Guild Wars 2

so…hey, i haven’t logged in so much time, gw was still pay to play, what happened, what did i miss? do i have to know something lore related or perhaps some cool WvWvW event going on? dunno i kno nuffin

GW still is pay to play – free to play is an optional heavily restricted account.

Prob best to say when you last logged in rather than everyone second guessing. Before Season 3, Before the expansion? Before Season 2?

Halloween is happening right now in LA.

Randulf.7614:

GW still is pay to play – free to play is an optional heavily restricted account.

Prob best to say when you last logged in rather than everyone second guessing. Before Season 3, Before the expansion? Before Season 2?

i started when HoT came out

OK, well obviously you have HoT itself and all the associated maps, story, events and elite specs that go with it.

I’ll list stuff which I can update;

- Current Events. A series of open world dynamic events which enhance the background of what is going on post the events of HoT and tie in with the raid and Season 3 stories. They’ve been going on every 2 weeks approx. since the Spring an are still out in the open world. They are nothing significant, just achievement and lore enhancers.

- Season 3. We are 2 episodes into the story, including 2 new maps. You probably will need to buy episode 1 if you weren’t logged in during that time. So far they are of generally high quality. You need to do the story to access the maps.

- New pvp map

- WvW has the new map on rotation as one of the borderlands. A lot of focus is on WvW right now with community polls guiding development. WvW reward tracks are a big, positive addition this year.

- New legendaries were suspended after Chuka and Champawat (which was an excellent series of collections) and then re-activated with the new mace Eureka. They are still craftable, but no longer have the journey and collection the previous 3 had.

- SAB returned in April and is now an annual festival. Halloween is in place atm, but has been slightly reduced on previous years.

- 4 pvp ranking seasons have passed, with one more due this year

- a new fractal has been added and HoT brought 3 raid wings.

- 2 legendary backpacks were added (fractal and pvp) and legendary armour is….work in progress afaik.

Randulf.7614:

OK, well obviously you have HoT itself and all the associated maps, story, events and elite specs that go with it.

I’ll list stuff which I can update;

- Current Events. A series of open world dynamic events which enhance the background of what is going on post the events of HoT and tie in with the raid and Season 3 stories. They’ve been going on every 2 weeks approx. since the Spring an are still out in the open world. They are nothing significant, just achievement and lore enhancers.

- Season 3. We are 2 episodes into the story, including 2 new maps. You probably will need to buy episode 1 if you weren’t logged in during that time. So far they are of generally high quality. You need to do the story to access the maps.

- New pvp map

- WvW has the new map on rotation as one of the borderlands. A lot of focus is on WvW right now with community polls guiding development. WvW reward tracks are a big, positive addition this year.

- New legendaries were suspended after Chuka and Champawat (which was an excellent series of collections) and then re-activated with the new mace Eureka. They are still craftable, but no longer have the journey and collection the previous 3 had.

- SAB returned in April and is now an annual festival. Halloween is in place atm, but has been slightly reduced on previous years.

- 4 pvp ranking seasons have passed, with one more due this year

- a new fractal has been added and HoT brought 3 raid wings.

- 2 legendary backpacks were added (fractal and pvp) and legendary armour is….work in progress afaik.

so what should i do right after logging in the game? i cant recall what level i were, maybe 40/42 i remember i had kitten ton of fun on the WvW, u are telling me that it got even better? apart these big changes, did they like balanced something? like damage went up or down, big swords went FotM etc.Thanks for your replies man!

I don’t really wvw to be honest, but I am unaware of any major power creep. The big difference is the reward tracks which allows you to earn dungeon tokens, festival stuff, exclusive armour, HoT items and so on. They are identical to the pvp ones.

The finer details would suggest asking in the wvw forums and take what you can from any feedback there. As for skill balances, you will get mostly negativity about those and a lot is inaccurate or an over the top reaction.

To be honest if you are only 40, you might as well carry on with that toon and level up either via general pve or by jumping into wvw and seeing whats what firsthand.