The Most FUN and EFFECTIVE Hero Compositions - Guild Wars Reforged

Heroes in Guild Wars Reforged allow you

to play the game solo, but that also

requires you to have tons of skills

unlocked, knowledge of all the

professions, and to create the builds

you want in your team composition. So,

this video is going to provide three

ideas for fun and effective eight-man

party hero compositions that will

perform in most hard mode content so

that you can enjoy the game while

testing out fun new builds. But, before

going over the hero builds, I want to go

over the main characteristics that I

think a balanced team comp needs to be

able to handle most situations.

If you're trying to beat one specific

challenge, then build to counter that.

But, when you're playing through the

game, there are many different skills

you'll encounter, so I value versatility

and consistency.

So, for me, a team composition needs

condition and hex removal.

It needs single target and AoE healing.

It needs anti-melee through blocks or

blinds. It needs anti-caster through

interrupts or slows. You want stance or

enchantment removal depending on what

counters your team composition. And then

you want some revival on probably three

of your team members at least so that

if, you know, if things go wrong, then

you can have a backup plan. So, the

first composition that I'm going to show

is a martial composition where you can

either play a paragon or a warrior in

this composition. We've got two

paragons, two warriors, and then a

ranger, which you probably would don't

want to play. This is just a buffer. And

then we've got three ritualist or

essentially necro with the ritualist

secondary. And the idea is that the

ranger is going to give out the

infuriating heat spirit, and this

doubles the adrenaline that we gain, and

then we can support our allies with all

of the shouts and stuff that require

adrenaline. And our warriors are going

to love having adrenaline cuz they can

just spam backbreaker. They can use

dragon slash off cool down. And I am

also going to be using mighty throw

spam, which you can just keep using

non-stop because it's going to give you

back two adrenaline every time it hits.

So, you can just spam that. So, our

ritualists are going to be healing. And

the important thing here is that we have

no enchantments and no hexes in this

composition because our ranger is

running the nature's renewal. And this

will counter basically anyone using

enchantments or hexes by making them

take twice as long to cast. And we're

also using the brutal weapon on our soul

twisting ritualist, which will give

extra damage sort of like a strength of

honor monk, the smiting monk

uh enchantment, except it requires them

to have no enchantments on them for it

to work. So, we have basically no

enchantments except for boon of

creation, which you kind of need on this

ritualist build here. I mean, you could

probably go for another source of energy

management, but I figure it's not that

bad because it lasts a really long

duration, so you're not casting this

that often. You're not getting screwed

over by the longer cast time of nature

renewal. So, that's kind of like the

idea, but let's go over the specific

builds. So,

we have the make your time here, which

is really important. This gives you six

adrenaline when you're with your team.

And that means that we can instantly get

into our build with the

go for the eyes, which makes your next

attack crit. And it also makes all of

your allies basically next attack crit.

It's 77% chance. It's basically going to

crit. And that's going to make your

vicious attack crit. So, we're going to

start out by using make your time,

vicious attack into go for the eyes.

That's going to give out deep wound. And

then since they have a condition on

them, we're going to use stunning

strike.

And that's going to give them daze. And

then we can just spam mighty blow or

mighty throw and we'll just keep

interrupting that target. So we want to

target like a monk or some kind of

caster first. And all of our, you know,

teammates are also going to be hitting

them. So they're just going to get spam

interrupted.

And then we just have the kind of the

PvE skills. So if you're not playing the

paragon, then you're not going to have

these skills. But we want to have

aggressive refrain for the extra attack

speed. And these are just the PvE only

skills that give your team more damage

reduction with save yourselves. So we

have a sword warrior, which is going to

be giving out the buffs from shields up.

Watch yourself. They can essentially use

that off cool down because they're

spamming dragon slash.

And dragon slash gives back five

adrenaline. And it does a good amount of

damage. But because they get double

adrenaline from the infuriating heat,

it's going to give them back enough

adrenaline to use dragon slash again. So

they can just spam dragon slash

essentially like it's mighty blow. And

in case that gets interrupted or

whatever, then I just have caliber

slash, which kind of does the same

thing.

Then we have mighty blow, which is going

to remove stances so they don't get

countered by stances cuz we are just all

pretty much physical here. We also have

wild blow on our other warrior.

And then to the limit so that we can get

adrenaline at the start very quickly.

And that will essentially ramp up your

damage really fast because, you know, we

have a lot of adrenaline using skills

here. But other than the infuriating

heat, we're just kind of auto attacking

to get up that um adrenaline. So we need

to get to our first dragon slash really

fast and this is how you do that. And

then we can immediately flail and then

we can immediately dragon slash and then

we just got everything just rolling

really easily.

