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My Feedback on BWE2

Guardian In WvWvW :

Its survivable, it has good utility –Its useful to have Guardian in group – sometimes it helps a lot.
However there are issues.
Solutions:
Shorten cool downs on shields, walls and dome abilities. They are quite useful, but they are quite short, and on long cool downs.
Convert Wall of Reflection to a dome, to make it useful in gate sieges.

Guardian Weapons:

Mace – Shorten the casting on protector’s strike
Sceptre - 1200 range is needed
Shield - Now shields armour is too low, compared to overall armour
Staff – Make the Staff’s Line of Warding absorb projectiles. Or lower the cool down and the duration, making it an ability you can use more frequently but remain balanced.
Rework the staff a bit.
Increase the speed of orb of light.
Another suggestion for the Staff – Make the staff more like the trident in general.

Symbols:

Guardians really need symbols that can “move”. Maybe bound to a Guardian like an aura. The fact that the boons are applied over time is making them considerably weaker to comparable buffs from other classes. Symbols are poor for most situations. They are placed on the ground at your location and give little in terms of benefits unless you are inside of them, which means that you must stay in an area little bigger than your character to benefit from the symbol. 

Health:

This is too low for a class that will be focused a lot, Guardians are tied with the lowest base health in the game

Mobility:

Signet of Judgement 240 range – Way too small -> Radius of 450
Symbols 120 range – Completely Ridiculous -> Radius of 450
Protectors Strike(Mace) 130 range – Completely Ridiculous -> Radius of 300
Sanctuary 120 Range – A bit too small for a long cool down -> Radius of 200

This will make the above abilities useful and still call for the Guardian to be mobile in order to maximize his usefulness.

Traits:

The honour tree traits are poorly distributed, the shout options should be available in a lower tier.
Signet of Mercy – Make Signet of Mercy heal more than one ally or lower the cool down.
The trait that gives allies 30 toughness does not stack from multiple guardians, it should.

Downed:

Downed State needs to be changed for the next BWE, its very poor.

PVP - The Crux, Choice

I have been reading the Guild wars 2 forums and I notice a common issue accross multiple threads.

Complaints I have read:

I can not queue with friends.
I have to do the tutorial every time i create a character for pvp.
I have to go into the mists to queue for pvp rather than press a button like GW2.

The responses have been less than helpful. Claiming that they are not large issues. sure they don't take time but they do however remove player choice.

It is a common theme in MMO, developers restrict choice to make things easier for themselves or so content they have an emotional connection to is not bypassed.

My solution:

Give the players the chance to choose if they want to do something.

Choose solo or grouped queuing.

Be able to Queue from mists or from the interface.

Be able to repeat or skip the tutorial.

My main critics m of the new trait system is based on this. The old system gave me more freedom. it was nerfed to suit developers inability to balance. Bring back choice.

Give you customer choice and freedom.

