Guild Wars 2

It was 2 years before release that i found out about GW2. I used to be a WoW player and was getting tired of it. I found out that guildwars was a game that you could jump in to PvP as it is and could be on equal footing.

That was the single thing that brought me to this game. Now you cant do this anymore.

>You have to level up to lvl 11 at least to get shoulder pads or else you get less armor (i tested taking armor on and off in PvP, there IS a difference…..)

>New traits now cost money, gating on a “equal footing arena”.

The single thing that brought me to this game is getting worse adn worse, I thought you had learned with the new healing skills, but apparently we didnt complain loud enough and now we gave rise to this. Little by little most people are not noticing that the “equal footing” PvP is getting gutted.

Next thing you know, since the changes are so “gradual” you will have to be lvl 80 in order to have access to new skills/skins (for a new player this is the case, since the lack both gold or a lvl 80 in order to go do those Orr events)

Thanks Anet.

No shoulder, head and hand armor doesn´t make a difference.
Just tested it on 3 different chars.

Also only the 5 new grandmaster traits are locked.

it does still kinda suck, since you need 20 skill points for the new traits (and any added in the future), its just one more advantage that long term players will have over newbies,

plus they should just add a 0 effectiveness shoulder and head armour to the vendors so you can complete your outfit.

It doesn’t affect your armor rating. You just can’t look sexy in PvP at lvl 2. Anet does all the account bound stuff with dyes and WXP to encourage alternate character play yet they pull kitten like this on PvPers who regularly reroll characters for PvP play.

level 12 costs like 2g doing 400 chef. Plus, I don’t think the missing armour does make a difference.
Also, getting 20 skill points is super easy aswell. You get scrolls very common from the boxes with the new reward track, if not champion bags from farming.

You can get all armor pieces from karma vendors in wvw that are useable at level 2, including helmet and shoulders.