'Guild Wars' General Knowledge Quiz

Answer: Protective Spirit

Protective Spirit is used in a lot of monk farming builds to enable the monk to receive small amounts of damage that can be countered with small healing spells or high health regen. The icon is a picture of a blue-coloured Bhudda-like head. In Guild Wars Eye of the North, the Protective Spirit face is shown on the walls of some of the dungeons.

Answer: Icy Dragon Sword

The Icy Dragon Sword drops in multiple places: Mineral Springs in the 'Prophecies' Campaign, two areas east of Granite Citadel; the other area of note is in some areas in Guild Wars Eye of the North. Rare skin drops happen randomly from bosses and other general mobs.

The Icy Dragon Sword looks almost identical to the Fiery Dragon Sword, except for its icy-blue colour. Granite Citadel is the closest outpost or city to Mineral Springs, as Mineral Springs is a 'Dead-End' area, meaning there is no second path leading out of it.

Answer: 'Charge!'

'Charge!' is a useful skill for Warrior running builds, as it increases the speed of the shouter and all nearby party members within earshot. It is also useful if the Warrior and his party need to make a hasty retreat or if they need to get into a battle quickly, to power up certain skills or just to quickly get to the action.

Answer: A monk farming build

The 55 build is one of the most commonly known and although farming has mostly been nerfed, it's one of the most commonly used farming builds available. It works on the principle that when a Monk has fifty-five health (from equipping five Superior Attribute Runes and using the -50HP Grim Cesta) it can use Protective Spirit to take only 5 damage a hit.

The monk also uses high health regen spells (like Healing Breeze) to keep its health at maximum, while using per-hit or per-second damage enchantments (like Retribution) or knockdown spells (like Shield of Judgement) to damage their foes.

Answer: Minion Master

A Minion Master is a N/Mo (Necromancer/Monk) who uses Death animation spells like Animate Bone Golem and Animate Flesh Golem to summon undead minions, and Death spells like Blood of the Master and Healing Prayers like Heal Area to maintain the health of the minions.

While the number of minions currently animated appears on a Necromancer's UI (User Interface), the health bars of the Minions do not show up, making an MM's main task of keeping the health of his minions as high as possible a challenging one.

A new, more useful elite skill for MM's that appears in Guild Wars Eye of the North (instead of Animate Flesh Golem) is the elite enchantment Jagged Bones. While active, any summoned minions who die spawn more minions, effectively making an infinite supply of minions for the MM.

Answer: Shiro's Blades

Shiro's Blades, like Shiro's Sword (one of the other 'Factions' end-game green items), is a requirement thirteen weapon (13 dagger mastery) that does less than twenty maximum damage. It has the equivalent of a Vampiric mod on it, and gives +30HP. The 13 attribute requirment makes it very difficult for any player, assassin or otherwise to use it, because the maximum level an attribute can be at without any runes or head armour bonuses is 12. This forces the player to: 1) have an assassin or 2) get either a +1 dagger mastery head piece or to get a minor, major, or superior rune of dagger mastery in order to be able to get the full effect of the weapon.

Another end-game green dagger offered when you beat the game is the Ceremonial Daggers, which were presumably to be used by Emperor Kisu's predecessor to kill Shiro in the Harvest Temple.

Answer: As a promotional gift from 'PC Gamer'

In addition to that magazine, there have been other subsequent promotional magazine mini-pet offers. One of these other offers was the Destroyer Minipet, which could be aquired through the purchase of the Ultimate Guild Wars Guide.

Answer: False

Any weapon can be used by any character, regardless of which mastery is involved. Not having mastery of a weapon, however, means that the character will do less damage with the weapon, and some of the weapons bonuses may not apply.

Answer: Humans Only

Humans are the only character race available to players. An exception to this is the hero henchman Zhed the Centaur, who is a Elementalist. He is the one of the only instances of a partially-playable character who is not human. With the release of Guild Wars Eye of the North, other races for your heroes were released, including the Norn hero Jora, the Dwarven hero Ogden, the Charr hero Pyre Fierceshot, and the Asura hero Vekk. Players in Guild Wars Eye of the North are also able to control, to a limited degree, the Golems that the Asura use.

Answer: Warrior, Mesmer, Monk, Necromancer, Ranger, Elementalist, Assassin, Ritualist, Paragon, Dervish

These ten classes are unbalanced in favour of spellcaster classes. There are only three melee classes, one of which has spellcaster stats and support (70 AL) armour (the Dervish), yet has a weapon mastery like the other melee-specific classes (Warrior and Assassin).

With the introduction to the 'Prophecies' Campaign, the original six professions were offered: Mesmers, Elementalists, Necromancers, Rangers, Monks and Warriors.

Mesmers cast degeneration spells to bring a foe's health down quickly, while Elementalists have Fire, Earth, Air and Water spells at their disposal. Necromancers can raise the dead or curse their foes and make them wish they were dead, and Rangers have pets who can attack while they shoot arrows from a distance. Monks heal and protect party members with spells and smite their enemies, while Warriors, the only melee class in the original 'Prophecies' campaign, can make use of Hammers, Axes or Swords to deal massive amounts of damage.

With the inclusion of the 'Factions' campaign, players are given access to the Assassin and Ritualist classes. The Assassin uses the shadows to reach their foes and attack small but deadly daggers, while the Ritualist summons spirits from the Underworld to provide protection to their party while holding the ashes of past Heroes to gain their power for a short time.

With the inclusion of the 'Nightfall' campaign, players are given access to the Paragon and Dervish classes. The Paragon uses spears to damage foes from a distance and shouts echoes and chants to help party members, while the Dervish uses its spinning scythe to damage all adjacent foes and Wind and Earth Prayers to heal and buff party members.

No one class is unbeatable, and every class has at least one weakness, making the game one of the most balanced and fun to play.