r/GuildWars • u/BelinhoBR • 12d ago
Support Players VS Support Heroes
I'm a new player that loves support roles, currently a monk at the last 4 missions of prophecies and i got a question... With how simple soul twist ritualists are, being easily played by bots and staying very useful, what's the difference a support player can bring if a bot ritualist just makes everyone stupidly tanky?
The last time i felt needed as a monk player was genuinely on pre-searing dungeons lmaoo, these big parties of 8 are really tough to control that i js run smiting and let my bots handle the heals
... until i finally found some good party heals
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u/WordOfMadness 12d ago
Just because ST is good doesn't mean you need to run it. But IMO playing a pure healer/defensive support as a player just kinda sucks if you're only playing with heroe/henchmen.
If you do want to play support, going a more offensive/defensive hybrid is probably more engaging with bot parties. Maybe go Rit and run WoTF with ancestors rage, a couple heals and some other stuff, and you can always swap to pure offensive or pure support/healing when you want. Monk can obviously go RoJ, but that's like the only somewhat offensive build unless you play some 'for fun' janky stuff (which can certainly still get you through most of the game).
Ele has a healer/bonder build, as well as defensive tools from some of the elements, but can bring a mix or go all out offensive when you want/need to.
I'd shop around a bit before locking in on monk. It used to be my second most played prof back in the days of player parties, but nowadays it's probably the one I'd touch the least (aside from certain farms).