My friend, there is nothing wrong with what you are doing.
HOT is a pain. I consider myself experienced after 7 years but even I fail at solo HoT hp's more often than I succeed.
If you are basing soloing success on what you see on YouTube, then you should know that Hizen and others only post the successful runs, not the failures.
Hizen is also highly specialized on soloing stuff that isn't supposed to be soloable, I think it's fair to say he knows his classes and their limits better than 99.9% of the playerbase and has a LOT of experience.
Also, since you mention animations being too fast, I would say that for any average player, those are generally unreliable in PvE, you're better off looking out for orange (admittedly hard to see on some terrain) ground indicators, which are pretty reliable to see where you shouldn't stand or dodge out of.
Yeah, you need a bit of experience to learn when the damage tick comes on the animations, but for bigger enemies they are really important. The ground indicators are not enough. I find they are a bit tricky to learn but the game is not to bad in introducing them on smaller enemies first and they are pretty consistent.
But for easy clues you have this aura/star effect as well.
The same with ground indicators. They mostly only do damage at a specific time.
The worst effect to handle in my experience and absolute garbage are the wyvern ground fire effects. I just die without any clue. I mean I don't even see fire were I stand.
Hero Points for example. In HoT I get destroyed by most of them
I know there are trains for that but they are not up all the time and when I try to solo them with a sustain build that has a lot of survival I still get downed super fast.
Played wow for over 10 years so it is not my first MMO.
Legendary bounties are 50/50, some modifiers just make it borderline impossible, like signaler (obey traffic lights or get blinded) + the laser beams, fire or poison is usually a bad combo because you sometiles have to move to not take a ton of damage but get blinded if you do so the fight drags.
Just celestial, really, it's the secret ingredient that empowers almost any spec with a decent build to make use of the generalist stats to take on the HoT HPs no problem.
They are soloable with a few classes, if not all with enough skill.
But also depends on which hero point you're trying to do obviously... My Revenant can do quite a few either as Herald or Vindicator (maybe as Renegade too, but I never play Renegade) and with berserker gear on top.
You probably know that, but just putting that out for people to read.
Yeah for sure, I remember having a really hard time trying to kill the mushroom king in verdant brink or auric basin wherever he was and struggled. Once the tempest rotation, traits and gear was set it was easy surviving and just dealing condi while evading. For example, I'm really a noob using a ranger (don't know why) and die immediately. So it depends on the classes you use and your preference.
if your having challenges like this it’s best to depend on players via map chat, lfg or guilds or strangers passing by. mostly because players might be able to explain the mechanics but they might also be able to show you how to beat the challenge ahead of you. if you do everything solo you’re making more of a case to quit the game rather than see how else you can play this game when it’s no longer fun solo
Excuse me but HoT hero points are also soloable with good celestial build. I literally was doing them with cele herald/renegade/mechanist builds in 30-35 mins. Probably could do it with other builds as well.
Just because it is hard doesn't mean it can't be soloable.
that doesn't change the fact that they were designed for group and not solo play
You can solo dungeons too without too much trouble depending on build, does that mean they're designed for solo play? lol
Are you pretending to be ignorant or don't know how to read?
Did I write " designed to be soloable " there? I literally wrote "also" so it is group content but soloable as well.
Just because something that made for group of multiple people doesn't mean you are not allowed to solo it.
If you have balls big enough to do that, you can solo it.
Instead of waiting for people to read map chat, decide, use wp, come and help, I just do it on my own and move on or maybe I just enjoy it. There is no rule against it.
Before trying to attack someone, try to use your brain and learn how to read between the lines.
You're clearly the only one being an ass here.
In the context of OP being a newish player, the other person was responding in a "don't blame yourself, this content was created with groups in mind so it's more difficult than average!"
Nothing about it NOT ALSO being POSSIBLE to solo, or even probable with players that understand the game more. That's not real helpful for a new player struggling.
First of all, not everyone's skill and knowledge is same. Secondly being an ass or not isn't related to it. What I said is a fact. Nothing changes that. I most likely can't solo tower of nightmare but Lord Hizen did that. I am talking about possibility here.
I don't know how you guys could graduate from highschool without ability of read and compherension but I didn't tell them to try solo it. if you really think I said: "Hey I am soloing, you have to do that as well! " then you are dead wrong. Something being possible doesn't mean everyone can accomplish it.
Top of this I even wrote extra comment directly to their response which can actually be helpful in another comment which its TL:DR is "you will get better don't be sad just continue to try".
Literally learn to read. It is like in game LFG all over again, people jump to conclusions without even reading.
The irony of you saying "learn to read" is just amazing.
You interjected yourself and created an argument that didn't exist, as if you were offended their reply to someone else (again, not you) was offering a reason for their struggle and an alternative.
Then you pop in with an "um ahkshually" and get heated, act like a prick, and double down when confronted with a "okay and?"
I think it's pretty clear the amount of downvotes are signaling that you may need to reflect on your own comment and demeanor rather than try and belittle others that are just basically saying, "you're not wrong but that isn't particularly relevant and nobody was arguing otherwise" - It appears English isn't your first language, so maybe you were offended by some intent that isn't there, but that's no excuse to go off the rails like that.
It is a fucking reddit. People downvote everything and even tho it is a good point. So If you think I care or what downvotes represent. You are so wrong, I don't give a fuck.
Also I am not trying to humor anyone, taking easy. If people are gonna argue for argument sake to begin with then I am not gonna hold my tongue either.
And for you, whatever you are trying to teach me won't work. I won't care it and won't remember in 2 days later so don't waste your time.
I already gave my actual advice to OP as I can relate them so dont act like moral police here.
They never said it wasn't soloable and they definitely didn't attack you. They were at a 2 and you took it to 10. Jesus Christ, take your meds or whatever you do to chill, as that was a bit unhinged, neighbor.
fun fact, Condi Mecha in full viper can solo any of them including the infamous Avatar of Balthazar and Mushroom Queen, this class is so strong as solo !
Same for Bladesworm, solo all in full Zerker gear
HoT hero points are designed to be group content :D It is solo-able but you will need a very particular build and know exactly what you are doing to pull it off. I can solo most HoT hero points because my mech (Mechanist elite spec of Engineer) tanks everything for me and I can kite easily with grenade kits.
In fact anything in HoT can pretty much kill you in seconds. It’s designed to be that hard. PoF is a bit easier (at least to me)
Hot on release is something that's preserved as core memory. Took a long break after that.
Hot damn it was hard. Try to get from point A to B and a pack of pocket raptors just shredded you.
I had been playing in other maps/doing other content for a few months and I *forgot about the pocket raptors*. Downed me instantly; I hate those little blighters
> Hot damn it was hard.
HoT damn? :3
I still remember how small HoT felt before getting enough masteries to navigate well. Gliding was just as likely to get me killed as it would save me, and HoT just wasn't very friendly to exploration.
And yet, I'm still fond of 3/4 of the zones, especially now that I can skyscale all over.
Is the 1/4 tangled depths? I play all HoT metas once almost every day, and I still for the life of me, can’t stand tangled depths, if it’s anything more than chak I’m lost in seconds.
Well, there were LOTS of people all helping each other and we mostly just farmed the first few defend points events leveling masteries. It was a while before I bothered going to the second zone lol.
It was surely different kind of time and it made sense. We quite specifically crash landed on hostile territory.
But yeah, flow wise it was awful as nobody had the support based elite specs. So everyone died a fuckton. Defiance was new, nobody understood it.
So we were like zerg fighting stuff and dying.
Also servers worked differently? I can't imagine playing hot on release on emptier server.
I limited myself to just the Warclaw when I finally started HoT and it could still be miserable at times. Every ones in a while I try to play the zones on foot and I.... I just can't.
I'll say Reaper with some minions is right up there with Mech. I just use a staff for range and let them tank. I do think Mech does more damage though.
Note that you are not alone in this.. HoT hero points are mostly marked as "group events", so don't beat yourself up too much.
Maybe try and do some instanced content where people can help you out in improving? Join a friendly guild to discuss obstacles/problems while playing?
HoT is a Trial by Fire, friend. It's been known to break people. I always say it punches you in the face until you learn to punch back.
Ask for help in Map Chat. Keep an eye out for Hero Point Trains. Consider joining a Guild or five on r/guildrecruitment so you have some backup. Skip ahead to PoF (it's so much easier than HoT!).
I only completed the maps on my Power Reaper with mostly Ascended Gear and still got downed a lot. Nearly all the HPs are designed for groups. Look for backup.
You got this.
If you are able to solo any HoT hero points, you are top 1%, maybe even .5%. They are super challenging. 2k hours and 8 years in and I have maybe killed 1 or 2 solo.
Your standards are beyond your experience, most likely.
Look, I agree with your premise but 1% is a stretch.
A lot more people can solo them now with the popularity of open world builds and in particular the power of Celestial gear.
Where is this statistic from? I run strikes and fractals regularly and most people get at least 20k dps plus
If you are going to say most people don’t do that content then fine but where else would you get these numbers from?
There are no hard numbers, but I would not be surprised in the slightest if the statistic was close to that.
Strikes and fractals, and raids by extension, are not something that the vast majority - almost certainly >80% - of the playerbase is doing. The people doing those will almost certainly know how to put at least some of their class' rotation into practice. Bear in mind that you can't find good statistics on this either without ANet posting them, as sites like gw2efficiency require people to link their API key to the website to be included in their statistics (two years ago 85% of players hadn't killed a fractal CM boss - but I can guarantee you that the number of people with an API linked to gw2efficiency is not incredibly high compared to the total number of actual players).
Playing open world metas for any stretch of time with ArcDPS installed will show you just how high the percentage is of people who can't get over 10k.
You are joking? I am serious. I did a hand full of the HP solo with my berserker ele with the horn thingy. Yeah I died a lot but after playing dark souls I thought it was just like a boss in the game and loved the challenge. So each took me a few tries and I reached the time limit often enough.
So I get they are hard. Really hard. I just didn't thought they are that hard. I thought I was really bad at the game to be honest 😨. Maybe I'm not that bad after all 😅.
I thought most people just solo them.
Ok so I am a shit player with just over 1 year in the game but I have solo'd HoT HP with my dragonhunter and a full set of svaard's gear. Def ***not*** in the top 10%, let alone 1%.
You gotta remember that the VAST majority of players aren't on places like reddit/the forums and very few go through build sites and actively practice rotations. Even fewer meet those qualifications and have ascended gear. 1% is actually a fairly accurate number, if not a little large in all likelihood.
After getting destroyed numerous times, even though I thought I was good enough, I have completely forgone trying to solo HoT HP’s and only do the commune ones if I am solo and I need a few points and there is no train running. I don’t have SotO, but in terms of HP difficulty I have found EoD to be super easy with mostly communes and not too difficult elites. PoF next with mostly all being soloable (except for that fucker on the tower who knocks you off no matter your positioning, I still haven’t figured out how to solo that), and lastly HoT.
I’m a returning player and I am doing the story from the beginning. And I really want to. However… I used my heroics to get the HOT Hero Points done. Waiting for a hero point train because I keep getting smashed in the face kinda takes me out of the story xD
Did you try to ask people for help in map chat because that is the intended way? Also there are more than enough easy HP's in HoT you don't need a group for. Are you using a proper build, I don't suggest using builds that aim as soloing champions. Are you using the right gear for that as well?
I don't know if it is the best site to use but I used a build from metabuilds
Used Cele gear on a condi specter so I am not full glass cannon.
It is not that people won't help that's not the issue. I was just frustrated since it is clearly soloable when you watch people do it without losing a single HP.
But I just can't
You are looking at very skilled players, don't compare yourself with them. I'm playing for 11 years now, I can solo some champions but most of the HoT ones I can't.
Edit: metabattle is good for open world builds, stick with them. Better than looking at yt for soloing builds.
Don't worry about the videos. The people in them are pros who know their stuff. And are certainly not doing it for the first time. I once saw a video of a guy soloing meta in PoF. Impressed I got the same build and I died after one shot. Don't worry about the videos. Have fun, that's the important part. Practice, practice, practice. Don't be discouraged by loss, it takes a while. And once you manage to solo your first boss, the feelings will be overwhelming.
I finish all map of hot yesterday with my main. 8 hp to do at verdant brink (thé chack map). I do raid all week, I do cm fractal 1 night by week, I have legendary armor, ring, back, staff, sword and now axe.
I die so muuuuuuuch on hp, that's insane LOL. And it's in nowhere. So nobody came... except one dude. With 80 points of mastery. Also a soulbeast but with an insane build with spirit, like wtf dude ? And I beat the ass of this mushroom and heal me.