And we've also got our hard res here

with restore life just in case on one of

our warriors. And then we have a hammer

warrior, which is using backbreaker,

which they can spam quite a a because

they're getting so much adrenaline even

though it costs a lot, they're getting a

lot. It will knock down for 4 seconds if

you have eight strength or higher, they

have 10.

And then we can just use renewing smash

over and over, and we have flail here as

well. So, we've just got like renewing

CC into renewing smash. And then

you'll give some blind here. I've just

got muddy blow in here just in case, but

you could probably replace that. Then

wild blow. And then I have fallback

here.

Um which is not really Wait, why do I

have Okay, I didn't have all my points

put in there, but now I have 12

strength. I could probably put some more

into fallback, but we only re- really

need this like at the start of an

encounter. We'll We'll just fall back

into the encounter, and then they'll be

in melee range, and then they'll be

fine. Now, here I have a motivation

paragon

that has the hasty refrain. So, you can

keep this up and give yourself a lot of

movement speed, but the important thing

here is using Expel Hexes as the mesmer

uh elite skill because it is a two hex

removal on an 8-second cooldown. And you

get hard countered by things like vocal

minority and soothing images that

prevent you from using shouts or having

adrenaline. So, hex removal is actually

really important on this build. And

therefore, we need the Expel Hexes,

which is like the best way to get that.

And we also have They're on Fire,

Blazing Finale. So, whenever a shout

ends on whoever the paragon here is

going to put this on, which is generally

going to be the warriors, it's going to

burn nearby enemies. And since we have

so many shouts, we have four like people

just spamming shouts,

we're going to get a ton of burning on

nearby enemies.

And then they're going to take less

damage cuz everyone's burning and

they're on fire.

Then Ballad of Restoration

uh is just going to give a little bit

more healing whenever people take

damage. You know, it's just it's nice to

have a healing on extra party members,

so I have that as well as Signet of

Synergy. Chorus of Restoration, whenever

one of my allies uses a shout, they will

heal. So, all of our like front line and

our paragons are going to be getting

extra healing here. And another reason

why I have this is just for the energy

management because it is a adrenaline

chant, and so it costs nothing to use

it, but they'll get back six energy for

using it. And it's really nice for

constantly being able to use there on

fire and expel hexes off cool down

because they can cost a lot for a

paragon that has low energy management.

The um acolyte gin here is I don't

really know if the the poison and

bleeding is really too important here,

but we can spread out the conditions

with epidemic of the mesmer secondary

profession here. And just some extra

interrupts like we're going to have days

out the wazoo because I'm also giving

out days, and then they're going to help

me spread out that days with epidemic.

You know, we've got the spirits here

which are important to always have. Just

always try to micro your infuriating

heat at the start of a fight. Just make

sure that they use that immediately cuz

that's like the entire point of your

comp is to have that double adrenaline.

And then they'll eventually use their

other spirits cuz they don't have too

many high priority skills anyways. And

then we have the Master of Whispers. So,

this is our healer with Preservation.

There are no enchantments here, so

they're just healing through the

spirits. Now, one thing that I don't

like about having ritualist healers

is that they kind of take a little bit

of time to set up. And with this

composition, you kind of want to be just

like constantly rolling through your

adrenaline, chain pulling mobs, and

therefore you are don't you don't really

give your team time to set up their

spirits. But generally, your front line

warriors are going to be tanky enough to

survive, right? Cuz they're constantly

using watch yourself, using shields up.

And then we have, you know, a an SOS.

It's just nice that there's the splinter

weapon here. And that's going to make

your your warriors, which are generally

kind of like single target, they're

going to do AoE damage now. And we've

got the AoE damage also from Ancestors'

Rage.

And then there's just a little bit of

supplemental condition cleanse here with

the restoration of mend body and soul.

They're just the spirits, and we also

have a little bit of enchantment removal

here from the gaze of contempt. And then

this is just an average kind of soul

twisting

ritualist build with, you know,

displacement, shelter, union. Those are

very overpowered with soul twisting,

armor of unfeeling, and signet of

creation for energy management. Of

course boon of creation.

But the brutal weapon here is really

important because it's going to give us

a lot of damage, and since we don't give

out any enchantments to our allies,

we're going to reliably be able to get

that damage. And uh yeah, that's So

that's pretty much the martial team comp

right there.

This next composition, you basically

only want to play it as a front-liner,

so a assassin, a warrior, or a dervish,

because I'm going to have seven party

members all supporting me so that I can

go ham, and they're just kind of letting

me be the protagonist. So the idea is

we've got, you know, splinter weapon for

AoE melee, a paragon which can remove

stances so that I can just free cast,

and they're going to give me movement

speed so I don't have to invest in it.

