Guild Wars 2

I’m against the idea, as to me this will lead to what ANet just said. GW2 is a coop game, and so any help is welcomed. If you have higher reward for being alone, then you’ll yell at people helping you. Or if the higher reward is for starting the champion alone, then this will be abused: with 10 friends, you’ll go first, alone, and then your friends will come.

To me, defeating a champion alone is a reward in itself. Last day I defeated a champion with another warrior, we were only two, and I was happy, don’t need a higher reward, just the pleasure to have done it is enough…

Yes but this guy forgot that in other mmo without level scaling, low level mobs do not give xp or loot ^^

You have very good guardian threads as sticky on top of the forum.

Iruwen.3164:

The only thing that should be changed though is that waypoint cost should also be scaled down.

This is already the case, yes ^^ 70 pc has not the same value for a level 20 than for a level 80 ^^

About voice acting, I guess it depends in what language he is playing the game. As he asks this here I suppose english, but we can’t be sure ^^

Somewhere someone said in dungeons people are expecting guardians to tank, and so if you do not have a tanked guardian better warn them so they can have another tank

Otterbro.1098:

Thanks man, I didn’t know that worked.

I’m not a man, but you’re most welcomed ^^

I wonder if shortening the links could work…
http://bit.ly/WELgmA

Yes, it works

Perhaps you should try Norn, just because you already have a human, in order to have a different personal story…

Don’t forget as well localizing a game is not enough, you need servers in this language as well. I would hate seing people talking in english, german or whatever else in my french server, as my “motto” is, you’re free to go to whatever server you want, as long as you speak the server’s language. When I go on an english server in a mmo I always speak english, and only english, on global and local channels.

And GW2 will take a lot of time to translate. Don’t forget all the videos, you have to translate all those videos as well. And not just with subtitles, but with voice as well.

As for now, for levelling, I followed the [Guide] Hammer and Altruistic Healing gameplay sticky link. Sure I have not AH yet, but the virtue recharging when I kill an enemy allows me to spam virtue of justice against trash mobs and so apply blind and vulnerability.

Your build looks fine as well, I’ll have to think about it. And perhaps less common than a AH guardian. Using virtues sounds fine. Too bad I then loose the spam virtue thing. As you have in your build a lot of boons on virtue activation, but we have to wait for the whole recharge time… which is quite long in the middle of a fight…

Yes I know the aggro is not like other mmo. I have read the aggro takes toughness in consideration too, but you do not improve toughness a lot in the traits it seems. It takes damage in consideration too, the guardian is not the best dps around as well. That’s why I asked.

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When I’m talking about tanking, I didn’t mean staying there taking hits, but keeping the monster attention so it does not switch to teammate.

I have never done a single dungeon yet so…

How is this build about survavibility in comparison with the classical AH build? And at level 55, where should I put my points in priority, knowing I can’t go above 20 anywhere yet?

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With such a build, are you still the tank in a dungeon? Or should they find someone else to tank?

Guardian is wonderful. The most wondeful thing being a guardian is that when I’m chatting with someone and a mob jumped on me, I can finish my sentence before having to kill the mob

Just because the gold sellers have done nothing for guild wars 2, they are parasits. A.net has made the game, they created this wonderful game for us to enjoy, and if they want to sell gold on their market, they have the right to do so.

And they also have the right to forbid others to sell gold for real money.

This is also to protect customers. When you buy gems (and so gold, if you then trade gems for golds) you do so on a trusted secure transaction website. When you buy gold from outside companies, you do so on risky websites. I’ll never trust a gold seller company enough to give them my credit card number.

Allowing gold sellers to sell gold is like saying you have a shop in town, you sell clothes, and someone comes in and start selling clothes inside YOUR shop at discount prices. Will you allow this? NO WAY.

Guild Wars 2 is owned by ANet, and they have the rights to do whatever they want on their game.

Moreover gold sellers are a plea… they spam you with messages written in bad english. ANet will never spam you asking you to buy gold.

And as this is because of buyers there are sellers, yes, buyers should be banned and their gold taken away.

I have bought gems from ANet twice, but not to have gold, I used my gems to improve bank and inventory storage. Gold, I want to earn it, not use my credit card for this.

And no, GW2 is not a pay to win, not for me at least. I enjoy playing it, and each evening I have fun with GW2, to me is a victory… so in fact I win without paying anything, just by playing the way I want

To me level scaling is the best thing ever invented in a mmorpg ^^ Why? Because it makes travelling still dangerous wherever you are… I have been killed by a bunch of level 8 moskitoes, and this is great. When you’re level 80 in a low level zone, without level scaling this is boring. With level scaling you’re still powerful (skill wise and gear) but you can still die if you’re not careful enough.

