New Player Mistakes in Guild Wars 2 (according to you!)

Guild Wars 2 is a MASSIVE game, and it can be a little bit overwhelming when first getting started! Today, I go through some common beginner mistakes (sent in by you), and we talk about how to avoid them.
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[@andrescoloma6652]

That guy killing the bandits in kessex hills for 3 years deserves a medal from our queen way more than logan does

[@Kellethorn]

HERESY

[@Chocobooo92]

He is like a goblin slayer! both of them are sitting at begginer area and killing the same mobs over and over. He probably master killing the bandits to perfection. We should be thankfull to him. Because of him bandits didnt spread out. He saved the Kingdom. He is the true hero!

[@andrescoloma6652]

@@Chocobooo92 He truly is, it is nice to kill one or two dragons and some liches and a god, but this little actions are what makes our world a better place.

[@1980Shadowwolf]

Logan is busy in "other" ways.

[@aquapendulum]

My biggest mistake when I was a newbie was joining a random dungeon group on LFG completely blind. Nobody told me the default dungeon culture is "speedrunning". Ended up with a rough time catching up to the speedrunners.

[@intuii]

yeah, try looking for "open to anyone", "story" and at first don't enter anything with codes. Just gotta wait a bit or open an own party :)

[@Kellethorn]

Ah this is good, yeah

[@d.b.624]

Yeah, that turned me off dungeons. I want to run it in a line, NOT waste 5 wipes trying to do your gimmicky speedrun.

[@Violetbunnyfish]

It's the same with Elder Scrolls Online. Dungeons get zoomed through so fast that you literally don't have time to read the text of the story that's in each of them.

[@hundragant]

I run dungeons every day. It just feels like the way dungeons are supposed to go and it's hard to "slow down" for new players.

[@paleface171]

Welcome new players I got another tip for you. Hero Points, across the world there are hero point challenges that are pretty easy to solo (core Tyria anyway) that awards hero points to unlock skills and traits for your class. Some of these won't involve a fight but will place an item in your inventory to right click on to get the point.

[@saralinabawdon7772]

To further elaborate on this, the hero points are not accessible until you have a character at level 10 for the first time.

[@ztrimmerz6186]

@@saralinabawdon7772 Literally where I went wrong, I got gw2 in 2020, started a character, played for an hour then forgot about the game for a year, got back on, made an entirely new character, and my friend and I spent a good while trying to work out why I couldn't interact with the hero point, had to go back and level the original character up to 10

[@Saieden]

Oh yes, I went back to Spiral like 5 times before I realized I had to consume the tree sap.. I couldn't understand why it wasn't cleared lol.

[@HPFireYT]

My technical beginner mistake was completely ignoring the daily achievements for the longest time. It took until I returned to the game on my 6 1/2 year old character and buying the expansions (finally) to realize how much gold I missed out on from ignoring them. My lil level 80 necromancer was just wandering the map for so long being so poor lol

[@merficvalmar4671]

No, thats no real mistake, at that time you did what made you enjoy the game. Ofc you missed up on gold, but you did other things like exploring the world what you enjoyed, i guess? If you would have forced yourself to do it, you could have a worse expierience and maybe burnt up your interest. That happened to me and i also took a year long break.

[@lilacdragon17329]

@@merficvalmar4671 absolutely; doing dailies can be nice if you're trying to be efficient, or save up or something, but it also carries the risk of burning out really quickly, because it starts to feel like a job you have to do instead of something you enjoy to do

[@halapenopepper]

When I first started the game years and years ago, I got an unopened endless mystery tonic (furniture) from a Black Lion Chest. I excitedly used it, because I thought being able to turn into a table was really funny, only to check the marketboard and see that at the time it was selling for around 200 gold and I could no longer sell it. Crushing.

[@reaverkai]

My friends insisted hard in me (newbie) using the lvl 80 boost to be able to play with them on their lvl, accessing content limited to or better for lvl 80. I put a lot of resistance because i already felt quite lost being rushed in general, i thought i'd be even more lost. And i was. Eventually they stopped playing to rotate thru other games. Playing at my own pace was the best thing to happen, I now enjoy the game so much more. I think I'm still missing knowledge tho and i really want to go back to lvl up organically. Now that the new player experience has been revamped and the leveling up is faster, i think there couldn't be a better time to go back to it :)

[@emissarygw2264]

I found leveling up is a real chore when you're restricted having no traits and barely any utilities, and no weapon swap. I honestly felt the game was super boring and dull and initially quit because of it, but eventually came back and after unlocking everything found the combat much more in depth and engaging than any other game I've played.

