Why am I dying so easily?

[Fallaner, the Writer Eternal]

So I've played the game a bit, have a character at level 80 and am finishing up the first living world season... and I am noticing something that is really, really reducing how much fun I am having with the game.

I die... a lot. Like, a whole lot. I followed a guide for gearing when I first had issues earlier in the 80 content, and while I can now *kill* easily enough, I feel like I'm made of tissue paper, as I constantly die and need to revive.

Am I doing something wrong? Should I change my gear? Is it just because I haven't fully unlocked the abilities of the elite spec I chose and am playing with (holosmith engineer)?

Not sure what info specifically to provide, but gear-wise I have almost all exotic berserker's gear from what I understand, which is what my googling in an attempt to fix previous issues told me to go with, with scholar runes for the armor.

[Tahl]

Change your skill/spec build first. If you cant find something that works, then its probably the elite spec just not doing what you expect from it. After that, gear swapping if needed. Though honestly, dropping dps only makes the fights longer for the harder stuff later on. Probably fine for open world but will really drag when you hit something tanky in story content. Im not saying dps gear should never be changed, just that its kind of a bandaid solution as eventually, youll need some of that dps back and MIGHT struggle to get it if you havent solved the class build part yet.

Alchemy/Firearms/Mechanist + Flamerthrower. Allows you to keep a shield on hand for testy moments. Even without mech that can still clear a lot of content with one hand on the keyboard.

[ᵀᴴᴱ Uʟₜiᴹₐᵀᴱ ᴰᴱᴳᴱᴺᴱᴿᴬᵀᴱ]

Celestial or marauder (berzerker with vita) are really safe for learning the game.

Don’t hesitate to read you traits and changed the optimical for the safest


"Marauder on Guardian wouldn't even reach the BASE health of a Warrior. Does this mean Guardian is bad for solo players?"
True, but not being OS-ed as guardian is key so marauder(or equivalent for condi) feels good with low class health Mesmer/guardian for learning process

[Vee]

I can tell you right away that Berserker is one of the squishiest specs if geared fully in berserker gear. My power soulbeast is much easier to sustain than my power berserker. I just recently geared my berserker and I die A LOT. It's all about moving around and dodging.

[Hefutoxin]

Publicado originalmente por VeeSlays:

I can tell you right away that Berserker is one of the squishiest specs if geared fully in berserker gear. My power soulbeast is much easier to sustain than my power berserker. I just recently geared my berserker and I die A LOT. It's all about moving around and dodging.

Defense Traitline.
"Defy Pain" works with Headbutt (20 second CD) to give you 4 seconds of damage immunity.
"Last Stand" increase this to 5 seconds.

On top of Berserkers:
"Savage Instinct" giving another 2 seconds of damage immunity when using Berserk.
"Eternal Champion" causing "Savage Instinct" to also happen when leaving Berserk.
9 seconds of immunity every 20 seconds.

You still have your options of stuns, knocks, and blocks from utility and weapon skills.

Start with those and dial back on the traits until you get to a point where you are happy with your sustain-dps balance.

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

Berserker's gear IS going to make you fairly squishy overall - however, it makes up for this not only through sheer damage output, but also in preparing you for higher-end PvE content. In stuff like raids, Strikes, Tier 3 and 4 Fractals, and etc., enemies are going to be swatting most professions to the ground with ease regardless of what stat set their gear has. Damage output is all that really matters for non-support builds in this content, because it's not possible to build for enough survivability to become "tanky", and you'll be hurting your damage output so much if you try that you'll be left way behind.

If you plan on ever doing this kind of higher-end content, it's better to get used to this squishiness from the beginning, rather than getting blindsided by it after getting used to running through everything in open-world content. It also benefits you in that Berserker's is already a meta stat set to begin with, so you don't need to go through the expense of obtaining new gear if and when you do decide to give this content a try.

If you don't care about ever doing high-end PvE content, or you're rich enough that you can afford to maintain an entire separate set of gear just for open-world, then do whatever. Most open-world content is trivial enough that you can afford to trade a chunk of your damage output for more survivability.

[DRAGON6UK]

Publicado originalmente por Fallaner, Warrior of Light:

Publicado originalmente por Frost:

This is a big reason why. Berserkers is good, but you really need to be on point with your dodges and defensive utilities. If you're just running through story content, Scholar runes are unnecessary.

You could opt for a few pieces of Marauder gear which will provide vitality for extra health, Valkyrie stats will also do the same but you will lose out on crit chance, also Dragon stats are very good but require EoD and can be expensive. You could also opt for runes which will provide you with more defense, like Vampirism runes if you're on a budget, Defender runes if you have access to them and have a lot of aegis generation. Generally just look for something that will supplement your build with some extra toughness or vitality.
Highly recommend https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Superior_Rune_of_Vampirism. They provide some damage and vitality, a large chunk of max health + sustain. They are cheap too.

Your build is literally glass cannon, you either have to kill fast or you will die fast.

Sooo... I made a mistake with my gearing choice? That's rather unfortunate, I sunk a lot into it... ah well.

Thank you for the answer! (Steam why is that looking like an l and not an exclamation mark??)

no mistake made, you just need to kill faster and dodge. you have a good dps gear setup . https://snowcrows.com/builds check out some builds at that link

[DRAGON6UK]

https://snowcrows.com/builds