Rarely covered in new player guides is : If you are new to this game is that unlike some games where in game gold flows freely, In this game, the game itself gives you minor things that you are to turn into gold on the AH by selling materials that others need. Coppers and silvers add up. Keep that in mind when eyeing the conversion of gold to gems for buying things in game. I've played MMO's where by passively playing I end up ith more gold than I know what to do with. GW2 is not like that, In this game you have to work for your gold. Those sticks of butter you get in sacks in starter zones sell in no time and if you wait for the 3 silvers you get for completing high level quests in areas to give you enough gold to convert to gems, you'll be waiting a very long time.
Slight correction on the level scaling: you will be scaled down if you are overlevelled, but you will not be scaled up, so you can't just go to higher level areas. It's worth noting that while scaled down you keep your skills, it's only your stats that get adjusted. Exceptions to this are fractals, wvw and festival zones, where you can be scaled up.
I'm glad you've translated it from WoW stuff, as I've just started playing GW2 after 2 decades of WoW. A lot of it seems familiar, I'm loving the dynamic events, means players are actually doing group content in the overworld.
WoW is were ive been based for like the last 20 years myself so i understand that! and GW2 can feel familiar but also very different! i just hope it helps even a lil bit! and theres so many people always doing world events its actually banging
10 years + wow player here. I’m playing GW2 for 3 years now and never looked back. Went in for Dragonflight a single month and the game just feels so hollow and empty. Mindless grind every season. Nothing ever happens in the world. Bloated currencies etc etc etc Guild Wars has its weaknesses too but it feels very alive, fresh and very fair to the player.
Worst new player experience in mmos. Bought two expansions, started to play, finished first map - deleted the game and never coming back. Just awful experience. Untill level cap, all you do in game is completing maps and doing quests, which by the way is soooooo slow that you can literally fall asleep. Finishing the map on 100% is so much pain, never had that felling in ANY mmo out there. Character progression is so hard to understand, you literally can't understand anything for dozens of hours. Same with instanced pve - u just won't understand anything without hours of google and RU-vid searching. No way anyone who respects their time will do any of that. Worst mmo for fresh start. It is baseline unplayable unless you ready to spend hours of finding information and watching videos, which is not that easy to find. The whole time playing you feel lost and don't understand what the hell is going on and what are you supposed to do. Have some respect for yourself and don't start this mess
Hey man I completely understand your frustration. I’m a fairly new player and felt that same exact way and even quit the game too after my first 10 hours in it, coming back after my first 100 hours I can tell you the systems are completely worth learning. This game is incredibly enjoyable, and as a recommendation for you if you’d wanna try it again, is to go in and pick one system of progression, wether that crafting, map completetion, raiding, or rifts and do a focused understanding of that system. With the horizontal progression you are not losing out on huge things by only doing one system at a time, so if you have the patience I’d suggest trying to pick one! I completely feel your frustration though and I appreciate the time you put into trying to learn this complicated but so cool game. Hoping you come back to us!
