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So, my main mesmer is level 60 at the time of writing. I also have a level 26 thief on the side.

I want to unlock the specializations, but I also want to do the story in order so I don't spoil anything for myself.

When I looked it up it seems the order is like this:

* Personal story

* Living World Season 1 Summary

* Living World Season 2

* Heart of Thorns story

* Living World Season 3

* Path of Fire story

* Living World Season 4

* The Icebrood Saga

I understand that I would need to purchase living world separately and I'm fine with that.

I am very interested in thief's daredevil spec and mesmser's mirage spec. From what I read, daredevil comes from HoT and Mirage comes from PoF.

If I want to follow the story, would it be more appropriate for me to play thief first all the way till I finish HoT and then come back to my mesmer when I get to PoF?

or should I just focus on one character (the mesmer) all the way through season 2, HoT, season 3 and PoF before switching back to my thief?

Lastly, I've been pretty much playing solo up till now - would I need a party to do all these? or can it all be done solo?

> @"Kaltyn of Torbins Deep.2946" said:

> If you still have access to that hotmail account, you can change the e-mail address associated with that original GW2 account. Then you can still have access to it. If you don't have access to that hotmail account, you still might try contacting customer service and try to regain access to the original account. There are some unique things in the birthday gifts that you would have racked up over the years, assuming you didn't delete your accounts 8 years ago. You can also use that account to make supplemental gold for your main account. I had an account gifted to me and I started using it htat way - just farming extra materials from the guild hall, extra potatoes (we were upgrading the guild hall at the time), flax, mithril, elder wood, etc. And then I created a couple of extra characters over there to try out a couple of professions, etc. I did increase my gold using that second account. I have since upgraded it with both HoT and PoF and run all of the story on at least on toon on both accounts. I spend gold from both accounts to obtain home instance nodes for the main account, but, I take both accounts through there every day, basically doubling my money from home instance harvesting. And without having to spend gems, I have an extra 5 toons that I can play different builds on. So, I've ended up with a power Herald on one account and a power-alacrity Renegade on the other, power reaper on one and a condi scourge on the other.

Hey, that never occurred to me. Yes, I still have access to my hotmail account and I can still login, I guess. I might just try your idea and see what birthday gifts are there, at least.

But how would I go about sending them to my new account? by mail? or do I trade the items to a friend face to face somehow and have him give it to my other account?

It feels a little strange playing **Guild** Wars 2 without a guild.

My main character is level 32 so far.

When is a good time to start searching for a guild? Will I need one for later content?

Thanks a lot for the replies! I'm mainly trying to help them out get into the game so that they don't pick a class they end up hating.

> @"Khisanth.2948" said:

> Are you trying to explain the lore or combat mechanics?

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> In the case of combat mechanics, which game mode? PvE and PvP/WvW utilize things differently.

I guess PvE at first and maybe later other game modes when we get more confident later on (after level 80?). Basically, we're all new and just here to have fun, while still wanting end-game stuff (PvP, WvW) once we've mastered the basics

> @"Mungo Zen.9364" said:

> Warrior - Weapons Master, prefers melee with heavy armor

> Thief - Subtlety and Stealth, deadly 1v1

> Elementalist - Powerful offensive and defensive spells combined with low health

> Guardian - Plate support class that can do a bit of everything pretty well

> Ranger - Pet class focused on nature, can switch from melee to kiting and back in combat

> Mesmer - Caster Class that uses Illusions to confuse enemies, uses time warping effects

> Revenant - An alternate look at plate/melee to Guardian and Warrior (requires HoT)

> Engineer - Uses 'Kits' to provide unique weapons like bombs, turrets, flamethrower

> Necromancer - Melee caster class that can 'change form' to become more powerful, summons minions

Yes thanks that's very helpful! I can copy-paste things like this to them to help them out.

> @"Wolfb.7025" said:

> GW2 is known for breaking class stereotypes on mmorpgs. Gameplay wise all classes do different things, you'd be surprised knowing that Warrior isn't as tanky as you think, a Mesmer spec (chrono) is considered the best tank option in raid bosses. A "caster class-like" elementalist can actually go all melee to pack a punch (weaver).

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> If you want a more serious approach at this game you need to learn the basics first, level up one character until you reach 80 and then you'll have the chance to see endgame content starting with easy things like Strikes or Fractals T1, and then hardcore content like Fractals T3/T4, Raids, and pvp like sPvP and WvW. Then you will start to understand what's the meta compositions and which classes can do what.

Yepyep, but we also want to have fun on our way to level 80 and not feel like a total grind.

I do really like the idea of that melee elementalist. I might just make a new character based on that!

Hey there. I am a newish player who's been playing Guild wars 2 seriously for about 1 and a half weeks so far. I say seriously, because I first bought the game when it was released in 2012 and played it for about 2 months before life got in the way and I never came back to it (until now). I created a new account this time; because the old account was useless without access to expansions, and because I didn't want to depend on my old Hotmail account that I don't use anymore. So, I committed and bought the game on my new account.

I've played all kinds of games in the past. What attracted me to Guild Wars 2 was how I can play something like a fantasy action RPG that is fluid and quick, but doesn't end up being like traditional action RPGs like path of exile, where you would only use 1 skill over and over to kill loads of monsters in just 1 hit over and over.

I love information and I read a bit too much about everything I can. I also prefer to play more complex classes, as I get bored if things feel too easy.

So, I'm currently focusing on 2 characters: A level 23 thief class focused on sword/dagger aiming to become daredevil, and a level 29 Mesmer who is playing with sword/sword and undecided weather to go Chronomancer or mirage later (I want to go power build but I also feel like Mirage might be more fun...).

So far I've convinced 1 friend to play the game (he's maining a level 26 thief with 2 pistols going into deadeye later) and another to start downloading the game last night.

I want to convert more people over to guild wars 2, but I'm having trouble explaining to them what classes they should try, being how different the classes here are.

We did play a lot of Dota 2 in the past, so I managed to explain that Mesmer is similar to phantom lancer there and Elementalist is like invoker, maybe.

So for my question: If I were to give a very brief overview of each class to someone opening the game for the first time, what would I say for each class?

EDIT: So would this be right?

Mesmer: Class that fights with illusions

Guardian: The Paladin class like in other games

Necromancer: Traditional necromancer like in other games

Ranger: Archer that plays with pets

Elementalist: Complex spellcaster that plays with 4 sets of skills all the time

Warrior: Basic class that can tank and throw banners?

Thief: Typical Rogue class like other games?

Engineer: Super complex class to stay away from as a new player.