Different races playing together

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Posted by: Raffaello.5902

Raffaello.5902

Q:

Hi!

My girlfriend and I just started playing yesterday. I am a human and she a Sylvari.

What is the best way to get together and play without missing anything in our personal stories or starting areas? Should one of us just travel to the others area and quest there, then return to our home area to to the story? Is there a point where we can meet up for the same quest eventually?

Any advice is appreciated. I know it’s an MMO and we can do anything, but, I’d like for us both to be able to experience our starting areas and not miss anything if possible.

Thanks!

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Posted by: Falunel.7645

Falunel.7645

A:

You can travel to another race’s starting zone right off the bat. Just head into your home city (Divinity’s Reach for you, The Grove for her), look for a circular purple swirl on your map, and head over to it. It marks an asura gate, which you can use for free to get to Lion’s Arch, the hub city.

Once you’re in Lion’s Arch, you’ll be at a dock with four other asura gates. Just find the one guarded by members of the race whose area you want to go to, travel through their gate to their home city, and then travel through their city to their starting area. You can return at any time to your own starting area, and you’re always scaled down to match the level of the area you’re in if you’re a higher level, so don’t worry about missing anything. Overall, you’re free to play in whatever area you want from the start- GW2 doesn’t have a linear quest/leveling path.

You can also accompany each other on personal stories- just be in a party and be in the same area. When one of you enters, the other will be given a prompt to enter as well. Personal stories are separate from each other for the most part- i.e. when one person advances their story, the other person’s story will not advance. However, the exception is if both characters share the same mission- apparently the story will advance for both characters in that case. I soloed most of my missions, so someone else will have to elaborate on this.

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Posted by: Danikat.8537

Danikat.8537

Yes that’s pretty much it. If you go to your home city you’ll see a purple swirl on the map, that’s a portal which leads to Lions Arch (the main city) and from there you can go through others to the other main cities.

Alternatively if you click the crossed swords icon and then click the ‘Go to the Heart of the Mists’ button you’ll go to the PVP lobby where there’s another portal to LA. It’s quicker that way if you’re away from a city.

So you can level up together in whichever starting zone you want. But your personal story will still be in your home city and starting zone at first and you’ll have to go back there to do it. You can do your stories together but only the person whose story it actually is will progress.

Later on (around level 30 I think) they start to merge and you’ll have some of the same quests.

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Posted by: mercury ranique.2170

mercury ranique.2170

Just to add what Danikat is saying. At a certain point before level 30 (level 26 I think) You need to choose an order. Make sure you pick the same one then

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Posted by: DreamyAbaddon.3265

DreamyAbaddon.3265

Hi!

My girlfriend and I just started playing yesterday. I am a human and she a Sylvari.

What is the best way to get together and play without missing anything in our personal stories or starting areas? Should one of us just travel to the others area and quest there, then return to our home area to to the story? Is there a point where we can meet up for the same quest eventually?

Any advice is appreciated. I know it’s an MMO and we can do anything, but, I’d like for us both to be able to experience our starting areas and not miss anything if possible.

Thanks!

If you can get online right now, I’ll show you how to meet up ingame and even some tips and advices on GW2. =) Im playing as We speak. See you in game hopefully soonish.

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Posted by: Hebee.8460

Hebee.8460

My main character is charr & my girlfriend’s character is asura. I went to her starting area and we both finished that zone & part of her story until it took us to another zone, then at that point we went to my start zone and completed it & my story up to a point. We alternated all the same way until we got to the same point in story when Treherne (however its spelt) takes us to see Pale Tree lady for the Orr vision, which from there the stories practically align.
Good luck and yall will defiantly have fun playing together!