When You Hit Max Level In Guild Wars 2, Do This First!

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@mattrodgers1663 10 ай бұрын

I'm late to the game here, but as someone who bowed out of GW2 back in HoT and came back with SotO, I 100% recommend the "jump straight to SoTO, do that story, unlock the Skyscale" approach. I don't feel like the spoilers included in SotO thus far are all that notable (certainly nothing worse than literally naming an expansion End of Dragons anyway), and the Skyscale is incredibly useful. This is especially true if you find the extreme verticality of HoT intimidating as the Skyscale gives you more grace than the glider alone will.

@CaffeinatedDad 10 ай бұрын

Agreed! The skyscale is a fantastic choice especially as an early goal!

@BrianCheng24 7 ай бұрын

I started GW2 3 months ago. I started with a level 80 boost and got lost right away. As caffeinateddad recommends, start with Path of Fire! I unlocked most of the mounts and I jumped into Soto and I got my skyscale within 2 weeks of starting the game as a completely new player. Skyscale is a game changer and it makes exploring so much more enjoyable. HoT should be for experienced players.

@omi_khan4901 11 ай бұрын

I JUST HIT MAX TODAY YOUR VIDEO IS A GODSEND LOVE YOU MAN

@omi_khan4901 11 ай бұрын

but fr i kinda got overwhelmed on all the things i could be doing rn. This video came at a perfect time.

@stormysurge9083 11 ай бұрын

@omi_khan4901 i just boosted so im even more lost 😅 Heart of thorns has been giving me trouble

@ShadowBlade137 11 ай бұрын

@@stormysurge9083heart of thorns is a really difficult expansion, path of fire is much easier If you’re struggling

@khymaaren 11 ай бұрын

0:20 These are the most important two sentences in the video. That being said, I mostly agree with what's being said. Some notes: Exotic gear is good for practically every activity in the game. Higher level Fractals is literally the only place where you need Ascended gear because of Agony Resistance that you can only put on Ascended or Legendary equipment. The Jackal unlocks for 20 gold after you complete the heart task in that area on the day of purchasing the mount, it's only 30 gold if you don't do that. You save 10g by running around there on a rented Jackal for five minutes. About gliding. Personally, I would go further with the mastery track and unlock Advanced Gliding, too, as that allows you to stay in air indefinitely, especially with updrafts around. At that point, only leaning forward (speed boost) will cost endurance, which will regenerate when gliding normally. This can get you pretty much everywhere until you get a flying mount, as unlocking those are much more involved than filling up an XP bar, even if it's millions of XP. Hero points. There are enough of those across the Expansions that don't require you to fight anything that will get you to fully unlock your first Elite Spec, but that may require progressing some story to get access to certain maps. HoT maps have like 20 of those, and you can run to most of them with Glider Basics, for example. The fastest way, though, is indeed a HP train you can frequently find in LFG, usually starting in Heart of Thorns.

@HeyMyNameIsLukas 11 ай бұрын

Thank you, getting back into it after reaching lvl 80 six years ago! So this is super helpful, especially since it's sort of information overload

@vinothnathan4467 7 ай бұрын

Same bro

@beahwatson 3 ай бұрын

Hard agree on all of these, great video!

@CaffeinatedDad 3 ай бұрын

@arlonpaulfernandez525 8 ай бұрын

This really helped a lot, thank you!

@CaffeinatedDad 8 ай бұрын

Glad it helped!

@J-Bae 11 ай бұрын

as somebody who just picked the game back up after briefly playing a few years ago, this helps a lot. Thanks.

@Anonymous-vw8ei 11 ай бұрын

(6:16) As a member of The Griffon Academy, you have hurt my feelings. I hope Willow will get the revenge in the name of the griffons! Great video btw :)

@Trancephyre 5 ай бұрын

My priority list was 1 build 2 gear 3 first chapter in POF for raptor 4 first chapter in HOT for glider 5 pac commander mastery for auto loot. Steps 3-5 make everything so much easier

@Drakkar2992 11 ай бұрын

Wizzard's vault adds another option to gear for free ( you gotta do stuff to get the currency though). Each big reset (the one at 3 months or so) gives 3 ascended armor chests and 1 ascended weapon chest, as well as the legendary weapon starter kit. These make gearing faster and cheaper. Do keep in mind that legendary crafting takes a long time and not all beginners will do it. So, go for the free ascended and add in exotics to fill the gap until the next big reset on the vault. Leveling the crafting professions can be tedious and expensive, so the vault option can save a lot of gold. The cost for the ascended chests are: 400 astral coins for the armor, 600 for the weapon. Total cost 1800 astral coins over the course of 3 months and up.

