Guild Wars 2

Ok so after a couple yearkittenus I decided to return and things have certainly changed so I have a few questions (goole answered a bunch already).

I see now that skill points don’t start showing until level 13. There used to be a map completion screen showing vistas/ story incidences (hearts) skill points, vistas etc. Is there a way to access that now and at what level does it appear?

There used to be a daily achievements section that had a bunch of local challenges to do to get points but it seems to be gone now all I see is Daily challenges which has 4 challenges which seem to be PvP and WvWvW – are there no more local challenges?

Also I tried to get a PvP and WvWvW just to see and it told me that nobody was available for either – are these things not populated or only once you get to high levels – I just re-started over the weekend with a mesmer that is now Lvl 11.

I still have my old Norn Necro, Asura Elementalist and sylvari thief from years back – any advantage to keeping those. I understand that old characters have different trait rules but as my old atls are lvls 15-20 they don’t have any yet IIRC.

Any help understanding these differences would be welcomed (as well as any othe rissues you can think of that a returning player might need ) – many thanks – Gronk (jk)

FWIW I use game save manager to store saves on my NAS or 2nd SSD and not have to keep the game always on hand (when re-installed GSM will recognize the new game location and restore saves appropriately. This way I am not screwed if Steam craps out and loses a cloud save or drive crash. Perhaps all GSM recorded was the log-in screen who knows. All I know is that it is listed in my save profile folder(s) and on GSM site as a supported game. As far as password saving , there are plenty of programs with heavy encryption that allow you to save username and passwords – programs such as keepass do a great job.

Thanks for all the help everyone- hopefully I can fire it back up tonight and see for myself what I still have and how the game appeals to me in its current state.

I know my client was not on my HDD and that along with dozens of GB was d/l last night but aren’t alt profiles saved localy as well as on Arenanet servers – if not then perhaps all my save entails is username/password. Either way I should have access to my old alts. Unless there is a cap to how many I can have I will keep them all.

Thanks to all of you for the help. Do you know if there are still a lot of newbs populating the early part of the game? It would be great not having to do all by myself cause nobody appropriate is around.

Bob, not exactly sure what you mean – My characters would be from back in 2012 (if they are still there. I use a game save manager and IIRC it shows a GW2 save but I had to re- download the game last pm and haven’t fired it up yet. I understand about LW season 1 and 2 now but do have a question – will that content (from this point forward ) still be available to me as long as I log in when I finally get to it story/plot wise?

Character creation – not sure exactly what you mean by traits are locked – (well I understand but what does this serve and/or what sort of traits are locked and what is required to unlock them). Also how do I benefit by keeping my current characters? My characters are only like level 15 -20 or so IIRC. Perhaps I will keep mine and also start a new one or two and see what I like best.

So if I am returning now after a couple of years chances are by the time I get current that season 1 and 2 will not be available to me?

Fellow GW2 players, I haven’t played in probably a couple of years but have had the itch to get back into GW2. I am not sure if I am going to resume a character or start anew but was wondering (and confused) by all the new content – most notably the Living world. Is this added material/storyline that will become available as I progress or is it content that “has passed” and I will miss out on? All this feature content, living world, seasons etc has me a bit puzzled. I would essentially consider myself a ‘new player’/newbie at this point.
Thanks for any help – Gronk