Eroe

Questo articolo tratta un tipo di PNG. Per il titolo PvP di account, vedi Eroe (titolo). Per i luoghi non correlati, vedi Eroi.

Un eroe è un PNG che può essere aggiunto alla squadra al posto di un giocatore. Possono essere considerati come versioni potenziate e completamente personalizzabili dei seguaci.

Gli eroi sono spesso personaggi che hanno un ruolo attivo nella storia, pertanto diventano disponibili alla fine di avventure o missioni specifiche, solitamente in Guild Wars Nightfall o Guild Wars Eye of the North. Alcune volte è indispensabile che un eroe faccia parte della squadra (o che non sia incluso) per poter iniziare delle avventure o missioni, soprattutto in Nightfall.

Un eroe può salire di livello. Il giocatore può personalizzare le abilità degli eroi (utilizzando le abilità sbloccate nell'account), i suoi punti attributo investiti ed il suo equipaggiamento. Il giocatore ha anche un certo grado di controllo sull'attivazione delle abilità, posizionamento e comportamento predefinito dell'eroe.

Sono presenti 29 eroi, distribuiti quasi omogeneamente tra le dieci professioni.

Nonostante gli eroi possono essere sbloccati per personaggi PvP come le rune o abilità, sono solo utilizzabili per l'Training Arena).

Acquisizione

Per aggiungere un eroe alla squadra, deve prima essere reclutato completando specifiche missioni della storia.

Lista degli eroi, con professione e missione di reclutamento

Nightfall
Istan	Koss	Into Chahbek Village (personaggi Nightfall), parla con Kormir durante Battle Preparations (per altri)
	Dunkoro	Leaving a Legacy (personaggi Nightfall), parla con Kormir durante Battle Preparations (per altri)
	Melonni	Signs and Portents (personaggi Nightfall), parla con Kormir durante Battle Preparations (per altri)
	Accolita Jin o Accolito Sousuke	Student Jin o Student Sousuke 1,2
	Tahlkora	Big News, Small Package (personaggi Nightfall), parla con Kormir durante Battle Preparations (per altri)
Kourna	Zhed Zampaombra	Centaur Blackmail
	Margrid la Scaltra o Maestro dei Sussurri	No Me, No Kormir 1 o To Kill a Demon 1
Vabbi	Goren o Norgu	Vestibolo di Dasha o Bastione di Dzagonur → Brains or Brawn 2 → Goren's Stuff: Part 1 1, 2 o The Role of a Lifetime 1,2
	Generale Morgahn	Sacro Piazzale di Sebelkeh
Regno del Tormento	Goren, Accolita Jin, Margrid la Scaltra, Maestro dei Sussurri, Norgu, Accolito Sousuke	Completamento della campagna Nightfall → Gain Goren 2, Gain Jin 2, Gain Margrid 2, Gain Master of Whispers 2, Gain Norgu 2, Gain Sousuke 2
	3 Razah	Completamento della campagna Nightfall → Finding a Purpose 2
Eye of the North
Cimefredde Remote	Ogden Curapietra, Vekk	The Beginning of the End
	Gwen	Dopo aver visto La Prima Visione
	Xandra, Kahmu	casualmente, sconfiggendoli durante Torneo di Combattimento Norn 2
	Jora	Curse of the Nornbear
Territori dei Charr	Pyre Tiroferoce	Contro i Charr
	Anton	The Missing Vanguard → Failure to Communicate 2 → The Imploding Past 2 → The Assassin's Revenge 2
Costa Maculata	Hayda	Frogstomp 2 → Give Peace a Chance 2
	Livia	Finding the Bloodstone
Prophecies e Nightfall
Kryta	Olias	All for One and One for Justice 2
Factions e Nightfall
Città di Kaineng	Zenmai	Chasing Zenmai 2,4
Prophecies e Eye of the North
Cimefredde Remote	Keiran Thackeray	Completamento di La Guerra di Kryta 2 e Cuori del Nord 2
Factions
Città di Kaineng	Miku	Venti del Cambiamento (Completamento Modalità Normale) 2
	Zei Ri	Venti del Cambiamento (completamento Modalità Difficile) 2
Prophecies, Factions e Nightfall
Kryta, Città di Kaineng o Istan	M.O.X.	Parla con M.O.X. in Kryta del Nord, Scorciatoia di Bukdek o Pianure di Jarin 2

1 Le missioni sono mutualmente esclusive

2 La missione è opzionale

3 Razah inizia come Ritualista, ma può cambiare professione. Vedere la sua pagina eroe per maggiori informazioni.

4 La missione di reclutamento può aiutare significativamente riguardo i titoli di dominatore

Note di acquisizione

• In PvE, ogni personaggio deve completare il requisito per sbloccare ogni eroe.
  • Non ci sono eroi disponibili per gli account con solo Prophecies.
  • Gli eroi di Factions richiedono di completare Winds of Change per essere sbloccati, considerate tra le pià difficili missioni del gioco.
• Gli eroi possono essere sbloccati per l'account usando i compensi di Balthazar al Priest of Balthazar (se non già sbloccati da altri personaggi PvE con il reclutamento durante la storia); ciò li renderà disponibili per tutti i personaggi solo-PvP dell'account. Tuttavia gli eroi non possono più essere utilizzati in PvP, con l'eccezione dell'Isola dell'Innominato (PvP) e Training Arena).
• Reclutare eroi sblocca le loro abilità iniziali per l'intero account.

