Fishflash.co.ukGuild Wars 2 new player guide Guild Wars 2 also available at the Steam store page, but note you will only be able to buy expansions through steam and not the arenanet site if you play through steam. A 10 year old quality mmo. You can play for free but expansion content is not available. You can upgrade your account to a paid one by purchasing as expansion. Differences between free and paid accounts:Free accounts have some chat and trading limitations, 3 bag slots per character, 2 characters. Most of the level 80 content and progression is unavailable. Paid accounts (an account that has purchased at least one expansion) have most chat and trading options after a few days, and all of the content for the purchased expansions. Also have 5 bag slots per character and 5 character slots. A comprehensive list can be found on the Official wiki. Is it worth playing on a free account?You should consider the free version as a very long trial version, I played to level 80 on the free version before buying an expansion. Recently they have allowed you to get a raptor mount at level 10 although this is limited to 10 hours (hopefully they will remove this limit in future). The wiki seems to indicate this 10 hour trial is per character, so you could just delete your 2nd character and get another at level 10. This timelimit only applies to the free mount, most other content that you can access on a free account is unlimited. There is a lot of content for free all core Tyria is available and many stories and lore are hidden around. Many hours of content. Are the expansions worth buying?This depends if you are enjoying the game. As to whether they are 'good value' I think the answer is yes, you get a lot of content per expansion and there is no subscription fee. Path of fire (which is bundled with heart of thorns) gives mounts, access to masteries and elite specs (progression at max level) new maps and story. This can regularly be found discounted on twitch prime and the official site. The latest expansion (at time of writing) End of dragons can be purchased on its own but I would advise not getting it without the other expansions. Recommendations for new players:If you are confused about anything, you can type /wiki in the chat window optionally followed by what you want to know about. For example: /wiki laurels This will open the Guild Wars 2 wiki in your browser. An especially useful wiki page is /wiki et which shows most of the events happening in your timezone. If you want to level up faster there are several ways to boost xp gain, such as buying the Experience booster 1 laurel each (50% extra xp for 30minutes) from the laurel vendor. You get laurels from daily login rewards, 1 on day 2, 10 on day 7. You can miss days the rewards do not reset, login rewards are not available to free accounts. At level 13 you enable daily quests, do 3 of these for 2 gold and 3 spirit shards (useful later) per day. You can buy a 15 slot bag for around 1 gold on tp. Level 80 buy ascended amulet and magical enrichment (same page as amulets) from laurel merchant. |