Guild Wars 2

I’ve been away from the game for a while, and I’d like some suggestions about how best to reacquaint myself with Guild Wars 2.

I stopped playing regularly something like a year and a half to two years ago, I think. I tried logging in once in a while just to make sure I got the extra quest content registered to my account, but I found it a bit hard to actually get back into the game. Two of the reasons I stopped playing were that it kind of felt like I hit a wall content-wise, and couldn’t progress smoothly without bringing in other human players to party with, and some performance issues.

Luckily, the new year brought with it a new computer that should run the game better than the old one, even if I’m using a workstation videocard rather than a gaming card. Less luckily, the way my gaming habits go, I’ll get really interested in a game for a couple of weeks, and then I’ll move on to the next thing. Given this pattern, I’m not sure I can commit to really joining an in-game guild unless there’s some kind of guild forum or chatroom to keep me tethered when I’m not actively playing the game.

My characters are: a lvl~45-ish Human Guardian, a lvl 24-ish Sylvari Ranger, a lvl 20 (from the free levelup item) Charr engineer, and a lvl 12-ish Asura elementalist.

I hit a point with the guardian where needing to keep one of every weapon type felt like being forced to be a generalist, even though I know Guardians generally suck at range. She’s been abandoned somewhere in the snowy mountains next to a frozen lake for some kind of Quaggan-related quest like slaying the big scary lake monster for them.

The Elementalist is around the outer edges of one of the starter areas, somewhere a bit past the Asura Bog area with the pyramid-shaped crafting / vending area. Elementalists tend to be fragile, and I was still working on unlocking all of his various skills. Given that I still don’t really understand how to use his skills properly, or how to effectively switch between them depending on the situation, and given how fragile caster classes tend to be, I keep getting destroyed whenever I try to wander and get used to the combat system again.

The Ranger and Engineer have both been stuck at crafting locations for a long time, intended to be quick stops to ferry items between characters.

Another problem is that I have a really hard time convincing myself to use the consumable character items I occasionally get, like a free armour repair, bringing a vender or bank nearby, etc, so those things are starting to clutter up my inventory.

Any tips on what to do to make getting back into these characters and this game setting would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.