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Keep in mind that you can only gain experience in a mastery in the maps associated with the expansion that the mastery was introduced in. So for gliding, you need to be in the four HoT maps or the 6 associated with Season 3. The PoF masteries are trained in the 5 PoF and 6 Season 4 maps. Ice Brood Saga is going to be in the IBS maps (Grothmar Valley, Bejora Marches, Drizzlewood Coast, and the various Dragon Response Missions), and so on with EoD and SotO. ALSO, make sure that you have that mastery selected to train. You can switch which mastery you are actively training within each set at any time. So you could have been training Advanced Gliding, then switched to Itzel Poison Lore and when Poison Lore was finished, it wouldn't have automatically switched back to training Advanced Gliding unless/until you selected it to start training it again.

Season 1 was recently released free to everyone. it was rebuilt and released because it was originally content that you had to be present for and wasn't episodic like living world seasons 2 and on. Seasons 3, 4, and IBS we released free to people that logged in while they were the current episode. The best way to see what you have is to open the section headings in the story tab of your character. if you have an episode and it doesn't show a lock icon on it, you have it and can play it. If it shows it is locked (and you are on a level 80 character), you still need to buy it. The good news, if you are missing a episode here or there, you can still buy the entire season and it will be prorated for you. The season collection tends to be a little cheaper than the individual episodes.

I was able to do all of the achievements EXCEPT skyscale of life on whatever toon I wanted to. Skyscale of life only worked when I did it on the character that I had done the story on. Same thing with my alt account.

Whatever you do, don't delete any of your existing characters! Birthday presents are per character until you get up into the 8th or higher year, in which case the presents are still per character but they threw in some per account ones too. Ascended armor and weapons can be stat swapped in the mystic forge - requires the item you want to change stats on, 5 ecto, 1 anthology of heroes (bought from the mystic forge attendant), and the EXOTIC inscription or insignia of the stats you want to swap to. So, if you think your gear is outdated, updating is much cheaper and easier than creating an all new set.

You don't need 250 gold. You need 25 gold 10 times. You have 10 items you have to buy from 5 heart vendors. You don't drop all 250 gold at one time, you drop 25 gold for each of ten items. Take it in small chunks, it is much easier and much less stressful. As for making gold, I'm surprised no one mentioned Silverwastes. Look in LFG for a RIBA squad for silverwastes. You basically rotate through the four strong points in the map doing events and get the map maxed out as quick as possible. Then, after the vinewrath boss fight is finished, you run around the map opening the chests and selling the mats you get. It may be out-shined by some of the other farm maps in the game, but, it is still a great gold farm.

While directly salvaging unidentified gear is quick, it is always better to identify it before salvaging.

Catch an HP train in Verdant Brink. They'll drag you through all the HP's you'll need to unlock your elite spec (or two, depending). HoT was designed around groups doing the content, so, it is a big step up in difficulty from the personal story. You will die a lot. Don't feel alone, we all did and largely still do solo. Don't be afraid to call out in map chat for help with some event or question about something - someone will normally be willing to help. Good luck!

YouTuber Mukluk has some good info for new players. Really, any of the YT videos for new players have good info, the newer the video the better or more current obviously, but, still good info. WoodenPotatoes is your go to for lore, deep dives on stuff, as well as good info on eveything gw2. Dulfy and GuildJen (sp?) have a ton of guides for various things - how to's, achievements, and JPs. Preach Gaming also did a play through of GW2 a few months back as a WoW player coming to GW2 for the first time. You might watch his first couple of videos as he talks about what per-conceived notions he had from WoW and where they mislead him. gw2efficiency.com will allow you to data mine your account for info you never knew you didn't know, but is especially handy for tracking down achievements and mastery points. FYI, Anet has disabled the API for the next week or so because of the release of SotO, and gw2efficiency pulls everything through the API. gw2crafts.net is your home for leveling your crafting skills in the cheapest and most efficient manner. Crafting is not required, but, may be something you want to get into later on. Whether you want to craft or not, be sure to harvest everything at the harvesting nodes int he world - you can always sell it on the TP. When you go to a vendor, there is a "Sell junk" button that will auto-sell trash to the vendor. Nothing you autosell will be needed for anything. As for equipment that drops, if you can't use it, salvage it with a salvage kit. if you can't salvage it, sell it to a vendor. If you can't sell it to a vendor, you have to destroy it to get it out of your inventory. Some items, when you get to higher levels will sell on the trading post and may be worth more there than salvaging. Hero Points and Hero Challenges. Just leveling a character to level 80 will give you enough hero points to completely train all of your core trait and skill lines. Do read what you spend your points on as you level so you can allocate them towards skills that will help you earlier rather than randomly allocating them. But never worry, you will have enough. You can get more points by doing hero challenges to level your skills & traits faster. The Hero Challenges in the core game give you 1 point. Elite Specializations unlock at level 80 (and with one of the expansions). Elite Specs require 250 hero points. The good news is that the Hero Challenges in the expansion maps award 10 points each, and there are more than enough available. Speaking of expansions, the expansions are a big step up in difficulty from the core game. Don't be surprised if you have difficulties at first. Lastly, if you have a question in game, feel free to switch to map chat and ask. Someone will answer. And, almost without exception, be very friendly and helpful.

