Guild Wars 2 Game Guide & Walkthrough

A guide to Guild Wars 2 is an ideal solution for players who begin their journey with the product of ArenaNet. It contains crucial information about how to begin the game, game's mechanic and rivalry with other players. In this guide you may also find detailed maps with all important objects and heroes in the game's world.

Guide to Guild Wars 2 is a:

• Short introduction to how begin;
• Detailed description of game's mechanic;
• Information about available game's modes;
• Detailed description of all classes;
• Information about crafting;
• Cooperation with others: team, guilds;
• Detailed maps of particular areas.

Slawomir Michniewski

First thing you have to do after logging to the game is a choose of the world (server). If you want to play with your friends, all of you should choose the same one. Thanks to that you'll be able to trade and help in quests. Remember that chosen world will be used by all of your characters, you can't have heroes on different servers. In case of mistake, you can change the server but, you need to pay for this.

Choose of the server is one of the most crucial beginning decision.

When you chose the world, you come to the most important decision: creating your character. You have five available races: Human, Asura, Norn, Sylvari and Charr. This choice affects only availability of the storyline mission and few skills.

The choose of race is a matter of taste: none of them has any advantage, though they have unique skills.

The nest step is a choice of one available profession:

Elementalist

Wizard using elements: fire, air, earth and water. He uses mostly magic distance weapon and light armor.

Ranger

He uses traps and animals' support. They're wearing medium armors and fight both melee and on the distance.

Warrior

His basic task is to deal huge amount of damages. To do so he uses both melee and distance weapons, covered with heavy armor.

Necromancer

He summons, poisons, curses and bleeds out enemies. He can use magic distance weapon, daggers or axes. He wears a light armor.

Guardian

He focuses on the defense skills. He's best in groups, but can fight alone too. He uses melee weapons and heavy armors.

Thief

The most mobile profession. Attacks from the shadow, uses traps, swords, daggers and distance weapon. He wears light armor.

Engineer

In fight he sets up towers and mines, throws grenades and buff himself (and allies) with potions. He uses pistols, shotguns and medium armors.

Mesmer

He uses illusions to confuse and hurt enemies. He can use various weapons and light armor.

After choosing the race, profession and the customizing physical appearance you move to the last part of character's creation: choice of the starting equipment, personality and biography. Beginning items will be used only during the few first levels, personality affects the conversation you will have with the NPCs. The biography is more important because it defines the available missions and challenges. Near to the 30th level different paths cross.

How to play with friends? After finishing the tutorial, when you have an access to your race's capitol, you need to find an Asura gate. Going through it you get to the Lion's Arch and from this place all you need is to choose the proper portal and enter the location with your friends.

Asura Gates allow to move quickly between the cities.

The other possibility is to press H key and in the last bookmark (PvP) choose Go to the Mists. You'll get to the PvP location for the beginners and your task would be an Asura Portal on the top of the stairs. After getting there go to the gate on your left, which leads to the Lion's Arch. From this place you have to move to the group of portals by Grand Piazza and then choose a location where your friends are.

Marked portals lead to the beginning location.

The next step which makes the communication easier is to set up a team. To do so, click on the icon on the left side of the screen, insert the name of friend's character and send an invitation. From now on you can use team's chat and complete the storyline missions in few persons.

Unfortunately, we won't be able to meet our friend any time what is connected with the overflow. When our world (server) is full, you character will be send to so called overflow map, the identical location in which you should be but with players from different servers. To check if you're on such a map you need to press B key: if the statistics of WvW don't load, it means that your server is overflow. There can be few overflow location at once so to join friends in other overflows click their icon with the RMB and then click join. Far more secure choice is to wait the queue and choose travel when it's available.

Lack of statistics about WvW means that you're in the overflow location.

On the contrary to other MMOs, you don't find typical quests offered by the NPCs in the Guild Wars 2. Instead of that, you have two types of missions: hearts, showing the area which needs our help and dynamic events.

Symbols on the map:

Heart (uncompleted, completed)

Waypoint (undiscovered, discovered, blocked)

Point of interest (undiscovered, discovered)

Skill challenge (locked, unlocked)

Vista

Scout

Hearts are missions which should help you get familiar with the location. Information about them is usually displayed in the right upper corner of the screen; in rare cases you need to speak to the proper person first. Completing this quests help you discover the vicinity, enemies and meet NPCs, like merchants and guards. Quests are various, you may be asked to collect minerals, kill monsters, be a mediator in a trade between giants or help repair some machines. After completing quest you can go to the vicinity's governor and buy new items for freshly received karma.

Heart with an exemplary description.

On your way you may often meet scouts marked with a spyglass. Conversation with them reveals all uncompleted missions in the vicinity. It's an easy method of finding missions and exploring the map.

The second type of missions in the Guild Wars 2, which are the core of PvE (Player versus Environment) is dynamic events. There are hundreds of them in the game, and they differ greatly: from collecting ore, through rescuing captives, ending on big invasions. The most important feature of events is their influence on the map. If the city nearby is besieged, you can help defenders or ignore it totally. If the enemies win, you not only lose access to the area, but it's possible that the next place will be attacked. In this way every event in which you take part, influences which locations will be safe and which under the enemy's reign.

Events divide on few types: collecting resources, defending (location, machines or NPCs), exterminating enemies or killing the particular character. It's not rare that the chain of events will include few activities: defending the city and counterattack ended by the duel with the enemy's champion, defeating whom opens chest full of treasures. Besides the loot, you receive, as in the case of hearts, proper amount of experience, karma and money for every event.

Events are marked on the map. Thanks to that every player may easily find them.

Besides events you can find waypoints, vistas, points of interest and skill point challenge.

Waypoints, according to its name, help us travel. You activate them by approaching and after a small payment you can teleport to any unlocked location.

Vistas are something like puzzles, basing on finding a proper way to the view point: part of them is very easy, some requires longer journey and sometimes even defeating dozen monsters. As a reward you get a short animation showing the vicinity.

Vistas show you the vicinity, but sometimes you have to do a lot of jumping.

Points of interest (POI) are different locations which are or were important for the Tyria's history. Their only function is increasing the level of map discovery.

Skill challenges are the last type of icons on the map. Completing them gives you additional skill point. Sometimes it's enough to get to the location and activate the point, sometimes you need to use the item you have. But part of challenges is more difficult and lies in fighting with much more powerful enemy. In such case better go to the location in a group, what improves your chances.

Completing hearts, vistas and skill challenges increases map discovery level. After filling it, you get a chest with reward. Remember that rewards for completing locations with hearts are better than for the locations without.

It's worth to discover a whole map, because rewards may be powerful.

Combat in Guild Wars 2 is partially similar to those from other MMOs: you aim an enemy, active skills and your character prepare spell/pistol/sword and attack. Although every player should get to know few details.

Every skill has its own range, out if which isn't effective. This distance is shown by the red underline under every available attack. It's presence mean that the enemy is impossible to hit. When there is no underline, the skill will be working.

Besides that, if you want to make a efficient attack, you have to have a clear vision: if any obstacle is on your way, it will be hit instead of the enemy. It works both ways, so you can hide behind columns for example.

Another method to avoid attacks is evading. You can use them in two ways: clicking two times on the movement key or pressing the V key. Mastering it let you avoid the most powerful attacks or escape during the PvP duels. Unfortunately, using it consumes your endurance: if the bar is full, you can avoid two attacks in a row.

If nor hiding either evading isn't working and your health is decreased to zero, your adventure isn't over. Your character will lay on the ground bit still fighting to survive. In this state you have four abilities: three depending on your class and healing. If you are able to defeat enemy, or heal yourself completely, your hero will stand up and continue the game. Otherwise you'll die. In this case you can wait for anyone help's or respawn at waypoint.

Skill bar of warrior fighting to survive.

There are few options which may make your game and control over combat easier. One of them is activating the autoattack on some skills. It the enemy gets into the range of your skill, hero will be repeating the skill until enemy gets out of the range or dies. Hold CTRL and press RMB on the skill's icon to activate it.

Second, very useful option, is a Show Skill Recharge. It's in the game's option. From now on you see how many seconds is needed to use the skill again.

Last two useful options are autotarget and promote skill target. First one let you cast spell without aiming an enemy, it'll hit the closest one. The second one is an expansion of the first: after hitting an enemy, it'll be automatically targeted and all skills from this moment will be aimed at him. Those options are very helpful in PvP, WvW or quickly clearing the area from monsters. The only one place where using them may be risky are the locations with huge density of enemies. In such case you should choose targets manually.

In Guild Wars 2 as in the most of MMOs you meet a developed system of crafting. First step is to find components which you can collect by available tools (axes, pickaxes and salvage kit). You can find them in most merchants' offers. During your journey you'll also find an ore and saplings: collect all materials even if you don't need them, you can always trade them. Remember that the resources are available for all players (like chests) so it's impossible to steal the loot from anyone. When you fulfill your equipment, and go to the city sell your loot, you should visit trainers and choose two professions (you can change them later without losing levels, but for a small payment) You can choose from:

Armorsmith

heavy armors, chests, runes

Artificer

magic weapons, staffs, seals

Cook

cooking

Huntsman

bows and fire-arms

Jeweler

jewellery and seals

Leatherworker

medium armors, runes, sacs

Tailor

light armors, runes, sacs

Weaponsmith

melee weapons, shields, runes

After choosing your profession you can use the stand by your teacher and craft your first items. With the advanced schemes, your experience will be increasing what expands available recipes. On average on every 25 levels you obtain few new recipes. If you want more, you can buy them from the teacher (they cost karma) or discover using the bookmark discovery. Use the all available items and soon you discover new recipe.

Discovery bookmark let you craft new items.

Remember that from the production window you have an access to the bank and collections bookmark: there you can store surplus of resources.

Damage, control, support - those three factors decide about encounters in the Guild Wars 2. Mastering every of them let you fulfil the challenges and fight effectively with other players in PvP and WvW.

Dazed enemy won't run too far: controlling enemy's action is a base of PvP.

Damage per second is one of the most important factor of almost every MMO. Also in Guild Wars 2: all professions may attack enemies directly and every of them may become so called damage dealer, a hero concentrated only on damaging. Of course, classes differ: necromancers poison, elementalists burn and warrior bleeds enemies out. But id doesn't change the basic assumption that every hero can specialize in killing enemies.

For better eliminating enemies, you have to know what factors affect damage and how you can defend against them. Following paragraphs are dedicated only to those topic, but I recommend to read them all players, even those concentrated on control or support, because this information may help them survive.

