Guild Wars 2

If I was to play GW2, I’d buy HoT.

Check your computer by taking your old guardian to World vs World and get into a big fight and take it to silver wastes , use lfg to get into a big squad and work on the meta events.

The meta events will be similiar to much you experience in HoT zones. In addition to the WvWvW testing you’ll know if you can run it.

I am a biased elementalist player, advice must be cleared by someone with several chars :P . Go staff elly, after you’ve tested computer, for sure, no doubt great fun to play You can defeat any content PvE. PvP will take something out of you on the staff, but again check forums, there is some advice in there that is recent.

Agreed.

HoT is good. I returned to my elementalist after " finishing" the game last time out. To me the expansion was a very fresh experience. Possibility of death wasn’t very much a feature in old tyria and having to figure out the movements and abilties of the mobs to survive was very nice.

Story, Metas, Maps, Jp’s thumbs up all over.

I had to return to old world and get my masteries sorted, so I would like to add that I like Drytop and Silverwastes as well. They were not there when I played last.

I am a driven gamer and was happy to find lots of content to sink my teeth into and that it had more to it than to show up on time to win.

Doesn’t mean I hate the old world. This is a required step up. Good work.

Next expansion should take it another step up.

Thats why pocket raptors are awesome ow.. wtf is this thing, ow ow OW…dies

An enemy you’ll remember, not just random trash mob

Pocket Raptor Fan Club!

I do, but if you avoid other players obviously it will get more difficult, more often.

I’d check if you can surive with utilities Arcane Shield, Mistform and Lightining flash before looking at gear. Obviously dropping these, takes out some DPS options, but I found in dagger setup atleast 2 makes your life easier. On staff I manage with Frostbow, Fire signet and glyph storm.

The way I play I try to keep health up for scholar runes and it means I use utilities to reposition and attack again, if I run low health I disengage with last utility, get health and a CD back and attack. I have only had ele at 80, but I guess if I had the others aswell I might see it as you do

I play staff, D/D and D/WH. I wasn’t a staff fan, but it is starting to grow on me in preparation to raid.

Story: I like it. It made me laugh, but as a commander I despair at some of my own descisions. If anything, the last, is the drawback here. We need to get Caithe off this case. It would not be possible to trust her with this. Can not allow a single member to go with a potential enemy.

Map: I like it. I like the maps like Blood Fen and Verdant Brink where you glide in and out of levels more. Variation is good, so not complaing about that. I would prefer each map to have a cycle of metaevents obviously, but I realize that is asking a bit much from every patch.

Achievements: 1000 gold? Come on All the others is fine.

Repeatable hearts: I like that what I have done , stays done, but no big deal. Your used to the previous maps in the game staying that way, slightly satisfying, but I can deal with that change.

Jumping puzzle: Awesome, I dare you to do worse! @Dev responsible. I can’t believe there is no title for doing all jumping puzzles in game, while “Good Apple” exist Can’t you just give a title for all puzzles and when you add a new puzzle, none of us have it anymore, until we complete the new one?

Events in general: They are on the easy side. Could scale it up a little.

I do not see a particular reason to choose this map to play on for an evening, after I did achievements. It does not have replayability like the maps with metas going. Would maybe spread the population to much around if there are to many metaevent maps, so maybe it is best as is.

Returning player and my experiences so far. Played for a few weeks.

DD and D/WH and DF has all worked fine in full zerker for me, atm I wouldnt choose focus personally and advice the warhorn. Try the same and add Arcane shield and mistform for the moments you know you misplaced yourself. I run ether renewal heal to get out of condi on low health.

Fire, Air, Tempest, I go in full dam in Air, reposition, all in fire, disengage water/condi cleanse/heal to get health back. If you gain full focus, use the oh kitten buttons 2 dodge, Arcshield and mistform, lightning flash aswell for another get out clauses.

Surviving HoT I think is more about dancing aoe, dodging the sniper mark above you head the moment it disappear, reflect bristlebacks, killing fast I believe, not sure you could actually gear/build out much of the “heat” . You need to disengage when time is right, get some distance, reevaluate where your aoe hurt them the most. I run scholar runes and attempt to keep health high.

I can recall a few event steps where its to hot to not bring out staff for range, but I found most playable as melee/midrange.

Sorry for not answering your question, really, I would find ways to survive in berserker, I guess is what I say, until it works for you. It is awesome playing Dagger/x in the HoT zones, when you find the sweet spot and it works for you.

Not yet, but I guess the returning player do not remember the previous detail well enough

Since you mention PvE

I played through all storycontent in HoT/ls on D/D for solo/group events i came across(no fractal/dung/raid) as a recent returning player with fresh air/mightstack/auras and dam as pr old playstyle. If you want to play D/D you can there np, not to much sweat if you are used to playing ele. Running D/Wh now, is also fine for same content. Love lw too

I’d use Arcane Shield for certain, get enough condition cleanse across build and utility skills.

@Bondurant.1540

Great post.

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Hi all,

Can I que for all 4 maps or just 1?

I seem to always get into the last one I apply for.

Would it not be better to be qued for all? You might get in quicker.