[TIPS] Things you wished you knew
- The Wiki has almost all of the answers to your questions.
I knew this, but its a good tip.
“What Part Of Living Says You Gotta Die?
I Plan On Burnin Through Another 9 Lives”
-Getting as many characters to 80 as quickly as possible makes some things much more possible. For example, foxfire clusters are agonizing on a single character, but five level 80s parked near a grove make getting them manageable.
-Unranked PvP is actually more friendly than Practice Arena for newer PvPers, as the matchmaking system is pretty good at low ranks and you end up getting steamrolled less. (I played Practice Arena far too long for less reward because I was nervous about being a noob).
-Stay caught up with the story. It’s much more pleasant to do the updates while they are fresh and more populated rather than trying to get caught up on old story once the majority of players have moved on to the new thing.
-ANet does indeed follow the pattern of making things more accessible down the road. If requirements to craft something or accumulate enough special currency seem ridiculously onerous, in time ANet will likely open up more avenues to those rewards.
-When the Devs say “nothing is off the table” they really mean it. Don’t get married to anything about the game, because whole design philosophies may be replaced. The upside is that if you don’t like a change, with enough time it may come full circle.
- When you are working on leveling a crafting discipline, discovering a recipe yields more experience and is less costly than crafting multiples of a single one.
“Please stop complaining about stuff you don’t even know about.” ~Nocta