I honestly believe that GW2 is only getting better for the last 2 years and with the New Expansion coming next month with alot more changes this could be the best time to play this game .. After 1014 hours on the game i can honestly said this game is another master piece Welcome.
I think how they handle weaponmaster will be interesting, because for new players some elite spec weapons are going to be real nice for leveling, say for example, Greatsword on core Rev or Longbow core Guardian. One of my favourite things starting off as Warrior was finding new combos to play with.
Two things led me from ESO to GW2. They were game-breakers for me with ESO. First was the monthly fee for a materials "Bag of Holding" (I don't remember what ESO called it). With GW2 it is just part of the game for free. In fact, GW2 had an even easier way to use it with just one click to transport your mats to the bank which always gave you room in your bags for more mats. Secondly, which was the more important to me, was GW2 scaled your character down to the zone where ESO scaled the zone up to your character. Let me explain, with GW2 you can go back to previous zones that were levels below you and fight all the mobs and bosses with all your level 80 armor, weapons, and abilities. Now, they are all scaled down to whatever levels the zone is but at least you had a slight advantage in that zone. In fact, many world bosses that are in low-level zones are much more fun and challenging because of it. Your level 10 could be standing right next to a scaled-down level 80 player and feel comfortable fighting a world boss. Not so with ESO. Because ESO scales the level UP to your character's level, you can never beat quest chain end bosses. Say you are in a level 10 to 20 area and you're level 18 or 19. The quest-end bosses in that zone are around levels 21-22. You find out when you get to the end-of-chain boss, you just can't beat him, so you say to yourself "I'll just come back at level 40 and beat him easily" but it doesn't work like that in ESO. When you come back at level 40, the bosses are all now level 41 and 42 and you still can't beat them because ESO has scaled them up accordingly. When I left ESO at around level 45 I had dozens of quest lines I never finished, which really aggravated me, because I am one of those people who HAS TO FINISH THE QUEST. A lot of the end bosses were in an instanced zone which meant that you had to do them solo. Also, most the end-of-quest bosses (because of solo instancing) were "twitch-based" to be able to beat them. You know, take two steps forward, throw a fireball. dodge left twice, bring up shield, jump backward, dodge right, rinse repeat until dead (because of this, I also hate jumping puzzles for the same reason but at least I can do them over and over until I get them right).
I 100% agree with everything you said. While I would rather have zones that scale for an MMO and think it's one of the most important ways to make all regions stay relevant, I also prefer GW2's approach over ESO.
I literally did this this week after multiple thousands of hours in eso and i had no idea what i was missing haha. For anyone doing the same, something that will make you feel more at home, you can change settings so that your mouse moves the camera and casts ground abilities based on where you are looking JUST LIKE IN ESO. This made gw2 feel way better than the default camera/targetting settings. Please give it a shot
I've done both.. Played ESO and GW2. But have been playing GW2 for over 10 years, so I'm more used to its hybrid tab targeting system. Yeah, you can set it so mouse and camera behave like ESO, but I find it gets onerous after a while as you will need to exit from that mode to get your mouse pointer back to click on something pretty often.
@BillBoxall true I gotta give it a lot of credit, I played SWOTR a while back and did not like that system at all but I played with it for a bit in this game and it felt very good and fluid. The ground targeting was an issue for me and I didn't like holding right click so much so I just took the easy route but definitely the base system feels great. It's a problem one of my friends has where he refuses to play any game with it and I just want to make people aware so it's not a turn off. I want as many people coming to gw2 as possible
You can make the mouse move the the camera while moving out of the gate, but holding down both buttons when you move. Something new players always try to do which is a huge mistake is bind their #1 skill to a mouse button - this is a bad idea because autoattack won't work if you do this.
I feel like it’s not a fair comparison to compare a game that you’ve been playing for so long to a game that’s fresh and new.. obviously you will favor the new one
Its fun because i quit all the mmos i was playing and returned to GW 2 and im having a blast, i didnt played the game for 10 years and totally worth to play rn
Welcome to Tyria. As someone who plays both ESO and GW2 I can just say they go well together. GW2 has a great open world, including open world events and bigger meta events which is really fun. These moments really capture the feeling of being in a game with many other players, working together to take down some foes. ESO on the other hand does a better job at exposing the rich lore to the player with the more traditional quests and additional texts everywhere. Both games have shops, but GW2 does not have an "optional subscription" with benefits that make it feels pretty mandatory if you actually play the game. The shop get's updated once a week and items that roll out usually come back within less than a year.
I played ESO for over 10 years and I'm including betas. I seen gw2 free to play and played it for a time sync. I loved it.. been playing for about 4 or so months now. Glad I gave it a chance.
That's a good point about fishing. Since the pools are in the core and all. But it also invloves the boat/masteries, so I can't see it changing. But yeah gw2 took me a few tries to understand the game at 80+ when it finally clicked that I gotta make my own goals, I fell in love with it.
I have to agree. While I think that the level 20 mount should have been a normal, maybe slightly slower mount without features and not the raptor, I see no problem in giving fishing to everyone from the start.
GW2 and ESO vet here, left for GW2 1,5 years ago, rediscovering GW2 after a break. The big difference is that GW2 was always buy2play with convenience and fashion in store, Black Lions and mount skin licenses the biggest iffy thing there is, while ESO is just predatory through and through, from QoL offered only by ESO+ to DLC prices to changing meta to ridiculous crates. This game (GW2) might have weaker IP or visuals, but the gameplat loops, quality of the content for your buck and sheer amount of convenience unblockable for grind (legendary gear = forever free transmog + fancy visuals to indicate you completed it if you like it), and community are all outstanding. You're welcome in our midst.
I'be been playing GW2 for almost 10 years. It's always nice and interesting to see fresh views about the game. One of the best thing about the game is that the devs truly respect your time and specifically avoid toxic mechanics like fomo, gambling or p2w or even subscription (either mandatory or optional). There is one gacha like mechanic (cosmetics only) in the game and the pity mechanic is really fair: The item remains available through a currency you earn from that gacha and slowly drop with time so it's always available and gets easier and easier to grab. This game truly shine on some key aspects to me: - Exploration - Combat (either through general gameplay and encounters or the class mechanics, build options, gear system etc) - Movment mechanics (you'll figure out :p) - World events/World boss - Music (and I mean it !) - General DA (the base game is getting a bit old at some spots but the added content through thoose 10 years really hit the point) - Pricing and respect of your time (no subscription and no need to farm your entire stuff again when a patch comes out) - World versus World - Fashion and customisation options/systems - And of course, the story I could go on and on about why I love this game but I'll let you discover all thoose amazing features the game has by yourself :p Welcome to Guild Wars 2 ! I hope you enjoy your journey through Tyria :)
Thank you very much for taking the time to respond. I have been surprised by how many comments and wonderful reactions and sharing that the community has given me. So far I can say that I have experienced much of what you have described and have been enjoying my time and I look forward to getting to know the game more. See ya around!
I lost my delighted GW2 'innocence' when I discovered world bosses come around on a predictable schedule :) I played ESO until my inventory filled up and they wanted me to sub to get access to a crafting bag for materials.
Welcome to Guild Wars 2! As others have pointed out, the game has improved immensely over the past years. It's selling more and more, and the content should come out more regularly. I always wanted to get into ESO but I just can't stand the combat nor the stiff feeling of the environement :(. On the reward and mount skins and online store issue with EsO: I will be honest, the game suffered from the exact same issues. It has no sub fee, and the dlc were free for most players, so I understand why, mount skins were gemstore exclusive, cool skins were in the store etc... - BUT, you get keys in game to open the black lion chests - Every chest grants you with a statuette, when accumulated allows you to buy something from the gemstore anyway - You can exchange gold for gems - The future expansion will finally gives you gem store skins in game and in game mount skins as well, they changed their business model. Subscribed to see more GW2 content! :D
Hi MMO's are my favorite genre of gaming, I started playing GW2 lastyear and still in love with it. Hope you enjoy it and goodluck on your jouneys. The biggest thing about GW2's cash shop would be the conversion from gold to gems is pretty solid. Once you start getting a solid grasp of how to earn gold, everything in the cash shop is obtainable.
ONe of my favorite things in any MMO is learning the gold making methods and getting good at those. This is a different beast though since you can convert your gold into gems it adds a new layer I am excited about. Thanks for the kind words and see you out there!
Yeah I agree that fishing being locked behind a mastery in the third expansion seems kinda off. I don't think it's meant to be a gated feature like some free players say the mounts are, but they certainly are an expansion feature. I think they should give a way to unlock at least the 1st lvl of the mastery in core tyria. For someone who just got the game and want's to play the story in order it takes some time to unlock some features you may want to test out.
Thought GW2 was pretty bad for not having any mounts as endgame rewards, but didn't think ESO was worst. At least ArenaNet gave players a free mount skin of one's choosing, during that one time the servers went down or something. And if I no life for a couple weeks, I can grind the gold for a mount.
Welcome to the wonderful GW2 :) There is so much stuff to enjoy, try classes and weapons, after lvl 80 begins the real game. Personally i would love to see you try Asura :D
I am deciding which way to go with an Asura, but first getting to lev 80 to open things up, which I just hit 65 yesterday so it doesn't look to be that far off. :D
I myself only recently tried GW2. I actually like it. The races and lore are different enough to be fresh. The leveling isn't a massive grind at lower levels.
One of the main things I have enjoyed is the different take on a couple of the classes. The Mesmer has been cool to try and I hear the Engineer is different as well so I'm looking forward to trying that.
You are right, the combat is very good and the one thing I have not seen very much of is complaining about that, which is one of the things you see people complain most about in ESO.
im viewing this a month out as of 9/1/2023: ESO has cancelled all gifting transactions from the crown shop. GW2 looks gorgeous. Although i do love ESO for the face to face interation and voice overs and the new Arcanist class. Ive invested alot into it but its too expensive and costomization is limited. I am intrested in trying GW2 & and WAYFINDER atm.
Yeah sadly it was not the gameplay that turned me off from ESO, but the crown store and that was before the foolishness that happened last week. I love the ESO lore a lot more. Overall though. the gameplay and how GW2 really makes alts a lot more easier to do, not to mention the way they do landscape questing is just so alive.
Interesting, I made the exact same change a few years ago! The main attraction to me was PvP mode, since it's 100% better than what ESO has, but I stick for other content with the time. Nowadays I don't really play gw2 as well, but I still could see myself returning to it at some point, while with ESO I tried to get back a couple of times and it always felt kinda meh. Not that it's a bad game just not for me anymore I guess
Yeah I have heard the WvW and PvP is good here but I haven't gotten to it yet. As for ESO, I have not tried the newest class yet and am not sure when I will get back to it to try it. Maybe in a few months, maybe never. Just depends on if I get that itch again, but I would really like to see some changed before I go back so not looking likely unless they do.
I might point out... the renowned hearts in gw2 or aka quest giver is more like 3 or 4 multiple quests rolled up into one, their is always multiple ways to complete them... as for the fishing to be gated because its a new feature I think eventually arenanet will roll out a patch like the raptor mount at 20 to unlock base fishing
I think saying renown hearts are “multiple quests” is very misleading. One quest with multiple methods of completion isn’t multiple quests. You still only complete it once.