First option of dealing damage is a direct fight, with use of some weapon. Independently of your class, every attack follows the same rules. using of your weapon's skill you begin series of calculation. The first one is: did I hit an enemy? In most cases, the target out of your range or hiding behind obstacles will avoid damage. What is more, you can evade an attack with dodge, block (skill of shields and few weapons) or blinding the enemy.

Bad positioning during the encounter may cause a miss.

When the hit is confirmed, it's time to ask: how many damage you did? Majority of attacks will cause normal damage: your attack will be compared with enemy's armor, and the damage will be calculated and displayed. But you can affect quality of your hits. You can increase damage by investing in critical chance and critical damage (connected with precision and fury) as well as causing vulnerability. You can decrease the received damage by casting weakness on enemies and support allies with skills having protection bonus. In case of hunter and thief you can increase power of some skills by attacking from back or side, what is called a flanking. The last one method of decreasing damage is available only for computer controlled heroes: while attacking monsters with at least seven more levels, your attacks will be less effectively (an effect similar to the weakness).

Damage dealer should invest in a critical chance and damage.

The second, equally important method of causing damage is using spells applying proper effects. Poison, burning, bleeding: they may be even stronger than the normal attacks. Investing in condition damage and condition duration increases the power and time of those effects. What is more, you can improve them with another effect, vulnerability. There are also two more indirect methods of damaging enemies: confusion and retaliation. First one affects enemies: every action he makes, damages him. The second one is a bonus for allies, which makes part of the caused damage returns to the attacker.

Enemy won't run away - he'll bleed to death.

Besides those methods above, you can find few indirect tricks to reduce received damage. Usually, it's about immobilizing or freezing the enemy: such an opponent attacks slower and won't reach you, if he can't move (they'll be described in the next chapter). Also negative effects can be decreased or even cancelled with remove condition skills. The last and most powerful method is using a skill providing temporarily invulnerability. Such skills are very rare and have long preparing time, but they makes you untouchable for few seconds, the perfect tool when you're in a big trouble.

Below you can find a chart summing up methods of both, decreasing and increasing damage:

Decreasing damage

Increasing damage

Moving on the battlefield (range/obstacles)

Flanking

Dodge

Block

Armor

Attack

Glancing hit (weakness, 7+ more levels)

Critical hit (fury bonus)

Bonus protection

Vulnerability

Remove condition skill

Poison/burning/bleeding condition

Invulnerability

Control

Control

It's second most important, next to the damage, mechanics used in Guild Wars 2. Control of an encounter lies in manipulating over enemy's damage and temporarily eliminating him from the combat. Such effects are applied by the skills, but the more powerful effect, the less often you can use the skill.

Area fire is also a control method.

Control methods can be divided on few types. First and most common one is a movement control. here you can find effects like cripple or immobilize which slow enemy down or completely stop him, but don't affect his attack; sink and float change his position in underwater combat, wards blocks the passages and, indirectly, the area skills: casting lot of area damage spells or using siege engines may force enemy to leave the particular place.

The second type is enemy's damage control. Blind, chilled, weakness, daze decrease effectiveness or frequency of opponent's attacks. Confusion and retaliation forced him to think: is it worth to lose my HP to damage enemy? What is more, skills like for example shield of absorption can block or reflect attacks.

More powerful skills can control both enemy's movement and damage. Those are: fear, forcing enemy to run away, push, launch and pull, interrupting the skills and moving the enemy and also knockdown and stun which daze him (what can be leveled by the break from stun skills).

Riffle butt hit knockback your enemy.

Another type of affecting the combat method is enemy's healing control/active defense control. Poison not only damage enemy, but also decreases the effectiveness of healing spells casted on him when the weakness slows down regeneration of endurance.

There exist also an aggro control, used in the PvE. It is focusing enemies' attention on one player, what let the rest of the team fight freely. Due to the lack of strong healing spells in Guild Wars 2, heroes using this tactic should replace often.

It's last but not unimportant mechanic in the combat, which relies on cooperation of the whole team. It contains healing and buffing as well as some more active actions like blocking the enemy and intercepting his attacks. Some of the traits are also a support. E.g. the warrior's empower allies increases all allies power about 70.

There is one more support mechanic: combo, which lies on joining two different skills combo field and combo finisher to cause an additional effects.

Pointing at the skill you will know if it's a field or finisher.

Combo field is one of the area skill. This can be firewall, poison spots, fog or symbols on the ground. Form the field type depends if and what effect will be caused by the finisher: fire will burn enemies, water heals allies and dark necromancer's magic blinds enemy or drain his life.

Every finisher going through the combo field causes a combo.

Combo finishers are finishing skill. They divide on blast finisher (area effect), leap finisher (jump to attack enemy), projectile finisher (a missile flying through the combo field) and whirl finisher. Depending on what combo field and combo finisher you've used, you can achieve different effects, affecting both your hero (healing, magic armor) and enemy (burning, poison, blind).

Below you can find a table with all possible combinations:

Field

Blast

Leap

Projectile

Whirl

Dark

Area blindness

Blindness

Life stealing

Leeching bolts

Ethereal

Area chaos armor(3s)

Chaos armor(5s)

Confusion

Confusing bolts

Fire

Area might(x3)

Fire armor

Burning

Burning bolts

Ice

Area frost armor

Frost armor

Chilled

Chilling bolts

Light

Area retaliation

Retaliation

Remove condition

Cleansing bolts

Lightning

Area swiftness

Dazing strike

Vulnerability

Brutal bolts

Poison

Area weakness

Weakness

Poison

Poison bolts

Smoke

Area stealth

Stealth

Blindness

Blinding bolts

Water

Area healing

Healing

Regeneration

Healing bolts

As in the other MMOs in Guild Wars 2 you can find tens effect which may impact allies and enemies. Popular buffs and debuffs are here called boons and conditions. In many cases applying the same effect will improve its effectiveness (more damage, bigger bonus to strength) or extend its time. Below you can find a table with the most common effects in the game and short description.

Boons

Bonuses increasing a hero's effectiveness in battle or providing better protection. Can be prolonged by increasing the boon duration.

Name

Effect

Aegis

Blocks the next attack.

Fury

+20% to critical chance. Multiple increases duration..

Might

Increases power and condition damage. Multiple increases effectiveness.

Protection

- 33% to received damage. Multiple increases duration.

Regeneration

Regenerates hit points. Multiple increases duration.

Retaliation

A part of received damage is returned to the attacker. Multiple increases duration.

Stability

Resistance for: knockdown, push, pull, launch, stun, daze, float, sink, fear.

Swiftness

+33% to speed. Multiple elongates time of lasting.

Vigor

Increases regeneration of endurance. Multiple increases duration.

Conditions

Negative effects which can be applied on enemies. They role is to cause damage or decrease enemy's effectiveness. Both time of lasting and power can be improved by increasing condition duration and condition damage.

Name

Effect

Bleeding

Causes damage per second. Multiple increases effectiveness.

Blind

Next attack the hero will make will be a miss.

Burning

Causes damage per second. Multiple increases duration.

Chilled

Decreases hero's speed and skill recharge about 66%. Multiple increases duration.

Confusion

Causes damage every time hero use any skill. Multiple increases effectiveness.

Crippled

-50% to hero's speed. Multiple increases duration.

Fear

Force enemy to run away.

Immobilized

Immobilize enemy and make him impossible to dodge. Multiple increases duration.

Poison

Causes damage per second. -33% to healing spells' effectiveness. Multiple increases duration.

Vulnerability

+1% to received damage. Multiple increases effectiveness.

Weakness

50% attacks are glancing hits (less damage) and -50% to endurance regeneration. Multiple increases duration.

Control

Aim of this effect is to translocate or eliminate the enemy from the combat for a while. Some of them are included to the categories above. Below you can find only those don't belonging to any of them.

Name

Effect

Daze

Interrupts and makes impossible to use skills.

Float

Used underwater. Rises enemy up to the surface.

Knockdown

Knocks enemy down and block off using skills.

Launch

Interrupts skill and eject enemy.

 

Pull

Pulls enemy to you and interrupts the used skill.

Push

Pushes enemy from you and interrupts the used skill.

Sink

Used underwater. Enemy is going down to the bottom.

Stun

Interrupts, makes impossible to use skills and immobilizes enemy.

Undergrounds are optional PvE locations, which require perfectly tuned teams with powerful items as rewards and tokens which can be exchanged for an exotic weapon or armor. They're also one of the stage to craft the legendary weapon.

Entrances to the undergrounds lies often nearby the navigation points.

At this moment there are eight undergrounds in the game:

Undergrounds

Story mode level

Exploration mode level

Location

Ascalonian Catacombs

30

35

Phasmatis Corridor

Plains of Ashford

Caudecus's Manor

40

45

Shire of Beetletun

Queensdale

Twilight Arbor

50

55

Wychmire Swamp

Caledon Forest

Sorrow's Embrace

60

65

Tribulation Rift

Dredgehaunt Cliffs

Citadel of Flame

70

75

The Baelfire

Fireheart Rise

Honor of the Waves

76

80

Watchful Fjord

Frostgorge Sound

Crucible of Eternity

78

80

Infinite Coil Reactor

Mount Maelstrom

Arah

80

80

The Narthex

Cursed Shore

Before going on, you can choose between two game modes: story mode and exploration mode. They are briefly described in the following paragraphs.

Story mode

Only available mode at the first attempt to the underground. Some NPCs will join your team and tell about the history of Destiny's Edge. Difficulty level isn't high in this case and even playing with the new friends you can achieve a success. Completing the story mode unlocks an access to the exploration mode.

Exploration mode

It's the main mode of the game, where you collect tokens and can search all, previously unavailable, parts of the dungeon. It's much more difficult than the previous one and requires better teamplay, proper skills and equipment. In this mode the team may decide which quests you should complete (there is a vote, the majority decides) and run into typical random events like cave troll attack. Thanks to the randomness of events and few available paths you can replay every underground, getting a new adventure each time.

It's worth be mentioning that monsters in the dungeon don't respawn and the new waypoints are periodically unlocked. Team members can be changed any time, and those who didn't complete the story mode may take part in the exploration mode if they're invited by the player who did.

Rewards

As I mentioned, the most important motivation of going to the undergrounds are rewards. During the exploration you find not only loot from defeated enemies and chests full of treasures, but also various tokens, depending on the underground you're in. They can be exchanged at traders in Lion's Arch in the Fort Mariner for rare or exotic items related to the particular dungeon. So while exploring the Citadel of Flame you get mostly equipment connected with the fire: armors with Baelfire rune or flaming swords and axes. But remember, that the weapon you can buy, won't be more powerful from the one you can craft or find in the other location, their main value is an unique appearance.