@AlphariousXX 5 ай бұрын

Great content man. Just started playing this game for 1st time. Experienced wow player. This game is by far the best mmo ive played. Will be scouring your content man thanks, much appreciated

@jerodbjx 11 ай бұрын

I try to remember to like all of your videos. I want to see your channel grow. Your videos have been my guide to enjoying this game at a more casual pace while still meeting my personal goals. Happy New Years and I hope that your channel finds great success in 2024!!!

@yessirskis 5 ай бұрын

i second this

@surrealneo 11 ай бұрын

Great info as always, thank you for your time and insight. I have been playing on and off for quite some time, honestly still way behind most others who've playing this long, took a long break right before the last major expansion due to some RL events needing my personal attention and just came back, lots to catch up on. Playing solo gets a little dry after awhile, need to socialize a bit more i guess, but I am enjoying the game, have all the expansions, and in a good guild CDG. :)

@CaffeinatedDad 11 ай бұрын

That's fantastic! I'm happy to hear that you have been finding success! The game is about pacing. Take your time and play through it and you'd be amazed what a great time you'll have!

@GiraffeWars2 2 ай бұрын

A note for getting mounts, you can now access the warclaw very easily for good versatility. Pop into WvW, and spend one point to unlock it.

@Opus_Fluke 11 ай бұрын

Autoloot is amazing! Get it unlocked! Once you get it done on one character it's account wide. I cannot stress what a QoL this Mastery is. Those bags will fill themselves.

@CaffeinatedDad 11 ай бұрын

I do have to bust out those masteries for the auto loot not gonna lie

@wyldenfyre784 11 ай бұрын

An excellent summary - thank you - should be invaluable for newer players !

@SlaY3R22 11 ай бұрын

Like the video but I have few comments. Quick run down of my POV; I've recently comeback to GW2 (barely played since launch), I've just purchased the first 3 expansions. After levelin a fresh character from 1 to 80 (to put me on track story wise). I've barely hit the last regions that I was 80 and I had like 8 Gold. For gearing, visiting the Trading Post was kinda out of the question (aka too expensive). I've never heard of laurels (or didn't remember). As a new/returning player the amounts of currency is way overwhelming.

@CassandrasBox 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for this video :) I totally agree ... but I would do gliding first! Simple gliding, no masteries, they can wait until you have the mounts. You don´t need to do anything but once enter an EoD map and it is unlocked. You do not need to be level 80, you can do it at the very beginning and than forget about it. I was teleported to the chest at the end of the kaineng jumping puzzle and I didn´t even realize I had unlocked it ... but it helped me a LOT!

@thedragonshide7346 11 ай бұрын

Can't recommend enough the "Tanetris/So You Want To Gear a Character" off the wiki enough. It's a lot of information but it's really helped me out in figuring out the endgame of gw2 starting points.

@gabrielarauza6235 11 ай бұрын

Hey man just wanted to say thanks for the amazing videos I'm new to gw2 and your videos have been so helpful!!! Keep up the good work man!!

@CaffeinatedDad 11 ай бұрын

Happy to help buddy! It's a great game to get into!

@LithLeague 11 ай бұрын

Appreciate it man! thanks

@CaffeinatedDad 10 ай бұрын

Glad to help!

@goygeous 11 ай бұрын

Not sure when they introduced it but you can now get real cheap lvl 80 exotic gear with choosable stats from pvp vendors. Bit of honor and some silver and thats for all slots, armour, rings, accessorys and even aqua gear and weapons, alongside the already known but very often not talked about 20 slot siege bag that holds consumables, only one i know of in the game and the 20 slot normal bag from pvp vendors.

@brucedsm 11 ай бұрын

Where is it? I need better ekips

@goygeous 11 ай бұрын

@@brucedsm in the mists entrance area, bags are in the entrance area that is the flying ship.

