Guild Wars 2

Hi!

I’m a old fan of FF11 and love the way A white mage looked and played, and I was wondering if their was a way to bring a little bit that into guildwars e.g. class/armour ect ect. any suggestions would be nice

thanks

Water Attunement is probably the best healing capability in the game, which would be on an Elementalist, and the Devout armor set should get the look pretty well. It can be bought from a vendor in the bottom floor of the cube in Rata Sum.

gimmethegepgun.1284:

Water Attunement is probably the best healing capability in the game, which would be on an Elementalist, and the Devout armor set should get the look pretty well. It can be bought from a vendor in the bottom floor of the cube in Rata Sum.

As a level 80 ele, I will strongly warn against making an ele based purely around healing and water attunement. The class isn’t meant to be a true healer, but a jack-of-all-trades that makes use of all four elements.

There is no devoted healing class in GW2- there are classes that are healing-capable, but none can outheal the damage dealt by a boss or even trash mobs in dungeons. Your best bet for defensive support would be a guardian, though they’re a heavy armor melee class.

My highest character was a lvl 67 Red Mage! I think the last time I played that game was in 03 or 04 lol

Falunel.7645:

As a level 80 ele, I will strongly warn against making an ele based purely around healing and water attunement. The class isn’t meant to be a true healer, but a jack-of-all-trades that makes use of all four elements.

There is no devoted healing class in GW2- there are classes that are healing-capable, but none can outheal the damage dealt by a boss or even trash mobs in dungeons. Your best bet for defensive support would be a guardian, though they’re a heavy armor melee class.

I agree. However, I want to stress that you can’t really play a guardian as pure support either.

I only managed about 2-3 hours of FF11 before the crappiness of the console port interface made me ragequit forever, but if the white mage there is like other FF games, I would say that elementalist feels closer to me than guardian. Those are really your only two options with anything close to heavy support capability, so you might want to try one of each.

When I saw white mage I was hoping someone was wanting a FF1 white mage lol. That game was soooo epic. I do think they should make some armors for guardian that resemble cloth with maybe plate underneath, then you could have your white mage. As far as a healing ele, you can do it, but they need another job (can’t do 100% healing, doesn’t work). Go attunement sharing with boon-master and maybe condition damage. @Urthona you can play guardian as “pure” support, but it’s focused around keeping everyone causing burning 100% of the time, so you still do damage by doing nothing but support.

Water elementalist comes closest to white mage in concept (especially when decked out in some robe-like armor). Guardian is more D&D cleric.

Nay of the Ether.8913:

@Urthona you can play guardian as “pure” support, but it’s focused around keeping everyone causing burning 100% of the time, so you still do damage by doing nothing but support.

I can’t really get into why the build you mention isn’t particularly effective in group content without hijacking the thread, but I will invite anyone who’s curious to browse the guardian forums for a few minutes to read up on why it’s not. In any case, a burning build isn’t really the first thing that comes to mind when you mention “white mage.”

hey guys thanks for the Advice, I do have a lv 80 Guardian. and from what I’ve played I don’t think it’s WHM material more Paladin. but I am thinking of playing a Water/Earth based Ele although I will try using Water as much as possible. and the Devout robes is a good idea thanks gimme, does anyone know how much they cost? and are they race bound?

jahkofhearts.9612:

hey guys thanks for the Advice, I do have a lv 80 Guardian. and from what I’ve played I don’t think it’s WHM material more Paladin. but I am thinking of playing a Water/Earth based Ele although I will try using Water as much as possible. and the Devout robes is a good idea thanks gimme, does anyone know how much they cost? and are they race bound?

They’re not race bound, and the set in Rata Sum costs about 10s-12s total.