[@taserrr]

I'd say you don't really learn anything from grinding up to 80. At least not if you've played other MMOs, or lots of other games in general. Everything is super easy, things are very slow, there's hardly any mechanics that are being taught. You learn more from watching a 5 min class guide than you do from 1-80.

[@Kerbezena]

People learn differently. If your friend insisted on your issuing of the boost then they should have taken the responsibility to be a mentor to you. The best thing a veteran can do to bring in a new player is creating a new character and play through personal story and dungeons with them, answering their questions as they come up.

[@michelpath98]

As someone who has never turned off double tap to dodge and never will, I definitely recommend turning it off. There is no benefit to this other than the rare accidental dodge every now and then to screw you over

[@torkyn]

I think I spent an hour on the Caledon forest beginner jumping puzzle dying from double tap before turning it off

[@0Fyrebrand0]

I always double-tap to dodge because it's how I played for years. My brain just doesn't have the RAM to force myself to dodge any other way and still be able to function.

[@emissarygw2264]

@@0Fyrebrand0 yeah it takes retraining, but when tells are a fraction of a second and then you need to factor in both reaction time and pressing a direction key twice to dodge, it's really hard to actually dodge anything. I recommend binding it to a side mouse button (I have it on my 'back' button) so that you don't even need to waste time moving a finger over to the 'v' key.

[@Darkstar2342]

My first character was an Ele and I still enjoy playing as Ele very much

[@EmpressOfTatertot]

Also an Ele from the start and loving it still - definitely agree that every class after is much easier hahaha

[@Kerbezena]

I third this. My Ele Catalyreon who emerged from his pod on pre-launch weekend, is still my most-played character. 1677 hours or of 2879 h total. My second in playtime is my Iron Legion Engineer from Nov. '21 at 228 hours. The percentage of my main was even way higher before I had one of every profession. As an Ele, you just learn to stay light on your feet and not face-tank attacks. I would recommend it as a starter class, if I have confidence in the new player.

[@HighOnTacos]

I was always an Ele main when the game first came out. Came back to it recently, was struggling to learn the game again, once I sort of knew what I was doing I decided to upgrade to the weaver spec. I might be a masochist.

[@MD-ee2fq]

Im a bit sad no one talked about the salvaging mechanic. This is such a huge part of the inventory management and not very much explained in the game. How they work in general and that youre able to rightclick -> salvage all by rarity

[@RQLexi]

Welcome, new players. Enjoy your stay! ^^ (Also, Lara is a good bean, and has a lovely community who are always happy to help)

[@randomusername0x0]

thank you so much for the help i'm downloading it today and have never played guild wars 2 in my life and this video helps so much

[@bling_t]

My 1st character was an ele as well. Still got her, 10th birthday coming up. Looking forward to the staff changes, I have played her as a glass cannon, sticking to fire almost all of the time. (Got up early on pre-order-launchday, make character, going back to sleep. After logging back in I got mail saying I should delete the character because they wanted that name)

[@almeisam]

Mine too. Just checked, she's 9.97 years old.

[@grizeldabrown]

My ele is also 10 years old, but only level 16.

[@TerryHesticles87]

Your videos just appeared in my feed, haven't played GW2 in years...now I'm feeling encouraged to play again. Thanks for your videos, you rock!!

[@thecat3309]

Boosting your character to level 80 is not only confusing if you don't know the class already, but it can also make you feel more distant to the character and their class in a way. At least that's what happened to me. The two characters I boosted up like that (revenant and ranger) are the two classes I like playing the least, and I can't play them very well either. I enjoy every other class immensely, but every other class I levelled up organically and thus learned the skills and traits bit by bit.

[@Kerbezena]

If you level Revenant organically, you might recall where you were and what you were doing when you unlocked and explored every new legend (Rev's class mechanic; you always have two legends selected and switch between them; each legend has their associated trait line and complete set of slot skills (1 heal, 3 utility and 1 elite)). Instead you can "remember" standing in Camp Resolve in the Silverwastes and clicking CONFIRM. Not quite the same level of association. Let's face it: Level-80-boost is nothing more than a marketing ploy from NCsoft and an example of fundamentally flawed game design.