Trader wearing full armor from Citadel of Flame. For few hundreds of tokens you can get it too.

Undergrounds are perfect for increasing your ability in fighting with the most powerful enemies in the PvE and also get tones of items for trade and dismantle. What is more, tokens encourage to complete undergrounds many times: everyone wants to look uniquely.

sPvP what stands for structured Player versus Player are duels on small arenas, similar to Quake or Counter-Strike, but using the mechanism of Guild Wars 2. To try yourself with other player press H key, choose the bookmark PvP and the option Go to the Heart of the Mists. You will be teleported to Hall of Memories, automatically equipped, obtained 80 lvl and access all skills. Thanks to that, all players have equal chances and the equipment won't decide who'll win. To begin the duel choose the arena at PvP Browser:

Winning gives you glory points which can be transferred for prettier (but not stronger) weapon or armor. If the received weapon doesn't suit you, you can change it at any merchant in the Hall of Memories.

Lowest level rewards available to buy for the glory points.

Tournaments

Tournaments are better organized form of PvP. On the contrary to the normal encounters, here the team of five players fight. Thanks to various types of tournaments, it's a mode both for beginners and veterans. To begin a tournament you need to talk with Tournament Master.

Tournament Master organizes the tournaments.

There are four types of tournaments in the game:

• Pickup Tournament - defeated team is eliminated, three rounds game. A winner gets qualifer points.
• Monthly Tournaments - requires some amount of point to join.
• Yearly Tournaments - winners of Monthly Tournaments will be playing for the main prize.
• Player-Run Tournaments - tournaments organized by the players.

WvW stands for World versus World, which is a second mechanism of fighting with the living player. In this case, instead of fighting on small arenas, battles take place on a huge maps where dozens of players fight simultaneously. As in the PvP your lvl is raised to 80, but you have an access to skills you've already learned and equipment you've found. Because of that you should play in WvW after getting powerful items and skills during normal PvE missions.

To begin WvW press B key and choose Go to World vs World. You'll be transferred to the chosen map. The second option is to use the proper Asure's Gate from Lion's Arch inside the Fort Marriner.

In one WvW three worlds-servers take part.

The main goal of the WvW is a victory over the two remaining worlds with which you're fighting. To do so, you have to conquer various locations: camps, towers and castles which will give you XP every fifteen minutes. After end of the battle, the world with highest XP is a winner. What is more, those XPs provide various bonuses (heath, gathering, crafting) which affect both WvW and PvE. So try to be on the winning server.

Points (gathered and possible to get) and current bonuses in PvE and WvW.

A number of locations and their points value is like below:

Location

Resource Camp

5 points

Tower

10 points

Keep

25 points

Stonemist Castle

35 points

Borderlands

6

4

3

0

Eternal Battlegrounds

6

12

3

1

Besides that, on the map you can find neutral mercenary camp, which joins us when you complete the quest. E.g. defending Orgath Uplands (map Eternal Battlegrounds) makes the ogres join your forces.

There are smaller tasks, like escorting and attacking caravans or eliminating enemy's patrols for the smaller groups of players. Those missions are equally important to conquering castles, because lack of supplies may exclude the garrison or stop even the most powerful attack. Resources are needed for the siege engines.

Before you conquer any location, you have to defeat its defenders and get through the walls. The more important particular point is, the more difficult it will be. Below you can find a list of obstacles:

Location

Guards

Walls/Door

Lord

Inner walls

Resource Camp

X

Tower

X

X

X

Keep

X

X

X

X

Stonemist Castle

X

X

X

X

Because the walls are extremely endure you need to use siege engines to speed up the battle and get inside the fort. Defenders also have a special equipment: cannons, mortars and hot oil.

Remaining after unsuccessful attack. This time siege engines didn't help.

Siege engines

This are special machines used both to attack and defend castles. To build such engine, you need to buy its plan (Siege Master nearby Asure's Gate is selling them). Using the plan begins the construction. To finish it, you need a proper amount of supply. Of course, during this process the machine is vulnerable so it's necessary both to defend it and gather the supply ASAP. When the engine is constructed, everyone can use it, but the owner (the one who used plan) has a priority.

Siege Master sells siege engines plans.

For now on in the game are:

• Flame Ram - destroying gates
• Arrow Cart - its are attack is useful to hit infantry and control the area
• Ballista - hits in a single target, good at destroying enemy's machines and infantry
• Catapult - it's used mostly to destroy walls and gates
• Trebuchet - has similar function to the Catapult
• Siege Golem - destroying gates

Proper use of those machines guarantee a quick victory. It's often an only option, especially while attacking towers, castles and especially the Stonemist Castle.

Orb of Power

Every borderlands map has one Orb of Power defended by the guardian. Conquering and putting it on the Altar of Power in the castle, will give all players on the server big bonuses. Those bonuses depend on the number of Orbs of Power:

• 1x Orb of Power - all players on the server gets +5% health and +50 to all statistics
• 2x Orb of Power - all players on the server gets +10% health and +100 to all statistics
• 3x Orb of Power - all players on the server gets +15% health and +150 to all statistics

Possession of one or more Orb of Power makes the WvW much easier.

Crafting is a base of many MMOs. In Guild Wars 2 also, but here you meet a very rich and developed system, which can be useful for the player during all the game. From the very beginning you're able to create useful items and after reaching the maximum level you may craft rare or legendary equipment.

Crafting in Guild Wars 2 is similar to this from other MMOs, but it has some significant differences:

• it doesn't require grinding, that is tedious creating hundreds of identical items to level up. To reach the maximum level of particular profession you need to only craft items useful for your character.
• it lies in discovering new recipes instead of buying prepared plans. It gives you more freedom and give them more possibilities to fulfill their list of recipes.
• it has hundreds, if not thousands, items to craft. Crafting may be enjoyable during weeks and discovering all recipes may take even months.
• it's user-friendly. Every production post has an access to the bank and material's collection, what makes crafting easier.
• it's not random. Item crafter using certain blueprint will always have the same statistics.

The question remains: is it worth to craft your own items instead of buying or looting them? The answer is: YES. Crafting let you not only to be self-sufficient at same level. It also gives a big amount of experience what speeds up level of your character, gives a reason to visit every piece of the world and let you help your companions. Besides, crafting has its own section in the achievements bookmark and may make you rich very easily. And what I've mentioned at the beginning: only crafting provides you with the legendary items.

Before you start crafting, you need to find proper materials. In Guild Wars 2 one rule should be applied: collect all resources you can find. You never know when you'd like to change your profession and your current materials became useless. Even if you don't plan this, you can sell additional materials via Trading Post or exchange them for what do you need.

Collected silver will be used for few rings and amulets.

First and the simplest method of collecting materials is collecting them by yourself from the map. To do so you need tools which can be bought at almost every merchant in the game. After completing mission or killing few monsters you should have enough money to buy copper harvesting sickle, copper mining pick and copper logging axe, what let you collect materials in the beginning locations. To do so, just equip the chosen item (in inventory you have a place for each of them), go to the source of material and press F. Your hero will automatically collect one or more materials. In case of rich metal vein you can repeat it to pick up more materials.

Full set of tools: sickle, mining pick and axe.

Depending on the place where you want to collect materials, you'll use different tools. Every of them has a different number of uses, so it's worth to carry a spare one.

Icon on the map

Required tool

Number of uses

Materials

Mining pick

100

Metals, precious stones

Logging axe

100

Wood

Harvesting sickle

50

Plants (ingredient)

Besides that it's worth to know that your tools have different levels. The higher level, the rarer ingredients you can get. But using more expensive items on the sources with lower level doesn't give you anything. A type of tools, the materials you get thanks to them and lumps required to ingots (you can buy them also) you may find in this chart:

Level

Tool

Ore

Lump

Ingot

Log

Plank

1

Copper

CopperTinCopperBronzeGreenGreen

2

Iron

IronSilverIronSilverSoftSoft

3

Steel

GoldCoalSteelGoldSeasonedSeasoned

4

Darksteel

PlatinumPrimordiumPlatinumDarksteelHardHard

5

Mithril

MithrilMithrilElderElder

6

Orichalcum

OrichalcumOrichalcumAncientAncient

You have to also remembered that while mining ore you can sometimes get a precious stone, needed by the goldsmith. But it's rather random so, as I mentioned, you should collect all materials you meet.

A precious stone mined while collecting the iron ore.

Collecting the plants is more time consuming. Because of big number of its species and a fact that some of them may be found in the particular regions of the world, it's hard to put them into the chart. It's more simpler to remember one rule: to get a plant, use a sickle on the similar level like mining pick and axe in the particular location. If there's a plenty of iron ore, you'll get all available crops using the iron harvesting sickle. There are some exceptions, mainly in regions with required level about 70-80. In such cases you should have a spare orichalcum sickle.

Because there is a plenty of iron, it's enough to use the iron sickle.

During travelling you may find so called farms. They contain few identical materials and respawn every 23 hours.

Farms are marked on the map.

The last place where you can buy cook's ingredients are merchants. In every city you can find karma vendor, who'll sell you herbs for few karma points. To get more rare items you can also visit heart vendor(available after completing the mission). Some of them offers the plants.

After opening the bought packs you get the ingredients needed by the cook.

Another method of getting the resources is to salvage the collected item using the salvage kit. During the fight, you'll not once loot weapons, armors, pieces of metal, skins or cloths. Some of them may be marked as Salvage Items. It means that their only destination is to be processed to a proper materials.

One of the items you can salvage.

Salvaging such items always give you one, defined component. In case of skins and cloths it's the only one (besides trading) way to get them:

Level

Cloth scrap

Bolt of cloth

Spool of thread

Leather section

Leather square

1

JuteJuteJuteRawhideRawhide

2

WoolWoolWoolThinThin

3

CottonCottonCottonCoarse

 

Coarse

4

LinenLinenLinenRuggedRugged

5

SilkSilkSilkThickThick

6

GossamerGossamerGossamerHardenedHardened

What is more, the salvage kit may be used on weapons, armors and jewellery. In such case you get basic ingredients which were required to craft them (ore, skin, log) and you'll have a chance to get a rare components, what depends on the quality of the set you've used. Furthermore, they allow you to regain upgrades from the item: the more expensive kit, the more often you'll succeed.

Set

Chance for a rare item

Chance for an upgrade

Crude

0%

tiny

Basic

10%

20%

Fine

15%

40%

Journeyman

20%

60%

Master

25%

80%

Black Lion

10%

100%

To dismantle an item you need to double click on the salvage set and then choose what you want to take to pieces. Ingredients appear in the inventory automatically.

