Casters is not feeling like casters in GW2

Would you prefer having limited spells per day like in DnD? GW2 is supposed to be on the fast paced side. Casters are squishy enough, don’t have time to sit still and cast a spell so we can get smacked full of swords and get much GW2 gold. After all that publicity that GW2 will have mobile combat, seriously, if you want to be locked in place while casting spells, go back to WoW, or Rift, or whatever game you came from.

There’s a standard fantasy trope that everyone lives by. Rangers must use bows. Why do you think the first weapon you get as a ranger is an ax? Aragorn was a ranger in Lord of the Rings and he used a sword. A lot of the sensibilities we have in this genre are based on how we experienced the genre in the first place and how we get our Guild Wars 2 gold. To me, guns have no place in fantasy and it took me a long time to get used to the fact that they were going to be around. The first book that really broke me into that was The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny, but even after that, it took me a long time to adjust to firearms in fantasy.

Today, genre lines blur as more and more stuff becomes cross-genre. So we have Asuran technology in this game, which brings an element into the game that feels like scifi. And casters in most early games were rooted in place while casting. But this wasn’t done because that was most fun or made the best games. It was done because the older MMO servers needed to cut down on server calls or fighting would have ground to a halt. Times of changes, technology for making Guild Wars 2 gold has changed. And our view of what is a fantasy trope…that’s going to have to change too, because genres evolve all of them.

It took me a very long time to get used to how quick magic works in GW2 especially since we have no mana/ potion management either. I guess I found it easier to accept because I read a lot and I mean a lot of fantasy and most of it is not classic sword and sorcery as well as someGW2 gold. Now I can’t really go back and deal with rooted / channeled casting and potions and the like anymore.It may have helped that my only caster is a Mesmer and that in itself is not a standard fantasy trope.