Guild Wars 2

Ok so i gotta ask as a player who has played since the early access. Why Anet has found it a necessary to lock down access to sPvP and WvW? This is horrible as it gave easy access to other cities. for those who do not know sPvP opens at 22, and WvW at 18.

New players are treated like they have never touched a video game in their whole life. And trust me, it’s still not enough for a lot of players.

Alternatively, players of all levels still have access to WvW and sPvP through the asura gates in Lion’s Arch.

You can still access WvW and PvP through the portals in LA and I’m pretty sure once you have done so once it unlocks it for that account.

Astral my point is being able to access sPvP and Wvw at early stages was a means of leveling, transport to other citises. This was the fastest way to those cities. Now you litterally have to hoof it across the zones? to say LA? Unacceptable.

As for ticare doesn’t mean i can side with people jsut starting out such as friends of mine?

Dark Magi.8947:

Astral my point is being able to access sPvP and Wvw at early stages was a means of leveling, transport to other citises. This was the fastest way to those cities. Now you litterally have to hoof it across the zones? to say LA? Unacceptable.

And exactly how hard is it to go to your Home City and port to LA. Takes what, 2 min to port and then walk to the PvP Gates?

Dark Magi.8947:

Astral my point is being able to access sPvP and Wvw at early stages was a means of leveling, transport to other citises. This was the fastest way to those cities. Now you litterally have to hoof it across the zones? to say LA? Unacceptable.

Yeah well it does take a few minutes. I’ve did it my new alt account that I bought this last sale. To my city, to the portal to LA, across the LA map to the portals. Go in and out of both portals. Done.

It is a bigger problem with new players, true. But those people don’t normally know about this option anyway.

A lot of new players used to click the pvp icon, or WvW icon and get stuck there. Not knowing how to leave.
As for being an easy way to travel to LA, it’s not exactly difficult to leave your racial starter area, and go to the portal less than 60 seconds walk away. From there you can get to.. wait for it…… everywhere!

The PvP lobby / WvW citadels are not meant to be short cuts to LA. They aren’t really intended as easier or faster levelling places and in truth, mapping and EoTM trains don’t have “that” much of a difference anymore.
-Not that i’d suggest a new player should ever EoTM train their first character.

Also, I don’t know how you think it was the fastest way to travel to those cities.
When you got to LA you still had to find your way to the racial city portals from the mist portals.
Now you have to go to the LA portal in your racial city and then you’re at the racial city portals in LA anyway. It’s merely swapped the travelling distance in LA, to the travelling distance in your racial starter city, the difference is completely negligible.

EDIT———— Also, a new player having to spend time looking around a new(to them) game. kitten . Unacceptable.

The problem isnt so much being locked out (since you arent locked out, though having to run through cities is annoying when you want to try out a new class), its that you cant get the new traits and certain rune/sigils in pvp without gold. One of the big selling points of this game used to be that you can buy the game, go into spvp, and immediately have access to the same exact gear everyone else has, and thats not true anymore.

Not really a big deal since new players dont need generosity sigils or anything in their first pvp match, but its still dumb.

Most of the runes and well over half of the locked traits aren’t used in the current meta anyway. Turret Engi and Power Ranger maybe? As for runes, the Traveller is the one that specifically springs to mind. Is Celestial amulet locked off? I doubt it. I don’t particularly think this is an issue too be honest.
You can still jump into pvp and have access to the same gear/abilities as everyone else – to a point. There has to be “some” progression. You make some gold even if you lose every match, so within a few days of solid PvP you can pretty much get anything you want.

Yeah I know, new players are super confused about all that stuff. I tried to show WvW to a new player and I was like “what? sorry whisper me in a week when you’re level… (gotta go see on internet level requirement) and I’ll show you”.

Then I was trying to explain to the same new player how you need to use skill points to unlock traits in a trait system he needs to unlock only at certain levels, and that you get from a specific vendor. Forget it, this is so much worse than what it was before.

To be honest. All these unlocks are really frustrating. I understand that you don’t want new players to get overwhelmed… but why force it down the throat of those who don’t need the handholding. Hell I was more confused at the game locking stuff than I ever was with the game ever before. Thinking it was broken at times before I realised, oh yeah… nonsensical unlocks. I think I even send a bug report once because of it. I know, that was pretty silly. But still.

I don’t understand why there isn’t a pop up warning window rather than taking away QoL stuff.