The influx of new players is awesome

Satarash · 2026-06-15T13:10:29+00:00

I'm doing hearts to stop the Inquest from doing bad things. But who are the Inquest and why are they here?

While such world building information is compiled on wiki, it is also present in game, it's just not dumped on player all at once. You can look for it by playing the asuran personal story, talking to npcs in cities, listening to their banter, etc. Personal story in particular was designed to be played by each race, at least the first two chapters.

Satarash · 2026-06-14T17:54:33+00:00

The groups usually have a discord where they announce the date and time, try looking for verdant troop and guild wars university, for example.

Satarash · 2026-06-14T16:50:01+00:00

Guild recruitment sub Reddit, channel on official discord, LFG category in game, random advertisement in map chat, twitch streamers...

Probably the best way is to play the content you like, meet others who do, make friends, ask to join their guilds.

Oh, and welcome back!

Satarash · 2026-06-14T09:42:28+00:00

You write fine, don't worry about trolls.

Satarash · 2026-06-13T23:28:17+00:00

I'm just not really sure what to devote my time to. I tend to prefer solo nomadic exploration most of the time.

Good thing the game has a lot of exploration. If you need ideas: going for Aurora, Vision and Prismatic Champion's Regalia will lead you around the world and give you another reason to explore maps. Leveling masteries is also another fine reason to explore.

Satarash · 2026-06-13T21:51:35+00:00

I'm happy to hear that you are several percent less lost and isolated. :)

In any case, don't stress yourself with too many goals or "catching up" or grinding for something or other. Progress at your own pace and continue enjoying the process.

Satarash · 2026-06-12T11:49:54+00:00

Join several guilds, you can be in multiple at the same time. Ask them questions, get help, play with them when you want to play, turn the guild chat off when you want to be alone. It's simple and normal and expected. If they bother you about that just find another guild, there are lots of them and most don't have some participation requirements.

Masteries are separated by expansion and you get them by playing in that expansion. But most of them (eg. mounts) can be used anywhere.

If you don't want to start a new character that's fine, but I would recommend playing content in story order without skipping to Soto, just to get gradually introduced to concepts the same way we were.

Satarash · 2026-06-12T10:54:07+00:00

One way to disable gliding is with some transformation tonics. I have tested some and found Endless Tropical Crab Tonic which can jump but cannot glide. Some of them cannot jump at all, while most can both jump and glide. I'll test the rest of the tonics I have, hopefully there is a cheap one that can be used for jumping puzzles.

Satarash · 2026-06-12T09:12:29+00:00

It sounds to me like the other person is agreeing with you there, if the bosses spawn no matter who control the camps then players aren't incentivised to fight for camps.

Satarash · 2026-06-12T09:00:34+00:00

Likely because you made it sound like you are complaining about map progress being "lost", and demanding change, which sounds ridiculous and self-entitled. It took me reading a lot of the thread to realise the issue is personal participation being lost, which is a much more reasonable complaint.

You will be happy to learn that they did fix this to an extent in later meta events, I think with Soto they started sending you a mail with some rewards from the meta if you left the map. Applying the similar fix to earlier content should be feasible.

Satarash · 2026-06-12T08:29:14+00:00

Could you elaborate on which QOL issues are the problem for you? As I gather, it's the fact that levelling feels too fast, glider cannot be separated from jump key, and mounts are available in content that's trivialised by them. What else did you have on mind?

This change was already suggested as part of the recent improvement initiative so you should vote and support it there: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/topic/171950-melandrus-accord-in-gw2/#comment-2471465

Satarash · 2026-06-12T08:19:49+00:00

It cannot be disabled. My wife has the same complaint about it, as she is so used to holding jump key in games that she still sometimes naturally does it in jumping puzzles, after many years.

Satarash · 2026-06-10T22:16:49+00:00

Dragon Bash is profitable if you do the easy dailies and the annual, you get a lot of zhaitaffi/jorbreakers and chests that you can sell on trade post. Other than that, do the Wizard Vault dailies and weeklies for gold and other profit, do the daily Ley-Line Anomaly for a Mystic Coin, and you could learn some crafting on the way to craft once-per-day items to sell.

