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If you start at level 1 with a weapon, you know only 1 skill. As you level up you learn more . At level 10 you know the basic 3 skills. So if you pick up a new weapon later you know 3 skills, and for 2 handed weapons you know all 5.
When the game initially released you had to use a weapon to unlock the next skill actually. They did away with this at some point, I don't know when, so that when you get a weapon it just unlocks all the skills with that weapon now.
They did it with the introduction of lvl boosts if I remember well. Since when you level boosted you would have to farm all weapons unlocked even tho you were way too advanced for the unlocks to make sense. To be fair, if you wanna be roleplay, you could say when you get a sword you learned how to use one from when you were young since everyone starts as an adult haha.
@@mortalux Was it around when they locked story chapters every 10 levels? Anyway, unlocking the skills was pretty fast, so I still don't know why they removed the thing...
It's actually still sorta in the game. When you first equip a new weapon, you'll notice some skills are locked, but a simple weapon swap, or unequip and reequip will unlock them.
The fact that you had to do that is actually what caused me to stick with it. I thought it was really interesting and a cool way to do it at the time. I love the wvw mode now,but at the time I was a purely pve player and probably wouldn't of even stuck with it if not for that function which really drew me in at the time.
The one thing I love about crafting in GW2 is that you really WANT to craft later to get your legendary. Legendary weapons in gw are actually legendary with special effects and they will never be powercrept. The only way to craft your legendary (aside from spending an ungodly amount of gold on the market place) is by slowly gathering all these super rare items, it feels like your character is growing and has to keep on going on adventures until you can finally craft that big dick sword that leaves smoshes on your screen as you swing it
Perfect timing, I just sat on the toilet 🎉. Also just started playing this recently, it's almost overwhelming with everything you can do, just started fractals and I gotta say, I'm having a blast all while NOT paying a sub.
Take the game slow or youll burn out relativly fast. Its still my personal favorite mmo because of the art style and the combat/gear/skill system, but im taking a break till the next addon gets released ^^
its worthwhile noting that the expansions MASSIVLY up the visuals aswell and add extremely interresting environments for mmos. Gw2 shines significantly more from the first expansion onward.
Please keep making GW2 content. This game is like a fine wine. I got back into it recently and having a blast. If you haven't clicked with it in the past, definitely give it another shot.
GW2 has been my MMO for the last 9 years. Like any MMO it has its issues, but I just love so many things about it there is nothing out there that compares.
@@brzozx7651 Ascended gear is not hard to get, you can get it from fractals, raids or craft it. Legendary gear is another thing, it's the same as ascended in terms of stats but you can change them as you want and the legendary gear is available to all your characters once you craft it once, but that's a long long grind. But you just need ascended, look up a build online or make your own and get the ascended gear with the stats you need.
@@brzozx7651 nope. If you want actual BiS gear (Ascended) there is a decent grind since it was introduced in response to people wanting more gear chasing. If you go the crafting route and craft your own daily crafting cooldowns it should take around 3 days a piece for a fresh new player, however that is just because of crafting timegates not real grind. You can buy full exotic gear (5% worse than ascended) right off the trading post, depending on the stat you want it could be fairly expensive for a new player or very very cheap. Power DPS BiS stat is mostly berserker stat combo and you can get a full set of zerker exotic armor for around 2.5g. weapons are similarly cheap for zerker costing a bit over a good for all your weapon slots to be in almost-BiS. Trinket slots are harder for a new player to gear since the really easy ways to gear them are in living world stuff mostly. I won't get to into the process but don't buy zerker rings since you can get them from fracts, and it's a bit over 10g mostly from the backpack to gear the other slots. The real money sink for pdps is scholar runes which are a bit over 20g (one hour on a good farm) for a full set, and weapon sigils will cost somewhere around 5g area. All in all you can get your armor and weapons from the gold you make while leveling up and by learning fractals you should have enough money to fill out the rest of your kit by the time you hit tier 2 fracts. Anyways you can do almost all of the content in the game in exotic gear including every raid.
Levels are insignificant in guild wars, they make it insanely easy to level cap. Being level 20 means you've barely scratched the surface. There are some rough times ahead, all I'll say is they fixed these issues afterwards. Also dungeons are few and we're abandoned long ago and you'll see why. They have their own system now that works with their game.
8:10 Guild Wars 2 was like that on release. When you picked up a new weapon you had to kill X Enemies to unlock the next weapon skill. So maybe just 2-3 to get Skill 2 but then like 7-10 to get Skill 3 and so on. I liked that system alot as it eased you into it and made you feel like you were training with the weapon but I guess the majority didn't like it so they changed it to you just unlocking them all at once.
Base game is just one big tutorial. I bought GW2 at launch, played for 2 months and then quit until HoT, then finally learn how crappy my gears and build stats to even survive in the jungle.
Progression can really be whatever you want it to be. If you want to go to the newest zone that you finally leveled up for, or even just camp the low level zones, both are viable. Even pvp can be progressing. I would also say that it's potentially worth investing in the xpacs now, as you can use some of the features right away, especially in pvp.
I always recommend path of fire for new players, even more than the main personal story. If you do PoF and you don't like the game then it's not for you
@@KokoKrunchs I was always borderline bored with the main story and even Hot. They weren't exactly my jam and I found them underwhelming. Pof was like the only expansion I felt was exciting and engaging. Also the story made sense without finishing previous extensions. The map with the desert nights is absolutely beautiful. I loved the vast open world. To me it is the peak of gw2
Well... GW2 opens up a lot and it changed a lot from expansion to expansion. You have still a lot to see. No rush though. The gear is supposed to last, so don't be surprised it will stop getting better after you hit max lvl
Perhaps the BEST thing Guild Wars 2 offeres as a game, is NO Subscription Fees! You could play for free (but you'll get limit access to game content) or you can do a 1 time buy and play FOREVER! lol
There's a few dragons out there that you can fight. Just like the other dynamic events, you just have to be there when the event starts or you miss out.