PvP Tournaments Guild Wars 2

• Introduction:
  • If you want to play as a team with your friends, then tournaments are a great way to do that!!! Down the road we’ll have multiple types of tournaments with varying levels of rewards, but this weekend we’re showing our Free Quick Tournaments!!!
• Maps:
  • All tournament games this weekend will be on Forest of Niflhel. Down the road, there will be more variety for maps, but for the weekend, this will be it!
• How to join a tournament:
  • ONE MEMBER of your team should talk to the “Tournament Master” npc in the Heart of the Mists (PvP Lobby). This will start the process of making your roster!
  • Select Quick Tournament (Free) and hit “Create Roster”. Only one team member needs to do this! ?
  • The roster leader can then add friends, party members, or people in the PvP Lobby to the roster! Other members of the roster must accept the roster invite in order to join the roster. All roster members can invite additional members once they have joined.
  • Once your roster is ready (5 players total), the roster leader can press “submit” to submit your roster for the tournament.
  • Wait for your tournament to start. Once your roster is submitted for a tournament you will have a new “Tournament” icon in the top left hand corner of your screen.
  • You can mouse over this icon to see the current state of the tournament (waiting to submit roster, the number of teams submitted for the tournament, etc). We will add more info to this icon after the beta weekend!
  • Each tournament will be 8 teams and 3 rounds. If you lose you are out, but you can talk to the Tournament Master to join another tournament. If you win, you move on to the next round, until a victor is decided!
  • You will return to the lobby after each round of the tournament. If you lose, you can join a new tournament. If you win, you will be alerted when the next round begins!
  • Rewards are distributed based on performance once a tournament is complete. You will not receive rewards until the entire tournament is finished.
  • Once the tournament is ready to being, or a new round starts, you will be prompted to join. You can go immediately, or you can finish what you were doing.
  • Both teams can start a match early by making sure all 5 players from each team have checked “ready”. The game will start automatically after a certain amount of time if this does not happen, in order to keep all tournament games on the same time schedule.
• Tournament rewards:
  • 1st place – 1 Gold Chest, 300 glory, 300 rank points
  • 2nd place – 1 Silver Chest, 200 glory, 200 rank
  • 3rd place – 1 Copper Chest, 100 glory, 100 rank points
  • 4th place – 1 Copper Chest, 100 glory, 100 rank points
  • 5th place – TRY AGAIN! ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!
  • 6th place – YOU CAN DO IT!!!
  • 7th place – KEEP AT IT, YOU ARE JAWESOME!
  • 8th place – I BELIEVE IN YOU, NOTHING CAN STOP YOU!!!!!

Guild Wars 2 Structured PVP

PvP Combat Basics:

• Buying new gear
  • You can buy all the basic weapon types available to your profession for free. You can try weapon combos by getting items from the vendors and equipping them while you are out of combat. You can change the look of your items by getting chests, which contain aesthetic variations on all the basic weapons. All weapons can be augmented with sigils, which you can get from the weapons vendor in the PvP lobby.
  • Rings and accessories have been removed. We are ONLY USING THE AMULETS NOW IN PvP, so once you get an amulet, that’s all you need!
• Conquest
  • The first team to 500 wins. Make sure that you’re trying to fight inside of the capture points to maintain control. You can also “bait” your opponents to fight in the open, and try to get them to fight you in areas of the map that help your team, but hurt your opponents. Scoring for secondaries.
• Maps
  • Explain Siege and Forest secondary mechanics.
• Stomping
  • Learn when to stomp! If an enemy is down, they can get up on their own if you leave them. Be sure to stomp an enemy when you have the chance, or their allies might revive them! Stomping can also rally allies if they are downed when you stomp your foe, and have done damage to that target!
• Revive
  • This is the other side of the downed experience. If an ally is down, try to revive them as soon as you can so they can get back in the fight. But only do so when it’s safe! If you’re being attacked, defend yourself, defeat your enemies, and then try to rally your allies when you’re able.
• Healing
  • Be careful when using your heal! It can get you out of a bad situation, but once you use it, the recharge will keep you from using it for a while. Use your heal wisely!
• Dodging
  • Dodging is available any time you have at least HALF of your endurance bar! When you dodge, you evade any incoming attacks/projectiles, so try to time y our dodges when you see large AOE’s coming, or powerful enemy attacks!
• Melee vs ranged
  • Melee, on average, does more damage than ranged attacks, but range obviously has the advantage if it can keep melee attackers at distance. This is where conditions, blocking, and good use of dodging come in! Let’s break down a simplified version of how this works in game:
    • As the melee player:
      • You want to be sure to get into melee so that you can dish out the pain on your opponent. Then you want to use snares/immobilizes/knockdowns to keep your target close. It’s also a good idea to carry a ranged weapon as your second weapon set so you can finish off targets at range!
      • Example: Let’s use Sword/Shield warrior as an example. You know your opponent wants to snare you or keep you at range. You can dodge towards your opponent, use Savage Leap, and then dodge again. This will give you an evasion, a movement, and then another evasion. Once you’re close to your opponent you can use your Shield Bash to stun your target, and then use Hamstring to keep them in melee. Most opponents will try to “flail” and use any knockback or snare they have available, so you can predict this, and use your Shield Block to prevent these skills from hitting you.
    • As the ranged player:
      • You need to find a good balance of keeping your opponent at range while also dishing out the damage. If you just do one or the other, you may lose the fight. If you see an opponent doding towards you, DO not fire your snares/knockbacks. Save them until you know they will land. If you see them getting too close, don’t forget that you can use your own dodge to reset the range of the fight. Try to use your dodges and snare skills to keep the fight at a distance.
      • Example: Let’s use a Longbow Ranger as our example of a ranged class. If you see someone coming to attack you, try to get them to run through a Barrage on the way in, which Cripples. You will need to use skills 1, 2, and 3 for damage, and your goal here is to get them to use their heal. You can use Point Blank shot in a few different ways in this matchup, depending on what you need. You can open with it to keep your opponent at range, and combo it with Barrage to make sure your Cripple lands. You can also save it as a “oh crap!” button in case your opponent is pressuring you too hard. Lastly, you can damage your opponent and then watch for them to heal, and interrupt the heal with your Point Blank shot. In addition to all of this, you need to use your dodges carefully. Sometimes you may want to use them at the start of a fight to maintain distance, or you may need to use them mid-fight to get away from your opponent.

