Guild Wars 2

I am currently at level 8 and I still don’t understand how you use the 4 boxes when you have been downed close to dying? I tried clicking each one like mad in sucession and nothing happens. I always wind up dying and I have to choose a waypoint where there is a equip repair person to patch me up to start again. How do you revive your player without constantly dying, waypointing,, seeking and equip person, being patched up and going again?

Each of them has a function. Mouse over them for a full description.

However, Button #4 is your friend. If you are able to have someone pull aggro off your body (and sometimes even if you can’t). This skill CAN bring you back to life given enough time. It is a ‘channeled’ spell, so click it and let it do its thing. It slowly heals you, so if you aren’t taking damage you can survive.

On an Elementalist, Button #1 is an ranged attack, Button #2 is a ranged ground/slowing attack, and Button #3 is a Mist Form. if you are lucky, you can mist form away from the battle and hopefully use Button #4.

Usually the first skill, 1 is an attack skill. 2 and 3 are utility skills and 4 heals you.
If you heal to full or kill a mob you get up instantly. However the 4 skill goes into cooldown if you get hit while using it.

For your specific class I’d advise reading the thumbnails. This might be hard in some of the chaos but it REALLY helps to know what those 4 skills do. Usually there is one skill doing damage (1). Another to control enemies (2) and the third is something very specific to that class.

Number 4 is the one you need to rez by yourself. Just clicking it once will slowly start raising your health bar again (don’t use other skills while you’re doin it because that will interrupt). When you’re hit by an enemy the skill will interrupt and you can either try to kill the enemy with one of the other 3 skills or hope for a miracle.

Anyway as a general rule, read the skill descriptions. It will really help you understand your class better. I hope this helps.

You need to either kill what’s attacking you, or bring your health up.

The first three options are attack options. (for my engineer, the 1st throws junk at the mob, the 2nd .. I’m not sure, I don’t use it .. the 3rd has a long cool-down, but does a pretty good explosion that does a bunch of damage and knocks enemies back). Mash keys, and hope to kill the mob. The fourth option applies a bandage, which will slowly heal you. Only useful if there isn’t a mob currently wailing on you. Other players can help revive you.

With the engineer box#1 throw rock if mob is low on hp you can kill it at times, box#2 grapple hook knocks mob away from you, box#3 Large explosion does aoe damage to all mobs around you and can do some good damage ,box#4 is self heal and if mob is pulled off you you can heal your self and rally back into battle,just learn and mess around with them once you figure out what situation u need to use certian skills they can be really helpful, and other times you are just F$%ked

Also, you don’t have to repair your armor every single time that you are defeated. Until all of your armor pieces have been damaged, there is no negative effects from having a damaged piece of armor. Only once every piece is damaged will pieces start breaking and you will lose the stats from that piece.