You will love this. ESO players who are looking for a new MMO should try gw2. And gw2 players who wants a new MMO should try ESO too. The 2 games share a lot of similarities. But ESO got too expensive for me unfortunately.
I agree with you, though I think that ESO isn't changing at all, sadly, not to mention lags\pvp issues...it's like devs lost all enthusiasm. That's sad, TES & D&D are my fav universes.
Thanks, I actually just earned some of the in-game items that let you swap the cosmetics you want to wear and so now I have an outfit I like and some dyes applied.
At the beginning i also was a bit frustrated with the items coming out of the gem store without knowing when they will be back, but it's a matter of getting used to how the gemstore cycles. Generally, a new cosmetic item comes out full price and stays for a rather long time. When the item disappears from the promotions tab chances are that it's still in the other tabs (but without the possible discount). When a new item comes in, you know that you'll see that item again in few months (4-6), discounted. I believe that cosmetics show up into the gemstore 1-3 times per year (some of them are thematic, like the winter ones, so it's easy to know when they come out). You can also check on the wiki all the times that item came out in the gemstore and at what discount. This gives you a rough idea of what you could expect for the next months. So generally when a new item comes in, if i have some doubt about it (or if it's not the right time for me), i plan to buy it discounted on the next occasion. Sometimes i regret not having bought an item XDDD but it's no big deal, with the huge amount of cosmetics you can get from ingame achivements and festivals. Also, on august they usually have a month-long gemstore special offers (including cosmetics voucers with like all the choices in; new mounts skins are also placed into mounts voucers, you just need to spot the right one) to celebrate gw2 anniversary. Lately, the gamble-thing with black lion chests has really been improved. Before the improvement, if you were not lucky enough to get the fancy item, there was not much you could do except for hoping in some yearly appearence into the gemstore. Now every special item that comes out in the bl chests will be listed into a npc ingame store, always purchasable for bl statuettes. As the items pile up, the oldest go down in statuette price. It will be a long wait but also a secured purchase.
Wow thanks for the thorough explanation. I'm not that into cosmetics yet, been more focused on storage and just gameplay enhancements right now, but it's good to know how it works. I've seen a few cool outfits that look cool and just learned the hard way about using those outfit tokens on items and then them getting replaced by a new piece of gear, which I was not happy about, but I had got those tokens from a story mission so I did not lose any money on it.
1:50 The single most important thing new players need to know about to enjoy the game is the action cam. The game doesn’t tell you about it and it completely transforms the gameplay. Even if they end up not liking it, for many it’s a necessity to enjoy the game.
The reason fishing is gated to EoD is because that is when it came out. But you usually get a instant lv80 ticket when buying the expansion. As it is extremely easy to get to lv80. If you were to use that ticket on a class you did not enjoy. It would not take that long to get another char to lv80. So that being said you can boost a char to lv80, Skip to EoD chapter and complete a few quest to unlock fishing for your entire account. "How To Unlock Fishing. You'll gain access to fishing as soon as you reach the first Canthan map: Seitung Province! That will happen automatically after you complete the first chapter of the End of Dragons story."
I love fishing too. So what I did was completely skipped the stories of Heart of Thorns & Path of Fire plus all the Living World seasons and went straight to End of Dragons to get my skiff and all its masteries to start fishing and earning gold. And the great thing is that getting the skiff and the fishing masteries does not bring about any spoilers so I can now continue the story from Heart of Thorns onwards. I recommend you try this since you like fishing as much as I do. Getting the Thousands Seas Pavillion Pass is also highly recommended for a fisherman because it will allow you to access a bunch of fishing maps. Have fun.
There definitely are spoilers in the cut scene at the start of EoD, where they talk about all those who have been lost. However, someone who has only completed the base game will not know most of those characters anyway, so it may not be a big issue. I would still recommend skipping that cut scene. However, there are also quite a few other spoilers as you play the early story in EoD with regard to plot of earlier expansions and characters (particularly regarding various dragons), so beware. That being said, I agree that they should make basic fishing (without a skiff) part of the base game at earlier levels, just like the other gathering professions.
@@DocSardo I actually did not have to venture much into the story to obtain my skiff and fishing mastery. I happily stopped the story the moment I obtained my skiff. The rest is just mastery points.
One last comment, your logo is awesome, chapter transitions are great, music was great, intro waaaay too long. I liked the video a lot! Great gameplay footage. Glad to see your're playing a mesmer too!! That's my favorite profession!!
yeah the intro kind of went longer than I normally ever do. I think I just had too much on my mind and needed to spread it better. Thanks for the comment! :)
I played a bunch of GW2 ages ago... enough to build endgame characters of all stripes... and it just got kinda boring. My biggest gripe was the big bossfights at the end of the main story (at that time) were all just buggy as all get out and mostly broken. Mind you, this was back when they first came out with hang-gliding, so they've had plenty of time to improve this. Hopefully, they have. I played quite a bit of ESO not as long ago, and it got old pretty quick. Definitely strong on the gambling aspect, which I can avoid but is super problematic since so many gamers have issues in that regard, but the underlying game is just stale meta-builds with a god-awful gear grind. Its one of those games where player choice doesn't really mean anything as far as the fun goes. Everything you can change about your character is so excessively balanced that it doesn't really matter what weapons you want to use as long as you don't make the "wrong" choices with your build, and the only thing that makes you stand out is not spending months getting repetitive stress injuries grinding out the same challenges to get the same meta gear everyone else has. Bleh... Good luck on your journey. Of the two, I think you made the more fun choice... probably.
...Oh, and if you are still interested in trying out different games and haven't already, you might give Dungeons and Dragons Online (DDO) a shot. Of all the hack/slash and blast mmos I've played over the years, that one has a pretty unique take on grinding: You build your character to max level then sacrifice it to get a bonus on building your next character. This avoids the WoW mechanic of investing into a build only to have a new patch make it irrelevant... You just don't really invest, since you are rebuilding all the time anyway. Pretty cool... though I eventually got bored with that one too.
GW2 has DEFINITELY improved over the years and if you ever get the chance to, i highly recommend checking it out again. The mounts especially in GW2 are unlike any other in pretty much any game out there.
Regarding the gem store. Arenanet recently changed it so you can buy stuff that was previously in the gem store by checking in with the lion statue seller (often found near the auction hall in the main cities). And the things that are limited time tend to cycle through on a fairly frequent and regular basis.
lemme tell u... Guild Wars 2 is an absolute BLESS in terms of MMORPGs nowadays. keep playing if u feel like it, i hope u enjoy! Good luck on your journey, Hero
My wife doesn't like jumping puzzles either. I have a mesmer and a thief that can drop portals to help get across. The end game is where most of the content is. You will be 80 before you know then you start working on masteries. You do not have to do the story to unlock masteries but it makes it a lot easier and provides tutorials.
Thank you for your review. I have a few pointers. Fishing was only introduced in the third expansion. If you bought the game you can unlock it quickly. You should have an item that pushes one Char to lvl 80. from there you can unlock it easily if you wish so. But you need to play the story relatively far to reach max lvl in fishing. The item shop only offers skins and quality of life items with only a few exceptions. Those exceptions are gahtering tools which you need to use a lot to be cost efficient. One thing you did not mention comparing the shop system with ESO is, that gw2 also has some lootboxes. if you do a follow up I would like to here your opinion on those
Things I like. Balance: at the end game there are 27 differrent classes called Elite Specializations that you nlock at lvl80 afther buying expansions. Each core profession has three elite specializations. Each if the 27 class have anywhere from 1 to 5 different builds or lore depending what you count as a different build. And every class is viable even in raids but some are easier others harder. Jumping Puzzles are the best. There is JP on every zone. When you find one you know. There is no gliding no mountin icons preventing skips 😂 in Lion's arch there are technically 3 jumping puzzles so go have fun and find em! I like the end game content. Fractals, Strikes and Raids are your 5/10/10 player group content. I recomend doing weekly and daily strike as well daily fractals ehen you hit lvl 80 ❤ I have so far played 25/27 Elite Specializations and my favored one base on hours is engineer, Mechanist but I like also Necromancer and Elementalist, Heal Tempest being my favored build. If you need help at Raiding and play on EU just ask, many people are willing to help. There are like 4 different web pages for builds also. PvP is the best as everyonenis given lvl 80 and smae stats to chooce from so ut is 100% skill issue you didn't know the nonteleportation spot against thief 😂
Thank you, yeah I am looking forward to hitting level 80. I have 3 boosts sitting here, but I really want to experience the full level through once before deciding to use them. I do like PvE instances so also looking forward to those as well. SO far it's been fun and I even enjoy the jumping puzzles when I find them. Thanks for the kind words and warm welcome! :)
@@CasaBLACK Dungeons start at lvl 35, there are 8 dungeons in total each having a story mode and ~3 different explorable paths after compleing story once. Dungeons are old not used content but are still fun and go up to lvl 80 so don't worry. Fractals are the new dungeons which are 5 man group content same as dungeons but just more polished. Raids are 10 man raids and Strikes are just single raid boss with 10 man. Not spoiling anything else ❤️ except that even fractal lobby and pvp lobby have jumping puzzle too 😉 they are hard, good luck.
@@CasaBLACK Yes do experience the game like we all once did. Once you have a character at level 80 and you have done some stuff, then you could use the boosts for different purposes. In fact we didn't have mounts for years.
As far as fishing is concerned it's something that came to GW2 as part of the End of Dragons (EoD) expansion. Although you bought the expansion, you haven't actually unlocked that content yet, because you're simply not level enough to access the part of the story that takes your character to the zone (Cantha) where fishing is unlocked. I personally don't have a problem with that since I don't like fishing in any game that I play. However, I can also see your side of things. Just remember fishing isn't a core feature (aka base game features) in GW2 it's an expansion feature.
Started to play this game when PoF was released. Since then I'm still finding some goals to achieve and gotta admit it - I'm still addicted to this game. Horizontal progression is the best thing ever and the fact that it is extremely alt friendly.
@CasaBLACK was about the same for me. I really stopped playing after the riders of Rohan expansion came out. For me that expansion killed the game. I played a few other mmo at that time like swtor. But when gw2 came out my friends and I picked it up and we've been playing it off and on for years now.
There is no FOMO in the Gemstore, since all things are keep comming back eventually :) I missed my Cat Chair few months ago and got it just about week ago :)
Since you own End of Dragons, here's how to get fishing now. Use your level 80 boost. Take your level 80 into End of Dragons. You'll receive fishing in the first hour for sure, maybe the first 15 minutes, I can't quite remember. Bam. You have fishing.