All materials above were gained by the salvage kit.

The last one method of collecting resources is to fight with enemies. Defeating monsters like harpies, minotaurs or undeads you can get a fine crafting material, one of the universal components, required to almost every item in the game. If the defeated enemy is a humanoid (pirate, bandit etc) your loot will be small sacks with one fine material inside.

Opening the collected sacks also gives you the fine materials.

As in the case of previous materials, those of high quality can be divided on few types and levels: the stronger enemy is, the better resource you may obtain.

Level

Bones

Claws

Dust

Fangs

1

Bone chipTiny clawGlitteringTiny fang

2

Bone shardSmall clawShimmeringSmall fang

3

BoneClawRadiantFang

4

Heavy boneSharp clawLuminousSharp fang

5

Large boneLarge clawIncadescentLarge fang

6

Ancient boneVicious clawCrystallineVicious fang

Level

Scales

Totems

Venom sacs

Vials of blond

1

Tiny scaleTiny totemTiny venom sacWeak blood

2

Small scaleSmall totemSmall venom sacThin blood

3

ScaleTotemVenom sacBlood

4

Smooth scaleEngraved totemFull venom sacThick blood

5

Large scaleIntricate totemPotent venom sacPotent blood

6

Armored scaleElaborate totemPowerful venom sacPowerful blood There is never too much of high quality resources. Almost every profession uses an enormous number of them.

If there exist a plant farms, there are for sure the monster farms: a hardly available location where the enemies respawn faster. This places are very useful when you want to collect a big number of furs, cloths or fine crafting materials. If it's possible, try look for the farms with humanoids, the sacks will quickly fulfill your inventory.

Place of monster's increased activity. Here you can find a lot of fine crafting materials.

Collecting dozens of components and items you'll fulfill your inventory very quickly what will force you to return to the bank to put there the surplus resources. But you have two options to omit this travel. Clicking the RMB on the material in the inventory choose Deposit Collectible, and the item will be transferred automatically to your vault. The other possibility is to click on the rack in the corner of inventory and choose Deposit All Collectibles, what transfers all items which may be found in your collection.

To organize the mess, I recommend to dismantle all useless items immediately. This will free the space in the inventory.

And if you haven't already done this, I recommend to turn on the autoloot, what will speed up collecting the items from defeated enemies.

Before you choose both profession, consider which ones are useful for you. The list below presents usefulness of particular professions for the classes:

Your class

Very useful

Useful

Not that useful

Elementalist

artificer, tailor, jeweler

chief

leatherworker, weaponsmith, armorsmith

Hunter

leatherworker, huntsman, jeweler

chief, armorsmith

artificer, tailor, weaponsmith

Fighter

weaponsmith, armorsmith, jeweler

chief, huntsman

artificer, tailor, leatherworker

Necromancer

artificer, tailor, jeweler

chief, huntsman, armorsmith

leatherworker, weaponsmith

Guardian

artificer, weaponsmith, armorsmith, jeweler

chief

tailor, leatherworker, huntsman

Thief

leatherworker, armorsmith, jeweler

chief, huntsman

artificer, tailor, weaponsmith

Engineer

leatherworker, huntsman, jeweler

chief

artificer, tailor, weaponsmith, armorsmith

Mesmer

artificer, tailor, jeweler

chief, huntsman, armorsmith

leatherworker, weaponsmith

Legend:

• Very useful - most of crafted items will be in use
• Useful - you get useful items, but not much enough
• Not that useful - this profession gives you only few useful items, like boxes or sacks

The chart above shows that it's best to choose one profession crafting weapons or armors and the additional one like jeweler or chief. Choosing two profession related to crafting armors/weapons you may meet a lack of resources.

After finishing consideration, you have to craft. In every beginning location you find an area where are production posts and particular masters. To begin crafting it's enough to talk with the master and accept the choice. Then you'll be able to use the stand nearby.

Typical location where you can find all masters, the master and the typical dialogue during choosing the profession.

You have four options: Discovery of new recipes, Production, bank and Collections. Production is simple: check how many resources you need, take them from the collection and then choose the craft. If you want to make more than one item at once, set the number before production. If you have use all resources choose the craft all.

To product an item you have to make few things:

Choose the Production bookmark

Then the refinement

you make self-products like blades, hilts (crafting components)

craft the final item

The method above let you craft known items, but it has one big disadvantage: it gives small amount of XP. Here, you should look at the levels of crafted items, professions and required character's level to use the item:

Item/material level

Profession level

Required character's level

1

0 - 74

5 - 20

2

75 - 149

25 - 35

3

150 - 224

40 - 50

4

225 - 299

55 - 65

5

300 - 399

70 - 80

6

400

80

As you can notice, to use the higher levels of resources you have to gain experience in your profession: the more you get them, the more powerful items you'll be able to craft. To do so, you can craft known items or use a shortcut: every 25 points on the level may be gained by performing the untreated resources. Mass making ingots from ores will level up you very quickly.

Unfortunately, after treating all basic resources the speed of gaining XP goes down. To increase it, use discovery. This is very similar to crafting: you make proper resources and change them into semi-finished item. But in this case, you need get one additional ingredient, which is an insignia. After collecting all components open the discovery bookmark. All elements which can be used to find new recipes will be displayed. Choose components until you'll get informed that you've crafted a new item.

During discovering a new item. Non-usable components will be unavailable..

After choosing craft, the new recipe will be added to your list, you receive a new item and XP with the bonus for discovery. This method is a basic way to increase your profession XP after first twenty five points.

After clicking craft the chosen components will make a new item.

It's worth mentioning, that some recipes are shared by few professions: for example iron ingots may be produced by both, armorsmith and weaponsmith. Unfortunately, to use the previously discovered recipe you have to get a required level of the particular profession. On the other hands, it has a good side: you can use the recipe again, for additional XP.

Recipe is added to your list and you can use a new item.

Summing it up, crafting consists in:

• gaining materials (gathering them with tools or from defeated enemies)
• processing materials into recycling materials (ingots, boards)
• creating the half products (insignies also, if you want to discover new items)
• crafting the final product

Final product can be given to your friends, sold to other players (via trading post) or used to regain resources from it (via salvage kit). In all professions it looks identical.

Every profession has few types of items available to craft, but the base recipe is the same, only the quality of materials changes. For example, weaponsmith may craft safe boxes which increase the space in the inventory, but unavailable to open during trading with merchants. Such box is made of 10 ingots, rune of holding (you can buy from masters) and three dusts. Depending on quality of materials (iron, steel, rune and dust) you can obtain containers with various capacity (8,10, 12 or more). Generally, the recipe may be written like that:

Safe box:

• 10x ingot
• 0-1x rune of holding
• 3x dust

More capacious boxes required materials of better quality.

Below you can find a list of items available to craft for every profession. Discovering all subtypes is yours, because its full list will take hundreds pages.

Armorsmith

Armorsmith uses lot of metals, cloths and high quality items (for insignias). He crafts heavy armors.

Exemplary icon

Item type

Ingredients

Armor

2x Component

Insignia

Box

10x Ingot

Rune of holding

Safe box

10x Ingot

Rune of holding

3x Dust

Equipment box

10x Ingot

Rune of holding

3x Scale

Rune

Ingot

1-2x Rare crafting material

Rune of life

2x Bronze ingot

Bolt of jute

Armor box

Ingots

Cloth

Thread

Fine crafting material

Insignia

1-2x Cloth

0-10x Thread

3-15x Fine crafting material

Artificer

Artificer uses metals, wood and high quality materials. Potions requires some plants. He makes staffs, scepters, focuses and tridents.

Exemplary icon

Item type

Ingredients

Weapon

2x Component

Insignia

Tuning crystal

6x Dust

Potion

Dust

Ingredient 1

Ingredient 2

1x Water / Blood

Sigil

Ingot

1-2x Rare crafting material

Inscription

1-2x Dowel

3-15x Fine crafting material

Huntsman

In case of Huntsman you need a lot of wood, metal, high quality materials and a bit of skins. He crafts harpoon guns, shortbows, longbows, pistols, rifles, torches and warhorns.

Exemplary icon

Item type

Ingredients

Weapon

2x Component

Insignia

Sigil

Ingot

1-2x Rare crafting material

Inscription

1-2x Dowel

3-15x Fine crafting material

Jeweler

Jeweler uses mostly metals and precious stones. He also needs a bit of high quality materials.

Exemplary icon

Type of item

Ingredients

Amulet

2x Component

Jewel

Earring

2x Component

Jewel

Ring

2x Component

Jewel

Gem transmogrification

2x Jewel

Dust

Upgrade component

1-5x Jewel

0-1x Filagree

Leatherworker

In his work he uses mostly skins, cloths and high quality materials. He crafts medium armors.

Exemplary icon

Item type

Ingredients

Armor

2x Component

Insignia

Pack

10x Leather

Rune of holding

Invisible pack

10x Leather

Rune of holding

3x Dust

Oiled pack

10x Leather

Rune of holding

3x Bone

Rune

Leather

1-2x Rare crafting material

Rune of life

2x Leather

Bolt of jute

Armor satchel

Leather

Cloth

Thread

Fine crafting material

Insignia

1-2x Cloth

0-10x Thread

3-15x Fine crafting material

Tailor

As the leatherworker, he uses skins, cloths and high quality materials. He crafts light armors.

Exemplary icon

Item type

Ingredients

Armor

2x Component

Insignia

Bag

10x Cloth

Rune of holding

Invisible bag

10x Cloth

Rune of holding

3x Dust

Craftsman's bag

10x Cloth

Rune of holding

3x Bone

Rune

Cloth

1-2x Rare crafting material

Rune of life

Leather

2x Bolt of jute

Armor satchel

Leather

Cloth

Thread

Fine crafting material

Insignia

1-2x Cloth

0-10x Thread

3-15x Fine crafting material

Weaponsmith

He needs a lot of metal, wood and high quality materials. He crafts axes, daggers, swords, greatswords, hammers, maces, shields and spears.

Exemplary icon

Item type

Ingredients

Weapon

2x Component

Insignia

Sigil

Ingot

1-2x Rare crafting material

Sharpening stone

Ingot

Dust

Inscription

1-2x Dowel

3-15x Fine crafting material

In the center of Mystic Plaza in Lion's Arch, you can find a weird construction called the Mystic Forge. Genie Zommoros, imprisoned inside, will give you items if you give him a sacrifice. Next to it is Miyani: she sells recipes for money and mystic items (required to use the forge) in return for skill points (every character has an unlimited access to them, because after reaching the 80th level, every 240 000 XP gives you one skill point).

Miyani. You can buy recipes and components from her.

