Hey everyone,

I never played the original GW that much, so I decided to jump back in and try it out again.

I continued playing with my ranger/warrior from years ago, who is currently questing in post-searing Ascalon and surroundings (Piken Square, Diessa Lowlands etc) and just reached lvl 11.

I use henchmen, primarily the warrior, the healer and the elementalist, along with Melandru's stalker and sometimes my fire imp.

So far, the whole questing process is really tedious and takes a long time, which makes me wonder if I make this more frustrating than it needs to be.

A couple of questions:

I use axe/shield (ditched the bow) and have most of my points in axe mastery and beast mastery (around 5 each) and some in other specs (marksmanship only 1 so far).

I feel like my damage output is pretty low and due to using medium armor, my defense is also pretty bad. I typically don't like respeccing in RPG as it feels weird from a roleplay perspective, but it seems like my build is far from optimal.

Maybe I should bite the bullet and respecc or just put the next points in sth else. Since this is my "first" character, I'm not too keen on using a build, but I feel like it might be better for this game. What do you recommend?

I also tend to avoid fast travel due to roleplay reasons, but the areas between outposts seem pretty vast and full of enemies, which makes me wonder if I should use it more often.

Is this something most people do or is it "frowned upon"? Should I use moving speed skills instead?

Besides that, I have a hard time figuring out what to sell, what to salvage and overall what to do with my stuff. I'm low on inventory space and low on money.

I bought one of these items that upgrade a bag from 5 to 10, but even then my inventory is pretty full. I feel like I could make at least some money by selling stuff, but never know whether I should sell trophies for example or give them to collectors, which rarely seem to have the items I'm looking for. Also don't know which weapons to keep.

I'd really appreciate some help so I can make the experience a bit more enjoyable. Thanks!

TL,DR:
Should I respecc?
Should I use fast travel?
What to do with my inventory?

I hope we’ll get more Reforged merch than just that … shirt. But merch has never really been ArenaNet’s strength, which i dont understand

Months ago, it was announced that a new type of content is going to be developed for GW1. No timeline or details beyond that as far as I am aware. Does anyone have theories on what it could be? Any type of content popular in GW2 that doesn’t exist in GW1? Thoughts ?

She's just as useless when she is blind, as she was when she had eyes.

Hey everyone,

I just logged into my account after 11 years and got TONS of birthday presents to open.

Now since I‘ve been gone, prices have significantly changed, but are there any reliable sources left, where I can check or at least estimate the value of these items? I realize that there are still a lot of traders in Kamadan AD1, but I don’t want my lack of knowledge to be taken advantage of.

I‘m grateful for any help ☝️

Found on Taobao. Originally 65 yuan (9$ or 8€), got this secondhand for 21 yuan. Seems to be the combination of official Factions Artbook and Nightfall Artbook, as the sticker said, but with a couple pages missing​​ on wiki.

I want to create a warrior since that was always my preferred RPG class archetype. I know you can respec your secondary profession, but im getting discouraged since I’m reading that due to warrior’s low energy pool, many secondary choices are poor. So now im not sure if I should pick another class, since it looks like warrior ruins the fun of mixing class combos and being creative. I was thinking of warrior/necro and be like a life stealing blood knight. Or maybe warrior/para since both focus the most on adrenaline? Just don’t want to regret picking warrior but the class looks the most appealing to me, even more than Dervish.

Veteran PVE player here, having a blast playing MA(DC). Heroes are of course not fully decked (mainly runes) after completing the 3 campaigns and EOTN before going into more difficult content (HM, mostly).

What are the big things to do or avoid in order to make the playthrough as safe as possible, decreasing the difficulty when possible?

The big one I found is the War in Kryta foes (peacekeepers) in most of Kryta as I would want to vanquish those areas, so I'm looking to vanquish first (easy areas, 8 players from ToA), then complete Hell's Precipice second (as it's still unclear to me if that alone triggers the foes appearance in Kryta, and there is no toggle on/off as we do for WoC).

Minor one : having the Galrath quest active makes Kessex Peak vanquish way easier.

Do you know anything similar that would be interesting to share? I wish the wiki had a nice guide for this (is there?).

Took down Evirso Sectus first try. Lvl 40 Titans are no match for Paragons!

Is there still a way to create Single class characters?

Hi

No matter if I use this one or the carto made easy, I get this problem when in some instances. I use texmod.

Any idea how I can fix it?