Classes:

All PvP professions have a default template they use. Now I’ll walk you through each of these templates and how they work! Remember that you can change these templates as you see fit, so try new things, explore new builds, and most of all, have fun!

Warrior

Starting loadout:

• Weapons: Axe/Axe and Rifle
• Healing skill: Healing Surge
• Utilities:
  • Stomp
  • Endure Pain
  • Signet of Might
• Elite: Rampage

Axe/axe will allow you to quickly build adrenaline and spike targets with Eviscerate. If your opponent is too far away, don’t be afraid to switch over to rifle to finish them off at range! Stomp is a great all around skill (you can use it to protect yourself, to interrupt enemies trying to stomp allies, etc). Save your Endure Pain until you need it – it can save you, but it has a long recharge. Activate your Signet of Might when you need a big spike in damage.

Guardian

Starting loadout:

• Weapons: Mace/Shield and Staff
• Healing skill: Healing breeze
• Utilities:
  • Stand Your Ground
  • Merciful Intervention
  • Bow of truth
• Elite: Sanctuary

Mace and shield allow for a LOT of defense if you’re being targeted. Use your Staff when you have allies around, as it works well as a support weapon. “Stand Your Ground!” is great for stopping enemy control effects against you and your allies. Bow of Truth can keep conditions off of you and allies, and don’t be afraid to activate your Virtues (F skills) skills depending on the situation. Proper use of “Merciful Intervention” can turn many battles, and this, combined with your Valors, makes this a great support build.

Ranger

Starting loadout:

• Weapons: Longbow and Greatsword
• Healing skill: Heal as One
• Utilities:
  • Signet of the Hunt
  • Spike Trap
  • Sharpening Stone
• Elite: Rampage as One

The default template for the Ranger allows you to play a very balanced style – you can handle yourself in melee and at range. Use your Greatsword if the enemy gets too close, and swap to Longbow once you can establish range between you and your target. Sharpening Stones and Spike Trap will both give you some more condition pressure from your utility skills, and Signet of the Hunt lets your pet add a lot of damage to a spike.

Engineer

Starting loadout:

• Weapons: Rifle
• Healing skill: Healing Turret
• Utilities:
  • Rifle Turret
  • Rocket Turret
  • Tool Kit
• Elite: Supply Crate

This build allows the Engineer to shine as a “holding” class. You’re able to use your turrets to add damage to any fight, but you have to keep your enemy close to them in order for them to be effective. Tool Kit compliments the turrets and allows for more control. Your Rifle also has great control skills on it. All of this (combined with Supply Crate as your elite) adds up to a build that allows the Engineer to hold an area against multiple foes until allies can arrive to help.