1. No, I wouldn't say you are doing yourself a disservice spending time in Strikes and such. 2. https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Stat_changing - Stat swapping ascended gear only requires the EXOTIC insignia (or exotic inscription for weapons) of the stat combo that you want to swap to. So, for swapping to Harrier's stats, you would need 1 Insignia of the Harrier (rather than Zehtuka's Harrier's Insignia), 1 Anthology of Heroes (10 Spirit Shards), 5 Globs of Ectoplasm, and 1 piece of ascended armor. Throw in the mystic forge and you have a piece of ascended Zehtuka's Harrier Armor. 3. Sometimes it can be cheaper to craft a full set of armor of a set of stats you don't want/need and then stat swap that in the Mystic Forge than it can be to straight craft what you want in the end. This especially true for armor that you have to get lucky for an RNG drop for the recipe sheet to make it. I believe that Zehtuka's happens to be that way. Whereas the Exotic Insignia of the Harrier is a discoverable recipe. It's even cheaper if you already have the recipe's for a different ascended set of armor. The last set of ascended I made - vipers for a necro I think - I make an ascended set of Magi's because I already had 6 Exotic Magi's insignias from salvaging and I already had the recipe's for a set of ascended light magi's armor. 4. This is a game. You are supposed to have fun. If you aren't, you need to change something that you are doing. If Harrier's turns out to be the wrong set after the next balance patch, see Item 2 above for changing to the new best in slot set of stats quickly and cheaply.

1. Go do something else for a while. 2. Come back on different toon. 3. Kill everything all the time. I don't think it took me all that long, but I do remember doing some other events in that area and then coming back and finally getting it.

I know you don't have ascended armor right now, but, when you start getting ascended armor boxes as drops, you can stat swap it in the mystic forge using the EXOTIC insignia (or inscription for weapons) that you want to change the ascended armor to. So if you get a Wupwup's armor box as a drop, you can stat swap that to Yassith's using the exotic viper's insignia. There is a wiki on stat swapping if you have questions about the process.

Heart of Thorns is a huge leap in difficulty from the core game (open world PvE). Everything in the jungle wants to kill you, including those cute little pocket raptors...that have been heavily nerfed since HoT came out. HoT is really based around groups of people doing events to progress the map forward towards the map meta event(s). Path of Fire is actually easier, from a solo point of view, than HoT. But that doesn't mean it is face-roll easy, either. And those canids are...abominations that follow you FOREVER. Good news is that you get your first mount - the raptor - for completing the first real story instance in the Desert (technically there is a short story instance in Lion's Arch, but that is just talking to Kiel). So there are a few things to check when you are new and start having issues: Do you have a good build for what you're trying to do? Metabattle and YT videos can help with that. Does your armor match your build, and are you using the right stats? Exotic armor is fine, I have spent most of my time in this game in Exotic and went all the way through HoT, Season 2, PoF, and Season 3 with Exotics. Ascended is better, but not required (except fractals, blah, blah, blah). Do you have a full set of 6 matching Superior Runes on your armor and Superior Sigils on your weapons? They make a huge difference. Are you running with exotic trinkets (rings, amulet, earrings/accessories, and back item)? Those are a huge part of stats. If you picked up any stat-selectable equipment, have you actually selected the stats on them? There is warning in the UI about this, but, it still happens to the best of us from time to time. LEARN YOUR CC SKILLS! HoT and, to a (slightly) lesser extent, PoF require CC skills to break defiance bars (blue/cyan bar that shows up under the boss's HP bar). When I run around HoT maps on my warrior (main), I normally have between 4 and 5 CC's between my weapons and my utility skills. If you need help or want to learn about CC's in GW2, just type /wiki CC in chat in game and it will take you to the wiki article on Crowd Control skills. It's got a ton of great info on CC skills. Good luck! And don't lose heart, many of us have been at this game for years and still get our butts handed to us from time to time. 🙂