Guild wars 2 is like one of those games you try two times and immediately drop because they just don't click even if they suit your tastes on paper, but then you try them again a few years later and you get hooked.
Fun fact Nixxiom. The 'light weapon' skill u mentioned was the first implementation of learning weapon skils back at release. It was very quick, but you had to use a weapon go unlock the 5 skills.
Crafting was useful in the beginning when the game came out. Now it's more for getting ascended stuff, like the armor and weapons or foods. Later on for the legendary stuff if you want to craft it yourself instead of buying. Also you used to craft to level up faster. I used to do 6 crafts to level 400 to get a level 76+ character. It was cheap and easy in the beginning. Also you might want to do world bosses.
well, you should first finish 2nd expansion - Path of Fire .. it's very good and you'll get (almost) all mounts. Playing with mounts is about 1500% better experience ;) Every mount here has it's special purpose and movement and it's very fun just to ride or fly
The game picks up more towards the late game. Core Tyria is just your first steps into the game. Crafting is important but you aren't using the gear you make early on till you get to ascended and Legendary crafting, its so that you can level your profession, give yourself xp and you can even sell some of the things you make at the black market for some cash. The story gets really good in the expansions so I suggest you try out at least one of them before doing another impressions video. Also when you get your elite specs that's when the real fun starts.
Its so much fun, i love it. Everytime i step away from it and come back, im always confused as to why. Ive done cyrodil in eso and i have to say gw2 does wvw better.
@Nixxiom I HOPE you play more GW2 for yourself to fall in love with it, after that as a fan and a subscriber hell yes I want you to do more GW2 content :) lol. BUT, only if you grow to really enjoy it
Spvp the 5v5 mode will scale you to 80 and unlock all your passives etc for you but in WvW it will not do that. So make sure you get to 80 and get all your skills unlocked and get into full exotic gear, speced properly etc.
Gw2 took me a few goes at to really understand end game, but once you know that its a "Make your own adventure" in terms of the progression is what you want to do.. Not currently playing it, but its an mmo that you can come back to after a 2 year break and still be able to do all of the new content. Best mmorpg on the market overall, but if you want a gear treadmil, this isn't it.. Once you have the best gear, that's it unless you want to try different specs or classes. Purely a skill vs gear thing though.
I had never tried GW2! I think it’s great. You’re covering it because it’s actually quite a fun game and something different of an MMO compared to WOW. Having lots of fun being a newbie again and learning new things. Hoping this will be a game. I enjoy for quite a while. Please do more videos.
Next time, before you go into PvP, setup your pvp gear and skills Also a warning, dungeons are not like other games' dungeons. If you want something like that, try fractals after lvl 80. And lastly: leveling crafting also gives xp
There is DEFINITELY a huge character build customization. At max level, there are elite specializations (3 for now, newest expansion is bringing out a fourth), but the newest expansion allows you to use all weapons from all elite specializations, like running dagger main-hand and pistol or torch off-hand. I'd suggest trying out ranger, thief or necromancer if you want to try a different armor weight and intend to stick with GW2 (I may or may have self-plugged my main classes).
You hit the nail on the head-feeling like an adventurer and incrementally learning more skills is the entire appeal of an MMORPG to me. It’s why the system FF has where you can just change class on a single character… or even here with picking up a weapon and knowing different skills all of a sudden… is really unappealing to me. So many games diminish the “RPG” side of things just for the sake of convenience and allowing everyone to do everything. This is a prime example of that. Having specialized roles and things only certain characters can do is what makes the world feel alive and immersive. Just like every doctor in real life isn’t also a lawyer and an astronaut and a plumber just by changing clothes… specialized, unique characters means not everyone can do everything, and it’s better that way. Although here it doesn’t look as bad as FF where you can literally just change classes. Idk. I play MMORPGs solely for the adventure/immersion factor and if I was concerned about having a wide array of action skills at the click of a button i would play an action game
Story starts picking up once you reach certain treshold, and it has very interesting aspects. That is... if you have the living seasons packs, which costs money, ofc. All in due time. Don't be disappointed with crafting. It has it's purpose, and it's easy to understand. One of the biggest mistake ppl does when they play new MMO is... don't play GW2 as you would WoW, or FFXIV, or any other MMO, or you will feel miserable the whole way. Play it as you would play totally new game and try to understand it's system.
It took me a while to start enjoying GW2 because I kept comparing it with WoW. When I decided to stop this, man the game changed for me. It is great in almost every single aspect. Love it so much!
How is that even possible? Is it because of nostalgia? Every time i instaled wow (was 4 or 5 times) i insta delete it because how stupid and basic combat is.. my mind was blown away that people not just buy that game, they pay monthly. WTF
with your concerns about crafting, the reason why it's more important later on is because the 6th gear rarity, Ascendancy, can only be crafted and with max level discipline (crafting levels) getting ascendant weapons is your fist steps to getting to the extremely high endgame
They are def way more enjoyable this way. I have recently been looking for groups that basically say "need help" and joining those. Simply b/c watching them explore it is far more interesting than "zerging" through it at this point.
About knowing all the weapon skills when you pick up a new weapon: IF you didn't equip a new type of weapon until late in the game, you would find yourself in a zone surround by level 80 mobs with 1 weapon skill to use until you unlocked the others. I think that would be worse than just automatically getting all of them.
I bought (before the 1st expansion) GW2 and never managed to be able to craft anything useful to me in game over a period of 3 months of play. Have they changed the crafting system or is it still pretty much the same?
Played gw2 years ago and bought HoT expansion but never reach that zone because I was so bored playing in the free initial zone and finally I quit for good, heck I didnt even know how to get glider work @.@ But here I am today, youtube is recommending me on my page, so is the game getting better when I reach the expansion zone?