Thief

Starting loadout:

• Weapons: Pistol/Pistol and Dagger/Dagger
• Healing skill: Hide in Shadows
• Utilities:
  • Spider Venom
  • Signet of Shadows
  • Haste
• Elite: Basilisk Venom

Dual Pistols and dual Daggers provide the Thief with a lot of versatility. And that’s exactly what this Thief build wants – the versatility to pounce on targets of opportunity. Spider Venom is a great way to shut down an opponent’s heal skill – when they go to heal themselves, they will receive less healing if poisoned. Basilisk Venom can be used in many ways, to interrupt a heal, to prevent the revival of a teammate and to keep an opponent in place. Signet of Shadows can be used to stop a foe so you can retreat, or it can be used to stop a foe trying to flee. If you find yourself stunned, use your stun breaker – Haste. It also allows you to attack faster (to make sure you land your poisons at the key time) and speeds up how fast you revive allies and stomp foes.

Elementalist

Starting loadout:

• Weapons: Staff
• Healing skill: Glyph of Elemental Harmony
• Utilities:
  • Signet of Fire
  • Arcane Power
  • Mist Form
• Elite: Tornado

As an Elementalist using a Staff, you’ll be able to do a little bit of everything, but you’ll have to use your attunements well to fit the situation. Signet of Fire and Arcane Power will increase your damage output and Mist Form functions as one of the best escape skills in the game (it’s also a stun breaker!). You won’t be able to stand up to too much damage, so be sure to use your control skills to keep enemies away from you. If your opponents leave you alone, you’ll be able to cause considerable area damage in fire attunement, but you’ll be vulnerable while doing so.

Mesmer

Starting loadout:

• Weapons: Scepter/Torch
• Healing skill: Ether Feast
• Utilities:
  • Illusion of Life
  • Null Field
  • Veil of Invisibility
• Elite: Moa Morph

Tricks, tricks and tricks. That’s what you’re all about as a Mesmer. You don’t want to stand toe-to-toe with other classes if you can help it, but you can punish your opponents for not paying attention. Illusion of Life allows you to revive allies for a short time if they’re downed – just when your enemy thinks they’ve taken an ally down, plant some doubt in their mind! Null Field is a versatile skill that can rip down pesky boons, or keep conditions off allies. If you allies need to get away from enemies, or if you want to plan a surprise attack, you can use Veil of Invisibility to turn the odds in your favor. The ace up your sleeve is Moa Morph. You can use it to shut an enemy down so you can finish them in a weakened form, or you can use it to greatly hinder an enemy while you retreat to a safer position.

Necromancer

Starting loadout:

• Weapons: Axe/Warhorn
• Healing skill: Blood Fiend
• Utilities:
  • Spectral Armor
  • Poison Cloud
  • Bone Fiend
• Elite: Plague

For a caster, you’ll feel pretty durable as a Necromancer if you use your Death Shroud well. If your Death Shroud is low, be careful and don’t get in over your head, but when it’s full, try to draw as much attention as you can – you have extra life that you need to dispose of! The Axe/Warhorn combo will allow you to have a lot of physical damage, as well as some utility from your Warhorn skills. Spectral Armor will allow you to deal with being spiked. Poison Cloud is a great way to deny space to enemies – if they stay in it, they’ll be poisoned, and all their heals will be decreased – helping you to win the attrition battle. Your fiends give you some added damage, and don’t forget to sacrifice them when it suits your needs.

Latest Guild Wars 2 interview material

Some highlights from reddit.

P5. How come Guardians are the only Profession that are limited in range abilities? Everyone else has true-ranged skills, but Guardians have skills that can't go up inclines/ledges (they don't travel through the air, but on the ground)!
I actually updated those skills since the last BWE. Give scpeter a try I tried to make this the ranged option, particularly in WvW for Guardian.

