Guild Wars 2

Been playing wow for 7 years, and just purchased gw2 deluxe. Im so excited to start playing. Wow community just isnt there no more, majority are rude, selfish ill mannered player base . Glad I decided to swap up.

Welcome to GW2!

Welcome to Tyria (GW2)!

Welcome on and enjoy the ride.

Welcome to Tyria! Ignore the trolls and find out for yourself how much you enjoy this game. =) The forums here aren’t much different than any other games, filled with dissatisfied people and the like. I hope you find what you are looking for in an MMO with GW2, its a blast!

Welcome to Guild Wars 2! If you’re looking for a better community then this game has one of the best in my experience. If you’re looking for any information or have any questions, or just want someone to game with for a time feel free to message me or friend me in game. Have a great time!

Gaile Gray.6029:

Jonnyrok.2876:

Been playing wow for 7 years, and just purchased gw2 deluxe. Im so excited to start playing. Wow community just isnt there no more, majority are rude, selfish ill mannered player base . Glad I decided to swap up.

Welcome to Guild Wars 2, Jonnyrok. I think you will really love the game, and I agree, the community is exceptional. Sure, you’ll come across the occasional nay-sayer, and if on the forums, just hit the little flag in the lower right and we’ll take a look at the post. If in the game, click the player (to select him/her) then right-click the image of the player at the top of your screen and you’ll see the option to use “report.” Choose a reason and a CS Agent will give what happened a review and take whatever action is needed.

Basically, it’s a beautiful game in an amazing world with some pretty darn nice people living there.

Wishing you all the best in Tyria!

It kinda tells enough storys that you welcome a new player in the same post you show him how to report others xD

Anyways…
Welcome and enjoy your stay with us!

Thank you so much!

Bit late for me, but welcome to the game. You’ll find this game is very different from the one you’ve left.

Hope you have a great time here!

Welcome to Tyria!

You may find the Wiki and/or the Releases pages/sites informative. Both can be accessed at the top of this page, as well as other interesting and helpful resources.

Best of luck, and happy adventuring. =)

I’m right there with you. Someone got me GW2 Deluxe two weeks ago as a gift. I’ve been playing MMOs since Everquest, and this one? This one is it. Absolutely love it. From the mechanics (elementalists with daggers kicking butt, Memser Greatsword Gundam Cannons, Engis with All The Flamethrower, etc), to the little, tiny things, like the characters standing differently depending on incline/steps.

You’ll love it here.

Kveldulf.7605:

Gaile Gray.6029:

Jonnyrok.2876:

Been playing wow for 7 years, and just purchased gw2 deluxe. Im so excited to start playing. Wow community just isnt there no more, majority are rude, selfish ill mannered player base . Glad I decided to swap up.

Welcome to Guild Wars 2, Jonnyrok. I think you will really love the game, and I agree, the community is exceptional. Sure, you’ll come across the occasional nay-sayer, and if on the forums, just hit the little flag in the lower right and we’ll take a look at the post. If in the game, click the player (to select him/her) then right-click the image of the player at the top of your screen and you’ll see the option to use “report.” Choose a reason and a CS Agent will give what happened a review and take whatever action is needed.

Basically, it’s a beautiful game in an amazing world with some pretty darn nice people living there.

Wishing you all the best in Tyria!

It kinda tells enough storys that you welcome a new player in the same post you show him how to report others xD

Anyways…
Welcome and enjoy your stay with us!

i don’t see what you are getting at…

BTW Welcome! Even though I am late to this thread!

One word of warning, no other MMORPG will suffice after this. They all will lack something.
This is a Point of No Return.

Anyway Welcome!

KngGilgamesh.3481:

One word of warning, no other MMORPG will suffice after this. They all will lack something.
This is a Point of No Return.

Anyway Welcome!

This is True… GW2 ruined other MMORPGS for me.
xD Let’s hope other MMO’s can catch up to ArenaNet’s quality games.

Gaile Gray.6029:

If on the forums, just hit the little flag in the lower right and we’ll take a look at the post.

Aww, and here I have been using it to claim people as personal possessions.

Welcome OP. If you have any questions feel free to hit me up in game.