Using the forge is similar to the discovery bookmark with one difference: it requires four various ingredients. Depending on your components, you may receive a random item or something according to the recipe.

Four ingredients, one item: the secret of Mystic Forge.

Because you may combine items in hundreds way and most of combinations hasn't been discovered yet, I can't give her a full list. Nevertheless, you can find few useful fusions below:

+1 level to material's tier

It let you increase a level of the resource (e.g. platinum to mithril). This combination is used, when you have a surplus of common materials.

10-50x material B:

• 250x material A, which you want to upgrade
• 1x material B, which you want to obtain
• 2-5x dust, its level has to be the same as the material's B
• 2-5x philosopher's stone, you can buy it at Miyani's

Example:

10-50x Orichalcum Ore:

• 250x Mithril Ore
• 1x Orichalcum Ore
• 5x Pile of Crystalline Dust
• 5x Philosopher's Stone

Upgrading iron to platinum.

+1 level to the high quality material's tier

As in the previous example, use when you want to get a better material from the worse one.

5-10x material B:

• 50x material A, which you want to upgrade
• 1x material B, which you want to obtain
• 2-5x dust, its level has to be the same as the material's B
• 2-5x philosopher's stone, you can buy it at Miyani's

Example:

5-10x Claw:

• 50x Small Claw
• 1x Claw
• 5x Pile of Radiant Dust
• 5x Philosopher's Stone

Recipes for packs and boxes of armor

Those containers have all armor's elements required to craft one, full set. Forge let you create proper plans, which are used by tailor, leatherworker or armorsmith.

Recipe:

• 5x Bottle of Elonian Wine (at Miyani's)
• 20x Arcane Crystal (reward for PvP)
• 20x Mystic Coin (reward for daily/monthly quests)
• 1x element of armor (from the set you want to craft)

Mystic Weapon

It's a recipe for the exotic weapon of 80th level.

Mystic Weapon:

• 30x Mystic Coin (reward for daily/monthly quests)
• 1x Eldricht Scroll (at Miyani's)
• 5x 6th leveled component A (e.g. Orichalcum Pistol Barrel)
• 5x 6th leveled component B (e.g. Ancient Pistol Frame)

Legendary weapon is the most powerful available equipment with an unique look, what causes that no one will ignore such weapon. It's also one of the last and most difficult goal to achieve, both in PvE and WvW. It requires huge amounts of gold, skill and karma points and time. At the time being you can find only few legendary weapons in the game.

To craft a legendary weapon you need four components: a proper exotic precursor weapon, Gift of Fortune, Gift of Mastery and for the chosen weapon Gift of (name of the legendary weapon). Then you have to join all elements in the Mystic Forge. In theory it looks easy, but it'll take many hours to fulfill. Collecting materials to create all gifts is very time- and resource consuming.

Required components

Name

Type

Components

Precursor

The Bifrost

Staff

Gift of The Bifrost

The Legend

Bolt

Sword

Gift of Bolt

Zap

Dragon Maw/Rodgort

Torch

Gift of Dragon maw/Gift of Rodgort

Dragon Claw/Rodgort's Flame

The Dreamer

Shortbow

Gift of The Dreamer

The Lover

The Flameseeker Prophecies

Shield

Gift of The Flameseeker Prophecies

The Chosen

Frenzy

Speargun

Gift of Frenzy

Rage

Frostfang

Axe

Gift of Frostfang

Tooth of Frostfang

Howler

Warhorn

Gift of Howler

Howl

Incinerator

Dagger

Gift of Incinerator

Spark

The Juggernaut

Hammer

Gift of The Juggernaut

The Colossus

Kudzu

Longbow

Gift of Kudzu

Leaf of Kudzu

Kraitkin

Trident

Gift of Kraitkin

Venom

Maw of the Deep/Kamohoali

Spear

Gift of Maw of the Deep/ Gift of Kamohoali

Maw/Carcharias

Meteorlogicus

Scepter

Gift of Meteorlogicus

Storm

The Minstrel

Focus

Gift of The Minstrel

The Bard

The Moot

Mace

Gift of The Moot

The Energizer

The Predator

Rifle

Gift of The Predator

The Hunter

Quip

Pistol

Gift of Quip

Chaos Gun

Sunrise

Greatsword

Gift of Sunrise

Dawn

Twilight

Greatsword

Gift of Twilight

Dusk

What is more, every legendary weapon requires also Gift of Fortune and Gift of Mastery.

As for now, you have two methods to get a precursor: you can loot it or obtain in the Mystic Forge. In the second case you have to join four rare/exotic weapons of the same type (e.g. 4x staff if you want to get The Legend) with with required level 76-80 and have a luck. The weapon will have a suffix "of Rage". So in this case you obtain The Legend of Rage.

Gift of Fortune

It is crafted in Mystic Forge from:

1. 250x Glob of Ectoplasm
2. 1x Gift of Might (250x Vicious Fang, 250x Armored Scale, 250x Vicious Claw, 250x Ancient Bone)
3. 1x Gift of Magic (250x Vial of Powerful Blood, 250x Powerful Venom Sac, 250x Elaborate Totem, 250x Pile of Crystalline Dust)
4. 77x Mystic Clover (1x Obsidian Shard, 1x Mystic Coin, 1x Glob of Ectoplasm, 6x Philosopher's Stone)

Gift of Mastery

It is crafted in Mystic Forge from:

1. 1x Bloodstone Shard
2. 250x Obsidian Shard
3. 1x Gift of Exploration
4. 1x Gift of Battle

Gift of ...

It is crafted in Mystic Forge from:

1. Gift of A (depends on weapon, recipe may be bought at Meyani's for 10 gold)
2. Gift of B (depends on weapon, recipe may be bought at Meyani's for 10 gold)
3. 100x Icy Runestone (you can buy it at Rojan's the Penitent nearby the Frostwalk Tundra in Frostgorge Sound for 1 gold after defeating Claw of Jormag)
4. Superior Sigil of ... (depends on weapon)

Below you can find all components required to craft every gift of...

Gift of ...

Gift of A

Gift of B

Superior Sigil of ...

Gift of The Bifrost

Energy

Color

Nullification

Gift of Bolt

Metal

Lightning

Air

Gift of Dragon maw/Gift of Rodgort

Wood

?

Fire

Gift of The Dreamer

Wood

Unicorn Statue

Purity

Gift of The Flameseeker Prophecies

Metal

History

Battle

Gift of Frenzy

Wood

Water

Rage

Gift of Frostfang

Metal

Ice

Ice

Gift of Howler

Wood

Wolf Statue

Accuracy

Gift of Incinerator

Metal

Vial of Liquid Flame

Fire

Gift of The Juggernaut

Metal

Vial of Quicksilver

Sanctuary

Gift of Kudzu

Wood

Nature

Conjuration

Gift of Kraitkin

Energy

Eel Statue

Venom

Gift of Maw of the Deep/ Gift of Kamohoali

Metal

Shark Statue

Agony

Gift of Meteorlogicus

Energy

Weather

Air

Gift of The Minstrel

Energy

Music

Energy

Gift of The Moot

Metal

Entertainment

Energy

Gift of The Predator

Wood

Stealth

Force

Gift of Quip

Wood

Entertainment

Stamina

Gift of Sunrise

Metal

Light

Strength

Gift of Twilight

Metal

Darkness

Blood

As if the Gift of A and Gift of B requires different materials, there is no sense in listing them here, especially when you can buy recipes at Miyani's. What is worth mentioning is a fact that all required lodestones you can get from killing high level elementals and exploring dungeons, while gifts of particular undergrounds may be bought from traders in Lion's Arch inside the Fort Marriner. They cost 500 tokens each.

Recipes for particular components may be bough at Miyani's.

After gathering all four main components, it's enough to join them in the Mystic Forge and you get your desired weapon. To sum up, you'll need:

1. Exotic precursor weapon
2. 500x dungeon tokens (depends on weapon)
3. Two level 400 crafting professions
4. 200 skill points
5. 525 000 karma points
6. 120 gold
7. 100% World Completion
8. 500x Badges of Honor
9. 250x Globs of Ectoplasm
10. 250x Vicious Fangs
11. 250x Armored Scales
12. 250x Vicious Claws
13. 250x Ancient Bones
14. 250x Vials of Powerful Blood
15. 250x Powerful Venom Sacs
16. 250x Elaborate Totems
17. 250x Piles of Crystalline Dust
18. 77x Mystic Clovers

You character in the Guild Wars 2 is described by the few attributes. Every hero has nine unique statistics, available for every class, and the tenth one depending on the chosen one. Attrbiutes divide onto three groups: primary attributes, secondary attributes and profession attributes. All of above may be increased with traits, equipment or consumables.

From zero to hero, or the hero development.

There are four such statistics, two offensive and two defensive. Those are: power, precision , toughness and vitality. Every of them may be increased by the methods listed above or with the level up. At the beginning, all values are 24 and they are increased gradually to the 916 points at the 80th level.

Level

Attributes per level

2-9

4

10-19

6

20-29

8

30-39

10

40-49

12

50-59

14

60-69

16

70-79

18

80

20

Primary attributes affect mainly the damage you take and cause:

• Power - every point increases attack about one
• Precision - increases critical hit chance
• Toughness - every point increases armor about one
• Vitality - every point increases health about ten

Four primary attributes affecting your hero.

They, next to the primary attributes, define your hero, his abilities and effectiveness in combat. Here you can find three offensive and two defensive features: critical damage, condition damage, condition duration, boon duration and healing power. They can be increased only by increasing traits or equipment. Summing up:

• Critical damage - every point increases critical damage about 1%
• Condition damage - every point increases negative effects about ten
• Condition duration - every point increases duration of negative effects about 1%
• Boon duration - every point increases duration of positive effects about o 1%
• Healing power - +10 to healing power for every point

A part of secondary attributes buffs giving the negative effects

The last one attribute depends on your profession's choice and affects related abilities. As in the case of the previous attributes, you may rise them only by spending some points.

Class

Attributes

Effect

Elementalist

Attunement recharge rate

Decreases a recharge time of attunement abilities

Hunter

Pet attribute bonus

Increases main pet's attribute about 1 for every pet attribute bonus point

Fighter

Burst damage

Increases damages of burst abilities

Necromancer

Life force pool

Increases points of life force abilities

Guardian

Virtue recharge rate

Decreases a recharge time of virtue abilities

Thief

Steal recharge rate

Decreases a recharge time of steal abilities

Engineer

Tool belt recharge rate

Decreases a recharge time of tool belt abilities

Mesmer

Shredding recharge rate

Decreases a recharge time of shredding abilities

More detailed information about abilities above and their influence you can find in the chapter dedicated to description of particular classes.

