Players that choose to go with the Guardian class will be in for some nifty customisation with their traits and skills.
Skills and traits will ultimately assist you in creating an unstoppable force against the enemy.
Let's begin with traits.
There are a couple of different traits that will be used to develop your guardian. Primary (character) traits and weapon traits. Primary traits can be split into two categories: Valor and Honor. Several traits in each tree all have separate names and or distinguished as minor or major, minor giving a small advantage to a skill or attribute, and major obviously giving something with a little more substance.
Listed are a few sample primary traits:
- Honor
- Minor
- Minor Vitality
- +10 Vitality
- Minor Toughness
- +10 Toughness
- Major Precision
- +25 Precision
- Major
- Superior Power
- +75 Power
- Valor
- Minor
- Shielding Hands
- Your allies receive Aegis when you revive them
- Bond of Wrath
- Your allies gain Might and Smite
- Major
- Altruism
- Virtues recharge faster
- Resolution's Renewal
- Gain more health from Virtue of Resolve
Of course, you're probably wondering what all these terms mean. Allow me to explain the attributes briefly (more expanding on these with a later post).
In Guild Wars 2, there are going to be four attributes that all characters will have. It is one layer of the customisable features for you character. The four attributes are Power, Toughness, Vitality and Precision. Boosting an attribute will in some way, shape or form give your character a benefit in a particular area of combat. They do the following:
Power
If you're into blowing your opponent away offensively, this is the attribute that you will want to enhance. Power increases all damage done through melee, ranged and magical means.
Toughness
Toughness is a defensive attribute. Increase your toughness if you want to withstand damage from your character. It is particularly effective against lots of small damage outbursts from an opponent. It will not increase your health as such, that is left for...
Vitality
If you want your character to have a massive health pool, you'll have to in some way stack Vitality. Vitality will help a lot with absorbing large incoming blows, and will help you stay alive a lot longer.
Precision
If you like critical hits, Precision is for you. Up the precision for your character and you will find you will score more critical hits on an opponent, effectively increasing your damage output.
Of course, the way attributes work mechanically and with each other as part of the game are a little more complicated, but that is the essential drift of them.
Jumping back into Traits, the other type of trait you will have to inevitably think about are weapon traits. Each weapon trait is determined by the weapon you wield. The Guardian will be able to use the following weapons (with a recommended use):
- Two-handed
- Hammer
- Close range AoE (Area of Effect) attacks
- Greatsword
- Increase allies movement speed, also known as swiftness, or dictate foes with leaping attacks
- Staff
- Defensive support for allies and AoE warding and controlling of enemies
- Main-hand
- Mace
- A good support weapon, chain attacks
- Scepter
- Effective for single target offensive spellcasting
- Sword
- Provides balance of offense and defense
- Off-hand
- Focus
- Provides balance of offense and defense
- Shield
- Great for defending against AoE attacks
- Torch
- Deals damage to enemies while cleansing allies
- Aquatic
- Spear
- Excels in close range with rapid attacks
- Trident
- Magically provides long range support
Several other traits will be able to be used with each weapon. All of which I'll cover in later posts as this is supposed to be an introduction!
Going on from weapons, the Guardian will have a particular skill set. Although the weapon of choice will dictate to an extent the skills you can use, there will be other core abilities available.
In the next post, I'll start from step one and begin to show you what skills can be used with which weapon, and shed some insight on which situations would be best to use them.
Until then, keep it geeky!
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