[@wingnutmcspazatron3957]

I have this same experience every time. To further support your point, I had an account where I mained a Revenant years before I picked the game up again and I lost the password. Since then I had mained an ele and a guardian (built from the ground up, not boosted), but I 80boosted many other toons. Surprisingly the only toons I enjoyed playing were the ele and the guardian, because i felt no attachment to the boosted ones. However, I decided to recreate my old Revenant main and 80boosted one. I've put more hours into my Rev than my other mains, because it was like I reconnected with an old friend. Very odd how that works

[@gio87vr]

I'm main Elementalist since GW1, but I love how they made Elementalist in GW2 even more, in all these years I never thought ele was hard, I just learnt how to play better.

[@RexxyRobin]

Yeah, the meme is a bit frustrating. Ppl always act as if ele just dies instantly or is constantly downstate, but whether I played core, tempest, weaver or cata, I pretty much never go down even with berserker gear. And with the slightest number change they go "Omg anet hates ele this class is useless now" meanwhile I still carry dungeons and fractals and usually have the highest dps on any worldboss... And I do not eman to sound like "Just l2p, srcub!" obviously you can not like a class or find it unintuitive - I do not understand ranger - but to then think that because you don't get good results with it it must be unplayable is pretty silly.

[@gio87vr]

@@RexxyRobin And maybe all of them think that Dark Souls is the best game because you need skill to go forward.

[@jermu8706]

i can tell you dont raid

[@gio87vr]

​@@jermu8706 Yes, going full berserker in a raid like a true glass cannon is intimidating, that is why I raided with my guild a couple of times, we won against the vale guardian and the first part in the stronghold, but it was impossible to get 10 players online for hours. Now I have less time so getting to raiding is even harder. Strike missions for me for now. Eventually I'll raid, I want the legendary armor. "Is it wrong not to raid?" 🤣

[@Dankflamio]

Also in addition to not worrying about meta builds. It’s important to experiment with abilities you find fun or useful because until the hardest of hard content pretty much any play style is valid and this game is ALL about having fun!

[@jabaash]

This so much. I recently crafted my first ever legendary, Meteorlogicus, and i recently swapped mains to a mesmer, so i'm atm trying to make scepter mirage work because damn it, i worked hard for this legendary and i'm sure as heck gonna use it! Luckily scepter isn't the worst as mirage, and the ambush actually does a ton of conditions per clone, so it's still good damage. Having a lot of fun melting faces with confusion beams and always having ready clones for ambushes.

[@spiralhaze2070]

8:45 those sound like the words of someone who sold an infusion....

[@Aonalion]

I also didn't realize you could deposit materials into your bank from your inventory for a long time, so I just went to a banker npc to drop off my stuff every now and again (:

[@JoJoSideUp]

Oh the gliding thing reminds me: When I was new to WvW, I didn't know I had to level gliding, and learned it the hard way first. So I level it asap. Went for an attempt at Hills that failed. During retreat, I figured I'd use my new gliding powers to use. In that moment, I was just like the Sail Cat.

[@Kellethorn]

I've done this so many times. Or in jumping puzzles, when you forget gliding can be disabled and.... *SAIL!*

[@jdog1008]

I would say the mistake I keep making is full Inventory. even as a Vet player of playing since beta. your inventory gets full really fast. even with max inventory bags. even in raids I would have Encumbered debuff. back then it us to give you Crippled debuff XD. so a tip that can help is to always salvage what needs to be and deposit all materials button. even with Encumberd window if your maxed out on lower right chests from raid boss clears it will keep stacking. and every map change its right up in center of screen. you cant even sell minitures to vender for tokens from raids cause of full inventory. But yes I am so glad to keep playing this game for over 10 years and seeing the community still active.

[@Skyztamer]

I'm not sure if this really counts as a rookie mistake, but when I first started back in I think it either 2015 or 2016, I was trying to find the closest profession that fulfilled a specific class fantasy from another MMO I enjoyed and tried to play that profession in similar a way. That of course didn't work out because of how different the games are fundamentally and I didn't have a good time. I came back to the game earlier this spring because I wanted some older games on my newly build computer and decided to give GW2 another shot. My old character still existed on my account, but I decided to make a new one with a different profession that I figured seemed cool for a more authentic fresh start and I've since learned to love this game in between others.

[@citeltheof]

Finding out there was a way to disable the double tap to evade/dodge. That was driving me nuts. Went digging through the options until I found it. Sooooo nice.

[@evolutionground8946]

Wait, the author of Sunstone plays Guild Wars 2? Neat.