You can lvl up in anything .. Story Map completions... Ask a player to taxi you to a meta >_> People are really friendly.. I done it lots of times for little ones in ma 🐢..Pvp too gives lots of exp and books that grand you lvl ... you can completely ignore the story if you dont like that isn'tnecessary for lvl... But there are players that open group for story line and you can play it in a group if you hate solo content... Crafting isnt overwhelming.. After you've crafted your first set of ascended, you will Farm those recipes and pray for a drop 😂 Please give it a chance... its really a lovely game ❤
I got back into it because it is easy to play it and play other games. People do the old raids even, so there’s no FOMO. My favorite part is that you can basically min/max your play style and the raids are mainly for cosmetic reward. This means it’s hard to fall behind, but doing the content is still rewarding. I thought I would miss the gear treadmill, but don’t. The older content is never fully obsolete like in WoW.
Guild Wars 2 basically has everything anyone would ever want in an MMO. There's very little wrong with it. I'm not sure what it is about GW2 though, but I always find myself going AFK or just turning off the game. I never get hooked into it.
I didn't like GW2 when it came out, I decided to give it another shot just before the EOD expansion and my god its great! Been playing it hardcore since!
some minor things: Professions are the "classes" like warrior, 'crafting prefessions' called disciplines. (some wording) ;) also, long ago, weapon skills were unlocked by killing a number of mobs. but that system was discarded, because it was more frustrating than fun, when you equiped a weapon, with an alt character, and realise you don't have skills....
8:06 Actually when the game first started they had a system like that. In order to learn a weapon you'd have to use it more. But then they standardized the game across China and not China regions So that was lost. Which was sad because it was really cool running around on your level three with All the greatsword skills.
Did they fix the launcher? I tried to give this another shot a few weeks back and there was a "known issue" where the launcher would get stuck updating, making the game inaccessible.
Played GW2 since a few weeks after launch(once they released more coppies). WvWvW was great, I am not a big PvP player and arenas (do they call them BG now or since the beginning?) were not for me. Farmed my legendary weapon, had a lot offun with jumping puzzles and other in world, dynamic events brought life into the world. Massive dragon fights were not much fun, but you gotta farm then if you want those weapon skins. But most fun I had with dungeons. Tranaforming my Norn Guardian from support to glass cannon, speed running dungeons with full party of glass cannons, that combat was great. Then release of Fractals, climbing Fractal levels oh it was the best! But guildies stopped playing, in the end it was me and one guy logging in and out for AH trading, my irl friend that dragged me into GW2 stopped playing not long after reaching max lvl(missed holy trinity and PC could not handle WvWvW), so I stopped playing before next expansion, never comming back. I should wake up my Guardian from coma when I get down time next time. Yes, I do.
I was a very long time Wow pause, -5 plus years. I finally gave this a try and I have to say, not going back to Wow. I Love the Horizontal progress and I Love that my toons are relevant. The combat, graphics and character development is incredible. I am a casual player and with that said,this game rewards me daily. I went back to Wow to see if it still held my desire to play and it couldn’t. I am not going back, Wow had me chasing carrots I could never catch up to. Not fun anymore, and even my wife plays GW 2 and she is done with Wow. Give this a try, there’s a reason many are discovering this without ANY advertising. Try it and you will LOVE GW2. ❤️🐜
Played almost everyday since launch, over 5000 hour soon, only MMo still playing and still have so much to do www and pvp and endless fun, you can even craft full set of legendary armor on pvp and www, and pve ofc
Do the hearts they do sometimes sell weapons and armor + it gives you little bit of xp and karma :) What type of weapon or armor u will get depends on where in the world you are because different races have different styles :)
Played many MMOs mainly WoW and ESO and once I started GW2 I couldn't go back 🌈 When I restart other MMOs I litteraly DIE from boredom 🐸 The world feel sooooo much more alive 🌞🌞🌞
I am not much for PvP and did not want to go anywhere near WvW, and yet ended up doing everything. Because! There is a purpose for it all! You truely start playing the game when you max your level. Do not think of it as any other MMO and give it a try, and stick around after an event (not the hearts that are basically quests), the events are chained
I currently play both WoW and GW2. I log in to WoW to do Chores. Even in DF, there's a bunch of stuff I have to do. In GW2, there's an endless supply of things I *want* to do. Places I *want* to explore. Zones I *want* to complete. Dungeons and Fractals I *want* to experience. Achievements and legendaries I *want* to hunt down. I still think WoW combat is king and the gameplay loop is fun, but GW2 breaks so many preconceived notions of what I thought an MMO had to be and opens the field on what an MMO -can- be. tl;dr GW2 requires a mental shift but if you're willing to acknowledge that, the ceiling for what an MMO can be completely opens up.
GW2 is the best mmo you can play atm alongside ESO SWOTOR LOTRO......... Beautiful Respect your time and money and ofc tons of fun and friendly community!
Guild wars 2 is a fantastic game to play and level characters and skills in, but I find it to be a challenging game to enjoy at endgame. So much of what would normally be horizontal endgame progression (character skins, mounts, weapon skins etc.) has been stripped down to put on the gem store that it becomes a game of optimizing gold generation to get stuff instead of doing actual content. Even crafting legendaries mostly comes down to your gold income (and most of them can even be straight up bought off the AH for gems). There are a few exceptions like that ONE mount skin you can earn from WvWvW and a few okay looking (but clearly less epic than store-bought) weapon sets, but easily 90%+ of the cool stuff is gem store-bought. As a result, a lot of things that would otherwise feel like awesome acquisitions or accomplishments are about as impressive as having a WoW store mount, even if you did technically earn them through mindless grinding instead of resorting to real money purchases. It also doesn't help for me that my favourite part of the vanilla game was the dungeons, and we haven't had a SINGLE new dungeon added since launch, only raids, which don't scratch the same itch.
Been with GW2 when it launched but stopped until the crystal desert part with Marjery/Kasmeer/Eir’s Son (forgot his name). Thinking of jumping back in.
