Guild Wars 2

I played this game when it first started (in 2012?) for a few months and have not touched it since. I remembered having some really fun wvw battles and am thinking of reinstalling the game for wvw. If I recall, I had a max level war, ele and thief. I did not purchase any of the expansions.

I was hoping to get some answers to the following (all my questions relate purely to wvw):

1. Do I need to purchase the expansion?

2. Is there a need to level up characters for wvw? I sort of recalled that it was possible to bring in any characters into wvw, but can’t remember whether under-leveled characters hit like wet noodles in wvw? Anyway, did the level cap increase since launch?

3. Is there any need to farm gear or even worse, enchants (like in wow)? I remembered you get max gear for pvp but am not sure for wvw. If there is a need, how difficult is it to get the basic set to be useful in battle?

4. What are the most viable pvp classes now (in group and going solo)?

5. Is TC dead? Which are the servers that are still active SEA primetime (night)?

Thanks in advance.

Felix.6581:

I played this game when it first started (in 2012?) for a few months and have not touched it since. I remembered having some really fun wvw battles and am thinking of reinstalling the game for wvw. If I recall, I had a max level war, ele and thief. I did not purchase any of the expansions.

I was hoping to get some answers to the following (all my questions relate purely to wvw):

1. Do I need to purchase the expansion?

2. Is there a need to level up characters for wvw? I sort of recalled that it was possible to bring in any characters into wvw, but can’t remember whether under-leveled characters hit like wet noodles in wvw? Anyway, did the level cap increase since launch?

3. Is there any need to farm gear or even worse, enchants (like in wow)? I remembered you get max gear for pvp but am not sure for wvw. If there is a need, how difficult is it to get the basic set to be useful in battle?

4. What are the most viable pvp classes now (in group and going solo)?

5. Is TC dead? Which are the servers that are still active SEA primetime (night)?

Thanks in advance.

1. You don’t have to, but the elite specs it unlocks are superior to the vanilla trait lines.

2. All characters are scaled to 80, but upscaled characters do hit like wet noodles, yes.

3. No enchants. You can pick up a set of exotic armor from TP and be competitive. The next tier of armor is fairly easy to get, but don’t stress it too much as the difference is rather insignificant.

4. Everything is viable. Also there is a big balance patch incoming, so there is no use mentioning different classes state atm.

5. No clue

Unlike 2012, you can get pretty much everything you need to play WvW in WvW now. You should also be able to make a bit of gold to buy things off the TP.

TC is also alive, last I checked. They’re not at their peak, but I don’t think anyone is.

5. There are a few, depends if u wan to stack to steamroll or be on the side that fight outnumber

Just for myself, I’ve played around with vanilla builds even after I got my elite specs and found them to still be viable and in some cases/situations, potent.

To the original poster I would say, that unless there is something else from HoT that you really want, my personal rec is that vanilla GW2 will do just fine.

1. You don’t have to buy the expansion but it helps. Most classes are far stronger with their HoT Elite spec than without it, but a few are still roughly as good without their Elite. However, they all benefit a great deal from the new gear stats HoT introduced, regardless they run with their Elite spec or not.

5. TC was Tier 1-2 server for a long time, but a few months ago a lot of its WvW guilds transferred to JQ. There’s still WvW on TC but not the big T1 round-the-clock battling there used to be. Here’s the current tier list: http://mos.millenium.org/. Here’s another thread on OCX/SEA: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/wuv/WvW-server-that-have-a-lot-of-ocx-sea-guilds.

1. Yes, because of Elite Specs and Gear.

2. You get level tomes in WvW. Your bank will be full of these once you start playing WvW.

3. Yes. You’ll need ascended gear with the right stats. Get ready for some PvE because you’re not getting those in WvW.

4. Group: Necro, Guard, Elementalist. Roam: Thief, Engi, Mesmer. Conditions are completely overpowered and whoever tells you that this mode is balance, is lying.

fishoa.9648:

3. Yes. You’ll need ascended gear with the right stats. Get ready for some PvE because you’re not getting those in WvW.

firstly, from personal experience I can say you can do just fine in full exotics, secondly last time I checked ascendeds from skirmish guy had a very broad array of stats to choose from….
like everything
I’m totally sure it is this way for trinkets I think I will now recheck if that is the case for armors and weapons too

EDIT: both triumphant hero and mistforged triumfant hero ascended pieces offers a stat selection of all available in game atm. and so does mistforged hero’s weapons – you could easilly get all things you need to get these from WvW only – it would just take some time