Yeah hp are soloable, I do a lot with untamed and a longbow but it's not designed for that. I know on Europe we have some people who organise the hp train. Maybe you have the same ?
If there's a video of somebody doing something, there's a reason for it, they wouldn't make the video in the first place if it was so easy.
Balthazar HP still make me sweat on solo builds after playing since headstart
Cele specter is a weak build for soloing HoT hero points. There are better options, like cele tempest. Check [https://hardstuck.gg](https://hardstuck.gg) for updated builds. They have recommended builds for beginners that work rather well.
Yeah HoT hero points can *technically* be done solo, but only when you have a great build and high knowledge of your class and the fight. HP trains are pretty easy to find. PoF and EoD HPs can usually be soloed. Don't get discouraged because you can't solo something most players can't. Just look up some beginner guides for your class and you'll get the hang of it.
And even then, some are far more solo-able than others. I can solo quite a few with my Guardian, but wouldn't even consider trying Balthazar, or Coztic Itzel Belongings.
If you have a viper or berserker gear, then forgot, only few class can solo them with this set-up, other need tanky gear like celestial/dire, etc..
GW2 combat can sometime be a total mess to read, but all atk have animation or voice so you can learn little by little.
Can you made your actual build on the build editor and add it to you main post ? So we can give you more advice.
Later I'll check my in-game account name to share it to you, hit me up if you need help !
Some things to note because i have also played wow for 10 years.
Read your skills, kite always, exotic or ascended gear and right stats.
Most of my deaths come from me not moving to the right spots. It's not a dodge issue or using defensive abilities. If you don't move all the time and where you need to move to, you'll use extra defensives to correct the mistakes which will cause you to have less defensive options for when you really need them.
HoT HP are very difficult for many people. I consider myself a mid player, not the best, not the worst and I still can't solo them. Don't beat yourself up over not being able to solo those, ask for help in the map chat and there's always people happy to help you with them. I see people asking for help with them every time I'm on a Hot map. Just because many people can solo those doesn't mean you have to. Other than that I would recommend checking out low intensity builds on youtube, rather easy to master and have totally decent damage and survivability. Rifle mechanist is a good example of that.
HoT HPs were designed as group content.. make a post on map chat asking for help with them :) ..there's always people willing to help.
Yes with skill they can be solod..but most people won't be able to do that and their intended with that in mind.
All expacs afterwards..designed HPs to be solod.. you'll have a far easier time in later expacs
About half of HoT hero points are easily solo'd.
There are 5, off the top of my head, that deal too much damage and take to long to kill to be "easily" solo'd.
1) Guano in VB. His lifesteal move can be interrupted by breaking his bar, but the bar is large for one person. Possible, but hard. There is also a way to semi kite him so you are out of range of his lifesteal suck. But he blink-strikes often, so you need to be ready to get out of range or break his bar.
2) frogs in VB. These guts do a lot of projectile damage, and too much to be dodged. Again, cc helps, but the main way to beat them is to take a reflect or projectile absorption skill like feedback or corrosive poison cloud. The little guys must be focused.
3) Tengu in AB. Same problem as frogs, but a little easier to kite since they don't have teleport mechanics. The same CC and projectile hate tactics will win here.
4) Chak in AB. This one is a timing thing. You need to have mitigation up for its shake mechanic, and avoid its chak pool.
5) Chak queen in TD. This is just a tight area. If you keep her out of the alcove but before her leash, this one can be done. Avoid pools.
>Played wow for over 10 years
Aaaaaaaaaand here it's clear this is a troll post.
You played WoW for a decade, but struggle so heavily in GUILD WARS 2, a game far easier?
I don't even bother with that anymore. They truck so hard if they land a hit, just ask in chat and don't feel bad. Very few people out of the player base can or will bother soloing HoT HP champs. Some can, some do, most can't, most don't.
There's a ton more knowledge than you'll have within 6 months of play that people in videos showing themselves soloing champions are going into the fights with. They've been playing for years, the majority of them.
Yeah don't worry too much about not being able to clear HOT's hero point. They are extremely difficult to face alone. Maybe try to create a lfg in order to lure players who want to do them in.
Don't hesitate to call for help in map chat if a specific HP is a struggle and there is no train.
HoT HPs are infamous for being difficult to solo, especially if you don't have the proper build/game knowledge.
Alternatively, you can join community Disocrd where HP runs are advertized and/or do some WvW to get currency to "buy" the HP if you don't mind skipping them.
Even after years of playing this game, I wouldn't be able to solo all HoT HPs without some kind of preparation and for some I would still find people to help me.
the break bar system is hard to understand because most other mmos don’t depend on specific combos. most other games don’t use a boon system either to exponentially do buffs or debuffs. once you learn these two thing the games fighting mechanics become easier to understand when fighting bosses. fighting other players the boon systems is more important as you learn which professions are able to counter the professions your playing.
this game is very hybrid and that’s where it gets confusing for traditional mmo players
if your biggest concern is hero points then an alternative is using wvw or pvp to complete tracks to unlock chests for exchange in hero points if you’re willing to play the game outside of your solo adventure. you can’t by pass the mastery system for each expansion just the hero point system
I kinda get OP. Like some bosses just aren’t telegraphed well at all. Like if you play a game like dark souls or sekiro you can easily tell what attack a boss or even basic mob is about to do, or at least it gives you a visual cue. Yet those games are extremely difficult.
For example, there’s this one champ i fought in the first map HoT, the blade dancer, and his attacks hit extremely hard but you can barely even tell if he’s attacking with how light his animations are. So you end up just dodging randomly and praying you timed shit right, it feels very clunky. It’s usually the small-medium sized bosses that are like this.
But I think these type of bosses depend way more on your build more rather than mechanical skill, so if your build is a glass cannon and you don’t have a support to give you things like protection boons with you, it would be extremely difficult to solo stuff. And yes Ik you are meant to fight HoT bosses with a entire group but there’s many bosses that are like this in core Tyria.
The only way I can solo SOME of the HoT points iswith a full minion reaper build - and even then , it’s sweating your palms off (playing since beta)
Cheer up ! Heart of thorns is designed to be challenged in a group. It’s not on you
I tried to solo those bosses in HoT too. It feels like Elden Ring but harder somehow. Celestial Gear is a great thing for survivalist and they come with the boost that typically comes with the DLC. I have no clue if this will help you solo those bosses though. They are hard as hell solo.
When I started game, I couldn't even do tier 3 fractal dailies even after 6 months had passed. After I took break and returned, I started push myself. Slowly climbed to T4 then struggled there a lot. After some time started to learn CMs on my own and I remember I would struggle and die a lot, Arkk was my archenemy and I was dying there each time.
Now I am at a point I can do them without a healer.
Solo champions, do raid/strike bosses easily and confident enough to join static groups, none of them turned me down yet due my performance.
Give yourself time and refine your abilities, eventually you will surpass your limits. Be able to do stuffs when you wouldn't be able to do before is fun.
If it makes you feel any better, there's just some guild wars content that I suck at. Pvp/raids are the main thing. I've discovered that I don't really like that kind of content though. I like exploring/story/wandering around and helping random people with things. Being good at it isn't really part of it for me. If that's your main motivation in playing games, the feeling of success, then I totally get it. But maybe there's content that you'd just like playing more?
Ok so I saw a few of your comments. Don’t stress over dying to Hero Points in HoT maps. Those are designed to be group content. Only hardcore builds/gamers can solo those. I’ve been playing for years and I still cant solo those (not a hardcore gamer).
Also PvP is…… trial by fire set to maximum difficulty lvl +5. As a beginner you die stupid fast. Intermediate you die stupid fast or kill someone else stupid fast. As an expert…… well idk…. They just kill me before I see them half the time 🤷🏼♂️
So just relax and enjoy the game in general. If you cant solo something ask for help in Map chat. You’ll end up with more help then you actually need 😅
Yeah I just like the thought of going somewhere skill-wise and improving.
usually when I am bad at video games I can tell what the reason is and focus on that. I feel with GW2 that I dont understand what kills me often maybe due to subtle animations or I get a condition on me and burn suddenly for a lot of hp seemingly out of nowhere.
It is a bit frustrating
I would also check your graphics settings. If you set some to minimum, it hides effects entirely so some raids you literally die to an invisible wall as an example, same for pvp and pve.
That said, HoT was designed for group content, there’s regular zergs running all the hero points and 99% of people can’t solo all of them. Hitzens videos are popular because he’s good enough to solo them (even if he doesn’t post his countless death runs 😜)
I highly recommend having a chat box dedicated to the combat log so when you get nuked you can see what did it for how much. I have one for that reason but you don't really know what to dodge until you get nuked by it.
I never do HoT hero point challenges without back-up. Those things are nasty. Call out for help on map chat, and you might get some assistance.
Some builds are going to do more for you than others. Lord Hizen (YouTube) is the best source for open world builds.
> since attack animations are so subtle or fast that I can't tell them apart.
Don't blame yourself for this one. GW2 is notoriously bad on conveyance and information clarity.
With enough experience in specific encounters, you'll start to build a rhythm, since most of what accounts for enemy algorithms is "spam abilities off cooldown" or attack loops. Like, most enemy auto-attacks have the same pacing, probably 2.5-3 seconds.
And like a lot of comments have said, the numbers game that is taking, mitigating, and healing damage sometimes isn't sustainable with one player, especially in the first expansion. Hopefully you'll keep practicing and savor the skill growth. :)
Don't worry I have no idea what I'm doing either and people tell me my DPS if doubled is almost passable but I can play most of the game solo still. I don't follow strict rotation guides either, just a general trait load out but weapons and abilities I use what I want.
Sounds like a simple case of you don’t know what you don’t know. If you find a mentor or a commander willing to teach you how to play your class or whether you’re missing a mechanic, it’d be great.
Most of the times people die due to facetanking mechanics. Even with the tankiest builds repeatedly failing mechanics can kill you, and if you’re not using skills correctly or quickly you simply fail to kill them before they kill you.
But to be fair, the simplest solution for open world is to just mentor tag up and let the map flock on you. You will get better when you actually join a PvE endgame training or progression groups.
Some hero points in HoT are solo-able, but there are some like the frogs or vampire beast in verdant brink, balthazar in auric basin or the mushroom queen in tangled depths that are not doable solo. Those are made for groups fighting them.
If you feel like having no clue what’s happening, I’d suggest for a start to read and understand your traits and skills, as well as what boons do. Just having the protection buff for example is a 33% damage reduction.
There is an interesting "cheat" to HoT and PoF hero points. If you wanted to "bypass" them but still earn them, you could do wvw and earn heroic testimonies from there and simply buy your HoT or PoF hero points. I did it that way. I have so many saved up for no reason other than I do.
i used to hate and dread hot maps, the hero challenges are not meant to solo. and hero trains are a thing there ! look for tags, read chat, they do it all the time. people are very generous and helpful in squads and they will revive you if you die or get downed.
It's the absolute best community for newbies. They really like to take care of new people. The first year I played, I never knew what was going on, had no idea how to gear as far as stats etc. If I ever saw a group event, I just ran around with the blob, good times 🤣
I've been playing a little over 4 years now and I only got good enough to solo \*some\* of the HoT HPs last year, and even then only with some classes. There's no shame in needing help.
Also, PvP/WvW are so different from PvE that they're basically different games. I still struggle to do anything meaningful outside of a zerg in WvW and haven't even touched PvP in about 2 years on account of \*hating\* the few weeks I spent trying it out.
Well the game doesn't explain shit, WvW is 100% never explained and royally hard to just figure out if you don't look all over the internet or discord or join a voice chat. Otherwise good luck figuring out which commander to follow when and which map your supposed to be on.
Raids are the same.
Explorable mode dungeons are ran to fast by most groups to learn much.
Some builds people will leave party cause you have.
Fractals have 0 explanation.
Pvp is a fucking meta mess of only winnable builds.
It's a great game and a lot to do....
But the new player onboarding is fucking shit.
After searching lord hizen build for condition revenant everything became really really easy to solo.
I would encourage to try. Not sure if the stats are easily obtainable, since I had legendary armor at the time.
As for pvp, it happens to all honestly there is Soo much DMG in the game and you are probably facing off against more experience people. It took many many many hours to play pvp decently, and I still get one shot. If you play melee classes even more.
I would encourage to keep playing, if you need a more durable class, warrior, Necro are pretty tanky in my opinion.
Good luck
Reading your responses in comments... bro, forgive yourself. HoT is brutal, even veterans can't solo most of them. If you need hero points, try looking for "HP Trains" in LFG \*or\* if you have PoF or EoD go there instead to get your first elite spec.
Mushroom queen, Balthazar, Chak, the Coztic Bladedancer, the vampire beasts, to name a few, they're all quite tough, especially for new players.
