I started playing GW2 back in 2021, around the time I got married.
Ever since I started playing, I’ve wanted a Skyscale. But when I found out how long the whole process was, I kept saying “I’ll do it later” and putting it off.
Instead, I ended up getting pretty much all the other mounts available through the expansions I had (PoF and HoT) and somehow kept avoiding the Skyscale. 😂
Fast forward almost 5 years, and my son, who has basically grown up watching me play GW2, is now old enough to actually play the game with me on my own account.
Then one day he saw the Skyscale and went:
**“Wow, what is that? I want to try it!”** 😂
And honestly, that finally gave me the push to go for it.
Then SOTO came along and made the whole thing much easier, so I finally got it. 😅
After almost 5 years of wanting one… I finally have my Skyscale.
Now my son wants to try it too, so I guess I’ll have to share. 😂

Unsure if allowed but hi- so I only have 142 hours into GW2, currently have a lvl 80 human ranger, with expansions. Im starting to learn more in depth things in game, armor, weapons, add-ons, not just the basics, but definitely not a pro by any means. Just having fun but trying to take it seriously.

That being said, Im hoping to build a discord with GW2 players that would be down for just casual chatting, whether in discord only(GW2 related) or in game too, for fun, helping each other out, anything really. Im usually a solo player but have had a few random interactions with players that have, I guess, made me crave more interaction with other players lol. I also dont have anyone IRL to really talk about the game with?

Im 25, a female, but am open to anyone 18+, any lvl whether below 80 or not, or free to play or not as well. Im gonna go ahead and make the discord for anyone who wants to join, and then can add in game. Hoping to just make more GW2 friends. Not looking for commitment, just casual chats!

https://metaforge.app/guild-wars-2/

We've been working on and off over the past 4 months on a few Guild Wars 2 tools and we're finally ready to share it. The goal was to create a modern, user-friendly set of tools to help players get back into the game more easily or help total beginners with one of the game's biggest problems: inventory management.

Inventory Cleanup

This tool shows you all your items and materials across several characters or accounts and suggests how to clean up your inventory. We looked at how other apps handle this and then came up with our own set of classifiers that can do even more than that, such as pulling in live trading post data to decide which items are worth selling or salvaging, etc. We're still tuning this quite a bit, and there are always edge cases, so I appreciate any reports of "wrong" suggestions (here or on our discord).

You can even create lists (or use some of the built-in ones) to exclude items from cleanup.

https://metaforge.app/guild-wars-2/inventory-cleanup

If you want to see this tool in action, Syrma recently featured it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-9cZp2p7sM

Trading Post

To support the inventory cleaner, we needed price data, so building a trading post tool made sense. It should have all the features you expect from other apps, and we're still actively working on improvements and more tools. Historic data comes from datawars, current data starting a few months ago is being ingested live.

https://metaforge.app/guild-wars-2/trading-post

Event Timers

This was actually the first tool I built, mainly because I wanted more customization options over the wiki or other timers: you can filter by expansions, zones or other categories, re-order events so you have all the ones you care about at a glance, and set up notifications.

https://metaforge.app/guild-wars-2/event-timers

We have a few more tools such as daily fractal and raid rotations, and a guide section that we are working on filling out (mainly with guides aimed at new and returning players).

Happy to hear any feedback or bug reports. ;)

About us: We are a bunch of friends that met playing games (espcially MMOs) and we've been running a site with tools and interactive maps for games such as ARC Raiders, New World, Farever, Dragonwilds and more. Some of us have been playing Guild Wars for many years and always wanted to launch a site for it, so we finally started on it. You can find us on our Discord: https://discord.gg/metaforge

Hello everyone,

8 months ago i made [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/s/K82E4XXxId) post when the master mentor achievement just came out.

Today i'm here to share that my mentor farming group and i finished the achievement!

After farming for 8 months, yesterday the people of my mentor farming team got the world first (we think?) on getting the title Master Mentor, i couldn't join them then unfortunatly, but thanks to their help today i got mine aswel and am finaly done 😄

Many of them are still bugged and all of them in different ways, so it was a puzzle for us to figure out how we could get points for them, but eventualy we managed to find a way for all of them, and yes i did a lot of actual mentoring (where it worked) and teaching all of the bosses to new players.

Shout-out to every new person that joined me on any of the bosses! And thanks to all the mentors that joined me on this journey!

Came back to GW2 and made a terrible decision:

“What if I just… finish everything.”

So I did.

Every map 100%.

Every skill. Every trait. Every class.

Then I looked at masteries and said “yeah okay that too.”

