Guild Wars 2

Midnight GMT. Source.

I was in the position to find myself in a mission where all the npc’s died too. I used pull and kite techniques to take out the mobs one by one, and then I went on with the mission.

Ahh, ok, thank you.

If I’m not mistaken, axes are for raw damage, swords for condition damage and maces for control. I would actually try to compare greatsword vs sword/axe combo. Greatsword might win, but that’s just an opinion based on the fact a lot of people love them, probably because of Hundred Blades. I personally love the sword/axe combo, for the bleeds and for the Whirling Axe awesomeness.

I noticed when I party up with people, some of them have full hearts on their icon, others have empty hearts. Does anyone know what these represent?

Thank you.

Those items are part of the crafting process for some recipes. Indeed they cannot be stored like the gathered materials, and yes, they will occupy bank space.

The only difference is indeed the Racial skills found here.

Until the game is cleared of bugs, they do an update every day at Midnight Pacific. You should’ve noticed that by now. I woke up 3 hours ago, and I’m still offline just because I knew this will happen.

Wait for the next update, which should come up almost as we speak. It’s midnight in Seattle.

Every home city has a portal to a city hub called Lion’s Arch. Go to your city, look for a purple swirl on the map, go to it and basically to Lion’s Arch, and there you will find portals to all the other cities. Next to all cities are the starting areas for the corresponding races.

How much have you been playing? Are you still in the tutorial area? Basically if you open the map do you see a small portion available and the rest is hashed out? Which race are you? The game is open world by the way. If you meet other players, just follow them. If you don’t see any players, then you are in an instance, following your own story line.

Tutorial here.

Do nothing. Although a level 80 has an upper hand over a lower level, you really should enjoy the game around you and not rush to the end level.

And if you level once an hour, I find that quite a reasonable pace. In GW2 the time it takes to complete a level flattens out. You don’t need to worry that if now you do a level in an hour, later it’s gonna take 6 hours or a full day. At level 70 you’re gonna take an hour also to level up.

Anyway, anything in the game can level you up. Try crafting or WvW and see how that fares for you.

I personally use rifle primarily and kite mobs as much as I can, and switch to sword/axe when mobs get near me, or when I just want to fight melee because, let’s face it, the axe number 5 skill is pure awesome. I place in Arms all the points I have at disposal at my current level, and the remainder I split between Strength and Discipline.

With the XP after 80 you get new skill points, which you can trade at the Mystic Forge.

So far, I have only done AC story mode a few times. But it seemed that completing it gave more rewards in cash than the amount spent on repairs.

If I recall correctly, jump in the water just south of the bank, and there will be something like a sewer pipe with a cracked lid there. Enter it and you will find your missing area and PoI.

The game is rated T for Teen. It is an absolutely awesome game, but do you really need to show it to your 7 year old granddaughter? I know it’s not the end of the world and you do what you want in your house, but still.

Anyways, rant complete, you might want her to play ranged rather than melee, and to overlevel areas as much as possible. Since you can travel to other races’ zones through Lion’s Arch, just get her play in all the 1-15 level areas, then all 15-25, and so on. I know she will be downscaled, but still, a level 30 downscaled to 16 in a 15 zone, will do better that a level 14 in the same area.

Actually the WvW battles will last for 2 weeks, but now the matches last much less (a day?) until the server migration gets more stable.

They will probably show the server rankings and scores, but they did this after BWE1 (I think) and everyone made their minds on what servers to flood when the game went live.

I play the game as a human. I completed the 1-15 area, then moved to the 15-25 area, and then the next one. When I got myself over 250 pieces on copper ore I think in the bank, I picked up 2 professions so I don’t have to keep the overflow in my inventory. Once I cleaned up my lower level ores/wood, I realized that now I’m getting a whole bunch of next tier ores/wood that I can’t use because I haven’t reached the appropriate crafting level. So what I did was to forget continuing playing in higher level areas, and I started doing the low level areas of the other races. Not only does this get me world completion, it also gets me to gather the appropriate resources that I need to improve crafting. So I think you might want to consider playing in other low level areas.

Try not to sweat it too much. PvE map completion is awesome on it’s own. You will eventually have less and less to do in PvE and you will end up more and more in WvW. I personally hate PvP but I know at some point I will be doing some WvW. And chances are, over time, you will end up with your group at every location on the maps. It might not take a week, but in a few months or a year, you’re gonna get it eventually.

PS: I think ArenaNet still creates something like 24 hour matches. I used this a bit in the past days and I did all the Sanctum jumping puzzles, because my home world was switching faster from one map to the other. When the games will last 2 weeks, you will wait more for your home base to be the one you need.

PS2: if you want the monthly achievements, you need to kill stuff in WvW anyway at least once a month.

Well, shouldn’t he get that e-mail with a link to allow him to access the game, if his IP address was changed?

Number 1 is a very good question. I wondered this myself. Maybe it’s because a whole bunch of players on the regular servers can do WvWvW at that time, while the overflow-ers can’t.

You access the game by logging on it with an unique account name and password. How the game files are installed matter much less than from other (generally single player) games. Basically, you didn’t pay for the game files. You paid for a key associated with a single account only you (or hackers :P) have access to.

Generally not. In fact, if you like/need farming, you can abuse the system a bit and farm resources until you’re satisfied, and then accept going to the normal server and get a new set of gathering nodes ready for you.

The downside for some would be that in the overflow you don’t get the bonuses from the WvWvW, if your server got some.

The only minor annoyance I found from playing on an overflow was that as an EU server player, in the overflow you can meet players from the EN, DE and FR servers, and if you group for a dungeon in an overflow, you might end up with a mixed group who can’t potentially communicate in the same language.

Please correct me if I’m wrong. But at level 80 you have all 70 trait points available which should help you dps more as an 80 downscaled to 20, compared to a 30 downscaled to 20, for example.

First thing you should do when you meet an NPC trader should be to go to his/her sell tab and click the Sell Junk button. This will take care of the absolutely worthless (grey) items. Then you can worry about whatever remains in your inventory. If there are any trophies left, most likely they will have ‘Salvageable’ mentioned in their tooltip. So, salvage those. If there are other ones left, they might say something else, like ‘NPC X collects these’. Last part is from memory only. It might not be entirely true.

It’s being taken care of. See the latest status update from ArenaNet.