Guild Wars 2

This is what I did:

1. Start off in Queensdale, right outside of DR
2. Take off all armor except 1 piece
3. Go battle bandits up on the hill until you are dead. May have to go over the hill so nobody helps you out.
4. Respawn at the nearest Waypoint. Should have your 1 piece of damaged armor.
5. Go battle the bandits again until you are dead. Should have your 1 piece of broken armor.
6. Go to the heart vendor in Queensdale. If hint doesn’t pop, take off your 1 piece and put back on. Rinse/Repeat until it pops.

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Hicci.8761:

You are suffering from a chronic disease called “Did not read”. Take your time and it should go away.

This.

There ya go

You can also it in-game by just typing /wiki [whatever you want]. It’s quite a useful tool, especially for new players.

Thanks

Looking to find a guild that consists of mostly older, casual players. If anyone is interested in this as well, perhaps we could start a guild. Reply here to see if we get a decent response. Maybe someone that had experience running a guild as well.

Alissah.9281:

If you have any questions, feel free to send me a forum PM and ill try to help as much as i can

When you talk to a master crafter you have a “what can i craft as an X?” Option. If you ask them that they trll you exactly what you can craft.

The crafting guides on he internet just tell you how to level as fat as possible. This is usually done by older players who already have money to level up their character quickly.

Also: if you hover your mouse over items, it tells you what type they are :O Rangers use medium armor!

My problem was that I didn’t realize each class of armor had a different skill to manufacture it. I’ve always played that if you smith armor, you have your choice of light, med, or heavy. The leatherworker was tucked away all the way at the end in DR so I kept going back and forth between the ones I could find until I discovered it.

Alissah.9281:

Dont worry about missing the living story, we get new stuff every 2 weeks so there will always be more things to do if you at one point decide to do living story. There are still balloons though. If you do 30 balloons you get a wearable balloon :o

I want that balloon! But I still have tons of areas to discover yet.

Still seems like you have to know what something does before you can make a good decision about what to do with it. Sometimes I’ll find an item that says to double click to consume, go to the wiki and it says the exact same thing. I always bank these things because I’m not sure if I’ll need it at a later point. There is just so much detail in the game, I find myself referring to the wiki every 5 minutes which breaks immersion. Also, a noob like me sometimes finds it hard to decipher what a particular daily achievement requires for me to complete it.

As far as leveling goes, it seems thakittens much faster than I expected. Haven’t completed Kessex yet but I’m almost level 30. I feel like I’m growing up way too fast without the wisdom of the masses.

Was wondering if there was a ‘rule of thumb’ for salvage kits per color item? So far, I have only bought crude salvage and the one above that. Wasn’t sure I should spend the money on better salvage kits or not.

The one thing I’ve found is, its better to take the stuff to Lion’s Arch and throw the items in the mystic forge there to make new stuff. Seems like a better way to recycle some of these items.

I play mostly evenings for about 2-3 hours, eastern time zone between about 7pm-9pm. Looking for a fun experience, even goofing off occasionally is a perfect fit. I’m really new, 1 character to level 24 so far. I haven’t tried PvP but did try WvW once. Not sure if its my bag but who knows.

I should probably mention that I’m on Ehmry Bay server. Also, if any ‘newer’ players want to get together and learn, or possibly form a guild, I’d be open to that as well.
Oh, I’m in the 50ish range in age so prefer mature company. But I’m not a wet rag.

I’d really like to thank all of the great advice everyone is giving. I did not know about dulfry.net but that looks to be the kind of link I’m looking for. I have been perusing the wiki, mostly when I get a drop that I don’t know if I should sell/salvage or whatnot.

I’m coming from the Elder Scrolls arena (am I allowed to say that here?). In TES games, crafting is a huge part of the game. Generally you can craft much better weapons and armor than you can purchase. And its pretty much limited to weapons, armor and potions. I did talk to the crafting persons before starting the craft but I didn’t know that there was a difference between the crafting disciplines as far as armor goes. I just thought a tailor made clothes and an armorsmith made armor. It was just confusing to me which is why I had a difficult time finding what I really wanted. But the more I craft and the more I read, the more I realize there is so much more in this field that I know nothing about, I’m not sure where to go next. I get the impression its more beneficial to buy than to craft in this game.