Adding to a party

A hero can be added to or removed from the party in an outpost or town using the "Add a Hero" drop down list on the party window or the "Heroes" tab on the Party Search panel (both of which have heroes sorted by profession). A character can add up to seven heroes to the party, dependent on the party's maximum size and how many others are in it.

If a hero of the same name is added twice, only one of the NPCs gets the unique name, any others are renamed to another generic name. For example, if Koss is added to a party twice one Koss would be renamed to "Sunspear Warrior;" the Koss which retains the name is used for quest and mission dialogue.

Customization

Vedi anche: Hero armor

Players can customize heroes in four ways:

• By choosing the inventory used by the hero, specifically runes, insignias, and weapons.
• By choosing the skills the hero uses.
• By customizing any offensive weapon, so that it deals 20% more damage.
• By upgrading the armor of the hero.

Inventory

The player character and the Heroes share the inventory. Inventory can be changed in much the same way as you change your own character's kit: open the inventory panel, select the hero's portrait, and drag the appropriate weapons and/or double-click the desired runes/insignias to apply them to the hero's paper doll. For some heroes, their default weapons cannot be placed into storage.

Skills

Open the Skills and Attributes Panel, select the hero's portrait, and update the skills and attributes just as you would for your own character. You can also save and use skill templates for the hero; however, similar to PvP-only characters, heroes only have access to skills that you have unlocked on your account, including elite skills. Similarly, they cannot use PvE-only skills.

Customization

Heroes can use weapons customized to the character that controls them, but not those customized to any other character (not even Mercenary Heroes named after that character). By default, heroes come equipped with weapons customized in this way. Mercenaries are like any other hero: they can only use the weapons customized to their owner, but not to the character after which they were named.

Armor

Hero armor does not need to be crafted or replaced. It is set at a armor rating suitable for the hero's level and automatically increases in armor rating with the hero level. The armor cannot be destroyed by salvaging, so any runes or insignias put into the armor will always be recoverable.

Cannot be customized

• The primary profession (except for Razah).
• The color of the armor.
• Heroes cannot wear costumes.
• The hero's name or their animal companion's name.

These can be customized for Mercenary heroes upon creation, but not afterwards.

User Interface

Formation

Vedi anche: Positioning

• Heroes will change formation when the player changes from a melee weapon to a ranged or a ranged weapon to a melee.
• Heroes holding bundle items will stand in the front with melee characters.
• Heroes will not always line up ranged characters at the rear, with melee characters in front, as one might expect.

Combat modes

Vedi anche: User interface

Fight

Heroes will aggressively confront enemies:

• They will attack (in priority order) called targets, selected targets within spirit range of the hero, non-selected enemies actively engaged with the party, and non-selected enemies within the hero's aggro range.
• They prefer attacking foes with the lowest armor rating, and will prioritize foes with the lowest health over foes above 50% their maximum health.
• They will separate from the flag or the controlling player, if necessary.

Guard

Heroes will guard the area near a flag or the controlling player (whichever is closer and within earshot), refraining from combat until actively engaged.

• They will not attack enemies unless (in priority order) forced to use a skill, the selected target is called, the selected enemy actively engages the party, or the non-selected enemy enters the party's aggro circle.
• They will not move beyond the guarded area unless forced to use a skill and the target is out-of-range.
• They will return to the guarded area after using a forced skill or the enemy moves far beyond spirit range.
• They will often go out of their way to attack a spirit, despite being in "Guard Mode".

Avoid Combat

Heroes never attack and will attempt to avoid enemies when attacked, kiting as needed. They will not attack selected or called targets unless forced to use a skill.

• They generally will not use skills that directly target foes or cause point blank area of effect damage:
  • Non-lethal skills, such as Signet of Lost Souls, will not be used.
• They will use skills that indirectly affect the enemy:
  • Damaging skills that target allies, such as Smite Hex, Balthazar's Aura, or weapon spells.
  • Ward and well spells that inflict detrimental effects on foes.
  • Trap skills.
  • Summoning skills that bring forth minions or spirits, such as Aura of the Lich and Signet of Binding .
  • Item spells, that require activating urns and dropping them.
  • They will use damaging Flash Enchantment Spells such as Heart of Holy Flame or Zealous Renewal if an enemy is in the area of effect.

Pets belonging to heroes will use the same combat mode as their heroes.

Target lock

Vedi anche: Priority target

Target a foe and then click on the crosshair in the left bottom of the Hero Control panel to lock your hero unto it until the target gets killed.