They're going to give me crit chance.

And then I've got a prot monk, which is

just going to keep me cleansed of all

hexes.

I've got condition cleanse as well, so I

don't ever have to remove any of those

things from me cuz I'm going to be

focused a lot cuz I'm going to be the

furthest up front. Everyone else is

midline and backline. So you've got one

front-liner, you're going to be focused

a lot. And for that reason, I've got

Dark Escape as an assassin. I generally

like to play assassin. I don't really

like warrior or dervish, but I think a

dervish is actually better for this

because you're going to have tons of

enchantments on you, and dervish is

scale kind of well with enchantments.

So, let's go over the assassin build

real quick. Since you have so many

enchantments on you,

you're going to be able to permanently

use Golden Phoenix Strike off cool down,

and that's just your lead attack and

that allows you to or it's an offhand

attack. So, it immediately allows you to

go into your dual attacks, and I just

love the mobius strike play style. It's

just fun to me. So, I play that, but you

can play any other frontline build.

But, um

yeah, you want the Assassin's Scan even

though you have so many ways to remove

stances, enchantments,

and remove hexes, and and conditions,

but you still just sometimes you're not

going to hit. So, Assassin's Scan is

just there so that you can always hit

cuz your entire team comp is built

around you. And if you can't hit, then

your entire team is countered. So, yeah,

you really need Assassin's Scan for

that. So, the Smite Monk, you're going

to immediately, whenever you enter a

zone, you're going to target yourself by

pressing F or whatever the self target

button is, and then you're just going to

use the Essence Bond,

which whenever you get hit by an attack,

it's going to give energy to the Smite

Monk. So, it's going to give them a lot

of energy cuz you're going to be tanking

all the focus. They're also going to

have Strength of Honor on you, which is

going to make you do 24

more damage per attack. And so, your

really fast dagger attacks are going to

hit really hard, and it just scales

better with faster attacks. So, I like

the assassin with that, but it works on

every frontliner. And then, Judge's

Inner um Judge's Insight gives you armor

penetration and makes you do holy

damage. So, against undead, you're just

going to do like 200 per auto attack.

Reversal of Damage,

Smite Hex, and Smite Condition are all

going to be targeted on you most of the

time because you're going to be up front

and they're going to trigger the zealots

fire which is going to make them lose

energy but they're getting all that

energy back from essence bond and you're

going to be getting just like this AoE

smiting around you while the splinter

weapon is triggering.

And they've also got ray of judgment.

Then we have the heal monk and this is

nothing you know too special but what is

kind of cool is having vigorous spirit

on you as something that's attacking

really fast. You're going to heal up a

lot but also the Dwayna's Kiss is going

to be a full heal because it has no cap

on how many enchantments it will scale

with. So you could have like 10

enchantments on you at one time right

cuz we're thinking about like two here

I'm giving myself an enchantment and

then we have you know a prot monk we

have the healing monk is giving out

vigorous spirit as well maybe like a

healing seed. You're healing for a lot

with just Dwayna's Kiss which is a low

cool down. So they can kind of just get

a lot of value from that one skill and

then they've got some other healing for

AoE with healing burst but uh hex

removal really important

and then just a little bit of you know

energy management because we do have a

bit necro but you're not you're not

using essence bond like you know the

smite monk is. And then the prot monk

has divert hexes because there is

nothing that counters you harder than

empathy spiteful spirit or you know

those

you know blurred vision things that just

make you miss and it just feels really

bad. So divert hexes is my favorite prot

skill for that.

Uh but you could take something else if

you wanted to but I guarantee you're

going to want the divert hexes some of

the time. Otherwise this is just a

pretty standard prot build. Then we have

a paragon. I've got the defensive anthem

here because this gives 50% chance to

block incoming attacks to all of your

allies and it ends when they use an

attack skill. And no one is using attack

skills except me. So if the rest of the

party is getting attacked, this I guess

the paragon itself is going to use

attack skill. So six out of eight party

members are not using attack skills. So

it's essentially going to give a lot of,

you know, mitigation to if you know,

someone isn't focusing me.

And then we've just got the they're on

fire and blazing finale kind of synergy

there so that they're going to be

constantly using blazing finale on me

and whenever a shout ends, then it's

going to burn everyone nearby and then

burned enemies are going to do less

damage to our team. So that's just going

to be nice. And then I use go for the

eyes here not because I really need that

or there's any too much synergy with the

his build, but it's just a nice easy

access

shout that yeah, it gives me a little

bit of energy management as a critical

strikes thief, right? Or assassin.

