Best refresh to GW2 in ages. The story was awesome, the world building, the characters etc. Felicia Day killed it with Zojja, and I’m super excited to see more.
Maps were decent, loved the visuals, loved the fractal idea and how the wizards are experimenting on them, playing God
The kryptis are awesome. They look great but could have more variety in the way they attack, the way there were so many different types of forged or mordem, but I’m still up for more.
Wizards tower is my most frequented hub now and I think it’ll stay that way. Everything’s within reach and the portal scroll makes it as easy to get to as other hubs like mistlock sancuary
The vault daily system is the best change in years. I’m actually encouraged to go out and do content daily and the idea of getting rewards from it means it’s never wasted effort. I had a bunch of mats in my bank so that legendary starter kit got me far enough that all I need to finish the legendary Bolt is a gift of battle. Another fantastic addition.
Couldn’t praise this expac enough, and it’s not even over. Major changes to relics and reach profession will get another weapon in a few months time to bolster the gameplay. Another expansion is already being worked on so no content droughts between expacs.
I’ve no idea what you’re going on about, OP but find me a game with better value for money for $25 and I’ll join you. Imo I disagree with pretty much everything you said, even in your previous post, except that the story was awesome (even though it felt like you were coughing up blood trying to admit it).
I’ve never really been into alts. Alts are just a tool for my main character. In Guild Wars 2, I only have alts because I have to. In sPVP achievements, you need to win matches with 3 different classes.
Also, the difference between ascended and exotic is so small that I don’t think the hassle is worth it.
Focus on legendary, which can be shared among all your characters.
Only rarely. Have been off for about a year but would mostly spend a lot of time going for legendary. Still means sticking to an armor class (light for me). But with enough fractal runs you end up with enough to split for the others (I play all nine).
Pretty cool you were able to eventually get it. I remember a coworker of mine got the collector's edition solely for the Rytlock statue, but kindly let me have the art pieces / frame. I did borrow the soundtrack to listen to, but gave that back.
To add from what everyone is saying, the only real new system that you missed is strikes. Basically a 10 people single boss battle, like raids but without the filler and pre-events. Very puggable, especially what people call the easy 3 (shiverpeaks pass, voice/claw of the fallen, fraenir of jormag)
If you want to avoid story spoilers, be sure to follow the story until the end of the norn map of IBS before joining them.
EoD added a new mount, skiffs (boat), plus some new systems that you won’t find outside of those maps anyway, so don’t worry too much about it. But of course you need it to use the elite specs
The last expansion instead gave us new weapons without the traitline and unlocked elite specs’ weapons to be used regardless of the spec. To unlock all of that you need to play the expansion until a certain point tho. If you don’t have the skyscale in the expansion there is also a new way to get it that should be a bit faster
In general, there wasn’t any big shake to things, it’s mostly more of the same and some new side things. The only real difference is a bit of powecreep and that now every class can cover any role.
So take your time, play everything in order and all the new things will appear step by step
A bucket list of things that you probably want to do asap:
Check a few builds for your main on snowcrows, just so you can have something effective to start from when experimenting
Start working on the wizards vault, lots of good stuff there and you have a few weeks before it rolls over
Get back into content you used to do: if you were a fractal enjoyer for example, you should probably get back into it so you can atart making gold again
Other than that do what you enjoy, if you are on icebrrod saga you could finish the story then do the return to achievements for the legendary amulet if it’s something you might like.
I was always super interested in legendary equipment, so when I came back to the game after years away I just picked one weapon from the list, put it into gw2efficiency, expanded it’s required materials list and looked through it until I saw something that requires me to do content which I felt comfortable doing, like map completion or open world events. From there I naturally re-familiarized myself with the game as I kept working towards the legendary.
I was gone for 10+ years (I started with beta) and I just picked it up again a year or so ago by continuing the storyline and rolling a few new characters for their race-/class-specific stories, and it’s been great.
Having a few people to play with on a regular basis makes all the difference. We do PvE for events/specific things (e.g. mounts) and now mostly play WvW because it’s dynamic and fun - and it’s an easy way to grind for legendary gear.
In that time, one mate’s completed his legendary armour and two legendary weapons, another’s not far off completing his armour set, and I’ve nearly completed my second armour piece because I’m the slacker. :)
The DLCs go on sale fairly regularly - usually the “seasons”. Occasionally you’ll see an “all seasons and latest expansion” go on sale, and should probably grab that if you haven’t got them. After that, just buy the missing ones as and when you’re ready to pay for them.
I have all the LS luckily, been logging in to get them. I think the new ones are just tied to the expacs, no?
Friends would be nice but all seem to have left GW2 behind, need to look for an active guild at one point I guess. Though my schedule will be far from regulr in near future for any scheduled group play.
Some still have the WoW heyday raid guild mentality, but there are plenty of large, casual guilds without the expectation of specific days, hours, taxes, “must login at least twice a week”, and such stuff.
Happy to recommend one to you. They have opt in sections in their Discord for PvE, WvW, PvP, etc, etc. And have an “all members welcome” Guild Missions session every Saturday, which is an effective way to meet and catch up with everyone.
And having access to a guild’s hall is great for cheap travel, extra resources, permanent boosts, crafting, etc.
What’s great about this game, imho, is that you can be gone for a while, but still get right into the action again, because your characters value doesn’t depreciate, like in other MMO’s.
I am sometimes gone from GW2 for a long time, but I usually just continue from where I left off, because the content is still relevant.
That is indeed great, first time I can really apreciate that. The issue is with how tough it is to get into with achievements/collections being used as quest stand-ins (no way to get a quick recap on what I did), metric fuckton of currencies (I did not dare to check the wallet yet to see them all) etc.
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