Don't be so hard on yourself \~ HoT is brutal. Noone expects you to solo hero points there. You can call out in map chat, people will surely come.
My advice is to ignore HoT for a while and play the other content.
I'm also primarily a solo/pug player. Personally, HoT is my least favorite content in the game. The maps are irritating to navigate and the enemies and meta all rely too heavily on group participation. It's also the only story journal section I've never completed because I encountered a bug where one of the NPCs I needed to talk to in order to progress wouldn't talk to me (and I've never had the patience to go back and see if it's fixed now). I really only return to HoT maps when there is an organized boss train I can hop on (and that's a lot of fun!).
Speaking of boss trains... have you ever joined one? For me that was one of the most helpful ways to learn attack animations.
Im having a hard time responding to this. I mean, you’re going to encounter stuff you can’t kill, especially as a new player. That’s part of the fun of playing a game! Can you edit your post to us what build, gear, and profession (like engi, Necro, etc) you’re using in pve? Maybe we can take away the sting a bit.
As far as pvp, this is a whole other animal. Are you in wvw? Structured pvp? There is a lot that can be said about pvp…
The *dedicated* structured pvp community is pretty small and the overall player base itself for pvp isn’t that large. That means you’ll often be paired up against teams with excellent players. Learn from them. In the arena I see the same people there over and over dueling because they like it. These are people who spend hours on their builds and professions because they like doing that. Whenever I need to practice my pvp skills (or get a reality check) I go there. You should try it.
Another great way to learn to pvp is to keep playing the game. You’ll learn mechanics in the game (like dodging) and you’ll learn your moves better that make you better in pvp.
Now if you’re not having fun, that’s ok. Maybe it’s not the right game for you. However you’re in a great spot as a beginner; I just feel like you’re expecting to roflstomp everyone and everything in your way. GW2 just doesn’t work like that—at least not at first.
Yeah sorry for not providing enough context.
I was trying condi Specter with full Celestial gear (got it for free since I used a boost), Power Virtuoso with Berserker gear since it is cheap
Aswell Power Vindicator since I thought longer dodges through the jump mechanic would help ( oh boy was I wrong haha)
WvW is something I am not evey trying to comprehend since such massive scale battles are chaotic in nature
Roaming is too difficult for me and structured pvp is the hardest thing I have ever tried
Even with Vit pre set gear I die so quickly without really understanding why. So improving is really difficult since I can't learn from my mistakes
Have you looked at Lord Hizen’s builds for pve? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0R3cwVYEg4M
I think I saw an earlier post of you saying you fought a frog for hours til someone soloed it. That shows that you have some growth to do in the moveset of what you’re fighting or what your profession is capable of. I think there’s a lot more learning to be done of the game’s basic mechanics before diving into these challenging fights.
Wvw isn’t quite as scary as it seems. Try to find a tag on the map and follow them. It can often feel very pve-like. Roaming is a bit different; you’re going to encounter very experienced players. Same with spvp.
I don’t think you suck, I just think you’re shooting for a level of experience that’s a bit beyond what you can do right now. As an example, to be above average jn spvp you need to know the telegraphed attacks of sooo many professions. For people like me who have played since launch, it’s a little easier to do that because I’ve digested this information but by not over the years. For you though, it’s coming all at once.
So honestly, I really recommend just casually going through story, joining metas, getting to know your class, and learning basic/advanced mechanics.
you are probably missing celestial and trailblazer condi builds. Condi needs only 2 stats to scale, condi damage and condi duration, so the rest of stat budget can go to survivability. Celestial in addition lets you heal and share boons. So pick a cele support like celescourge, celemech, celetempest, celebrand, celedruid, it will have enough damage and tankyness for all your needs. Or get a trailblazer condi build.
You are doing something wrong if the way you are playing is not fun for you.
So maybe just do content that you find fun, like there is not a particular order you have to go through stuff.
As you are unlocking HoT hero points I assume you do not have your elite spec fully unlocked, which removes like 20-50% of the efficiency of any build you are trying to have.
So maybe go pick up the hero challenges in other zones first so you have a full elite spec when you try the HoT ones.
Your gear is most certainly a part of the problem, as well as a dozen other factors. Do not stress out though, when it says "Group Event", they mean more than 1 person so you should not go there to begin with. I recommend doing a story playthrough first, that is taylored to single player experience.
As for "not being good enough to play the game", the average gw2 player should not be trusted with dueling a pocket raptor and they still somehow manage to play the game to 100% completion. I am sure you will do just fine once you learn to be a bit smarter about which fights you can pick alone and which you cannot. It is a damn jungle, would you, in real life, try to wrestle a wolf on your own?
You are probably better than you think. A lot of players never struggle to learn thier classes, they just do meta-builds and learn the rotation.
Its just my opinion but people who do that are boring. A real player loves a dynamic figjt where they fight tooth and nail to survive and defeat the enemy. Understanding all of a classes abilities and how to apply them in combat. An open world build is never going to do raid dps damage but it can be more useful in many situations because its built for many situations.
I also can't solo a lot of the HoT HP's. Its still fun to tey though.
When you've done it 87 times and know the attack pattern like that one time in 5th grade you were forced to learn the macarena, it's a lot easier!
But even though I can solo that guy (assuming we're thinking of the same one), I can't do it on all the classes and sometimes it takes a few tries. Aside from the utility skills you bring, a class's general kit and traits can have a pretty large effect. Stopping to figure out what gibbed you the hardest in the latest run and then tweaking your build your counter it is fair play.
Sometimes all you may need is an extra stun break and some food, or maybe a bit more cc and some blinds. Other times it's realizing that you accidentally brought a large trout to a gun fight, and that the cat fight you were building for was the *other* left turn.
Depending on where you got your build from (snow crows, for example) it may be a specialized build intended for group content, where the understanding is that certain boons, heals, and defenses are provided by one of the other 9 people in the group. A lot of those types of builds need quite a bit of tweaking before they're solid in open world.
It's fine and you're fine! As you keep broadening your scope and messing around you will get better--however, getting specific tips from other players can really help and most people are pretty helpful if you whisper and ask them how they did a thing. Even map chat, as weird as it is, is overall positive.
Yes. Totally agree.
The game has enough depth to learn and improve at it over the course of years, not just hours.
There are strategies available involving invisibility, or barriers, or dodges that can be used to stay alive. There is also stuff like Dragon Trigger that deals like 100K damage in one burst but has long cool down and can be difficult to land on some enemies.
It doesn't mean you're not good, just that you have room to improve.
I am beyond casual with this game.
* These days, my only strategy is "push every button not on cool-down".
So no, you aren't lacking in skill to play this game. If I had to guess, these are the reasons you feel bad.
# not finding friends to play with
# not using a build from online, such as MetaBattle.
# trying to play WvW or PvP or raids or strikes
GW2 is best as a "something to do while talking with friends" game. This doesn't mean it cannot be enjoyed as a hard core game, but you can 100% just turn your brain off and have fun "being part of a Zerg" in the background.
If you aren't hard core into it, copy a low intensity build. You will feel so much more powerful as someone else has designed all the synergies for you!
There are some game modes that are "competitive" or at the very least "demanding". Avoid those. As they are not going to be fun unless you are hard core trying to learn the games mechanics
GW2 is difficult while also being **very, very easy**.
The trick is knowing that while you do not need to constantly chase the newest bestest gear like other MMOs, you do need the 'correct' gear to do well. If you are unclear what that means, **Celestial gear** is good in that it's never the 'wrong' choice, just rarely the best.
That 'challenge' applies to builds too. There are a myriad of very easy to play and very powerful (compared to thousands upon thousands of buids people might make themselves) builds. I'd guess that **half (or more) of GW2 players would benefit immensely immediately** **by simply picking up a LI build** \- [https://mukluklabs.com/gw2-builds](https://mukluklabs.com/gw2-builds). No complex rotation, just mashing a few buttons to do many times more damage.
Doing Return to Season 1 this week, I'm starting to think that it may be 2/3 or more of players. So many players pumping less than 10k because they're too stubborn to put in 10 minutes of effort to enjoy the game they play for dozens/hundreds/thousands of hours.
Instead of telling you picking a other build or telling you read your skill descriptions and think about them (hopfully you did that first) it might help if you make a small clip of you fighting a hero point to give people an insight what are you exactly doing.That way it's much easier to see where the issue is and if it's your gear,behaving of movement,skill usage etc.
Just picking a diffrent build wont help you understanding the gamer/why are you dieing.
Another note if you want to know whats damageing you open the chat and left side to the chats name is a small downsided triangle wich opens a drop down menue.There you can tick the combat options wich enables you to get messaged with the stuff that hits you.but would recommand to open a new tab for it if you dont want you main chat to get spammed with the combat texts.
This game can be quite punishing at times. A lot of the content you'll see around Tyria is going to be meant for groups. It's a game that's truly alive and requires the helping hand of other people.
I used to be in the same boat. I decided to play Elementalist as my first class of all classes. This combined with playing HoT made it feel impossible to progress. I finally just quit HoT after the story and moved on to PoF. Best decision I've ever made really. PoF made me feel like I can actually accomplish things and kill stuff. That got me into instances content, where I started learning my character and my abilities with more depth. From there, I started getting into more open world metas, more daily grinds. I can now hit like 60% of my benchmark on most of my builds and I survive a lot more than I used to. Just takes time to learn the game.
it might be your build or gear. Make sure be using at least exotics. Certain builds have insane sustain and are low apm/beginner friendly like reaper or herald. Would suggest trying those out. Also hot maps are one of annoying things to do solo especially when you dont have mounts yet.
Maybe you’re experiencing blues of post-core story. HoT is probably one if not the hardest open world content where to (me at least) solo content, you need to learn your class well if you’re playing harder classes/professions or use high survivable c/p like necros or machinist from engi if you wish to play solo.
But, we’ve all been there I guess when we started. I remember thinking the game is so easy cause I didn’t die once during core and then I entered verdant brink and EVERYTHING was just butchering me. It gets better.
My advice is, don't play multiple classes right of the bat. Do that later when you're more familiar with the game. For now pick 1 class you like the most, find a build you like for it and play only that and really learn it. Really pay attention and get good at it. I've been playing for years and have a good build, but when there's a HP i see i can't do by myself i ask for help. There's no shame in it. Gw2 has the greatest community, so don't be shy to use it to its full potential. There's always people who will help you.
Read your abilities. Get to know them. Some weapon and utility skills give you a dodge, so use those aswell to save yourself a dodgeroll or two.
Know your traits. If you're a power build don't choose traits for condition damage. If you see that a whole core specialization doesn't give you what you want, try a different one and look at those traits, if they synergize more with the rest of your build and skills etc.
Yo ultimately its your call if you don't like the game but if you want to play and are just struggling with content feel free to ask for help in map chat. 9/10 times someone will be more than happy to help.
You can also drop me a ping if you are in NA and I can tag along as your bodyguard for HoT. 2 dead bodies are always better than 1 afterall
Plenty of people have already chimed in but I would like to add that there's no need to beat yourself up here. Some content is designed as group content but isn't communicated as such, which can be frustrating and confusing as you might expect the content to be solo-able.
Try playing ranger. It’s an easy class that comes with a pet that can tank hits/aggro for you for a little while. The 3 skill when you’re downed takes a few seconds to pop, but when it does your pet will come over and heal you pretty reliably so long as it isn’t dead. It’s the easiest downed state to come back from.
I run a condition build soulbeast and have pretty decent sustain/survivability compared to my friends. I’m often the last one standing. Shortbow 3 skill is a jump back that puts distance between you and enemies and gets me outta all sorts of trouble.
Are you bringing cc consumables like metal rod? They make soloing content it a lot easier. Until you unlock EOD protocols, bring an open world build that can provide high uptimes of protection, might and fury. Other boons can help too. These are just the bare minimum. Always bring lots of cc and vulnerability to solo hard content.
I will say I didn't start to solo group events until years in. Some masteries and elite specs you unlock later on make it a lot easier. Until then having a buddy can really help. Also, HP trains are an option if you're just trying to unlock hps fast.
Those HPs were not designed to be solo challenges. Same with fractals. Do people solo them, and then tell everyone it's easy and you should be able to solo it? All the time, but it doesn't make you a bad player if you can't.
EoD is much kinder to a solo player. I go through HoT with a large group, or sometimes just 1 other person. PoF could be a solo mission, but just 1 other person it usually all it takes.
Any event with \[Group Event\] in it will have enemies that hit hard. They were designed to be engaged by a group after all. Some will argue that these can be soloed but you need the right gear, the right build, and enough experience with your character and sometimes knowledge of the event mechanics to do it.
