Guild Wars 2 Catch All

Yeah I got free Prime Gaming stuff, got reinstalled, logged back in for the first time in 3 or 4 years... and promptly have no idea what I'm doing. Have been meaning to try and figure that out too. If you find something let me know.

Stele, just start a new character, run it a bit to reorient to the systems, then switch back to your main and look at the stories you need to complete. Then start running them and relearn how to play your characters that way. That's one way.

Or find someone to play with and fumble your way through together?

There’s a huge jump in difficulty between the main game and newer areas so I echo the sentiment to start over and at least play till around level 30. If you have a boost it wouldn’t be bad to use it at that point since you get decent end game gear.

I haven't done any real story content since, oh, Season 1. What should I focus on? You know, since you can do whatever you want, whenever you want and all.

Is it even Guild Wars if it doesn't start with an airship crash?

garion333 wrote:

I haven't done any real story content since, oh, Season 1. What should I focus on? You know, since you can do whatever you want, whenever you want and all.

I'd probably recommend a little early game stuff to get the mechanics down again.

Then what do you have access to? If you have Path of Fire, work through that story and start working on mounts. They get you around way faster, especially in the original areas and the Springer is delightfully game-breaking to help you get map completion in the original maps.

I'd recommend getting into current Living World story to run into the next expansion, but if you haven't unlocked those as they've released then you'll probably need to pay.

Oh, I have everything, except the new expansion, I simply haven't played story content in years and was wondering what's the best stuff?

I meant my question to be about the story, not mechanics as I'm good to go there. Apologies for mentioning "story" in only the first part of my post. Def confusing.

Ah yeah, that's cool. Same advice stands. Especially if you played GW Nightfall Path of Fire is a pretty great story, the Griffin collection quest gives some great insights into what happened to some of the characters from that old expansion.

Even without that knowledge I think the story would stand on its own, although the Griffin quest will probably not land as hard.

And the Icebrood Saga living story is pretty great as far as I've gotten. The glimpses of Charr society in the prologue are a delight and it goes in an interesting direction. I've just had essentially zero game time the last 4 months outside of a Hades run every now and then, so I haven't been able to get back to it, I hope to jump in beofre the next expansion.

Appreciate it. Path of Fire it is!

One more weekend till End of Dragons! Who’s rolling at launch and what class will you take to Cantha first?

I will be playing a vindicator (revenant), I saved up enough HP to just flat out unlock right at the beginning of the expansion. After that, I’ll probably bring my chronomancer as I love the gameplay on her. As for other classes, I want to get a mechanist, and I’m unsure what the third thing I’ll unlock is. But definitely it’ll be vindicator-mechanist for first and second unlocks.

I was super psyched to play and preordered quite awhile back. But then this tiny game called Lost Ark came out and is consuming all of my life. While I won't be playing this on release, I can't wait to hear all of your opinions of the expansion.

DeThroned wrote:

I was super psyched to play and preordered quite awhile back. But then this tiny game called Lost Ark came out and is consuming all of my life. While I won't be playing this on release, I can't wait to hear all of your opinions of the expansion.

How are you progressing? We have about 5 of us who are 1k+ in gear score and the same amount around the 500-600 mark.

I'm not sure when it starts nor the activities it covers but i was under the impression that some of the end game activities are cross server?

So busy busy at the moment I sadly won't be playing End of Dragons right now.

Hopefully by the end of March I can jump in, probably taking in my Mesmer and going Virtuoso.

I was really looking forward to it but between Elden Ring, Horizon Forbidden West, Lost Ark, Elex2, the new Destiny season, and the Cyberpunk patch I probably won’t get to it until next year.

ranalin wrote:
DeThroned wrote:

I was super psyched to play and preordered quite awhile back. But then this tiny game called Lost Ark came out and is consuming all of my life. While I won't be playing this on release, I can't wait to hear all of your opinions of the expansion.

How are you progressing? We have about 5 of us who are 1k+ in gear score and the same amount around the 500-600 mark.

I'm not sure when it starts nor the activities it covers but i was under the impression that some of the end game activities are cross server?