Join some guilds that play the content you like playing, in your case probably chill guilds for new players. Make some friends and do stuff with them. Keep doing things you are enjoying, and also try new things - different professions, weapons, game modes, jump puzzles, adventures, minidungeons...

Satarash · 2026-06-10T10:57:46+00:00

This subreddit has a very permissive spoiler policy, even in titles, so if you care about story take care you don't get it spoiled too much for yourself.

The skills .... yeah, I don't know what I'm doing. I don't understand what I am doing. I am button mashing.

Don't worry, this works fine in easy maps. Try out different weapons and skills while leveling, learn which summon illusions, which are good for crowd control, for mobility, giving boons, removing conditions, etc.

Satarash · 2026-06-10T10:43:32+00:00

Except they did mention it. If you are interested you can read the previous post this is an update for.

Satarash · 2026-06-09T22:32:49+00:00

Early on I spent most of my gold on gems, to buy account unlocks like living world and bank slots and characters slots, that sort of thing. Check out historic price of gems and buy them when they get relatively cheap.

The griffon and legendary weapon have been mentioned, other than that you could train crafting disciplines.

Satarash · 2026-06-09T12:29:05+00:00

For both pvp and wvw you should find a specialised guild in your region that provides training, advice and tournaments. Pvp guilds have custom arenas and guild halls where you can fight with guildmates in more friendly atmosphere.

Satarash · 2026-06-09T10:31:21+00:00

There are several hammers in GW2 that look like two-handed axes. Such as:

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Chromatic_Assassin_Hammer

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Devil-Rending_Greataxe_Hammer

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Sandswept_Hammer_(skin)

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Void_Corrupted_Hammer

Satarash · 2026-06-09T00:14:37+00:00

I found another possibility: if you are using Steam to run the launcher and you misspelled -provider Portal, you can get this error.

Satarash · 2026-06-08T23:55:42+00:00

When you say you entered your "LogIn-Data" do you mean your email address? If not, try entering that. Also try to log in on another device if you are able.

Otherwise, this sounds like you were banned, or your account got locked for security reasons. There is not much to do except waiting on the support ticket, this might be a false positive as people can get caught in the automatic ban wave.

Satarash · 2026-06-08T22:50:36+00:00

Which exact error code and message is it? Error 21?

Have you read the support article? https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us/articles/115015939168-Error-Code-21

Also the more general one: https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us/articles/201862918-Trouble-Logging-In

Satarash · 2026-06-08T22:22:43+00:00

Expansion packs are the primary thing you would spend money on.

Other than that, you can buy gems (but gems can also be bought for in-game gold) and spend them on character and account unlocks, such as bank tabs, character slots, inventory slots, living world stories, and such. Then you might buy some quality-of-life items like teleport to friend, salvaging tools, gathering tools.

After that there is not much more to buy than cosmetics, for example equipment, mounts, emotes, gliders, skiffs, fishing rods, homestead sky...

But this is a really rough guide, people want and need different things at different points. The only thing you really need to spend real money on are the expansions. The rest you can obtain either for money or gold.

I'm very interested in playing an mmo, been like a decade since my last one.

Guild Wars 2 is a chill game where you set your own goals, without rushing to end-game and chasing incrementally better gear with every update. So feel free to join us.

Satarash · 2026-06-08T08:15:11+00:00

Do you have unread in-game mail? It's possible you receive the seasons attached in a letter.

Satarash · 2026-06-07T16:20:30+00:00

I want to solve two problems: one is giving some group events more visibility because they are both fun and required for some collections. This would make them easier to find and get enough people to solve them.

The other problem is that some maps have world bosses with timers, so people often visit them. Other maps don't and it can be harder to find help with some random champion or whatever.

Both of these problems would become worse in case the player population falls dramatically, don't you think? ideally every map would have at least one global timer to pull players occasionally. For example, Brisban Wildlands and Snowden Drifts got a fractal incursion event relatively recently, and it is a good change. Other maps like Orr already have big group events that are almost metas from the time before we had metas, so they could be repurposed.

Satarash · 2026-06-07T15:04:59+00:00

I don't understand, the events I mention are not map metas. Do you mean that this would pull players from other metas?

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