You should try raiding once you get to max level and geared up, it's the most enjoyable raiding system I've seen in an mmo, also, world metas, you gotta try those, it's dynamic events taken to a whole other level. Dungeons where kinda abandoned, instead you have fractals, much more fun imo. Progression in this game is completely different from other mmos, once you get to level 80 and gear up you have a horizontal progression, you unlock new stuff that changes the way you play, like the mount system, or the elite specialisations, gliding. The story also gets much much better with the expansions, and combat gets a lot harder and a lot more fun. I main mirage, so open world combat is kinda set to easy mode anyway 😂
gw2 has the best mass pvp ive ever encountered, once you get into it and learn how it works, there is no turning back, its the best in the genre, i wish it could become a standalone genre that didnt have to be chained down to a pve mmorpg
Leveling up to 80 almost made me quit few times, [did it without raptor] the story was super meh, but god damn exploring and swapping skills and weapons was quite fun. Aaand after 80 the real game began :)
I was like that for years, I totally feel you. Even to this day I don't have a ton of time to play but I sometimes stay up for a bit after my wife and kids go to bed to have my own gaming time. Life can be pretty crazy!
Gw2 is very casual friendly, as the gear doesn't get more powerful after new dlc. So even if you don't play for a year or two. You can jump into the game again and still haven't been left behind.
@@GauteAnimationNorway Yep and this is one huge reason why I have dropped other MMOs. Still play some Old School RuneScape though! I strictly play GW2 for this QOL feature and of course there are many other awesome things about GW2 that keep me tied.
No body and i mean no mmo does world events and mounts better than gw2 its insane how good it is other mmo not even in the same leauge every meta map is a banger and 10 years later the old maps are still engaging its criminal other mmo communities are oblivious to this.
as someone who played at launch, I was pretty disappointed, I liked to play healers, I was one of the best PvP healers in the original guildwars and since there was no such thing as effectively healing others at launch, i hated it. I came back when HoT released, played for about 6 months or so, it had become better, but it was still missing something. It has become so much better than it was at launch, I think current gw2 is far superior than it ever has been before, for the first time in gw2 history every spec can be useful in end game, you don't have to have 2 chronos, 2 warriors, 2 druids for everything, boons are available on pretty much every class, big damage IS available on every class. The balance team has finally caught up, and I hope it continues to be great for years to come.
Just like any MMO everything opens up at max level. Also the elite classes make everything so much more fun. Best part it doesnt take long to level in comparison to FF14.
Aion 2009-2011, WoW 2010-2012 and then ESO and GW2 player-veteran since launch both. GW2 is in a great place now. Back when it started, it's open world and pvp ruined more oldschool mmos, spare for some LOTRO maybe, for me. Welcome!
Fun story i got in this game by seeing montages of super duper ele mains got the game and im enjoying 4years have passed and as for personal story i started it after a year of playing i didnt even knew there was one X) .I WAS THERE FOR THE COMBAT i guess
Im just happy that he likes it. In my opinion the early game sucks especially for new players: you dont get introduced to most of the mechanics, after finishing the first bit of story you just get thrown out into the world without anything telling you about all of the options that you have; when i started playing gw2 i thought i messed something up bc the story quest was suddenly gone, i didnt know that i had to level up to level 10 to progress. The personal story also was sometimes just boring or unintentionally goofy (...killing a mouth...). Im happy that they're working on the new player experience again. It might not sound like it but i love gw2 a lot. The game has its problems but it's my favorite mmo and the one that i spend the most time in.
I haven't played this game in ages and i just got me some free space in SSD so i am lurking around, wondering if this game is worth downloading and playing. Knowing me in this kind of games,ill probably download it,try out all the classes and races and such and then when there's nothing new,ill get bored quickly and delete the game... unless this game is actually so good that i actually wanna get deeper into it. If theres anybody who's been playing this for a while,id like to get an opinion, should i wait whole night and half morning just to start playing this game.
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If you start at level 1 with a weapon, you know only 1 skill. As you level up you learn more . At level 10 you know the basic 3 skills. So if you pick up a new weapon later you know 3 skills, and for 2 handed weapons you know all 5.
When the game initially released you had to use a weapon to unlock the next skill actually. They did away with this at some point, I don't know when, so that when you get a weapon it just unlocks all the skills with that weapon now.
They did it with the introduction of lvl boosts if I remember well. Since when you level boosted you would have to farm all weapons unlocked even tho you were way too advanced for the unlocks to make sense. To be fair, if you wanna be roleplay, you could say when you get a sword you learned how to use one from when you were young since everyone starts as an adult haha.
it's kinda tedious when you leveling up a weapon is meant to heal
or some offhand weapon that only has long cooldown skill
that's why it got cancel
@@mortalux Was it around when they locked story chapters every 10 levels? Anyway, unlocking the skills was pretty fast, so I still don't know why they removed the thing...
It's actually still sorta in the game. When you first equip a new weapon, you'll notice some skills are locked, but a simple weapon swap, or unequip and reequip will unlock them.
The fact that you had to do that is actually what caused me to stick with it. I thought it was really interesting and a cool way to do it at the time. I love the wvw mode now,but at the time I was a purely pve player and probably wouldn't of even stuck with it if not for that function which really drew me in at the time.
The one thing I love about crafting in GW2 is that you really WANT to craft later to get your legendary.
Legendary weapons in gw are actually legendary with special effects and they will never be powercrept.
The only way to craft your legendary (aside from spending an ungodly amount of gold on the market place) is by slowly gathering all these super rare items, it feels like your character is growing and has to keep on going on adventures until you can finally craft that big dick sword that leaves smoshes on your screen as you swing it
Perfect timing, I just sat on the toilet 🎉. Also just started playing this recently, it's almost overwhelming with everything you can do, just started fractals and I gotta say, I'm having a blast all while NOT paying a sub.
No shit ( excuse the pun) I literally just say down on the loo and read YOUR comment 😂
Take the game slow or youll burn out relativly fast. Its still my personal favorite mmo because of the art style and the combat/gear/skill system, but im taking a break till the next addon gets released ^^
I just got to the toilet and read this comment chain lmao
me too men, having a real blast, playing for two weeks now on my own and i love it
its worthwhile noting that the expansions MASSIVLY up the visuals aswell and add extremely interresting environments for mmos. Gw2 shines significantly more from the first expansion onward.