Hey this is not because you’re level 80 that you can sleep in a place full of monsters without any risk ^^ they can still kill you…

In mmorpg without level scaling, being in a low level zone killing low level mobs, you earn no xp… hey, no risk, no reward. You can’t even loot the mobs. In GW2, you earn quite a lot of xp doing hearts and events in low level zones, and this is great…

Zaxares.5419:

But there’s already a Veteran Fleshreaver guarding that node. Plus two other normal Fleshreavers. (And some spiders might also join in the fun if you didn’t kill them before taking on the Fleshreavers). Having them be +1 level higher than the player just seems excessive.

So go there with someone, not alone, hey this is a MMO RPG

Yesterday I killed a champion mob with someone and NPC, I was kiting the mob while the other one, a warrior, revived the NPC, it took a lot of time but we made it.

GW2 can be done solo for the most of the content, but you do not have to. If you can’t handle something alone, just bring friends along…

For someone who is not 80 yet (I’m 51) and who wants to try the build, how will you spend the attributes, how many in which and in what order?

And sure, I have basic armor as well (I craft mine)

Oh, and I’m mostly pve. I’ll try pvp, but not yet, and I do mostly pve…

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I always liked Cleric in previous mmo I played. I’m more the tank way with my guardian, but why not healing build… my guardian is just 51 now.

What you have to think about is to have a build which will suit solo, group and dungeons. I do not want to reinitialize my points every now and then…

What you have to consider as well I think is that in dungeons people are expecting guardians to tank, so if you’re full heal/support better warn them before, so they find another one to tank.

Perhaps I’ll try a support/heal build as well, have to think about it…

Hey Sirendor, according to the lore those names are not RP at all, not lore friendly ^^ Or perhaps you can say those are nicknames ^^

For humans, naming is not really an issue, if you take firstname / lastname route. For Asura it is a bit harder as they have no lastname, and the firstname is short, so hard to do an unique name. You can try the accents though, guildwars allow for some accentuated characters, like the ë, or the “i” with an accent.

In fact when it comes to mmorpg, GW1 and GW2 have less issues than most, because they really allow first name and last name, so easier to create a unique name like that. In other games the first name should be unique, if there is a last name at all.

But hey, imagine I create a human female character, I want to call her “Marie” as I like this name, but sure it will be taken, then I can create a last name, like “Marie Aerysä”, or any other, and there is few chance it will be taken…

A guardian could be also a good choice. Deals a fair amount of damage (and close to a warrior if going the dps way – less burst but more consistent damage), and tough as well…

This is the proof monsters are stupid ^^ Hey, I’m sure an enemy player will target the highest dps weaker opponent first. I do this when I fight NPC, I do not target the one that will go down the slowest, I try to kill the one who deals the most dps and who is the weakest so I can kill him fast and therefore lower the damage done to me…

This is my human guardian, with her crafted level 40 armor…

Please yes, an outfit slot like in LOTRO would be wonderful ^^

Hey, if the dev do not talk about engineer, this is a good thing for you, this means the engineer class is perfect as it is now ^^

Dunno what level you are, but you can’t put 15 points in anything before the level 40
And according to what I read, even if you prefer some weapon, always keep them all in your backpack and switch them if necessary, you’ll notice some weapon is better than another one depending on the situation.

And sometimes just for the fun you want to change weapon a bit ^^

I like the hammer because it is quite a heavy AOE weapon, and usually I’m surrounded with enemies… Seems they don’t like me ^^

And the 33% damage reduction from the hammer chain is neat…

I wonder if there is a french unofficial RP server now I should decide if I’ll stay on my server or move before end of the month, it is still free but not for long…

I’m a hammer guardian as well (still unsure what to put as secondary weapons though). I have seen quite a few mobs in pve who try to escape, the moa for instance, or the bandits. Sometimes they flee when they are near death, and then I use Zealot’s embrace to finish them of without chasing them. Or in some events when I have to prevent trolls to flee with some goods, I use this skill so the people with me who are chasing them can catch them.

Your updates seem good though. I near never use ring of warding, but mostly because I always forget to ^^ And usually I hit all the enemies in aoe and I don’t need to prevent them to flee or prevent them to come. And 5 seconds is really short.

About Zealot’s, is this because the immobilize is very short ? Or does it break when the enemy takes damage? As often I see the enemy being able to flee again as soon as I have launched this…

If this is true this is as easy to get out the ring of warding, I think this is a bug and should be fixed, nobody should be able to get in and out even by dodging, this is not normal…

What is the “monk” build you’re talking about?

Ok. Because I saw on the forums, don’t remember where, someone supposed to be in cleric armor, but the look was not the same as the draconic set someone showed me yesterday in game. So I guess the guy on the forum has changed the cleric armor look.
As I don’t like the look of the draconic set, it is not “knightish” or “clericish” enough for me if you see what I mean ^^

And why the display name should remain at all time? To me, that a moderator should be able to see it, I agree, this is their job, they have to know who we are… but what about the other players? Knowing who we are really, that the beautiful female elementalist “Amber NightShade” is the same player as the male norn “Sven Eriksson” is none of their business.