GW2 item shop isn't really FOMO because the items don't get deleted, they just have a discount every now and then. FOMO would be like WoW Warlords of Draenor adding the hellhound mount for doing level 100 Molten Core and it was time limited event which never happened again. The only FOMO I've seen in GW2 - if you could call it that was if you played the event at the moment, you would get cheaper rewards which would later be still obtainable but a little more expensive but it wasn't a big deal since most of these rewards I got was the more expensive way anyway.
i played eso for like 3 years and a couple months ago left it for gw2. my three reasons i left eso: 1. the normal questing and zones were absolutely trivial. i mean NO challenge at all. perhaps in dungeons yeah, but the typical quests was solely for narrative entertainment. 2. combat. eso combat seems soooo wonky, with it's weaving crap. i know some like it but i never understand why. the skills and major/minor buffs things are cool though. 3. the money. i always remember feeling such a lack of need and excitement when i would get money in eso. like all i would really end up doing with it is buying bag/bank space. it's so refreshing to come to gw2 where literally money means everything in the game. one of my favorite parts about it tbh. kind of sucks, because i actually really love the stories and plots of eso and i love the voice acting and how they tell it and the world, and lore, ect. but the act of actually playing eso itself really became stale to me.
I agree with all of your points. I did like the ability to fill in hits with light and heavy attacks between skill cooldowns, but never enjoyed or liked how heavily your overall DPS numbers were dependent on mastering weaving. And yep, it was the lack of achievements for actual items or money really only being needed for housing and not much else. I even liked the crafting system, but then again outside of crafting I did not find much use for it for my character progression really. How are you liking GW2?
@@CasaBLACK I'm mostly liking gw2. some hiccups and bugs in the older content show it's age a bit but mostly good. the one thing I'm a bit concerned about is it's starting to get pretty power crept and im scared soon ill find the same problem i did ESO haha. games need some challenge.
@@MrAddummm Welcome! Yeah some content is very power crept, but there's plenty that isn't, and there's some that is very difficult, especially for open world content in an mmorpg. Try soloing stuff in heart of thorns maps. Triple Trouble is an open world event that requires more coordination than a raid, and it's just sitting there in a lvl 55 zone from the core game. There is also some awareness by the devs of power creep. Ascended/legendary items being stat capped forever is to prevent power creep. Recently the four world bosses in the starting areas were not only buffed but had mechanics added, which was great. I also came from ESO and have the exact same complaints as you-- especially the difficulty and the lack of meaningful open world content. gw2 does that stuff so well it's pretty much ruined my chance of ever playing another MMORPG.
Things change a lot with HOT, path of fire etc. The base game is extremely boring IMO with the exception of the world boss fights. ESO, you can go AFK and come back and find 10 mobs beating on you and u still live, GW2 go into path of fire AFK is something u don't do if you don't want to have to respawn. New players may want to know about Commander tags (like the green tags on big events) . IDK how long I played before I learned that if I clicked on one of those green tags, I could join their party and share buffs for events and sometimes get instructions from people who knew what the fights involved.
Some feedback 1. You can't buy Addons in the shop. It's just an upgrade to the XXL Version of the addon. 2. Masterys, like fishing, are free for every character after reaching them once. But you'll notice endgame in GW2 means many different things. For some people it's reaching rank 10.000 in WvW, others wanna clear all raids/strikes in challenge mode but the most common endgame is Fashionwars! It's nice to see the view from a new player comming from another mmo. After nearly 11 years I'm kinda blind to somethings. Wish you the greatest possible fun in Tyria!
Thank you very much for the advice and comment. I figured those items were opened for other characters which I am 100% cool with. Thanks for commenting!
I left ESO after 10k + hours there on Xbox and had to leave due to game rewards are almost nonexistent. They’re other problems too like open world PvE is stale, PvP stability, crown items looking better than some hard earned skins, expensive housing, meta shifts, and more. Now I moved to PC and enjoying GW2 for its beautiful world with interesting classes that I’ve never seen in other MMORPG (Mesmer and Engineer). Questing is interesting while events may pop up right at you or close by, making this world fun and exciting. I haven’t played much but I do hope to spend more than 10k hours on GW2 and make friends along the way. ❤❤❤
You nailed it for me as well. The different classes here have been awesome. I rolled a Mesmer as my main so far and want to try the engineer as well. Your thoughts on ESO are dead on as well. Why did you switch from console to PC?
I hope you don't get disappointed with the story of the main game. Remember ist 13 years old but it has some highlights. Also enjoy your stay! Guild Wars 2 is a lovely community and we help each other where we can. Don't forget to res fellow adventurers and see you at the World Bosses :)
Locking game wide features behind level cap and story is a serious problem. This is coming from a player who has spent 17k hours in the game. This is why they made the first mount available at level 10 to try out and made it unlock automatically if you buy any of the expansions. Hopefully they will do the same for fishing, getting a skiff, and maybe move the auto loot ability to start unlocking even at low levels.
You even have npc in towns where you can preview those new options , divinities reach next to the tp for instance , hairstyle kit and total makeover kit are used for those , with total makeover you can edit full look but you cant change race or class , Anet gives them for free from time to time.
OK, since this is another video about Guild Wars, I have 2 questions for Guild Wars players. 1. How much free space you get in your inventory. I ask this because I see that they sell bags on shop. 2. How many characters slots you get for free. Again, I ask because they sell that aswell.
with depositing materials into bank storage, you don't even need bag slots, they're optional convenience like build and gear templates, but I think you can buy up to 10-12 per character if you like. Personal oppinion as a vet player and crafter: better boost a bit of bank (up to 750-1000 (2-3 upgrades) for mat storage, 2-4 for general bank) that is account-wide, better allocation of money into convenience, and deposit/sell everything you might need for later/better make into gold.
1. I am also a crafter and have finished whole sets of legendaries with only the bag slots that came with the game (ok, we got a bag slot that one time in twitch drops) but thats it. Ngl, 20 slot bags cost about 2g (you get 2g from doing 10 min daily achievements). And 32 slot bags can cost like 700g, I think. You get 5 bag SLOTS to start, which I personally think is plenty. The real problem is that youll get a lot of random trash and trophies by playing, and inventory management is a knowledge-check, but here's a tip (dont tell anyone) unless youre actively making an accessory legendary like Vision, Coalescence, etc., you can safely just delete items you think are useless, gw2 doesnt do the classic mmo style of "hah, you deleted that thing, gotcha fucker!" 2. You get 5 character slots to start, 3 if youre f2p. You can buy character slots with gems but you can also buy gems with gold. The game will also reward you 400 gems every 5000 achievement points. I got 4 extra character slots this way, easy. That being said, I never use my ranger or thief, theyre just sitting pretty...
I created this video and have also had storage concerns having come from LOTRO and especially ESO where a sub is mandatory if you plan on crafting and this has been nice. The storage you get to start with is quite adequate for a new player and then as someone said below you can expand both your normal character bag space with those auction house bought bags which the 10, 12 and 15's are not badly priced and affordable your first week and then you can work up to those more expensive 20+ bags over time. I was surprised at the resource bag space where you just click a button in your inventory to "upload" all of your crafting resources into a large 250 per item bag meaning if you harvest 25 wood, 55 copper, 38 onions etc, you click that button and it all goes into that crafting storage and will do so until those spaces hit their cap of 250.. That 250 can be increased using the gem store of course, but even that was pretty cheap. I think on sale I just upped it with like $6 in gems to 500. Any gems I buy I plan on using them for more space, but I definitely do not feel a sense of urgency now and have time to buy them as they go on sale. Hope this helps..
Thank you guys for your replies, were pretty helpful. Hopefully in near future i'll probably give a try to the basic game to see if it catches me 😛 I thought that in this game you get like a page of 60 slots and that the shop bags are the only way to upgrade the inventory for like +10 or +20 slots or something. I didnt knew that you have 5 bags system like in wow where you can upgrade those weak bags with better ones.
@@ZeroCoolRomaniayou get 5 bag slot if you take any expansion, first 2 expansion on sale you can get for 15euros, what is 10 years of content. As free to play acc you will have 2 bag slots. Just in beggining is problem with inventory, after month in game and having 5 characters and each of them with 100 inventory slots no problems, game is alt friendly so you want multi characters, different classes. With one character I'm doing open world content, with one something else and so on.
Fishing was an End of Dragon thing, so calling it gated is stupid. Besides you can go get it with the only limitation is getting to End of Dragons expansion. Either do story, teleport there through a player who has the map, or use the City portal. And city portal you have the unlimited one and the 2 weeks pass. Anything in the story can be bought with real money or grind gold and trade it for gems. However if you want help or tips shout out in map chat. Or join a guild. I used to help a lot of players, so if want to know something just ask.
Yep will do. I didn't mean gated in a bad sense, just that with most games you play something like fishing is put out there for even lower levels, but leveling isn'ty bad and it's not too bad. I do own the End of Dragons so just moving my way up through the content.
Playing ESO & GW2 at the same time. Just reached level 39 with my necro. Any advice on what I should be doing first? The heart quest are starting to get boring and the main story I progress once I finish all the task in the area. I’m hoping it gets better once I get out of the main zone area. Also, I don’t have any friends that play this game so if anyone has a guild for a newbie to join let me know I’m Pacific Time zone.
I haven't hit 80 yet, just hit 65 yesterday. Between the story and just doing the dailies, I have found enough variety to where I have not spent that many hours just doing heart quests so I'm not burnt out on anything yet. As for a guild, I have not joined one yet myself, but I have seen quite a few that are new player friendly so I would just go for one of those or check out Reddit or the GW2 site to see some recruitment posts, targeting new players in general. You should find one for your timezone and that fits your needs and or playstyle. Good luck!
don't feel that you have to 100% a zone before moving forward in the story! there's nothing can be missed, just jump in the story as soon as you hit the right lvl. you can always come back and finish the map when you're not tired of the same map. the story gives u a lot of exp which will really help toward getting you more lvls. also! if you're tired of your current race's beginning region and need more lvls, you can always teleport to other race's starting zones - those wp are unlocked for you automatically. also doing events near the hearts will quickly progress the heart meter, and there's usually a bunch of things that can be done to progress hearts. as for guilds I see a lot if guilds advertise on various map chats, so definitely take them up on it! you can join up to 5 guilds at same time, so no worries about having to make hard decisions 😂
A Late welcolme to GW2 fellow SC pilot o7. IMO a player needs to let go of all the old "quest" tropes of other games and think of your playtime as an openworld adventure. IN GW2 you are supposed to get side tracked. get lost, forget wtf was I doing and just explore. As far as the store go's, I have been playing off and on since GW2 launched and I have spent maybe $30- $50 in total on the cash shop in 10+ years. I have spent gold to buy gems in game to buy a season or two I missed. Even if you play casually just logging in once when a season story is released, its free. The game and story get exponentially better in the seasons [esp S4] and expansions, so don't take the old base game as a gauge as to whats to come. GLHF
Thx fellow Citizen! Yeah I am noticing that huge difference in that living breathing world thing. Their approach here to questing is just completely off the rails, lol and I'm here for it. Thank you for sharing and for the advice and I will definitely be doing a lot more in this game.
On the gem store since you can convert gold to gems I know people who have never had to buy a single gem becuase they know how to earn money in the game and buy what they want that way.