Please keep making GW2 content. This game is like a fine wine. I got back into it recently and having a blast. If you haven't clicked with it in the past, definitely give it another shot.
GW2 has been my MMO for the last 9 years. Like any MMO it has its issues, but I just love so many things about it there is nothing out there that compares.
How gear progression look in this game ?
@@brzozx7651 once you get your bis gear it stays bis no matter what so once you grind for it, no more grinding again
@@killer-im5hn does it take long to get that gear if I play 8hrs a day ?
@@brzozx7651 Ascended gear is not hard to get, you can get it from fractals, raids or craft it. Legendary gear is another thing, it's the same as ascended in terms of stats but you can change them as you want and the legendary gear is available to all your characters once you craft it once, but that's a long long grind. But you just need ascended, look up a build online or make your own and get the ascended gear with the stats you need.
@@brzozx7651 nope. If you want actual BiS gear (Ascended) there is a decent grind since it was introduced in response to people wanting more gear chasing. If you go the crafting route and craft your own daily crafting cooldowns it should take around 3 days a piece for a fresh new player, however that is just because of crafting timegates not real grind. You can buy full exotic gear (5% worse than ascended) right off the trading post, depending on the stat you want it could be fairly expensive for a new player or very very cheap. Power DPS BiS stat is mostly berserker stat combo and you can get a full set of zerker exotic armor for around 2.5g. weapons are similarly cheap for zerker costing a bit over a good for all your weapon slots to be in almost-BiS. Trinket slots are harder for a new player to gear since the really easy ways to gear them are in living world stuff mostly. I won't get to into the process but don't buy zerker rings since you can get them from fracts, and it's a bit over 10g mostly from the backpack to gear the other slots. The real money sink for pdps is scholar runes which are a bit over 20g (one hour on a good farm) for a full set, and weapon sigils will cost somewhere around 5g area. All in all you can get your armor and weapons from the gold you make while leveling up and by learning fractals you should have enough money to fill out the rest of your kit by the time you hit tier 2 fracts. Anyways you can do almost all of the content in the game in exotic gear including every raid.
Levels are insignificant in guild wars, they make it insanely easy to level cap. Being level 20 means you've barely scratched the surface. There are some rough times ahead, all I'll say is they fixed these issues afterwards. Also dungeons are few and we're abandoned long ago and you'll see why. They have their own system now that works with their game.
8:10 Guild Wars 2 was like that on release. When you picked up a new weapon you had to kill X Enemies to unlock the next weapon skill. So maybe just 2-3 to get Skill 2 but then like 7-10 to get Skill 3 and so on. I liked that system alot as it eased you into it and made you feel like you were training with the weapon but I guess the majority didn't like it so they changed it to you just unlocking them all at once.
I've tried to play this game for 7 years. couldn't get past the first few zones. Used my level boost this week and i'm hooked in heart of thorns
Base game is just one big tutorial. I bought GW2 at launch, played for 2 months and then quit until HoT, then finally learn how crappy my gears and build stats to even survive in the jungle.
The Elder Dragon lore was great storytelling.
Progression can really be whatever you want it to be. If you want to go to the newest zone that you finally leveled up for, or even just camp the low level zones, both are viable.
Even pvp can be progressing.
I would also say that it's potentially worth investing in the xpacs now, as you can use some of the features right away, especially in pvp.
I basically quitted playing WoW for GW2 last week
I always recommend path of fire for new players, even more than the main personal story. If you do PoF and you don't like the game then it's not for you
Mind telling us why? I stopped playing gw2 years ago due to boredom as new players at that time tho
@@KokoKrunchs I was always borderline bored with the main story and even Hot. They weren't exactly my jam and I found them underwhelming. Pof was like the only expansion I felt was exciting and engaging. Also the story made sense without finishing previous extensions.
The map with the desert nights is absolutely beautiful. I loved the vast open world.
To me it is the peak of gw2
Well... GW2 opens up a lot and it changed a lot from expansion to expansion. You have still a lot to see. No rush though. The gear is supposed to last, so don't be surprised it will stop getting better after you hit max lvl
What should I do after just hitting max lvl? Just do the story?
@@daethmer7834 Yes. Going through the story and doing whatever is available there is usually the best way to start.
Perhaps the BEST thing Guild Wars 2 offeres as a game, is NO Subscription Fees! You could play for free (but you'll get limit access to game content) or you can do a 1 time buy and play FOREVER! lol
There's a few dragons out there that you can fight. Just like the other dynamic events, you just have to be there when the event starts or you miss out.
Guild wars 2 is like one of those games you try two times and immediately drop because they just don't click even if they suit your tastes on paper, but then you try them again a few years later and you get hooked.
Fun fact Nixxiom. The 'light weapon' skill u mentioned was the first implementation of learning weapon skils back at release. It was very quick, but you had to use a weapon go unlock the 5 skills.
Crafting was useful in the beginning when the game came out. Now it's more for getting ascended stuff, like the armor and weapons or foods. Later on for the legendary stuff if you want to craft it yourself instead of buying. Also you used to craft to level up faster. I used to do 6 crafts to level 400 to get a level 76+ character. It was cheap and easy in the beginning. Also you might want to do world bosses.
Good lord yes, the world bosses are amazing.
well, you should first finish 2nd expansion - Path of Fire .. it's very good and you'll get (almost) all mounts.
Playing with mounts is about 1500% better experience ;)
Every mount here has it's special purpose and movement and it's very fun just to ride or fly
The game picks up more towards the late game. Core Tyria is just your first steps into the game. Crafting is important but you aren't using the gear you make early on till you get to ascended and Legendary crafting, its so that you can level your profession, give yourself xp and you can even sell some of the things you make at the black market for some cash.