Jon Peters - Systems Designer - Jon

PVP1. Are there any plans on making a PvP type that can transit into an eSport?
Please give our automatic tournaments a try this weekend. This is our first step towards e-sport. :)
PVP2. It's been previously stated that spectator-mode for PvP won't be available until sometime after launch, any idea about an ETA when we can expect it?
It will be based on how simple it is to add and how requested it is. :)
PVP3. Can we, or are you planning on implementing - a way for players to duel each other?
We intend to have dueling post release, but when will depend on how demanded it is and how easy it is for us to get it into the game. ECHO!

Jon Peters - Systems Designer - Jon

There were a number of problems with the old system that we felt required a change. We believe this new system keeps the spirit of the old system, while actually working better in the long run. Here are the problems we believe this change solve:
1) Best builds were all 30,10,10,10,10. There was always a super strong trait in every line which made each player only put 10 points into that trait line and still gain a very powerful benefit. In the new system this will still be true, but it will be tempered because people will be giving up going 20 or 30 points into multiple lines. This has allowed us to shift traits around so that more of them get play at different levels, meaning they don’t all have to compete against each other at tier 1.
2) This system is so much easier to balance. It is not reasonable to make 12 equally useful traits, particularly given how some of them had niche effects. Making 12 equal traits is harder, takes longer and ultimately leads to some traits seeing a lot less use. Finally an important point is that balance creates more choice as well because unbalanced and bad builds aren’t really options. The old system created a very small subset of über-builds which stomped out a lot of the good builds along with the bad ones.
3) Opportunity Costs are what make interesting choices. Trait tiers allow us to split the traits. 6 allowed in slot 1, 10 (6 tier 1 and 4 tier 2) allowed in slot 2, and 12(6 tier 1, 4 tier 2 and 2 tier 3) allowed in slot 3. The final 2 tier 3 traits are "elite"-like, in the sense that you can only ever have one of them on your build at once. If I'm making a damage warrior I am going to put 30 points into strength, same as every other big damage warrior, but now those characters are all guaranteed to be split at least in half forcing you to not take one of the two exclusive final traits. Before, anytime a character went 30 points in a line they were taking the same 3 (maybe 3 out of 4) traits.
4) Option Shock. New players at level 20 were clicking on a trait line for the first time and seeing 12 options which was very overwhelming. This gives them a bit of a reprieve to pick between a smaller number of traits at first and then learn more as they have played their character more.
5) Putting 30 points into a line left you with a climax of picking the third most interesting trait which did not feel good. Players want to feel like that decision to go 30 is a big decision and that when they make it they get to make a big decision that simply could not happen in the old system. Now when you commit to 30 points you are rewarded with an important choice as well as options that you didn't previously have.
Finally, these are not the final balance numbers or often even the final traits/functionality and we will be iterating on this system as we move towards release. I know for certain there are already a number of changes I wish I could have made before this weekend, but they will have to wait until next time. If you had a really fun build before this change and it is lost now, post it in our beta forums and we can figure out how to make it viable. The intention here was not to remove fun, good builds but to create more viable builds that will increase the variety of characters in the game. 

Jon Peters - Systems Designer - Jon

The gap between T1, T2, and T3 should be noticeable but not game breaking. There are plenty of builds that I currently run that do not use T3 traits despite going 30 points in a specific line.

Jon Peters - Systems Designer - Jon 

The plan for guild cap is that guilds will be able to gain influence to up their cap. How this will work is not exactly determined yet, but the current limit of 100 is lower than the maximum a guild will be able to achieve.

Jon Peters - Systems Designer - Jon 

We intend to support spectator mode at some point, but right now we are focused on core features to get the game into your hands so that you as the players can help us determine the course of future updates.

Jon Peters - Systems Designer - Jon 

In this BWE we are introducing tournmaments which will allow you to PvP with friends. We have also made some improvements to the hot join games allowing you to follow friends into games via a chat link and will continue to improve these now and after release as well.

Jon Peters - Systems Designer - Jon 

Tournaments, which are in this BWE, are the equivilent of GvG in GW2. Players will be able to form teams and enter the most basic form of tournaments this weekend. More tournament support is incoming.

