Popular user-defined tags for this product:. Is this game relevant to you? Sign In or Open in Steam. Languages :. English and 3 more. Franchise: Guild Wars. Share Embed. Read Critic Reviews. Add to your wishlist and get notified when it becomes available. View Community Hub. About This Game Guild Wars 2 is an online role-playing game with fast-paced action combat, a rich and detailed universe of stories, awe-inspiring landscapes to explore, two challenging player vs.
Explore a Living World Tyria comes alive with thousands of stories that change based on the actions of players like you. You never know what you'll discover each time you play! Attack on the move, dodge and roll away from enemy blows, and team up with other players to dominate the battlefield! Create a unique character, decide how their story evolves, and uncover new revelations, questions, and truths with every choice you make.
Competitive Play for Everyone Competitive play in Guild Wars 2 is easy to learn but offers challenges for new players and hardcore PvPers alike.
You can check the current number of players here. The Guild Wars 2 community is extremely passionate, even after almost 9 years of this game fighting its way against competition from other large names such as World of Warcraft.
And the developers have been quite a bit more communicative recently with multiple content updates planned out for the upcoming season and expansions. Yes, the core game is percent free for everyone.
As of now, the Heart of Thorns expansion comes bundled alongside the Path of Fire expansion. Expansions offer tons of additional content including stories, equipment, maps, mounts, gliders, and entirely new regions. Purchasing an expansion will also unlock chatting and mail privileges exclusive to paid accounts, and allow you to have 5 character slots. You also gain access to the Revenant profession, which is missing from the free to play version of Guild Wars 2.
Buying an expansion will also open up in-game gold to gem conversion in the currency exchange. You can use gems to unlock episodes, buy cosmetics, etc. Raids are also accessible once you pay for an expansion. You can view the full list of differences between free and paid access here. The most noticeable thing about guild wars is their unique character versatility. By that, I mean that even if you play a thief you can play as a healer. Gear selection, runes, and sigils allow you to freely choose the stats and abilities you want for your character.
Weapon and utility skills change your skill bar and as a result, change your playstyle and character role. Because of the versatility, that each class can choose whatever he wants to play a DPS a tank, or some other variations there is no need for the holy trinity in dungeons to some extend.
In the highest fractal levels and raid, there is a need to take certain roles in the party in order to finish it successfully. One of the things that makes this game so good for newcomers is the fact that there is no hard grind to reach the max level which is And you can gain EXP in a multitude of ways.
Pretty much every game mode rewards you with EXP and you have a variety of options to get endgame loot. There are raids, like most other MMOs. Then there is the Fractals 5 man dungeons mode with different buffs and debuffs each day, plus multiple difficulty tiers.
Conquest 5 v 5 PvP is the primary PvP mode in Guild Wars 2, it is sort of like a flag capture deathmatch between 2 teams. You fight for objectives like keeps and towers with siege weapons and also try to gain control over resource camps. In the fantasy world of Guild Wars, there exist powerful ancient beings known as Elder Dragons. These primordial creatures have been around since the beginning of time, wreaking havoc and destruction upon the world whenever they awake from their deep slumber.
Their cycle of awakening, destroying, and hibernation is spread over a period of several millennia, intrinsically connected to the levels of ambient magic in the world. Guild Wars 2 takes place nearly years after the events of the first Guild War. Five Elder Dragons who had been sleeping underneath the continent of Tyria have awoken, causing mass-scale destruction of life and property, affecting various races and factions living within Tyria.
All in an effort to fight back the 5 Elder Dragons. There are 3 Orders you can choose to work with at the start of your story- the scholars of Durmand Priory, the secret agents of the Order of Whispers, and the warrior army of the Vigil. I think the combat system of Guild Wars 2 can be described as fast-paced, flexible, and dynamic.
It is one of the best MMOs out there in terms of pure combat mechanics and you get a wide variety of skills, weapons, specialties, etc. A character damaged by engagement with an enemy is immediately placed in combat mode which reduces forward movement speed and increases weapon set swapping cooldowns.