I'm mixing up the Guild Wars here

quite often, but um yeah, the go for the

eyes is just really nice for constantly

triggering the blazing finale. And then

we've just got stance removal and mighty

throw just in case we need a little bit

of extra damage.

And because I don't want to be using

dark escape as a movement skill because

it just gets rid of itself. I've got

hasty refrain here so that I've got

permanent movement speed so that as soon

as I kill my first target, I move to the

next target. I move to the next target.

As a melee, it's really important to

have that movement speed so that you

have a less DPS downtime.

And then just a hard rose.

And we have a signet of spirits

channeling

magic ritualist. Nothing special here.

I've got the death pact signet here

because if for some reason I go down, I

want to be revived immediately. And then

if I die again and then they die, I

don't really care if they die. I'm the

most important person here. I'm the

protagonist. So yeah, I want that death

pact signet for the fastest res.

And then we've just got splinter weapon,

which is really important. We've got

some AoE also from the Ancestor's Rage.

We have this on pretty much every hero

composition, so you know how it works.

And then I have an anti-caster

domination mesmer, which is just using

psychic instability. We've got the

Wastrel's Demise. They can do a bit of

extra burst, but they've got some

interrupts here with cry of frustration.

And [snorts] empathy here, you know,

honestly, I would probably We have some

extra hex removal here, but you know,

honestly, I'd probably want some extra

disruption here. I'm going to go for

power lock here. Where is power lock?

Power spike, what it's called. And

yeah, I'm just going to remove

unnatural signet.

Maybe.

Yeah, maybe. I don't know. It's not

really a big deal. You just want

interrupts here

because

we don't really have too much

anti-caster in this build setup. We're

just kind of mostly anti-melee with the

paragon and the prot. But um yeah, this

is just nice for the anti-caster.

They do a little bit of extra damage.

Then we have our Blood is Power necro

with the blood and restoration.

And that's I mean, that's pretty much

it. They just do So we have

two characters that kind of scale with

spirits, so we do have spirits on this

composition as well.

But um yeah, we just have

as much healing as possible so that I

never die and then I will just do

insane-o damage because I have so many

buffs on me.

And that's pretty much it. Now, this

final composition is great if you want

to play a midline caster like an Ele, a

Mesmer, or a Necromancer because we're

using all of those and all of the builds

that we're using are kind of fun for

players to use as well. So, I am running

an E Surge Domination Mesmer.

I just change the build up depending on

the situation like I go for E Surge if I

just want to do damage and you know,

there's not too much that I need to play

around and we're just going to kind of

steamroll through everything. I just go

E Surge. But, if there's a lot of

enemies and they group up or there's a

lot of stuff we need to interrupt, then

I'll go for a panic build which will

look a little bit different or a psychic

instability build which is basically the

same thing, just swap your lead skill.

Now, I've got a soul twisting ritualist

which is nothing special, but the

spirit's gift is important here because

we're going to be stacked up together

very often because we're all ranged. Our

entire team is ranged, so the midline

and the backline is really all we've

got. There's no frontline. So, we're

essentially going to be very close to

each other and therefore we're going to

get a lot of value from the healing from

the spirit's gift here. And then we've

got the preservation necro ritualist.

And then we've got the So, the Eles

we have a searing flame Ele which

this you could play and and have fun,

but to me this is a very one-dimensional

build. You just put up all of your

you know, attunements and your aura of

restoration. You put Mark of Rodgort on

the target and then what you're going to

do is you're going to glowing gaze to

trigger Mark of Rodgort and that's going

to give you energy at the same time

because it triggers the burning from

Mark of Rodgort and then it gives you

the energy as if they were burning and

then you're just going to spam searing

flame nonstop. And whenever you don't

have searing flame up, you're going to

use fireball

or you're going to use glowing gaze and

then just spam the searing flame and you

have tons of energy regeneration because

you have the glowing gaze, you have the

double attunement. We've also got

extinguish here because sometimes your

entire party gets, you know, conditions

on them and this is a little bit of

support in those situations where that's

nice.

And you don't need too much scaling with

it because the scaling is on the healing

and we don't really care about the

healing, we care about the cleansing.

And then we have a minion master

necromancer and this is just or the lich

and vampiric horror. Then we've got, you

know, foul fees to keep any conditions

off of anyone who potentially needs to

be cleansed. Masochism, so yeah,

essentially you're going to have like 18

death magic because of that and then you

will get another so you'll have 19 death

magic. And then we also have blood

ritual which we can use in between to

give some more energy management. And

yeah, there's not really too much you

can do here to be honest. I might even

consider taking like deathly swarm.