Investing your points you can increase burst damage (bar seen above).

All factors above are modified by equipment and displayed in a shortened way, called the statistics.

Statistics: a sum of your attributes and equipment's bonuses.

There are four the most important statistics: attack, critical chance, armor and health:

• Attack - it's a sum of damage causes by your weapon and power attribute. This value is used to define skill's damage.
• Critical chance - a chance for bigger damage (150% of normal + points of critical damage). As well as Precision, traits and equipment affect it.
• Armor - a sum of your equipped armor and toughness attribute. Decreases damage you take.
• Health - it's a number of your hit points. After losing all of it, your character will fall down and start fighting for survive.

During the majority of the game those factors have no meaning, you just should apply one rule: the more, the better. But when you reach the 80th level when your equipment stops gaining power, you have to decide which statistics you need, and which aren't crucial. As in the PvP or WvW you have to decide: you'd prefer to cause more damage, be tougher or increase the power of negative effects casting on enemies? Thanks to that despite having the maximum level, you're still able to personalize your character and make him differ from other player's avatars.

Possibilities of personalization your character are huge, so chance of meeting a clone of yours is minimal.

At the end I should mention how you can level up and what it gives you. Almost every action you make gives you XP:

• killing monsters
• collecting resources
• crafting
• discovering the map
• completing quests
• taking part in events
• fulfilling storyline missions
• World versus World
• Resurrecting your companions
• Mini-games

When you don't care about quickly leveling, you can carelessly explore the map and complete quests. But if you want reach the maximum level very fast, you should take part in events and craft.

What is more, further levels, besides increasing the primary attributes, unlocks an access to next skills and weapons. Table below contains all necessary information:

Level

Effect

5

First utility skill unlocked. From now one you get one skill point on every level.

7

Possibility of swaping the weapon set (besides an elementalist and engineer)

10

Second utility skill unlocked.

11

Traits unlocked. From now one you get one trait point on every level.

20

Third utility skill unlocked.

30

Elite skill unlocked.

40

Unlocking a second level of traits.

60

Unlocking a third level of traits.

80

Maximum level. After every 254000 XP you get a skill point.

The last one, but very interesting mechanism related to the hero's level and its calibration. In the Guild Wars 2 the stronger heroes are usually weakened in the PvE locations, what creates new challenges for them and makes killing bosses solo unavailable. Of course, bonus attack and armor from equipment are included, so such a character is powerful, but not invulnerable. This mechanism let you enjoy even the beginning locations after reaching the 80th level.

In case of PvP and WvW your hero is automatically raised to the 80th level. It equals chances in fight between players and creates place for tournaments (PvP) or matched encounters for locations on the map (WvW).

From the eleventh level your hero starts collecting one trait point per level and finishes with seventy of them after reaching the 80th level. Traits let you influence your attributes, statistics and even skills. Knowing it deeply is very important during developing your hero, especially while exploring the most difficult locations, PvP and WvW.

Spending the points

Before you start spending your trait points you have to find a trainer and bought a proper tome. You can find them in every beginning location, they're marked with a book on the map.

Warrior Trainer in the Black Citadel.

 

Depending on your level and number of available points you have to buy a proper tome:

Level

Name

Cost

Effect

11

Adept's

10 silver

You can spent 10 points

40

Master's

1 gold

You can spent 20 points

60

Grandmaster's

2 gold

You can spent 30 points

I should mention also, that you can reset spent trait points:

• with the proper tome
• choosing the proper option at trainer's and paying a bit

To spent your points you have to press H and choose the skills and traits bookmark and then traits. You will see a table, divided on few rows divided on four columns. First one describes the line: you can see a name, number of spent points and influence on the primary, secondary and profession attributes. The remaining three let you choose features which give you some bonuses.

This setting upgrades warrior's greatsword fighting.

All available traits are divided on minor (there is 15 of them, unlocked at5, 15 and 25 points) and major (60 of them, 10, 20 or 30 points required). In case of the second ones you can use lower level trait instead the higher one.

Sometimes it's good to choose another lower level trait

Skills are the basic part of the game in Guild Wars 2. Every action, like attack with sword, shield defense, firing from the pistol or more complicated like summoning companions, taunt, healing or preparing the flame thrower is an effect of use one of the hundreds available skills. Skill system defines your role on the battlefield and, connected with traits system, your whole character. The choice of skills makes your warrior with a greatsword causes monstrous damage, which the other one with the same weapon won't, but buff the team instead.

Skills can be divided onto two groups: weapon skills and slot skills. The first category contains all skills linked with used weapon. At the beginning you have an access only to the first type of attack, but according to your progress, you'll unlock more skills. It's worth mentioning that one handed weapon has three such skills while the two handed has five of them. But the one handed weapon has one big value: you can put another item into your offhand. Thanks to that you can fight with for example the set sword+shield or sword+axe. Although one handed weapons cause less damage, they have broader spectrum of available skills.

Skills for the greatsword and the set sword+axe.

Besides that, you should know that every class has other attacks: warrior with the greatsword will be able to charge, the guardian attacks all surrounding enemies and then pull up the running ones while the mesmer uses his weapon to fire a deadly ray.

The second category of skills, slot skills, contains skills hid under the 6-0 buttons, which can be unlocked by buying them out for the skill points (gained during challenges or leveling up), from the fifth level. Those skills are: healing, utility and elite, which additionally divides on few levels. The higher level, the more powerful is an effect of the skill and the more points you need to unlock it. Those numbers looks like that:

Type

Level

Required skill points

Healing

1

free

Healing

2

1

Healing

3

3

Utility

1

1

Utility

2

3

Utility

3

6

Elite

1

10

Elite

2

30

To choose higher levels of the utility skills, you need to have five skills from the lower level; in case of elite skill, two is enough.

Utility skills for warrior. Elite skills have its own, smaller tree.

How does the skills work?

To use the learned skill, you have to place it on the bar. Weapon skills are chosen automatically: equip a weapon and the bar will be fulfilled. In case of slot skills you have to manually inscribed them to the particular keys. You can do it on two ways: press H, choose skills and traits, then slot skills and here the proper button/skill combination or by clicking on the small arrow on the bar.

Two methods of setting skills: in the skill bar or character's menu.

Skill activation is clicking the particular key or choosing it by mouse click. In some cases, the skill requires second click: those are area attacks, you have to confirmed its area. Casting such skills may be improved by activating Fast-Cast Ground Targeting option, thanks to which after pressing the key, the spell will be centered on the cursor.

Skills have different charging time. Some are launched immediately, some needs few moments to get activated (charging bar is displayed), and some others are immediately, but their effect is visible after a few seconds. Actions required longer preparation can be interrupted by pushing, knocking down or stunning the character. In majority of cases you can move during attacks, only a few skills require to stay still.

Attack's charging bar: when it's full, the hero makes the last, stronger blow.

You can see a description of every skill by moving a mouse over it: you get an information about damage, range and additional effects. In some cases you'll see few windows which means, that after using that skill, the next one will have different effect.

After using a skill, you have to wait a while to use it again. In case of weapon skills after attacking and swapping the weapon, the skill will recharge in the background (so it'll be still unavailable for a while).

Waiting for the skills to recharge isn't the greatest thing.

When choosing the one of five available races, you choose also the racial skills, which could be unlocked in the further game. Those are the slot skills and may contain every subcategory: healing, utility and elite. They're weaker than the class' skills, so the race choice isn't crucial for the character's power. Every hero has six abilities to get:

Human

Category

Skill

Description

Healing

Prayer to Dwaina

Restores health.

Utility

Prayer to Kormir

Cancels three negative effects.

Utility

Prayer to Lyssa

Buffs hero with one positive effect and gives one negative to the enemy.

Elite

Avatar of Melandru

Changes you into Avatar of Melandru.

Elite

Hounds of Balthazar

Summons two Hounds of Balthazar

Elite

Reaper of Grenth

For 15 seconds nearby enemies are poisoned and chilled .

Asura

Category

Skill

Description

Utility

Pain Inverter

Nearby enemies are confused. You get a retaliation.

Utility

Radiation Field

Nearby enemies on the particular area are poisoned and weakened.

Utility

Technobabble

One enemy is dazed.

Elite

Summon 7-Series Golem

Summons offensive 7-Series Golem.

Elite

Summon D-Series Golem

Summons defensive D-Series Golem.

Elite

Summon Power Suit

Summons an armor for you or your ally.

Norn

Category

Skill

Description

Utility

Call Owl

Summons and owl which causes bleed.

Utility

Call Wurm

Summons a Wurm.

Elite

Become the Bear

You shape-shift into a bear and get a new skills.

Elite

Become the Raven

You shape-shift into a raven and get a new skills.

Elite

Become the Snow Leopard

You shape-shift into a snow leopard and get a new skills.

Elite

Become the Wolf

You shape-shift into a wolf and get a new skills.

Sylvari

Category

Skill

Description

Healing

Healing seed

Creates seeds which provides allies with regeneration.

Utility

Grasping Vines

Enemy is immobilized until the vines are destroyed.

Utility

Seed Turret

Creates a turret.

Elite

Summon Druid Spirit

Summons Druid Spirit

Elite

Summon Fern Mastiff

Summons Fern Mastiff

Elite

Take Root

Immobilizes you and creates a few turrets around.

Charr

Category

Skill

Description

Utility

Battle Roar

Allies get fury and might features.

Utility

Hidden Pistol

You fire at enemy with simultaneous jump backward.

Utility

Shrapnel Mine

Throws a mine which causes bleed and cripple.

Elite

Artillery Barrage

Summons an artillery support.

Elite

Charrzooka

You get the Charrzooka, which replace your actual weapon.

Elite

Warband Support

Summons a few charrs.

As it was explained every class has unique skills depending on the equipped weapon. Below you can find a list of equipment available for all classes:

 

Axe

 

X, OH

X, OH

X

    

Dagger

X, OH

OH

 

X, OH

 

X, OH

  

Mace

  

X, OH

 

X

   

Pistol

     

X, OH

X, OH

OH

Scepter

X

  

X

X

  

X

Sword

 

X

X, OH

 

X

X

 

X, OH

Focus

OH

  

OH

OH

  

X

Shield

  

OH

 

OH

 

X

 

Torch

 

OH

  

OH

  

X

Warhorn

 

OH

OH

OH

    

Greatsword

 

X

X

 

X

  

X

Hammer

  

X

 

X

   

Longbow

 

X

X

     

Rifle

  

X

   

X

 

Shortbow

 

X

   

X

  

Staff

X

  

X

X

  

X

Harpoon

 

X

X

  

X

X

 

Spear

 

X

X

X

X

X

 

X

Trident

X

  

X

X

  

X

Legend:

X - main weapon

OH - offhand

Besides that, some characters have an additional offensive skills. For example, an engineer may use the flamethrower or grenades when thief gets new attacks combining different types of main weapons and offhands. What is more, the Guild Wars 2 offers a lot of so called environmental weapons, an equipment which you can pick up and use as a weapon. Those are both flame swords, ice bows, bazookas and the broken bottle, board or branch. Also various siege machines are included (trebuchets, cannons). During using those weapons, you get a whole new skill bar, where you don't have to learn the advanced attacks, because you know them at once. Such weapons may be more powerful than your normal one, but very often they have a limited number of uses.