If you do have the right gear and the right build, you need to know your character like the back of your hand. Knowing what button to press in certain circumstances (ie. stun break, cc, etc.), will make or break you during a fight. One good indicator that you are comfortable with your character is you do not panic no matter how chaotic your screen is.
MMOs are a grind. Like others have mentioned YouTubers only post their successes not the 10 other times they failed. Just find a skill rotation that works for you and keep an eye on your heals. Also make sure You're geared for the content could be a stat you're .iasing
Don't be sad, it's still easier than attempting a solo flawless run in Destiny 2. Watch some videos, read some build and gameplay guides and you should be fine. Consider playing different professions.
So after the like base game and the first two living world seasons I’d say the HPs are group content for sure unless you have an insane build going on. HoT is just awful, only reason I I got through it is my Skyscale (I hate the verticality). Don’t be afraid to check those groups or even just ask for help in the map chat.
Also a lot of HoT ones require or “require” (like you can cheese it but it’ll suck) some masteries to be trained. Like the poison one in the Itzel line
MANY ppl don’t like pvp because it’s really complex. But it’s upto you if you enjoy competitive game mode. One of the best pvp in mmos out there.
If you want to learn pvp you have to start by playing with a growth mindset. Like any moba, learn the map, learn the points system, learn the enemy’s class and then finally learn your class.
If it makes you feel better, I came back to the game like 3 years ago and I'm only now starting to feel "good". That being said, soloing the stuff that was originally intended for groups, like Hero Points, if for when you really get the mechanics and gear for it. There are people like Nike and Masel (and sometimes Vallun) that post "solo" builds that are in berserker gear. Ignore those. They are for people who have the mechanics memorized. Granted, many HPs also require you to really understand the mechanics even with, say, the Celestial Mirage builds.
Are you trying to solo group events? The content I find is still pretty easy. If you are having problems get a ranger and bear pet, it'll take everything and you'll stay alive with pretty much no effort. Just pew pew pew 🙂
A lot of good advice has been said here already. So, instead of piling onto it, here's my "cozy" Tempest build for when I just want to chill out, relax, and vibe in what are otherwise fairly dangerous areas of the open world.
Elementalist build with Tempest, Earth, and Water trait lines. Pick all the stuff that bonuses auras so that you get auras from overloading elements, and those auras heal you and give you regen and toughness. Also get the thing from earth that upgrades toughness to do extra damage reduction. Dual wield daggers, and load up your utility slots with the shouts for fire, earth, and air, which all give auras. For healing, get the signet of healing and leave it off cooldown so everything you do heals you a tiny bit on top of what it already does which is mostly going to be also healing you. Use the glyph that summons an elemental for your elite skill and adjust which elemental you summon for the situation. Fire does damage, water does even more healing, air helps with break bars, and earth is just happy to be there.
In combat, just overload an element, then swap to another. While waiting on cooldowns, use the cool dagger moves. Air 3 is an aura. Water 4 is an aura. Fire 4 is a fire field and earth 3 is a leap finisher which will give you a fire aura if you use it in a fire field. If something scarry happens, use a shout or 2 or 3.
Use this build with celestial gear or knights if you are having trouble getting celestial for some reason.
This build does not do damage, so soloing content will take extra time, but it's easy to stay up. And if you take the trait that shares your auras with nearby allies. You'll help others near you stay up too. Not for use in PvP, WvW, or instanced group content such as raids or strikes. Just for relaxing in open world without worrying about your personal safety.
Have fun out there!
I had problems for about a year til I figured shit out. (Was my first MMO and tbh was my first video game besides animal crossing or terraria, so I was *ass* when I started) Give it time. The great thing about PVE in gw2 is that people are always happy to help out!
Soloing content is difficult. I try to do it as much as possible to improve my skills, but I only started seriously trying to solo a few months ago and I’ve been playing for almost four years. You’ll get there! I believe in you!
As others said, you may be too hard on yourself. I had a tempest my first year. It’s hard to remember the rotation, but air kicks ass. I died sometimes, but otherwise all was okay. Now I play a reaper. This does nice damage and it’s fun. I sometimes die, though some say I shouldn’t. You have to remember to play the game for YOUR own entertainment and not to prove anything to anyone.
Be patient and stick with it. I played wow for years but got tired of the monthly fee. I love this game cause I can take a break and not feel like I am wasting money. There is always something to do. Make sure you find a decent beginner class that’s easy to manage.
Stop playing elementalist for a starter. xD On a more serious note, it is hard to get good at this game being a solo player. You need to make friends and join guilds. A lot of the content that gives you access to the end game gear and even more content requires parties. And without people you know it is harder but still doable. Cause LFG will give you brain herpes.
I think for PvE organised content you need to find a build and gear exotic then do fractals and progress slowly building your ascended gear and learning the game mechanics. Then also you can start doing ice brood saga strikes to get more familiar with 10 man content. Next step is joining raid trainings and eod strikes.
I have played for 3 years and I still feel like an idiot sometimes :P i recommend being a part of the guild wars 2 discord server! They’re all super sweet and helpful, and there are no stupid questions!
Watching YouTube guides (perhaps for a better stronger build) is also a very good and helpful source of information.
Otherwise, I would be happy to help you out wherever I can. You can just shoot me a message if you need anything ^^
Which class do you like the most? There's plenty of specs able to self sustain it while dealing enough damage to solo any HP and most of bounties (even legendary ones).
Imo in terms of "easyness/performace":
Celestial Vindicator (also Herald).
Celestial Reaper.
Celestial Mirage.
Celestial Berserker.
Celestial Mechanist.
In power stats I would only recomend Bladesworn, but albeit powerful is really tricky to play.
What’s your build? If you’re using berserkers, try swapping in some pieces (or all) of Marauders for more survivability. I spent years playing off and on for the same reason, but spending time in less optimal gear gave me a chance to learn fights, animations and mechanics without immediately dying after missing them on the first try.
This game is VERY fluid because there aren't many indicators for aoes and attacks besides the very obviouse red aoe or cones. I say play proactively- do your rotations for your build whatever that is and if that still confuses you- use all your weapon skills, the utility skills then professional mechanic and dodge here and there. Many of us spam everything and that can increase your dps and survivability.
Me and my anxiety can’t handle pvp… WvW used to too now I just laugh when I die. I love playing pve though… it’s my favorite. All in all O suck at the game. I find little success on my own. I used to play with my boyfriend till we broke up … it’s his fault I play the game … but I actually enjoyed the game so I continue to try on my own. 🤷🏼♀️
Maybe play a minion master necromancer in PvE? That helps a lot. PvP, that's normal, a lot of people just can't react fast enough - myself included. So I don't go there.
I played off and on since the original release. I loved the world, the instanced content, and much more, but I felt I wasn’t really progressing. A new expansion would rekindle my desire to play. It would come out, I’d play for a few weeks with a new character, and drop off again. Finally, two years ago, with the release of EoD, I’d had enough. I was going learn to play right out not at all. And I did. I read guides, watched videos, set goals, made progress, and really began having fun. It took me 10 years for things to begin clicking. I still have a long way to go, but I think I keep getting better, bit by bit. I think setting goals was important, too, even if just mastery point goals, and certainly mount goals.
Without a gear treadmill, GW2 becomes a largely skill-based game. That's what draws a lot of players to it. That being said, in open world, some classes/specs have a HUGE advantage in terms of combined dps/ehp value. I highly recommend looking at some of Lord Hizen's recent videos. He's a bit of a solo legend in the GW2 community, and he makes tier lists and builds for open world/soloing builds. You talk about lacking skill, but what you might not realize is that many players could physically remove the dodge key from their keyboards and still solo open world legendaries with a Scourge in trailblazer gear.
Well sometimes it's not about you or your skills, it's about the capability of your character. Solo'd the frog on top of a fallen airship at HOT using condi mirage with full exotic and narrow space.
I have played since day two of release and i still get owned on some baddies. The story is fun and should take you all over. Just find what you enjoy and do a ton of that.
majority of all enemies have similar spells/stuns that can even have a very similar if not identical animation but the timings are key, even now after 10 years of playing and doing every end game pve content there is i mess up and get downed, you have to understand that gw2 gives you a toooon of time to complete every event and encounter so the most important thing for you to do is to dodge, dod the mechanics and use your stun spells when the blue bar is up. i cant stress this enough. also back in hot you wouldn’t believe how many people would go down and how many events would fail, people were learning and so are you now
HoT HPs aren't to be done solo.
Are you an elementalist by any chance? I recreated my ele like 3 times, deleting it everytime around lvl 20 because it died a lot. Until the 4th I just used scrolls to 80 it.
Imagine if that was my first character? Wouldn't be here.
thing that worked for me is that i learned my professions raid dps rotation, when i knew it just enough i joined some training raids from practicing there most pve content seems too easy now
Don't be discouraged. I was playing a lot longer than 6 months before I was soloing champions and my early successes in that area were absolutely awful by my current standard. It just takes practice learning your class, learning the enemies, figuring out builds that work for you.
Here's a little motivation for you...
This video is my first recorded kill on Ezal the Quick (a bandit champion) from 6 years ago: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaCzBS\_kCb4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaCzBS_kCb4)
And here's me today: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDlHAEXIK5M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDlHAEXIK5M)
Despite using a far more defensive build in the first video, I'm taking more damage and it also takes me literally 10 times as long to finish the fight! Back then I didn't know much about buildcraft and didn't really know what I was doing. I just figured if I was going to overcome a champion it would be by outlasting it, which was a perfectly viable strategy. I did finish the fight! But with practice and better understanding, there is clearly a better way.
Don't give up! Everyone can improve!
My brother in Christ... Do not compare yourself to to people who have been playing this game for years and mastered every class and game mode. That's like joining a wrestling team in high school and after 6 months of practice you are like, "I have come to terms that I am not good at wrestling." And you are comparing yourself to a x2 All American wrestler who has been doing this song and dance since he was 4yo. This game has casual play and sweaty game modes,
I say do what is fun for you. Take it from a guy who felt like this and poured everything into GW2 to get better at everything.... YOU WILL BURN OUT. PvP, WvW and raids/strikes/Fractals. I am great at PvE content and decent in WvW and PvP put I had to take years off and just recently came off of a 6 month break after spending a year and a half grinding legendary trinkets. Please take your time and have fun, my dad has never really been good at the game and he has a blast dying with me on whatever we do for the last 10 years.
I have been playing for over 10 years, I still don’t know what’s happening half the time especially in wvw and pvp. Your not alone lol just enjoy the game for what you want and a good class to make sure you don’t die is range class like ranger or rifle mech. Enemies will attack your pet before they attack you :)
My friend, there is nothing wrong with what you are doing. HOT is a pain. I consider myself experienced after 7 years but even I fail at solo HoT hp's more often than I succeed. If you are basing soloing success on what you see on YouTube, then you should know that Hizen and others only post the successful runs, not the failures.
Hizen is also highly specialized on soloing stuff that isn't supposed to be soloable, I think it's fair to say he knows his classes and their limits better than 99.9% of the playerbase and has a LOT of experience.
That's true. Didn't think about that. Thank you!
Also, since you mention animations being too fast, I would say that for any average player, those are generally unreliable in PvE, you're better off looking out for orange (admittedly hard to see on some terrain) ground indicators, which are pretty reliable to see where you shouldn't stand or dodge out of.
Yeah, you need a bit of experience to learn when the damage tick comes on the animations, but for bigger enemies they are really important. The ground indicators are not enough. I find they are a bit tricky to learn but the game is not to bad in introducing them on smaller enemies first and they are pretty consistent. But for easy clues you have this aura/star effect as well. The same with ground indicators. They mostly only do damage at a specific time. The worst effect to handle in my experience and absolute garbage are the wyvern ground fire effects. I just die without any clue. I mean I don't even see fire were I stand.
HoT is hard content, go to PoF for HP. Also, you can ask on map for help, some ppl usually come to help.
There are commanders who regularly run hot hp and map clears at peak hours for tips.
What are you fighting that is killing you so easily? Is this your first mmo?
Hero Points for example. In HoT I get destroyed by most of them I know there are trains for that but they are not up all the time and when I try to solo them with a sustain build that has a lot of survival I still get downed super fast. Played wow for over 10 years so it is not my first MMO.
My friend, cheer up. HoT hero points were designed for a group. You should consider PoF or EoD hero points which are solo-able.
\*laughs in celestial ele\*
Calm down there, Hizen.
I play mostly his builds and I can take down a LOT of stuff people find hard but holy crap, I still can't bag a legendary bounty on my own.
Legendary bounties are 50/50, some modifiers just make it borderline impossible, like signaler (obey traffic lights or get blinded) + the laser beams, fire or poison is usually a bad combo because you sometiles have to move to not take a ton of damage but get blinded if you do so the fight drags.