1. Be patient. It's a marathon, not a 100 yard dash. 2. Provisioner tokens have been mentioned by many. Check the wiki, depending on what assets you have, you might be able to pick up some extras fairly cheaply. For example, if you have an overabundance of Piles of Auric Dust (like I do), the 30 Auric Slivers are dirt cheap to make an Auric ingot. You'll need 30 Auric Ingots for a set of Armor, but, once you've got that taken care of. 3. When you complete Envoy Armor I, you will get a box with a complete set of Ascended Armor. This is a freebie, so my advice is to choose an armor weight that is different from what your first set of legendary armor is. So, if you're going for legendary medium armor, choose a set of light or heavy. You never lose this set, you can stat-swap it, salvage it, whatever you want without worries. 4. The ascended armor you get from completing Envoy Armor II is your precursor set. You will "lose" this set in the mystic forge when you create your legendary pieces. DO NOT STAT-SWAP THIS ASCENDED ARMOR!!!!!!!! Stat-swapping your pre-cursor destroys the precursor - you get back a regular ascended armor piece from the mystic forge when you stat-swap. 5. It is 150 LI for the first set of legendary armor, it is 300 LI for set 2 and set 3. 6. I think the biggest expenses for me were the stabilizing matrices (I don't do a lot of fractals), the gifts of condensed might, and the gifts of condensed magic.

Hey Squid! Reach out to your VA doc/clinic/hospital/rep. Brother, you need someone to talk to and they have resources that can provide that. Life occasionally delivers a swift kick to our genitals, and you just got another one. Sucks and it hurts, but, you will get through this too - and you aren't the only one, despite the fact that it may feel like you're alone. From just another Army brat, take care, brother.

Ground targeting can be a pain with the default setting of click once to activate the ground targeting overlay, click again to fire the skill. This can be changed in the options panel, General Options, Combat/Movement section. I normally run the "Fast with range indicator" option. Press and hold the skill key to activate the target overlay, activate the skill when you release the button. This is much faster and gives me the opportunity to correctly aim the skill in case my mouse is out of position. While warrior does get rooted with GS 2 and has animation locks with GS 3 & 5, shield 5, and bulls charge, and I could go on, but you get the picture. Those skills have purposes in addition to doing damage. GS 3 is an evade, so basically a dodge without having to use up a dodge. GS 5 is a gap closer that does a decent amount of damage. Bulls Charge is a gap closer, a huge CC, and a 1.25 second evade. Used right, these things can prevent you from getting hit at all in a fight. Let me give you an example. I use Axe/axe on a berserker warrior. There is a daily repeatable Hero Challenge in Arborstone in EoD. I start the fight with headbutt (Berserker elite skill), go into Berserk (F2), Decapitate (F1), Dual Strike (Axe 4), Bull's Charge, Chop (Axe 1), Cyclone Axe (Axe 2), and Decapitate (F1) is normally off cool down, so I hit that again, and the fight is over. And I never got hit by the guy I'm fighting because I stunned him with the headbutt, then knocked him down again as he was coming out of the stun, and just did too much damage in between. But you are right about Great Sword 2, getting rooted for that sucks. But, for as much damage as it does, having that tradeoff makes sense from a balance standpoint. Outside of elite spec skills, core GS 2 is the highest damage great sword skill for warrior. Another thing, pay attention to your CC skills. Core Tyria you can get through everything without needing them. Step into any one of the Expansion maps, CC skills become mandatory. Some of the mobs do not take any damage until you break their defiance bars, and CC skills are what breaks those defiance bars.