Guild Wars 2

Hello people, i’m new to this game, only played for 1 day and currently 22 level, and so i wanted to ask some questions, because i don’t have anyone to ask. Also these questions may or may not be stupid.

1. First of all, i wanted to ask about these miniatures, are they worth something like in combat or they are just a random accessory?

2. Is there any “Find Guild” option, because i didn’t find any. If no, how do i find guild, because i feel lonely sometimes.

3. As elementalist, I noticed that I deal BY FAR less damage than other classes that i saw like thiefs, warriors, rangers, cowboys or whatever these guys with pistols. Should it be like that?

4. Is luck stat is the same as magic find stat?

5. Is there any health potions, or this 1 skill that heals a little bit is the only source of life?

That’s all,
Thanks in advance! if anyone will ever answer these questions.

I can answer some of that for you.

1. Minis are just for show/fun/vanity.

2. Not that I am aware of, though you can try the Looking for forum in the Community Corner section. Chat in Lions Arch will often have guild recruitment messages, you can ask in chat in Lions Arch or any other major city, etc. Shouldn’t be hard to find a home if people know you are interested.

3. Don’t play Ele so I’ll leave that for others.

4. Kind of. As far as I know, magic find applies to a specific character while luck applies to all characters on the account.

5. No potions that I know of, though Elementalists may have other healing skills or traits I don’t know about since I don’t play one.

Heya Noteru,

I don’t believe in stupid questions, the only stupid questions is the one not asked (yes yes, cheesy quote I know)

#1
Miniatures are just companions, they don’t have combat stuff – they’re purely accesory

#2
Nope, though there are several pages where you can look:
- http://gw2.guildex.org
- http://www.euguilds.com
- Looking for section on this forum

#3
Elementalist actually have the highest dps currently ingame, DPS depends on a lot of things: Gear and Traits in short.

#4
Yes, Luck and MF are the same (can be seen on achievement panel)

#5
Skill 6 is the dedicated healer skill, though some classes can trait more healing on other skills. Also gw2 isn’t all about healing, it’s also key to learn how to avoid damage!

If you’ve got more questions, feel free to ask!

Grtz
Holy

Welcome to Guildwars 2! No question is “stupid”, we love to help :-)

1) Mini’s are a account accessory that are located in your account-wide “Wardrobe”. They do not help in combat, but they do make fun companions if you are ever feeling down!

2) You can simply ask in Map Chat if any guilds are recruiting, and you will most likely receive a response. Make sure to include the server you are currently on, due to some guild’s requiring WvW participation. WvW is server based, so them knowing what server your on is a big factor on choosing a guild.

3) As an ele in its early stages you will be dealing less damage, but later on you can trait to do far more damage than any other class. I’d suggest practicing blast finishers which will help in the future to stack might for dungeons, and gameplay in general.

4) Luck is basically exp for your account-wide magic find. When you use luck, it goes towards your account-wide magic find “exp bar” in the achievement tab. As your magic find goes up, so does the amount of luck you’ll need to get to the next percent. Fear not! Obtaining luck is fairly easy, especially when you salvage often.

5) There are no “Health Potions” but there are certain types of food that will increase your healing effectiveness. Healing can come in different forms in each class. Such as you can trait (with ele’s) to heal when you switch to water. Or to heal while stealth-ed if your a thief. While leveling, though, don’t forget that some weapon skills heal you as well, not just your heal skill. Such as with Ele staff, while attuned to water your #3 and #5 skill heal.

If you need any help, please feel free to contact me in-game for any advice, or suggestions!

I don’t have anything to add for your question 1&2).

3) Elementalist have the highest dmg in the game, but that damage come mostly from Damage modifiers. All profession have accept to those in their trait, but none can access as many as the Elementalist can in a single build. Since dmg modifier are multiplicative and you can take even more with runes, sigils and potion, then the dmg of the Elementalist will drastically change depending on how many you are able to get. From terrible dmg if you take non to godly dmg if you take most of them.

4) Marmatt explained it perfectly

5) Like Marmatt said there is diverse way for the Elementalist to heal himself or others. But as Guardians of Angels pointed out, GW2 PvE is all about avoiding damage and not really healing after being damage. Healing power don’t scale a lot and everybody have a healing skill that is strong by itself without trying to buff it.

Hello again, thanks everyone who answered, i’m glad that you guys are responsive to newbies, i wanted to ask 2 more questions that got in mind and that’s all.

1. Should i keep these tomes of knowledge for higher levels or should i use them now as 22 level elementalist. I currently have 3 of tomes.

2. Can i pvp in pve zones or it’s restricted?

noteru.3284:

Hello again, thanks everyone who answered, i’m glad that you guys are responsive to newbies, i wanted to ask 2 more questions that got in mind and that’s all.

1. Should i keep these tomes of knowledge for higher levels or should i use them now as 22 level elementalist. I currently have 3 of tomes.

2. Can i pvp in pve zones or it’s restricted?

1) I would suggest using them, due to this being your first character. Once you hit lvl80 you can start to save them for other characters you may want to level in the future. But at the moment, using them now would be most beneficial to you.

2) Currently, pvp has been limited to Structured PvP and WvW.

noteru.3284:

1. Should i keep these tomes of knowledge for higher levels or should i use them now as 22 level elementalist. I currently have 3 of tomes.

Do you think you will ever want a second character? Personally, I don’t see a great benefit to speed leveling a first character since everything is new and you can learn strategy, damage mitigation, dodging, healing, weapon skills, explore new maps, PvP, WvW, etc along the way, and there isn’t some magic part of the game where everyone is that you don’t get to see until 80.

It won’t hurt anything either way, but if you ever make a second character you might wish you had saved them to to skip past stuff you’ve already done on your first character and get right to farming a new set of level 80 gear and weapons.

1) It depend on what you will want to do. Personnally I stayed out of crafting and tome or all that kind of stuff that speed up your levelling on my first character. The first character is fun to level up, but when you get to your 3rd and 4th alt its when you like to speed things up and don’t waste time leveling them. But other ppl just want 1 character ever so keeping them for later will be useless. It really depend on what you prefer and it won’t affect you in any good or bad ways that you used them now or later.

2) No you can’t PvP in PvE map.

At level 22 you need to search for EVERY bit of +POWER equipment you can get your hands on (MIGHTY & all different runes that have +10 power as the first stat). This will GREATLY increase your damage (in low level areas). PRECISION (increases your chance for a CRITICAL) if you can’t find POWER and VITALITY after that.

Also use BLOODLUST runes on your weapons to stack power per kill (up to 25).

I would suggest you continue to focus on POWER until you start seeing 3 stat increases on items (around LVL 40-50). The PvE part of this game is absolutely about killing he badies before they hurt you too much (at least at the low levels).