Combat Roles

• Support Role

  Support Support is one of the core combat roles of Guild Wars 2 and is similar to healing in other MMOs. Playing a Support role is all about keeping your party alive and boosting their offense and defensive abilities. What is support? Is it healing? Support is similar to healing, but also much more. In [...]
  

• Damage Role

  Damage Damage is one of the core combat roles of Guild Wars 2. Playing a Damage role is all about killing your target as quickly and efficiently as possible. What are the different types of damage? Damage basically comes in two forms: Condition and Direct. Condition Damage is dealt through Conditions like Burning, Bleeding, Confusion, [...]
  

• Control Role

  Control Control is one of the core combat roles of Guild Wars 2 and is similar to tanking in other MMOs. Playing a Control role is all about keeping your targets busy and away from your Damage and Support players. What is control? Is it tanking? Control is not tanking in the traditional sense. No [...]