New/Noob player and no one wants to help me!!
You don’t really need to be in a party to participate in group content, but it is nice to meet people, eh!
Hey! I’m lvl 80 and I would not mind playing with you, in fact I have a guild called Gate of Uroboros full of pretty cool people. My IGN is Riaghan, or you could try and contact Rascid (Tell him Riaghan sent you) if I’m not on. We’d be happy to go exploring with you.
@Eleint
Yea it is always nice to meet people so you don’t feel as lonely.
@Yata
That sounds very helpful but how is a level 80 suppose to help a low level without being so OP?
na, i think he’ll scale down to meet the content you’re going through.
— Bruce Lee
I cant tell if you are trolling or not….
If you arent;
You are technically always in a party with everyone around you. The location you are in has a level set to it. If you are above that level then your stats are scaled down to suite the level of the area. As far as the actual Party feature, you only need it to form a dungeon group or to keep track of each others HP and location more effectively.
I’m sure the wiki has more details that you would find helpful.
Thanks for all the responses guys. Now I feel like I have some sort of knowledge about this game. Oh btw, another noob question, is there some sort of pet or ai companion I could get eventually. I see some people with pets and I think that would be helpful.
Rangers get pets to start with. Necromancers get a number of different summoned minions. Most other classes have some sort of summon, but they tend to be of very limited duration. Certain races also have racial skills that summon, but also with limited duration. Rangers, and, to a lesser extent, Necromancers, are the only classes with perma-pets. And the Necro pets die fairly easily and have to be re-summoned. At least in my experience anyway.
Hope that helps. Enjoy.
Forget about whatever you learned from other MMOs.
You don’t need to party. All other players around you are considered ‘allies’ (you may have seen this expression on your skill descriptions). If you attack the same mob, you all get full EXP and loot. If you pop a heal, everyone in range gets healed etc.
In fact, being in a party may be inconvenient for some people… if you are in a party when you do your personal storyline missions (the quests in green), and your party members are in the same zone with you, they will get an invite pop up for them to join you in your mission, which they have to then decline or accept. Also, some people consider it rude if a stranger just tosses a party invite at them without asking.
If you’d like to play something with a pet class: necromancers summon their pets. They start with one of them, and can get more by unlocking them as skills. Rangers ‘charm’ pets (specifically, ‘Juvenile [something]’ ones. You may have seen these around.). They too start out with one at creation (you get a choice of three different ones). There is very little management to do… Necromancers can make their summoned pets use specific skills, that’s it. Ranger pets also have special skills, and you can call them to your side, and switch them between Passive and Defending you. That’s all there is to it.
Pets are currently a bit weak.. there’s not much AI to them, they die easily because all they pretty much do is charge in a straight line at the mobs. But they’re still fun, I find.
If you just want something cute run along beside you, you can get Miniatures… they’re little fluff creatures you can summon to just run along at your side. They take up a bagslot, though.
This is the GW2 Wiki. It’s a little bare, but explains most mechanics and expressions.
GW2 wiki a little bare? it has over 10k articles lolol. The game is just jam-packed with content.
na, i think he’ll scale down to meet the content you’re going through.
Yes as a lvl 80 on my main I still find it entertaining to go to low level area, and the loot i get seems to be scaled somewhat to my level. Exp karma and coins from events are as well, so I’m not bored by helping my low level friends.