@macsarts1389 11 ай бұрын

Same with WvW

@AddyVillimey 11 ай бұрын

Checked out your video to see if you recomend the same things to new players as i do and if there was something extra i could be teaching my guildies. This is really to the point and I agree with this list of things to do when starting out :) Thank you for a great video that i can now link to my friends that are new to the game

@kikirimpiwify 11 ай бұрын

Started a few days ago and just hit lvl 80 omg they video is awesome thank you very much please keep it up specially these beginner friendly guides 😂🎉

@1bonebreaker1 3 ай бұрын

have been playing since launch and crafted all my 20 slot bags... didnt know you could get them so cheap from WvW... so even tho this is for new players i learned something... and i think i got a few chars thats still running around with 15 slot bag... and properbly got 10-20k badges thats just sitting there...

@Knittingsteve 11 ай бұрын

Great Video! always enjoy your content! Another thing I love about the Griffon (and maybe skyscale, don't have it yet) is that you can mount in air, kind of like gliding you can free fall and mount at the last moment.

@RecklessFables 11 ай бұрын

I have something like 14 level 80 characters and still clicked the video.

@ryanstanley640 8 ай бұрын

:l same

@darthzane2156 2 ай бұрын

Hahahahaha me too

@LuckyFoxes789 8 күн бұрын

Imo. Best first class for all around what ever you want. Ranger. Its my main. Its the most stright forward class in game. And very forgiving. Hard to kill high dps and the skill ceiling for when you become hard core par core is very high. Ranger can do everything. And do most thing extremely well.

@alexwittwer487 3 ай бұрын

I would recommend celestial and condition builds, especially ones made by Lord Hizen. You will be able to do almost any open world content alone. That includes champ and even legendary bounties.

@JimmyBernard-p2e 11 ай бұрын

Could you do a video going over your complete keybinds? It would be nice to see reasons why you mapped them specific keys and give others like myself a better understanding of how remapping can improve your gameplay. Thanks

@michaelmiller4821 11 ай бұрын

Awesome video, just something to add. There's another way to auto loot, and that's in the options. It's right underneath the autolooting box, where it asks if you want to pick up all the loot. You don't have to be on it just around it and just click away. In fact I don't even wait for the message to pop up, I just hit my"F" key and that's it.👍

@esmolol4091 7 ай бұрын

I'm a little bit annoyed by the fact, that literally anyone except maybe 2% of the player base runs either pure power/condition damage dps builds practically everywhere. Especially in open world lvl 80 content. They delete everything most of the time before you can even get to the objective to contribute to it. This, and the fact that basically everyone seems to have the flying dragon mount to just zip through the whole map while I have to use other, much slower mounts to even get somewhere gives me extreme FOMO. I just can't keep up with anyone. And most people also have at last full ascended gear, without the need to "buy" different gear, which gives especially crafters the incentive to make materials extremely expensive, while they themselves swim in gold. This wouldn't bother me at all, if the rewards you get for doing anything wouldn't be so abysmal bad and spread around two bazillion types of ressources which you need to stack in the thousands to craft something useful. And don't get me started on crafting itself. You need to craft thousands of junk items and destroy it afterwards for other materials... I can't play 24/7 to progress. Yeah I know... it's MY problem, but this puts people like me outright in a bad spot for hundreds of hours. Farming the flying mount is absolutely terrible even in secrets of the obscure and a tedious timegated process of annoyance. Oh and you need to read one thousands guides on everything because the game explains absolutely nothing. Now, after my little rant, I will keep doing useless stuff with my healer/support build, that no one needs or appreciates. Ps: Finding a guild is also not easy.

@LetsGoRideMTB 11 ай бұрын

I would like to point out that you can go to WvW and buy gear select exotics cheaper than you can find gear on the TP. Good Luck.

@CaffeinatedDad 10 ай бұрын

True! However they also cost wvw currency!

@GuruChaz 11 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@BoJanglesGaming 9 ай бұрын

I'm back after 11 years of not playing and left off at level 80 and was so overwhelmed with what to do 😂

@nathanvanhoof3286 5 ай бұрын

Love the video man! Quick question is your ele a human or Sylvari?

@GGM-TM 11 ай бұрын

respect man !

@Spectrelepsy88 8 ай бұрын

This is such an awesome guide as I just came back to the game after being gone for about 8 years, give or take. Two questions though; What armor skins and glider skins are you using?

@troyrarehale2517 11 ай бұрын

I unlocked all mounts in 21 days from account creation, got be some sort of world record.

@CaffeinatedDad 11 ай бұрын

All gas. No brakes

@headlesspalace 2 ай бұрын

I had no idea toughness increased aggro... no wonder mobs always end up turning towards me during combat, i thought it was because of Torment stacks (completely noob guess, has no source in reality)

@hewie4737 7 ай бұрын

I finally decided to get Advanced Logistics when I finished SoTo story, now I dont have to mash F button to loot everytime I play..