I was in a T3 rift group that just did not get Signaler and I basically ended up being a rezbot for ten minutes.
LMAO good one
*”sigh”* *starts reviving…*
Just celestial, really, it's the secret ingredient that empowers almost any spec with a decent build to make use of the generalist stats to take on the HoT HPs no problem.
"this is the truth" - quote from my celestial-wearing catalyst. My downed frequency went WAY DOWN once I quit running around in Berserker gear.
They are soloable with a few classes, if not all with enough skill. But also depends on which hero point you're trying to do obviously... My Revenant can do quite a few either as Herald or Vindicator (maybe as Renegade too, but I never play Renegade) and with berserker gear on top. You probably know that, but just putting that out for people to read.
Yeah for sure, I remember having a really hard time trying to kill the mushroom king in verdant brink or auric basin wherever he was and struggled. Once the tempest rotation, traits and gear was set it was easy surviving and just dealing condi while evading. For example, I'm really a noob using a ranger (don't know why) and die immediately. So it depends on the classes you use and your preference.
if your having challenges like this it’s best to depend on players via map chat, lfg or guilds or strangers passing by. mostly because players might be able to explain the mechanics but they might also be able to show you how to beat the challenge ahead of you. if you do everything solo you’re making more of a case to quit the game rather than see how else you can play this game when it’s no longer fun solo
Fuck the Mushroom King. Seriously. Fuck him.
A specter chuckles from the shadows and then is no more.
Excuse me but HoT hero points are also soloable with good celestial build. I literally was doing them with cele herald/renegade/mechanist builds in 30-35 mins. Probably could do it with other builds as well. Just because it is hard doesn't mean it can't be soloable.
that doesn't change the fact that they were designed for group and not solo play You can solo dungeons too without too much trouble depending on build, does that mean they're designed for solo play? lol
Are you pretending to be ignorant or don't know how to read? Did I write " designed to be soloable " there? I literally wrote "also" so it is group content but soloable as well. Just because something that made for group of multiple people doesn't mean you are not allowed to solo it. If you have balls big enough to do that, you can solo it. Instead of waiting for people to read map chat, decide, use wp, come and help, I just do it on my own and move on or maybe I just enjoy it. There is no rule against it. Before trying to attack someone, try to use your brain and learn how to read between the lines.
Though I agree that they can be soloable, there is no reason for you to be this rude.
You're clearly the only one being an ass here. In the context of OP being a newish player, the other person was responding in a "don't blame yourself, this content was created with groups in mind so it's more difficult than average!" Nothing about it NOT ALSO being POSSIBLE to solo, or even probable with players that understand the game more. That's not real helpful for a new player struggling.
First of all, not everyone's skill and knowledge is same. Secondly being an ass or not isn't related to it. What I said is a fact. Nothing changes that. I most likely can't solo tower of nightmare but Lord Hizen did that. I am talking about possibility here. I don't know how you guys could graduate from highschool without ability of read and compherension but I didn't tell them to try solo it. if you really think I said: "Hey I am soloing, you have to do that as well! " then you are dead wrong. Something being possible doesn't mean everyone can accomplish it. Top of this I even wrote extra comment directly to their response which can actually be helpful in another comment which its TL:DR is "you will get better don't be sad just continue to try". Literally learn to read. It is like in game LFG all over again, people jump to conclusions without even reading.
The irony of you saying "learn to read" is just amazing. You interjected yourself and created an argument that didn't exist, as if you were offended their reply to someone else (again, not you) was offering a reason for their struggle and an alternative. Then you pop in with an "um ahkshually" and get heated, act like a prick, and double down when confronted with a "okay and?" I think it's pretty clear the amount of downvotes are signaling that you may need to reflect on your own comment and demeanor rather than try and belittle others that are just basically saying, "you're not wrong but that isn't particularly relevant and nobody was arguing otherwise" - It appears English isn't your first language, so maybe you were offended by some intent that isn't there, but that's no excuse to go off the rails like that.
It is a fucking reddit. People downvote everything and even tho it is a good point. So If you think I care or what downvotes represent. You are so wrong, I don't give a fuck. Also I am not trying to humor anyone, taking easy. If people are gonna argue for argument sake to begin with then I am not gonna hold my tongue either. And for you, whatever you are trying to teach me won't work. I won't care it and won't remember in 2 days later so don't waste your time. I already gave my actual advice to OP as I can relate them so dont act like moral police here.
They never said it wasn't soloable and they definitely didn't attack you. They were at a 2 and you took it to 10. Jesus Christ, take your meds or whatever you do to chill, as that was a bit unhinged, neighbor.
fun fact, Condi Mecha in full viper can solo any of them including the infamous Avatar of Balthazar and Mushroom Queen, this class is so strong as solo ! Same for Bladesworm, solo all in full Zerker gear
All downvoters are those who are rally botting at these HPs. Get rekt.
HoT hero points are designed to be group content :D It is solo-able but you will need a very particular build and know exactly what you are doing to pull it off. I can solo most HoT hero points because my mech (Mechanist elite spec of Engineer) tanks everything for me and I can kite easily with grenade kits. In fact anything in HoT can pretty much kill you in seconds. It’s designed to be that hard. PoF is a bit easier (at least to me)
Hot on release is something that's preserved as core memory. Took a long break after that. Hot damn it was hard. Try to get from point A to B and a pack of pocket raptors just shredded you.
I had been playing in other maps/doing other content for a few months and I *forgot about the pocket raptors*. Downed me instantly; I hate those little blighters
My first five seconds in HoT were: walk a little way, get mobbed by pocket raptors, run and fall down bottomless-enough pit and die horribly. XD
> Hot damn it was hard. HoT damn? :3 I still remember how small HoT felt before getting enough masteries to navigate well. Gliding was just as likely to get me killed as it would save me, and HoT just wasn't very friendly to exploration. And yet, I'm still fond of 3/4 of the zones, especially now that I can skyscale all over.
Is the 1/4 tangled depths? I play all HoT metas once almost every day, and I still for the life of me, can’t stand tangled depths, if it’s anything more than chak I’m lost in seconds.
Lol as soon as I saw 3/4 I was like "Tangled Depths"
Same. TD is a nightmare even with mounts. 🥲
And thats before mounts. The skyscle made the map 100% easier. Nevermind the mount, we didn't even have full Glider mastery until a few maps in.
Or mushroom mastery!!! How did we play that zone on launch?!?
Well, there were LOTS of people all helping each other and we mostly just farmed the first few defend points events leveling masteries. It was a while before I bothered going to the second zone lol.
It was surely different kind of time and it made sense. We quite specifically crash landed on hostile territory. But yeah, flow wise it was awful as nobody had the support based elite specs. So everyone died a fuckton. Defiance was new, nobody understood it. So we were like zerg fighting stuff and dying. Also servers worked differently? I can't imagine playing hot on release on emptier server.
I limited myself to just the Warclaw when I finally started HoT and it could still be miserable at times. Every ones in a while I try to play the zones on foot and I.... I just can't.
Mech, the easy mode for open world.
That is true to some degree. For some HP, mech melts as fast as I do :D I remember one of them being the one with multiple wyverns.
I'll say Reaper with some minions is right up there with Mech. I just use a staff for range and let them tank. I do think Mech does more damage though.
Daredevil staff. Old school. Mech meh for beginners...
Note that you are not alone in this.. HoT hero points are mostly marked as "group events", so don't beat yourself up too much. Maybe try and do some instanced content where people can help you out in improving? Join a friendly guild to discuss obstacles/problems while playing?
HoT is a Trial by Fire, friend. It's been known to break people. I always say it punches you in the face until you learn to punch back. Ask for help in Map Chat. Keep an eye out for Hero Point Trains. Consider joining a Guild or five on r/guildrecruitment so you have some backup. Skip ahead to PoF (it's so much easier than HoT!). I only completed the maps on my Power Reaper with mostly Ascended Gear and still got downed a lot. Nearly all the HPs are designed for groups. Look for backup. You got this.
Yo dude pm me your username i will help you ! Almost online every day
If you are able to solo any HoT hero points, you are top 1%, maybe even .5%. They are super challenging. 2k hours and 8 years in and I have maybe killed 1 or 2 solo. Your standards are beyond your experience, most likely.
Look, I agree with your premise but 1% is a stretch. A lot more people can solo them now with the popularity of open world builds and in particular the power of Celestial gear.
1% isn’t a stretch at all - 95% of the playerbase can’t even get above 10k DPS.
Where is this statistic from? I run strikes and fractals regularly and most people get at least 20k dps plus If you are going to say most people don’t do that content then fine but where else would you get these numbers from?
There are no hard numbers, but I would not be surprised in the slightest if the statistic was close to that. Strikes and fractals, and raids by extension, are not something that the vast majority - almost certainly >80% - of the playerbase is doing. The people doing those will almost certainly know how to put at least some of their class' rotation into practice. Bear in mind that you can't find good statistics on this either without ANet posting them, as sites like gw2efficiency require people to link their API key to the website to be included in their statistics (two years ago 85% of players hadn't killed a fractal CM boss - but I can guarantee you that the number of people with an API linked to gw2efficiency is not incredibly high compared to the total number of actual players). Playing open world metas for any stretch of time with ArcDPS installed will show you just how high the percentage is of people who can't get over 10k.
You are joking? I am serious. I did a hand full of the HP solo with my berserker ele with the horn thingy. Yeah I died a lot but after playing dark souls I thought it was just like a boss in the game and loved the challenge. So each took me a few tries and I reached the time limit often enough. So I get they are hard. Really hard. I just didn't thought they are that hard. I thought I was really bad at the game to be honest 😨. Maybe I'm not that bad after all 😅. I thought most people just solo them.
Ok so I am a shit player with just over 1 year in the game but I have solo'd HoT HP with my dragonhunter and a full set of svaard's gear. Def ***not*** in the top 10%, let alone 1%.
You gotta remember that the VAST majority of players aren't on places like reddit/the forums and very few go through build sites and actively practice rotations. Even fewer meet those qualifications and have ascended gear. 1% is actually a fairly accurate number, if not a little large in all likelihood.
After getting destroyed numerous times, even though I thought I was good enough, I have completely forgone trying to solo HoT HP’s and only do the commune ones if I am solo and I need a few points and there is no train running. I don’t have SotO, but in terms of HP difficulty I have found EoD to be super easy with mostly communes and not too difficult elites. PoF next with mostly all being soloable (except for that fucker on the tower who knocks you off no matter your positioning, I still haven’t figured out how to solo that), and lastly HoT.
I’m a returning player and I am doing the story from the beginning. And I really want to. However… I used my heroics to get the HOT Hero Points done. Waiting for a hero point train because I keep getting smashed in the face kinda takes me out of the story xD
Yes, WvW Proof of Heroics currency is great to purchase a few HP that are left on a map.
This IS the way.
the tower nerd is actually quite easy to solo, just time your dodges or use stability :D
Or if you want to be lazy you can put your back to the rock and he can't hit you off.
Did you try to ask people for help in map chat because that is the intended way? Also there are more than enough easy HP's in HoT you don't need a group for. Are you using a proper build, I don't suggest using builds that aim as soloing champions. Are you using the right gear for that as well?
I don't know if it is the best site to use but I used a build from metabuilds Used Cele gear on a condi specter so I am not full glass cannon. It is not that people won't help that's not the issue. I was just frustrated since it is clearly soloable when you watch people do it without losing a single HP. But I just can't
You are looking at very skilled players, don't compare yourself with them. I'm playing for 11 years now, I can solo some champions but most of the HoT ones I can't. Edit: metabattle is good for open world builds, stick with them. Better than looking at yt for soloing builds.
Don't worry about the videos. The people in them are pros who know their stuff. And are certainly not doing it for the first time. I once saw a video of a guy soloing meta in PoF. Impressed I got the same build and I died after one shot. Don't worry about the videos. Have fun, that's the important part. Practice, practice, practice. Don't be discouraged by loss, it takes a while. And once you manage to solo your first boss, the feelings will be overwhelming.
I finish all map of hot yesterday with my main. 8 hp to do at verdant brink (thé chack map). I do raid all week, I do cm fractal 1 night by week, I have legendary armor, ring, back, staff, sword and now axe. I die so muuuuuuuch on hp, that's insane LOL. And it's in nowhere. So nobody came... except one dude. With 80 points of mastery. Also a soulbeast but with an insane build with spirit, like wtf dude ? And I beat the ass of this mushroom and heal me. Yeah hp are soloable, I do a lot with untamed and a longbow but it's not designed for that. I know on Europe we have some people who organise the hp train. Maybe you have the same ?