[@eurasiacentertutorials9518]

Agree on the boost, save it for a character you want to play at 80 and don't want to level! For me a Necromancer main, I wanted to play a Thief but didn't want to level it. I didn't mind leveling some other alts I have like my warrior, or Guardian, but I wanted to jump right into being a Deadeye and it was worth it.

[@DocOverlord]

Heard you mention this video on your stream and had to see it. Really helpful hints! Also really funny, I felt those ele comments LOL

[@xMezzy66]

I started playing at launch (10 years ago). I played for a couple of years and got quite a few alts to lvl 80. But then what do you do ? Well I quit because I thought that was it , BIG mistake, there is so much more to the game past lvl 80, I’ve been back a year now and having so much fun . Thanks to Laranity , I raided into her twitch stream with another streamer and stayed. Got engrossed in gw2 again and started playing , so much fun . Thank You Lara 🥰🥰🥰

[@nazrf.1435]

When choosing our starters (First time in GW2), my 2 friends and I agreed to get one from each armor class. One chose Guardian, Another chose Ranger... and I chose... Elementalist. Fast forward 9 years... I am still an Ele main and he is the ONLY character I have that remained original. AND, toggling through Ele skills made it easier for me to play around with the other Profession's Skills. My New Player Mistake: Mats. I did not really care about harvesting, saving them for future use or even selling them. I barely did any gathering... and if I had a mat that was already full (250 in bank)... i threw them away. That's right.. THREW them away. Did not even know selling them to BLTP was an option. I regretted that after when I was on the hunt for my first legendary XD

[@christophersmith8316]

I did have a recurring problem of climbing to a vista on a high point and hitting "V" for vista.

[@Jmvars]

As a fairly recent elementalist enjoyer it made me a better player overall. I switched from necromancer and there was no more ignoring AoE's and tank everything with my massive healthpool, double healthpool or barrier. Elementalist is also extremely fun to play, much more active and engaging.

[@TottWriter]

I played ele first as well, and when I finally switched over to finish levelling my guardian it was like, oh wow, I'm suddenly immortal!

[@Jmvars]

@@TottWriter you misunderstood me, I played necromancer first, then switched to elementalist.

[@xMezzy66]

My ele is mid 50’s , from launch . But with all the negative comments I hear about them , I’m scared to get her out to play lol

[@TottWriter]

@@xMezzy66 In all honesty, I have so much fun on my Ele. It's become a bit of a meme that they're the "downed state meta" class, but that's in part because people like to play them full glass canon. If I run full berzerkers and trait for damage only, then, yeah. Hella squishh, which makes for a very intense learning curve. But you can absolutely spec for toughness as well, which won't give you quite the same thrill of high numbers, but gives you a bit of grace to learn the kite dance. And there's really nothing like that moment when you take out an enemy (or group of them!) which could easily two-shot you

[@szati64]

I think one of the most confusing thing in GW2 for new players is the condition damage type. Sooo many people - including me back in the days - didnt know for a long time how it works and what it is, what is the difference between condition damage and pure attack-crit builds. I think the explonation of this should be in this video too.

[@pixelbumblebee7312]

oh hey I'm in there 😄 guildmates alerted me this morning. loved hearing about everyone else's new player hiccups, great video

[@DrZaius3141]

a) Ele is perfectly valid as a first char, it was mine as well. You get through all of the leveling with just fire (mix in water for group situations) and if you're feeling freaky you can always just throw out a basic rotation without fully knowing what the spells actually do. b) Skill clicking can work in conjunction with the keyboard. This goes particularly for utility skills because your "casting hand" will be firmly set on 1-5 and F1-F4 (depending on your profession), so moving away and back might actually take longer than a quick click. c) For new players, hoarding might actually be suboptimal. While you're F2P, you have very little space and getting rid of something that would get you some minor value might be outweighed by less inventory management, double-checking, etc.

[@GeminiKLY]

Now that we have gliding and mounts I kinda miss having to navigate terrain with the fear of falling to death. I remember jumping puzzles were so difficult too.

[@ponykid1355]

Wouldn't really call in a 'beginner' mistake but I recently bought like 40 copies of an item from the trading post. The realization set in when I got up in the morning to log in after being up for about 20 hours. I shouldn't try playing while sleep deprived, wasted about 15 gold because of it.

[@LyricalDJ]

Oooh yeah. I'm sure a lot of players have done this at some point (whether it be from the TP or from a regular vendor). I know I have while crafting.

