Guild Wars 2

I’m a veteran EU player, and during the weekend sale picked up a 2nd account so I can play PvP on NA.
All is great, login and create my char and run around levelling a bit, then I unlock PvP at lvl 3 and I can get to grips with that. Eventually, after 2-3 hours, I’ve got about an hour left of gaming before I need to go to bed and I figure I’ll wrap up getting my daily done. After all, I do that in 5-10 minutes every day on my EU account.

I’m greeted with this conundrum. At this point I’m level 9. My daily category suggests I must go to WvW and claim land. As you see from the hover on the WvW menu, Anet suggest I go grind another 9 PvE levels before I can do that.

In retrospect I’ve received tips from players suggesting you can enter WvW from the LA portals to bypass the level requirement. If that is so, Anet, COME ON!?! Why is then the WvW menu pane restricted behind a level 18 lock?!?

So… in short, no daily on my first day on NA due to a logical inconsistency in how daily categories are available to new players.

Also – before you all go ‘but leveling is so fast and you could have leveled to level 18 in an hour or two’; no, I shouldn’t have to level my characters for 4-5 hours in PvE to get my WvW daily done. As a sub-level 18, I shouldn’t have WvW dailies available to me. They should be 2 PvP ones and 2 PvE ones – of which 3 out of 4 should require completion.
Then, when you are allowed to go WvW at level 18, introduce the WvW dailies, not before…

Information is unlocked at Level 18, access is immediate. Just walk through the portals in LA. Once through the portal, the short-cut is available.

Good luck.

(Also, not a bug.)

As I’ve noted, that is just ridiculous. And by no way possible to understand if I were really a new player – it says “World vs. World. This feature will be unlocked at level 18.”

Nothing – except other players (of which none in Plains of Ashford yesterday suggested this in map chat; there everyone were just saying, oh I guess you must level to lvl 18… it’s quick, etc. etc.) tells you that by way of some portals in a corner in Lion’s Arch you can enter and unlock it before…

Bad coding or bug… as a client, I perceive it as a bug the way it’s currently implemented.

I am in the same shoes as you. I bought a new account too. And the level of stupidity of this so called ‘new player experience’ is astonishing! You can’t see POIs, Vistas, Nodes, etc. Only hearts and the occasional events show up. I say alright they don’t show up…., but I can’t even interact with Skill Point nodes until I’m on the level ANET thinks I should be. WHAT???

One would actually think that leveling up is so easy. Nope. If I can’t see what I’m supposed to pick up on the map it just isn’t the case. A handful of low level hearts and a couple of events barely made me lvl 4-5. At that point I was already going in on the 7-8 areas which would be punishing for a new player.

Decided I do some city exploration for extra XP. Nope. ANET’s new experience says you shouldn’t do that so easily. Being lvl 5 and only Waypoints on the map. Good thing I already know these maps by heart. But a new player gaining some fast levels early? Good luck with that.

Also the dailies. Why does a new player get only 3 of the dailies. 1 of each category? I guess ANET wants them to try out all the game modes. But then again, why LEVEL LOCK EVERYTHING???!!?!?

Seriously, the first 30 levels as a new player is simply horrible. It’s a slow grind.

I can’t even change Mail delivery animations untill my first character reaches lvl 71. Why? What’s the point locking that behind an arbitrary level?

I have a feeling that they changed this so they can say: ‘Oh but we added so much, Look!’
Yeah ANET changed the old leveling system- which was in no way hard to grasp or understand, but actually fun and fast to level without any restrictions on the player whatsoever- just for the sake of changing something in the game.

I really hope when HoT launches Anet will actually take a good look on this because there is no way anyone would find the new leveling system/experience or whatever you call it actually fun and enjoyable.