Bish.8627

Only imob drives me insane

I ran into a similar issue where I had more hours to play each night than my friends. If you want to do stuff with friends, do the story and story dungeons together. That way you can do the open world at your own pace, then go help them with stuff when they reach it and experience that together.

Don't forget, as well as above, sometimes when people are playing METAs they are just relaxing following a com, so when they actually have to do stuff like CC over a few seconds, they may in that moment be distracted by a stream or show or something. Won't lie, I am guilty of this... I have missed Karka Queen kill because I was looking at a stream for a while, many times...

To any new player struggling with knockdowns and spike damage in PvE, maybe WvW too, I highly recommend taking a build off metabattle, just give it a websearch. Its not the be all or end all of builds. But some of the open world builds have good descriptions, if you are getting cc'd or spiked down a lot, its partly your playstyle, you can find something more adept to your style, and with more survivability. For example I am often watching streams or something on my other screen and I get distracted easy, so I needed something that can take a few hits without getting destroyed and so I play a battle scar renegade, does tons of damage, but is quite self sustaining. If you do pay attention but run out of dodges or time them wrong, maybe condition axe mirage, maybe minion necro so you can just face tank everything. There are tons of builds, its a bit of a pain leveling up something again if you are new, but its worth it when you truly enjoy what you are playing.

I don't think any medium prof especially ranger needs more health.

Yes, but like just about everything in GW2 you have to limit it and give yourself targets. Like do 1 map a day rather than doing more than 1 in a day, then do other stuff.

Wasn't full counter on something like a 8 second cooldown? Basically WvW was a swarm of warriors stunning each other and hitting for 10k?