ROLES

Definition

A "role" is an specific task that the player performs inside a team.
This means, in a team everyone will have an specific task(s) to be carried out.
The reason why we have these "roles" is because it helps the player focus on less tasks, which increases the amount of attention that player can give to the specific task.
It is also useful for allowing players maximize their stats points in a certain set of stats, which means more damage, or defense.
Since we play as a team, we will have complementary roles to cover our teamates weaknesses, as they cover ours with their strongest characteristics.

OUR ROLES

As mentioned above, every group will have their own definitions of roles. In this guild we have created 3 categories that enclose most scenarios in an efficient way, and a special category open for any creative ideas you may bring. As a guild member of this fighting guild you are required to have at least ONE character with all 3 roles. This gives us flexibility during guild events, and also helps you grow as a player.

Roles as Defined in Our Guild

Solo

The Solo player moves independantly, its job is to take down specific objectives such as:

Target npcs and specific mechanics in pve and pvp
Players that are wandering far from their team in wvw
Players that we want to separate from their team in pvp .

The Solo player is capable of entering in dangerous situations and escaping, is able to duel and even fight outnumbered, and survive without support

DPS

DPS: damage per second. It is the role that does damage to the enemy. It is low on self sustain and depends on quick engage/disengage and/or team support.

Depending on the range of their damage skills they have different dynamics, equipment and build. They classify as:

Melee dps
Long range dps

Support

Support includes:

Healing allies
Giving boons to allies
Removing conditions from allies
Crowd Control CC of enemies
Removing boons from enemies

Although any role can do some extent of support, in this guild we call it support role when the sum of equipment + build allows the player to be tanky and give a reliable support while taking big amounts of damage.

Special Ops

Any player that has an specific strategy that requires his movements, positioning, equipment, and/or build to be different than the other 3 roles, falls into this special ops category.

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