Timestamps: Introduction: 00:00 The basics: 01:21 The game menu: 3:01 Contacts and LFG: 3:30 The hero panel: 4:19 The inventory: 5:12 The mail system: 5:57 The guild panel: 6:42 The World vs World panel: 7:15 The Player vs Player panel: 8:00 The trading post: 9:03 Combat: 10:17 Hit points: 10:17 Endurance and dodging: 10:52 Weapon skills : 11:32 Special skills: 12:06 Profession mechanics: 12:28 Slot skills: 13:25 Mounts and novelties: 14:28 Status effects: 15:09 The downed state: 17:00 Things to do: 17:43 The experience bar: 17:42 Mastery: 18:43 The chat window: 19:16 The minimap: 20:34 The content guide: 21:16 Achievements: 21:59 Events: 23:02 Parties and squads: 23:53
I’ve been playing Guild Wars for over ten years and all I really do is quest and farm. I’ve always been really intimidated by all of the other things the game has to offer, but decided I wanted to understand finally- so this was tremendously helpful for me. Thanks so much for making this series!
This is one really good introductory video to the game! Having not played any games, let alone MMOs, before GW2 I would've really appreciated a video like this. I found things by asking, friends or guildies telling me and just sheer experimentation, but this is such a good thing for anyone who wants to start on an MMO, and of course, especially GW2.
"Talk to yourself!" I love how nobody talks bout the fact that you can Whisper yourself. This can be useful for having some information readily available that you dont want anyone to see
Finally back on the grind. I played merely a few months after getting the game nearly ten years ago so I have all these birthday presents for my five characters that I don't remember how to play. Going to check the video playlist to catch up and play this beautiful game to find out why the heck I left so soon. And I played a little GW 1, was pretty nostalgic.
Although i know many are against it, I still think it is important to show people what Action Camera is and how to apply it. I know many people don't necessarily like it but there are many people who do and even more who don't even know about it. I am one of those who uses it, I love it but I wish it was shown off as an alternative to the combat flow for others. PS: I do realise that this can be explained in a different episode, im just putting this out there so that it can have a greater chance at appearing in one.
there are newbies at any time in the game and even some veterans might learn a few new things, so MT`s new series makes sense, and MT is also someone who, unlike many others, is very good at this
I've seen a noticeable influx of new players a couple months ago. Actually GW2 is in the slow process of renewing its playerbase - the players who joined at launch is an audience quite different from the people joining now, many of them played GW1 etc. I joined GW2 1.5 years ago and I'm not a typical MMO player - I don't want to put 20+ hours a week into a single game, my "main" games so far were Warframe and MOBAs like Dota 2 and Smite. GW2 is a very good game and it can attract many types of players. So I guess each month quite a lot of people decide to try GW2 for the first time. Some come after getting bored with some other big MMO wanting to try something different, others get invited by their friends already playing GW2. We shouldn't underestimate the fact that the quality of GW2 actually shows and is very evident right from the start.
Good video teapot. Hope a lot of new players get to see this. Don't need it myself but watched the entire thing to give you the watch time in hope that that helps with youtube stuff to get this in front of more people.
Very good . Very clear, reasonably concise, and you threw in a fair few things that i didnt even notice until a year or two playing. Its not info overload too . I have sent this to my new players
This video is a lifesaver! I started playing again. I only ever got as far as lvl 10 years ago and decided to play it again this week since I’ve always been curious to get a little deeper into it. Now that we’re all mostly indoors and have lots of time lol. This was very helpful, thank you!!!!
Very helpful video, I've been playing GW2 for years (although not consistently), and I still found helpful things watching this. I always forget about the ability to draw on your squad's minimap and place markers! Also that's kind of an understatement to say the game doesn't explain its complicated mechanics. That's been a trademark of ArenaNet since GW1 lol
As a new player. These tutorial really help after you have done a decent bit of world content on your own. One of the few MMOs where you should really just experience the game first before diving into specifics
As a returning player i'm thankful! I forgot a lot of things, haven't played since HoT basically. Still have my Reaper lvl 80, but i'm starting fresh with a new toon. I hope to stay longer this time and bring friends eventually.
>skill loadouts *applauds irl* On a more serious note, great initiative! Looking forward to seeing the rest of the videos, and then sharing them with my ever-casual friends.
