Dungeons are fin if your gear is up to date for the level, but you’ll have trouble finding a PUG if you aren’t 80.
The mid level zones are less populated because you don’t actually need to leave the starter zones to level. You get less than you could, but you will still get decent XP. People might also just follow the personal story and just hit those zones.
Players who have been around have so many boosters and level up items they don’t need to level niece characters.
Dungeons are fin if your gear is up to date for the level, but you’ll have trouble finding a PUG if you aren’t 80.
The mid level zones are less populated because you don’t actually need to leave the starter zones to level. You get less than you could, but you will still get decent XP. People might also just follow the personal story and just hit those zones.
Players who have been around have so many boosters and level up items they don’t need to level niece characters.
I don't have a great grasp on the leveling in GW. What's the benefit to staying in the starter zones for leveling? Got my dude to 17 last night and moved to one of the 15-25 zones. Is there a reason to hit other 1-15 zones first?
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Dungeons are fin if your gear is up to date for the level, but you’ll have trouble finding a PUG if you aren’t 80.
The mid level zones are less populated because you don’t actually need to leave the starter zones to level. You get less than you could, but you will still get decent XP. People might also just follow the personal story and just hit those zones.
Players who have been around have so many boosters and level up items they don’t need to level niece characters.
I don't have a great grasp on the leveling in GW. What's the benefit to staying in the starter zones for leveling? Got my dude to 17 last night and moved to one of the 15-25 zones. Is there a reason to hit other 1-15 zones first?
XP gain from lower level zones scales to your current level, and while your character scales down a level 15 scaled to 5 is much stronger than a level 5. So doing 1-15 content at 17 will be faster than doing 15-25 content.
That said, I leveled my first character from 1-80 by staying in zones appropriate to my level 90% of the time and it was good. Higher level zones are definitely more interesting than lower level. What I would recommend is that if you find yourself falling behind the zone you're in, either go to a different low-level zone or do events until you hit the right level. Slamming your head into higher level content (even 1-3 levels higher) will frustrate you AND slow down your leveling.
You may want to try the dragon bash festival in the norn starting city, there are ports from an npc marked with a dragon icon in each city, or just outside. The arena bit scales you up to level 80 too. Dragon coffers could be an ok way to collect some starting gold for bags etc.
Thanks for the pointers, folks. I did actually stumble across the Dragon Bash festival last night. Fought a stream of bosses which was kinda fun.
I am pretty keen to do more group activities so it's a bit of a bummer of dungeon's aren't populated. I do really enjoy the world events where there are a whole lot of people involved so that's pretty cool, but I'm not sure whether that's the kind of thing you can search out or whether it's best to just quest around and do that stuff when you come across it.
Oh man, no searching required. The event train has no brakes and all passengers are welcome.
Short story is that if you- I lied -search for something like guild wars event timer you'll find a site that displays which events are currently active around the game world. As there is a set schedule, you can follow the zerg from place to place or join in for your favorites.
Oh man, no searching required. The event train has no brakes and all passengers are welcome.
Short story is that if you- I lied -search for something like guild wars event timer you'll find a site that displays which events are currently active around the game world. As there is a set schedule, you can follow the zerg from place to place or join in for your favorites.
This sounds awesome. I'll give that a go tonight, thanks.
I'm just happy that doing the dragon bash dailies nets enough jorbreakers to nab a set of season 4 currency each week. No need to grind the maps for the skyscale. That and getting a charged crystal out of the home instance quartz node tonight.
Windswept Haven is pretty neat, but it's definitely a hall that's built for taking advantage of the skybox. There isn't a whole lot to do compared to Gilded Hollow or Lost Precipice.
By the way, before I forget, try to hop into GW2 and do a world boss in the next day or two. A community event is going on and a single kill will get you a boatload of mats, banners and loot
After a brief dip into FF14 and WoW to check out Shadowbringers and Mechagon, I've settled back home in Tyria. I just don't have time to compete in those other worlds right now, and even after a few years, simply logging in for 30 minutes to do some gathering is really pleasant stress relief after a hard day.
Ive never had one drop for me either. Don't worry, I have like 6000 hours. Ive had wondrous people gift me one, and won one from a giveaway, but the final one I had to purchase myself.
CorriganX on Steam and just about everywhere else.
Working on the warclaw now, bout halfway done with the reward track, everything else for the collection went super quick. Found a roaming group of mesmers to join over the weekend and it was amaaaaazing.
So.. I keep threatening to put a poll together to see if we should move guild hall.. so I finally have. Will leave it up til 5th September, then if we have a change, go for mission o clock on 8th!
I've been leveling a hammer guard the ol' fashioned way to work on map completion (one of the many things I've never done despite 7 years on and off). I probably won't make it (I tend to delete characters I work for map completion at some point just out of boredom or because I want to reclaim a name), but it's been very pleasant. I really hope they move towards reusing or adding to existing zones in the next push - there's so much to love about the old world that could still work with new events.
