbh" Ascalon?

Sorena Mascar · Sep 06, 2005, 06:23 PM // 18:23

I have
Mo/W
W/Mo
R/E
E/N

I have the most fun playing my healing monk.
I find it more relaxing not having to worry about damage output and I find it challeging to try and keep a party of 8 healed.

Its also fun when everyone dies and your the only one left to sneak aroung trying to use rebirth on everyone.

My R/E was the most boring while the W/Mo and E/N are ok.

Sorena Mascar

John Waffletord · Sep 06, 2005, 06:34 PM // 18:34

I just took my second char out of pre-searing, and im bored to death with it.. its a Mo/W7, i need to hurry up and do the missions so i can get to Lion's Arch.. thats where it starts to pick up again.

Bingley Joe · Sep 06, 2005, 06:46 PM // 18:46

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loviatar

Holy smokes, Loviatar -- you actually playing this in 16bit, or just enjoy the gestural qualities it lends to your .GIFs??

16bpp is just so... old skool. But I can dig it

Dr Reaper · Sep 07, 2005, 04:40 AM // 04:40

Yeah my E/ME is 22 level. Well 20 + 2... You can get some cool spells later on but flare is a good standby spell for a long time. After some time you can start to flush out your spells and switch to earth, water or air magic. Mesmer has some good damage spells.

Loviatar - Great name I used to have a Anti-Paladin AD&D character that worshiped Loviatar

Vermilion Okeanos · Sep 07, 2005, 05:02 AM // 05:02

As of now... the class that can take most out of PvE... is the monk...

Go for look...

Divine Elemental · Sep 07, 2005, 05:06 AM // 05:06

Mo/Me
i have her a healer can switch to any monks got all her skills unlocked ^^
although i dispite mo/w farmers...

Kamatsu · Sep 07, 2005, 05:55 AM // 05:55

I have a E/Mo, W/Mo, R/Mo & a N/Mo and I have yto say that I split my "favorite" character between my N/Mo & my E/Mo.

I love my E/Mo because she is a pure damage dealer who can take out groups of critters! Assuming I can get the enemy to bunch up (quite easy, even with only henchies) then they die very, very fast... Heck, even if they get a bit spread around I can still take them down fast. Only problem with her is she's a bit fragile if she can't get the aggro onto someone else.. but even then has a nice abilty to kill them with some PBAoE smackdown! But really.. the pure and unadulterated joy of smacking down those high damage spells and wiping groupos out... oh yeah baby! hehe

My N/Mo rocks! Taking things down 1 at a time is great! But doing so in a fashion which keeps my own health up is great! Summoning meatshields & energy batteries for extra help is a blast when I'm in a hard fight. In fact, this character just laughs at death and laughs when the rest of the group dies... kills the critters and then rezzes them

Seriously fun for me.. and funky that I worry less about if the henchies/groupies I'm with die in a fight.. even Alesia/healer-monk ... I can keep myself healed and kill critters! wheeee!

In fact I just had fun getting to a certain ghost NPC with my N/Mo.. it had been put at the top of what could be a temple? like area - it's in Diessa Lowlands, down in the lower left corner.. south of where Garfuzz is... you get there by crossing a bridge.. there's usually 3 or 4 bosses in the area too. (this was the hardest place the game has ever put that ghost at for me..). Gotta say it was a huge challange for my lowly N/Mo to do it.. and in fact the henchies all dies and I died once as well.. heh.. but I got through it.. was great fun trying to pull small groups out of the masses, using life stealing and syphoning to keep myself healed while killing things.. summoning Minion's to act as meatshields and bonus damage as well as important boost's of energy when they died.. wheeee! Funnily enough I killed 80% of the charr there solo with the henchies being dead.. hahahaha! They made good corpses for minion summoning! hehehe

coolsti · Sep 07, 2005, 06:14 AM // 06:14

If you find that your Elem is boring and repetitive, then it may be because you are not taking full advantage of the various skills and builds of the elementalist.

Consider this: My second char is an Elem/Monk, but I don't use the Monk part for any more than resurrection normally. Yes, at the start of the game I was a fire specialist, and all these spells are great for damage and nuking. But repetitive, and no real tactics involved.

Then I changed to air just to try it. Thought it was dull at first, because air doesn't have those big damaging area spells (chain lightning takes too long to cast and only hits 3 at most). But now I love it! Its more tactical and more supportive. I take with me blinding flash (to blind warriors), and the lightning spell that causes weakness, a few damaging spells, and usually gale to knock foes down. And I do far better with air than I do with fire! The fire area spells are very damaging, but have a long recharge time and are easilly interrupted. Combined with some warriors or other fighters, my air elem does real good and is fun to play. Did Thunderkeep last night successfully, and I kept blinding the Jade warriors. After that it was easy for the warriors to kill them.

