Guild Wars 2

Hi everyone. I am a newbie player and i want begin play GW. I need some advice about race and class. I wana play Ranger later Druid build and i want ask what race is best for druid or it doesnt matter. and i need some tips what first i must do after i reach lvl 80. How i can get some basic gear, or some golds, etc… THX for each advice

Race doesn’t overly matter for class. There are a few racial elites, but they aren’t really going to give you a whole lot of benefit in terms of profession (though summoning the Hounds of Balthazar is fun).

You’ll acquire gear just by going through your personal story and exploring the world. I’d recommend holding off on using that level 80 buff you get with HoT if you’re entirely new, as you’ll want to take the time to get used to the mechanics and slowly build up your character. There’s a LOT of information and you’ll get overloaded. Heck, I still don’t understand all the mechanics after several years.

As for level 80 – there are endgame raids, fractals, PvP, and now the HoT content. You won’t be bored.

thx for advice, pls and i need explore map on 100% ? its important ? and something about profesions. its good rise skill level during exp or skill profesions after reach lvl 80. And profesions are good for druid. And what race have this skill Hounds of Balthazar ?

100% map completion is only needed if you want to make one of the legendary weapons that came out with the original game. It can be fun but it is better done slowly so you don’t burn out just collecting the mats and or gold needed. I have a couple and frankly if you don’t really, really want the skin just make ascended weapons to use.

Hounds of Balthazar is an elite skill for humans. Keep in mind that racial elite skills are almost all weaker than profession elite skills. They are there for flavor, not to make one race better than another.

Terminology: “Profession” in GW2 is the “class” of other games, not crafting skill. I think you were asking about crafting that is useful. Leatherworker is one, for making medium armor. Huntsman and Artificer are the two main weapon crafting skills you’ll find useful, though Rangers also use Weaponsmith weapons. You can get along without crafting at all, until you want Ascended or Legendary weapons (though you can buy the latter on the TP, except for the 4 new HoT ones). Then you need max crafting in the discipline that applies to the item you want to make.

You can level up all the crafts on just one alt if you want to, though you have to pay a small fee to swap an inactive one to active. By default one alt can have two crafts active; you can buy licenses in the gem store to increase that number for your account.

Crafting for the most part won’t make you gold; instead it will suck your wallet dry. There are a few recipes you can learn and make for profit. What it will do is help you level up. They’ve lowered it so you can’t get to 80 purely by crafting but you still can supplement your xp gains with it.

If you do decide to craft, remember this: you advance by using the Discovery panel, not by churning out massive amounts of things you already know how to make. Don’t waste your mats making twenty Mighty Helms, learn to make one of each kind of helm.

If you don’t craft, still gather every mat you see in the world. You’ll be rich from selling them on the TP.

Also to make sure you understand the way of GW2 you should not focus on learning to play druid, you should focus on learning to play ranger were druid is one part of the ranger. GW2 have no holy trinity so we do not have any real tanks/healers/dps in the way other mmo do.

The game for sure have situations were you can add support, and druid is good for this, and so are other classes, but this is such a small genre that you should focus on learning your whole profession and knowing how to dps, to support, to use your cc abilities, how to survive, how to combine skills, how to move, how to dodge, the different specs there are for rangers and so on. All this is important and how you play GW2 and also why most of us have lots of alts to be able to adjust to what ever we need or want.

So advice except from all the above which is good advice, but make sure you learn to play the ranger and everything you can do with it, including the druid.

In my opinion some racials really have thier uses, the trick is to find one that compliments a weakness in your build/class. Just go here https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Racial_skill and look into them. Also animations are different on each race, I personally found sylvari to have the most fluid and fitting animations for a ranger.

If you do go for a ranger, be sure to talk to other rangers in game, almost all rangers are nice and helpful.
People have helped me and I’ve helped others, so just ask.

Have fun, just run around the world, enjoy the way it looks, join a guild from your country and do stuff with them, meet people and talk.

After level 12-15 try the world boss in your starting area, the first time you see it is always crazy just how many people are in the game.
Map chat that your new and don’t know what to do and they’ll help for sure.

If your on NA message me in game.