Thread: guardian help needed

hi im a level 26 guardian and have aquired the following skills. summon tinker bash overwhelm thrust and shield taunt . but cant use them any ideas please. thank you

I'm not a guardian but I would recommend asking this question in the Guardian forum. Good luck!

Summon tinker you can only use at certain campfires. Some of the other skills you listed require a shield equipped. Do you have a shield, or are you using a 2-hander?

Just to add:

Reaction skill based.

I don't have guard either lol

Most of the skill you listed are reactives, meaning you need to be in Overpower stance (2-hand weapon) to use overwhelm and this skill is working after a parry response. Bash and shield are used after a block response (shield+one-hand weapon) meaning in shield stance.

No need to be in Overpower stance for overwhelm. You can parry attacks while you have shield equipped too.

hi yeah ive had a shield with one handed not worked two handed not worked

Originally Posted by murphster7

hi yeah ive had a shield with one handed not worked two handed not worked

Many of the Guardian skills work in 'chains': one event has to trigger the next. Try this: get into a battle with an NPC, and wait for your Guardian to parry an attack (you'll see a 'Parried' bit of text rising over your head, and also hear a chime). This will cause one of your greyed-out skills (Retaliation) to become active. Within the next three seconds, hit 'Retaliation' next. This is just a little attack, but it continues the chain and opens up 'Overwhelm' for you to use. That's the 'parry' chain of attacks, and you'll get more attacks in that chain later on.

There's also a 'block' chain of attacks, which works in a similar fashion.

thank you

I'm a 35 guard and summon tinker can only be used at a certain campfire.Some campfires can only be used by hunters.
some skills you have to block or parry or evade to use them which you probably o ready now.tinker you can only repair nothing else.

Dwimlor

Originally Posted by Donnamira

Summon tinker you can only use at certain campfires. Some of the other skills you listed require a shield equipped. Do you have a shield, or are you using a 2-hander?

you are right bout the shield stuff. I'm a guard to.

Originally Posted by Dwimlor

I'm a 35 guard and summon tinker can only be used at a certain campfire.Some campfires can only be used by hunters.
some skills you have to block or parry or evade to use them which you probably o ready now.tinker you can only repair nothing else.

Dwimlor

Actually the tinker can only be used at campSITES. By in large these are found near the world entrances to instances. This makes the skill virtually useless.

Originally Posted by Qwyxzl

Actually the tinker can only be used at campSITES. By in large these are found near the world entrances to instances. This makes the skill virtually useless.

its not useless.fine campSITES im misspelling but they are all over middle earth ive used it before and i think you can use it in skirms and stuff

Originally Posted by Dwimlor

its not useless.fine campSITES im misspelling but they are all over middle earth ive used it before and i think you can use it in skirms and stuff

I haven't checked skirmish use, that could be interesting, but by and large the persistent world campsites that allow use of this skill were designed to be near instances prior to the instance panel being introduced. It made a lot more sense when you couldn't just chill in a town and hop into an instance.

that wouldn't be right.say a hunter lays a campfire you cant use the tinker on it

Just saying, but tooltips are there for a reason... why not just read them, OP?