Do you have to study the game mechanics to get a usable character? - Page 2 - Guild Wars Forums

Azarkar · Feb 10, 2012, 10:32 PM // 22:32

My first MMO type game was ASHERON's Call. I LOVED that game like no other, perhaps because it was my first love of a 3D persistent world. However.. I understand what the OP is saying, if you made a mistake in spec points on a character... you were indeed GIMPED.... with no recourse for a fix.

By now the OP has received helpful and hopeful advice from good sharing above. Let me just echo, since I know what you are referring about and scared about, you really can not gimp a character in GW. A little reading to learn how others play the classes you wish to play will be helpful, but any perceived mistake you think you have.. can literally be corrected in seconds. :-)

Thalen · Feb 11, 2012, 04:18 PM // 16:18

Don't be afraid to play with your attribute points, or hero setups, or if you've not got heroes, then which henchmen you bring. I've seen a lot of the meta builds, but playing the game is different - one set-up does not cover every encounter. Sometimes minions are really helpful, sometimes they wreck things. Sometimes you want to give up a bit of damage because you need more healing, and sometimes a different form of damage and a different strategy is more effective against a different enemy.

I really like that about the game, and that you can rearrange things for each encounter if you need to do.

Feb 10, 2012, 10:32 PM // 22:32	#21
Azarkar Academy Page Join Date: Dec 2010	My first MMO type game was ASHERON's Call. I LOVED that game like no other, perhaps because it was my first love of a 3D persistent world. However.. I understand what the OP is saying, if you made a mistake in spec points on a character... you were indeed GIMPED.... with no recourse for a fix. By now the OP has received helpful and hopeful advice from good sharing above. Let me just echo, since I know what you are referring about and scared about, you really can not gimp a character in GW. A little reading to learn how others play the classes you wish to play will be helpful, but any perceived mistake you think you have.. can literally be corrected in seconds. :-)

Feb 11, 2012, 04:18 PM // 16:18	#22
Thalen Ascalonian Squire Join Date: Jan 2012	Don't be afraid to play with your attribute points, or hero setups, or if you've not got heroes, then which henchmen you bring. I've seen a lot of the meta builds, but playing the game is different - one set-up does not cover every encounter. Sometimes minions are really helpful, sometimes they wreck things. Sometimes you want to give up a bit of damage because you need more healing, and sometimes a different form of damage and a different strategy is more effective against a different enemy. I really like that about the game, and that you can rearrange things for each encounter if you need to do.