05:28 dude love hard grinded achievement,yup you gonna be feel like home in GW2,uniqe item set and weapon skin,legendaries items,mounts,all of em need achievement before you can craft them
@@CasaBLACK np man,im ex ESO player too so i understand the pain and still new on GW2 as well,cant wait your tought on some achievement later (you'll see later that many people complaint around in map chat/without spoiling much,title that require years to obtain but it has some effect ) and as of why fishing lock behind later expac,anyway i hope i see you later in the mist
Get enough Black lions keys You can Get a Makeover Kit For 10 of the Black lions thing you get opening The Black lions crate BTW You Dont need money for that just a little bit of efort
Enjoy the game, however I came from gw2 to eso so it’s not the dream game from my perspective. That said I won’t poo poo it, I just think it’s funny how much glowing praise it’s gotten over the past year or so considering all it’s problems, and it has them in spades
I think we can all become disenchanted with any game so it's a fair point. GW2 is not the perfect end all MMO, but it does some things right for what I am looking for right now and thats good enough for me at the moment.
As a main WoW player I can say GW2 is better in every aspect than ESO, only thing I dislike about GW2 are the graphics, they are very PS3 like for me :(
truth be told the cool fashions and skins especially the flashy ones are cash shop in gw2... but contrary to popular belief alot of armor and fashion skins can be mixed and matched in game to legit make what ever you want, if you wanna cosplay as your favourite anime character, your likely going to be able to make that.... mounts up till the secrets of the obscure , their skins have been mostly cash shop related but that might change ???, anyways id say gw2 cash shops far more fair
The only thing that i really cant enjoy about eso is the combat. And i tried to get over it. I feel like gw2 can fix that. I should give it a shot i think.
Don't worry about vistas or points of interest for "map completion." A lot of that stuff = jumping puzzle. Jumping puzzles are time consuming. Once you get your mounts, you'll be able to fly up to those vistas in one second, skipping the jumping puzzles entirely.
Yeah I agree with you the crown store is an absolute dumpster fire that specialty Apex Mount or whatever is hidden behind a paywall that you have no way to pay for and if you by chance of a miracle collect enough seals to pay for it well that mount is already gone. And I'm getting tired of not being able to buy houses that are currently not for sale ever and the reward structure . I and over the last few years I still have not recovered from the nurse Dunning update 35 they have completely stripped neutered the werewolf out of existence and now it's update 39 that's the last straw for me now they're going after my direwolves they're turning them into non-combat pets they're taking away their snare ability, they nursed my Warden they Nerf my deep my Dragon Knight they nursed my Nightblade and for me the game is just boring stale my characters are weak or broken I can see no reason to continue the only way I would stay if they reinstated werewolf newest former glory when the werewolf was at the top of the food chain an apex predator oh that all them little cry babies for sniveling to Daddy zos because the werewolf is too much for them to take on they cry like little babies because they got their asses beat even with their overpowered build are they just don't wanted they got beat by someone that has skill but nerfing the werewolf his was not the answer but it seems like with the developers every 3 months I got to go replace really expensive gear for a different set of really expensive gear I'm just tired the fatigue set in from constantly having to update and fix my broken characters that they broke with their constant nerfing but now I'm stuck in that area of now what
I've been playing ESO with huge breaks in between. I really want to like the game, but there are so many things that turn me away: Lifeless, non-vibrant world with no challenge, rather boring atmosphere and music in some places, animation cancelling as dps gain and this overpriced fomo shop with gambling to name a few. And just like you, about 1-2 years ago a started playing GW2 again after putting it down about a month after release for the same reasons that you did. I enjoyed a lot of the story, though vanilla and ice brood saga are rather bad, did get my skyscale, which was probably the most braindead grind I ever endured, and can just hop on and off as I see fit. It's a pretty chill game unless you are one of the very few elitists. I still wish they could rebuild the old LOTRO though, with a modern engine and the zones more like they were initially: hard and elite locations. I'd love to get lost in Fornost again, spent a whole day in Urugarth and Carn Dum or experience Helegrod. Those were the fun times, but sadly they kinda killed the game with a dark and boring Moria and never really updated the technical side. EU server closure wasn't helpful either.
Agree with most of what you say, especially the ESO and LOTRO portions since I am still new to GW2 and have not done everything yet and have heard the grind for the skyscale is a little rough. LOTRO was my first MMO and as it goes, I don't know if I can ever get that same sense of wonder from another game again. I so enjoyed, but dreaded Angmar and remember my first time through CD and URU and even though I only did Helegrod a few times, it still stands out in my mind. I enjoyed Moria, but just wish we had not been down there so long between patches. That boardroom mentality ruined LOTRO after Moria though as soon as they turned it into a cash shop. I think had they just measured the game on its own instead of trying to compare it with WoW numbers, they might have seen it was still worth continuing on that same trajectory, but we'll never know.. Thanks for the comment. :)
Gemstore is very optional, the only really useful items are permanent salvage kits/gathering tools/more character slots to play the game and get best gear to clear hardest content its completely unimportant besides gw2 open world content which anet is focusing on is based on ejoying the story and completing maps for rewards and cool meta event bosses (I know wtf a game that you play for fun instead of grinding level and gear)
I did explain that I had pre-ordered it, but at that time it just didn't click and I later grew through other games to be ready for it, when I was ready. I don't regret the trip here and am happy with the destination now that I am here. Some people just take the long way around.
Played GW2 for a few years, it has some problems you dont seem to mention. ESO. As well but it seems like your more jaded about ESO. Best overall MMO is WoW and FFXIV, these 2 arent even on the mmo radar conpared to the titans.
I've played almost 7k hours of GW2. It's a really good MMO. But I have to be honest. It's horrible when it comes to gambling. The black lion loot boxes are not so bad anymore since you get guarenteed rewards (tokens to spent on a vendor) Mount boxes gives you a random mount, but it's possible to buy a selectable mount, it's 3 times the price though. But it's at least doable. It does however have straight up gamble vendors (like the ecto gamble vendors) With a game that has gem (real money)>gold conversion, this is just straight up casino. I will not be quiet about this as much as I like the game. People with gambling issues need to careful. If you're looking for an MMO to escape your gambling habbits, GW2 is not it. The ecto gamble NPC vendor used to be hidden away in a cave in Lions Arch only. But now you are entised to encounter it in multiple ways. You can get a permanent merchant that's cheaper than the normal permanent merchant. How you get it? An achievement where you have to gamble a certain ammount of ecto to unlock it. Then you wil get a permanent merchant that will always tempt you to gamble on you everytime you play the game, since it also functions as a ecto gambler. The permanent pass that came with PoF deluxe version also has an ecto gambler. If you couldn't purchase gold for real money, this wouldn't really be an issue ... but you can
@@daze4135 Well gambling usually ain't profitable, quite the opposite. That's kind of the point. But gamblers will search for that dopamin hit they get when they do get big wins. No matter if they will most likely lose. That's why it's so dangerous.
@@JD-ls6ex getting addicted to gambling sucks, big time, dude. A family friend's mom is a gambling addict and they just can't get out of debt no matter how much money he sends back home, so I understand... I just felt the need to defend the game when your first comment made it seem like gw2 is worse than p2w gacha games. I didn't mean to belittle anyone's struggles with gambling.
@@daze4135 GW2 is my favorite game, but since he mentioned the problems with ESO, I just felt I needed to mention that sadly GW is not an exception. GW2 business model good besides this elements, but this element sadly does exist, and is a huge stain on the game imo
Meh I would prefer ESO, geat itemization in groups is better and RVR is better, GW2 is zergy and nothing I do feels like it matters although ESO also has a problem with midgame being boring.
Yes, you have a point, but at the same time if you are into crafting, you need to sub to get that crafting bag so to me that is not really b2p, not to experience everything to its fullest.
@sentokigames151 kids.... shouldn't have the option of gambling lol. I don't buy them... but gambling isn't a habit that should be presented to children.
I was like you and stayed away from games based on their looks and I think it was Valheim that made me see that some games are just worth playing, even if their looks are not what I typically like, simply because the gameplay is done so well. WoW has a lot of faults, but for an old-school MMO, it plays very well. I enjoyed Classic, but could not get into Retail due to just how much stuff there was to do and not a lot of decent help on running just anything except the latest content.
I honestly believe that GW2 is only getting better for the last 2 years and with the New Expansion coming next month with alot more changes this could be the best time to play this game .. After 1014 hours on the game i can honestly said this game is another master piece Welcome.
I think how they handle weaponmaster will be interesting, because for new players some elite spec weapons are going to be real nice for leveling, say for example, Greatsword on core Rev or Longbow core Guardian. One of my favourite things starting off as Warrior was finding new combos to play with.
It’s had a couple of stumbles but even in the worst of times GW2, gameplay is goat’d imo
GW2 can only become better now that it no longer has the narrative black hole that's The´Dragon Cycle.
the gameplay in EoD was great, the writing and character design was absolute shit.
@@FenrirFrostborn and the quick bar swapping every 20 sec. thats the reason i quit eso twice.
Welcome to Tyria brother. I'm a former ESO player as well, and I definitely agree with most of the points you made here.
Thank you!
Two things led me from ESO to GW2. They were game-breakers for me with ESO. First was the monthly fee for a materials "Bag of Holding" (I don't remember what ESO called it). With GW2 it is just part of the game for free. In fact, GW2 had an even easier way to use it with just one click to transport your mats to the bank which always gave you room in your bags for more mats.
Secondly, which was the more important to me, was GW2 scaled your character down to the zone where ESO scaled the zone up to your character. Let me explain, with GW2 you can go back to previous zones that were levels below you and fight all the mobs and bosses with all your level 80 armor, weapons, and abilities. Now, they are all scaled down to whatever levels the zone is but at least you had a slight advantage in that zone. In fact, many world bosses that are in low-level zones are much more fun and challenging because of it. Your level 10 could be standing right next to a scaled-down level 80 player and feel comfortable fighting a world boss. Not so with ESO.
Because ESO scales the level UP to your character's level, you can never beat quest chain end bosses. Say you are in a level 10 to 20 area and you're level 18 or 19. The quest-end bosses in that zone are around levels 21-22. You find out when you get to the end-of-chain boss, you just can't beat him, so you say to yourself "I'll just come back at level 40 and beat him easily" but it doesn't work like that in ESO. When you come back at level 40, the bosses are all now level 41 and 42 and you still can't beat them because ESO has scaled them up accordingly. When I left ESO at around level 45 I had dozens of quest lines I never finished, which really aggravated me, because I am one of those people who HAS TO FINISH THE QUEST. A lot of the end bosses were in an instanced zone which meant that you had to do them solo. Also, most the end-of-quest bosses (because of solo instancing) were "twitch-based" to be able to beat them. You know, take two steps forward, throw a fireball. dodge left twice, bring up shield, jump backward, dodge right, rinse repeat until dead (because of this, I also hate jumping puzzles for the same reason but at least I can do them over and over until I get them right).
I 100% agree with everything you said. While I would rather have zones that scale for an MMO and think it's one of the most important ways to make all regions stay relevant, I also prefer GW2's approach over ESO.