[@insanemang9983]

My noob moment was doing jumping puzzles with double tap dodge not knowing you could turn it off. So much pain that I could have avoid.

[@thehopelesspragmatic6701]

First year of game: I am afraid of heights, even in game. I couldn't stand doing jumping puzzles and one jumping puzzle could take me an entire 6 hour session as I try to use my Engineer Rifle as a crutch and it would select my landing to replace jumping.

[@jRoy7]

I'm think about getting back into the game after years away, and I think this time I might remove the double tap to dodge. However I always found it too hard to hit dodge while running right if it was bound to V, during pvp or whatever. I think I'll try binding it to left shift. No other commands with shift I care about, except enemy targeting which can be control-tab. Shift to dodge is default in New World which I play now and then, so I can keep my muscle memory happy. :)

[@jurare89]

in general, that´s a good idea, but keep one thing in mind: you can use shift/ctrl/alt as a modifier, so if you bind dodge to shift, you will lose that possible modifier. This comes in handy for some keybinds. I personally (just to have an example) use Shift+E as my F5 (after the changes to mesmer) for my profession-ability 5 (which in case of mesmer, would be continuum-split when playing chronomancer) and alt+E for the special-action-key (which is important in strikes, raids and some fractals).

[@SnowflakeVee]

The liquid aurillium one hits close to home, fairly sure I salvaged one of those amulets back when it dropped in them, remember thinking 'huh, that's weird, I got aurillium (the currency) from that salvage.' I know I'm way late on this video but it still hurts.

[@AzuraeJades]

I thought I never did something stupid until I remembered this: When I first started the game, I was not interested in crafting, so I didn't want to keep materials in my inventory. At first, I was using the button to put every material in the bank. Everything was fine... until I decided, when I was lvl 80, to completly ignore this button, and I was destroying MANUALLY my materials out of my inventory. Once I joined a big guild, the guildmaster was chocked when I told him I was deleting my materials. I think I was doing that because the button "wasn't working anymore, or only for few materials". I didn't understand at this moment that materials were in my bank, and some of them reached the maximum stack of 250...

[@aaroneverett296]

Wow, I've been meaning to track down a mentor tag. I had no idea it was another player.

[@ginster458]

i still click most of my skills because I‘m a lefty and have to use the mouse on my left hand. That means remapping every key and limited keys in general, even with a keyboard that has the gaps around the arrow keys as narrow as possible. I still get decent results, and I think for casual playing it’s totally fine

[@SuspiciousAra]

I have an account of GW2 since 2015, linked to a GW1 account for the GWAMM and HOM goodies in EotN. and i think i just started playing GW2 when it got free to play. logged in, made a thief and went out for an adventure. i have found a thing on map, a brown circle with horns, went there, insta death... later in 2022 started playing again after i deleted that thief :D

[@pierre-mariecaulliez6285]

I boosted my first Charr-acter to lvl80... When I was lvl78 and wanted to activate my last personal story !

[@this.is.a.username]

I've always used A,D to strafe and Q,E to turn... makes moving around a lot easier when the mouse hand is eating/drinking

[@bboysmalltown666]

action camera FTW

[@NicholasBrakespear]

Played through Guild Wars 1 in its entirety before playing Guild Wars 2. Frankly, given how hardcore that game is by modern standards... Guild Wars 2 now feels simple and easy by comparison. I mean, the condition/hex/enchantment system in GW1 was... elaborate, to say the least. And the challenge could be absolutely merciless (have PTSD from those GW1 imps and their ability to insta-kill an entire party...) So I'd say, if you want to feel bulletproof going into GW2? Play some GW1. It'll put it all into perspective. Plus, it's a really good game.

[@ZechsMerquise73]

Yes, Guild Wars 2 is mindnumbing by comparison, and it's impossible for me not to have the dissonance between the two games constantly running through my head. GW1 was smooth, so very smooth, from the gameplay to the netcode and the coding. GW2 is a dumpster fire of glitches, networking errors, and really, really, really boring gameplay. It's just sad. And yeah, even pre-seering imps would beat the ass of any boss or PvP'er in GW2.

[@Dankflamio]

Know that you can go at any pace because the experience of being a high level or low level is widely available with alts. I have super overpowered and flashy characters but recently I’ve had the most fun starting a new character as a warrior in queensdale using only the weapons and armor the story gives you.

