Guild Wars 2

Hello
I was really curious about GW2 and since its almost the only thing my bf keep playing, i wanted to try it out too.
I never played this type of games before maybe that’s why i feel really lost. My character is a norn elemantalist and all i do is simply running around and doing missions.
What i hear from people who plays it, how relax and great this game because basically you can do whatever you want. But till now, because i only do missions maybe it kinda bored me.
So please help me and suggest things, cause definetly i am missing a lot !
thank you already

Well while leveling up in the open world you really just run around and do mission ( heart quests, events, story quests ). If you’re looking for something to do to break that up you could try map completion, spvp, wvw, crafting, wardrobe, dungeons ….. There is plenty to do.

The easiest thing to do is just do map completions. Since you can’t out level a zone, there’s no need to really head into new areas before completing your current one.

Every 10 levels or so, it’s advised to make sure all of your gear is pretty up to date. It won’t make a huge difference, but you’ll start to feel it once you get 15 levels above your gear. I recommend starting this at level 21 and buying a set of strong armor and a weapon. (Strong is Power and Precision) It’s cheapest to buy blue armor and weapons like this. As for trinkets, they won’t make an impact until level 80. (besides extra stats) Once you hit level 61 either get Berserker (Power, Precision, Ferocity) or Knights (Toughness, Power, Precision) depending if you feel comfortable doing more damage or being a bit tankier.

I don’t really recommend dungeons before level 80 if you haven’t done them. At least, not trying to find your own group. If you’ve got some friends willing to help you through them, that’s great! However, unlike other MMOs and RPGs, dungeons don’t drop good loot (usually). You mostly do those for currencies.

The next thing I’d recommend is swapping out that healing skill for either the Glyph or Ethereal Renewal. (I say the Glyph is better for levelling) If you want to stick with a staff. The Signet heal is based on how many spells are cast and is only really useful if you’re taking constant damage and having faster spells. It works well with a dagger main hand as you’ll pretty much be able to deal out lots of different abilities.

Some people will recommend going Dagger+Dagger Ele for levelling, but I’d only recommend that if you’ve played the game before. Staff is very good, but just a bit slower. Ideally, you’ll want to spend most of the time in fire as it has the most damaging spells for that weapon. (Where as D/D is a lot of attunement swapping once you get all 4) Also staff is not as reliant on traits.

In terms of skills you should look to get the following ASAP: Armor of Earth, Cleansing Fire, Signet of Air, and Signet of Fire. While you can only use three, these ones give you something for every scenario. Armor of Earth gives you a stun-breaker. (If you feel like you need it) Cleansing Fire removes conditions. Signet of Air increases your base movement speed passively (HIGHLY recommend this while levelling). Signet of Fire increases your crit chance. There are some other skills and you can experiment with setups, but a combination of three of these will get you to level 80.

In terms of the Elite Skill, they’re all kinda…okay. The Elemental Glyph will probably be your best bet outside of the Norn Racial transformations. Tornado is kinda cool, but ultimately kinda eh while levelling. Fiery Greatsword is not as useful as it was. It can be used to move around quickly, but I’d still recommend being able to summon another body over it.

As for traits, if you want to stick with staff, I recommend putting 2 points into Arcana ASAP. (These unlock at a level 40) And getting the Blasting Staff major trait. (You’ll have to unlock major traits). It’ll increase the area of your Staff attacks. Which makes them easier to land and hit multiple targets. From there, put 2 points into Fire. (Getting Internal Fire) then 2 points in Air (getting Bolt to the Heart). Once you get the next tier opened at level 60, I’d recommend another 2 points into fire and getting Pyromancer’s Alacrity and then 2 points in Earth to get Stone Splinters.

Once you hit level 80, you’ll have access to the full traitlines and skills (make sure to spend skill points to pick up all non-racial skills besides Anti-toxin Spray). From there, I’d recommend reading a few Elementalist class guides that go more in-depth with the abilities, traits and builds. Ele has the lowest HP and lowest armor so at level 80, we’ve got a higher skill floor to just stay alive in content (plus attunement swapping and what not).

Hope this…info-dump…helps you out a bit!

welcome to mmo world. If your bf is in a guild ask if you can join. If they have a teamspeak even better. I met some great friends on here and its why i keep playing.

Hi there!

Missions are good but they are only a sidenote of a chapter. The hearts are pretty funny sometimes like doing I.Q. tests on skritts, juicing frogs, launching cows from catapult or killing 10 wolves…

Doing personal story is a great thing especially if you like reading or watching movies. There are some really epic moments in the personal story line like how to kill a dragon (with magic rod), who to sacrifice, what order you join etc…

If you like to use your braincells you can try to earn some money via the trading post. Someone finds this entertaining. If you are one of them check this out:
https://www.gw2spidy.com/

You can manipulate the market, calculating profit and deficit and earn some gold.

If you enjoy exploring you can do map completion. If you enjoy some challenging jumping puzzles you can find plenty of them.

And if you are standing in a beautiful area why not make a screenshot and collect some pics? Oh, if your armour looks crap there plenty of colours you can get to recolour your look. You can even discover new shades with “cooking”.

You can chat people and join a guild to always have a helping hand somewhere near. You can try PvP to gut out some ugly fellows or join a commander in Edge of the Mist for some epic battles.

There are many dungeons (first one is at level 30 I believe) and you might enjoy them with your guild or new friends.

I’m sure you gonna find your way to enjoy this awesome game

P.S.: message me if you have any questions…

Have fun!

Be social, play with your boyfriend, join his guild.

PvP and WvW are way more fun than PvE… IMO this game has awful PvE. The best part of this game is the combat system, and the only game mode which fully utilizes the combat system is PvP. PvE all you do is farm dungeons all day and do the (awful) story.

Elitist.8701:

PvP and WvW are way more fun than PvE… IMO this game has awful PvE.

interesting is that most other people find PvE in GW2 very good and quite fun compared to other games (and I mean mainly leveling, not end game PvE), but of course it wont make a PvE player from a PvP player who never liked PvE…

MaXi.3642:

Elitist.8701:

PvP and WvW are way more fun than PvE… IMO this game has awful PvE.

interesting is that most other people find PvE in GW2 very good and quite fun compared to other games (and I mean mainly leveling, not end game PvE), but of course it wont make a PvE player from a PvP player who never liked PvE…

Well I don’t know who you think most people is but you should just speak for yourself. I for one think the pve in this game is beyond boring well into mind numbing. I happen to like pve in many other mmos.

wow so much great suggestions, thank you everyone for giving your time and explaining me really well, i really appreciate it ^^

I mostly agree with “PvE is boring as hell” statement, in some other games I did enjoy pve in limited dozes, in gw2 I can’t really stand it, with few exceptions. One of which would be jumping puzzles, these are usually fun. The other thing to do in pve is to try and break a map, meaning try to get out of normal map bounds
I’d recommend you trying spvp and wvw(at higher lvls) in between pve. That way you get to experience every aspect of game and decide which one you like (if any)