The story gets really good in the expansions so I suggest you try out at least one of them before doing another impressions video. Also when you get your elite specs that's when the real fun starts.
There is a LOT to do in this game. A brief look at the Achievements section in the Hero panel should show that.
I play GW2 for the structure pvp, dont need gear, just build your character and go. Its very satisfying.
At least the "2" in Guild Wars is entirely justified, unlike Overwatch
Its so much fun, i love it. Everytime i step away from it and come back, im always confused as to why. Ive done cyrodil in eso and i have to say gw2 does wvw better.
@Nixxiom I HOPE you play more GW2 for yourself to fall in love with it, after that as a fan and a subscriber hell yes I want you to do more GW2 content :) lol. BUT, only if you grow to really enjoy it
Spvp the 5v5 mode will scale you to 80 and unlock all your passives etc for you but in WvW it will not do that. So make sure you get to 80 and get all your skills unlocked and get into full exotic gear, speced properly etc.
Gw2 took me a few goes at to really understand end game, but once you know that its a "Make your own adventure" in terms of the progression is what you want to do.. Not currently playing it, but its an mmo that you can come back to after a 2 year break and still be able to do all of the new content. Best mmorpg on the market overall, but if you want a gear treadmil, this isn't it.. Once you have the best gear, that's it unless you want to try different specs or classes. Purely a skill vs gear thing though.
I had never tried GW2! I think it’s great. You’re covering it because it’s actually quite a fun game and something different of an MMO compared to WOW. Having lots of fun being a newbie again and learning new things. Hoping this will be a game. I enjoy for quite a while. Please do more videos.
Next time, before you go into PvP, setup your pvp gear and skills
Also a warning, dungeons are not like other games' dungeons. If you want something like that, try fractals after lvl 80.
And lastly: leveling crafting also gives xp
There is DEFINITELY a huge character build customization. At max level, there are elite specializations (3 for now, newest expansion is bringing out a fourth), but the newest expansion allows you to use all weapons from all elite specializations, like running dagger main-hand and pistol or torch off-hand. I'd suggest trying out ranger, thief or necromancer if you want to try a different armor weight and intend to stick with GW2 (I may or may have self-plugged my main classes).
You hit the nail on the head-feeling like an adventurer and incrementally learning more skills is the entire appeal of an MMORPG to me. It’s why the system FF has where you can just change class on a single character… or even here with picking up a weapon and knowing different skills all of a sudden… is really unappealing to me. So many games diminish the “RPG” side of things just for the sake of convenience and allowing everyone to do everything. This is a prime example of that. Having specialized roles and things only certain characters can do is what makes the world feel alive and immersive. Just like every doctor in real life isn’t also a lawyer and an astronaut and a plumber just by changing clothes… specialized, unique characters means not everyone can do everything, and it’s better that way. Although here it doesn’t look as bad as FF where you can literally just change classes. Idk. I play MMORPGs solely for the adventure/immersion factor and if I was concerned about having a wide array of action skills at the click of a button i would play an action game
Story starts picking up once you reach certain treshold, and it has very interesting aspects. That is... if you have the living seasons packs, which costs money, ofc. All in due time. Don't be disappointed with crafting. It has it's purpose, and it's easy to understand. One of the biggest mistake ppl does when they play new MMO is... don't play GW2 as you would WoW, or FFXIV, or any other MMO, or you will feel miserable the whole way. Play it as you would play totally new game and try to understand it's system.
Yep. It's as if different games have different mechanics and systems than other games. Who would'a thunk?
It took me a while to start enjoying GW2 because I kept comparing it with WoW.
When I decided to stop this, man the game changed for me. It is great in almost every single aspect.
Love it so much!
How is that even possible? Is it because of nostalgia? Every time i instaled wow (was 4 or 5 times) i insta delete it because how stupid and basic combat is.. my mind was blown away that people not just buy that game, they pay monthly. WTF
with your concerns about crafting, the reason why it's more important later on is because the 6th gear rarity, Ascendancy, can only be crafted and with max level discipline (crafting levels) getting ascendant weapons is your fist steps to getting to the extremely high endgame
GW2 is amazing, I have over 1000 hours in it and been playing on and off. PVP is where it's at, at least for me. Love that damn game.
If you want to have fun in the classic dungeons, try to do them with new/low-level players.
They are def way more enjoyable this way. I have recently been looking for groups that basically say "need help" and joining those. Simply b/c watching them explore it is far more interesting than "zerging" through it at this point.
About knowing all the weapon skills when you pick up a new weapon: IF you didn't equip a new type of weapon until late in the game, you would find yourself in a zone surround by level 80 mobs with 1 weapon skill to use until you unlocked the others. I think that would be worse than just automatically getting all of them.
I bought (before the 1st expansion) GW2 and never managed to be able to craft anything useful to me in game over a period of 3 months of play. Have they changed the crafting system or is it still pretty much the same?
Played gw2 years ago and bought HoT expansion but never reach that zone because I was so bored playing in the free initial zone and finally I quit for good, heck I didnt even know how to get glider work @.@
But here I am today, youtube is recommending me on my page, so is the game getting better when I reach the expansion zone?
You can lvl up in anything .. Story Map completions... Ask a player to taxi you to a meta >_> People are really friendly.. I done it lots of times for little ones in ma 🐢..Pvp too gives lots of exp and books that grand you lvl ... you can completely ignore the story if you dont like that isn'tnecessary for lvl... But there are players that open group for story line and you can play it in a group if you hate solo content... Crafting isnt overwhelming.. After you've crafted your first set of ascended, you will Farm those recipes and pray for a drop 😂 Please give it a chance... its really a lovely game ❤
Thank you for reviewing this again. I really really enjoy your Gw2 content! Please send us more :D
It really is a great game- I love how they built the Mesmer class, there's nothing else like it in any MMORPG.
I got back into it because it is easy to play it and play other games. People do the old raids even, so there’s no FOMO. My favorite part is that you can basically min/max your play style and the raids are mainly for cosmetic reward. This means it’s hard to fall behind, but doing the content is still rewarding. I thought I would miss the gear treadmill, but don’t. The older content is never fully obsolete like in WoW.