Jon Peters - Systems Designer - Jon  

Oh yeah we fixed the UI so you can see all traits in a line before spending points! :)

Jon Peters - Systems Designer - Jon  

This was a bug and should now be working as intended. Some of the problems may stil exists but it is our intention that WvW is on equivilent footing reward wise in every way to PvE. 

Jon Peters - Systems Designer - Jon  

The plan for guild cap is that guilds will be able to gain influence to up their cap. How this will work is not exactly determined yet, but the current limit of 100 is lower than the maximum a guild will be able to achieve.

Jon Peters - Systems Designer - Jon  

Very good coordinated WvWvW group

good elementalist solo play here

What makes Guild Wars 2 great

Tips for Beta weekend.

A guildy directed me to this useful post.

Guild Wars 2 Designer

Some PvP stuff at 4 mins.

Why play Guild Wars 2

I found this excellent review.

Some highlights here.

My love affair with Guild Wars 2 started as early as the character creation screen. Long burned out on playing variants of mages, warriors, and rogues in MMORPGs, I gravitated to the Engineer, a support class of sorts that combines steampunk-inspired gadgetry and firearms with alchemical prowess. While the class' damage isn't where I'd prefer, I never tired of bombarding my magic or sword-wielding opponents with loads of buckshot or blasts from my rocket turret. I even liked the weapon setup -- combat abilities in Guild Wars 2 change according to which weapon you're using, which means that many classes constantly switch them out for greater effectiveness. Engineers are a little more steadfast. Using a rifle, for instance, allows me to cast a net that immobilizes my enemy; using a shield and a pistol allows me to let loose a devastating knockback. Combat still relies on lock-ons and tab targeting for the most part, but the ability to dodge attacks (by double-tapping the directional keys a la Age of Conan) and chase enemies while firing my pistol somehow made the combat more exciting than TERA's, which usually requires you to stand still to let loose a spell.

One place where players do get chatty is the world-vs-world battlegrounds, where entire servers battle each other for control of key points on a gigantic battlefield in the nebulous Mists. Even better, you can jump into these almost right after you've created your character. Participation was a little lackluster (likely due to the relatively small amount of players in the beta), but the excitement coming across from a full-scale battle in the wastes always leaves a good impression. This is more than mere player slaughter; world-vs-world PvP allows for full-blown sieges in which players build catapults and trebuchets to knock down the walls and gates of keeps, while players in those keeps can bombard their assailants with mortars and cannons. In feels much more like real medieval warfare than what we get in most fantasy-themed MMOs, and the rush of breaking down a gate and slaughtering a keep's inhabitants is one I'm looking forward to experiencing again at launch.

So far, however, 18 levels in, Guild Wars 2 looks like a contender that lives up to the hype. It's polished, too -- I only discovered one major bug during my entire weekend jaunt (in which none of the slaves I freed seem to care that I was freeing them), and my framerates only sagged among the player mobs at the Shadow Behemoth. I can't think of a single setting that I didn't find worthy of a screenshot, and I like the ways in which Guild Wars 2 styles itself as a game you can get something out of whether you spend 30 minutes or six hours in it. Does that means it's the prophesied WoW killer? Not necessarily, but its mechanics take the evolution of the genre in many logical directions, and that already puts Guild Wars 2 ahead of many of its competitors. Oh, and did I mention that Guild Wars 2 has no subscription fee? Wow.

The Mesmer

A friend is looking for a profession in Guild Wars 2.

I have been directing him towards the Mesmer.

Racial Skills

Microtransactions

The arena net Blog has released some information on Microtransactions.http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif

The information of note seems to be:

We think players should have the opportunity to spend money on items that provide visual distinction and offer more ways to express themselves.

They should also be able to spend money on account services and on time-saving convenience items.

This begs the question what a time saving convenience, enhanced xp boost perhaps? In Lord of the Rings Online’s Cash Shop Turbine sells advantages to players. Is this the way GW2 will go?

gems are the currency that’s bought and used to purchase microtransactions.

If you want something, whether it’s an in-game item or a microtransaction, you ultimately have two ways to get it: you can play to earn gold or you can use money to buy gems. We think that’s important, because it lets more players participate on a level playing field, whether they use their free time or their disposable income to do it.

