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MajicGuardi

04-17-2006, 07:18 PM

<DIV>Hello fellow guardians. I am a 34rd season guardian and I just got Profit UI and I am wondering how all you guardians set up your hotbars. I have 4 up at the moment and you have the tiny little 2 combined on the right bottom corner for like procs on things ect. If anyone could show me how and where they have their taunts attacks buffs ect it would be much appreciated thank you.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Also, another question. I am planning to be a raid tank when I'm up there in level. What AA lines would I do in simple terms?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thank you.</DIV>

Bantel

04-18-2006, 01:08 AM

When I was your level, it looked like this: bar 1 - horizontal bottom center of screen <OL> <LI>Single Target Taunt - Suppress</LI> <LI>AoE Taunt - Shouting Cry</LI> <LI>Emergency Hate Increase - Rescue</LI> <LI>Hate Increase Self Buff - Reinforcement (when you reach lvl 52) </LI> <LI>CA with Taunt - Vengeful Strike</LI> <LI>CA AoE with Taunt - Taunting Assault (when you reach lvl 44) </LI> <LI>CA (Shield required) with Stun - Bull Rush</LI> <LI>CA with Interrupt - Invade</LI> <LI>CA that can be used when stunned - Shatter</LI> <LI>CA AoE - Bury</LI> <LI>CA with DOT/Debuff - Ruin</LI> <LI>CA with DOT/Debuff - Maim</LI></OL> bar 2 - stacked below bar 1 <OL> <LI>HO Starter - Fighting Chance</LI> <LI>Short Group mit buff - Battle Cry</LI> <LI>Short Self mit buff - Wall of Flesh</LI> <LI>Short AoE Attack Speed and DPS Debuff - Entrench</LI> <LI>Short Duration Damage Absorbing Self Buff - Tower of Stone (when you reach lvl 5<img src="/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></LI> <LI>Raid/Group Friend Intercept - Intercede</LI> <LI>empty button to act as seperator and to make fast location of Intercede easy </LI> <LI>Reactive Hate Proc Buff - Goading Defense</LI> <LI>Defensive Stance - Dig In</LI> <LI>Offensive Stance - Desperate Flurry</LI> <LI>Group Friend Avoidance Buff with Parry Increase for the Guardian - Never Surrender</LI> <LI> Group Friend Hate Reducer - Allay</LI></OL> bar 3 - to the right of bar 1 <OL> <LI>Group Offensive Skills Buff - Guardian's Call</LI> <LI>Group Defense Buff - Call of Command</LI> <LI>Group HP Buff - Do or Die</LI> <LI>Self STA Buff - Iron Will</LI> <LI>CA/AA</LI> <LI>CA/AA</LI> <LI>CA/AA</LI> <LI>CA/AA</LI> <LI>CA/AA</LI> <LI>CA/AA</LI> <LI>CA/AA</LI> <LI>CA/AA</LI></OL> Bar 4 - stacked under bar 3 <OL> <LI>doll</LI> <LI>doll</LI> <LI>1h crush (swappping for AA Belly Smash)</LI> <LI>AA Belly Smash</LI> <LI>CA High Damage Long Recast</LI> <LI>CA High Damage Long Recast</LI> <LI>CA High Damage Long Recast</LI> <LI>1h axe (swappping for AA Belly Smash)</LI> <LI>Extra Shield (if ToS causes need to replace shield with spare)</LI> <LI>mount/carpet</LI></OL> AA lines: STR 4,4,4,8 WIS 4,4,5,8,8 Gives you: <UL> <LI>320 mitigation</LI> <LI>8% hate gain</LI> <LI>All penalties associated with your offensive/defensive stances are removed</LI> <LI>16 STR</LI> <LI>28 WIS</LI> <LI>13.2% chance to crit</LI> <LI>12.5% DPS</LI> <LI>Some fun AA's to play with e.g. Belly Smash</LI></UL>Message Edited by Bantel on 04-17-2006 02:16 PM

Belce

04-18-2006, 02:46 AM

I am a mouser, which means I use a mouse to click buttons. I think that 4 bars are needed and that is what I have. I think the best way to position the bars is also in two pairs, but I think that what is best for positioning CA's and stuff is to use all four bars for the important stuff. Draw a circle centered on all four and place your most frequently used buttons on all four starting at the ends of bars 1 and 2 and the beginning of bars 3 and 4. The stuff you use infrequently then end up on the outside edge of the circle. This way you can actually place the well used buttons closer together. I don't know if this sort of efficency is required, but it is how I do things.