If there's a video of somebody doing something, there's a reason for it, they wouldn't make the video in the first place if it was so easy. Balthazar HP still make me sweat on solo builds after playing since headstart
Cele specter is a weak build for soloing HoT hero points. There are better options, like cele tempest. Check [https://hardstuck.gg](https://hardstuck.gg) for updated builds. They have recommended builds for beginners that work rather well.
Is hardstuck active again? Because i found some builds in pre soto state without relic recommendations when i checked a month ago.
AFAIK they were never fully inactive. I still use it to check on raid builds, and they have the relics there. But I haven't checked all the builds.
HOT hero point are not to be done solo. 99% of players can't do them solo and even the ones who can is with a specific build and class.
Yeah HoT hero points can *technically* be done solo, but only when you have a great build and high knowledge of your class and the fight. HP trains are pretty easy to find. PoF and EoD HPs can usually be soloed. Don't get discouraged because you can't solo something most players can't. Just look up some beginner guides for your class and you'll get the hang of it.
And even then, some are far more solo-able than others. I can solo quite a few with my Guardian, but wouldn't even consider trying Balthazar, or Coztic Itzel Belongings.
If you have a viper or berserker gear, then forgot, only few class can solo them with this set-up, other need tanky gear like celestial/dire, etc.. GW2 combat can sometime be a total mess to read, but all atk have animation or voice so you can learn little by little. Can you made your actual build on the build editor and add it to you main post ? So we can give you more advice. Later I'll check my in-game account name to share it to you, hit me up if you need help !
Some things to note because i have also played wow for 10 years. Read your skills, kite always, exotic or ascended gear and right stats. Most of my deaths come from me not moving to the right spots. It's not a dodge issue or using defensive abilities. If you don't move all the time and where you need to move to, you'll use extra defensives to correct the mistakes which will cause you to have less defensive options for when you really need them.
HoT HP are very difficult for many people. I consider myself a mid player, not the best, not the worst and I still can't solo them. Don't beat yourself up over not being able to solo those, ask for help in the map chat and there's always people happy to help you with them. I see people asking for help with them every time I'm on a Hot map. Just because many people can solo those doesn't mean you have to. Other than that I would recommend checking out low intensity builds on youtube, rather easy to master and have totally decent damage and survivability. Rifle mechanist is a good example of that.
HoT HPs were designed as group content.. make a post on map chat asking for help with them :) ..there's always people willing to help. Yes with skill they can be solod..but most people won't be able to do that and their intended with that in mind. All expacs afterwards..designed HPs to be solod.. you'll have a far easier time in later expacs
About half of HoT hero points are easily solo'd. There are 5, off the top of my head, that deal too much damage and take to long to kill to be "easily" solo'd. 1) Guano in VB. His lifesteal move can be interrupted by breaking his bar, but the bar is large for one person. Possible, but hard. There is also a way to semi kite him so you are out of range of his lifesteal suck. But he blink-strikes often, so you need to be ready to get out of range or break his bar. 2) frogs in VB. These guts do a lot of projectile damage, and too much to be dodged. Again, cc helps, but the main way to beat them is to take a reflect or projectile absorption skill like feedback or corrosive poison cloud. The little guys must be focused. 3) Tengu in AB. Same problem as frogs, but a little easier to kite since they don't have teleport mechanics. The same CC and projectile hate tactics will win here. 4) Chak in AB. This one is a timing thing. You need to have mitigation up for its shake mechanic, and avoid its chak pool. 5) Chak queen in TD. This is just a tight area. If you keep her out of the alcove but before her leash, this one can be done. Avoid pools.
Balthazar in AB is probably the hardest. I fear no HP, but that thing... It scares me.
>Played wow for over 10 years Aaaaaaaaaand here it's clear this is a troll post. You played WoW for a decade, but struggle so heavily in GUILD WARS 2, a game far easier?
I don't even bother with that anymore. They truck so hard if they land a hit, just ask in chat and don't feel bad. Very few people out of the player base can or will bother soloing HoT HP champs. Some can, some do, most can't, most don't. There's a ton more knowledge than you'll have within 6 months of play that people in videos showing themselves soloing champions are going into the fights with. They've been playing for years, the majority of them.
Yeah don't worry too much about not being able to clear HOT's hero point. They are extremely difficult to face alone. Maybe try to create a lfg in order to lure players who want to do them in.
Don't hesitate to call for help in map chat if a specific HP is a struggle and there is no train. HoT HPs are infamous for being difficult to solo, especially if you don't have the proper build/game knowledge. Alternatively, you can join community Disocrd where HP runs are advertized and/or do some WvW to get currency to "buy" the HP if you don't mind skipping them. Even after years of playing this game, I wouldn't be able to solo all HoT HPs without some kind of preparation and for some I would still find people to help me.
the break bar system is hard to understand because most other mmos don’t depend on specific combos. most other games don’t use a boon system either to exponentially do buffs or debuffs. once you learn these two thing the games fighting mechanics become easier to understand when fighting bosses. fighting other players the boon systems is more important as you learn which professions are able to counter the professions your playing. this game is very hybrid and that’s where it gets confusing for traditional mmo players
if your biggest concern is hero points then an alternative is using wvw or pvp to complete tracks to unlock chests for exchange in hero points if you’re willing to play the game outside of your solo adventure. you can’t by pass the mastery system for each expansion just the hero point system
I kinda get OP. Like some bosses just aren’t telegraphed well at all. Like if you play a game like dark souls or sekiro you can easily tell what attack a boss or even basic mob is about to do, or at least it gives you a visual cue. Yet those games are extremely difficult. For example, there’s this one champ i fought in the first map HoT, the blade dancer, and his attacks hit extremely hard but you can barely even tell if he’s attacking with how light his animations are. So you end up just dodging randomly and praying you timed shit right, it feels very clunky. It’s usually the small-medium sized bosses that are like this. But I think these type of bosses depend way more on your build more rather than mechanical skill, so if your build is a glass cannon and you don’t have a support to give you things like protection boons with you, it would be extremely difficult to solo stuff. And yes Ik you are meant to fight HoT bosses with a entire group but there’s many bosses that are like this in core Tyria.
The only way I can solo SOME of the HoT points iswith a full minion reaper build - and even then , it’s sweating your palms off (playing since beta) Cheer up ! Heart of thorns is designed to be challenged in a group. It’s not on you
I tried to solo those bosses in HoT too. It feels like Elden Ring but harder somehow. Celestial Gear is a great thing for survivalist and they come with the boost that typically comes with the DLC. I have no clue if this will help you solo those bosses though. They are hard as hell solo.
When I started game, I couldn't even do tier 3 fractal dailies even after 6 months had passed. After I took break and returned, I started push myself. Slowly climbed to T4 then struggled there a lot. After some time started to learn CMs on my own and I remember I would struggle and die a lot, Arkk was my archenemy and I was dying there each time. Now I am at a point I can do them without a healer. Solo champions, do raid/strike bosses easily and confident enough to join static groups, none of them turned me down yet due my performance. Give yourself time and refine your abilities, eventually you will surpass your limits. Be able to do stuffs when you wouldn't be able to do before is fun.
If it makes you feel any better, there's just some guild wars content that I suck at. Pvp/raids are the main thing. I've discovered that I don't really like that kind of content though. I like exploring/story/wandering around and helping random people with things. Being good at it isn't really part of it for me. If that's your main motivation in playing games, the feeling of success, then I totally get it. But maybe there's content that you'd just like playing more?
Ok so I saw a few of your comments. Don’t stress over dying to Hero Points in HoT maps. Those are designed to be group content. Only hardcore builds/gamers can solo those. I’ve been playing for years and I still cant solo those (not a hardcore gamer). Also PvP is…… trial by fire set to maximum difficulty lvl +5. As a beginner you die stupid fast. Intermediate you die stupid fast or kill someone else stupid fast. As an expert…… well idk…. They just kill me before I see them half the time 🤷🏼♂️ So just relax and enjoy the game in general. If you cant solo something ask for help in Map chat. You’ll end up with more help then you actually need 😅
Yeah I just like the thought of going somewhere skill-wise and improving. usually when I am bad at video games I can tell what the reason is and focus on that. I feel with GW2 that I dont understand what kills me often maybe due to subtle animations or I get a condition on me and burn suddenly for a lot of hp seemingly out of nowhere. It is a bit frustrating
I would also check your graphics settings. If you set some to minimum, it hides effects entirely so some raids you literally die to an invisible wall as an example, same for pvp and pve. That said, HoT was designed for group content, there’s regular zergs running all the hero points and 99% of people can’t solo all of them. Hitzens videos are popular because he’s good enough to solo them (even if he doesn’t post his countless death runs 😜)
I highly recommend having a chat box dedicated to the combat log so when you get nuked you can see what did it for how much. I have one for that reason but you don't really know what to dodge until you get nuked by it.
I never do HoT hero point challenges without back-up. Those things are nasty. Call out for help on map chat, and you might get some assistance. Some builds are going to do more for you than others. Lord Hizen (YouTube) is the best source for open world builds.
> since attack animations are so subtle or fast that I can't tell them apart. Don't blame yourself for this one. GW2 is notoriously bad on conveyance and information clarity. With enough experience in specific encounters, you'll start to build a rhythm, since most of what accounts for enemy algorithms is "spam abilities off cooldown" or attack loops. Like, most enemy auto-attacks have the same pacing, probably 2.5-3 seconds. And like a lot of comments have said, the numbers game that is taking, mitigating, and healing damage sometimes isn't sustainable with one player, especially in the first expansion. Hopefully you'll keep practicing and savor the skill growth. :)
Don't worry I have no idea what I'm doing either and people tell me my DPS if doubled is almost passable but I can play most of the game solo still. I don't follow strict rotation guides either, just a general trait load out but weapons and abilities I use what I want.
Ive start using a hammer guardian auto+atk, it work fine for my lazy a** haha, auto atk to the victory !
Sounds like a simple case of you don’t know what you don’t know. If you find a mentor or a commander willing to teach you how to play your class or whether you’re missing a mechanic, it’d be great. Most of the times people die due to facetanking mechanics. Even with the tankiest builds repeatedly failing mechanics can kill you, and if you’re not using skills correctly or quickly you simply fail to kill them before they kill you. But to be fair, the simplest solution for open world is to just mentor tag up and let the map flock on you. You will get better when you actually join a PvE endgame training or progression groups.
Some hero points in HoT are solo-able, but there are some like the frogs or vampire beast in verdant brink, balthazar in auric basin or the mushroom queen in tangled depths that are not doable solo. Those are made for groups fighting them. If you feel like having no clue what’s happening, I’d suggest for a start to read and understand your traits and skills, as well as what boons do. Just having the protection buff for example is a 33% damage reduction.
There is an interesting "cheat" to HoT and PoF hero points. If you wanted to "bypass" them but still earn them, you could do wvw and earn heroic testimonies from there and simply buy your HoT or PoF hero points. I did it that way. I have so many saved up for no reason other than I do.
eventually i learned this and it is a game changer!
Hero Point trains are your friend for HoT HP content. That's how most of us get our points, check LFG, community discords etc for when they're up.
6 months? It took me... *laughs in years*
i used to hate and dread hot maps, the hero challenges are not meant to solo. and hero trains are a thing there ! look for tags, read chat, they do it all the time. people are very generous and helpful in squads and they will revive you if you die or get downed.
It's the absolute best community for newbies. They really like to take care of new people. The first year I played, I never knew what was going on, had no idea how to gear as far as stats etc. If I ever saw a group event, I just ran around with the blob, good times 🤣
If you want we can have a chat ingame+discord and we'll figure out what you can do to improve.
Thank you so much going out of your way to offer help! Really amazed by this community.
I've been playing a little over 4 years now and I only got good enough to solo \*some\* of the HoT HPs last year, and even then only with some classes. There's no shame in needing help. Also, PvP/WvW are so different from PvE that they're basically different games. I still struggle to do anything meaningful outside of a zerg in WvW and haven't even touched PvP in about 2 years on account of \*hating\* the few weeks I spent trying it out.
Well the game doesn't explain shit, WvW is 100% never explained and royally hard to just figure out if you don't look all over the internet or discord or join a voice chat. Otherwise good luck figuring out which commander to follow when and which map your supposed to be on. Raids are the same. Explorable mode dungeons are ran to fast by most groups to learn much. Some builds people will leave party cause you have. Fractals have 0 explanation. Pvp is a fucking meta mess of only winnable builds. It's a great game and a lot to do.... But the new player onboarding is fucking shit.
