Guild Wars weekend

[kandrathe]

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p.s. You can effectively solo in GW by hiring henchman -- a good feature -- and I have no idea why Lissa and a few others complain about the Monk henchmen. They were simply awesome, and better than at least 90% of the human healers out there, for sure including myself if I was ever masochistic enough to play a healer.
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I know when I was adequate as a healer, I needed to watch the players health status bars constantly, and when a bar dropped I would click on the bar and heal it. I consequently was less aware of where we were in the mission or what we were doing. Strange game where 90% of the hp during a mission are supplied by healing, both on the player and monsters. Monsters without a healing source are toast.

I think you can solo with henchmen, but you need to go much slower and be very careful. They can quickly get involved in a combat with a pack of mosters that will overwhelm them, and once the healer dies the mission is over. One time I was able to salvage my mission because I had remembered to equip resurrection (one shot) as a skill and resurrected the healer, who then was able to revive the other four henchmen.