I honestly LOVE this!!! Thanks @MightyTeapot for your focus on Beginners to GW2!!! And Congrats on being considered an ArenaNet Partner!!! (Is it alright if I feature your video and YT on my clan website for my guildmates to access for information???)
new to GW2.. is there no way to hide the damage/heal numbers? and why cant I hide the player names and titles in groups and squads? Ugh there is so much visual noise i can barely see the Boss or their attack animations. i like a minimal UI so i can enjoy the game and gw2 is really frustrating
When teapot finally realizes what GW2’s target audience is. Good work nice video Edit: I think he ha always known... just finally came to terms with :)
A few points were the vid is not exactly wrong but not fully right either: You can also move items and gold between accounts using a guild bank The core game also has masteries Players that have purchased a tag don't automatically appear on the map they also have to choose to to start a squad so if you see a tag it usually means that something is going on Players have cyan names, party members and their minions have blue names, guild members are orange, and ambient creatures are white talking about colors you should have said what the color coding was for the chat; red for map chat, green with white text for say chat, green with gray text for ambient dialog (although not all of it appears in your chat window), orange for guild chat of the guild you are reping, a muted orange for other guild chats, blue for party, green yellow for squad, dark red for team (used in pvp & wvw), purple for whisper, gray text with no name for combat targeted at you, white text with no name for combat from you , red text with no name for combat errors, green text with no name for game messages about your social stuff, yellow text with no name for game wide messages, and guild messages with no name and yellow text for guild message of the day. There may be more something I think you missed, the # by a players name is not always their level depending on where you are and what level the player is, if the number is white it is their effective level if there is an arrow next to it it means they are either a higher or lower level than that depending on the arrows direction this is the default, if it is yellow it is mastery level this is shown in general pve if the player has at least one mastery level, if the number is pink it is agony resistance shown always in fractals, I swear there is more but I am not seeing any Also you forgot to mention inventory options. Deposited all collectables is one of the most important tips for new players and saying that you can buy more/bigger bags would maybe help some very new players as well.
hi, i know you have videos on this but i really need help on my ranger, i dont own path of fire, and went with a power, vitality, toughness and one with percision. I need to know whats the best idea for a solo build since im almost always alone.
for solo content something like that will definitely work. although you might want more power precision and ferocity so you do more damage. Condi is also a very good option for solo on ranger so condition damage and condition duration!
@@MightyTeapot Thank you so much, just making sure, for condition should i just add gems for that or try to find gear with power, percision, ferocity, AND condition duration, damage?
@@shypony5820 For condition damage your best stats are stuff like Viper (Condition damage, condition duration, power precision) or trailblazer (Condition damage, condition duration, toughness, vitality) wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Attribute_combinations here's the wiki page with all the stats!
To a certain extent yeah, but because of how easy it is to get gear in GW2 (no gear treadmill, gear from 5 years ago is just as good today) it really doesn't matter. Gear is also completely irrelevant in PvP - you just pick stats your equipment does nothing. A lot of cosmetics in the cash shop are pretty cool but there are also a lot of account bound (non tradeable) rewards in the game that you cannot simply buy with $$$.
Just started GW2 a month ago... this Interface is absolutely horrid. There is so little customization it makes me rage. And there is a fuck ton of visual noise that combat is completely obscured by player names, popup text, numbers... yes i know you can hide player names - BUT NOT IF YOU MOUSE OVER OR AIM YOUR CAMERA AT SOMETHING. w t f. and you turn off all these fucking number flying by 100 mph. Not to mention the game showers you with free loot and reward popups youd think this was a bernie sanders rally. Decent game BUT I CANT SEE ANYTHING UNDERNEATH ALL THIS NOISE
agreed. its really ironic that people make fun of Warcraft UI but i can sooooo easily make a more intuitive and minimal UI in WoW than in gw2. Do we really need to see Exp messages spamming every 2 secs? kinda lame in 2020
I am curious, why did you make that guide now? Did you get sponsored by Arena net? Or is it your (desperate) attempt to revive a dying game? It's great that you do this video, I really enjoyed watching it. It's just... This game doesn't do anything to support certain parts of its community. And that is making me sad. So yeah, why make that video now?