[@traviscue2099]

I remember coming back in 2015 after 3 years away, I made a Gaurdian.. and of course I thought it was a Paladin tanky class with heals, since that's how it looks. Turns out it has the lowest hp in the game, and doesn't defend anything. Although now since the new specs you can play it as a Tank or Healing class.. Hell you can play it as a melee magic class too now or a ranged Hunter. The sepcs added so damn much, I just wish they would update the core classes.

[@blackh9604]

This is an awesome video!! Also a lot of fun advice cuz I'm new.

[@procerator]

If he got lost in Lornar's Path, imagine what would happen to him in Tangled Depths.

[@JoeFresch]

For RUNES.. later remember the 7th for the Under water breather. and under water weapons need sigils.. Otherwise in the water the 6th rune bonus(es) are lost in water...when gear shifts to under water items...

[@Lihinel]

To be fair, some players are npcs.

[@yellow5218]

My mistake was working to get a full set of marauders gear after I hit 80 as an elementalist because that's what all tutorials said without knowing how to create a build. I died a lot, before I managed to find the right build for me and the right set.

[@paulwohlford6820]

I have 2 accounts and 12 toons, and over half are level 80, and I started when the game came out. I still have not been in a fractal or a dungeon. My schedule doesn't permit it. I love the game.

[@alejo_mendez_editor]

Boosting to lvl 80 first pj and rushing to endgames....for shure...result in burn and erly quiting...gw2 is a jorney that start at lvl 1.

[@Violetawa]

7k hour vet: what do you mean it says [group event]???

[@TheJabberWockyy]

This needs a part 2

[@Marxone]

All my boosted characters ended up as parked alts for gathering mats. But maybe I am just naturally simple Ranger and all other classes are just too complex.

[@Voltage256]

I just started playing GW2 a few days ago and I was just so confused as someone that came over from SWTOR/ESO this was a big leap for me. The open world is great and so easy to lose yourself just exploring and doing heart quests and the random events you can run into. I was able to learn mostly everything pretty fast the only thing I struggled with was the weapons system for some reason it was so confusing to me at 1st but I highly recommend action camera as someone who's main game now is ESO its a lot easier than tab targeting imo

[@lilphoenix]

Runes and sigils were my big mistake, I never paid attention to them and was embarrassed by what a difference they make. That and understanding your gear stats in general! I don't tend to care about min/maxing and for a long time just took whatever I felt like I needed. But there's a lot of build sites that give gear and skill suggestions for what you want to do, and they're really easy to follow.

[@tombocai]

i also get rid of materials for a while cause i only had that inicial 20 slot bag and i didn't know about the magic button...

[@hundragant]

I got a quip precursor drop and salvaged it not realizing it's importance/value. I only remember and realized later my mistake cause I was wondering why this exotic had blue text in it and that stuck with me until I later learned what it meant

[@matilozano96]

I actually thought Mentors were Anet Employees, like community managers or something. I found neat that they’d put people in the beginner areas to answer questions. Nah, it was just some dude looking to show off his outfit or something.

[@lemonaj4408]

About the double tap. For me, i like it. Yeah i have to turn it off for JP, but i just like using it.

[@_Banjo_]

No Downtime! its been down for maintenance like once in 10 years. Also no maintenance days. Their server arthcitecture is incredible for any IT system. Also what on earth is a Queue?

[@intuii]

heh, when you wait for basin map event and the main map is already full so you spam click join in an imaginable queue ^^

[@Thrano]

Unfortunately I have not made any mistakes in GW2. Thus, I can be of no help here.

[@pokeylope6108]

TBH ele is not complicated, just seems that way. Once you understand for the most part, before builds, its water for healing and trying to stay a live, electricity for crit damage and disruptions like stuns knock downs etc, earth is about bleeds and protection type stuff, fire is about flame dot and doing more aoe damage than the other elements tend too. This is very generalized, but its for beginners to keep in mind. Ele is more of a flow play style, if you disrupt that flow(misusing abilities/element changes) it causes a bunch of chaotic nonsense waves lol. If you are playing ele and want to be less focused on swapping elements, I guess tempest would be the way to go. Imo difficulty wise its High to low Weaver>Catalyst>Core Ele>Tempest. Also my opinion fun wise Weaver>Tempest>Catalyst>core ele

[@Rulestormer]

Nice video as always! Reap benefits from our arcane wisdom, young padawans!

[@flamingninja90]

I didnt know what the picture on rune of the scholar was until this video when I saw it was a book....