Does anyone know exactly how to SaO jump from Arbor Bay to Riven Earth without triggering the portal? Apparently according to the new cartographer mod I am missing one tile and the instruction says "Mapped by SaO chain portal jump from Arbor Bay to Riven Earth" as an alternative to Zinn's Trial (which I completed since I thought I uncovered everything already).

Tried for over an hour going in every direction to no avail.

Finally scraped and scrounged my way to 900k experience and went to hand in my storybook, but it won't let me turn in the normal one. Weirdly, the hard mode ones went through fine, so I know I'm in the right place and doing it the right way. Am I missing a step or a requirement for the normal version?

Nobody likes kamadan and you have an amazing skybox to flex for screenshots (second screen from halloween 2008). Plus Tomb of the primeval kings is peak nostalgia meeting spot.

I demand justice. Change the meeting spot or add a second meeting D:
EDIT since it's not apparent? : I'm memeing, not that outraged, but I legitimately think it's too bad they missed that occasion. that skybox is so perfect for halloween.

Hey, everyone! I recently returned to the game after over a decade and decided to finally achieve the GWAMM title. I used to play too many characters, so my progression was always fragmented. I earned Legendary Defender of Ascalon on a new Mesmer and just recently finished the three campaigns on normal, with bonuses.

Now that I'm in Eye of the North and Hard Mode content, I've noticed that I am rarely retaining lockpicks, and they're expensive. I am only rank two in Treasure Hunter and Lucky, so I think it's a 19% chance or something to keep each lockpick in HM for now. I was able to buy some lockpicks from a Faction vendor.

For those of you with more experience: are lockpicks still worth it to use? Since I've only just returned and don't have coin, is there a way I could possibly farm them instead of buy them? I know these account-wide titles aren't required, but opening chests while questing or vanquishing is fun, so I would like to make it work if I can.

Also, I bought the infinite identification and salvage kits; I have been salvaging everything except wood items and selling the materials once I get a stack. Should I swap to only salvaging valuable runes/insignias and selling the rest? This could be why I am broke, lol.

I remember playing this game about 20 years ago and having an amazing time with it. Started with Factions. The game ambience, its style and distinctive gameplay really fascinated me compared to other popular MMOs at the time.
A few days ago I discovered the Reforged version and tried it on my Steamdeck. Many things were forgotten but everything had so much nostalgia, the music, the visuals, the sound effects. It really has a calming effect on me, like a time capsule of sort.
I am so glad that I started again, although I lost my old account. Somehow starting fresh is even better, I get to experience again all that captivated 20 years younger me. Now with a wife and kid, I couldn’t be happier to delve back into this game (when I get the opportunity).
What a truly fantastic game, I just love it.
Glad to be back

I'm really interested in trying Guild Wars Reforged out, having never played GW1 back in the day. I primarily play things on Steam though and I'd like to continue with that - so I'm hoping I can "trial" the game on my Retroid Pocket 6 for a bit (Android-based), and if I end up liking the game... then I would purchase it on Steam and use that account as my "main" account... so I'd like to wipe my trial character and link my Steam account character instead.

Is this doable?

So I've been logging on every morning and doing some presearing Huntsman gift farming. Finally got 1K gifts! Going to transfer them to my main character soon but I wanted to share this small nearly pointless accomplishment. Was fun drinking coffee and doing simple mindless grind every morning lol

When Reforged launched I played it up to about level 7, with no problems, but I've come back to play again but now I'm having some rough technical problems.

It started with freezing and sluggishness ever new page of character creation, and now that I finally have a character created, the game freezes whenever I try to open a menu.

Any chance someone knows what the issue is and knows a solution?

Been playing since I was like 14, and reforged + updates are amazing to see.

I am playing an Ele Melandru's + Dhuum's + Reforged + aiming for LDoA (have done LDoA like 4-5 time already, some deathless, some for the hell of it).

What is worth keeping for Melandru's?

I figured spider webs for silk and charr hides/worn belts for bolts of cloth and THS or similar mats, but I also recall there being a few easy farming locations for things like this in Post.

What exactly is worth keeping for mats? Also heard that its better to keep them in their initial format because you can ultimately get more out of a stack of for instance, charr hides VS a stack of THS.

How’s it going everybody, never tried guild wars back in the day as I was a die hard RuneScape player, found reforge in the App Store and a buddy of mine at work are trying it out/thinking about starting a work clan. Any tips for a new player? All advice is welcome

Quick question about Mercenary Heroes: since you apparently keep those Mercenary Heroes after character deletion, how are the names handled? Are they freed up to take by other players / other accounts or are the names bound to an account until both character and mercenary hero are deleted?

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