Timestamps:
Introduction: 00:00
The basics: 01:21
The game menu: 3:01
Contacts and LFG: 3:30
The hero panel: 4:19
The inventory: 5:12
The mail system: 5:57
The guild panel: 6:42
The World vs World panel: 7:15
The Player vs Player panel: 8:00
The trading post: 9:03
Combat: 10:17
Hit points: 10:17
Endurance and dodging: 10:52
Weapon skills : 11:32
Special skills: 12:06
Profession mechanics: 12:28
Slot skills: 13:25
Mounts and novelties: 14:28
Status effects: 15:09
The downed state: 17:00
Things to do: 17:43
The experience bar: 17:42
Mastery: 18:43
The chat window: 19:16
The minimap: 20:34
The content guide: 21:16
Achievements: 21:59
Events: 23:02
Parties and squads: 23:53
Please can you cover using a controller with a guide to set up xpadder?
Me: plays since betas
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*watches anyway*
Haha me too
I’ve been playing Guild Wars for over ten years and all I really do is quest and farm. I’ve always been really intimidated by all of the other things the game has to offer, but decided I wanted to understand finally- so this was tremendously helpful for me. Thanks so much for making this series!
I found u from that time on summit's stream now im playing the game and I'm glad I found ur guides
This is one really good introductory video to the game! Having not played any games, let alone MMOs, before GW2 I would've really appreciated a video like this. I found things by asking, friends or guildies telling me and just sheer experimentation, but this is such a good thing for anyone who wants to start on an MMO, and of course, especially GW2.
as a last resort, ask map chat . Oh i just love this
This video has only been out for a day and i have already linked it twice to new players. what you made has already gotten it's value.
"Talk to yourself!" I love how nobody talks bout the fact that you can Whisper yourself. This can be useful for having some information readily available that you dont want anyone to see
Finally back on the grind. I played merely a few months after getting the game nearly ten years ago so I have all these birthday presents for my five characters that I don't remember how to play. Going to check the video playlist to catch up and play this beautiful game to find out why the heck I left so soon.
And I played a little GW 1, was pretty nostalgic.
MightyTeapot should be hired to remake guildwars 2's tutorial system.
I am brand freakin' new to GW2-- I'm SO grateful for this video! Looking forward to the rest of the series, and your channel. Thank you so much!
Stay tuned!
Although i know many are against it, I still think it is important to show people what Action Camera is and how to apply it. I know many people don't necessarily like it but there are many people who do and even more who don't even know about it. I am one of those who uses it, I love it but I wish it was shown off as an alternative to the combat flow for others.
PS: I do realise that this can be explained in a different episode, im just putting this out there so that it can have a greater chance at appearing in one.
Awesome... i'm 3 months into the game and i still learn some things from this video... thanks
I'm 5 years into this game and I still learned something xD (14:20)
I have played other mmo games but new to guild wars I appreciate this video.....also starting off with a necro ahhhhh yaaaaa
Anet adds tutorial achievements, tpot makes a beginners video. What year is this?!
2012? =(
there are newbies at any time in the game and even some veterans might learn a few new things, so MT`s new series makes sense, and MT is also someone who, unlike many others, is very good at this
I've seen a noticeable influx of new players a couple months ago. Actually GW2 is in the slow process of renewing its playerbase - the players who joined at launch is an audience quite different from the people joining now, many of them played GW1 etc. I joined GW2 1.5 years ago and I'm not a typical MMO player - I don't want to put 20+ hours a week into a single game, my "main" games so far were Warframe and MOBAs like Dota 2 and Smite. GW2 is a very good game and it can attract many types of players. So I guess each month quite a lot of people decide to try GW2 for the first time. Some come after getting bored with some other big MMO wanting to try something different, others get invited by their friends already playing GW2. We shouldn't underestimate the fact that the quality of GW2 actually shows and is very evident right from the start.
Good video teapot. Hope a lot of new players get to see this.
Don't need it myself but watched the entire thing to give you the watch time in hope that that helps with youtube stuff to get this in front of more people.
Very good . Very clear, reasonably concise, and you threw in a fair few things that i didnt even notice until a year or two playing. Its not info overload too . I have sent this to my new players
This is thorough and very well made, great job Teapot!