Guild Wars 2 basically has everything anyone would ever want in an MMO. There's very little wrong with it. I'm not sure what it is about GW2 though, but I always find myself going AFK or just turning off the game. I never get hooked into it.
I didn't like GW2 when it came out, I decided to give it another shot just before the EOD expansion and my god its great! Been playing it hardcore since!
"Hitting level 20, I think that`s enough time invested into a game to render a pretty solid opinion as a new player in 2023"
KEKW
some minor things:
Professions are the "classes" like warrior, 'crafting prefessions' called disciplines. (some wording) ;)
also, long ago, weapon skills were unlocked by killing a number of mobs. but that system was discarded, because it was more frustrating than fun, when you equiped a weapon, with an alt character, and realise you don't have skills....
Hope you decide to keep playing - I think it's such a fun game, and am just a casual player. Have fun with it!!!
Yeah most GW2 players are pretty scared of PvP to be fair (I'm one of them).
8:06 Actually when the game first started they had a system like that. In order to learn a weapon you'd have to use it more. But then they standardized the game across China and not China regions So that was lost. Which was sad because it was really cool running around on your level three with All the greatsword skills.
Did they fix the launcher? I tried to give this another shot a few weeks back and there was a "known issue" where the launcher would get stuck updating, making the game inaccessible.
Played GW2 since a few weeks after launch(once they released more coppies). WvWvW was great, I am not a big PvP player and arenas (do they call them BG now or since the beginning?) were not for me.
Farmed my legendary weapon, had a lot offun with jumping puzzles and other in world, dynamic events brought life into the world. Massive dragon fights were not much fun, but you gotta farm then if you want those weapon skins. But most fun I had with dungeons. Tranaforming my Norn Guardian from support to glass cannon, speed running dungeons with full party of glass cannons, that combat was great. Then release of Fractals, climbing Fractal levels oh it was the best!
But guildies stopped playing, in the end it was me and one guy logging in and out for AH trading, my irl friend that dragged me into GW2 stopped playing not long after reaching max lvl(missed holy trinity and PC could not handle WvWvW), so I stopped playing before next expansion, never comming back.
I should wake up my Guardian from coma when I get down time next time. Yes, I do.
I was a very long time Wow pause, -5 plus years. I finally gave this a try and I have to say, not going back to Wow. I Love the Horizontal progress and I Love that my toons are relevant. The combat, graphics and character development is incredible. I am a casual player and with that said,this game rewards me daily. I went back to Wow to see if it still held my desire to play and it couldn’t. I am not going back, Wow had me chasing carrots I could never catch up to. Not fun anymore, and even my wife plays GW 2 and she is done with Wow. Give this a try, there’s a reason many are discovering this without ANY advertising. Try it and you will LOVE GW2. ❤️🐜
Are there any graphics updates since launch? I hopped off a while back because it just felt old.
Played almost everyday since launch, over 5000 hour soon, only MMo still playing and still have so much to do www and pvp and endless fun, you can even craft full set of legendary armor on pvp and www, and pve ofc
They used to have the unlock weapon skills as you level up weapons at one point they got rid of it. It was more annoying than you would think lol.
Do the hearts they do sometimes sell weapons and armor + it gives you little bit of xp and karma :) What type of weapon or armor u will get depends on where in the world you are because different races have different styles :)
It’s a great game that respects your time.
Played many MMOs mainly WoW and ESO and once I started GW2 I couldn't go back 🌈
When I restart other MMOs I litteraly DIE from boredom 🐸
The world feel sooooo much more alive 🌞🌞🌞
I am not much for PvP and did not want to go anywhere near WvW, and yet ended up doing everything. Because! There is a purpose for it all!
You truely start playing the game when you max your level.
Do not think of it as any other MMO and give it a try, and stick around after an event (not the hearts that are basically quests), the events are chained
Do they still make the thing that makes your character walk automatically by himsel to the mob when you right click on it ? That was so lame
I currently play both WoW and GW2. I log in to WoW to do Chores. Even in DF, there's a bunch of stuff I have to do. In GW2, there's an endless supply of things I *want* to do. Places I *want* to explore. Zones I *want* to complete. Dungeons and Fractals I *want* to experience. Achievements and legendaries I *want* to hunt down. I still think WoW combat is king and the gameplay loop is fun, but GW2 breaks so many preconceived notions of what I thought an MMO had to be and opens the field on what an MMO -can- be. tl;dr GW2 requires a mental shift but if you're willing to acknowledge that, the ceiling for what an MMO can be completely opens up.
GW2 is the best mmo you can play atm alongside ESO SWOTOR LOTRO......... Beautiful Respect your time and money and ofc tons of fun and friendly community!
Guild wars 2 is a fantastic game to play and level characters and skills in, but I find it to be a challenging game to enjoy at endgame. So much of what would normally be horizontal endgame progression (character skins, mounts, weapon skins etc.) has been stripped down to put on the gem store that it becomes a game of optimizing gold generation to get stuff instead of doing actual content. Even crafting legendaries mostly comes down to your gold income (and most of them can even be straight up bought off the AH for gems). There are a few exceptions like that ONE mount skin you can earn from WvWvW and a few okay looking (but clearly less epic than store-bought) weapon sets, but easily 90%+ of the cool stuff is gem store-bought.
As a result, a lot of things that would otherwise feel like awesome acquisitions or accomplishments are about as impressive as having a WoW store mount, even if you did technically earn them through mindless grinding instead of resorting to real money purchases.
It also doesn't help for me that my favourite part of the vanilla game was the dungeons, and we haven't had a SINGLE new dungeon added since launch, only raids, which don't scratch the same itch.
Look up the legendary greatsword Exordium. It changes form based on the type of attack you use.