Forced skill use

Vedi anche: Hero behavior

Force

Heroes can be ordered to execute skills by clicking on the appropriate skill on the hero skill bar. The skill is prioritized and a green check mark appears on the skill until it is activated.

The hero will cancel the activation of any skill it was using, and will not use any other skills until successfully using that skill. The hero will however still attack. If the hero was already using the skill, he will consider the execution done and the green check will disappear.

When activating the skill the hero will attempt to use it on the selected target, foe or ally, if appropriate, bypassing any target lock the hero could have. Without an appropriate target (such as having an ally selected for a hex spell), the hero AI will choose one, but when forcing a hero to use a skill against a hostile NPC which can't be targeted by this skill, such as using a hex spell against spirits for instance, or any spell against a foe enchanted with Spell Breaker, Shadow Form or Obsidian Flesh, the hero will not switch target and attack the foe instead.

Heroes can also be ordered to drop their current bundle by clicking on their monitor and can be ordered to dismiss maintained enchantments.

Supress

The player can prevent the hero from using a skill automatically by shift-clicking on the skill icon in the hero's skill panel. This will mark it with a stroke-through red circle. The hero will never use a suppressed skill unless forced to by the player. This does not prevent the player from activating that skill manually.

Any maintained enchantment will not be dismissed as long as the enchantment is suppressed.

Flags

The compass for a player controlling a hero features four flag controls; one for each of the first three heroes and an "all heroes and henchmen" flag. Any heroes beyond the third can be flagged with the all flag. On the party window each hero is given a number to the left of the name, this corresponds to the numbers on the compass. Individually flagging the remaining heroes is possible through keybinds (from the control options, select Action: Command Hero 4/5/6/7).

A player can select the flag control from the bottom of the compass by clicking once and click on the compass area, Mission Map or on the terrain to instruct the hero or heroes to move to the location given. The heroes will return to the player character's location when the player removes the flag by double-clicking on the flag control or clicking the red "x" on the compass control.

You are introduced to flag usage in the quests Command Training and Hero Tutorial.

Monitoring and controlling

Basic information on a hero can be accessed when outside a town or outpost using the hero control panel. This panel can be used to set combat mode and control skill usage of the hero. Clicking on a skill in a hero's skill bar will instruct the hero to use that skill as soon as possible, on the currently selected target, if applicable. Holding down the Control (Ctrl) button while clicking will call out the skill you are using to the chat window.

The hero control panel can be opened and closed from the party window by selecting the button to the left of the hero name. The panel can be moved by dragging it to its new position. The state and position of the panels are saved by the game client.

You can see on the hero panel:

• the hero's name and picture.
• the hero's health and energy.
• a means to select and see the combat modes of the hero.
• a small skill bar for this character. This displays skill activation and recharge.
• a crosshair icon that can be used to lock the hero's target. If the hero is holding a bundle, the crosshair is replaced with a "drop" icon, which allows to command the hero to drop it instead.

Directly under the panel, you can see the hero's Morale Boost or Death Penalty and any conditions, hexes, enchantments, chants, shouts or other skills affecting that hero. Ctrl-clicking these effects will also call it out to the chat window.

Optimized Walkthrough

Vedi anche: Guide to Hero Basics and Optimization for a detailed walkthrough

Notes

• In dialogues, hero almost always refers to a heroic person, e.g. the player's character.
• Heroes gain attribute points at the same rate as a player character, except they receive 15 additional points at level 10 and at level 15.
• The 29 standard heroes are almost evenly divided across professions:
  • One Hero: Variable profession
  • Two Heroes each: Mesmer, Ritualist
  • Three Heroes each: Warrior, Ranger, Monk, Elementalist, Necromancer, Assassin, Dervish, and Paragon
• Some heroes are non-human:
  • Jora - Norn
  • M.O.X. - Golem
  • Ogden Stonehealer - Dwarf
  • Pyre Fierceshot - Charr
  • Vekk - Asura
  • Zhed Shadowhoof - Centaur
  • Razah - protomatter from the Mists
    • Although Razah is not considered human in lore, the game treats it as a human for all game mechanics; in particular, it will transfer disease to humans.
• The following dialogue will appear in team chat for each hero in your party that has over half of their total attribute points unspent when adding those heroes to your party or zoning into an outpost or town with those heroes in your party:

<Hero name>: "I have <number> unspent attribute points. Open the Skills and Attributes panel (<key assigned to "Panel: Open Skills and Attributes">) and select me to spend my attribute points and increase the effectiveness of my skills."

• Whenever a hero has a line of dialogue, if that hero is dead, they will resurrect at 100% Health and Energy.

Trivia

• The October 29, 2009 update removed heroes from PvP (with the exception of Isle of the Nameless (PvP) and Training Arena). According to Andrew Patrick, removing the ability to have heroes in the party for Zaishen Challenge and Zaishen Elite "was an unintended side-effect of removing them from other PvP formats." (source)
• Prior to the March 3, 2011 update, each character was limited to adding three heroes to their party.
• Zei Ri is the only hero without an Everlasting Tonic.

See also

• Hero skill trainer
• Mercenary Hero

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