I literally did this this week after multiple thousands of hours in eso and i had no idea what i was missing haha. For anyone doing the same, something that will make you feel more at home, you can change settings so that your mouse moves the camera and casts ground abilities based on where you are looking JUST LIKE IN ESO. This made gw2 feel way better than the default camera/targetting settings. Please give it a shot
I've done both.. Played ESO and GW2. But have been playing GW2 for over 10 years, so I'm more used to its hybrid tab targeting system. Yeah, you can set it so mouse and camera behave like ESO, but I find it gets onerous after a while as you will need to exit from that mode to get your mouse pointer back to click on something pretty often.
@BillBoxall true I gotta give it a lot of credit, I played SWOTR a while back and did not like that system at all but I played with it for a bit in this game and it felt very good and fluid. The ground targeting was an issue for me and I didn't like holding right click so much so I just took the easy route but definitely the base system feels great. It's a problem one of my friends has where he refuses to play any game with it and I just want to make people aware so it's not a turn off. I want as many people coming to gw2 as possible
You can make the mouse move the the camera while moving out of the gate, but holding down both buttons when you move. Something new players always try to do which is a huge mistake is bind their #1 skill to a mouse button - this is a bad idea because autoattack won't work if you do this.
@@FlowerBot stayed on q for me and works fine
I feel like it’s not a fair comparison to compare a game that you’ve been playing for so long to a game that’s fresh and new.. obviously you will favor the new one
Its fun because i quit all the mmos i was playing and returned to GW 2 and im having a blast, i didnt played the game for 10 years and totally worth to play rn
yep, same.. thanks for commenting!
Welcome to Tyria.
As someone who plays both ESO and GW2 I can just say they go well together. GW2 has a great open world, including open world events and bigger meta events which is really fun. These moments really capture the feeling of being in a game with many other players, working together to take down some foes. ESO on the other hand does a better job at exposing the rich lore to the player with the more traditional quests and additional texts everywhere.
Both games have shops, but GW2 does not have an "optional subscription" with benefits that make it feels pretty mandatory if you actually play the game. The shop get's updated once a week and items that roll out usually come back within less than a year.
I played ESO for over 10 years and I'm including betas. I seen gw2 free to play and played it for a time sync. I loved it.. been playing for about 4 or so months now. Glad I gave it a chance.
Yeah, I too am so glad I gave it another chance.
That's a good point about fishing. Since the pools are in the core and all. But it also invloves the boat/masteries, so I can't see it changing. But yeah gw2 took me a few tries to understand the game at 80+ when it finally clicked that I gotta make my own goals, I fell in love with it.
Yeah, I get why they do it and am excited to get there in due time. I just hate passing by so many fishing holes :(
@@CasaBLACK I haven't lvled 1-80 in years but I get the frustration haha it's a good system though!
I have to agree. While I think that the level 20 mount should have been a normal, maybe slightly slower mount without features and not the raptor, I see no problem in giving fishing to everyone from the start.
I just downloaded Guild Wars 2 today. If you brought out a guide video, I'd watch it.
GW2 and ESO vet here, left for GW2 1,5 years ago, rediscovering GW2 after a break. The big difference is that GW2 was always buy2play with convenience and fashion in store, Black Lions and mount skin licenses the biggest iffy thing there is, while ESO is just predatory through and through, from QoL offered only by ESO+ to DLC prices to changing meta to ridiculous crates. This game (GW2) might have weaker IP or visuals, but the gameplat loops, quality of the content for your buck and sheer amount of convenience unblockable for grind (legendary gear = forever free transmog + fancy visuals to indicate you completed it if you like it), and community are all outstanding. You're welcome in our midst.
I'be been playing GW2 for almost 10 years. It's always nice and interesting to see fresh views about the game.
One of the best thing about the game is that the devs truly respect your time and specifically avoid toxic mechanics like fomo, gambling or p2w or even subscription (either mandatory or optional). There is one gacha like mechanic (cosmetics only) in the game and the pity mechanic is really fair: The item remains available through a currency you earn from that gacha and slowly drop with time so it's always available and gets easier and easier to grab.
This game truly shine on some key aspects to me:
- Exploration
- Combat (either through general gameplay and encounters or the class mechanics, build options, gear system etc)
- Movment mechanics (you'll figure out :p)
- World events/World boss
- Music (and I mean it !)
- General DA (the base game is getting a bit old at some spots but the added content through thoose 10 years really hit the point)
- Pricing and respect of your time (no subscription and no need to farm your entire stuff again when a patch comes out)
- World versus World
- Fashion and customisation options/systems
- And of course, the story
I could go on and on about why I love this game but I'll let you discover all thoose amazing features the game has by yourself :p
Welcome to Guild Wars 2 !
I hope you enjoy your journey through Tyria :)
Thank you very much for taking the time to respond. I have been surprised by how many comments and wonderful reactions and sharing that the community has given me. So far I can say that I have experienced much of what you have described and have been enjoying my time and I look forward to getting to know the game more. See ya around!
hope to see more videos when you reach turning points in the story! Glad you found another game you like!!
I lost my delighted GW2 'innocence' when I discovered world bosses come around on a predictable schedule :) I played ESO until my inventory filled up and they wanted me to sub to get access to a crafting bag for materials.
Welcome to Guild Wars 2! As others have pointed out, the game has improved immensely over the past years. It's selling more and more, and the content should come out more regularly. I always wanted to get into ESO but I just can't stand the combat nor the stiff feeling of the environement :(.
On the reward and mount skins and online store issue with EsO: I will be honest, the game suffered from the exact same issues. It has no sub fee, and the dlc were free for most players, so I understand why, mount skins were gemstore exclusive, cool skins were in the store etc...
- BUT, you get keys in game to open the black lion chests
- Every chest grants you with a statuette, when accumulated allows you to buy something from the gemstore anyway
- You can exchange gold for gems
- The future expansion will finally gives you gem store skins in game and in game mount skins as well, they changed their business model.
Subscribed to see more GW2 content! :D
I am curious, what do you mean by "stiff feeling" of the enviroment? unlike alot of other MMOs eso feels very alive enviroment wise.
I regret sleeping on gw2 for so long everything is good pvp and pve
Yeah I think I regret playing some other things before trying this.
Hi MMO's are my favorite genre of gaming, I started playing GW2 lastyear and still in love with it.
Hope you enjoy it and goodluck on your jouneys.
The biggest thing about GW2's cash shop would be the conversion from gold to gems is pretty solid.
Once you start getting a solid grasp of how to earn gold, everything in the cash shop is obtainable.
ONe of my favorite things in any MMO is learning the gold making methods and getting good at those. This is a different beast though since you can convert your gold into gems it adds a new layer I am excited about. Thanks for the kind words and see you out there!
Yeah I agree that fishing being locked behind a mastery in the third expansion seems kinda off. I don't think it's meant to be a gated feature like some free players say the mounts are, but they certainly are an expansion feature. I think they should give a way to unlock at least the 1st lvl of the mastery in core tyria. For someone who just got the game and want's to play the story in order it takes some time to unlock some features you may want to test out.
Yeah I still think fishing needs to happen sooner after more months with the game.
I downloaded the game last night. Will be giving it a try today. Like you, I got fed up with Bethesda/ZeniMax's greedy way of running ESO.
Agreed 100% and hope you like this!
Oh hey, welcome to the game I actually still play :)
Sweet! What class is your main?
Thought GW2 was pretty bad for not having any mounts as endgame rewards, but didn't think ESO was worst.
At least ArenaNet gave players a free mount skin of one's choosing, during that one time the servers went down or something. And if I no life for a couple weeks, I can grind the gold for a mount.
Yeah ESO is giving away a mount this month on their daily login rewards, but of course it's not one of their fancy looking mounts.
Welcome to the wonderful GW2 :) There is so much stuff to enjoy, try classes and weapons, after lvl 80 begins the real game.
Personally i would love to see you try Asura :D
I am deciding which way to go with an Asura, but first getting to lev 80 to open things up, which I just hit 65 yesterday so it doesn't look to be that far off. :D
I myself only recently tried GW2. I actually like it. The races and lore are different enough to be fresh. The leveling isn't a massive grind at lower levels.
One of the main things I have enjoyed is the different take on a couple of the classes. The Mesmer has been cool to try and I hear the Engineer is different as well so I'm looking forward to trying that.
Best combat system on the market, with some of the most satisfying animations in the MMO genre. Mastering this game feels so satisfying.
You are right, the combat is very good and the one thing I have not seen very much of is complaining about that, which is one of the things you see people complain most about in ESO.
@@CasaBLACK Honestly, I could've gotten into ESO if not for this one thing in particular.
im viewing this a month out as of 9/1/2023:
ESO has cancelled all gifting transactions from the crown shop.
GW2 looks gorgeous. Although i do love ESO for the face to face interation and voice overs and the new Arcanist class.
Ive invested alot into it but its too expensive and costomization is limited. I am intrested in trying GW2 & and WAYFINDER atm.
Yeah sadly it was not the gameplay that turned me off from ESO, but the crown store and that was before the foolishness that happened last week. I love the ESO lore a lot more. Overall though. the gameplay and how GW2 really makes alts a lot more easier to do, not to mention the way they do landscape questing is just so alive.
Interesting, I made the exact same change a few years ago!
The main attraction to me was PvP mode, since it's 100% better than what ESO has, but I stick for other content with the time.
Nowadays I don't really play gw2 as well, but I still could see myself returning to it at some point, while with ESO I tried to get back a couple of times and it always felt kinda meh. Not that it's a bad game just not for me anymore I guess
Yeah I have heard the WvW and PvP is good here but I haven't gotten to it yet. As for ESO, I have not tried the newest class yet and am not sure when I will get back to it to try it. Maybe in a few months, maybe never. Just depends on if I get that itch again, but I would really like to see some changed before I go back so not looking likely unless they do.
I might point out... the renowned hearts in gw2 or aka quest giver is more like 3 or 4 multiple quests rolled up into one, their is always multiple ways to complete them... as for the fishing to be gated because its a new feature I think eventually arenanet will roll out a patch like the raptor mount at 20 to unlock base fishing
If you go to a guild that has a guild hall in Cantha you can get fishing equipment and use it before 80. Not sure if you even need to be a member.
I think saying renown hearts are “multiple quests” is very misleading. One quest with multiple methods of completion isn’t multiple quests. You still only complete it once.
Thanks for the tip!
Welcome to GW2! Have a great time, it's an amazing game for sure! ❤
Thank you for the warm welcome!
You will love this. ESO players who are looking for a new MMO should try gw2. And gw2 players who wants a new MMO should try ESO too. The 2 games share a lot of similarities. But ESO got too expensive for me unfortunately.
I agree with you, though I think that ESO isn't changing at all, sadly, not to mention lags\pvp issues...it's like devs lost all enthusiasm.
That's sad, TES & D&D are my fav universes.
@Trabsol well no they have been assigned to the new MMO that ZOS is working on. All they are doing now is just trying to make money for that game.
@@Vindold Yeah their innovation has gone to new store items and how they can resuse the same skin over again.