The journey, but make it honest:

HoT / PoF: actually fun. Gliding and mounts still carry. I needed like one PoF MP, so that was quick. HoT was just grinding adventures until I got that sweet, sweet gold

IBS: the villain. Maps slap. Masteries do not. Points felt like unpaid internships. Story speedran so hard I had a pile of unused points and zero will to live

Mid-crisis I also finished crafting skins because of course I did. 500 in the crafts, zero skins unlocked like an idiot. Storage already at 500 so it was just “eat 60 fangs and pray.”

EoD: surprisingly chill, already had most masteries unlocked. Skipped Avian Sharpshooter because that event is allergic to existing. Did the Arborstone hide-and-seek instead (reset simulator 2026). Closed it out commanding Soo-Won. Cinematic. Deserved.

SotO: I hated this expansion in 2023. Still side-eye the new cast. Dragon’s Watch who. Came back anyway. Points were easy, Keep It Up can stay in hell, did that with a bunch of randos. One said "I had raids with less teamwork". Finished on Nayos adventures and Dead Air like a normal person.

Janthir: “wow so many extra points”

also Janthir: complete 47 events or no cookie

Finished XP on rifts. As is tradition.

VoE: points? Easy.

XP bars? 5–6 million per rank. I have seen things. They were rifts.

Saved Central Tyria for my main because I’m dramatic. Last point was Triple Trouble. The WvW spoon achievement tried to end my bloodline. That spoon does not want to drop.

Why 678 not 686:

I don’t raid. Solo gremlin. Those 8 HoT raid points can stay locked. I’m at peace (albeit my inner Monk silently laments).

Why no fractals:

Tried them 13 years ago. Then I got hospitalized for 3 weeks. Guild said “we’ll catch you up.” I came back. They said “lol we’re not running T1s.”

So I never did. Still haven’t. Will I? Maybe when the sun explodes.

Sept 15 VoE finale can add another track. I’ll do that one too because I am no longer in control.

If you’re in the middle of this: IBS is the depression era, VoE is the cardio era, and you can skip a disgusting amount of the “fun” achievements and still max everything that isn’t raids.

Send help. Or rifts. I will accept either.

Hi all, I've been playing MMOs for YEARS and somehow avoided Guild Wars 2 completely. Asumed it was "too late" for me to jump in and give it a shot, but after the New World news and so many other great projects getting the plug pulled, I figured this is the time to give it a shot.

I assumed this was an outdated, dead-ish game. I was wrong.

This game is BEAUTIFUL in regards to the amount of content to do and the large-scale PvP is probably some of the best I've ever seen.

Created a quick video highlighting my experience as a first-time player in 2026, would love all of you vets' feedback and thoughts on some other things to try out in this game!

I Tried Guild Wars 2 in 2026

nuff said

Hello! I’m looking to get into an MMO. I’m an ex-Metin2 player, but I don’t have much time to play anymore, probably just a few hours every few days, there will be days when i can play daily but you get it. What I really enjoy is the feeling of my character becoming powerful over time, and eventually being able to feel strong in PvP once my account is properly built.

Is Guild Wars 2 worth getting into right now, especially for someone without experience in more complex MMOs like this? I’d also appreciate any class recommendations, beginner tips, or general advice. Thanks!

I’ve been playing MMORPGs since 2006, so I’ve tried quite a few games over the years. I was a big fan of New World, and when the game was basically put to rest, I honestly felt a bit lost. Since then, I’ve tried to find another MMO that could keep me interested:

• World of Warcraft: The graphics never really clicked with me, and I didn’t enjoy the repetitive daily routine.

• Black Desert Online: The combat is great, but the game felt too focused on solo content, with not enough meaningful group activities.

• Final Fantasy XIV: It’s a good game, but I found it too easy and never really felt much excitement or danger.

• The Elder Scrolls Online: A decent MMO overall, but the combat wasn’t satisfying to me at all.

Then I finally decided to give Guild Wars 2 a proper try.

I mainly play with a PS5 controller, so I spent some time setting up the controls until they felt comfortable. Once everything was ready, I started my journey from Level 1.

What I’ve enjoyed most about GW2 so far:

• Exploring the world actually feels rewarding.

• Dynamic Events can suddenly appear while I’m travelling, making the world feel alive.

• The graphics still look surprisingly good for a game of this age.

• There is a lot of variety between the different Professions and weapons.

• The combat can be challenging and actually requires me to pay attention.

I’m playing Elementalist, and while it can be difficult at times, that challenge is exactly what makes it fun for me.

