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Secret - Guild Wars 2 tips
--------------------------- * Make sure to buy all the three gathering tools from a merchant as soon as possible. These include the mining pick, logging axe, and harvesting sickle. They’re really cheap and offer two benefits: Gathering items nets a ton of experience and the items you gather can all be used for crafting other items later on. * Equipping different weapons in Guild Wars 2 changes which abilities you can use, so when first starting out, try out every weapon combination to see what you like best and to see what’s most effective against certain types of enemies. * Combat in Guild Wars 2 is dynamic, meaning you can move around and dodge enemy attacks. Enemies hit pretty hard in GW2, so instead of tanking them head on make use of the game’s endurance mechanic which will allow you to dodge any incoming damage. To do so, you can press “V” when an attack is incoming, or you can double-tap in any direction. * Don’t neglect your story quests! Not only do they give you insight in to what’s going on, but they’re the best source of experience early on and they reward you with excellent gear. * Use the map to keep track of what’s left to do in a zone. In general, doing everything in a zone, including finding vistas and completing skill challenges is recommended, since completing it all will earn your character great experience, money, and items. * After you’ve completed a heart, make sure to talk to the quest NPC. They’ll usually offer upgrades that you can purchase with the karma that you earned doing the quest. Additionally, it’s usually a good idea to stick around the area after you’ve completed an event since sometimes the quest leads to a follow-up event where you can earn even more experience, karma, and gold. * You can deposit all of your collectibles and the things you’ve gathered to your bank from anywhere in the world using the gear symbol in your inventory. There are even extra tabs in your bank for the collectibles so you can find them easier. * Take advantage of crafting, especially if you’ve been gathering materials. Crafting nets tons of experience and you can create some really fantastic gear with it. Additionally, if you’re running low on bag space we recommend tailoring or leather working since you can create larger bags with those skills. * A great way to accumulate more crafting materials is by salvaging gear. Merchants sell salvage kits that you should use on anything you pick up that you can't wear or any gear that you've replaced. However, you should save any Green Tier items you find to sell on the Trading Post. * If you want an alternative way to play, Guild Wars 2’s PvP is available to you as soon as you finish your tutorial mission. To access PvP, bring up your Hero pane by pressing "H", go to the PvP tab, and select “Go To Heart of the Mists.” There, you’ll automatically be leveled to 80 and you can choose to participate in either structured PvP where you’ll gain glory and karma. Or, you can press "B" to access World vs. World PvP which will net you experience, gold, and karma. * When you hit level 11 make sure to visit your Profession’s trainer and buy your profession book which will allow you to level your traits. Traits, which you can access through your Hero Pane and clicking the skills and traits tab, are used to enhance your character's skills. You earn a trait point every level, so make sure to spend them every time you level up.↑ Top
Start-up Guide
--------------- The following essential tools will help you pick up experience and money quicker. * Purchase "Mining pick, Logging axe, Harvesting sickle " from a merchant: this combination is your crafting start-up kit. * Once your crafting skill build up, you can even enlarge your bag storage!!! * Pick up a Salvage kit from a merchant, to use it on anything that is wear-off or can't wear item, then use the kit to turn Junks as Useable crafting materials.↑ Top
Save on Travel Expenses
------------------------ You need to be ready to spend a lot if you want to travel conveniently by waypoint, especially if your intended destination is across the map. However, there are a few tricks you can use to save some money. If you die, you can appear at the waypoint of your choice without paying anything. You will eventually have to pay a repair bill if you rely on that particular trick too often, but it is otherwise useful and quite affordable. Another option is to enter the PVP area and journey to The Mists, where you can swiftly catch a warp to the capital city of your choice. Finally, travel within capital cities is free, so you don't have to cross one the old-fashioned way if you're in a hurry.↑ Top
Shovel Duplication
------------------- Typically you can't sell the Silverwaste Shovel, but there's an exception to that rule. Visit the merchant in The Foundation Shores and sell the shovel. Then you can buy it back for nothing. The option remains in the tab, so you can keep buying it as often as you like, then use your shovels to farm chests in The Silverwastes.↑ Top
Some Life Hacks
---------------- Written by dreizehnX Maybe you already know some of those. Maybe you get some valuable new knowledge. -=Translation=- If you either play the game in another language than english, or if you play it in english and the game contains a translation for your native language, holding the right CTRL key translates the game as long as you hold the button. -=Seeing events/disabling personal story ESC-menu – option – general options – Content Guide: Disable Personal Story If you do this, you will have an orange spot on your mini map whenever an event is happening near you. -=Inside a Squad and missed the Ready Check? If you are in a squad and – for some reason – don’t have the ready check, you can click the p key and re-do the ready status. -=/wiki If you type /wiki in the chat, it opens the GW2 wiki in your default web browser. If you add another word, wiki will already search for that. eg: /wiki armor -=Buy during crafting If you need additional materials in the middle of crafting, you can right click on the icon of the material and then click on “purchase more”. If the material is available at the auction house, you can now buy it. You still need to go to the auction house/trading post by foot, but since you have already bought what you need, there is no need to remember anything.↑ Top
Fast Levelling Tips
-------------------- * Use food and any utility item for that extra boost. * Ask someone to put down a guild banner near you for extra exp. * Focus on tutorial achievements aka. Adventure guide, they give absurd amount of exp. * You used to be able to get some decent amount of exp through crafting but they apparently nerfed it so take this with a grain of salt. * Killing ambient mobs (yellow names) gives you alot of exp compared to killing normal ones due to stacking exp buff they get due to being alive. * Pvp should be able to give you tomes of knowledge even now so you can try your hand at it while getting some tomes to speed up the process.↑ Top
Learning Weaver (Ele) Tips
--------------------------- Weaver is quite a challenge to learn. It might actually help if you learn another elementalist build first in order to get a basic understanding of the skills and traits. In general I also learned my professions best by first trying to come up with a build myself and checking afterwards with the resources (see above) – because this why you try to understand your abilities first and will be able to understand the build guides even better. Sometimes it is better to be flexible and use a skill based on the actual situation rather than sticking to your optimal rotation. In order to pull that of, you need to actually understand your skills and how to modifiy your build for certain situations if applicable. Still you want to pull of the rotation, which is just a lot of training your muscle memory with the training golem. And trying to apply it to actual game situations. Don’t be worried to much about following the optimal rotation completly all at once and instead focus on getting the fundamentals right (see above). Keep in mind, that builds are really depended on the content you are doing. Especially for elementalist you might want to have more survivability for the open world content (where you might end up fighting stuff alone or a pretty random group) than builds for raids/strikes provide, as there you are relying on the group composition complementing you.↑ Top