I need help getting back into Guild Wars 2

[DCLawrence1]

This was a very interesting story about how kids learn. As an educator, I have to say that we unfortunately teach students through the education culture about doing things in order in the right steps, procedures if you will and even grading is a checklist, think rubrics. Right now, my biggest disappointment is the lack of players at lower levels. I have five different characters I am leveling at once and I am constantly in the 1-25 level maps but no one seems to be around. When I die I wait like ten minutes for someone to come by but only 2 out of ten times someone will come to rez me. It is NOT fun to just wait around so I am forced in most cases to spend money on waypoints and start the route again, repeating myself. Some areas are just not solo friendly and even those areas are deserted so I die a lot when trying to do group events solo. The genius of this game is how hard even these starter areas can be going solo and even when repeating them with different characters as light armor and even some medium armor builds are squishy at best. It seems players are only focused on dungeons and level 80 stuff which I won't start for 6 more months. Will there be any new players at that time to group with? Joining a guild is a good option but you should not have to join one to complete stuff. Not sure the longevity of this game as it seems like guild wars I after five years and its only been 4 months.

[Vayne]

This was a very interesting story about how kids learn. As an educator, I have to say that we unfortunately teach students through the education culture about doing things in order in the right steps, procedures if you will and even grading is a checklist, think rubrics. Right now, my biggest disappointment is the lack of players at lower levels. I have five different characters I am leveling at once and I am constantly in the 1-25 level maps but no one seems to be around. When I die I wait like ten minutes for someone to come by but only 2 out of ten times someone will come to rez me. It is NOT fun to just wait around so I am forced in most cases to spend money on waypoints and start the route again, repeating myself. Some areas are just not solo friendly and even those areas are deserted so I die a lot when trying to do group events solo. The genius of this game is how hard even these starter areas can be going solo and even when repeating them with different characters as light armor and even some medium armor builds are squishy at best. It seems players are only focused on dungeons and level 80 stuff which I won't start for 6 more months. Will there be any new players at that time to group with? Joining a guild is a good option but you should not have to join one to complete stuff. Not sure the longevity of this game as it seems like guild wars I after five years and its only been 4 months.

Spend the money on waypoints. That's what they're there for. At low levels the cost is really cheap. They're not much of a punishment. Often a couple of modest drops will pay for them. An event or a heart will pay for multiple ports at low levels. And an low levels you probably shouldn't be dying that much to begin with.

Also, I don't know what server you're on, but if you don't have a guild or attachments there, you might consider moving to Tarnished Coast, the RP server, because there's almost always people leveling alts there. RPers use a lot of alts.

I've heard this complaint about waypoint travel from a small percentage of the people. I can almost guarantee you that the money you make a two minutes play at low level is enough to pay for your waypoint costs. Waiting to be rezzed costs you money.

[bokiz333]

Do you have ANY high level alts? Use your highest level alt in the highest area it can go in and play there for a day. You should make money. Then transfer that money to your low level alts...never worry about waypoints again.

Can you send cross server mail? If you can, send me your name and I'll send you 50s tonight for whatever alt you want, at low levels that should last you a while.

[Alexanian]

Two words: Map Chat

Players are in those low lvl areas even if you dont see them around. If you stumble on a group event it is **YOUR** responsibility to tell the map where and link the nearest WP. Dont expect people to come running when an event pops because they are so spread they dont know its happeneing. And believe you me, they all want to do those events too.

I cant help but ask this

If you realise the low lvl areas are so dead (which I disagree, they arent) then why keep splitting your time amongst all the different low loevel toons? get out of that area, are you some sort of masochist?

Anyhow, just try some of the tips I gave you and youll enjoy yourself more. BTW, same goes for you. stop being cheap and use the WP's. If someone in map links one for an event, you better get there and help. else you be branded as a hipocrit.

Have fun!

[Fey]

Man... I love GW2... but PSO2 is just so much more fun to actually play. I mean, I love my Thief... But I can't stab an enemy with one dagger, kick them in the FACE and send them flying and spinning upward with my dagger still in them, jump up and stomp on them, sending them crashing into the ground with me on top of them at which point I rip the dagger out, do a backflip off and continue the combo. Keeping them stunned and juggled.

Being a Fighter is wonderful.

[Velox]

Man... I love GW2... but PSO2 is just so much more fun to actually play. I mean, I love my Thief... But I can't stab an enemy with one dagger, kick them in the FACE and send them flying and spinning upward with my dagger still in them, jump up and stomp on them, sending them crashing into the ground with me on top of them at which point I rip the dagger out, do a backflip off and continue the combo. Keeping them stunned and juggled.

Being a Fighter is wonderful.

Man...I can't wait for PSO2 to release...Our guild is actually planning on creating a PSO2 division when it releases in the US...but how are you playing it now?? Port or pirate? Arrrgh.

[Fey]

Man...I can't wait for PSO2 to release...Our guild is actually planning on creating a PSO2 division when it releases in the US...but how are you playing it now?? Port or pirate? Arrrgh.

Japanese servers. Been playing since beta.

[fireflyry]

I'm slowly forming the opinion that GW2 is really what you choose to make it.If you have the time and motivation to make it fun for you personally it's a non-issue.As such I'm really thinking it takes conscientious effort on the part of the gamer to create motivation to play.It's not handed to you on a plate or as obvious as other games.Personal goals and all that....It's a game that rewards the proactive imo.

I too have been slightly mystified at why I'm feeling unmotivated to play at times, more so recently.There are obvious personal reasons such as working long hours, having other interests which take priority, etc, etc but that's life and what has intrigued me more is what relevance the game it'self has on my lethargy towards playing it.

Two things that have recently come to mind is the population being spread too thinly.Sure at release it was often a drag to even join the server your guild or friends were on.I play pacific time mostly but due to work I'd say 30% of my game time is at "peak" times for American and Euro players.Even then I can run around for 2-3 hours doing hearts, skill points, whatever and not encounter a single actual player, guilds aside.To me that's an issue that needs to be addressed.It would not surprise me to see servers merged sometime soon.

The second is an older complaint that has resurfaced for me which is the lack of funneling players towards missions/goals aka GW1 missions.I really miss this.It's pretty much what dungeons do in GW2 but there are only a handful and they are atypically not overly casual. There is no more, or very little, "LFG" requests, as there was in GW1 from level 1, often for the simplest of tasks.I miss the consistency and casualness of such grouping and I now realize that this was a big aspect of what made GW1 a win for me as I really notice it's absence in this game.

If I log and my guildies are busy or sleeping it's a pretty quiet place player wise imo, in GW1 I mapped to a mission I needed or enjoyed and was in a group having a blast a few minutes later.

[Rellin]

Once you hit 80, get best gear (which is easy), finish story line, get 100% map completion there is nothing left to do in the game besides PvP, which you can only do for so long before it becomes boring and repetitive.

Just wait for expansions for something to do again.

[Fey]

I'm slowly forming the opinion that G̶W̶2̶ is really what you choose to make it.If you have the time and motivation to make it fun for you personally it's a non-issue.

^ most video games in general. Gaming really has and always will be a "hit or miss" kind of deal.