Guild Wars 2

I have never been one to take on life passively, and voting is something that I hold dear to my heart. In business, I vote via money, or contrariwise, via trolling popular review websites.

I am pleased to say that I am very happy with GW2. I had some initial problems actually downloading my product when I bought it on Black Friday, and it did take about a week to resolve, but overall I was satisfied.

Furthermore, I’ve played for a few hours with my asura warrior and it was a very enjoyable experience. I enjoy the lore, but more importantly, the community is very cooperative — without a doubt the best experience I’ve had in an MMO.

Since I bought the game for so little and I also needed customer support, I feel that it’s necessary for me to purchase around $10-20 worth of something. At the moment, I have no pressing desire for anything; there’s not even anything that I feel like I want or understand enough to even want.

Does anyone have any suggestions about some potential GW2 items that are worthwhile?

NOTE: I have five hours experience in this game, so if you use jargon terms, I probably won’t understand you.

Hey Jason, and welcome to GW2! This is really the game with the most friendly community i’ve ever seen in MMO. The reason no one has answered your question yet is you have posted in a wrong section of the forum. This section is for the personal story only. If you have more questions better try in “Players helping players”.

Now, about what’s useful for a new player and can be bought with gems: first, I’d suggest you to buy gathering equipment as quickly as possible. Harvesting Sickles, Logging Axes, and Mining Picks are available from most NPC merchants and will allow you to gather valuable crafting materials and earn experience from the world around you. But if you buy them from a merchant you have to do it constantly because you can have equiped only 250 at a time and you should watch your level, because there are higher types for higher levels. If you buy them with gems you can use them unlimited times and just forget about buying new again and again.

Another useful thing is Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic, so you won’t need to buy salvage kits from the merchants every time you want to salvage something.

You can also buy XP boosters if you want to level up faster.

And of course, you can just excange some of your gems for gold, so you can buy for your asura the best armor and weapons for your level from the Trading Post.

Feel free to ask if you have more questions or if I haven’t been clear enough and have fun with your asura warrior

The unlimited tools (although I think the Dreamcleaver Axe is no longer on sale by now) and the Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic are excellent purchases, in my opinion. Permanent and offer lots of convenience.

Alternatively, you can’t go wrong with more Bank slots or Transmutation Crystals (you’ll need plenty of the latter once you’re level 80 and want to get a specific look on your character).

Lol, I’ve been too slow in typing I guess.

Thanks a lot for the suggestions and sorry about posting in the wrong section.

BTW, I went with the +1 Bank Tab and the Copper-Fed Salvage-o-Matic. I couldn’t find the unlimited tools. Those sound good as well. At least the Salvage I tended to bring more than one because I salvaged everything, since most stuff is apparently garbage otherwise.