I agree that both games have many similarities, that's why it's pretty easy to go between the two. Thanks for commenting! :)
@@CasaBLACKidk I feel like the most recent NECROM was one of the best ESO updates in a very long time
Your mesmer looks so cute!
Thanks, I actually just earned some of the in-game items that let you swap the cosmetics you want to wear and so now I have an outfit I like and some dyes applied.
Great video! I also played ESO for a while, but I always end up coming back to gw2.
At the beginning i also was a bit frustrated with the items coming out of the gem store without knowing when they will be back, but it's a matter of getting used to how the gemstore cycles. Generally, a new cosmetic item comes out full price and stays for a rather long time. When the item disappears from the promotions tab chances are that it's still in the other tabs (but without the possible discount). When a new item comes in, you know that you'll see that item again in few months (4-6), discounted. I believe that cosmetics show up into the gemstore 1-3 times per year (some of them are thematic, like the winter ones, so it's easy to know when they come out). You can also check on the wiki all the times that item came out in the gemstore and at what discount. This gives you a rough idea of what you could expect for the next months. So generally when a new item comes in, if i have some doubt about it (or if it's not the right time for me), i plan to buy it discounted on the next occasion. Sometimes i regret not having bought an item XDDD but it's no big deal, with the huge amount of cosmetics you can get from ingame achivements and festivals.
Also, on august they usually have a month-long gemstore special offers (including cosmetics voucers with like all the choices in; new mounts skins are also placed into mounts voucers, you just need to spot the right one) to celebrate gw2 anniversary.
Lately, the gamble-thing with black lion chests has really been improved. Before the improvement, if you were not lucky enough to get the fancy item, there was not much you could do except for hoping in some yearly appearence into the gemstore. Now every special item that comes out in the bl chests will be listed into a npc ingame store, always purchasable for bl statuettes. As the items pile up, the oldest go down in statuette price. It will be a long wait but also a secured purchase.
Wow thanks for the thorough explanation. I'm not that into cosmetics yet, been more focused on storage and just gameplay enhancements right now, but it's good to know how it works. I've seen a few cool outfits that look cool and just learned the hard way about using those outfit tokens on items and then them getting replaced by a new piece of gear, which I was not happy about, but I had got those tokens from a story mission so I did not lose any money on it.
1:50 The single most important thing new players need to know about to enjoy the game is the action cam. The game doesn’t tell you about it and it completely transforms the gameplay. Even if they end up not liking it, for many it’s a necessity to enjoy the game.
thanks for the tip!
I dropped eso now i do crack
lol
probably cheaper :P
The reason fishing is gated to EoD is because that is when it came out. But you usually get a instant lv80 ticket when buying the expansion. As it is extremely easy to get to lv80. If you were to use that ticket on a class you did not enjoy. It would not take that long to get another char to lv80. So that being said you can boost a char to lv80, Skip to EoD chapter and complete a few quest to unlock fishing for your entire account.
"How To Unlock Fishing. You'll gain access to fishing as soon as you reach the first Canthan map: Seitung Province! That will happen automatically after you complete the first chapter of the End of Dragons story."
I quit ESO almost a year ago and moved to GW2. Welcome!
I love fishing too. So what I did was completely skipped the stories of Heart of Thorns & Path of Fire plus all the Living World seasons and went straight to End of Dragons to get my skiff and all its masteries to start fishing and earning gold. And the great thing is that getting the skiff and the fishing masteries does not bring about any spoilers so I can now continue the story from Heart of Thorns onwards. I recommend you try this since you like fishing as much as I do. Getting the Thousands Seas Pavillion Pass is also highly recommended for a fisherman because it will allow you to access a bunch of fishing maps. Have fun.
There definitely are spoilers in the cut scene at the start of EoD, where they talk about all those who have been lost. However, someone who has only completed the base game will not know most of those characters anyway, so it may not be a big issue. I would still recommend skipping that cut scene. However, there are also quite a few other spoilers as you play the early story in EoD with regard to plot of earlier expansions and characters (particularly regarding various dragons), so beware.
That being said, I agree that they should make basic fishing (without a skiff) part of the base game at earlier levels, just like the other gathering professions.
@@DocSardo I actually did not have to venture much into the story to obtain my skiff and fishing mastery. I happily stopped the story the moment I obtained my skiff. The rest is just mastery points.
One last comment, your logo is awesome, chapter transitions are great, music was great, intro waaaay too long. I liked the video a lot! Great gameplay footage. Glad to see your're playing a mesmer too!! That's my favorite profession!!
yeah the intro kind of went longer than I normally ever do. I think I just had too much on my mind and needed to spread it better. Thanks for the comment! :)
Welcome, never a better time to join
Thank you, seems that way.
I played a bunch of GW2 ages ago... enough to build endgame characters of all stripes... and it just got kinda boring. My biggest gripe was the big bossfights at the end of the main story (at that time) were all just buggy as all get out and mostly broken. Mind you, this was back when they first came out with hang-gliding, so they've had plenty of time to improve this. Hopefully, they have.
I played quite a bit of ESO not as long ago, and it got old pretty quick. Definitely strong on the gambling aspect, which I can avoid but is super problematic since so many gamers have issues in that regard, but the underlying game is just stale meta-builds with a god-awful gear grind. Its one of those games where player choice doesn't really mean anything as far as the fun goes. Everything you can change about your character is so excessively balanced that it doesn't really matter what weapons you want to use as long as you don't make the "wrong" choices with your build, and the only thing that makes you stand out is not spending months getting repetitive stress injuries grinding out the same challenges to get the same meta gear everyone else has. Bleh...
Good luck on your journey. Of the two, I think you made the more fun choice... probably.
...Oh, and if you are still interested in trying out different games and haven't already, you might give Dungeons and Dragons Online (DDO) a shot. Of all the hack/slash and blast mmos I've played over the years, that one has a pretty unique take on grinding: You build your character to max level then sacrifice it to get a bonus on building your next character. This avoids the WoW mechanic of investing into a build only to have a new patch make it irrelevant... You just don't really invest, since you are rebuilding all the time anyway. Pretty cool... though I eventually got bored with that one too.
GW2 has DEFINITELY improved over the years and if you ever get the chance to, i highly recommend checking it out again. The mounts especially in GW2 are unlike any other in pretty much any game out there.
Regarding the gem store. Arenanet recently changed it so you can buy stuff that was previously in the gem store by checking in with the lion statue seller (often found near the auction hall in the main cities). And the things that are limited time tend to cycle through on a fairly frequent and regular basis.
It's not the stuff in the gem store it was items that were previously in the black lion chests
GW2 is definitely best MMORPG of all times.
lemme tell u... Guild Wars 2 is an absolute BLESS in terms of MMORPGs nowadays. keep playing if u feel like it, i hope u enjoy! Good luck on your journey, Hero
Thanks and so far I have been enjoying everything, including the generous community!
My wife doesn't like jumping puzzles either. I have a mesmer and a thief that can drop portals to help get across. The end game is where most of the content is. You will be 80 before you know then you start working on masteries. You do not have to do the story to unlock masteries but it makes it a lot easier and provides tutorials.
Thank you for your review. I have a few pointers. Fishing was only introduced in the third expansion. If you bought the game you can unlock it quickly. You should have an item that pushes one Char to lvl 80. from there you can unlock it easily if you wish so. But you need to play the story relatively far to reach max lvl in fishing.
The item shop only offers skins and quality of life items with only a few exceptions. Those exceptions are gahtering tools which you need to use a lot to be cost efficient.
One thing you did not mention comparing the shop system with ESO is, that gw2 also has some lootboxes. if you do a follow up I would like to here your opinion on those
Things I like.
Balance: at the end game there are 27 differrent classes called Elite Specializations that you nlock at lvl80 afther buying expansions. Each core profession has three elite specializations. Each if the 27 class have anywhere from 1 to 5 different builds or lore depending what you count as a different build. And every class is viable even in raids but some are easier others harder.
Jumping Puzzles are the best. There is JP on every zone. When you find one you know. There is no gliding no mountin icons preventing skips 😂 in Lion's arch there are technically 3 jumping puzzles so go have fun and find em!
I like the end game content. Fractals, Strikes and Raids are your 5/10/10 player group content. I recomend doing weekly and daily strike as well daily fractals ehen you hit lvl 80 ❤
I have so far played 25/27 Elite Specializations and my favored one base on hours is engineer, Mechanist but I like also Necromancer and Elementalist, Heal Tempest being my favored build.
If you need help at Raiding and play on EU just ask, many people are willing to help. There are like 4 different web pages for builds also.
PvP is the best as everyonenis given lvl 80 and smae stats to chooce from so ut is 100% skill issue you didn't know the nonteleportation spot against thief 😂
Thank you, yeah I am looking forward to hitting level 80. I have 3 boosts sitting here, but I really want to experience the full level through once before deciding to use them. I do like PvE instances so also looking forward to those as well. SO far it's been fun and I even enjoy the jumping puzzles when I find them. Thanks for the kind words and warm welcome! :)
@@CasaBLACK Dungeons start at lvl 35, there are 8 dungeons in total each having a story mode and ~3 different explorable paths after compleing story once. Dungeons are old not used content but are still fun and go up to lvl 80 so don't worry.
Fractals are the new dungeons which are 5 man group content same as dungeons but just more polished.
Raids are 10 man raids and Strikes are just single raid boss with 10 man.
Not spoiling anything else ❤️ except that even fractal lobby and pvp lobby have jumping puzzle too 😉 they are hard, good luck.
@@CasaBLACK Yes do experience the game like we all once did. Once you have a character at level 80 and you have done some stuff, then you could use the boosts for different purposes. In fact we didn't have mounts for years.
Now is perfect to start with gw2 me personally (playing on and off since start) I cant wait for the new expac especially the new battle pass system
As far as fishing is concerned it's something that came to GW2 as part of the End of Dragons (EoD) expansion. Although you bought the expansion, you haven't actually unlocked that content yet, because you're simply not level enough to access the part of the story that takes your character to the zone (Cantha) where fishing is unlocked.
I personally don't have a problem with that since I don't like fishing in any game that I play. However, I can also see your side of things.
Just remember fishing isn't a core feature (aka base game features) in GW2 it's an expansion feature.
Yep understood how it works. :)
Started to play this game when PoF was released. Since then I'm still finding some goals to achieve and gotta admit it - I'm still addicted to this game. Horizontal progression is the best thing ever and the fact that it is extremely alt friendly.
Yes it's the alt friendliness to me that has just been so great.
Hint : If you have a wife who hates jumping puzzles main a mesmer, every time you portal her past all that jumping she is going to love it
There's also an item that 'rewinds' time so if you fall you can undo and try again.
are you using Reshade ? Your graphics look really good
I think for this one, its just the normal color addition option in DaVinci Resolve, amps up the colors a bit, but doesnt work well on dark scenes.
Nice to see a fellow LOTRO player.
Oh yeah fellow player from almost the beginning, 2008..
@CasaBLACK was about the same for me. I really stopped playing after the riders of Rohan expansion came out. For me that expansion killed the game. I played a few other mmo at that time like swtor. But when gw2 came out my friends and I picked it up and we've been playing it off and on for years now.
