[NapTooN]

English Part of the Interview

Enjoy reading it, i haven't finished it yet :D

Class Description (translated from German):

* Symbols: The Guardian can place symbols which give advantages to his allies or damage enemies, for example Symbol of Faith is a Hammerattack that gives allies the "Lifeforce" Boon. A symbol only stays for a few seconds.
* Wards: The Guardian can mark areas which can't be passed by enemies, party members are not affected. With the Staff, the Guardian can draw an unpassable line on the ground which hinders the movement of enemies (The Guardian also has a circle ward).
* Aegis: With Aegis, the Guardian can block the next attack. The virtue "Courage" enables this Boon.
* Spirit Weapons: The Guardian can summon strong Spirit Weapons which fight enemies but can't be attacked. They vanish after a set period of time but can unleash a mighty attack on command. After that, the Spirit Weapons vanish immediately. The Guardian can summon a Hammer of Wisdom for example which knockdown enemies.

Virtues

* Courage: You can block an attack every 30 seconds with Aegis. If you activate this Skill, Allies get the Aegis Boon, Courage will be disabled for 120 seconds then.
* Resolve: You regenerate Life Points. If you activate this Skill, Conditions will be removed and Allies will regenerate Life Points, Resolve will be disabled for 120 seconds then.
* Justice: With every 5th attack you inflict "Burning" on the enemy. If you activate this Skill, the next attack of your Allies inflict "Burning", Justice will be disabled for 30 seconds then.

Weaponlist

*Main-Hand: Scepter, Mace, Sword
* Off-Hand: Focus, Torch, Shield
* Twohanded: Greatsword, Staff, Hammer

Edited by KQ, 10 January 2012 - 10:55 PM.

[IDarko]

Thanks for posting!

And wards are awesome! They can block people like body blocking. haha i love that <3

Edited by IDarko, 27 January 2011 - 01:50 PM.

[chanw4]

The mechanism of Symbols is also revealed.

[IDarko]

Did you guys read.. *trying to breath* ...

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OnlineWelten: Is it possible to have multiple spirit weapons activated simultaneously?

Jon: Yes, you can have up to three activated if you slot three spirit weapon utilities.

That's pretty darn awesome if you ask me!

Edited by IDarko, 27 January 2011 - 01:50 PM.

[Infamous]

Sounds like there are some really long cool-downs on this one.

[Norngolian]

IDarko said:

Did you guys read.. *trying to breath* ...



That's pretty darn awesome if you ask me!

it's the same as the concept... I'm glad they stick to those awesome pics they have :D

[freekINcage]

seems sooo awesome.
what i don't get is why anet isn't revealing the class already.. they're talkin about these virtues and aegis and all that awesome stuff, and we don't really have an idea of what that stuff is exactly. :(

[chanw4]

freekINcage said:

seems sooo awesome.
what i don't get is why anet isn't revealing the class already.. they're talkin about these virtues and aegis and all that awesome stuff, and we don't really have an idea of what that stuff is exactly. :(

Well virtues are signet like Guardian special resources.
They have a passive effect. (Burning, health boon and block proc every 30 sec) and a party wise active effect which will disable the passive effect for 2 minutes if used.

[Norngolian]

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Jon: There are currently two forms of wards on the guardian: a line that forces enemies to move around it and a circle which keeps enemies outside, and sometimes inside of it.

talk about traping enemies and then bombarding them... seems like the guardian elementalist combo will be popular

[Malchior Devenholm]

freekINcage said:

seems sooo awesome.
what i don't get is why anet isn't revealing the class already.. they're talkin about these virtues and aegis and all that awesome stuff, and we don't really have an idea of what that stuff is exactly. :(

Because it's 6 AM in Bellevue. Arenanet won't even be in the offices until 9 AM.

[Roussos]

That explains why the hammer took down the big creature in one hit in the video we saw .
You can unleash it and deal powerful dmg but then it vanishes .
Seems so cool :) .

[Sam]

Wow, this profession sounds really cool. I really like the ward system, sounds unique. It's a shame we won't get to see it in action.

[NapTooN]

Edited the OP with more information about the Class Mechanics, Virtues and Weaponlist.

Edit: right after i tried to translate everything, the Guardian Page goes up -_-

Edited by NapTooN, 27 January 2011 - 02:11 PM.

[Veertje-mii]

This is interesting:

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OnlineWelten: Is the guardian able to use defensive Spirit weapons in order to protect an ally? Can he, for example, conjure a defensive Shield which will cover a certain ally from incoming damage?

Jon: There are no ally targeted skills in Guild Wars 2.