It is a true challenge to obtain, having it is a feather in your cap
@@tonydalimata definitely hard but we'll worth it
I wonder if Nixxiom would be disappointed in the way Jormag is ultimately taken out...
Been with GW2 when it launched but stopped until the crystal desert part with Marjery/Kasmeer/Eir’s Son (forgot his name). Thinking of jumping back in.
Braham is still standing here waiting for you!
You should try raiding once you get to max level and geared up, it's the most enjoyable raiding system I've seen in an mmo, also, world metas, you gotta try those, it's dynamic events taken to a whole other level. Dungeons where kinda abandoned, instead you have fractals, much more fun imo. Progression in this game is completely different from other mmos, once you get to level 80 and gear up you have a horizontal progression, you unlock new stuff that changes the way you play, like the mount system, or the elite specialisations, gliding. The story also gets much much better with the expansions, and combat gets a lot harder and a lot more fun. I main mirage, so open world combat is kinda set to easy mode anyway 😂
Does the leveling content in GW2 provide any challenge?
no sadly
I really sucked at crafting so when I learned that you can buy all the necessesary gear at the trading post using in game money I felt relieved
btw you can get the hairstyle if you change you hair with shop thingy
Really hope to see Nixxiom dive back in, eventually. Would love to see what he thinks of the expansion content.
That was a damn good intro. I played not too much. Gw2, but enough for me.
Anyway that intro kept me listening. Props!
gw2 has the best mass pvp ive ever encountered, once you get into it and learn how it works, there is no turning back, its the best in the genre, i wish it could become a standalone genre that didnt have to be chained down to a pve mmorpg
Leveling up to 80 almost made me quit few times, [did it without raptor] the story was super meh, but god damn exploring and swapping skills and weapons was quite fun. Aaand after 80 the real game began :)
Man, I wish I had the time for games like this. I barely get a few hours a week if I'm lucky :(
I was like that for years, I totally feel you. Even to this day I don't have a ton of time to play but I sometimes stay up for a bit after my wife and kids go to bed to have my own gaming time. Life can be pretty crazy!
Gw2 is very casual friendly, as the gear doesn't get more powerful after new dlc. So even if you don't play for a year or two. You can jump into the game again and still haven't been left behind.
@@GauteAnimationNorway Yep and this is one huge reason why I have dropped other MMOs. Still play some Old School RuneScape though! I strictly play GW2 for this QOL feature and of course there are many other awesome things about GW2 that keep me tied.
Guild Wars 2 has everything I’d want out of an MMO yet for some reason I just can’t play it as a main MMO
Are you still playing it if so it like to see where you are right now
Expansion coming next month, theres a teaser trailer and tons of info on their site already. Keep your eyes peeled.
I just got my skyscale in gw2 , and its completely different game :)
after you get your flying mount
everything will change ;)
No body and i mean no mmo does world events and mounts better than gw2 its insane how good it is other mmo not even in the same leauge every meta map is a banger and 10 years later the old maps are still engaging its criminal other mmo communities are oblivious to this.
You can 100% get the ragnar viking hair as a Norn. Must have missed it
as someone who played at launch, I was pretty disappointed, I liked to play healers, I was one of the best PvP healers in the original guildwars and since there was no such thing as effectively healing others at launch, i hated it. I came back when HoT released, played for about 6 months or so, it had become better, but it was still missing something.
It has become so much better than it was at launch, I think current gw2 is far superior than it ever has been before, for the first time in gw2 history every spec can be useful in end game, you don't have to have 2 chronos, 2 warriors, 2 druids for everything, boons are available on pretty much every class, big damage IS available on every class. The balance team has finally caught up, and I hope it continues to be great for years to come.
Just like any MMO everything opens up at max level. Also the elite classes make everything so much more fun. Best part it doesnt take long to level in comparison to FF14.
If only you knew how little you scratched the surface of this game :) it rlly opens up when you start the expantions
I recommend this game a lot its a blast im glad you talked about pvp i did only try wvw not arena i was scared but i will give it a try
Aion 2009-2011, WoW 2010-2012 and then ESO and GW2 player-veteran since launch both. GW2 is in a great place now. Back when it started, it's open world and pvp ruined more oldschool mmos, spare for some LOTRO maybe, for me. Welcome!
I played back in 2012 and decided to pick it up during the pandemic and got hooked immediately.
“But where is the story?!” I also asked myself when playing WoW Classic 🤣
Fun story i got in this game by seeing montages of super duper ele mains
got the game and im enjoying 4years have passed and as for personal story i started it after a year of playing i didnt even knew there was one X) .I WAS THERE FOR THE COMBAT i guess
Im just happy that he likes it. In my opinion the early game sucks especially for new players: you dont get introduced to most of the mechanics, after finishing the first bit of story you just get thrown out into the world without anything telling you about all of the options that you have; when i started playing gw2 i thought i messed something up bc the story quest was suddenly gone, i didnt know that i had to level up to level 10 to progress. The personal story also was sometimes just boring or unintentionally goofy (...killing a mouth...). Im happy that they're working on the new player experience again. It might not sound like it but i love gw2 a lot. The game has its problems but it's my favorite mmo and the one that i spend the most time in.
GW2 early levels are fine. But GW2 lvl 80 is where it shines imo
gw2 pvp is fantastic, glad you shouted it out
Mate, World vs World is so good when you get into it.
Weapons used to be like you said that you need to unlock the skills by using it. They got rid of it a few years ago
How have I never tried this? Downloading now. Great video
Did you get a chance to play the expansions or just the base game that's like 11 years old? Continue on Path of Fire.
You CAN get Ragnars Hairstyle as a Norn!
I haven't played this game in ages and i just got me some free space in SSD so i am lurking around, wondering if this game is worth downloading and playing. Knowing me in this kind of games,ill probably download it,try out all the classes and races and such and then when there's nothing new,ill get bored quickly and delete the game... unless this game is actually so good that i actually wanna get deeper into it. If theres anybody who's been playing this for a while,id like to get an opinion, should i wait whole night and half morning just to start playing this game.