Goooood! Wellcome to best mmo
There is no FOMO in the Gemstore, since all things are keep comming back eventually :) I missed my Cat Chair few months ago and got it just about week ago :)
I left ESO for BDO. The combat is phenomenal
I tried BDO a few years ago and the grindiness of it wasn't for me with the things I enjoy doing in an MMO, namely crafting.
Since you own End of Dragons, here's how to get fishing now. Use your level 80 boost. Take your level 80 into End of Dragons. You'll receive fishing in the first hour for sure, maybe the first 15 minutes, I can't quite remember. Bam. You have fishing.
GW2 item shop isn't really FOMO because the items don't get deleted, they just have a discount every now and then. FOMO would be like WoW Warlords of Draenor adding the hellhound mount for doing level 100 Molten Core and it was time limited event which never happened again. The only FOMO I've seen in GW2 - if you could call it that was if you played the event at the moment, you would get cheaper rewards which would later be still obtainable but a little more expensive but it wasn't a big deal since most of these rewards I got was the more expensive way anyway.
i played eso for like 3 years and a couple months ago left it for gw2. my three reasons i left eso:
1. the normal questing and zones were absolutely trivial. i mean NO challenge at all. perhaps in dungeons yeah, but the typical quests was solely for narrative entertainment.
2. combat. eso combat seems soooo wonky, with it's weaving crap. i know some like it but i never understand why. the skills and major/minor buffs things are cool though.
3. the money. i always remember feeling such a lack of need and excitement when i would get money in eso. like all i would really end up doing with it is buying bag/bank space. it's so refreshing to come to gw2 where literally money means everything in the game. one of my favorite parts about it tbh.
kind of sucks, because i actually really love the stories and plots of eso and i love the voice acting and how they tell it and the world, and lore, ect. but the act of actually playing eso itself really became stale to me.
I agree with all of your points. I did like the ability to fill in hits with light and heavy attacks between skill cooldowns, but never enjoyed or liked how heavily your overall DPS numbers were dependent on mastering weaving. And yep, it was the lack of achievements for actual items or money really only being needed for housing and not much else. I even liked the crafting system, but then again outside of crafting I did not find much use for it for my character progression really. How are you liking GW2?
@@CasaBLACK I'm mostly liking gw2. some hiccups and bugs in the older content show it's age a bit but mostly good. the one thing I'm a bit concerned about is it's starting to get pretty power crept and im scared soon ill find the same problem i did ESO haha. games need some challenge.
@@MrAddummm Welcome! Yeah some content is very power crept, but there's plenty that isn't, and there's some that is very difficult, especially for open world content in an mmorpg. Try soloing stuff in heart of thorns maps. Triple Trouble is an open world event that requires more coordination than a raid, and it's just sitting there in a lvl 55 zone from the core game. There is also some awareness by the devs of power creep. Ascended/legendary items being stat capped forever is to prevent power creep. Recently the four world bosses in the starting areas were not only buffed but had mechanics added, which was great. I also came from ESO and have the exact same complaints as you-- especially the difficulty and the lack of meaningful open world content. gw2 does that stuff so well it's pretty much ruined my chance of ever playing another MMORPG.
Things change a lot with HOT, path of fire etc. The base game is extremely boring IMO with the exception of the world boss fights. ESO, you can go AFK and come back and find 10 mobs beating on you and u still live, GW2 go into path of fire AFK is something u don't do if you don't want to have to respawn. New players may want to know about Commander tags (like the green tags on big events) . IDK how long I played before I learned that if I clicked on one of those green tags, I could join their party and share buffs for events and sometimes get instructions from people who knew what the fights involved.
Some feedback
1. You can't buy Addons in the shop. It's just an upgrade to the XXL Version of the addon.
2. Masterys, like fishing, are free for every character after reaching them once.
But you'll notice endgame in GW2 means many different things. For some people it's reaching rank 10.000 in WvW, others wanna clear all raids/strikes in challenge mode but the most common endgame is Fashionwars!
It's nice to see the view from a new player comming from another mmo. After nearly 11 years I'm kinda blind to somethings.
Wish you the greatest possible fun in Tyria!
Thank you very much for the advice and comment. I figured those items were opened for other characters which I am 100% cool with. Thanks for commenting!
I left ESO after 10k + hours there on Xbox and had to leave due to game rewards are almost nonexistent. They’re other problems too like open world PvE is stale, PvP stability, crown items looking better than some hard earned skins, expensive housing, meta shifts, and more.
Now I moved to PC and enjoying GW2 for its beautiful world with interesting classes that I’ve never seen in other MMORPG (Mesmer and Engineer). Questing is interesting while events may pop up right at you or close by, making this world fun and exciting. I haven’t played much but I do hope to spend more than 10k hours on GW2 and make friends along the way. ❤❤❤
You nailed it for me as well. The different classes here have been awesome. I rolled a Mesmer as my main so far and want to try the engineer as well. Your thoughts on ESO are dead on as well. Why did you switch from console to PC?
I hope you don't get disappointed with the story of the main game. Remember ist 13 years old but it has some highlights. Also enjoy your stay! Guild Wars 2 is a lovely community and we help each other where we can. Don't forget to res fellow adventurers and see you at the World Bosses :)
So far I have been invested which is odd for me so early on in an MMO. Just saved some Quaggan babies so that was very heroic.
Locking game wide features behind level cap and story is a serious problem. This is coming from a player who has spent 17k hours in the game. This is why they made the first mount available at level 10 to try out and made it unlock automatically if you buy any of the expansions. Hopefully they will do the same for fishing, getting a skiff, and maybe move the auto loot ability to start unlocking even at low levels.
I'm not aware of any character customizations in the GW2 gem store. Can you point any out to me?
You even have npc in towns where you can preview those new options , divinities reach next to the tp for instance , hairstyle kit and total makeover kit are used for those , with total makeover you can edit full look but you cant change race or class , Anet gives them for free from time to time.
I LEFT FOR ESO GW2
Nice! Hows it going over there?
OK, since this is another video about Guild Wars, I have 2 questions for Guild Wars players.
1. How much free space you get in your inventory. I ask this because I see that they sell bags on shop.
2. How many characters slots you get for free. Again, I ask because they sell that aswell.
with depositing materials into bank storage, you don't even need bag slots, they're optional convenience like build and gear templates, but I think you can buy up to 10-12 per character if you like. Personal oppinion as a vet player and crafter: better boost a bit of bank (up to 750-1000 (2-3 upgrades) for mat storage, 2-4 for general bank) that is account-wide, better allocation of money into convenience, and deposit/sell everything you might need for later/better make into gold.
1. I am also a crafter and have finished whole sets of legendaries with only the bag slots that came with the game (ok, we got a bag slot that one time in twitch drops) but thats it.
Ngl, 20 slot bags cost about 2g (you get 2g from doing 10 min daily achievements). And 32 slot bags can cost like 700g, I think. You get 5 bag SLOTS to start, which I personally think is plenty. The real problem is that youll get a lot of random trash and trophies by playing, and inventory management is a knowledge-check, but here's a tip (dont tell anyone) unless youre actively making an accessory legendary like Vision, Coalescence, etc., you can safely just delete items you think are useless, gw2 doesnt do the classic mmo style of "hah, you deleted that thing, gotcha fucker!"
2. You get 5 character slots to start, 3 if youre f2p. You can buy character slots with gems but you can also buy gems with gold. The game will also reward you 400 gems every 5000 achievement points. I got 4 extra character slots this way, easy. That being said, I never use my ranger or thief, theyre just sitting pretty...
I created this video and have also had storage concerns having come from LOTRO and especially ESO where a sub is mandatory if you plan on crafting and this has been nice. The storage you get to start with is quite adequate for a new player and then as someone said below you can expand both your normal character bag space with those auction house bought bags which the 10, 12 and 15's are not badly priced and affordable your first week and then you can work up to those more expensive 20+ bags over time. I was surprised at the resource bag space where you just click a button in your inventory to "upload" all of your crafting resources into a large 250 per item bag meaning if you harvest 25 wood, 55 copper, 38 onions etc, you click that button and it all goes into that crafting storage and will do so until those spaces hit their cap of 250.. That 250 can be increased using the gem store of course, but even that was pretty cheap. I think on sale I just upped it with like $6 in gems to 500. Any gems I buy I plan on using them for more space, but I definitely do not feel a sense of urgency now and have time to buy them as they go on sale. Hope this helps..
Thank you guys for your replies, were pretty helpful.
Hopefully in near future i'll probably give a try to the basic game to see if it catches me 😛
I thought that in this game you get like a page of 60 slots and that the shop bags are the only way to upgrade the inventory for like +10 or +20 slots or something. I didnt knew that you have 5 bags system like in wow where you can upgrade those weak bags with better ones.
@@ZeroCoolRomaniayou get 5 bag slot if you take any expansion, first 2 expansion on sale you can get for 15euros, what is 10 years of content. As free to play acc you will have 2 bag slots. Just in beggining is problem with inventory, after month in game and having 5 characters and each of them with 100 inventory slots no problems, game is alt friendly so you want multi characters, different classes. With one character I'm doing open world content, with one something else and so on.
Fishing was an End of Dragon thing, so calling it gated is stupid. Besides you can go get it with the only limitation is getting to End of Dragons expansion. Either do story, teleport there through a player who has the map, or use the City portal. And city portal you have the unlimited one and the 2 weeks pass. Anything in the story can be bought with real money or grind gold and trade it for gems. However if you want help or tips shout out in map chat. Or join a guild. I used to help a lot of players, so if want to know something just ask.
Yep will do. I didn't mean gated in a bad sense, just that with most games you play something like fishing is put out there for even lower levels, but leveling isn'ty bad and it's not too bad. I do own the End of Dragons so just moving my way up through the content.
Playing ESO & GW2 at the same time. Just reached level 39 with my necro. Any advice on what I should be doing first? The heart quest are starting to get boring and the main story I progress once I finish all the task in the area. I’m hoping it gets better once I get out of the main zone area. Also, I don’t have any friends that play this game so if anyone has a guild for a newbie to join let me know I’m Pacific Time zone.
I haven't hit 80 yet, just hit 65 yesterday. Between the story and just doing the dailies, I have found enough variety to where I have not spent that many hours just doing heart quests so I'm not burnt out on anything yet. As for a guild, I have not joined one yet myself, but I have seen quite a few that are new player friendly so I would just go for one of those or check out Reddit or the GW2 site to see some recruitment posts, targeting new players in general. You should find one for your timezone and that fits your needs and or playstyle. Good luck!
don't feel that you have to 100% a zone before moving forward in the story! there's nothing can be missed, just jump in the story as soon as you hit the right lvl. you can always come back and finish the map when you're not tired of the same map. the story gives u a lot of exp which will really help toward getting you more lvls. also! if you're tired of your current race's beginning region and need more lvls, you can always teleport to other race's starting zones - those wp are unlocked for you automatically. also doing events near the hearts will quickly progress the heart meter, and there's usually a bunch of things that can be done to progress hearts. as for guilds I see a lot if guilds advertise on various map chats, so definitely take them up on it! you can join up to 5 guilds at same time, so no worries about having to make hard decisions 😂
9:03 to avoid the preamble.