This video is a lifesaver! I started playing again. I only ever got as far as lvl 10 years ago and decided to play it again this week since I’ve always been curious to get a little deeper into it. Now that we’re all mostly indoors and have lots of time lol. This was very helpful, thank you!!!!
This video is pretty good! As a long-time player I was very amused and entertained throughout.
Very helpful video, I've been playing GW2 for years (although not consistently), and I still found helpful things watching this. I always forget about the ability to draw on your squad's minimap and place markers!
Also that's kind of an understatement to say the game doesn't explain its complicated mechanics. That's been a trademark of ArenaNet since GW1 lol
Oh yes, I played through 3 of the GW 1 expansions and still found things I didn't notice because the game didn't tell me. Or I'm dumb haha
Great job! A real resource for new players and those who just never learned the things! Love this.
Video done so well i watched it all even tho ive played for 5 years now, gj teapot !
Nice video, man! Found it through the notification on the GW2 launcher. Wish I had access to this when I was was starting out :)
As a new player. These tutorial really help after you have done a decent bit of world content on your own. One of the few MMOs where you should really just experience the game first before diving into specifics
This is really helpful! Thanks for going in to the details to help us get started! Excellent video - earned my sub and support.
Great video thanks! I'm new to the game and this is very well done!
As a returning player i'm thankful! I forgot a lot of things, haven't played since HoT basically. Still have my Reaper lvl 80, but i'm starting fresh with a new toon. I hope to stay longer this time and bring friends eventually.
"To win GW2, keep this above zero" lol. I guess that's why I haven't won yet xD
great video! top production value & content
Sharing this with everyone I know
The game should open the browser to this video at the end of character creation!
if only arenanet improved the multicore cpu performance, it might attract more players. This video was awesome
D912pxy might help
This is what the game needed tbh, you're the perfect one to do that, thanks :)
Great video, the sound volume a bit a low i think, but quality 👌
Nice to see that kind of content, hope it will contribute to grab some new players! :)
Good work ;)
Woah thank you so much!
Fantastic. Incredible. Awesome!
>skill loadouts
*applauds irl*
On a more serious note, great initiative! Looking forward to seeing the rest of the videos, and then sharing them with my ever-casual friends.
I honestly LOVE this!!! Thanks @MightyTeapot for your focus on Beginners to GW2!!! And Congrats on being considered an ArenaNet Partner!!! (Is it alright if I feature your video and YT on my clan website for my guildmates to access for information???)
Of course, awesome to hear it's useful - more coming soon!
new to GW2.. is there no way to hide the damage/heal numbers?
and why cant I hide the player names and titles in groups and squads? Ugh there is so much visual noise i can barely see the Boss or their attack animations. i like a minimal UI so i can enjoy the game and gw2 is really frustrating
And here i was thinking this guide would be about as useful as a chocolate teapot...How wrong i was!, great guide Teapot son!!
Big ups. Very concise. I'm realizing I talk too much. :)
Thank you Teapot!
ty. thats for me! ))) im totally new!
When teapot finally realizes what GW2’s target audience is. Good work nice video
Edit: I think he ha always known... just finally came to terms with :)
when are the other episodes coming? or are you going to leave it at one episode?
Unfortunately I haven't been able to work on TH-cam videos for a while because of my tournament, production will resume soon!
What is the difference between red and orange events?
Great video
Orange = Dynamic Event
Red = World Boss
Hehehehe, episode 1, now for the content drought ;)
A few points were the vid is not exactly wrong but not fully right either:
You can also move items and gold between accounts using a guild bank
The core game also has masteries
Players that have purchased a tag don't automatically appear on the map they also have to choose to to start a squad so if you see a tag it usually means that something is going on
Players have cyan names, party members and their minions have blue names, guild members are orange, and ambient creatures are white
talking about colors you should have said what the color coding was for the chat; red for map chat, green with white text for say chat, green with gray text for ambient dialog (although not all of it appears in your chat window), orange for guild chat of the guild you are reping, a muted orange for other guild chats, blue for party, green yellow for squad, dark red for team (used in pvp & wvw), purple for whisper, gray text with no name for combat targeted at you, white text with no name for combat from you , red text with no name for combat errors, green text with no name for game messages about your social stuff, yellow text with no name for game wide messages, and guild messages with no name and yellow text for guild message of the day. There may be more
something I think you missed, the # by a players name is not always their level depending on where you are and what level the player is, if the number is white it is their effective level if there is an arrow next to it it means they are either a higher or lower level than that depending on the arrows direction this is the default, if it is yellow it is mastery level this is shown in general pve if the player has at least one mastery level, if the number is pink it is agony resistance shown always in fractals, I swear there is more but I am not seeing any
Also you forgot to mention inventory options. Deposited all collectables is one of the most important tips for new players and saying that you can buy more/bigger bags would maybe help some very new players as well.
