Guild Wars 2 PvP Strategy

World vs world is somewhat standard open world pvp in that you have your 2 armies facing off each other pushing forward or retreating backward. What really adds flavor are the siege weaponry that is devestating and can make a siege last hours, therefore it’s very important that siege weaponry is employed by both the defenders and the attackers lest one side find themselves disadvantaged. Blue prints for the various siege weapons can be found on an NPC in the starting area that sells them. To build a siege weapon you need a blue print to place the weapon on the ground and start building, then it requires resources to complete. Some items take 30-40 resources and some as much as a 100, a player can only carry 10 resources at a time but they can always carry 10 resources on them unhindered.  This may require multiple players to plan ahead of time to bring resources or sending players out for resource runs after the fact which gives the enemy time to destroy your foundation before the siege weapon is built.

Lastly world vs. world provides excellent XP and money for completing the events and taking out other players, they will drop loot bags with tokens for epic gear and more than likely weapons and armors to upgrade yourself with that are relevant to your PvE level at the time. Also you can accumulate points to puchase gear from the Karma vendor.

You can jump into world vs. world at level 1 after completing some tutorial quests, however it would make more sense to unlock weapon skills(btw, attacking the doors of a castle seems like a good way to raise weapon skills you don’t normaly equip) and get a few skill points first to make yourself more viable.

For now some good advice is to always pick up and carry 10 resources so you can help build a siege weapon or help fortify a location.

Guild Wars 2 crafting is very dependant upon drops to gather crucial components for the crafting process. This can be salvagable items that produce the raw crafting materials, or the various item’s that are used to make the stat component that will determine whether the item is power or precision, etc.

You start with a basic set of recipes, thankfully for leatherworkers and tailors the 8 slot bags are available to make right away. The tailoring 8 slot bags seem to be a lot cheaper, the leatherworking 8 slot bag can be tweaked to automatically put picked up trash items there first with a recipe upgrade. Speaking of recipe upgrades you can create new recipies by creating a stat component and combining it with the 2 pieces of a armor or weapon and it will create a new item and recipe, sometime it will proc and give you a masterwork item above your crafting level and save the recipe.

#1 Save everything and breakdown weapons and armor you don’t plan to sell with salvage kits

#2 Upgrade your bag space and slots(done via gem shop). Make a lot of gold by crafting and selling bags.

The new Guild Wars pre-orders are very remeniscent of SWTOR’s with a standard, digital deluxe, and collector’s edition not to mention pricing. SWTOR also opened up pre-orders in April and Launched in December 2011. Suffice it to say with all these similarities and particularly how the mmo industry follows pre-established trends of not releasing AAA mmo titles in the summer, One would think the target date for Guild Wars 2 would possibly be Oct-Nov 2012. Leaving Tera to go head to head with the Mists of Pandaria expansion this summer.

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Official reveal on Wednesday