[Eragon Zarroc]

ahhh, interesting. wards stop movement but not ranged attacks. it looked like one of them was stopping ranged attacks in a vid...

[Naoroji]

Eragon Zarroc said:

ahhh, interesting. wards stop movement but not ranged attacks. it looked like one of them was stopping ranged attacks in a vid...

That wasn't a ward, though. That was Shield of Deflection, methinks.

[Wombat]

Roussos said:

That explains why the hammer took down the big creature in one hit in the video we saw .
You can unleash it and deal powerful dmg but then it vanishes .
Seems so cool :) .

Anyone notice tho that the first hit the Spirit Hammer did in the video knocked back 3 enemies? Looks like Spirit Weapon Guardians are going to be quite powerfull, especially if u can have 3 of them. I wonder how many different types of spirit weapons there are going to be.

[Vahkris]

IDarko said:

Did you guys read.. *trying to breath* ...

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OnlineWelten: Is it possible to have multiple spirit weapons activated simultaneously?

Jon: Yes, you can have up to three activated if you slot three spirit weapon utilities.

That's pretty darn awesome if you ask me!

Anyone else reminded of temporary Necromancer minions? Use the ability to summon, they fight on their own, use the ability again to unleash their special ability which also makes them go away? Almost the same mechanics, just temporary and with a spirit weapon model.

Veertje-mii said:

This is interesting:

Yeah. Izzy tweeted a while back there were no real good ways to target allies. Guess that confirms it.

[chanw4]

Vahkris said:

Anyone else reminded of temporary Necromancer minions? Use the ability to summon, they fight on their own, use the ability again to unleash their special ability which also makes them go away? Almost the same mechanics, just temporary and with a spirit weapon model.




Yeah. Izzy tweeted a while back there were no real good ways to target allies. Guess that confirms it.

Yes. Already mentioned about that in the euro gamer thread,

[Lytalm]

Really interesting interview. Thanks for sharing the link!

[Lyssa]

This interview would have been freaking perfect for Issiah as well. Awesome, really awesome questions, but JP just didnt seem to give very convincing answers half the time.

[Doctor Overlord]

Thanks for posting, some nice little pieces of detail in that interview.

[spikey_monkey]

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as its procc cannot be controlled by the player, it will rather often block a minor enemy attack instead of a strategically important one.

I thought I read somewhere that GW2 won't have auto-attacks, meaning there are no "minor enemy attacks." Am I thinking of a different MMO?

But iirc then wouldn't courage be quite amazing blocking 7% of your opponent's offensive skills?

[LastDay]

spikey_monkey said:

I thought I read somewhere that GW2 won't have auto-attacks, meaning there are no "minor enemy attacks." Am I thinking of a different MMO?

You can right click on a skill to set it as "autoattack".
The first slot skill has a low cooldown.

GW1 had an attack you can use without a skill.
Swinging a sword, shooting these little orbs with a wand etc.

That's what they removed!

[Venbloodblade]

I wonder if there might be an elite ward, where you activate the skill, run to anypoint, creating a wall behind you, then after a few seconds it stops, and stays there for a bit.
similar to tron

[Tommy's]

Interview said:

...the weapon will target its ability based on the guardian’s own target.

This really makes me sad. Really hoped you could be smashing one target while using the summoned hammer to knock down the foe currently attacking that almost dead ally over there, so he can escape. But guess I'll just have to choose between letting my ally die or get smashed in the back while trying to save him. Great support! :p

[ilr]

Lrn 2 manage more than 1 target at a time and you won't have that problem...

[pumpkin pie]

how is it they put the release date 2012? while other thing like status the say "no information"??

[Vahkris]

Tommy's said:

This really makes me sad. Really hoped you could be smashing one target while using the summoned hammer to knock down the foe currently attacking that almost dead ally over there, so he can escape. But guess I'll just have to choose between letting my ally die or get smashed in the back while trying to save him. Great support! :p

Do the following:

1. Attack the mob you want.
2. While attacking, target the enemy attacking the ally. Use hammer skill to do knockdown.
3. Target mob you want again and continue fighting.

Practice, should end up costing you about 2-4 seconds at most. Wonder if there's going to be a "target last target" command, would make this even easier.

[Tommy's]

Jon Peters said:

The spawned weapons act similar to a defensive pet. They will defend you if you are attacked and they will attack what you attack. When you command them with their special skill you can pick the target they use it on by using the command skill on that target.

*small happy dance* Ok so we can at least know down (or whatever the special skill may be) a different foe :)

And the reason I adressed this is not because I don't know how to quickly switch target, but I believe you get more damage when smashed in the back?