Guild Wars 2

Hello,

I have just returned from a 3-4 Year stop. I’m looking for some general tips to get back on track. I’m a Lvl 80 guardian with only 2 sets of exotics gear, zerker and soldiers(no ascended). I’m living on aurora glade, but will be switching to a high pop server as I loved WvW. I just bought HoT.

1 – What is a nice universal build to do everything with (WvW, HoT story, Dungeons). If universal is not advised, maybe 2 builds? ( I’ve found metabattle, but the builds seem very specific). This is to make a start, time will tell me what to do in the future. (my last build was AH~something with staff + gs or hammer)

2 – Where to start? Should I start with the HoT story? I have no living stories at the moment.

3 – Any important daily things I should not miss?

4 – Any stuff you would advise me to buy for convenience? copper salvage thingy, air ship pass?

5 – Any tips on what server to go to for WvW? (EU, English speaking)

I’ve read the other topics about returning players on the last few pages of the forum, but feel free to point me towards other useful topics. Thanks in advance

Hi there, I believe I might be able to help you out. I main a gaurd in PvE and I have about 500 hours playtime as a zerg gaurdian in WvW.

1: Unfortunately a WvW build/gear composition will not function very well in PvE as it won’t have enough damage.
PvE build : http://qtfy.eu/build/guardian. I use the hammer guardian. Spend some time on this site as it has links to vids showing the rotations etc etc. You can swap out ‘dragons maw’ for ‘wrath’ if there is a warrior in your party. This build requires that you unlock the Guardian elite specialisation.

For WvW, you want Wanderer armour with durability runes. Celestial rings, Amulet and earrings, with a berserker backpiece. Berserker weapons (Hammer/Greatsword+ staff) I think the build on Metabattle is ok. Join a guild and they will likely ask you to run their preferred build anyway.

2: Totally up to you. HoT story is good. I would prioritise doing ‘Hero Point’ runs so you can unlock those elite specialisations.

3: Daily fractals: t4 daily+daily recommended for decent gold. I’ve found opening the fractal encryptions to be better than selling them. Guild hall synthesizers are worth mining everyday.

4: The copper-fed-salvage-o-matic is very useful and worth the gems in my opinion. Right click on it and salvage all for easy inventory management. Not the end of the world if you don’t have it tho.

Some people do swear by the airship pass. I took a hard look at it when it was on sale recently but decided against it. I just don’t craft enough to make it worthwhile for me. Your mileage may vary.

The active WvW english speaking servers are: Far shiverpeaks, Piken Square, Gandara and I guess I’ll mention Desolation cos I’m on there. Gandara is probably the pick of the bunch. They have good commanders and guilds.

Have fun and welcome back