Guild Wars 2

Because its fairly easy to see what the traits in each traitline do.

OriOri.8724:

Because its fairly easy to see what the traits in each traitline do.

Having watched a new player struggle with the game … it’s really, really not.

We just already know that stuff.

That reminds of so many games that don’t really explain what things do. It’s also why I liked the Mega Man series, because of stuff like this: https://youtu.be/akITlx_fhLc?t=843 Though honestly, some of it was really vague.

Or the Starcraft 2 campaigns: https://youtu.be/d5ahOFnLB2s?t=155 You got a little demonstration of whatever the heck it was you were going to pick.

Now obviously it’s not going to work in a game like this, but it does pay to let players know what’s going on.

I agree with the OP: it’s worth including the official descriptions as part of mouse-overs.

I don’t think that ANet or other players should expect that any single source is good enough to help everyone. More hints will always help a lot of folks, even if I generally find them useless (or prefer to figure more on my own).

It turns out that even games praised for their tutorials don’t do a good job of explaining everything nor a good job of explaining key things to everyone. Humans learn differently.

And it also turns out that GW2 is pretty easy to start playing; it takes some effort by many newbies to learn how to play well. And a lot of people are never going to master the game no matter how much help they get from the game (or from other players), while others will jump into raids and find them too easy.

I also think trait lines should consistently be better colour coded for ease. I think Warrior is quit hard to distinguish which line is which, whilst ele is very clear

SlippyCheeze.5483:

OriOri.8724:

Because its fairly easy to see what the traits in each traitline do.

Having watched a new player struggle with the game … it’s really, really not.

We just already know that stuff.

That’s true, sometimes I do tend to forget what I struggled with when I first started playing.

SlippyCheeze.5483:

OriOri.8724:

Because its fairly easy to see what the traits in each traitline do.

Having watched a new player struggle with the game … it’s really, really not.

We just already know that stuff.

the tutorial is confusing and i strugle with it