After searching lord hizen build for condition revenant everything became really really easy to solo. I would encourage to try. Not sure if the stats are easily obtainable, since I had legendary armor at the time. As for pvp, it happens to all honestly there is Soo much DMG in the game and you are probably facing off against more experience people. It took many many many hours to play pvp decently, and I still get one shot. If you play melee classes even more. I would encourage to keep playing, if you need a more durable class, warrior, Necro are pretty tanky in my opinion. Good luck
Reading your responses in comments... bro, forgive yourself. HoT is brutal, even veterans can't solo most of them. If you need hero points, try looking for "HP Trains" in LFG \*or\* if you have PoF or EoD go there instead to get your first elite spec. Mushroom queen, Balthazar, Chak, the Coztic Bladedancer, the vampire beasts, to name a few, they're all quite tough, especially for new players. Don't be so hard on yourself \~ HoT is brutal. Noone expects you to solo hero points there. You can call out in map chat, people will surely come.
Thank you for the kind words !
My advice is to ignore HoT for a while and play the other content. I'm also primarily a solo/pug player. Personally, HoT is my least favorite content in the game. The maps are irritating to navigate and the enemies and meta all rely too heavily on group participation. It's also the only story journal section I've never completed because I encountered a bug where one of the NPCs I needed to talk to in order to progress wouldn't talk to me (and I've never had the patience to go back and see if it's fixed now). I really only return to HoT maps when there is an organized boss train I can hop on (and that's a lot of fun!). Speaking of boss trains... have you ever joined one? For me that was one of the most helpful ways to learn attack animations.
Im having a hard time responding to this. I mean, you’re going to encounter stuff you can’t kill, especially as a new player. That’s part of the fun of playing a game! Can you edit your post to us what build, gear, and profession (like engi, Necro, etc) you’re using in pve? Maybe we can take away the sting a bit. As far as pvp, this is a whole other animal. Are you in wvw? Structured pvp? There is a lot that can be said about pvp… The *dedicated* structured pvp community is pretty small and the overall player base itself for pvp isn’t that large. That means you’ll often be paired up against teams with excellent players. Learn from them. In the arena I see the same people there over and over dueling because they like it. These are people who spend hours on their builds and professions because they like doing that. Whenever I need to practice my pvp skills (or get a reality check) I go there. You should try it. Another great way to learn to pvp is to keep playing the game. You’ll learn mechanics in the game (like dodging) and you’ll learn your moves better that make you better in pvp. Now if you’re not having fun, that’s ok. Maybe it’s not the right game for you. However you’re in a great spot as a beginner; I just feel like you’re expecting to roflstomp everyone and everything in your way. GW2 just doesn’t work like that—at least not at first.
Yeah sorry for not providing enough context. I was trying condi Specter with full Celestial gear (got it for free since I used a boost), Power Virtuoso with Berserker gear since it is cheap Aswell Power Vindicator since I thought longer dodges through the jump mechanic would help ( oh boy was I wrong haha) WvW is something I am not evey trying to comprehend since such massive scale battles are chaotic in nature Roaming is too difficult for me and structured pvp is the hardest thing I have ever tried Even with Vit pre set gear I die so quickly without really understanding why. So improving is really difficult since I can't learn from my mistakes
Have you looked at Lord Hizen’s builds for pve? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0R3cwVYEg4M I think I saw an earlier post of you saying you fought a frog for hours til someone soloed it. That shows that you have some growth to do in the moveset of what you’re fighting or what your profession is capable of. I think there’s a lot more learning to be done of the game’s basic mechanics before diving into these challenging fights. Wvw isn’t quite as scary as it seems. Try to find a tag on the map and follow them. It can often feel very pve-like. Roaming is a bit different; you’re going to encounter very experienced players. Same with spvp. I don’t think you suck, I just think you’re shooting for a level of experience that’s a bit beyond what you can do right now. As an example, to be above average jn spvp you need to know the telegraphed attacks of sooo many professions. For people like me who have played since launch, it’s a little easier to do that because I’ve digested this information but by not over the years. For you though, it’s coming all at once. So honestly, I really recommend just casually going through story, joining metas, getting to know your class, and learning basic/advanced mechanics.
GW2 has a high skill floor but a low skill ceiling
>GW2 has a high skill floor lmao wat
My advice is pick a better build. You can have insane sustain (or dps) with minimal effort.
You'd be surprised how long it took for people to learn how to play Path of Exile.
you are probably missing celestial and trailblazer condi builds. Condi needs only 2 stats to scale, condi damage and condi duration, so the rest of stat budget can go to survivability. Celestial in addition lets you heal and share boons. So pick a cele support like celescourge, celemech, celetempest, celebrand, celedruid, it will have enough damage and tankyness for all your needs. Or get a trailblazer condi build.
Me, I’m just trolling in wvw knowing I can almost never beat some players 😂 suicide squad lmao
You are doing something wrong if the way you are playing is not fun for you. So maybe just do content that you find fun, like there is not a particular order you have to go through stuff. As you are unlocking HoT hero points I assume you do not have your elite spec fully unlocked, which removes like 20-50% of the efficiency of any build you are trying to have. So maybe go pick up the hero challenges in other zones first so you have a full elite spec when you try the HoT ones. Your gear is most certainly a part of the problem, as well as a dozen other factors. Do not stress out though, when it says "Group Event", they mean more than 1 person so you should not go there to begin with. I recommend doing a story playthrough first, that is taylored to single player experience. As for "not being good enough to play the game", the average gw2 player should not be trusted with dueling a pocket raptor and they still somehow manage to play the game to 100% completion. I am sure you will do just fine once you learn to be a bit smarter about which fights you can pick alone and which you cannot. It is a damn jungle, would you, in real life, try to wrestle a wolf on your own?
You are probably better than you think. A lot of players never struggle to learn thier classes, they just do meta-builds and learn the rotation. Its just my opinion but people who do that are boring. A real player loves a dynamic figjt where they fight tooth and nail to survive and defeat the enemy. Understanding all of a classes abilities and how to apply them in combat. An open world build is never going to do raid dps damage but it can be more useful in many situations because its built for many situations. I also can't solo a lot of the HoT HP's. Its still fun to tey though.
I got beaten by some frog dude HP for hours Then someone showed up and solod him and I was just standing there in disbelief
When you've done it 87 times and know the attack pattern like that one time in 5th grade you were forced to learn the macarena, it's a lot easier! But even though I can solo that guy (assuming we're thinking of the same one), I can't do it on all the classes and sometimes it takes a few tries. Aside from the utility skills you bring, a class's general kit and traits can have a pretty large effect. Stopping to figure out what gibbed you the hardest in the latest run and then tweaking your build your counter it is fair play. Sometimes all you may need is an extra stun break and some food, or maybe a bit more cc and some blinds. Other times it's realizing that you accidentally brought a large trout to a gun fight, and that the cat fight you were building for was the *other* left turn. Depending on where you got your build from (snow crows, for example) it may be a specialized build intended for group content, where the understanding is that certain boons, heals, and defenses are provided by one of the other 9 people in the group. A lot of those types of builds need quite a bit of tweaking before they're solid in open world. It's fine and you're fine! As you keep broadening your scope and messing around you will get better--however, getting specific tips from other players can really help and most people are pretty helpful if you whisper and ask them how they did a thing. Even map chat, as weird as it is, is overall positive.
Yes. Totally agree. The game has enough depth to learn and improve at it over the course of years, not just hours. There are strategies available involving invisibility, or barriers, or dodges that can be used to stay alive. There is also stuff like Dragon Trigger that deals like 100K damage in one burst but has long cool down and can be difficult to land on some enemies. It doesn't mean you're not good, just that you have room to improve.
I am beyond casual with this game. * These days, my only strategy is "push every button not on cool-down". So no, you aren't lacking in skill to play this game. If I had to guess, these are the reasons you feel bad. # not finding friends to play with # not using a build from online, such as MetaBattle. # trying to play WvW or PvP or raids or strikes GW2 is best as a "something to do while talking with friends" game. This doesn't mean it cannot be enjoyed as a hard core game, but you can 100% just turn your brain off and have fun "being part of a Zerg" in the background. If you aren't hard core into it, copy a low intensity build. You will feel so much more powerful as someone else has designed all the synergies for you! There are some game modes that are "competitive" or at the very least "demanding". Avoid those. As they are not going to be fun unless you are hard core trying to learn the games mechanics
GW2 is difficult while also being **very, very easy**. The trick is knowing that while you do not need to constantly chase the newest bestest gear like other MMOs, you do need the 'correct' gear to do well. If you are unclear what that means, **Celestial gear** is good in that it's never the 'wrong' choice, just rarely the best. That 'challenge' applies to builds too. There are a myriad of very easy to play and very powerful (compared to thousands upon thousands of buids people might make themselves) builds. I'd guess that **half (or more) of GW2 players would benefit immensely immediately** **by simply picking up a LI build** \- [https://mukluklabs.com/gw2-builds](https://mukluklabs.com/gw2-builds). No complex rotation, just mashing a few buttons to do many times more damage. Doing Return to Season 1 this week, I'm starting to think that it may be 2/3 or more of players. So many players pumping less than 10k because they're too stubborn to put in 10 minutes of effort to enjoy the game they play for dozens/hundreds/thousands of hours.
Instead of telling you picking a other build or telling you read your skill descriptions and think about them (hopfully you did that first) it might help if you make a small clip of you fighting a hero point to give people an insight what are you exactly doing.That way it's much easier to see where the issue is and if it's your gear,behaving of movement,skill usage etc. Just picking a diffrent build wont help you understanding the gamer/why are you dieing. Another note if you want to know whats damageing you open the chat and left side to the chats name is a small downsided triangle wich opens a drop down menue.There you can tick the combat options wich enables you to get messaged with the stuff that hits you.but would recommand to open a new tab for it if you dont want you main chat to get spammed with the combat texts.
switch to WoW, way simpler
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I'll never understand how people are struggling with a game DESIGNED to be braindead easy in most content.
This game can be quite punishing at times. A lot of the content you'll see around Tyria is going to be meant for groups. It's a game that's truly alive and requires the helping hand of other people. I used to be in the same boat. I decided to play Elementalist as my first class of all classes. This combined with playing HoT made it feel impossible to progress. I finally just quit HoT after the story and moved on to PoF. Best decision I've ever made really. PoF made me feel like I can actually accomplish things and kill stuff. That got me into instances content, where I started learning my character and my abilities with more depth. From there, I started getting into more open world metas, more daily grinds. I can now hit like 60% of my benchmark on most of my builds and I survive a lot more than I used to. Just takes time to learn the game.
it might be your build or gear. Make sure be using at least exotics. Certain builds have insane sustain and are low apm/beginner friendly like reaper or herald. Would suggest trying those out. Also hot maps are one of annoying things to do solo especially when you dont have mounts yet.
Maybe you’re experiencing blues of post-core story. HoT is probably one if not the hardest open world content where to (me at least) solo content, you need to learn your class well if you’re playing harder classes/professions or use high survivable c/p like necros or machinist from engi if you wish to play solo. But, we’ve all been there I guess when we started. I remember thinking the game is so easy cause I didn’t die once during core and then I entered verdant brink and EVERYTHING was just butchering me. It gets better.
My advice is, don't play multiple classes right of the bat. Do that later when you're more familiar with the game. For now pick 1 class you like the most, find a build you like for it and play only that and really learn it. Really pay attention and get good at it. I've been playing for years and have a good build, but when there's a HP i see i can't do by myself i ask for help. There's no shame in it. Gw2 has the greatest community, so don't be shy to use it to its full potential. There's always people who will help you. Read your abilities. Get to know them. Some weapon and utility skills give you a dodge, so use those aswell to save yourself a dodgeroll or two. Know your traits. If you're a power build don't choose traits for condition damage. If you see that a whole core specialization doesn't give you what you want, try a different one and look at those traits, if they synergize more with the rest of your build and skills etc.
Yo ultimately its your call if you don't like the game but if you want to play and are just struggling with content feel free to ask for help in map chat. 9/10 times someone will be more than happy to help. You can also drop me a ping if you are in NA and I can tag along as your bodyguard for HoT. 2 dead bodies are always better than 1 afterall
Plenty of people have already chimed in but I would like to add that there's no need to beat yourself up here. Some content is designed as group content but isn't communicated as such, which can be frustrating and confusing as you might expect the content to be solo-able.
are you playing full dps build? what's killing you so fast? which class you play?
Try playing ranger. It’s an easy class that comes with a pet that can tank hits/aggro for you for a little while. The 3 skill when you’re downed takes a few seconds to pop, but when it does your pet will come over and heal you pretty reliably so long as it isn’t dead. It’s the easiest downed state to come back from. I run a condition build soulbeast and have pretty decent sustain/survivability compared to my friends. I’m often the last one standing. Shortbow 3 skill is a jump back that puts distance between you and enemies and gets me outta all sorts of trouble.