I’m not trying to hurry leveling but I do like to “complete” an area before moving on to the next higher level area. Exploring is my favorite thing to do in open-world games. I just happen to stumble into an area or a group event that is far beyond my skill level without knowing it.

I’m not sure what goals I have other than map completion. Didn’t know I could have a goal as a Dungeon Master, not even sure what that is, nor how or what a fractal is. I’m sure, given time, I’ll learn. Like I said in the beginning, the more I learn, the less I really know about something. PvP isn’t really my bag and WvW seemed like a huge chaotic event that didn’t make much sense to me. Couldn’t really see any battle other than about a million toons racing around an area, so I just started firing my bow randomly, 1-2-3-4-5, rinse, repeat.

When I first started, I picked a server that had a guild that sounded like it was right up my alley. Older, casual players with no stress and very helpful. The problem is, I can’t remember the name of that guild now and I see no way to bring up a list of local guilds again. Every time I click the guild button, it just brings up my guild stats which are empty at the moment. This is one of the things that I was referring to as rather nebulous.

So, I thank each and every one of you with helpful advice. Even the “Did not read” comment was well taken. I’m realizing this game takes a lot more “homework” before you’re ready for the pop quiz.

Hicci.8761:

You are suffering from a chronic disease called “Did not read”. Take your time and it should go away.

I did read the “pamphlet” that came with the game and it instructed me which keys to hit to perform attacks and how to access my inventory and hero accoutrements. Was there something more specific you were referring to?

The more I play this game, the more I realize I haven’t a clue how to play this game.

I’m currently a level 20 Ranger and have been at if for a bit over 2 weeks. I go from heart to heart as long as my level is on a par and get waylaid by random events. Pretty much standard fare for playing any game.

One of the earliest problems I ran into was crafting. Of course, I want to craft new weapons, so I trained at a weapsonsmith. Next, I thought I’d craft some armor which might be helpful. So, I trained at an armorsmith. Well, much to my chagrin, there was nothing I could craft that I could actually wear! “Oh”, I thought, “maybe I need to be a tailor.” So, I retrained as a tailor. Nope! Not that. So, I thought perhaps I missed something as an armorer and retrained back to armorsmith. Still didn’t work. Finally read at another site that I neeeded to train in leather for making Ranger armor. Voila! Now I get it. Sort of. Couldn’t really understand what to do so I found a site that said if I wanted to level up, craft this with these, then move on to crafting this with these, add those and make these. Not really teaching but it helps.

Now my latest frustration. This new content. Firstly, I kept amassing these ‘support’ tokens instead of any real loot. Had no clue what to do with them and still have them taking up space in my bank. So, I hear this chick won this election instead of this bad dude. All well and good. Found a hot air balloon and went to Divinity’s Reach for the celebration. Saw the spectacle, participated in some sort of battle with some people I had never heard of, and when that was done, started exploring. Two events opened up and I saw a few people jumping down below so I followed suit. I was quickly annihilated before I could even get to shelter somewhere. As I lay dead, I noticed that these guys were lvl 80. How in the HECK did I end up with THESE guys? After about 5 minutes and a wave of players coming to help, I was revived. It was then that I noticed that I had scaled up to lvl80. But since I didn’t have any perks, perhaps this was what prevented me from actually being helpful? I don’t know, I’m still kinda new at this thing.

To sum up, it seems to me that this game is geared toward veterans of MMO’s or maybe there is some secret society that passes on important gaming tips for new players, that I’m not aware of. I cannot find a good “How to Play” or Guide for the new player anywhere. And when everyone starts talking about crafting these uber armor stuff with all these enhancements, I’m just lost.

I guess I’ll just keep plugging along from event to event to heart event, advancing my level until 80 and then move on to another game. Not really frustrated, just starting to wonder why I’m here in the first place.