This fight is easy, but you should pretend its hard anyway because this is your big chance to get a grip on the combat. Watch the cutscene.Īt the end of the tutorial you’ll have a boss fight. To my knowledge, this is the only place in the game where it restricts you like this. It’s specifically designed to ding you level 2 when the tutorial ends, so there’s no benefit to killing extra guys. There’s no reason to linger in the tutorial. Most of them are focused on “Summon or transform into something AWESOME” with a long cooldown. You can slot passive abilities, add more attacks, or maybe give yourself some type of escape ability.Įlite Skill: It’s another utility slot, but for a more powerful sort of ability. Again, this solves the control panel problem by making you choose the powers that suit your playstyle. You’ll have lots of possible powers to choose from, but you’re only able to slot three of them at a time. Utility Skills: You’ll unlock these slots as you level up. It’s more about strategy and playstyle than using the “best”. The last one is for cautious players who hate dying. The second is good for fighting exotic foes, bosses, or for PvP situations. The first one is good for “all-in” type players who generally fight to the death. Maybe you want a heal that gives a boost to running speed to aid your escape. Or the heal that will restore modest hitpoints and cure poison, fear, blindness, or whatever other hoodoo the bad guys put on you. However, you can only have one slotted at a time. Later on, you’ll gain access to other healing abilities. Self Heal: You start the game with a simple heal. The same five powers? All the time? Doesn’t that get boring?!?! No, for the same reason that Batman: Arkham City isn’t boring with just four combat buttons. This means that using a sword and mace is different from using a mace and sword. Note that in the case of one-handed weapons, powers 1-3 are for your main hand and 4&5 are for the off hand. For an elementalist, the staff has lots of long-range powers that you’ll use if you’re fighting dangerous foes at a distance, while the smaller scepter has close-range attacks that are usually good for mopping up mooks. You don’t choose your weapon by looking at the pure damage numbers and picking the higher one, you choose your weapon based on what you need to be doing at the moment. The two-handed sword might focus on raw damage output while the sledge might feature knockdowns and knockbacks.
This fixes the problem of the overabundance of toolbars and buttons, thus keeping your focus on the middle of the screen where the action is taking place.Ī warrior with a two-handed sword will have one set of abilities, but if they switch to a sledgehammer they will have five different ones, and if they use a sword and shield they will have yet another set. You change these powers by changing the type of weapons you’re holding. You don’t spend the game acquiring new concurrent abilities until your screen looks like the dashboard of the space shuttle. You get dropped into the world and it should look like this: It’s all about flavor and, possibly, a very mild dash of actual roleplaying through dialog. As of this writing, I’m not aware of any mechanical difference between these. By mid-game all the personal stories generally converge, so what you’re really doing is selecting your starting quests. None of this is a huge deal, so don’t sweat it. Sometimes you’ll get to choose a bit of gear. Some of these are minor or cosmetic, while others will have a significant impact on your personal questline. You have to pick a few bits of information about your character background. Just pick one that sounds good and get on with it. The classes are radically different, but they’re all self-sufficient. Everyone can do burst single-target damage. While not all classes are equal, they should all be able to deal damage and heal damage to some degree. Just remember that this game does away with the long-standing Holy Trinity.
Using starter weapons! Naked! While drunk, both in-game and IRL! It was piss easy! You must really suck.” “You died fighting Murdaar the Murderer, the Legendary Elite Champion Veteran Badass Boss King? Pfft. And for everyone saying class X is too weak, there are a dozen people claiming your’re just playing it wrong. This early in the lifespan of a game, you can find criticisms of every class. That discussion is messy, complicated, and prone to heated debate and chest thumping.
I’m not going to cover race or class selection.
Or maybe you don’t have the game because you’re a big meanie who hates innovation, but you want to know what sorts of vibrant new ideas you’re boycotting. You’ve heard this game is a little different from other online games, and you’re wondering what you need to know. So you’ve got Guild Wars 2 and you’re ready to get started.
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