Yes and very much depends on your taste - some people love it, othersdespiseit. But hey, it's free and definitely worth the download to give it a go.
Guild Wars 2
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Grim1
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Gold is fairly easy to get in this game. Easier than karma these days, although karma is pretty easy too. You can buy a complete set of exotics on the AH fairly cheap, especially if you stay away from zerker stats.
Another thing to consider is the runes you put into your armor. Iirc, you can't salvage karma armor, so expensive runes are unrecoverable.
Zaphid
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If you don't need to make a lot of cash in a single day, just run dungeons, with the addition of LFG, you can get groups for typical farming routes in seconds/minutes. CoF p1/2 takes like 20 minutes total, fractals are a bit hit and miss, there are some groups can just faceroll through and some that kill your will to live.
Zaphid
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Warriors are the faceroll class, Mesmers/Elementalists are the trickier and powerful classes, the rest are somewhere in between. It doesn't really matter, everything is viable, pick what looks good and if you stick with the game long enough, you will probably roll an alt anyway. There is no endgame ala WoW, you mostly fuck around and play princess maker.
Sabbat
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While Zaphid's comments are mostly concrete, the end game is what you make of it. If you're planning on becoming a Fractal50 superstar or WvW legend, a little research wouldn't go astray.
MetaBattle Wiki - MetaBattle - Guild Wars 2 Builds
Gives some different opinions on classes, playstyles and builds for different purposes. Elementalist drove me crazy with all the switching I needed to do and it never felt good to me, but it's hands down one of the best and most adaptable classes in the game.
I play a Necromancer, while that sounds cool, Necro's have been shit in PvE groups, and small group PvP since beta2.
MetaBattle Wiki - MetaBattle - Guild Wars 2 Builds
Gives some different opinions on classes, playstyles and builds for different purposes. Elementalist drove me crazy with all the switching I needed to do and it never felt good to me, but it's hands down one of the best and most adaptable classes in the game.
I play a Necromancer, while that sounds cool, Necro's have been shit in PvE groups, and small group PvP since beta2.
Grim1
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If you intend to WvW then pick one of the highest tier servers that are still open. Tier 1 servers are full atm, but I think a couple of the tier 2 servers are open. They will probably fill up after the expansion comes out.
Lower tier servers are hit / miss in WvW and tend to have long periods where nobody bothers or one side gets spawn camped. If you don't intend to do any WvW then it really doesn't matter because everything other than WvW is on a megaserver. Still a good idea to pick a top tier server just in case you change your mind though. Server transfers are not cheap.
As Sabbat says, Necros have issues being wanted in dungeons, etc.. except for WvW. Necros are highly valued in WvW zergs. Some classes excel at pve, others at pvp or wvw. Depends on what you like to do.
Sinzar
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I always avoided necros just due to the community feedback that they suck in pve group content, etc. My latest return to GW2 I made a necro anyway since I always wanted to try it, and found necro to be the class I enjoyed most of the ones I've done (guardian, thief, elementalist, mesmer). I don't really do the high end fractal or dungeon speedrunning, so necro has been great for just enjoying the gameplay and world content.
Caliane
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A good reddit post for new players. Easy to complete collections with great rewards.
For new player take advantage of Collection achievement for cheap stuff. : Guildwars2
For new player take advantage of Collection achievement for cheap stuff. : Guildwars2
My problem with GW2 is I can't help but envision Anet slowly deepthroating their own pride and choking on it every quarter inch as they add back end game item grinds, raids, 'soft' trinity, but still insist on hamstringing their game with their original and bad design concepts. If they'd just accept that they fucked up end game and stopped skirting around it they'd have a much better game
But what are fractals/ascended gear if not a really stupid gear treadmill. And what are raids if not the same end game that WoW and a billion other MMOs have but apparently with no reward (ok they will have rewards for the pretty princesses and faggots prancing around in angel wings)
I just don't know why they skirt the edges only to follow the same trends in underwhelming fashion. If the end game wasn't quite so dumb, would it really compromise the spirit of the game? I don't see how, it would just make it better if you dont have to constantly pretend otherwise.
When you hit 80 it's like an MMO in the closet but the limp wrists and lisp isn't really fooling anyone
bixxby
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ehhh, TSW shits all over the single player mmo experience that GW2 gave us. GW2 as a single player game is an open world checklist game.
Zaphid
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I actually appreciate when designers create stuff that is supposed to stick around for years. GW1 endgame zones were fuckinghardat release, some barely possible to finish until people got good enough. In WoW if you stick around for a while, eventually Blizzard will nerf the raid to the ground or you just get +10 levels and faceroll the whole instance, making the whole zone irrelevant as a measure of skill. There is very little difference between my gear and gear of people who do lvl 50 fractals, but I'm sure I'd just get destroyed, which is what I like about the game. Same goes for Mad King's tower, gear doesn't mater, it's only your skill.
I'm surprised how many people clamor for +gooderer as the sole measure of progression, WoW is almost a joke with ilvl being the only important number on your whole character sheet.