MMO veterans will note the similarities of our system to EVE Online’s PLEX system.

A new Toy

I have been playing around with this skill tool for Guild Wars 2

Have fun with it. I came up with this for defence and this for offence.

These traits came to mind.

A durability build might look like

this

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A dps build might look like this



A healing build.



A guildy also suggested this. Its a signature generator.



There are, theoretically, 32 completely different combinations for how you can place your trait points(in incements of 5), and that is just talking about distributions, not even the specific lines you’re speccing into.

Traits - Min maxing your Guild Wars 2 Profession

One of my favorite past times in an MMO is min/maxing my character.

Min-maxing is the practice of playing a role-playing game, wargame or video game with the intent of creating the "best" character by means of minimizing undesired or unimportant traits and maximizing desired ones. This is usually http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifaccomplished by improving one specific trait or ability by sacrificing ability in all other fields. This is easier to accomplish in games where attributes are generated from a certain number of points rather than in ones where they are randomly generated. Min-maxing is particularly common in games where the cost of traits does not reflect their expected usefulness; for instance, in a combat-heavy game a player may focus on physical traits, giving a character abnormally low mental and social skills so that the remaining points can all be channeled to physical statistics that are more likely to come into play.

Now we have some information on how we will bbe able to do so in Guild Wars 2 using traits and attributes.

The highlights from me from this post were:

Attributes are organised into offense, support, and profession-specific attributes.

From the perspective of a would be Guardian the following stuck me as useful.

Support - Concentration: Improves the duration of all boons applied by the character. Compassion: Improves all outgoing heals that your character does, including self heals.

Profession-Specific Attributes - Willpower (guardian) — Decreases the recharge on all virtues.


Guardian Traits:

Zeal: Power and Concentration.
Radiance: Precision and Expertise.
Valor: Toughness and Prowess.
Honor: Vitality and Compassion.
Virtues: Malice and Willpower.

From level 11 to 80, you receive one trait point per level. This means that every level 80 character will be assigning 70 points to help define their character.

Investing 5, 15, and 25 points in a single line will award the player a minor trait, which are unique bonuses that are dependent upon the number of points invested as well as the specific trait line in question. Think of these traits as a set of abilities that are designed to work well together and to help suggest a particular build or play style to the player.

Investing 10, 20, and 30 points in a single line will unlock a major trait slot for the player. Each line has 12 different major traits that may be slotted into a major trait slot. These are major upgrades to player abilities and are designed to provide a lot of customization.

In competitive PvP, you have a separately saved trait build and can respec free of charge.

The Guardian in PVP

This is the only pvp specific action I have found for the Guardian. It touches on some of its potential.

Mass RvR - and other titbits

Will Guild Wars 2 brings Mass RvR.

It seems that at least it will bring 100v100v100



Arena Nets Blog does a very good job in describing it in detail.

Here are the highlights for me:

we needed to make some absolutely gigantic maps—four of them.

Each objective on a map is worth points for the team that captures it. We periodically tally the point total for each server and add that total to their War Score, which accumulates over the length of a persistent two-week battle.

If you don’t quite have the numbers to go after a keep, there are quite a few smaller towers placed around the countryside. These more modest fortificatihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifons are perfect for smaller groups to assault and defend. But just like the larger keeps, towers have their own sets of defenses you’ll have to deal with, including a compliment of NPC guards and destroyable gates and walls.

We wanted to make WvW fun and easy to get into, so there’s no level grinding required—you can just hop into the battle using your normal PvE character, regardless of what level you are.

you continue to gain experience and new items while playing in the Mists. Players you kill will drop loot for you just like slain monsters in PvE.

A deluge of information is linked here.

Guild Wars 2

My Blog has been dead for a while but I am considering resurecting it for Guild Wars 2.

Mrs Wiggles is in retirement but I may make a return as a Guardian.





Here is a game play taster for the class.



The official site is Guardian