Yeah, maybe deathly swarm here instead

of flesh of my flesh.

It would be nice to take flesh of my

flesh. You know what, I don't need foul

fees because we have enough condition

cleanse. Let's just save this.

Yeah, let's save this as MM necro with

um

with with deathly swarm cuz this does a

good amount of damage.

And in situ- cuz like there's not really

too much skills to use here. As you can

see, like there's just a bunch of buffs.

And then nothing to do there so I can

kind of just they have something to use

here which is nice.

And then Althea, my second mesmer,

is going to give a illusion build which

I've got superior illusion there.

And this is just anti-melee. So we've

got blind from ineptitude, interrupt on

melee. This is counter to caster as

well. We're going to increase their cast

time.

And we've got the same thing on

frustration. They'll take more damage

when they get interrupted as well. So,

if I'm running a domination mesmer with

a lot of interrupt like panic, so when

I'm running the panic version, then the

frustration scales very well with that.

Then we just have hex eater signet to

remove more hexes. Then we have an earth

ally. So, since we're all just midline

and backline, we're going to be next to

each other so we can get a lot of value

out of these wards of melee to get block

against melee attacks. Now, we don't

have block against range attacks, but we

can line of sight because we're all

ranged.

And then ward against elements is really

really good because when you are stacked

together, you are more susceptible to

those allies that are just going to be

spamming those massive AoEs on you.

And you don't want your entire team to

be one-shotted, so that is really

important there. And then essentially

we're using four skills besides these

kind of like buffs, right? So, we have

earthquake to knock down in an AoE.

And then we have churning earth, which

will do a good amount of damage and

knock down enemies that are moving

faster than normal, which on a hard mode

is pretty much always.

And then unsteady ground knocks down

attacking enemies. So, both churning

earth and unsteady ground can give a lot

of knock down over time.

And they're also going to do good damage

cuz they're AoE spells that pulse.

Then we just have stone daggers to kind

of have cuz these are long cool downs. I

can't just spam these, right? 15 30

second. So,

you're not going to just sit there and

do nothing. So, the stone daggers gives

you something to use at all times

to get a little bit of value and a

little bit of damage. And it does

bleeding, so it's not bad.

And then finally, we have the battery

paragon,

which is going to give a lot of value to

spell casters cuz we're all spell

casters basically in this team comp. So,

we've gotten make your time, which is

going to give you adrenaline, and then

you can immediately use the power is

yours, and that gives 4 seconds of two

energy regeneration to all allies.

And

that doesn't sound like it's a lot,

but it is a lot over time because you're

constantly using it. So, it's like your

team has not permanent two extra engine

energy regeneration, but it's very damn

near close, and and it's AoE, so your

entire team needs it. It's not like a

blood is power necro where you're only

giving it to one at a time.

Your entire team is all spell casters,

so everyone needs more energy. So, I I

like the power is yours better than

blood is power for a team that needs

everyone basically needs energy.

And then we've got, you know, they're on

fire

and the blazing finale. So, this this

synergizes well with the searing flames

AoE,

but we've also got blazing finale, which

we can use

hopefully the I don't know if the they

actually do this, but they can use it on

the minions from the minion master,

right? Because you don't have any

front-liner, but your your minion master

kind of is your front line. So, they can

use the blazing finale on the minions,

and then we just have tons of shouts,

right? Cuz shouts work on minions. But

um the shouts that we have here or the

chance that we have here are we're going

to heal whenever we take damage. This is

our hex removal here, and this costs a

lot of adrenaline, but we get a decent

amount of adrenaline here from make your

time.

But this is really nice because once

again, it costs no energy to use, and we

have 12 leadership, so it's going to

give back six energy so that these

really expensive shouts and and chance

that we're using, we can kind of fund

that, right? Cuz you can see here 10 10

5 10

5, and then we have a massive cool down

with we shall return. So, it's just nice

to have, you know, the the power is

yours and the hex bring uh breaker Arya

are going to give you back the energy

for free basically, right? Cuz it's

adrenaline into the leadership. And then

also Arya's Zeal, whenever you use a

spell, you gain back energy. So, even

more energy management for your team and

since we're all spell casters, it

synergizes very well with us. And so,

we're we're not just getting the power

is yours, we're getting the Arya's Zeal.

So, the playstyle of of this comp is

really very defensive. You want to be

flagging your heroes back, pre-casting

your spirits, and then just pull the

enemy team into your group, and just

kill closest target while you all kind

of stack together and ball up, and your

wards, and getting your shouts, and just

kill people with your Ellie's AoE. So,

yeah, that is going to be the three most

fun comps that I've been playing in

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