KngGilgamesh.3481:

One word of warning, no other MMORPG will suffice after this. They all will lack something.
This is a Point of No Return.

Anyway Welcome!

. . . unfortunately, I had this experience. I tried a few free-trial MMOs and while one of them I really enjoyed a lot? I just was missing way too many things ArenaNet did with the design of GW2 that I wound up fading out of it. I mean to return. Um, eventually. Wow, if I ever feel like subscribing to it . . .

There’s just too much in GW2 which . . . just is more fun, less work. As much as I don’t necessarily like the “Grand Tour of World Bosses” basically being an effort-free lootstravaganza . . . it’s definitely more fun for me to sink into after work. Or late at night when there seem to always be people around rather than . . . well, dead air.

The only game I miss/missed more than GW2 when I took time off was Ultima Online. (OF course five minutes back in Brittania disabused me of that longing . . . with some nice Corp Por to the face and a run to the healers.)

While I did enjoy this game on release, and still do to a certain extent…I was a die-hard fan of the original and this game just didn’t resonate with me like GW1 did. Granted, ANet wanted to expand their player base beyond the theorycrafters and build wizards that populated the original (it was very heavily based on build synergy, and people that didn’t grind out the optimal builds were often shunted out of the winner’s circle).

That being said, it’s very easy to get going in the new Tyria. The living story is fairly immersive, and I still enjoy the story behind my Sylvari Guardian. I’m still hoping for a story arc that takes us back to the Crystal Desert to push out Palawa Joko and hopefully reunite with some of the remaining humans in Elona.

Just a few points of comparison:
WoW |—————| GW2
______Immersion___ x Guild Wars has always had better immersion, imo.
_______Combat____x The combat system is much better.
__x_____ PvE________ PvE endgame has some gaps and isn’t very challenging.
________ PvP_______x Open-world PvP at its finest.

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

KngGilgamesh.3481:

One word of warning, no other MMORPG will suffice after this. They all will lack something.
This is a Point of No Return.

Anyway Welcome!

. . . unfortunately, I had this experience. I tried a few free-trial MMOs and while one of them I really enjoyed a lot? I just was missing way too many things ArenaNet did with the design of GW2 that I wound up fading out of it. I mean to return. Um, eventually. Wow, if I ever feel like subscribing to it . . .

There’s just too much in GW2 which . . . just is more fun, less work. As much as I don’t necessarily like the “Grand Tour of World Bosses” basically being an effort-free lootstravaganza . . . it’s definitely more fun for me to sink into after work. Or late at night when there seem to always be people around rather than . . . well, dead air.

The only game I miss/missed more than GW2 when I took time off was Ultima Online. (OF course five minutes back in Brittania disabused me of that longing . . . with some nice Corp Por to the face and a run to the healers.)

Have similar feelings, playing one game right now that is really quite inferior to this one. I hope GW2 lasts for many years to come. No other game is doing what GW2 is doing for better or worse (for me, better, for some, perhaps worse.) Just logged off that game to play this instead.

Star Ace.5207:

Have similar feelings, playing one game right now that is really quite inferior to this one. I hope GW2 lasts for many years to come. No other game is doing what GW2 is doing for better or worse (for me, better, for some, perhaps worse.) Just logged off that game to play this instead.

Thing is, the one I am thinking of going back to? It’s not inferior, it’s crafted rather well and everything fits . . . but things are just missing which make it less fun to play as a new player in that game as opposed to someone having been there from the start and hit end-game.

I think part of it is just how GW2 has it as an actual viable option to run around the open world without four more people at your back and be able to do things. Other MMOs I tried didn’t have that feeling, they had a white-knuckle “oh god please let me sneak through to that resource node” feeling. It had a feeling of “don’t go off the beaten path lest you get killed”.

As a new player myself (relatively, been around a few months now and still learning the ins and outs) I have absolutely no regrets with regards to my investment in GW2. The community is probably the friendliest I’ve ever seen (bar some pvp elitist ragers and one or two forum members, but that happens everywhere) and the game is engaging enough to be played for hours on end, on top of casual enough to just log in and bugger about if you want.