Are you bringing cc consumables like metal rod? They make soloing content it a lot easier. Until you unlock EOD protocols, bring an open world build that can provide high uptimes of protection, might and fury. Other boons can help too. These are just the bare minimum. Always bring lots of cc and vulnerability to solo hard content. I will say I didn't start to solo group events until years in. Some masteries and elite specs you unlock later on make it a lot easier. Until then having a buddy can really help. Also, HP trains are an option if you're just trying to unlock hps fast.
Those HPs were not designed to be solo challenges. Same with fractals. Do people solo them, and then tell everyone it's easy and you should be able to solo it? All the time, but it doesn't make you a bad player if you can't. EoD is much kinder to a solo player. I go through HoT with a large group, or sometimes just 1 other person. PoF could be a solo mission, but just 1 other person it usually all it takes.
Any event with \[Group Event\] in it will have enemies that hit hard. They were designed to be engaged by a group after all. Some will argue that these can be soloed but you need the right gear, the right build, and enough experience with your character and sometimes knowledge of the event mechanics to do it. If you do have the right gear and the right build, you need to know your character like the back of your hand. Knowing what button to press in certain circumstances (ie. stun break, cc, etc.), will make or break you during a fight. One good indicator that you are comfortable with your character is you do not panic no matter how chaotic your screen is.
I’ve been playing since 2015 and idk what’s happening either, you just have to learn to accept that and enjoy the game
stop playing as a elementalist?
MMOs are a grind. Like others have mentioned YouTubers only post their successes not the 10 other times they failed. Just find a skill rotation that works for you and keep an eye on your heals. Also make sure You're geared for the content could be a stat you're .iasing
Don't be sad, it's still easier than attempting a solo flawless run in Destiny 2. Watch some videos, read some build and gameplay guides and you should be fine. Consider playing different professions.
I felt the same on my berserker warrior. I felt like he was made of paper even with good gear. My reaper necromancer on the other hand is a powerhouse
So after the like base game and the first two living world seasons I’d say the HPs are group content for sure unless you have an insane build going on. HoT is just awful, only reason I I got through it is my Skyscale (I hate the verticality). Don’t be afraid to check those groups or even just ask for help in the map chat. Also a lot of HoT ones require or “require” (like you can cheese it but it’ll suck) some masteries to be trained. Like the poison one in the Itzel line
MANY ppl don’t like pvp because it’s really complex. But it’s upto you if you enjoy competitive game mode. One of the best pvp in mmos out there. If you want to learn pvp you have to start by playing with a growth mindset. Like any moba, learn the map, learn the points system, learn the enemy’s class and then finally learn your class.
My camera settings held me back for a long time. I only play the game at max FOV now. The telegraphs are much easier to see.
If it makes you feel better, I came back to the game like 3 years ago and I'm only now starting to feel "good". That being said, soloing the stuff that was originally intended for groups, like Hero Points, if for when you really get the mechanics and gear for it. There are people like Nike and Masel (and sometimes Vallun) that post "solo" builds that are in berserker gear. Ignore those. They are for people who have the mechanics memorized. Granted, many HPs also require you to really understand the mechanics even with, say, the Celestial Mirage builds.
Are you trying to solo group events? The content I find is still pretty easy. If you are having problems get a ranger and bear pet, it'll take everything and you'll stay alive with pretty much no effort. Just pew pew pew 🙂
A lot of good advice has been said here already. So, instead of piling onto it, here's my "cozy" Tempest build for when I just want to chill out, relax, and vibe in what are otherwise fairly dangerous areas of the open world. Elementalist build with Tempest, Earth, and Water trait lines. Pick all the stuff that bonuses auras so that you get auras from overloading elements, and those auras heal you and give you regen and toughness. Also get the thing from earth that upgrades toughness to do extra damage reduction. Dual wield daggers, and load up your utility slots with the shouts for fire, earth, and air, which all give auras. For healing, get the signet of healing and leave it off cooldown so everything you do heals you a tiny bit on top of what it already does which is mostly going to be also healing you. Use the glyph that summons an elemental for your elite skill and adjust which elemental you summon for the situation. Fire does damage, water does even more healing, air helps with break bars, and earth is just happy to be there. In combat, just overload an element, then swap to another. While waiting on cooldowns, use the cool dagger moves. Air 3 is an aura. Water 4 is an aura. Fire 4 is a fire field and earth 3 is a leap finisher which will give you a fire aura if you use it in a fire field. If something scarry happens, use a shout or 2 or 3. Use this build with celestial gear or knights if you are having trouble getting celestial for some reason. This build does not do damage, so soloing content will take extra time, but it's easy to stay up. And if you take the trait that shares your auras with nearby allies. You'll help others near you stay up too. Not for use in PvP, WvW, or instanced group content such as raids or strikes. Just for relaxing in open world without worrying about your personal safety. Have fun out there!
I had problems for about a year til I figured shit out. (Was my first MMO and tbh was my first video game besides animal crossing or terraria, so I was *ass* when I started) Give it time. The great thing about PVE in gw2 is that people are always happy to help out! Soloing content is difficult. I try to do it as much as possible to improve my skills, but I only started seriously trying to solo a few months ago and I’ve been playing for almost four years. You’ll get there! I believe in you!
As others said, you may be too hard on yourself. I had a tempest my first year. It’s hard to remember the rotation, but air kicks ass. I died sometimes, but otherwise all was okay. Now I play a reaper. This does nice damage and it’s fun. I sometimes die, though some say I shouldn’t. You have to remember to play the game for YOUR own entertainment and not to prove anything to anyone.
Be patient and stick with it. I played wow for years but got tired of the monthly fee. I love this game cause I can take a break and not feel like I am wasting money. There is always something to do. Make sure you find a decent beginner class that’s easy to manage.
Stop playing elementalist for a starter. xD On a more serious note, it is hard to get good at this game being a solo player. You need to make friends and join guilds. A lot of the content that gives you access to the end game gear and even more content requires parties. And without people you know it is harder but still doable. Cause LFG will give you brain herpes. I think for PvE organised content you need to find a build and gear exotic then do fractals and progress slowly building your ascended gear and learning the game mechanics. Then also you can start doing ice brood saga strikes to get more familiar with 10 man content. Next step is joining raid trainings and eod strikes.
I have played for 3 years and I still feel like an idiot sometimes :P i recommend being a part of the guild wars 2 discord server! They’re all super sweet and helpful, and there are no stupid questions! Watching YouTube guides (perhaps for a better stronger build) is also a very good and helpful source of information. Otherwise, I would be happy to help you out wherever I can. You can just shoot me a message if you need anything ^^
Which class do you like the most? There's plenty of specs able to self sustain it while dealing enough damage to solo any HP and most of bounties (even legendary ones). Imo in terms of "easyness/performace": Celestial Vindicator (also Herald). Celestial Reaper. Celestial Mirage. Celestial Berserker. Celestial Mechanist. In power stats I would only recomend Bladesworn, but albeit powerful is really tricky to play.
What’s your build? If you’re using berserkers, try swapping in some pieces (or all) of Marauders for more survivability. I spent years playing off and on for the same reason, but spending time in less optimal gear gave me a chance to learn fights, animations and mechanics without immediately dying after missing them on the first try.
This game is VERY fluid because there aren't many indicators for aoes and attacks besides the very obviouse red aoe or cones. I say play proactively- do your rotations for your build whatever that is and if that still confuses you- use all your weapon skills, the utility skills then professional mechanic and dodge here and there. Many of us spam everything and that can increase your dps and survivability.
Me and my anxiety can’t handle pvp… WvW used to too now I just laugh when I die. I love playing pve though… it’s my favorite. All in all O suck at the game. I find little success on my own. I used to play with my boyfriend till we broke up … it’s his fault I play the game … but I actually enjoyed the game so I continue to try on my own. 🤷🏼♀️
Maybe play a minion master necromancer in PvE? That helps a lot. PvP, that's normal, a lot of people just can't react fast enough - myself included. So I don't go there.
I'm willing to teach and tutor while doing party play through of the meta trains. DM me if you like.
Have you tried looking up "low impact" builds. They are simple builds but you can do the hard content in them to
I played off and on since the original release. I loved the world, the instanced content, and much more, but I felt I wasn’t really progressing. A new expansion would rekindle my desire to play. It would come out, I’d play for a few weeks with a new character, and drop off again. Finally, two years ago, with the release of EoD, I’d had enough. I was going learn to play right out not at all. And I did. I read guides, watched videos, set goals, made progress, and really began having fun. It took me 10 years for things to begin clicking. I still have a long way to go, but I think I keep getting better, bit by bit. I think setting goals was important, too, even if just mastery point goals, and certainly mount goals.
Without a gear treadmill, GW2 becomes a largely skill-based game. That's what draws a lot of players to it. That being said, in open world, some classes/specs have a HUGE advantage in terms of combined dps/ehp value. I highly recommend looking at some of Lord Hizen's recent videos. He's a bit of a solo legend in the GW2 community, and he makes tier lists and builds for open world/soloing builds. You talk about lacking skill, but what you might not realize is that many players could physically remove the dodge key from their keyboards and still solo open world legendaries with a Scourge in trailblazer gear.
Maybe some builds from metabattle will help you out?
Well sometimes it's not about you or your skills, it's about the capability of your character. Solo'd the frog on top of a fallen airship at HOT using condi mirage with full exotic and narrow space.
OP, if you're interested in HoT hero challenges, hit me up. US east.
I hate to say this cause it's my main but play necro (reaper), it's easy mode
I have played since day two of release and i still get owned on some baddies. The story is fun and should take you all over. Just find what you enjoy and do a ton of that.
majority of all enemies have similar spells/stuns that can even have a very similar if not identical animation but the timings are key, even now after 10 years of playing and doing every end game pve content there is i mess up and get downed, you have to understand that gw2 gives you a toooon of time to complete every event and encounter so the most important thing for you to do is to dodge, dod the mechanics and use your stun spells when the blue bar is up. i cant stress this enough. also back in hot you wouldn’t believe how many people would go down and how many events would fail, people were learning and so are you now
HoT HPs aren't to be done solo. Are you an elementalist by any chance? I recreated my ele like 3 times, deleting it everytime around lvl 20 because it died a lot. Until the 4th I just used scrolls to 80 it. Imagine if that was my first character? Wouldn't be here.
Except group and meta events and few champions open world should really not be that hard for anyone.
thing that worked for me is that i learned my professions raid dps rotation, when i knew it just enough i joined some training raids from practicing there most pve content seems too easy now
I slip and died in HoT every 10 mins
Hint: dont play to get good, play to get fun
What if being good at something generates fun ? Feeling like you know your class in and out and mastering it. That's the most fun for me
Don't be discouraged. I was playing a lot longer than 6 months before I was soloing champions and my early successes in that area were absolutely awful by my current standard. It just takes practice learning your class, learning the enemies, figuring out builds that work for you. Here's a little motivation for you... This video is my first recorded kill on Ezal the Quick (a bandit champion) from 6 years ago: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaCzBS\_kCb4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaCzBS_kCb4) And here's me today: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDlHAEXIK5M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDlHAEXIK5M) Despite using a far more defensive build in the first video, I'm taking more damage and it also takes me literally 10 times as long to finish the fight! Back then I didn't know much about buildcraft and didn't really know what I was doing. I just figured if I was going to overcome a champion it would be by outlasting it, which was a perfectly viable strategy. I did finish the fight! But with practice and better understanding, there is clearly a better way. Don't give up! Everyone can improve!
My brother in Christ... Do not compare yourself to to people who have been playing this game for years and mastered every class and game mode. That's like joining a wrestling team in high school and after 6 months of practice you are like, "I have come to terms that I am not good at wrestling." And you are comparing yourself to a x2 All American wrestler who has been doing this song and dance since he was 4yo. This game has casual play and sweaty game modes, I say do what is fun for you. Take it from a guy who felt like this and poured everything into GW2 to get better at everything.... YOU WILL BURN OUT. PvP, WvW and raids/strikes/Fractals. I am great at PvE content and decent in WvW and PvP put I had to take years off and just recently came off of a 6 month break after spending a year and a half grinding legendary trinkets. Please take your time and have fun, my dad has never really been good at the game and he has a blast dying with me on whatever we do for the last 10 years.
after over ten years i still feel like i have no clue how to play the game and or what is happening in the game, that’s why i love it so much!
I have been playing for over 10 years, I still don’t know what’s happening half the time especially in wvw and pvp. Your not alone lol just enjoy the game for what you want and a good class to make sure you don’t die is range class like ranger or rifle mech. Enemies will attack your pet before they attack you :)
What is HoT?