Guild Wars 2

I deployed a while ago and now that I’m back in the states and out, I decided to start playing GW2 again. I left a long time ago when it was still very much an “open world pvp” style game. Now that I have returned PvP just seems to have warped into something different. Is there anyone that can try and help me understand what has changed within the last year. I welcome links to the info too. I think the last time I played was Halloween of 2012.

Thanks

There was never any open world PvP in GW2. The closest thing to that would be WvW.

Olcsonn.9327:

I deployed a while ago and now that I’m back in the states and out, I decided to start playing GW2 again. I left a long time ago when it was still very much an “open world pvp” style game. Now that I have returned PvP just seems to have warped into something different. Is there anyone that can try and help me understand what has changed within the last year. I welcome links to the info too. I think the last time I played was Halloween of 2012.

Thanks

First of all, thank you for your service!

For the rest of the info it seems you will need to do a lot of reading to catch up as it would be hard for anyone to sum it up in a few paragraphs here. Here are all the update notes:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/info/updates

And for further reading, tips, walk throughs and such:

http://dulfy.net/category/gw2/

You may have just entered a different area than the one you remember.

World vs. World (WvW) is large-scale pvp and is kind of open-world (there are resource nodes and pve mobs on the maps). Structured pvp uses small maps and different gear.

WvW is the castle icon at the top left, structured PvP is the crossed swords. They are very different.