My Mesmer is my most fun char to play with. The skills are very versatile, and many of them also serve as a supportive role (clumsiness, for example).

So if you find that your character is repetitive and boring, then you either aren't playing it in the various ways it can be played, or you deep down inside really just want a warrior to go out and do damage.

mooseuk · Sep 07, 2005, 11:16 AM // 11:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dr Reaper

Yeah my E/ME is 22 level. Well 20 + 2...

What is a 22 level ?

Sep 06, 2005, 03:06 PM // 15:06	#1
sofakng Pre-Searing Cadet Join Date: Apr 2005	Most fun classes to play? Ele/Mes is boring... I bought Guild Wars when it first came out and had a blast in pre-ascalon, but post-ascalon got really boring really fast. I'm thinking that it's because all my elementalist/mesmer does is cast Flare over, and over, and over. He's only level 9 (and barely left Ascalon) but I can't seem to play him any longer because of the repetitiveness... So I'm wondering what are the most fun classes to play. Maybe if I try a new class the game could be fun again...

Sep 06, 2005, 03:10 PM // 15:10	#2
Warlock Superstar Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Sep 2005 Guild: [BoR]	I find mesmer the most fun, but an E/Me can be awesome fun in pve, double meteor shower using echo is about the most damage you can put out onto a group, casting takes a while, but in FoW its awesome.

Sep 06, 2005, 03:10 PM // 15:10	#3
Kool Pajamas Forge Runner Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Maryland Guild: Mage Elites [MAGE]	I love playing my ele/mes the most. You should get some more skills before you make a decision on any profession. Get all your skills unlocked then you can play around and experiment in PvP.

Sep 06, 2005, 03:11 PM // 15:11	#4
Xue Yi Liang Jungle Guide Join Date: May 2005 Location: Northern CA Guild: Outlaws of the Water Margin Profession: Mo/Me	1. Monk 2. Monk 3. Mo/Me 4. Me/Mo

Sep 06, 2005, 03:12 PM // 15:12	#5
Loviatar Underworld Spelunker Join Date: Feb 2005	ummmmm...... you should have firestorm which is fun plus there are the other elements give it a bit of time and things do get more fun.

Sep 06, 2005, 03:13 PM // 15:13	#6
nailz Banned Join Date: Aug 2005	use your elementalist as a shutdown mesmer, will an energy pool that large you could be quite effective. It's challenging and interesting.

Sep 06, 2005, 03:24 PM // 15:24	#7
X-Bomb Wilds Pathfinder Join Date: Jul 2005 Guild: Black Widow [Wi] / Team Dangerous [DnG] Profession: W/Mo	ele is a bit boring at the start, but once u get a few skills u will love it

Sep 06, 2005, 04:56 PM // 16:56	#8
Arkayne Academy Page Join Date: Apr 2005	Level 9 is nothing. And yes the game does get quite boring in Old Ascalon, that place is a dump. The game progressivly gets better after that.

Sep 06, 2005, 06:01 PM // 18:01	#9
Sir Skullcrasher Furnace Stoker Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: California Guild: 15 over 50 [Rare] Profession: W/Mo	mesmer/necro was fun class

Sep 06, 2005, 06:04 PM // 18:04	#10
Episodicfreak Academy Page Join Date: May 2005 Location: Warrington UK Guild: Guild of the Sovereign Unity Profession: N/Me	I enjoyed N/Me most, although playing pvp warrior is pretty cool. And yeah, tbh Ascalon and all affiliates is poop.

Sep 06, 2005, 06:18 PM // 18:18	#11
sofakng Pre-Searing Cadet Join Date: Apr 2005	"tbh" Ascalon?

Sep 06, 2005, 06:23 PM // 18:23	#12
Sorena Mascar Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Jul 2005 Guild: none Profession: R/E	I have Mo/W W/Mo R/E E/N I have the most fun playing my healing monk. I find it more relaxing not having to worry about damage output and I find it challeging to try and keep a party of 8 healed. Its also fun when everyone dies and your the only one left to sneak aroung trying to use rebirth on everyone. My R/E was the most boring while the W/Mo and E/N are ok. Sorena Mascar

Sep 06, 2005, 06:34 PM // 18:34	#13
John Waffletord Frost Gate Guardian Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Baltimore, MD, USA	I just took my second char out of pre-searing, and im bored to death with it.. its a Mo/W7, i need to hurry up and do the missions so i can get to Lion's Arch.. thats where it starts to pick up again.