Wabit

04-18-2006, 04:21 PM

4 bars at top of my screen... top is CA's... next is 2 auto attack keys, rescue,ancient teaching, stances, random AA skills... 3rd (actully my main bar) is my taunts short and long term buffs... 4th is shields, inc and /assist macro, heart/shard, couple other random things... i also use a mouse for everything... but when i play i focus more on the top and right side of my screen more than anything... top is my hotbars, stats, and target window... rightside is my 2 buff windows, and raid window... also scan the inc hits on the bottom right of my screen... i leave the center as an open view (i guess i really like seeing the knees of mobs =/ )

MajicGuardi

04-18-2006, 06:33 PM

<DIV>Okay awesome thanks but I don't get what you mean by the 4,4,8,8 or whatever on the AA lines.</DIV>

Wabit

04-18-2006, 06:58 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> MajicGuardian wrote: <DIV>Okay awesome thanks but I don't get what you mean by the 4,4,8,8 or whatever on the AA lines.</DIV> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> hit the L key ingame, it'll bring up the achievement page... the 4/4/8/8 in said lines is how many points they put into each skill

MajicGuardi

04-19-2006, 11:07 PM

What does CA mean again? Also on the axe is an assault axe a good weapon for a guardian? Or more berserker?

KiseroHT

04-20-2006, 12:21 AM

CA= combat art i use fetish ui which i really like.. the hotbars are very streamlined and since you can resize now it really helps to shrink them down.. i have 4 hotbars at the bottom middle of my screen that contain all my CA's, AA's, Ranged/Melee button, all my Master Strike's, and a few group/raid macro's. i keep one hotbar very small under my chat window that contains all my buff's.. actually i made this my primary hotbar and my buffs correspond to 1,2,3,4.. so when if i rez i just hit 1,2,3,4 and im done with those and they aren't taking up space on my primary 4 bars.. also my fishing is 7, gathering is 8, harvesting is 9, mining is 0, and trapping is - .. .this way you don't have to double click on a node everytime to harvest you just hit the corresponding # -- saves on carpel tunel imo lol i also have two additional small hotbars- one for gear swapping and the other for potionstotems. the last hotbar is just utility - carpet, Call of Qeynos, yell, sprint, togglebags, etc....

Crim001

04-20-2006, 08:49 AM

Haha....maybe if I'm not feeling lazy later, I'll post a pic of my hotbars..... It'll most likely drive all you peeps nuts <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

MajicGuardi

04-20-2006, 04:36 PM

<DIV>Go ahead it'll be easier to understand</DIV>

Berek_IronAxe

04-20-2006, 06:10 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> MajicGuardian wrote: What does CA mean again? Also on the axe is an assault axe a good weapon for a guardian? Or more berserker? <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> I dont see an answer to the Axe Question in the list but Yes Assualt Axe is the best 1 handed Axe style in the game. But you will lose that option in Teir 7 since they took it out of the recipe options - Sad Day.

MajicGuardi

04-21-2006, 05:24 PM

<DIV>Well I'm hoping to join a raiding guild, but guardians are hard to find raiding guilds. I would probably just get a raided T6 and T7 weapon fabled or something, I hope.</DIV>

Crim001

04-22-2006, 09:17 AM

Well, applying for a guild is usually a pain if you don't know anyone, I prefer to join up with peeps/friends who I know raid..... There are just too many fighters out there for raid guilds I guess...

juli

04-24-2006, 07:34 PM

I'd invite you Crim <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> You are bunches of fun <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Wabit

04-24-2006, 07:54 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Crim001 wrote: There are just too many fighters out there for raid guilds I guess... <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> alot of fighters yes, but alot of quality raid tanks no... ability does make a difference...

juli

04-24-2006, 09:22 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Wabit wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Crim001 wrote: There are just too many fighters out there for raid guilds I guess... <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> alot of fighters yes, but alot of quality raid tanks no... ability does make a difference... <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE>It also takes a lot of time and learning Wabit....ability is good but seldom inherent. I have had many fine teachers...one just does not pick up a sword and shield and expect mobs to stand still after all <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

Wabit

04-24-2006, 10:23 PM

<BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> juliev wrote: one just does not pick up a sword and shield and expect mobs to stand still after all <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> i did :smileyhappy: ... too bad the mobs didn't go along with the idea :smileysad: ... i'm a firm believer in trial by fire... first raid i ever tanked was Tremblar (first time ever seeing the zone), talk about setting me up for defeat =/... we won, i've been tanking ever since... i'm a little nicer with breaking new tanks in... we'll hit a green zone (gear isn't as issue then), and i'll make them tank... if they show the ability to hold agro there then i'll keep em around (they don't gotta be perfect)... if they don't we'll give em some loot and tell em its not gonna work out...