(And I’m not just talking about the forums there, but in game too, this is why GW2 is an anti RP game, because only the account matters, not the character)

And about deleting a character, this is why I thought of perhaps a 40 or 60 level requirement to be able to use a character in the forum. People would really be mad to level a character that long just to use it in the forum, and they will not delete it and create another one and level it that long again just for that…

This is as well because of this GW2 “feature”, the fact that if in game you add someone as your friend he will be able to see your display name and he will be able to see all your characters, that I near never add someone as friend, and that I do not post my character picture on the forum or say my character name on the forum, because I don’t want anybody to be able to link my in game character to my forum display name…

Ravenmoon.5318:

Its not so hard to teleport yourself to the heart of the mists from virtually ANY spot of the map, even WVW and then get you back to that same spot.
Are you botting?

I didn’t ever know about this, as I never went into the mist, I’m not that interested into PvP right now in fact.

Someone made a good statement above as well… I remember against a troll, I died, someone revived me, and I died again as the troll was still on me ^^ This “click to revive” button could be useful as well for such situation, waiting for the monster to go a bit farther back before reviving.

ANet should add a new stance then for players in this “wait for revival” position, so other players will not jump to them trying to revive them without the possibility to do so…

About the “teleport somewhere safe”, I near never use the teleport feature, I prefer walking, as teleport is too expensive, and while walking I can find ore source or other things to do or watch… I only teleport when I’m dead, or when I’m in town, as it is free…

And about the botting accusation, certainly not. I’m more the kind of girl that likes to chat a lot while hunting, I take my time, and I never skips any video GW2 is so much beautiful…

Yes in fact I made a mistake, I was talking about display name, not account name. For RP purpose I would like to post with a display name like my character name

Oh thanks I’ll try to find one, as I did not get it at character creation. I have linked my GW1 account though, and I had the eye of the north extension.
I have not put anything in the GW1 hall of monuments though. I have not finished GW1…

Hi,

I have noticed what we buy on the gem store is sometimes character only. A bank storage increases is account wide, because the bank is shared for all accounts. But an added bag slot is just for the character we purchased it. The same with clothes, hats, or other things we can buy on the store.

So imagine you delete your character for whatever reason, if you forgot to store the objects in bank, they are lost forever. And your added bag slots are lost.

You purchase things on the game store with real money… so to me those things you purchase with real money should be account wide.

Or at least, make it so if you delete the object by mistake, or if you delete the character with the added bag slots, you can reclaim those items later on for free on another character.

I started GW2 as soon as it was released. I created a few characters, and I have reclaimed a free item, the GW2 hat. Then I deleted those characters, forgetting I had those hats on. And so now those hats are lost forever…

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Last day I was grouped with someone, waiting for him to come to me. He was tracking me on the map, cannot log out without quitting the group.

So I guess, TJV, you never ever went afk outside capital town? As you know, there’s no safe place outside capital town… I saw someone died at a teleport point one day. Even teleport points are not safe. I’m sure this guy thought this place was safe. But you can never knows what will happen, perhaps an event will spawn, or someone chased by monster will come by and you’ll be killed by those monsters…

Hey a few days ago my daughter just jumped on me. I was unable to reach the keyboard and mouse anymore, so was even unable to log off ^^

You do not always want to do that as well, if for instance you’re in a chat with someone, and you’re waiting for his answer.

There is another reason as well for reviving confirmation, if you’re in the middle of a dangerous place, not afk, but you died, you want to go to a teleport point instead of reviving there but people are reviving you and you have no time teleporting with the map before you’re revived… Paf you’re dead again.

A few weeks ago I had a guardian asura, and I revived someone. Seems this one was afk, so I stayed there acting as her bodyguard, waiting for her to come back. I stayed there 10 minutes. She thanked me after that. Because as a pure hearted guardian, I feel a responsability when I revive someone, and I want to be sure this one is out of harm…

Reviving someone and leaving, letting the revived one dying again, is egoist

So I guess, TJV, that you never ever went afk at any place outside a capital town? Because, you know, no place is safe outside of capital town. You can think somewhere is safe, and be wrong because of an event or anything like that…

You cannot always do that. Hey if the baby is crying, if you’re very hurry to go to toilets, and so on, you do not always have time to find such a place.

Moreover you can think you’re in a safe place, and suddenly an event pops where you are…

I guess you’re quite young, or you do not have a husband/wife or children. When a real life event occurs, you have to handle it at the second, you cannot wait a few minutes to find a safe place…

Hi,

Not anybody will agree with me, but hey… real life is more important than a game, right? There are times you have to go away from keyboard at once, because the baby is crying, or any other good reason.

