Guild Wars: Limited

ArenaNet is known to do amazing things to the world of *Guild Wars*. Here at PvXwiki, we have taken things one step ahead, introducing our own idea for a future *Guild Wars*: the ***Guild Wars: Limited Edition***, accessible to all campaigns released thus far. "Why limited?", you may ask. The answer is simple: instead of eight skills, the *Guild Wars: Limited Edition* only allows players to use **five** skills on their bar. That's right: **Five** skills!

For the **second official PvXwiki contest**, we are inviting you to come up with your very own *Limited Edition* builds with this new restriction. Anyone can enter, and winners will receive excellent prizes courtesy of Razer™.

## The Challenge

The *Limited Edition* contest challenges players to think outside the box. What would you do if you only had five skills to work with? We pose this challenge to you:

**Create an effective *Team* build using only five skills per character.**

Entrants are invited to submit their ideas for builds based on two categories: *PvE Team* and *PvP Team*. The best team build from each category will each receive a free Razer Deathadder™ Guild Wars Edition Gaming Mouse, courtesy of Razer™ - *For Gamers, By Gamers*.

## Rules

Entrants may submit any number of team builds to either category. All entries must abide by the following conditions:

* Skills bars can contain no more than **five (5)** skills.
* Resurrection skills **are permitted** in the 6th skill slot. This is to compensate for the already-severe skill bar limitation.
	+ The resurrection skill may be a Resurrection Signet or a reusable "hard" resurrect, such as Flesh of My Flesh, Death Pact Signet or Rebirth.
	+ Non-resurrection skills *cannot* be used in place of the 6th skill.
* Existing in-game restrictions apply to builds submitted for the contest.

The category-specific rules are as follows:

### PvE Team

* Teams must consist of no more than **eight (8)** players.
* PvE-only skills *can* be used. However, there is a restriction to counter the imbalance of PvE skills:
	+ A team as a whole may only use **one (1)** PvE-only skill for each player. In other words, a full eight-player team may only use eight PvE-only skills between all members. This can translate to one PvE-only skill per player, or certain members can be allocated more PvE-only skills out of the team's "pool".
	+ As with current in-game restrictions, a single player cannot have more than *three* PvE-only skills on their bar.
	+ The following PvE-only skills may not be used: Ursan Blessing, Raven Blessing, and Volfen Blessing.

### PvP Team

* Teams must consist of **four (4)** players.
* The basis of the PvP team is **Team Arena**.
* PvE-only skills *cannot* be used.

## How to enter

Only registered PvXwiki users may enter the *Limited Edition* contest. However, anyone may register an account before submitting an entry. Submissions are to be emailed to contest@pvxwiki.com with the subject line **GW Limited**. The email must contain the following:

* Your PvXwiki username.
* Your in-game name.
* The category or categories you are entering.
* The team builds:
	+ Provide the *Professions* followed by their skill bars written out in full.
	+ *Equipment* list
	+ *Usage*—be detailed where possible, and explain as much as you want.

For a sample entry, see this sample.

## Judging

Entries will be judged by PvXwiki administrators. Judges will select winning entries based on the same criteria currently used by PvXwiki, as explained in PvX:VETTING. Builds will be judged on the following:

* **Effectiveness:** How well the build functions to its designed purpose.
* **Universality:** How well the build performs under less-than-favorable conditions.
* **Innovation:** How useful the build concept is.

The decision of the judges is final.

## Contest Dates

Email submissions must be sent no later than **February 24, 2008**.

## Winners

After the contest is over, we will announce 2 lucky winners of Razer DeathAdder Guild Wars Edition!

Mice are kindly given to us by Razer and will be shipped to you free of cost from the Razer headquarters.

### The Overall Winners

The overall winners were User:Shogunshen for his TA Team and User:Racthoh for his PvE Team.

User:Shogunshen's entry can be found here.

User:Racthoh's entry can be found here.