[@dart_]

The bad memories I have are when I was doing my first raids, everyone was unpleasant & speedrunning, expecting all players to knew what to do. I don't remember if GW2 have this system but they should do like ff xiv, put an icon next to the names of new players.

[@BorderFreak]

I feel that would just lead toxic ppl to target you

[@Caporai]

Didn't know Mystic Coins was sellable in TP. thought it was account bound and I did have over 500 of them due to daily quest.The rest of them like Dragonite Ores, Empyreal Fragments and Bloodstone Dusts I toss them out from my bag for the past 3 years (facepalm). 1 MC back then was worth 2 gold.

[@Aranimda]

Heh, I rolled an Elly as my first char because I had one in GW1 and I struggled as well. But probably because GW2 was so different from GW1. I got some trouble with new concepts so it took me like a year because I got discouraged and went back to GW1. But I got the hang of it and I like tempest a lot. I never really bothered with alts because I like to stick to my Elly now.

[@zKayaz]

What options do i have if i cant sell on trading post? Should i sell to vendor or salvage? How about getting lvl 80 gear?

[@merficvalmar4671]

Time to start beginner-runs and give em time. I feel like the decade-collection makes veterans occupie the events in the starterzones and the new players can't keep up/get their kills/get to do events. This was badly timed by the devs... They could feel overhelmed and loose interest🤔 We veterans should provide support and help (maybe like get them up when down) instead of stealing their prey 😉 In Dungeons and other "endgame content" is more opportiunity to teach them i guess🤔 Anyone more ideas?

[@MrsHjort]

When I reached the stage in HoT where you're supposed to gather Chak enzyme for Tizlak, I kept on gathering more and more... and more... and more, because the number on my hud, you know where the quest description is, didn't go up. I got to 200 and nothing! No matter how much I gathered, it still said 1/5. I was like why? How much enzyme does this guy need... well, it turns out, not 200, I just needed to go talk with him again for the quest log to update 🙈😂😂😂

[@CallenIGuess]

24 characters, 2k hours, exclusively used action camera. I love action camera 😇

[@Machinationstudio]

I'd be rank 10k in WvW instead of 4k if I had run with big zergs in EBG for the past 8 years. But I like keeping home bl clean instead.

[@lumberfoot_jpg]

I too roled an ele my first time XD fast foward 6 six years to the steam launch date... I rolled a ranger :)

[@rareraspberry]

Spending my mastery points on things I don't use (legendries and fractals). The mastery system confused me once I hit 80.

[@1980Shadowwolf]

Core ranger that wore marauder for months given i was a solo player then wondering why ppl said my dps sucked if i joined pugs for raids and fractals lol. Now im a longbow and hammer power untamed with full zerker gear.

[@QUIX2468]

I totally can relate to most of these mistakes :D

[@Shadamehr100]

The biggest mistake would be thinking GW2 is a traditional MMO in that the latest content is the only content to play and all other previous content is obsolete and invalid. It felt like players must have been rushing to max level asap or using level 80 tokens, then heading on over to End of Dragons. I saw many, many players with extremely low mastery and achievement points in EoD.

[@ZechsMerquise73]

That's how the game is designed. Why would you wade through all that shit, and wait around by yourself in an empty zone to get mastery points when you could just beeline it and play with everyone else?

[@SeleckPlays]

I have definitely salvaged exotic gear without stats on it. 😢

[@b-3nn1]

So the few things I personally disagree on are Skill clicking being bad. I picked Elementalist, and I prefer scepter and focus. Which means some of my skills need me to pick a specific place to use them. I very much prefer to just move my mouse to my skill then pick the place to cast so I can more easily figure out where my mouse is. The exception is for skills 2 and 3. I just dont like reaching halfway across my keyboard to hit 8 or 9. Double tap to dodge. I agree that turning that off for jumping puzzles is almost a necessity. But i dont personally feel comfortable taking a finger off of a movement key just to hit the dodge button. If I need to dodge to the right, it is significantly harder to use V rather than just tapping D twice. And the action camera. This style is more frustrating to me. The MMO I personally spent the most time on was Runescape. So I am far far more used to clicking on everything. And using action cam makes using those skills I mentioned earlier (the ones I need to specify where to cast them) much more annoying and disorienting to use since my entire view has to shift just to cast it where I want. Maybe if I were using a more melee focused character, I'd feel differently.