How would I find you / add you in-game, if I may ask? Easiest way? I’m planning on starting back up tomorrow
MightyTeapot.2093 ezpz
MightyTeapot Awesome!! Thx! That was fast! I enjoy listening to your tea time vids while doing mundane things.
@@astralbuddha Ey glad you enjoy ;)
hi, i know you have videos on this but i really need help on my ranger, i dont own path of fire, and went with a power, vitality, toughness and one with percision. I need to know whats the best idea for a solo build since im almost always alone.
for solo content something like that will definitely work. although you might want more power precision and ferocity so you do more damage. Condi is also a very good option for solo on ranger so condition damage and condition duration!
@@MightyTeapot Thank you so much, just making sure, for condition should i just add gems for that or try to find gear with power, percision, ferocity, AND condition duration, damage?
@@shypony5820 For condition damage your best stats are stuff like Viper (Condition damage, condition duration, power precision) or trailblazer (Condition damage, condition duration, toughness, vitality) wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Attribute_combinations here's the wiki page with all the stats!
Wow, im veteran player but this video was awesome!
You can shift - left click on items to save time on typing out the name of said items I'm chat
Recording is very quiet. can you normalize the audio to like -3 db before rendering . Other then that Very good Guide
Please raise your narrative audio level in your editing software to be reasonably near ad defaults.
low volume
+1 for correct use of "myriad"
Why is it recorded so quietly?
If you set speed to 1.5x, it almost sounds like usual teapot
YOU CAN CLICK ON THE MENTOR ICON??? Thanks
min 11:30 : press Space??????? xD
Very low volume
volume way to low. had to max out my speakers just to hear you lol
but great content, and expremely exicted to see more
@@TheRed5815 same hier, :-) , for both things:-))
In all the comments I didn't see one that appreciates you put an ERP chat window in the 'chat window' section lol. Cheeky bugger.
Isnt being able to buy gold pay to win?
To a certain extent yeah, but because of how easy it is to get gear in GW2 (no gear treadmill, gear from 5 years ago is just as good today) it really doesn't matter.
Gear is also completely irrelevant in PvP - you just pick stats your equipment does nothing.
A lot of cosmetics in the cash shop are pretty cool but there are also a lot of account bound (non tradeable) rewards in the game that you cannot simply buy with $$$.
@@MightyTeapot I see, cheers for the reply
hi :3 whtchu doin in QD
This video is better than prn🤣
Are we not gonna talk about him having 27 MILLION Karma?
🔥
Just started GW2 a month ago... this Interface is absolutely horrid. There is so little customization it makes me rage. And there is a fuck ton of visual noise that combat is completely obscured by player names, popup text, numbers... yes i know you can hide player names - BUT NOT IF YOU MOUSE OVER OR AIM YOUR CAMERA AT SOMETHING. w t f. and you turn off all these fucking number flying by 100 mph. Not to mention the game showers you with free loot and reward popups youd think this was a bernie sanders rally. Decent game BUT I CANT SEE ANYTHING UNDERNEATH ALL THIS NOISE
agreed. its really ironic that people make fun of Warcraft UI but i can sooooo easily make a more intuitive and minimal UI in WoW than in gw2. Do we really need to see Exp messages spamming every 2 secs? kinda lame in 2020
6:28 lmao
GW2 have new players? ;P
3:14 "The gay menu" 8D
the gay menu is the best menu.
@@MrGoldsmitch Truedat!
Yo this is some sponsored tier shit right here
I am curious, why did you make that guide now? Did you get sponsored by Arena net? Or is it your (desperate) attempt to revive a dying game?
It's great that you do this video, I really enjoyed watching it.
It's just... This game doesn't do anything to support certain parts of its community. And that is making me sad.
So yeah, why make that video now?