Sep 07, 2005, 04:40 AM // 04:40	#15
Dr Reaper Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Apr 2005	Yeah my E/ME is 22 level. Well 20 + 2... You can get some cool spells later on but flare is a good standby spell for a long time. After some time you can start to flush out your spells and switch to earth, water or air magic. Mesmer has some good damage spells. Loviatar - Great name I used to have a Anti-Paladin AD&D character that worshiped Loviatar

Sep 07, 2005, 05:02 AM // 05:02	#16
Vermilion Okeanos Forge Runner Join Date: Feb 2005	As of now... the class that can take most out of PvE... is the monk... Go for look...

Sep 07, 2005, 05:06 AM // 05:06	#17
Divine Elemental Desert Nomad Join Date: May 2005 Location: Near Your House Guild: I Used To Own [ IUTO ]	Mo/Me i have her a healer can switch to any monks got all her skills unlocked ^^ although i dispite mo/w farmers...

Sep 07, 2005, 05:55 AM // 05:55	#18
Kamatsu Moderator Join Date: May 2005 Location: Australia	I have a E/Mo, W/Mo, R/Mo & a N/Mo and I have yto say that I split my "favorite" character between my N/Mo & my E/Mo. I love my E/Mo because she is a pure damage dealer who can take out groups of critters! Assuming I can get the enemy to bunch up (quite easy, even with only henchies) then they die very, very fast... Heck, even if they get a bit spread around I can still take them down fast. Only problem with her is she's a bit fragile if she can't get the aggro onto someone else.. but even then has a nice abilty to kill them with some PBAoE smackdown! But really.. the pure and unadulterated joy of smacking down those high damage spells and wiping groupos out... oh yeah baby! hehe My N/Mo rocks! Taking things down 1 at a time is great! But doing so in a fashion which keeps my own health up is great! Summoning meatshields & energy batteries for extra help is a blast when I'm in a hard fight. In fact, this character just laughs at death and laughs when the rest of the group dies... kills the critters and then rezzes them Seriously fun for me.. and funky that I worry less about if the henchies/groupies I'm with die in a fight.. even Alesia/healer-monk ... I can keep myself healed and kill critters! wheeee! In fact I just had fun getting to a certain ghost NPC with my N/Mo.. it had been put at the top of what could be a temple? like area - it's in Diessa Lowlands, down in the lower left corner.. south of where Garfuzz is... you get there by crossing a bridge.. there's usually 3 or 4 bosses in the area too. (this was the hardest place the game has ever put that ghost at for me..). Gotta say it was a huge challange for my lowly N/Mo to do it.. and in fact the henchies all dies and I died once as well.. heh.. but I got through it.. was great fun trying to pull small groups out of the masses, using life stealing and syphoning to keep myself healed while killing things.. summoning Minion's to act as meatshields and bonus damage as well as important boost's of energy when they died.. wheeee! Funnily enough I killed 80% of the charr there solo with the henchies being dead.. hahahaha! They made good corpses for minion summoning! hehehe

Sep 07, 2005, 06:14 AM // 06:14	#19
coolsti Wilds Pathfinder Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Denmark	If you find that your Elem is boring and repetitive, then it may be because you are not taking full advantage of the various skills and builds of the elementalist. Consider this: My second char is an Elem/Monk, but I don't use the Monk part for any more than resurrection normally. Yes, at the start of the game I was a fire specialist, and all these spells are great for damage and nuking. But repetitive, and no real tactics involved. Then I changed to air just to try it. Thought it was dull at first, because air doesn't have those big damaging area spells (chain lightning takes too long to cast and only hits 3 at most). But now I love it! Its more tactical and more supportive. I take with me blinding flash (to blind warriors), and the lightning spell that causes weakness, a few damaging spells, and usually gale to knock foes down. And I do far better with air than I do with fire! The fire area spells are very damaging, but have a long recharge time and are easilly interrupted. Combined with some warriors or other fighters, my air elem does real good and is fun to play. Did Thunderkeep last night successfully, and I kept blinding the Jade warriors. After that it was easy for the warriors to kill them. My Mesmer is my most fun char to play with. The skills are very versatile, and many of them also serve as a supportive role (clumsiness, for example). So if you find that your character is repetitive and boring, then you either aren't playing it in the various ways it can be played, or you deep down inside really just want a warrior to go out and do damage.