Guild Wars 2

What do I need to catch up on?

Silverwastes/Drytop(though Drytop is generally considered the least favorite of the 2) and the new Lions Arch. Outside of that, getting use to the new trait system. Thats about it.

Squall.7435:

What do I need to catch up on?

Esports….

Vavume.8065:

Squall.7435:

What do I need to catch up on?

Esports….

While off topic, does anyone actually take GW2 seriously as a Esport? I keep hearing about it, but just do not see it. While GW2 sPvP is interesting I just don’t see how it can be taken seriously.

New expansion October 23rd.

Until then living world season 2, silverwastes, farm any mats and gold you need before expansion

Do Living Story Season 2. Get someone to open the story instances for you, or buy them with gold.

Oh…the game is free to play. No need to purchase gw2 anymore.

I could tell you that you missed all the big, seasonal Holidays this year filled with fun, new quests and events, exciting rewards and the cities transformed into a wonderland of beautiful decorations and new things to see and do.

But you didn’t. So I can’t.

You can go farm in the Silverwastes though. That’s not too bad.

BrooksP.4318:

Vavume.8065:

Squall.7435:

What do I need to catch up on?

Esports….

While off topic, does anyone actually take GW2 seriously as a Esport? I keep hearing about it, but just do not see it. While GW2 sPvP is interesting I just don’t see how it can be taken seriously.

Its not, he’s joking

GW2 hasn’t been, nor will it ever be e-sport (unless anet actually gives PvP devs more resources/support…)

They haven’t made a blip on the radar.

When you can’t even pull more viewers on twitch than 1 guy playing runescape during your games major tournament finals… than i’m sorry, but you aren’t “e-sport” (WTS had 7-8k viewers for the finals….pretty sad)

While PvP is fun to play, and its one of my favorite things to do in this game. It’s not something you can sit and watch as a spectator, hence, it will never make it to e-sports.

Squall.7435:

What do I need to catch up on?

Surprisingly little. Although Silverwastes is fun, you didn’t miss much else.

Living Story season 2 (1600 gems?) if you’d care about the story line,
It will take you into dry top and silverwastes and unlock Nomads and Sinister trinkets and the carapace armor skin (Nomas is a tanky stat (pretty uselesss) and Sinister is THE PvE condition stat

The release of caps for conditions, Max stacks have been raised from 25 to 1500 effectively making Condition dmg go up from niche to Very viable, some condition builds (Burning Meta) will outdamage DPS builds

Destruction of the whole PvP meta leaving current meta to be 4 times Celestial D/D Ele and a resbot

Other things :

• Ascended weapons/ armor
• New stats (Like sinister and Nomad, celestial and zealot also were introduced mainly after the 1st year.)
• Fractals being expanded contains more levels then before,(legendary backpacks have been announced pre-req. wil be high fractals)
• Introduction of the Edge of the Mists (WvW) Karma train
• Introduction of the Silverwastes Chest Run (Champ bag farm)
• Nerfing of Queensdale and Frostgorge farms
• Complete overhaul of traits & trait system
• The introduction and removal of the NPE (count yourself lucky)
• Removal of stat points from trait lines, making a wide array of builds usefull..
• Mega Servers Servers no longer have “own instances” people are shoved ito instances on arrival only selections are party/guild/server at this moment but this can be tricky, hence also the LFG event DC parties so you could have a minor chance getiing back into you instance on DC
• some graphic improvements, mostly to do with shaders.
• Bloodstone dust, dragonite ore and emperyal shard eaters, karma convertor, reintrodcution of the mystic forge conduit
• Collections
• Mini’s account bound
• Wallet
• Wardrobe
• Ability to change stats int the Mystic forge on ascneded gear
• Removal of skillpoints, introduction of heropoints and spirit shards
• change from character bound dyes to soulbound dyes
• change from character bound perm crating tools to account bound
• removal of town clothes (who cares)
• introduction of outfits
• And some more things, I am trying to be bit specific here but I’m at a loss….
• removal of magic find as a stat
• introduction of Luck when salvaging Blues/Greens to raise ACCOUNT magic find

Most interesting things from the BL TP

• 800 gems Copper Fed Salvage O Matic
• 1000 gems Watchwork mining pick, later on you could buy axe (1000gems) and sickle (1000gems) to your personal liking, If you already owned these bring ’m to a BL guy (location in wiki) to exchange the old soulbound ones to account bound…

Most interesting Farm (is it?)

• Silverwastes, either the event or the chest run if you did some event runs
• Orr, still t6 bags, Champ and Temple events
• Night Dungeon Run (AC(full),CoF(1,2),SE(1,3),TA(fw/up),CoE(full))…
• EotM Karma Train (also good fo levelling alts with boosters)

Most interesting things to get:

• Ascneded gear
• Ascneded trinkets
• Mawdrey II (bound to living story S2)
• Princess

Gw2 will stay capped at lvl 80, so any gear you make will suffice for a long time to come…

Shen Slayer.3058:

Oh…the game is free to play. No need to purchase gw2 anymore.

Stop spreading lies.

We do not know that this supposed F2P will actually mean yet, so until it is actually announced comments like these are just silly.

Squall.7435:

What do I need to catch up on?

Nothing special man. The game is always the same.

Thuggernaut.1250:

Squall.7435:

What do I need to catch up on?

Surprisingly little. Although Silverwastes is fun, you didn’t miss much else.

Actually, there is a lot more people don’t realise. The game has changed a lot. And it is that what the OP is asking.

My advice is to first login with all your characters ones and give it time to finish “pinging”. You’ll see what I mean when you do.
This will add all your skins to your wardrobe as well that it will gather all the money and other (now) account bound resource on the characters and put it in the accountwide wallet. You also get a change to collect all your birthday gifts.. Also make sure you add all miniatures and finishers to your wardrobe too (this has to be done manually by double clicking them). Karma is now accountbound and the boosters no longer work for containers. So feel free to open all karma containers you have collected.

Also check your gear. If you where using magic find gear, this is no longer available. That type of gear needs to be un-equipped, doubleclicked to select new stats and re-equipped.

Further you should realize all your builds are mostly reset to defaults and would have been useless anyways. The entire system has been changed and overhauled.

So you should also relearn the game. So I would strongly suggest to roll a new character and play through. Use one of the many birthday scrolls to get to level 20 instantly for a headstart (or if any toon had a third birthday yet, use the scroll to get to level 30 instantly). You might be able to use tomes, don’t do that all at once. Try to do the new designed personal story, the new player experience and completion of atleast one map and one town (I recommend lion’s Arch, cause it is totally overhauled).
After that you should know the basics of the current day game. Now start reading into the new builds. You can decide to level up the newly created character or pick up one of your old characters.

Most off all, I would advice to join a guild (if you are not still in one that is active). It really helps to ask questions when they pop up.