Guild Wars 2

Hi all,

I haven’t played GW2 since 2012 and now I thought I’d start playing again, but I have absolutely no idea how to play this game anymore. My warrior is level 80 and I quit playing sometime in 2012. Now when I logged back into the game I went ot Lion’s Arch to check out the new event that’s going on there. I joined the zerg that was going to kill three bosses, but I was so overwhelmed about what was going on on my screen, I died a couple of time and started losing interest because it was all too much for me.
Then I thought I’d go back to Orr and kill some trash mobs to get a feel for playing my warrior but it wasn’t much of a challenge.

Is there any advice you can give to a returning player with a level 80 warrior who actually is a complete newbie? In the long run I’d like to do some WvW but I’d also like to do some PvE / dungeon runs.

And what is the best way to gear up my warrior? Currently I’m wearing Rampager’s Draconic armor and I have 2 mystic weapons (claymore and a 1h sword). But I have no money to buy anything. I think if I collect all money from my other chars it’ll be about 4 gold.

actually log in to all yur chars the gold will be added together it’s been a while but gold is account bound now not char bound (still have to log into the char the initial time to get it counted)

for pve switch to either
knights valkyire soliders (power vitality toughness) invaders

beserk is best if you knw what your doing but you will die as easy then as you do now.

the meta pve build for warriors is 30 25 0 0 15

I prefer greatsword + rifle for the ranged option however the current meta is gs /axe mace.

for your gold amount get ruby orbs or if you want more survivability either runes of the solider or runes of the dolyak (there is little difference soliders are good if you shout a lot but doly gives a small 30 hps heal which isn’t much)

you should try to have 2 sets of armor for pve and wvw. however if you can not / do not want too pvt which is the best armor for warrior in wvw will do fine in dungeons although not as effiencnt as zerk.

do not run zerker in z v z you will do nothing but die. zerker may take time to get used to because it is very unforgiving to mistakes (can be) but it is the best armor if you know what your doing in pve.

to proplerly play warrior you need to use some form of cc (immobile or knockdown) to create a opening to land your hard hitting telegraphed attacks.) pve is VERY forgiving on this pvp not so much.

i’d work on getting gold atm via cof and ac but due to the living story it may be rough finding a team for a day or two.

champion also now drop special bags that give coin + a chance at a t-6 mats making champion farms (frost gorge being the number one champ farm ik of but down due to the turn out in living story atm) extremely easy coin but also tedious you’ll need to learn where to go and what wps to go too.

the living story is a decent way to make money if you know what your doing you want to find and kill any champion / legendary (not get killed ofc) to gain their bags.

way dungeon rewards are handled have changed you get 1 high reward per path per day so no more farming cof for insane gold it’s 1 gold for path 1 for instance all other runs down to 27. path 2 will also reward you 1 gold even if you completed path 1.

in general all dungeons reward 1 gold the expections being ac at 1.5 gold per path arah at 3 gold per path and twilight arbor path 4 (new path) 2 gold.

I’m going to be honest, I only have Knight’s gear and use it for everything.

Here’s my build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vIMQJARTj8cUGaXIefQHaABp4LyCjifAISPCjBcNA-zwxAYshoRFGiWCsIasltioxqYwUnER1+jioVDA-e

Now, I will say that I NEVER go into a zerk only LFG for dungeons. Seriously, stay away from them. I’ve never been in one, but I have a strong feeling they ruin the fun of a good dungeon run.

InfernoHero.5687:

I’m going to be honest, I only have Knight’s gear and use it for everything.

Here’s my build: http://gw2skills.net/editor/?vIMQJARTj8cUGaXIefQHaABp4LyCjifAISPCjBcNA-zwxAYshoRFGiWCsIasltioxqYwUnER1+jioVDA-e

Now, I will say that I NEVER go into a zerk only LFG for dungeons. Seriously, stay away from them. I’ve never been in one, but I have a strong feeling they ruin the fun of a good dungeon run.

oh trust me they can