The key to winning combat in Guild Wars 2 is your skill bar, located at the center bottom of the screen. You can choose up to 10 unique skills from a wide roster of spells. There are a variety of skills-. The same weapon equipped by different professions will result in varying skills. A ranger with a bow will have different skills compared to a warrior with a bow. The same applies in reverse, i.
Your main hand weapon determines the first 3 weapon skills while your off-handed weapon decides the last 2 weapon skills. Your 6 th slot on the skill bar belongs to a healing skill, and all healing skills restore health as a basic benefit while some grant additional buffs.
Your character starts out with a core healing skill, and you unlock new healing abilities by spending hero points in the hero panel. Now, healing skills should not be confused for skills in other slots that also possess secondary healing abilities. Healing skills are also segregated by profession. This is an enchanted shout that heals you and any allies in a cone in front of you. For each class, there are 4 variations in healing skills you can choose from.
The additional extensions will unlock 2 more variations. These are skills that perform a wide range of tasks, like applying various buffs on you and your allies or applying debuffs on the enemy. As you level up your character, you unlock new utility slots- Slot 1 at level 11, Slot 2 at level 15, and Slot 3 at level Utility skills are based on profession, but some are also race dependent. Utility skills can range from damage block buffs to area healing, power boosts, immobilization of enemies, and traps that prevent your enemies from crossing a path.
It summons magical hammers that spin around you to create a shield, damaging any enemy who is struck by them. Elite skills cannot be used frequently and are reserved on the last slot of your skill bar. Elite skills can only be accessed once your character reaches level To be eligible for unlocking an Elite skill, you must first unlock the requisite healing and utility skills of a specific type.
A nice example of a strong Elite skill is the Battle Standard, usable only by Warriors. This summons a banner that revives fallen friends and lays the finishing blow on downed enemies, instantly killing them. It also grants periodical bonuses to nearby allies. You can reduce the recharge timer by picking the banner up. Certain unique skills and secondary abilities are exclusive to a given profession; these are called professional mechanics.
All professions have a primary mechanic which might be a single mechanic, or a compound mechanic consisting of multiple basic mechanics working together. An example of a professional mechanic is the Virtue of Justice for Guardians which causes you and your allies to burn the enemies upon attacking them.
Warriors have access to Eviscerate which makes you leap at your foe to execute a crushing attack whose effects are boosted by your adrenaline level. A successful hit increases your might. Every character in this game has an endurance bar which is expended when you dodge an enemy attack. Dodging can be done by double-tapping any of the movement keys or pressing the key bound to dodge default is V.
Maximum endurance per character is , and dodging consumes 50, or 33 depending on the build and the class. Dodging speed is fixed and moves you units over a period of 0. Certain traits will also activate upon dodging, like Selfless Daring with the Guardian class which heals nearby allies at the end of your dodge roll. Or Unwavering Avoidance Revenant Class which rewards you with vigor if you successfully evade an incoming attack.
Dodging is usually used to evade a powerful attack since you only have a limited endurance pool and dodging consumes a significant chunk of it. Obvious indicators are glowing eyes or an exaggerated attack animation.
But you can set any skill slot to auto-attack, so you can activate this skill as soon as it is off cooldown if no other skill is being used. You can also chain skills, using them in sequence at a rapid pace while attacking a single target. Getting knocked or stunned will interrupt your chaining of skills, as will pressing the wrong skill during the sequence.
Combos are also possible, often done by multiple characters from different professions. Tyria comes alive with thousands of stories that change based on the actions of players like you. You never know what you'll discover each time you play!
Action-Oriented Combat Watch the video. Experience high-impact, fast-paced combat and choose from an arsenal of professions, weapons, and playstyles. Attack on the move, dodge and roll away from enemy blows, and come to your allies' rescue midbattle. In the open world, you can team up with every player you meet—no grouping required! Tyria is irrevocably shaped by its past, and you play a crucial role in its future.
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