Looking for general advice! :)
1. Popular guilds are simply by a ask and demand method in any city. Just give a shout in any city and you oughta get like 50 whispers, pronto.
2. There are several fruitful things to do, depending on what you want. If it’s generally gold making; Auric Basin has a multiloot systeem at the moment. It’s when you join a squad that has groups spread out over several instances, whereafter clearing the meta event, you open the chests on all instances. Farming crafting materials isn’t very worthy anymore. Flax is still decent, though. Right now (wintersday) farming gifts and farming karma to buy gifts is popular because presents sell for at least 5s each.
3. Do fractals, join meta event maps, etc etc. You’ll come in touch with the active playerbase and then you can see what they do
Hello and welcome back! I also quit about a year after the release, and came back after HoT was released (been playing nonstop since, woops!)
1) Like Amaimon said, give a shout in any major city or any map that has activity going on. You can also check out the World Boss guide online, show up before the event, and you’ll see tons of guild advertisements in the map chat. However, since the Megaservers were introduced (meaning all PvE servers were merged together), you might find yourself from an empty map. The LFG tool comes in handy here, you can find yourself a squad with people, join the squad, and right-click their names to join an instance of the map with more players in it. Sorry if I’m explaining no-brainers here, I just don’t know how familiar you are with the game’s modern mechanics
2. The Auric Basin Multiloot is the most popular gold farming event as far as I know, for the expansion owners. The new LS3 maps are also very lucrative, for HoT owners as well. If you don’t own the expansion, go to Silverwastes and Dry Top (if you have LS2 unlocked). If you only have the core game, I honestly don’t know where the most effective gold gain is these days. Fractals and raids I guess?
3. The game has changed ALOT. Take your time to readjust to the mechanics and to the world, don’t rush anything or it might get really overwhelming. If you don’t own HoT and start playing actively again, get that. Do world bosses, dungeons, fractals, raids, whatever feels fun to you. Set yourself a goal and work towards it. Find nice achievements that you want to complete.
I think that covers the most. Welcome back and good luck on your travels
T4 fractals are a lot better than T3 since you’ll be playing with people that actually know how to play the game. If you can use your active damage mitigation skills effectively to not die and CC breakbars quickly, that’s really all you have to know
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