Elementalist is a hero draining its power from four elements: fire, water, air and earth. Although he hasn't an access to many weapons, he has various attacks: every weapon he uses, may derives from any available element, which multiplies four times the number of available skills. Depending on the currently used element, the use of your spells changes:

• Fire - direct fight with enemies, good to incinerate both single enemy and the big groups. Most of used attacks may burn the opponent.
• Water - it's commonly used to buffing hero and his allies. It let you heal and dismiss the negative effects. Besides, water has some offensive skills which, for example, let you freeze enemies.
• Air - focuses on single enemies. Additional spells may blind, daze or push the enemy out.
• Earth - although it's not very impressive, it's very effectiveness. Force field, temporarily indestructibility, immobilizing enemies: those are the main powers.

What is more, a proper choice of weapon defines if you'll be attacking single enemy or whole groups. Elementalist armed with staff will hold off an army, while using the dagger will finish off the enemy's boss quickly.

Weapon skills are additionally supported by the slot skills:

Group

Effect

Arcanes

Spells don't using the elemental magic to cause damage.

Auras

Defensive spells and buffs.

Cantrips

Spells useful for retreat.

Conjures

Spells for summoning a magic weapon.

Glyphs

Glyphs giving various bonuses.

Elementalist's value in PvE is an ability to switch quickly between different elements, what gives him new skills. He can heal himself and allies, then weak an enemy and return to using offensive spells. When you're playing single, it's worth to have a focus with you for some defensive spells. With friends you can stay with a staff and distance damage.

In PvP or WvW you have to decide about your role. Staff and fire magic allow you to fight on a distance while water magic makes you a team's support. During battles with small groups of enemies, you can use earth and air magic to control the combat by immobilizing or pushing enemies out.

Hunter is a one of the most mobile hero in the game, who is perfect both in melee and distance. In encounters he can use pets and summoned spirits.

To get a new pet, you should just find an animal with the juvenile prefix and press F. From now one you've got a new companion. A hunter can have four pets at most, with only one active in the battle. What is more, he can decide when use one of the special pet's skill. Unfortunately, the rest is used automatically.

Hunter has also:

Group

Effect

Pet skills

Pet's skill.

Pet utility skills

Skills affecting your pets.

Spirits

Summoning of spirits.

Survival skills

Increasing your survival time.

While playing solo, hunters have to kill enemies one by one, best using bows. Thanks to that they can save life. Melee is a good choice if you want to cause maximum damage but you have to remember that you're vulnerable for the retaliation. Eventually you can use pet's help and retreat. In a group hunter has an easier task. He can both support his companion and focus on causing damage. It's very versatile hero, who is designed to appeal to every fan of elves archers.

During PvP hunters rely on causing negative effects and bleeding enemies out. They don't have the warrior's strength, but they can harass enemies from a distance. In a group hunter is perfect fitted for catching and slowing down the running enemies.

The most stereotypical class in the MMO games returns in the Guild Wars 2. As always heavy armored, he obtained a few new tricks. Main warrior's skill is ability to cumulate adrenalin during the battle. With proper traits adrenalin can improve damage or critic hit chance, or can be spend for so called burst attack, which is a one strong hit or a series of attacks which quickly eliminate enemies. Moreover, warrior has an access to supporting skills and:

Group

Effect

Banners

Creates a banner which provides bonuses. It can be used as a weapon.

Physical

Skills for moving or immobilizing enemies.

Stances

Improving offensive or defensive of a hero.

Warrior is one of the simplest heroes to control during PvE. It's enough to choose the target, make few hits and pick up a loot. Repeat until all enemies are dead. Thanks to lot of skills improving damage he can quickly finish of any opponent. In a group, he uses buffing banners and shouts. What is more, some skills make picking up the wounded companions easier.

In PvP warrior can have few roles. The easiest one is a dealing damage. Very rarely anyone can stand the whole series of warrior's blows. Besides that, you can use shouts and banners, decrease a strength of negative effects and resurrect allies faster. Moreover, well equipped warrior is mobile on the battlefield, choosing targets and immobilizing them for the rest of a team.

A mage summoning the undeads, poisoning enemies and causing area damage: the necromancer. Although he is wearing a light armor, he is one of the most resistant heroes in the game, who can drain enemy's life. Moreover, he has a special skill death shroud (using the unique life force), which increases his stamina and provides new attacks:

• Life Blast - the more life force you have, the more damage you cause
• Dark Path - it lets you approach the enemy and freeze him
• Doom - makes you enemy run away
• Life Transfer - short-ranged life-draining and life force restoring attack

Necromancer has rather limited choice of weapon, but his attacks are usually from distance and often cause negative effects, so often changes of equipment isn't necessary. he also can use:

Group

Effect

Corruptions

Causes negative effects.

Marks

Set a magic symbols which activation causes negative effects.

Minions

Summons undeads.

Spectrals

Spells using the spectral energy.

Wells

Influencing the environment.

Although his damage isn't too big, necromancer is a perfect character to PvE. He is difficult to be killed. During playing in the group you can be sure, that the necromancer will be the last man standing and resurrecting teammates.

In PvP necromancer relies on causing negative effects and bleeding out the enemies. The longer the battle takes, the more advantage he gets. Thanks to life draining, freezing or frightening he is able to hold the defended spot even against the massive enemy forces.

There is no MMO without a paladin. In the Guild Wars 2 his role is played by the guardian. Heavy armored, perfectly armed hero who can fight solo or support group attacks. His characteristic feature is using the virtues :

• Virtue of Justice - fire damage. When it's not active, every fifth attack will burn an enemy. Activation causes that the next attack, yours or your allies', will incarnate an opponent.
• Virtue of Resolve - provides small life regeneration. Activation heals the guardian and nearby allies. It makes him a real tank.
• Virtue of Courage - allows to block one attack every forty seconds. Activation blocks the coming attack. The best usage time is a moment before the enemy champion uses his most powerful blow.

Guardian can use many weapons, from which the majority stands for the area damage while the offhand is for blocking and canceling the negative effects. Those skills are improved by:

Group

Effect

Consecrations

Blesses the earth and grants enemies on this area with various bonuses.

Meditations

Teleportations and canceling the negative effects.

Spirit weapons

Summons an enchanted weapon.

Symbols

Symbols on the ground which support you and allies.

Tomes

Summons an ancient tome which provides news skills.

Wards

Creates unbeatable barrier.

During the PvE a guardian shouldn't have bigger problems. He is very tough and in case of problems, he can use virtues and defensive skills to restore himself. He is a perfect hero for the beginners who'd like to learn the game. What is more, the more people he has in his group, the more powerful he becomes, because some of his skills affect all allies.

In PvP and WvW he can play in two ways: damage dealing or support. Usually, the more companions you have, the more you should focus on supporting. Defeating an enemy is good, but saving ten allies is better.

Thief is a master in shadow combat and the one of the most mobile heroes in the game. Where warrior fights face to face, thief sneaks from behind, poisons enemy and then disappear to show up at the next one.

His main values is a steal skill, which allows him to appear nearby enemy and then "steal" his ability. Using this skill you can use the new attack, but only once. What is more, the thief uses an initiative. It means that you don't have to wait for the skill to recharge, but when the run our of initiative, you're harmless.

Group

Effect

Dual wield skills

Deceptions

Stealth

Tricks

Venoms

On the contrary to the most classes which can fight enemy face to face, thief is very rattle and can't fight too long. The best move is to use the distance weapon to weaken an enemy and then quickly finish him off with the blade. If you want to play as a thief, you have to learn evading and rumbling perfectly. Unfortunately, this hero requires big in-game know-how to be well used.

In the PvP you should always attack from behind. On the contrary to many MMOs in Guild Wars 2 thief can't be permanently invisible so you have to learn how to avoid attacks and how to move on the battlefield.

If you're looking for the versatile hero, who can fight at every distance, heal allies, damage enemies, give bonuses and cause negative effects, there is no one better than the engineer. But his greatest feature is an ability to craft his experimental equipment:

• Turrets - let you control particular zone by eliminating enemies or healing allies. Turrets with machine guns, flamethrower or using bazookas will be an unpleasant surprise for the attacker.
• Elixirs - improves engineer's stamina. Using the elixir gun you can fire potions to the allies or, with the proper trait, hurt enemies.
• Flamethrower - although the engineer prefers long distance combat, he isn't helpless on the short distance. Flamethrower makes your enemy think twice before charging at you.

The equipment above is only a few examples from the weapons available for the engineer. Even if you don't want to use those inventions, you can fight using a pistol or rifle when the combination pistol+shield increases your endurance. Generally, engineer is a perfect support for every team, who can adjust to every situation.

Below you can find skills available for engineers:

Group

Effect

Device kits

Engineer gets a set (bombs, grenades or medical one) and obtains new attacks.

Elixirs

Elixirs cause random effects upon allies.

Gadgets

Supporting or harming gadgets.

Turret skills

Creates a turret.

Weapon kits

Engineer gets a new weapon and attacks.

In PvE engineer works brilliantly. Turrets or mines can be used as traps and flamethrower helps finish off the remaining ones. Elixirs are always good and while playing in a team sharing them with allies won't be unnoticeable.

During the PvP you can both support allies and fight on a medium distance, using the slowing and immobilizing skills to finish off enemies later with the gunfire or flamethrower. What is more, engineer has few skills improving the retreat. Use them, heal and return to harass enemy.

Master of illusions and retreats. Mesmer is one of the most difficult heroes to catch and master in the mage. During the combat he uses clones and phantasms to confuse enemies and then he weakens him and slowly drains his life. Mesmer has an access to few powerful shatter skills which let him destroy the clones for the defined effect:

• Mind Wrack - causes huge area damage. Thanks to the small recharge time, you can attack multiple times in the encounter.
• Cry of Frustration - causes medium area damage and confusion on enemies, thanks to which every attack will cause damage.
• Diversion - dazes nearest enemies. It's used mostly during retreats.
• Distortion - it let mesmer to avoid all attacks. It's the last chance ability to run away from death.

