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LicensedLuny · Jan 29, 2008, 08:53 PM // 20:53

The stuff about the worms (junundu) and the siege devourers is a lot more detail than you need right now. GW has no mounts. Those two things are only active in certain explorable areas. You don't get to keep them to use whenever/wherever you want.

As for healing allies, yeah, like they said. All professions have some sort of self heal (though it may be conditional,) and rangers get comfort animal to heal/res their pet. As a R/E don't worry much about healing anyone but yourself or your pet. R/E isn't a character to bring along for keeping other people healed.

Have fun in pre-searing, explore about. When you're ready, you'll get to somewhere where you'll usually go out to fight with other players or henchmen in your party. At that point, you'll find the party screen more useful.

The pre-searing areas are deceptive about GW being a team game. Almost all of presearing is done on a solo basis. Once you get to post-searing (the later part, don't worry, you'll get there,) you'll always be going out with a team (probably you and henchies most of the time at first) unless you're running a very specific build to solo-farm certain creatures. As a new character and new GW player, really, don't worry about solo stuff yet.

Regarding your most recent post, no, splitting attributes between marksmanship and swordsmanship isn't a great idea. The most attribute points your character will ever have will be 200. Sounds like a lot, but it's really not enough to be uber-leet-sword-AND-bow-killer, go with either uber-leet-sword-killer OR uber-leet-bow-killer.

It's more efficient for the ranger to have maxed out marksmanship and the warrior to have maxed out swordsmanship than two W/R or R/W with their points split up.

If you want to try out warrior, by all means, make a warrior, too! You should have at least four character slots to play with. But I don't recommend deleting your ranger just yet. Play him for a while, do the quests. Getting yourself to the later areas of the game (where teams are important) might help answer a lot of your questions here and give you a better feel for how most of this game works.

Ah, and as a big fan of the ranger profession myself, expertise ROCKS! In presearing, and at lower levels, you don't notice it so much. But really, the energy savings is very cool.

Cheers

Oh, and, um, not to give any spoilers, but I personally wouldn't recommend that you get rid of your Melandru's Stalker for some other pet just yet. There's a possibility you may want a charmed stalker later on. Would be a shame if you had a charmed Moa Bird or something and had him worked up to a good level in that case.

Jan 29, 2008, 08:53 PM // 20:53	#21
LicensedLuny Badly Influenced Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Buying Humps! (No kidding! Check my buy thread) Guild: Hello Kitty Krewe [HKK] Forever!-ish	The stuff about the worms (junundu) and the siege devourers is a lot more detail than you need right now. GW has no mounts. Those two things are only active in certain explorable areas. You don't get to keep them to use whenever/wherever you want. As for healing allies, yeah, like they said. All professions have some sort of self heal (though it may be conditional,) and rangers get comfort animal to heal/res their pet. As a R/E don't worry much about healing anyone but yourself or your pet. R/E isn't a character to bring along for keeping other people healed. Have fun in pre-searing, explore about. When you're ready, you'll get to somewhere where you'll usually go out to fight with other players or henchmen in your party. At that point, you'll find the party screen more useful. The pre-searing areas are deceptive about GW being a team game. Almost all of presearing is done on a solo basis. Once you get to post-searing (the later part, don't worry, you'll get there,) you'll always be going out with a team (probably you and henchies most of the time at first) unless you're running a very specific build to solo-farm certain creatures. As a new character and new GW player, really, don't worry about solo stuff yet. Regarding your most recent post, no, splitting attributes between marksmanship and swordsmanship isn't a great idea. The most attribute points your character will ever have will be 200. Sounds like a lot, but it's really not enough to be uber-leet-sword-AND-bow-killer, go with either uber-leet-sword-killer OR uber-leet-bow-killer. It's more efficient for the ranger to have maxed out marksmanship and the warrior to have maxed out swordsmanship than two W/R or R/W with their points split up. If you want to try out warrior, by all means, make a warrior, too! You should have at least four character slots to play with. But I don't recommend deleting your ranger just yet. Play him for a while, do the quests. Getting yourself to the later areas of the game (where teams are important) might help answer a lot of your questions here and give you a better feel for how most of this game works. Ah, and as a big fan of the ranger profession myself, expertise ROCKS! In presearing, and at lower levels, you don't notice it so much. But really, the energy savings is very cool. Cheers Oh, and, um, not to give any spoilers, but I personally wouldn't recommend that you get rid of your Melandru's Stalker for some other pet just yet. There's a possibility you may want a charmed stalker later on. Would be a shame if you had a charmed Moa Bird or something and had him worked up to a good level in that case.