1090. Upgrades are getting expensive (and the failure rate is terrible!). Still loving the sorceress, most likely will play her until the reaper is available.

Maybe (probably) biased, but all the feedback I've seen on Twitter and elsewhere has been incredibly positive. Enough that I've been tempted to reinstall it on my laptop, but I'll hold off until I get home. Apparently, some folks already have 100% exploration in Echovald, which is just.... mindblowing.

End of Dragons story is great, and the storyline seems to be angled more towards solo players this time. Very beautiful locations and they ease players in so if you have not done previous stories, it’s still engaging. Only thing is, I keep looking for anthrpomorphic pandas.

Fun thread from Dan Olson who's having a lot of fun despite finding it inscrutable

https://twitter.com/FoldableHuman/st...

The first couple missions are awesome but because I didn’t catch up on all the past expansions/living stories I’m totally lost. I’m going back now to finish PoF through the last saga.

I'm gonna do that later. I'm in an even earlier spot but this new expansion and about a 3 year break has re-energized me for the game.

More and more I’m realizing I’m so behind as a returning player. Ran a guild meta on the first map and there were a number of mastery points where it seems you need the dragonscale to get to. Furthermore, seems being ascended and nearly raid ready is required if you want to beat some of the map metas. I’m still having fun but not so sure I have the time for this game.

jdzappa wrote:

More and more I’m realizing I’m so behind as a returning player. Ran a guild meta on the first map and there were a number of mastery points where it seems you need the dragonscale to get to. Furthermore, seems being ascended and nearly raid ready is required if you want to beat some of the map metas. I’m still having fun but not so sure I have the time for this game.

I have not found that to be true in regards to map metas. You do need groups to beat those for sure. I will say HoT metas and the area over all is more challenging then any other content - especially in regards to ground attacks for sure.

Not sure if anyones made it to the final map but that’s where I’m hearing things get downright hairy. Also hearing the strike missions are pretty tough with lots of elitists.

Strike missions are def end level group content. You can do them without ascended gear if you have a coordinated group.

jdzappa wrote:

Not sure if anyones made it to the final map but that’s where I’m hearing things get downright hairy. Also hearing the strike missions are pretty tough with lots of elitists.

You get a stacking buff on the last map that goes to 10%, along with the offensive/defensive buffs from the protocols. Everyone in the group needs to have at least 7%, and you need at least 50 people, preferably the entire map working on it. I got lucky and met all the above and we finished the meta with less than a minute to spare. You get the stacking buff by doing events on the map to prepare. Difficulty is exacerbated by rngesus. Edit: got confused about word choice.

The devs stated they want the metas to be as difficult as the Whisper strike mission, but map wise, and currently there are no plans to make it easier. I used all exotic and was doing pretty well, but yeah I do think if they added a good 5 minutes it’d still be close/difficult.

Dr.Incurable wrote:

The devs stated they want the metas to be as difficult as the Whisper strike mission, but map wise, and currently there are no plans to make it easier. I used all exotic and was doing pretty well, but yeah I do think if they added a good 5 minutes it’d still be close/difficult.

I guess I should ask and hoping this isn’t a huge spoiler - can I finish the story without beating the last meta or strike missions? This may be a case I enjoy the game until June when the next ESO expansion comes out.

jdzappa wrote:
Dr.Incurable wrote:

The devs stated they want the metas to be as difficult as the Whisper strike mission, but map wise, and currently there are no plans to make it easier. I used all exotic and was doing pretty well, but yeah I do think if they added a good 5 minutes it’d still be close/difficult.

I guess I should ask and hoping this isn’t a huge spoiler - can I finish the story without beating the last meta or strike missions? This may be a case I enjoy the game until June when the next ESO expansion comes out.

So without spoiling, you do not need to do the meta or strike missions. They are like Fractals and Raids in previous expansions, stuff to do after completing the story. That said you do have to participate in events to unlock the story instance, and there is an achievement for completing the meta before doing the story. The story and meta are quite different and are both hard in their own way. Edit: needed to clarify a statement.