Mesmer has many weapons to choose, both melee and ranged. Thanks to the big mobility and creating illusions, he is able to hurt an enemy from the distance and finish him off with the sword and then retreat to the safe place.

As every class, mesmer has an access to few skills:

Group

Effect

Clones

Creates clones.

Glamours

Creates a zone which supports allies.

Manipulations

Spells making the retreat easier.

Mantras

Strong spells which have to be prepared before use.

Phantasms

Creates phantasms who attacks enemies.

PvE requires big knowledge and orientation in the situation. While playing solo, mesmer should use the greatsword for distance damage and then change weapon to finish off the enemy. In the group your task is much simpler, it's enough to attack from the distance and creates illusions to make a chaos.

Where PvE is problematic, PvP seems to be a natural mesmer's mode. Giving and canceling statuses, confusing enemies or teleporting whole armies is a normal thing for him. Moreover, it's the hero who is hard to be eliminated thanks to it illusions and retreat skills.

As the game's name suggest, the main methods of gathering the bigger number of players are guilds. Players in such unit can not only cooperate during quests and events but also be recognizable during PvP and WvW. What is more, playing in a guild gives you influence points which can be used to improve the guild, what provides many unique bonuses.

Few clicks are required to create a guild. Press G, choose Create Guild, write your name (max 31 letters) and abbreviation (max 4 letters). After paying one silver you can start inviting friends. Joining the existing is equally simple. When you got invated, press G, the bookmark management, choose the name of the guild you want to join and click Join Guild. Last step is to represent the guild, thanks to which your successes will help develop the guild. To do so, just click on the Represent. Player may be in many guilds, but represent only one at once.

Creating new guilds is easy and quick.

There can be 500 players in one guild, spread on few servers. It's worth mentioning that influence and bonuses are available only for the world where they have been conquered: changing it, you have to collect the influence again. Maximum number of players in your guild depends on the fee you paid:

• 50 players - after creating the guild
• 100 players - 1 silver
• 200 players - 10 silver
• 300 players - 1 gold
• 400 players - 1 gold
• 500 players - 10 gold

You can increase this number at Guild Registrar in every beginning location.

Every guild has up to 10 ranks for its members. To change it, the person with Edit Ranks (default guild leader) have to right mouse click on the icon next to the hero's name and choose a new one. After creating a guild you can choose between three ranks, Leader, Officer, Member, every with other permissions.

Permissions

Leader

Officer

Member

Edit ranks

X

  

Edit guild emblem

X

  

Claim/unclaim WvW forts

X

X

X

Queue upgrades

X

X

 

Modify upgrade in progress

X

X

 

Activate built upgrades

X

X

 

Admin lower ranks

X

X

 

Edit message of the day

X

X

 

Display guild emblem

X

X

 

Guild stash deposit

X

X

X

Guild stash withdraw

X

X

X

Treasure trove deposit

X

X

 

Treasure trove withdraw

X

X

 

New members here

  

X

Leader may add next ranks and permissions to them. REMARK: there is a possibility of making a second leader. Such player can lose this rank only by degrading himself.

Proper set of permissions make the control over the guild easier.

Guild Stash and Treasure Trove permissions are related to the guild's treasure and his bookmark. Thanks to that, members can exchange items but they don't have an access to better items from the other stashes. to increase control over treasure, every transaction is noted down. You can have three bookmarks with different capacity to buy for influence:

• Guild Stash - 50 slots
• Guild Treasure Trove - 100 slots
• Deep Cave - 100 slots

List of transaction makes controlling the treasure easier.

To identify your guild among many others, you can create an unique emblem, which could be displayed on armors, weapons and flags during WvW. To do so, you have to buy a Guild Item Template upgrade from the Politics bookmark (more in the Guilds - influence) and then go to Guild Registrar to create your own symbol.

Number of option should please every malcontent.

To display the emblem you have to buy Guild Armor Contract and Guild Weapons Contract upgrades. It unlocks an access to Guild Armorer and Guild Weaponsmith, where you can buy items letting you to transmutate equipment into the one with your emblem.

Influence is a special type of points, accumulated on the guild's account used for buying various upgrades and temporal bonuses. You collect them by taking part in events, undergrounds exploration and PvP. To collect influence, you have to represent a guild. What is more, influence is gathered only for the guild's part from the same server. So playing on the Blacktide doesn't give you points from the players on Gandary. REMARK: influence gathered during the game on overflow aren't saved.

All collected influence is noted down.

Below you can find methods of acquiring the influence:

Influence

Method

2

Every player who finished the event or storyline mission (the more player, the more influence)

5

Everyone player who won PvP

10

Every player who ended exploration of undergrounds.

10

Every new member

10

Every player who was online during checking the "presence list" (once a day in a random moment, chosen by the game)

20

For two players finishing the event or storyline mission in the same moment.

10

At Guild Promoter for two silver (you can multiply it)

400

Using Letter of Commendation.

1000

Using Tome of Influence.

Gathered points may be spend for developing four branches of guild: Architecture, The Art of War, Economy and Politics. If the upgrade is cancelled during developing, the influence is returned. Points spent on speeding the production up are lost.

Available Economy upgrades.

Architecture

This branch of upgrades increases the capacity of guild treasure and allow for making simultaneously two new upgrades.

Name

Level

Influence

Time

Description

Research Architecture Level 1

-

500

16 hours

Architecture gets 1st level.

Guild Workshop

1

500

48 hours

Allows to make two upgrades simultaneously.

Research Architecture Level 2

1

1000

32 hours

Architecture gets 2nd level.

Guild Stash

2

1000

48 hours

+50 slots in treasure.

Research Architecture Level 3

2

5000

72 hours

Architecture gets 3rd level.

Research Architecture Level 4

3

10000

96 hours

Architecture gets 4th level.

Guild Treasure Trove

4

5000

168 hours

+100 slots in treasure.

Research Architecture Level 5

4

20000

168 hours

Architecture gets 5th level.

Deep Cave

5

10000

168 hours

+100 slots in treasure.

Art of War

Bonuses during WvW.

Name

Level

Influence

Time

Description

Research Art of War Level 1

-

500

16 hours

Art of War gets 1st level.

+10% PvP influence for 24h

1

100

24 hours

+10% PvP influence for 24h

Research Art of War Level 2

1

1000

24 hours

Art of War gets 2nd level.

WvW Fort +10% Experience

2

200

16 hours

WvW Fort +10% Experience for 12 hours.

WvW Fort +5 Supply

2

200

16 hours

WvW Fort +5 Supply for 12 hours.

WvW Fort +10% Magic Find

2

200

16 hours

WvW Fort +10% Magic Find for 12 hours.

Research Art of War Level 3

2

5000

72 hours

Art of War gets 3rd level.

WvW Fort +40 Power

3

200

36 hours

WvW Fort +40 Power for 12 hours.

WvW Fort +40 Toughness

3

200

36 hours

WvW Fort +40 Toughness for 12 hours.

WvW Fort +40 Vitality

3

200

36 hours

WvW Fort +40 Vitality for 12 hours.

WvW Fort +40 Precission

3

200

24 hours

WvW Fort +40 Precission for 12 hours.

Research Art of War Level 4

3

10000

96 hours

Art of War gets 4th level.

WvW Fort +10% Healing

4

200

24 hours

WvW Fort +10% Healing for 12 hours.

WvW Fort +10% Player Health

4

200

24 hours

WvW Fort +10% Player Health for 12 hours.

Guild Catapult

4

500

24 hours

Creates a catapult which requires less supply.

Research Art of War Level 5

4

20000

168 hours

Art of War gets 5th level.

Guild Siege Suit

5

500

36 hours

Creates Siege Suit which requires less supply.

WvW Fort +5% Swiftness

5

500

24 hours

WvW Fort +5% Swiftness for 12 hours.

Economy

Bonuses from here increases amount of collected items, XP and karma points.

Name

Level

Influence

Time

Description

Research Economy Level 1

-

500

16 hours

Economy gets 1st level.

+5% Exp Public Banner

1

50

4 hours

Summons a banner +5% XP for allies for 30 minutes.

+10% Gathering Bonus Banner

1

50

4 hours

Summons a banner +5% rare resource gathering chance for allies for 30 minutes.

Research Economy Level 2

1

1000

24 hours

Economy gets 2nd level.

+10% Magic Find Banner

2

50

4 hours

Summons a banner +10% magic find for allies for 30 minutes.

Research Economy Level 3

2

5000

72 hours

Economy gets 3rd level.

+5% Kill Exp for 24 Hours

3

500

24 hours

+5% Kill Exp for 24 Hours.

+10% Magic Find for 72 Hours

3

500

36 hours

+10% Magic Find for 72 Hours.

Vault Transport

3

50

6 hours

Summons a guild's vault to your location.

Research Economy Level 4

3

10000

96 hours

Economy gets 4th level.

+10% Gathering Bonus for 48 Hours

4

500

32 hours

+10% Gathering Bonus for 48 Hours

+15% Karma for 24 Hours

4

500

48 hours

+15% Karma gathering for 24 Hours

Politics

This branch upgrades emblems, armors, weapons and other useful items.

Name

Level

Influence

Time

Description

Research Politics Level 1

-

500

16 hours

Politics gets 1st level.

+5% Karma Banner

1

50

4 hours

Summons a banner +5% karma gathering for allies for 30 minutes.

Guild Emblem Template

1

100

24 hours

Let you create an emblem at Guild Registrar.

Road Marker

1

50

4 hours

Summons a marker which gives 20 second of swfitness for allies.

Research Politics Level 2

1

1000

24 hours

Politics gets 2nd level.

+5% Influence for 24 Hours

2

100

16 hours

+5% Influence in PvE for 24 Hours.

Guild Armorer Contract

2

500

32 hours

Let you buy an armor with an emblem.

Research Politics Level 3

2

5000

72 hours

Politics gets 3rd level.

+10% Influence From Events

3

200

24 hours

+10% Influence From Events

Contract Asuran Outsourcing

3

200

30 hours

Let you develop one upgrade without a slot.

Guild Weapons Contract

3

1000

40 hours

Let you buy a weapon with an emblem.

Research Politics Level 4

3

10000

96 hours

Politics gets 4th level.

+20% Dungeon Influence for 24 Hours

4

200

36 hours

+20% Dungeon Influence for 24 Hours

Guild Banquet

4

1000

78 hours

Creates a banquet table from which players can eat and drink. Lasts an hour.