The best part about pve in GW2 is that reaching cap level isn’t a horrifically boring grind. It can be done casually (real world casually, not WoW’s definition of casual) in a few weeks and you can go at your own pace due to the awesome scaled exp system (the game scales your level down in pve relative to the zone you’re in, granting you exp appropriate for your actual level when participating in events)

getting into GW2 is like switching to SSD after years of using regular HDD. there is no turning back !

GW2 is by far the most polished game, with the nicest community and Arenanet does a great job communicating with the players. I recently tried out Archage for a change……..the community there is soo Toxic and the publishers/developers have almost no connection to the players. Made me appreciate GW2 and its team a whole lot more than before.

Welcome to the best game ever :-)

One time while playing WoW, I simply said hi to another player running around and all that player did was type in sigh. Pfft, ok. I logged out, went onto Guild Wars and didn’t have a problem with anyone wanting to join a group to do a mission. Now tonight while on GW2, a player said hi and I said hi back followed by probably 6 other players saying hi.

So, welcome to the best MMO game Guild Wars 2 and to the world of Tyria! Hope you have a blast and great experience like me.

Welcome to Guild Wars 2 ! : )

wow thats really show respect how fast devs welcome player 0o

rapthorne.7345:

As a new player myself (relatively, been around a few months now and still learning the ins and outs) I have absolutely no regrets with regards to my investment in GW2. The community is probably the friendliest I’ve ever seen (bar some pvp elitist ragers and one or two forum members, but that happens everywhere) and the game is engaging enough to be played for hours on end, on top of casual enough to just log in and bugger about if you want.

The best part about pve in GW2 is that reaching cap level isn’t a horrifically boring grind. It can be done casually (real world casually, not WoW’s definition of casual) in a few weeks and you can go at your own pace due to the awesome scaled exp system (the game scales your level down in pve relative to the zone you’re in, granting you exp appropriate for your actual level when participating in events)

Yeah I know what you mean. Some guy from the forums even messaged me in game and blocked me when I disagreed with him. It was clear he didn’t understand a word I said. It’s funny how people get aggressive because you don’t agree with their opinions.

But over all, yeah the community is pretty good.

Vayne.8563:

rapthorne.7345:

As a new player myself (relatively, been around a few months now and still learning the ins and outs) I have absolutely no regrets with regards to my investment in GW2. The community is probably the friendliest I’ve ever seen (bar some pvp elitist ragers and one or two forum members, but that happens everywhere) and the game is engaging enough to be played for hours on end, on top of casual enough to just log in and bugger about if you want.

The best part about pve in GW2 is that reaching cap level isn’t a horrifically boring grind. It can be done casually (real world casually, not WoW’s definition of casual) in a few weeks and you can go at your own pace due to the awesome scaled exp system (the game scales your level down in pve relative to the zone you’re in, granting you exp appropriate for your actual level when participating in events)

Yeah I know what you mean. Some guy from the forums even messaged me in game and blocked me when I disagreed with him. It was clear he didn’t understand a word I said. It’s funny how people get aggressive because you don’t agree with their expert opinions.

But over all, yeah the community is pretty good.

I had a guy from the forums too who messaged me in game who apparently adds “fan boys” to his list. I wonder if its the same guy? Huh. Either way, I don’t care I’m just playing a game and having fun is all.

Steeldragon.7308:

Vayne.8563:

rapthorne.7345:

As a new player myself (relatively, been around a few months now and still learning the ins and outs) I have absolutely no regrets with regards to my investment in GW2. The community is probably the friendliest I’ve ever seen (bar some pvp elitist ragers and one or two forum members, but that happens everywhere) and the game is engaging enough to be played for hours on end, on top of casual enough to just log in and bugger about if you want.

The best part about pve in GW2 is that reaching cap level isn’t a horrifically boring grind. It can be done casually (real world casually, not WoW’s definition of casual) in a few weeks and you can go at your own pace due to the awesome scaled exp system (the game scales your level down in pve relative to the zone you’re in, granting you exp appropriate for your actual level when participating in events)

Yeah I know what you mean. Some guy from the forums even messaged me in game and blocked me when I disagreed with him. It was clear he didn’t understand a word I said. It’s funny how people get aggressive because you don’t agree with their expert opinions.

But over all, yeah the community is pretty good.