Or there are times you put yourself AFK in what you think is a safe zone. Sure you can log off, but there are times you do not even have time to do so…

And, when this time arises, you can be in big trouble… imagine… you thought it was a safe zone, and it was not. So monsters are coming, and you died. Right, not a big hassle, you just damages one of your equipment. But then someone comes, revives you, and leave. As you’re still afk, you die again. Someone revives you again. You dies again… and so on, and so on… and soon you’re naked (which is offensive for the eyes, especially if you’re playing a female charr ^^), and it will cost you a lot to repair your stuff.

So, my suggestion would be… than when someone revives you, at the end of the revive process, you do not automatically revive, but you have a popup asking you to click the revive button to finish the reviving process. And you do not revive before you press this button.

This way you can revive only when you’re back in front of the keyboard…

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Hi,

I’m what some people would call a roleplayer. Not a hardcore roleplayer as some, but still a roleplayer.

I love guild wars, and I don’t like WOW very much (please don’t flame me with this), but a feature I loved with WOW was the fact we can post with our character name instead of our account name.

I know guild wars 2 is not really about roleplaying (hey, how can you seriously roleplay in a game where when you add someone as a friend you add his whole account and not just a character ?), but I think allowing to post with a character (instead of with an account name) will be very fine.

Sure we will still log with our account, so for the support and moderators they can see the account behind the character name, to prevent system abuse.

We could even imagine to add some things like being able to post only with a character level 40 or above, this way nobody will create a new character just to hide behind a fictional character. Hey, if you take the time to level a character up to 40, really you deserve the right to post with its name ^^

When I’m in guild wars 2, and the forums is a part of guild wars 2, I’m not “hithlain” anymore (or the real player behind this account name), but I’m (for instance) Marie Aeryal, the female human guardian…

(and I would like the account name to be hidden in game as well, with the way it is now, usually I don’t want to add friends in game, just because I don’t want other players to know my account name and the name of my other characters)

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btw someone in game told me knight or cleric sets are both draconic sets, and look the same, this is the same armor you make with either knight or cleric stats. Is it true?

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In a dungeon, I have read if you go full dps don’t forget to warn your team, as usually guardians are expected to tank, and if you can’t tank that well, your team should be aware of…

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Now my guardian is just 26. Cannot go higher than 10 in any trait until what… level 40, right? I have put 10 in radiance, 5 in virtues, and the remaining for now in the line which increases toughness…

I have not taken blind exposure yet because for now I play with a hammer and as alternate weapon a staff… so I have not seen any way to blind enemies. I’m perhaps wrong though. If I remember well I have taken signet mastery to reduce signet cooldown.

I’ll have to read the guide again… there are so much info, it is hard to remember all this.

Thanks a lot. Your guide, along with the guardian 101 guide (sticky as well), is a great help for me. I love my guardian, as I can do so many different things with a single class…

And even more important… my female guardian looks so cool when idled with her staff in hand (more cool than with the staff in the back so every once in a while I strike in the void just to have her putting her staff in hand), so impressive with a greatsword or hammer, and so cool with anything else

I’ll have to check back to see what traits is at 10 in radiance And what traits to take at 10 and 20 before AH, and at 10 before 2H mastery.

2H mastery is a bit situational I guess. Sure, in your hammer build it is useful, but if I need to change weapons for 1h and off-hand weapons at some times, according to the enemies I’m facing, I guess I ’ll take another trait while I have this…

I don’t agree about the one saying going the AH route is egoistic The goal of the guardian to me is to keep the mob on us and giving boons to others. The AH build does this very well. You’re in front line, keeping the mob on you. While the mob is on you, it does not smash others. So this means you protect others. You give boons to others, so this is not egoist. And doing so you heal yourself, so you survive, to better keep the mob on you. A dead guardian is useless to a party ^^

Thanks a lot for this wonderful build. I will try this. My female gardien looks wonderful and threatening with her two handed hammer, I like it.

I have a question though… this build is supposed to be used for level 80 of course, as all builds are. My gardian is just level 20 right now. Do you have some kind of step by step levelling tips? I mean, what I should aim at first for traits? AH is a grandmaster traits, so I should be 60 to learn it. So, what are the first ones I should learn and in what order?

Thanks

About the initial post. I don’t understand something… the thread title is about cleric kind of guardian but… scepter has no Healing possibility, and the chosen utilities not a lot as well.

The last thread before this one is more about Healing, so perhaps more about what we expect from a cleric, don’t you think?

I’m just level 18 so I have not yet all the above… and I’m trying to figure out how to do a Healing guardian, as I always loved to play cleric class.

Someone in game though told me in dungeon with the big boss that can kill you with a few shots, Healing is not that helpful ^^

What do you use as Healing skill? The one which removes alteration?