Guild Wars 2

Oslaf Beinir.5842:

You may visit your world’s community forum and ask there if you would like

https://www.gunnars-hold.eu/

Thanks, I’ll try that ^^.

I’m looking for a guild that is nice and social. I have multiple characters at lvl80 but I recently made a post named “I realized I have no idea how to play GW2” so… it would be awesome if I could learn from or with other people. I do however plan on having multiple guilds, if it is a requirement that I have only one I can’t do that.
I also play FFXIV so I’ll devide my time between the two (or other games).
Otherwise if you have any questions or think I would be a good addition to your guild let me know.

My World is Gunnar’s Hold.

Danikat.8537:

Probably your best option is to join a guild that will help you learn, since it’s much easier to learn as you’re going along. But here’s a few things which might be useful to know however, based on your post:

Gear Levels

I have no idea what those are, but there are two factors which determine how good equipment is in this game: the level requirement (which is the level your character has to be to use it) and the rarity/tier (text colour).

There are 6 tiers which, in order, are:

• Common (White)
• Fine (Blue)
• Masterwork (Green)
• Rare (Yellow)
• Exotic (Orange)
• Ascended (Pink)

All equipment with the same rarity and level requirement is equally good, if you craft a level 80 exotic staff (for example) it will be just as good as any level 80 exotic staff you could get from enemies or as a story reward or from dungeons etc.

Useful equipment

A good choice when you first get to level 80 is to get a full set of exotic equipment, because those are widely available and ascended (the next and final tier) is intended to be a difficult, long-term goal.

Exotic equipment can come from a variety of places: you can trade dungeon tokens for it at a vendor in LA, buy it with karma from the temples in Orr, get it as drops and story rewards, craft it or buy it from the Trading Post for gold.

The tricky part is working out what stats you want on it, as although they’re all equally strong they’re not all equally useful for you. Although elementalists are more easily able to use all the stats than many professions, and several people choose to use Celestial gear (which spreads the points equally between all stats, whereas most level 80 gear has just 3 stats). It might be worth having a look at the elementalist section of the forum to get some ideas.

Dungeon & level scaling

One thing which is very different between this game and most of them is that your level scales to the area you’re in. Which means its quite common to see level 80 characters everywhere, even in starting areas. The same applies to dungeons. (In fact some people have complained that it’s hard to find a party before level 80.)

This is an important thing to bear in mind because whilst it has a lot of upsides in that it means you can do content in almost any order and get useful rewards and fun gameplay anywhere in the game it also has a downside because it means you can’t ever assume reaching the max level means you’re safe. You won’t be able to 1-shot everything in low level zones, or ignore them because they’ll never do enough damage to kill you.

Oh wow, thank you your post is really helpful! I guess my best bet is really finding a nice guild who would be willing to help me a little.

Tornupto.2304:

There ARE Tanks and Healers in GW2 since HoT :S

Haha ^^ and there goes my knowlege.

I got this game one or two years ago and I think it was my first mmo. I just jumped in and somehow noobed my way to lvl 80 on my Elemetalist with only one goal… map completion. After I got that I felt kinda lost and stopped playing.
I had a lot of fun with this game and I think I want to try the expansion, but after I started playing FFXIV and actually putting though into how to be a decent player I realized I have no idea how my classes here work, what gear level I should have(if that even exists here) and believe it or not I didn’t do a single dungeon until lvl80 when I first joined a guild…
A person talked to me about jumping puzzles to which I only had one response “What is that?”. I was somewere around lvl70 at that point.

I know there are no Tanks/Healer/DPS in this game and that is where my knowlege ends. The only reason I got to lvl80 like this is because I treated this game pretty much as an socially advanced single player game.

No idea how and were to start catching up. If you ever meet a really confused lvl80 guy in a low level dungeon, be gentle please.