I had a guy from the forums too who messaged me in game who apparently adds “fan boys” to his list. I wonder if its the same guy? Huh. Either way, I don’t care I’m just playing a game and having fun is all.

LMAO! That’s funny as hell. You know, I’m sure the guy’s not a bad guy or anything. He probably just feels strongly about what he feels strongly about. But yeah, what can you do?

ANet ruined all the games for me hahah, GW2 quality is overall much higher than most MMOs on the market!

OP, welcome aboard, I hope you enjoy the ride as much as I am enjoying (even since headstart)!

PS.: During launch a lot of people complained about content, but kittenit, there are so many things to do now! I haven’t even caught up on story / area achievements from past episodes yet. Q.Q

So quick to respond to new players, i see what you did Anet

Qiraa.4130:

So quick to respond to new players, i see what you did Anet

They did a great job on this game…this is what they did.
Sure it has its flaws, but still…one of the best games ever!

Welcome to gw2.

I’m the dark side of the community they are all talking about, I’m here as an exemple.
do things evily

Welcome to the party!

GW2 is a great game that teaches poorly how to play it (though it got better since september). Make sure you integrate a newbie friendly guild to guide you through the arcanes of the game. You’ll then see the amazing potential of GW2.

Welcome!

Been playing for roughly 3 weeks and I’m having a blast. My journey has been amazing and I’ve no doubt yours will be too. Great community here I’ve noticed. Find yourself a guild and go crazy!!!

Welcome to Guild Wars 2.

The first thing you must do is forget all your WoW terminology.
A “necromancer” is a “profession”, not a “class”.
What you play as is a “character”, not a “toon”.

Also, there are no quests. Explore the world and have a good time leveling. Don’t rush it.

I originally came from WoW too and this game is better by ten fold. My advice would be to always finish your dailies, dont spend laurels until you’re level 80 (!!) and to not worry about rushing to the max level. Most of all though, enjoy yourself!

As an hardcore raider from wow, I don’t know if you are or not but get over your false feeling of accomplishing something when grinding raid over, over and over just for an item that will make you do more dps, heal or tankier. That only last for 6 months because the patch will come. Guild wars 2 changed everything, read , learn and enjoy the content ( that is what I am doing at this moment ). If you think about blizzard , it is just like someone holding a carrot on a stick since 10 years.

Welcome to the fold

Welcome to Tyria! I also came from WoW and you will feel this a much refreshing experience. The community is nothing like WoW and the game has so much love and dedication put into it, you can feel it as you play. I hope you enjoy your time here.

I just bought the game I’m super bored of wow, and WOD seems boring. I’m so ready to take on a brand new world

To me, as mostly a solo player, there is a lot more choice as to where to go at 80 than there ever really was in WOW. It was all about raids there, but here you have fractals, the mists, multiple zones and open world content. For now, though, just sit back and have fun. It will all come to you eventually. The thing I like BEST is we all work TOGETHER. No more fighting for nodes or tagging mobs. Everybody gets an equal chance. Welcome.

I can’t wait till it gets done downloading.

Welcome to GW2! If you ever have any questions or need help with a mission, please feel free to PM me.

:)

Jonny and Noss…..welcome to Tyria !!!

Welcome to GW2 new players.

One thing I like about GW2 which unfortunately confuses some people is how much freedom you have in setting up your own goals. Getting to max level doesn’t have to be a boring grind and the end game doesn’t have to be one either.

There is no gear treadmill. The second best gear (Exotic) is great to use for almost all content. The best gear (Ascended) is only necessary at higher levels of the Fractals dungeon which you are never forced to do. In fact, that gear was mostly put in there as another thing people can work toward. Instead of going for best gear, you can go for a Legendary weapon, work on getting titles or achievements, fill up your wardrobe, collect minis, etc.

Players run dungeons, kill world bosses, kill each other in PvP and WvW (large scale PvP), explore the world, tackle missions with their guild, do jump puzzles, and go through the story. It’s refreshing to log into the game and say, “Today I want to do this.” Don’t be one of those people who reach max level then quit and complain gw2 haz no engame cuz no raids. lol

That said, the devs are looking into implementing raids. If they do, you can be assured it won’t come with a gear treadmill like in other MMOS. =)

Hopefully you won’t have to wait another year to try SAB.