Hi GAF, long time lurker, first time poster. Go easy
So I just picked this up over the weekend as a part of the half price sale. Have 20-25 hours and around a level 26 thief. LOVING it. Hooks are in bad. Having just come over from Marvel Heroes (awesome game by the way if anyone is at all curious) which is MMO-ey and not having had alot of other experience with the genre (gamed my whole life, just never got into an MMO), I've got a bunch of questions that I'm hoping you good folks could help with.
- Absolutely love exploring the world. Everything looks great and really varied. Oh, and its fudg'n HUGE! My question though is other than the joy of seeing some great vistas and hunting down all the shiny map indicators (viewpoints, skill points and such) is their any point to exploring all the nooks and crannies? I mean, so far loot chests (outside of mission reward ones) don't seem to be a thing, or at least that I've found. I guess to paraphrase, are there things to seek out on the map that's worthwhile and not indicated?
- Probably the other main thing I'm curious about is class advancement as you level. So far I don't seem to have much choice in what I allocate as my main skills. They seem to be determined by what 2 weapons I'm wielding at the time (which I kinda like btw). Is there a way I can unlock more skills per 'weapon setup' or make the preset ones more powerful? I'm hoarding skill points for the time being in the hope that I can throw some into those skills. Which leads to the second part of this (lengthy) question.
Skill points seem to be primarily for utility skills at the moment. The thing is i've got probably 30 or so unused skill points that I can't see a need for right now. I unlocked a few utility skills and have a setup that I like, and have perused the remainder and there's nothing super appealing that screams gotta have now. Obviously there's still higher tiers I have to get to, and I'm sure I'll spend points there, but given you can only equip 3 skills at a time, is there a need to unlock all these skills that, alot of, I'll never use? As much as I like trying new powers in these games alot of the time it comes down to finding something fun and effective that you (i?) tend to stick with.
So more paraphrasing, outside of some higher tiered utility skills, how does the game go about making me feel more powerful as I level?
(oh and aware that you can checkout level 80 versions in WvW - but i'm more interested in the process of getting there, as opposed to being there. I'm a journey kinda guy.....)
- Living story was part of what got me to check this game out and sounds really interesting. Is it best to get my thief to 80 ASAP so I get into some of that stuff? With that said I love leveling in these games, and a couple of the other classes are screaming at me to check them out (Ele and Ranger namely) I want to see the world evolve though, and feel like I'm missing out while I'm leveling. Also, apparently at this stage there seems to be no way to replay the events of season 1?
- Can I score an invite to the Guild? Is it a problem that I live in the mystical land of Australia and we use a whole different time arrangement then most of you? I think I've worked out that 6pm here (prime-time gaming time) works out to be around 1 or 2 in the morning over there. Is there anyone from the guild from about these parts? When I signed up the choice of servers was either USA or Europe basically, so I don't think I even had a local option
There's probably a bunch more (crafting? NO idea.....), but given succinctness isn't proving to be a strong point so far, I'll spare you all (for now). I also wanna work out some stuff for myself.
Anyways, good to have popped my MMO and GAF posting cherries in 1 go. Feeling proper slutty