[@martaszabo465]

Great video and oh my god I also started as an ele, because in WoW i played a shaman and I just liked the theme of the profession. And thanks for mentioning the change of movement keybinds, I had to skip a month and I thought I was going insane when I came back to the game and the character did not turn as it used to and I couldn't find anything on the internet about the change. Does anyone know if you can change it back to the old settings? I don't really like the new one 😅

[@BorderFreak]

You just have to change your keybinds in settings (changed it back immediately myself) so used to it and works just like strafe with rmb held down anyway

[@lucasfarinhabosio6306]

Damn, Demsus. That gems for cheap dyes hurt to see

[@8r752]

Agree on elem I installed gw and played elem at first. Quit the game for a year. Started again as thief

[@Cryton12345]

I think Wandering around and finding adventure that @Caladryus mentioned was what I did when I started and now I'm 32 warrior working on the my story missions. @rico waypoint comment, +1 I thought that too although that would be a interesting content.

[@otakuboxgamingfun8944]

I'm hoping to pick up this game but find it lonely as I dont know anyone local playing this game. I'm hoping to find some groups to play so it becomes more enjoyable

[@oceanwolf4912]

I used to buy new gear and runes and sigils for pvp everytime I tried a new build

[@HeavensOfMetal]

Purchased the game on release, made an elementalist, didn’t like the game, came back to it a few days ago cause my friend got me interested, boosted to 60 (with a Birthday gift), now 80 & like Mastery 3 & still barely understand the class. 10 year title & Luminous skin though, so turning a lot of heads, haha. They must be so disappointed when I instantly die.

[@ZechsMerquise73]

Really confused by this. Elementalist is the only class I've played that isn't completely braindead. It's hard to get back into if you stop playing for awhile, but just read what you spells do and use them?

[@HeavensOfMetal]

@@ZechsMerquise73 I’m hearing a bunch of things about “the proper rotations” (I assume that’s not hitting 2 through 5 & then pressing the next F key, lmao) & as well as that, it’s not just “reading the spells”, I’ve read all of them - but each has additional effects which aren’t detailed, like, they grant Might, Fury, etc. which I then need to look up elsewhere, never mind on top of that there’s the various build traits (Air, Arcana, Earth, etc) which contain additional things, some which aren’t relevant until you get elite specialisations because hell, I don’t think there’s a way base elementalist can give certain buffs to allies. That was a lot to absorb my first day back (& when I say “back” I was essentially playing for the first time - my elementalist was level 2 & hadn’t even done the first story), considering this is like my fifth or sixth log in today, haha. I’ve got a bit more of a handle on it, but that’s a tonne to dump on a brand new player, makes me wish I didn’t use a level booster. I’m sure I’d be much more happy with it if I was able to learn at the regular pace.

[@jeremygreen2883]

I feel like a good weaver build for an elementalist will make them a lot less squishy.

[@semitangent]

1:00 - What?! Stjepan Sejic of comic book fame (some *definitely* NSFW, check out "Sunstone") is a GW2 player?!?!

[@jazzandfunkequalsjunk179]

My biggest mistake is being a coward in doing Living World stories alone :(

[@x_plug_x]

i wanna learn a mmo so bad. never had friends who played them. looks like fun. but never had the motivations to go and learn all on my own.

[@צמחישראלמרום]

the laast one though ahhh😭😭

[@keats27]

I thought all that shit leveling gear mattered when I was lvl 80. But it doesn't. Anything that is less than lvl 80 exotic is total crap (excepting breather and back piece).

[@emissarygw2264]

biggest mistake for any newbie: keyboard turning and clicking skills biggest tip for any newbie: Disable doubletap to dodge and bind dodge to the 'back' button on your mouse

[@Kellethorn]

Can't recommend enough not using the level 80 boosts on your first character. Anet has designed levels 1-79 as a tutorial really, and you can very easily completely level up in a week or two of casual play, and you will be SO much happier without just trying to fast forward. Also, skill clicking / hybrid is totally fine; show me a person who says they click "7, 8, 9, and 0" on their keyboard, and I will show you a liar lolol

[@emissarygw2264]

I used to use 7890 on keyboard, but that's not good either. That doesn't make skill clicking 'fine' though; it just means the default setup is bad. QERT is a common setup for competitive players. Personally I use shift-QERT, which is weird and not optimal but still good enough to play at a high level. I did know a guy who clicked and did OK in wvw, but watching his POV videos you could really see that it was a struggle/handicap and heavily influenced his playstyle.

[@smax333]

I salvaged the feathers of dwayna bow skin not knowing it was pretty expensive 😭😭😭.