Tips and Tricks for a Better Guild Wars 2 Experience

Howdy everyone! In this post, I'm going to give you some tips and tricks for a better Guild War 2 experience. It's aimed for newbies who might have been overwhelmed by how this game throws everything at you without having an in-depth tutorial.

• Inventory Management

Managing your inventory efficiently is one of the most important skills you need to learn in this game, as you will salvage hundreds, if not thousands of items a day. Badly managed inventory will give headaches and wastes tons of your time. Here are a few tips to avoid being frustrated by the inventory system in Guild Wars 2 :

1. Achievement items can be safely sold or thrown away once acquired.
2. You can press the Gear icon at the top right corner of your inventory and use it to immediately deposit all materials to your bank. You can also use it to automatically sort your inventory.
3. Salvage everything you don't need. Salvaging is a very important part in Guild Wars 2, and you probably will need to salvage every a few hours. To do it easily, you can right-click on your favourite salvaging kit and choose one of the Salvage All options.
4. Sell your green and rare sigils and runes. Instead of trying in vain to destroy your useless sigils and runes, it's better to visit a vendor real quick and sell all of them along with all the junk items you acquire in one fell swoop.

• Use Looking for Group (LFG) tool

 

 The LFG tool is quite often overlooked by newbies, which is a grave mistake. Familiarity and constant usage of this tool is very important. For example, when you, say, want to join a meta event in Auric Basin, instead of teleporting you way there and hoping for others to show up, you can try finding a "Taxi" squad and join them. To do so, you need to be in the same map as your chosen squad, right-click on one of your squadmates, and choose Join In .... .Unless the map you're joining is full, you will be immediately teleported to their map, while still retaining your location in your original map.

• Gather everything!

Gather every single harvesting node you can see, other than those using sickles and gold/silver ores. Those are worth a lot and might be your primary source of income in the lower levels. Remember, the nodes spawn in the exact same location everyday and they aren't account bound, so you can exhaust an area of all its nodes and then swoop in with a different character and do the same.

• Combat and Build 

Although in open world PvE no one will care about what build you use, if you want to do fractals or other high-level group contents you will need at least a build you can enjoy but still effective. You can look around if qtfy.eu/builds for any build that you fancy. You don't need to follow the build to the T, though, and should make some modifications here and there if you can't play effectively using one of the builds.

And that's a wrap! Thanks for reading, and I hope you some sweet, sweet loots!