A Late welcolme to GW2 fellow SC pilot o7. IMO a player needs to let go of all the old "quest" tropes of other games and think of your playtime as an openworld adventure. IN GW2 you are supposed to get side tracked. get lost, forget wtf was I doing and just explore. As far as the store go's, I have been playing off and on since GW2 launched and I have spent maybe $30- $50 in total on the cash shop in 10+ years. I have spent gold to buy gems in game to buy a season or two I missed. Even if you play casually just logging in once when a season story is released, its free. The game and story get exponentially better in the seasons [esp S4] and expansions, so don't take the old base game as a gauge as to whats to come. GLHF
Thx fellow Citizen! Yeah I am noticing that huge difference in that living breathing world thing. Their approach here to questing is just completely off the rails, lol and I'm here for it. Thank you for sharing and for the advice and I will definitely be doing a lot more in this game.
On the gem store since you can convert gold to gems I know people who have never had to buy a single gem becuase they know how to earn money in the game and buy what they want that way.
05:28 dude love hard grinded achievement,yup you gonna be feel like home in GW2,uniqe item set and weapon skin,legendaries items,mounts,all of em need achievement before you can craft them
I'm here for that! Thanks for commenting!
@@CasaBLACK np man,im ex ESO player too so i understand the pain and still new on GW2 as well,cant wait your tought on some achievement later (you'll see later that many people complaint around in map chat/without spoiling much,title that require years to obtain but it has some effect ) and as of why fishing lock behind later expac,anyway i hope i see you later in the mist
Get enough Black lions keys You can Get a Makeover Kit For 10 of the Black lions thing you get opening The Black lions crate BTW You Dont need money for that just a little bit of efort
and understanding the time Gates for getting the keys
Enjoy the game, however I came from gw2 to eso so it’s not the dream game from my perspective. That said I won’t poo poo it, I just think it’s funny how much glowing praise it’s gotten over the past year or so considering all it’s problems, and it has them in spades
I think we can all become disenchanted with any game so it's a fair point. GW2 is not the perfect end all MMO, but it does some things right for what I am looking for right now and thats good enough for me at the moment.
Gw2 👍👏🔥
As a main WoW player I can say GW2 is better in every aspect than ESO, only thing I dislike about GW2 are the graphics, they are very PS3 like for me :(
Dude same
truth be told the cool fashions and skins especially the flashy ones are cash shop in gw2... but contrary to popular belief alot of armor and fashion skins can be mixed and matched in game to legit make what ever you want, if you wanna cosplay as your favourite anime character, your likely going to be able to make that.... mounts up till the secrets of the obscure , their skins have been mostly cash shop related but that might change ???, anyways id say gw2 cash shops far more fair
The only thing that i really cant enjoy about eso is the combat. And i tried to get over it. I feel like gw2 can fix that. I should give it a shot i think.
Yeah, I'm enjoying the combat and the overall openess of everything. They really make it feel like they want you to have alts and not penalize you.
Don't worry about vistas or points of interest for "map completion." A lot of that stuff = jumping puzzle. Jumping puzzles are time consuming. Once you get your mounts, you'll be able to fly up to those vistas in one second, skipping the jumping puzzles entirely.
But... It's fun
Yeah I agree with you the crown store is an absolute dumpster fire that specialty Apex Mount or whatever is hidden behind a paywall that you have no way to pay for and if you by chance of a miracle collect enough seals to pay for it well that mount is already gone. And I'm getting tired of not being able to buy houses that are currently not for sale ever and the reward structure .
I and over the last few years I still have not recovered from the nurse Dunning update 35 they have completely stripped neutered the werewolf out of existence and now it's update 39 that's the last straw for me now they're going after my direwolves they're turning them into non-combat pets they're taking away their snare ability, they nursed my Warden they Nerf my deep my Dragon Knight they nursed my Nightblade and for me the game is just boring stale my characters are weak or broken I can see no reason to continue the only way I would stay if they reinstated werewolf newest former glory when the werewolf was at the top of the food chain an apex predator oh that all them little cry babies for sniveling to Daddy zos because the werewolf is too much for them to take on they cry like little babies because they got their asses beat even with their overpowered build are they just don't wanted they got beat by someone that has skill but nerfing the werewolf his was not the answer but it seems like with the developers every 3 months I got to go replace really expensive gear for a different set of really expensive gear I'm just tired the fatigue set in from constantly having to update and fix my broken characters that they broke with their constant nerfing but now I'm stuck in that area of now what
I've been playing ESO with huge breaks in between. I really want to like the game, but there are so many things that turn me away: Lifeless, non-vibrant world with no challenge, rather boring atmosphere and music in some places, animation cancelling as dps gain and this overpriced fomo shop with gambling to name a few.
And just like you, about 1-2 years ago a started playing GW2 again after putting it down about a month after release for the same reasons that you did.
I enjoyed a lot of the story, though vanilla and ice brood saga are rather bad, did get my skyscale, which was probably the most braindead grind I ever endured, and can just hop on and off as I see fit. It's a pretty chill game unless you are one of the very few elitists.
I still wish they could rebuild the old LOTRO though, with a modern engine and the zones more like they were initially: hard and elite locations. I'd love to get lost in Fornost again, spent a whole day in Urugarth and Carn Dum or experience Helegrod. Those were the fun times, but sadly they kinda killed the game with a dark and boring Moria and never really updated the technical side. EU server closure wasn't helpful either.
Agree with most of what you say, especially the ESO and LOTRO portions since I am still new to GW2 and have not done everything yet and have heard the grind for the skyscale is a little rough. LOTRO was my first MMO and as it goes, I don't know if I can ever get that same sense of wonder from another game again. I so enjoyed, but dreaded Angmar and remember my first time through CD and URU and even though I only did Helegrod a few times, it still stands out in my mind. I enjoyed Moria, but just wish we had not been down there so long between patches. That boardroom mentality ruined LOTRO after Moria though as soon as they turned it into a cash shop. I think had they just measured the game on its own instead of trying to compare it with WoW numbers, they might have seen it was still worth continuing on that same trajectory, but we'll never know.. Thanks for the comment. :)
Why am I seeing so many eso players switching to gw2
Gemstore is very optional, the only really useful items are permanent salvage kits/gathering tools/more character slots
to play the game and get best gear to clear hardest content its completely unimportant
besides gw2 open world content which anet is focusing on is based on ejoying the story and completing maps for rewards and cool meta event bosses (I know wtf a game that you play for fun instead of grinding level and gear)
It took you 11 years to notice GW2 ? Are you ok?
I did explain that I had pre-ordered it, but at that time it just didn't click and I later grew through other games to be ready for it, when I was ready. I don't regret the trip here and am happy with the destination now that I am here. Some people just take the long way around.
Played GW2 for a few years, it has some problems you dont seem to mention. ESO. As well but it seems like your more jaded about ESO. Best overall MMO is WoW and FFXIV, these 2 arent even on the mmo radar conpared to the titans.
You don't know much about Elder Scrolls lore to think that they will add a new race to ESO.
I've played almost 7k hours of GW2. It's a really good MMO. But I have to be honest. It's horrible when it comes to gambling.
The black lion loot boxes are not so bad anymore since you get guarenteed rewards (tokens to spent on a vendor)
Mount boxes gives you a random mount, but it's possible to buy a selectable mount, it's 3 times the price though. But it's at least doable.
It does however have straight up gamble vendors (like the ecto gamble vendors)
With a game that has gem (real money)>gold conversion, this is just straight up casino.
I will not be quiet about this as much as I like the game.
People with gambling issues need to careful.
If you're looking for an MMO to escape your gambling habbits, GW2 is not it.
The ecto gamble NPC vendor used to be hidden away in a cave in Lions Arch only.
But now you are entised to encounter it in multiple ways.
You can get a permanent merchant that's cheaper than the normal permanent merchant.
How you get it?
An achievement where you have to gamble a certain ammount of ecto to unlock it.
Then you wil get a permanent merchant that will always tempt you to gamble on you everytime you play the game, since it also functions as a ecto gambler.
The permanent pass that came with PoF deluxe version also has an ecto gambler.
If you couldn't purchase gold for real money, this wouldn't really be an issue ... but you can
Afaik they are completely removing the gambling, at least in EU :)
The ecto gambler is a meme though. You might as well just send me the gold for all the good itll do ya
@@daze4135 Well gambling usually ain't profitable, quite the opposite.
That's kind of the point.
But gamblers will search for that dopamin hit they get when they do get big wins.
No matter if they will most likely lose.
That's why it's so dangerous.
@@JD-ls6ex getting addicted to gambling sucks, big time, dude. A family friend's mom is a gambling addict and they just can't get out of debt no matter how much money he sends back home, so I understand...
I just felt the need to defend the game when your first comment made it seem like gw2 is worse than p2w gacha games. I didn't mean to belittle anyone's struggles with gambling.
@@daze4135 GW2 is my favorite game, but since he mentioned the problems with ESO, I just felt I needed to mention that sadly GW is not an exception.
GW2 business model good besides this elements, but this element sadly does exist, and is a huge stain on the game imo
I love ESO and GW2 but Ive been giving new world another shot
BRO I PLAY ESO, AND I JUST CANT KEEP PLAY IT, SO BORING I CANT. I CANT
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This really is make me blind....
Lol
Everything is relevant even if you give up the game for 2 years from now
Meh I would prefer ESO, geat itemization in groups is better and RVR is better, GW2 is zergy and nothing I do feels like it matters although ESO also has a problem with midgame being boring.
GW2... I lost so much respect for you -_-
Since you probably had very little to begin with I am not offended :)
Bro dont want to be rude but can run star citizen so fix the graphics in game.
Eso is b2p that's it's only redeaming feature and the pvp bgs/cyrodill are apart of that.
Yes, you have a point, but at the same time if you are into crafting, you need to sub to get that crafting bag so to me that is not really b2p, not to experience everything to its fullest.
@@CasaBLACK i can see the crafting bag issue but i just pvp and run base game dugneons for undaunted transmutes.
how is the f2p in gw2 for pvp?
Crates should be banned from games. Gambling is gambling
100% agree with this..
You can get it for free...And no one is telling you you must gamble. It's your own choice.
@sentokigames151 kids.... shouldn't have the option of gambling lol. I don't buy them... but gambling isn't a habit that should be presented to children.
I don't like the Wow look eso looks are beautiful that is why I have never played Wow. 😢 I can't play a bugs bunny cartoon.
I was like you and stayed away from games based on their looks and I think it was Valheim that made me see that some games are just worth playing, even if their looks are not what I typically like, simply because the gameplay is done so well. WoW has a lot of faults, but for an old-school MMO, it plays very well. I enjoyed Classic, but could not get into Retail due to just how much stuff there was to do and not a lot of decent help on running just anything except the latest content.
So boring
From one shit game to another ayeee 🔥🔥🔥