Guild Wars 2

Classes to avoid, rewards, and long term issues that were fixed, etc?

Trying to avoid reading 699 patch note posts. TIA.

I’d suggest you to tell us why you left so we can answer if those issues changed to better or worse.

There’s Living Story to be played, traits got reworked, there’s new leveling rewards, new daily reward system, zerker is pretty much still considered THE meta, and if you start a new character, prepare for a very confusing New Player Experience.

Classes to avoid? None? Why would there be? Unless you mean “I want to do X content, which class do I need to get it done the quickest possible way”?

All classes offer something reasonably viable at the moment.

Warrior is a bit on the lower end now, Guardian has had significant buffs; but all in all each class is in a decent place.

PVP now gives PVE dungeon rewards.

There’s a New Years event on right now.

[Rush] has been fixed. [Arcing slice] is now an AOE attack.

Expansion dropping soon. There have been several new maps added to the far West of Tyria.

Scarlet Briar is dead. Living world deals with the dragon that was controlling her.

To prevent loot zergs, some champions were downgraded to elites/veterans. The Queensdale loot train no longer exists. The frostgorge one is still active.

Traits, skills, and core game mechanics are now gradually introduced with leveling to prevent new players from being confused. Some low level Karma Hearts have been reworked or removed to lessen confusion.

There’s more commander tag colors. They now cost 300g (I think)

Other than that, all the same. have fun.

Answers my question then, think I’ll stay away. I left around the time they released the update with the “new player experience”. That royally ruined any chance I ever wanted to make a new character.

I logged on the other day I moved one of my characters half way across a map and was already bored lol. It’s too bad for me that the expansion is like a year late and they have that “new player experience” in place.

Odd, the NPE was released only 5 months ago. Not sure whether the confusion over 1.5 years is from counting or what was released in the last patch experienced.

Regardless, happy adventuring wherever you find yourself. Good luck.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Odd, the NPE was released only 5 months ago. Not sure whether the confusion over 1.5 years is from counting or what was released in the last patch experienced.

Ragnar isn’t the OP. OP left earlier.

Oh man, it’s Hoot! What a blast from the past! Welcome back to Tyria!

My bad, and my apologies.

Still, best of luck with whatever game or activity is found pleasing. =)

• Lion’s Arch is destroyed.
• Living Story is over for now. But you can play Living Story Part 2 if you are willing to pay for the privileged, since you were gone during it.
• They redid a bit of the UI
• Highly desired items are more expensive now along with the exchange rate as 1 1/2 year of gold converting took it’s toll.
• There are a couple of new maps to farm.
• A load of balance changes done to nobody’s satisfaction (like any balance change would make everyone happy).
• There’s a new dragon coming.
• There’s an expansion coming out but we don’t know when or how much it’ll cost.