Guild Wars 2

Basically, I have this problem with Guild Wars 2 where I keep being given good advice from fans that I should try to just appreciate the journey of the game and all, but it feels like I really don’t have enough interest to play enough to even complete the main plots of GW2 vanilla before touching on HoT, and then from there to complete HoT before Path.

I like the game, and, frankly, some of the new elite specs seem really interesting and fun, but my time isn’t infinite and I have other things that interest me. Honestly, I’m really not sure what to do, and I know that this is far from a helpful question to ask.

I guess to summarize, how should I treat all of the hype and interesting things coming out of the new expansion, when other than a HoT-boosted Guardian my characters are around their 20s and 30s, level-wise, and I only have so much time and drive to grind.

Sorry, I wish I could phrase this better.

Okay, so, I’m struggling with a weird problem that honestly speaks to the game’s diversity more than anything else. That problem being, naturally, that I have no idea what to do with any game session, so I end up screwing around in the Silverwastes with my HoTed Level 80-ed alt Guardian and then quitting after 15 minutes to go chatroom roleplay on MSPARP or whatever.

I really only have so much time and there’s a lot that one can do in this game. How do you guys go about prioritizing, or quickly deciding what to go about doing? I know this question probably sounds darn stupid and all. If it helps, other than the 80 Alt Guardian I have a mid-twenties Thief and a Warrior at level 9 or so.

This is a really deep game, and I’m hitting that as an issue, weirdly.

Thank you for the detailed analysis! May I ask about Necro/Reaper, Berserker/Warrior, or Guardian as far as skill required?

This is a pretty simple noob question, I admit, but how high is the thief’s skill curve, as professions go?

LFG Eredon Terrace, PvE, Casual, EST

It’s just me looking for a guild, and I’m hoping to find some other people to level with and eventually do late-game PvE and the like. I’d like to find a community that’s relatively close and welcoming, and I’m usually on in the afternoons, though frankly I can be a little bit sporadic. That, of course, I’d try to rein in as much as I could for a guild that I could kind of feel accepted in? I’d have to talk to a recruiter a bit to get a feel for the guild, so feel free to PM me or w/e. Also, I’d prefer not to use VIOP, honestly.

Well, to be honest, given that I’m on a Mac, instructions for Windows aren’t particularly helpful, but thank you for the help! Do you know where equivalent instructions are?

Okay, so, I’m on the Mac Beta for Guild Wars 2, and while I can use the rest of Black Lion just fine, when I try to access the Gem Store, it just shows the yellow loading symbol and never really stops, and while I can see the tabs at the top of the window, clicking on them doesn’t do anything. I have tried to restart GW2, and given it 12 hours.

Help, please.

Essentially, I’ve tried to level four characters up to this point, and I’ve explored the basic starting zones of all of the non-human characters.

The three characters currently on my account (undeleted) are:

A Charr Necro (Name Edgy and French) – I’ve kind of stopped using her, although maybe I’ll get back to her some time or another? Eh. Honestly, I just booted up the game to look at her abilities and they were…sort of complicated. More complicated than my butt could handle at level fourteen, so I had to wonder what a Level 80 Necro is like. So I probably won’t be touching her French furry butt any time soon.

An Asura Thief (Name Norweigan, I think) – The glorious cadence of 5211111 appealed to me, as did the MAD SCIENCE thing. I’m a big fan of science in fantasy, hence why I used to play an Engi before Engis turned out to be way more complicated than I intended for. Her playstyle’s complicated by my low standards, but I can kind of get a grip on it?

and A Sylvari Warrior (Named Maeve Mabschild, because when I created her I wanted to make a character who A. wouldn’t die to a single hit, B. would have a “Dresden Files Winter Fae Jerk Thing” going on, and who would C. be different from the Norweigan science murder gnome. Also, I heard that Warriors were, to summarize, for people who just want to kill things, and that kind of described me. Her playstyle so far’s extremely simple. Jump at people, stab them, keep stabbing them, then do the thing where you stab them a lot. (213 repeat). Moving between different enemies that way was just frankly enjoyable. She’s at level 5.

So, all of this is to say that there’s a part of me that wants to swap between the Warrior and the Thief, since I have more on the Thief and the Thief’s more detailed, but the Warrior’s a different and more relaxing playstyle that gets me killed less.

So, I’m wondering, would this compliment itself and allow for a more varied time leveling chars, or would it just be a great way to double the length of any kind of meaningful improvement, and I should just pick one?

Those are all really helpful, so I thank you all, but to be honest, it’s hard to really feel interested in any of that when the idea of just booting up the game is a stressor and something that seems more boring than exciting for me.

I really do appreciate the suggestions, and I will try world bosses, exploration, RP, and PvP especially, as soon as I can get myself to (which, honestly, could be today or in two months.)

What specific elements does the game have? I can think of PvE, PvP, crafting, and that’s about it off the top of my head.

Binx, I’ve tried to get friends into it. When do you normally play, I guess?

I have a necro in the late teens and a asura thief around level 27 or so, and honestly I’ve found it so hard to get myself to actually play.

It feels like I’m spending endless amounts of time doing fairly repetitive tasks that don’t matter to me in the moment, all so I can hopefully access the fun things in the game that feel like they’ll never come.

I really want to be into this game, it’s a really good game, and everyone else seems to have a great time with it.

I just don’t feel like I’m doing anything, or doing anything fun, rather. I don’t know, maybe I’m not cut out for MMORPGs?

Any help would be super encouraged, because I’ve felt like I’ve hit a brick wall for months now with this game.

It’s a bit of a strange title, I admit, but please hear me out. I’ve noticed a tendency to, after getting past the Personal Storyline (Race) sections (i.e. 11-20 and 23-30 or so, for my characters), kind of fall into a mentality.

I kind of just go into this cycle of doing as many Renown Hearts as I can find in the area, then moving on to either the area of a slightly higher level that is adjacent to it (Where I’m normally outleveled), or going to do the starting/near-starting RHs for other races, i.e. my Sylvari going to Metrica Province, the Charr starting/near-starting zones, and then the Norn starting zone.

The whole thing’s kind of gotten mechanical, and I have unlocked a decent amount of cool things for these characters to be doing, power-wise (Asura thief, 14, Charr necro, 14, Norn warrior, 11, Sylvari Engi, 24 (though I don’t really like to touch the Engi much, due to complexity)

I have looked up discussions on quickly leveling up chars, and I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s a reason why the world of GW2’s so vast and detailed. It’s not meant to be burned through. The player is intended to play at their own pace, and just have fun.

With that in mind, though, I’ve been wondering if I’m really supposed to be sweeping zones like this.

I desperately want to have fun with this game. Are there ways to break it up, or something?

Things people find fun to do in-game besides RHs and world events?

So, I’ve gotten my first-ever character, an Engi, to essentially about 24. Should I devote all my resources to them in hopes of bringing them to 80, or is it acceptable to level an alt (preferably with a less keystroke-compiles profession)?

Actually, scratch that, I need to get to level 20 anyway, I think? Not sure.

Playing on Mac Beta.

Essentially, I had just completed the last of the Sylvari level 10 racial quests, and I went to talk to the Avatar, near the Pale Tree. There was a cutscene, and I turned in my last level 10 quest, but I never got anything else. I looked online, and apparently I was supposed to have a conversation with Caithe, but when I came back to both the Avatar and Dreamer’s Terrace (Where she was supposed to be for the quest) I couldn’t find anything.

Help? I’ll probably end up sidequesting and PVPing until this gets resolved.