I also wish Hammer Guard was a bit more viable among game modes, because damn I love smashing things with a giant hammer on a tiny asura.
If you do the Leaf of Kudzu collection, you get access to a small garden of gathering nodes. This is gonna be a big deal now, because the price of cooking ingredients is going wayyyy up.
So... some time ago, I had "project go big or go home" In which I made 2 legendary weapons and 3 pieces of legendary armour at the same time. I stuck weekly updates here alongside other folks working on projects, which was fun!
So.. It's time for mark 2... accessory time
Vision + Coalescence
This time round, I've done a lot of the questing for Vision with Goldy , but for Coalesescence I still need to do the W6+7 raid chievos (have murderfaced most of it before, but not in the right order), and they all need mats. (Shesh the amalgamated gemstore sinks...) Maybe it's not hard enough and I need to throw something else in there... I am sitting on Dusk and Howl...Maybe my guardian needs a new toy...
I'm really disappointed by how rare the top tier cooking mats are.
*Edit* It's not even like other weird or rare mats where you can farm 'em if you know where to look; they're specifically tied to Herbs, for which there are no "farms" and which are roulette in terms of what they give you. The seeds you plant in your home instance don't grow back after harvest (which is dumb).
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The mid level zones are less populated because you don’t actually need to leave the starter zones to level. You get less than you could, but you will still get decent XP. People might also just follow the personal story and just hit those zones.
Players who have been around have so many boosters and level up items they don’t need to level niece characters.
I don't have a great grasp on the leveling in GW. What's the benefit to staying in the starter zones for leveling? Got my dude to 17 last night and moved to one of the 15-25 zones. Is there a reason to hit other 1-15 zones first?
XP gain from lower level zones scales to your current level, and while your character scales down a level 15 scaled to 5 is much stronger than a level 5. So doing 1-15 content at 17 will be faster than doing 15-25 content.
That said, I leveled my first character from 1-80 by staying in zones appropriate to my level 90% of the time and it was good. Higher level zones are definitely more interesting than lower level. What I would recommend is that if you find yourself falling behind the zone you're in, either go to a different low-level zone or do events until you hit the right level. Slamming your head into higher level content (even 1-3 levels higher) will frustrate you AND slow down your leveling.
Like brisbane wildlands? The asura 15-25 zone. God I hate it, always did it last when getting 100% completion on a character even with mounts.
I explored a lot because I love the gw2 world.
I am pretty keen to do more group activities so it's a bit of a bummer of dungeon's aren't populated. I do really enjoy the world events where there are a whole lot of people involved so that's pretty cool, but I'm not sure whether that's the kind of thing you can search out or whether it's best to just quest around and do that stuff when you come across it.
Short story is that if you- I lied -search for something like guild wars event timer you'll find a site that displays which events are currently active around the game world. As there is a set schedule, you can follow the zerg from place to place or join in for your favorites.
This sounds awesome. I'll give that a go tonight, thanks.
Wonder if it has range to spawn --> harvesting nodes? Any other ideas?
I'm also wonder if if it's time for a change of guild hall. I'm away for a few weeks, but will broach the subject again when I get back - thoughts?
CorriganX on Steam and just about everywhere else.
CorriganX on Steam and just about everywhere else.
CorriganX on Steam and just about everywhere else.
It's still amazing that I've played the game since release and have never seen a precursor drop =p.
I haven't, either, though I tell myself maybe I have and I just salvaged it by accident.
CorriganX on Steam and just about everywhere else.
Stray - I have really wondered if I had done that. I used to be VERY salvage happy.
https://podcast.tidalwavegames.com/
https://www.strawpoll.me/18522502
I also wish Hammer Guard was a bit more viable among game modes, because damn I love smashing things with a giant hammer on a tiny asura.
If you do the Leaf of Kudzu collection, you get access to a small garden of gathering nodes. This is gonna be a big deal now, because the price of cooking ingredients is going wayyyy up.
https://podcast.tidalwavegames.com/
So.. It's time for mark 2... accessory time
Vision + Coalescence
This time round, I've done a lot of the questing for Vision with Goldy , but for Coalesescence I still need to do the W6+7 raid chievos (have murderfaced most of it before, but not in the right order), and they all need mats. (Shesh the amalgamated gemstore sinks...)
Maybe it's not hard enough and I need to throw something else in there... I am sitting on Dusk and Howl...Maybe my guardian needs a new toy...
What are you guys working on?
*Edit* It's not even like other weird or rare mats where you can farm 'em if you know where to look; they're specifically tied to Herbs, for which there are no "farms" and which are roulette in terms of what they give you. The seeds you plant in your home instance don't grow back after harvest (which is dumb).
https://podcast.tidalwavegames.com/
New Living World stuff being shown.
Sept 17!