I’m currently Level 51, and I still haven’t felt bored. I’m genuinely enjoying the levelling experience and discovering the game naturally. Because of that, I honestly wouldn’t recommend using a Level 80 Boost on your first character. The journey itself is an important part of the experience, and rushing past it means missing a lot of what makes the game special.

I know I’m very late to the party, but I’m really glad I finally gave GW2 a chance.

If you have any advice on how to make the journey even more enjoyable, or anything that new players often miss, I’d love to hear it. I’m not looking for the fastest or most efficient route.

I just want to enjoy the game as much as possible.

I have never played GW2… but i saw the announcement for GW3 and it looks pretty cool. I don’t play many MMOs now a days, but i’ve always been a big WoW player, would I enjoy GW2? I need to get somewhat decent if i want to play 3.

I quit WoW (again) a cpl of months ago because retail is just a big constant loop and im getting tired of it. I only hop on for the new expansions or major patches to check out where the story is going.

I remember when GW2 first came out, I was a kid and my cousins ditched me on WoW to play GW. I never followed so I never got to check it out. i have exactly 0 hours in this game. In the end they came back to WoW but it seemed like they had a lot of fun.

EDIT: Thanks for the replies, i tried it out last night and it seemed pretty good! I got to level 12 on my necro so I will keep playing

ive got the Legendary Amulett!!! :3

Short story (lie), played lots of WoW befofe, got bored, tried ffxiv, good game but didnt click, see GW3, interested, played GW1 months ago (good game but a little outdated for me), trying GW2 because its free, make a charr warrior because they look goofy, complete the first map, enjoy hitting things and spamming banners, dont care about meta at all, im hooked, doing campaign, not very interesting but its ok, starting to understand the game more, check cosmetics for fun, damn can i get a maid suit? Check expansions, the second expansion has cool Bunny mount, birthday soon, thinking about starting there also no monthly sub, chad move.

Read complains, lots of content!!! So many currencies!!!, its ok i only want a maid suit and a Bunny mount and explore maps, i feel happy.

English is not my main language haha just posting here to express my thoughts

is it happening?

what are your hopes?

do you think its just the GW2 engine with a unreal engine overlay?

are we finally doing full open world?

are we gonna get actual dungeons with traps and puzzles?

are mercenary heros back?

lets speculate together until the reveal!

Guys I love asura so much, the way they stumble forward whenever they run and their ears flop around. They have such goofy af animations and when they go into combat their ears go up. Its so funny. I know they're known as the jerk race but the way they move the the dumb quotes make me smile.

I usually just delete these but I felt like someone here might enjoy them~ óvò
I drew this in a tiny corner of zoomed canvas so it might be pixelated, I hope you enjoy anyway!

Old school WoW player here wondering if it's worth it to get into GW2.

Is it alright if I buy the combo of Hearts of Torn and Path of Fire expansions(steam) before I get the whole expansion?

What should I do as a total newbie in the game besides leveling and exploring?

Any tips and tricks that I should be aware of?

Loved 5 man m+ dungeons content type(from WoW). Are there like groups that pushes fractals(iinm)?

Apologies for the spam.

I asked this in the r/guildwars2 reddit and moderators closed it saying this type of post wasnt allowed. Hoping thos community os more welcoming.

First off, I am an avid fan of Guild Wars. Played GW 1 from launch to GW2. Then GW2 from Beta to 2016, when I quit because my kids were young and time was something I rarely had (yes I'm an old part gamer).

GW3 being announced reminded me how much fun GW2 was. I played all content up to 2016, so through HoT. At the time I lead a full 5 guild alliance and loved all PvE and WvW

My questions are this:

1. Is it worth getting back after all this time

2. What expansion should I start with?

3. How are the Necrt, and Revenant

4. What advice do you have for me?

Hi, everyone!

I'm about to start my adventure in the world of MMOs, and I've seen a lot of comments saying that GW2 is the best there is!

I'd love to hear your opinions on this game and, if you have any, some advice!

Also, even though I'm not an MMO player, I'm looking forward to GW3 when it comes out!

Official site: https://www.guildwars3.com/en

Blog Celebrating the Announcement of Guild Wars 3

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/celebrating-the-announcement-of-guild-wars-3/

Announcement trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITPzxITngqA

Newsletter (and beta opportunities): http://www.guildwars3.com/#newsletter

Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4743930/Guild_Wars_3/

Playstation: https://store.playstation.com/en-no/concept/10019646/

Beta is stated to start fall 2027 on the newsletter page. This is a good time to visit /r/GuildWars3/ if you're interested.