@sparafucilSA 11 ай бұрын

I recently started playing this game after a very long time (played it in betas and for about 6 months) anyway I absolutely love playing the hammer catalyst but it is so squishy. What can I do to improve it and not loose too much power?

@CaffeinatedDad 11 ай бұрын

Celestial gear does wonders for Hammer catalyst, you could also perhaps run a more defensive e skill setup with an earth elemental or two for tanking if your against a particularly difficult mob

@sparafucilSA 11 ай бұрын

@CaffeinatedDad thanks will give it a go

@H.S.D.81 11 ай бұрын

I really like your videos... just a few ... well... "few" 😂 thoughts. As for a good starter class I would recomment the ranger... it has good close and ranged combat value in core stats. You need raptor 3 to get the heart vendor for the springer... without raptor 3 there will not be a heart there. The glider is a easy get by just going to an eod map i think... yes... but going there as a new acc will take more time then just unlocking it by doing the start of HoT ... however... if you are in a guild with the EoD GH you can get into Seitung by just a little walking and swimming... and at that point not having and glider mastery ain't a bad thing and not to compare with not getting a mount without having 3rd mastery of another mount. There are HPs in verdant brink that are just touchy touchy HPs... gliding there and use wp back because you need mastery for the way back... in Auric Basin there are a few without fighting too... but harder to get to without mount or mastery... one easy to get to is... for a simple build hard to achiev because you need to Service the bacon of slow death😂... but there are usually a few helpful ppl there who can help you with their jackal... Tangled should be left to the future... though one HP there is a clean easy kill during the chak meta... Just go to ogre lane and usually a few ppl join in the fight... getting to that meta starter wp is a clean portal to friend use... now... dragon's stand ... 4 HPs are out of limit outside of meta... but that particular meta is imho at least one of the best and enjoyable one... takes time though... the rest is just avoid the enemy and you're good to touchy touch... I think EoD is mostly guarded by elite ranks... getting there is a matter of mount use...

@miroslavsagan600 6 ай бұрын

Can you create video about crafting?

@Spr0ket 11 ай бұрын

YES i need more

@abdalln8554 4 ай бұрын

Question from someone who's only played the game till around level 30 years ago, and wanting to get back into it, why are those exotics so cheap? Are they easy to get or something?

@RunWhilstYouCan 9 ай бұрын

Thanks i needed this, I tried to get my skyscale with a raptor and it isn't happening lol so I'm doing path of fire to up lock the other mounts 😊

@Arronax-YT 3 ай бұрын

as lvl 2, go pvp there u have (almost all) stuff unlocked xD

@CaffeinatedDad 3 ай бұрын

Seriously thats an easy way to get a mess of exp!

@macabrecreation1067 11 ай бұрын

every time i hit level 80 on a character, they become parking toons at chests and rich nodes 😂

@drpunish3r124 9 ай бұрын

nobody mentioning that u cant use trading post without buying an expansion... core game very limited as no mail no trading etc etc etc...

@CaffeinatedDad 9 ай бұрын

Oh the trial version is super throttled to be sure!

@ZyrYoutubeAccount 9 ай бұрын

@@CaffeinatedDad it's also limited if you are a to fresh account. I started the game a few days ago. (I bought the first 2 expansions for now, bc 100 euro is a lot of money) To be fair, I just have a lot of time, but I dinged 80 today and when I wanna use the trading post thing I will get the notice of: "your account is to new to use it, come back in 2 days" Idk if that is playtime or just time in general, but might be worth to keep in mind. :D

@mjjr1993 11 ай бұрын

How do I get the griffon ? Is it hard to get ?

@vishawashkumar5159 11 ай бұрын

Ez but expensive

@ZianaSue 11 ай бұрын

it's easy, has a collection attached to it, and is expensive. I believe MuklukKZbin has a griffon guide.

@bluefox9819 11 ай бұрын

You need path of fire and 250 gold, instead I recommend the sky scale which is much more versatile and cheaper with the secrets of the solar obscure expansion

@khymaaren 11 ай бұрын

Finish PoF story line, then you can unlock the collection achievements. And it costs a flat 250 gold and some running around, completing collections and other tasks. Skyscale is cheaper in Season 4, even cheaper in SotO, but the unlock process is (much) more involved.