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An Overview of Guild Wars 2

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Guild Wars 2 is a MASSIVE game. One of the biggest struggles that new players deal with is figuring out what exactly there is to do in this game? While this guide is not going to help you specifically get started with any specific piece of content or guide you through that content, it should hopefully serve to help you understand what kind of content there is in the game and direct you in the right path to get started with that content if that multi-aforementioned content is something that is interesting to you!

Written version of this guide: https://steamproxy.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3309819883

Table of Contents |
0:00 Introduction
0:28 What is Guild Wars 2?
1:19 Character Creation
4:13 Story
5:44 Combat, Skills, and Builds
7:00 Open World Gameplay
8:20 Festivals
9:36 Gathering and Crafting
11:19 Leveling and Masteries
12:48 Instanced Content: Dungeons
14:00 Instanced Content: Fractals
14:52 Instanced Content: Raids
15:26 Instanced Content: Strikes
16:56 Player versus Player
21:58 World versus World
23:41 Rewards
25:11 Achievement and how to figure out what to do
27:03 AddOns
28:56 Various Resources
30:41 Conclusion

A Long List of Links |
Profession Picking Guide // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4D2dqG0eoE

Full List of Story // https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Story_Journal

MetaBattle Builds // https://metabattle.com/wiki/MetaBattle_Wiki
Snow Crows Builds // https://snowcrows.com/
Overview of Combat // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX-hWLL5rRE

Overview of the Open World // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZnPIp05Qdw

Festival Guides // 
Lunar New Year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eqg9No5Yo04
Super Adventure Box: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SqenoV1vg8
Dragon Bash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RECavSpY0ic
Festival of the Four Winds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrtN305oPls
Shadow of the Mad King: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrIdEtuNDUw
Wintersday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHXSF_OErf0

Crafting Guide // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_r0xUA6tUw

Overview of Mounts // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87w6hzyYehA
Overview of Fishing // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKn462N_5uk
Tips and Tricks for Movements // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXCZsxOsw3o
Complete Guide to the Roller Beetle // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rdihC7wgts

Full List of Dungeons // https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Dungeon

Fractal Guide // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAdgTpLf7mc
Full List of Fractals // https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Fractals_of_the_Mists

Raid Video Guides // https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYXBmGBTfXeSAtTZXzdrY33Z0lJ9sVFHW
Snow Crow's Written Raid Guides // https://snowcrows.com/guides/raids
Full List of Raids // https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Raid
Get started in raids (and strikes) guide // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKjbkqRKJq8

Mukluk's Full Guides Playlist // https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYXBmGBTfXeQdgL7sr686ZTcU8rG2Meq1
Snow Crows Written Strikes Guides // https://snowcrows.com/guides/strikes

Player versus Player Guide // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYLJLxK425M

World versus World Guide // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PyjPRzFwwY

ArenaNet's Third Party Programs Policy // https://help.guildwars2.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013625034-Policy-Third-Party-Programs
arcdps AddOn Website // https://www.deltaconnected.com/arcdps/
BlishHUD AddOn Website // https://blishhud.com/

Additional Links for Various Resources |
Recommended YouTubers //
Mukluk: https://www.youtube.com/@MuklukYoutube
Laranity: https://www.youtube.com/@Laranity
AyinMaiden: https://www.youtube.com/@AyinMaiden
Athis (Me): https://www.youtube.com/@Athis

Guild Wars 2 Resources //
Website: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@guildwars2
Twitter: https://x.com/GuildWars2
Forums: https://en-forum.guildwars2.com/
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/Guildwars2/
Wiki: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Main_Page
Event Timers: https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Event_timers

Other Resources //
Fast Gold Farming: https://fast.farming-community.eu/
Crafting Guides: https://gw2crafts.net/
Black Lion Trading Post Resources: https://www.gw2bltc.com/
Account Information: https://gw2efficiency.com/
Build Optimizer: https://optimizer.discretize.eu/?m=fractals
My Guild Wars 2 Video Guides: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6K-fuoy8tdKOcS7UYyHKeN1QPhUMP4N-
My Guild Wars 2 Vista Guides: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6K-fuoy8tdKG9EySQQTjLHrKjbuNRD1I
My Guild Wars 2 Written Guides: https://steamproxy.com/profiles/76561198118872778/myworkshopfiles/?section=guides&appid=1284210
My Top 10 of Guild Wars 2 Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6K-fuoy8tdIR8Ffj0LT2bhPHOxS56AHY
My Guild Wars 2 Let's Play Series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6K-fuoy8tdIB29PDJfRaUafgeZ3eJq0c

Socials |
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