GuildWarsStoryteller: Bro is pumping out GW2 content! Love to see it!

SirSpeed14: While it's preaching to the choir at this point, the Complete Elder Dragon Saga is worth mentioning. You can pick it up on sale for $50 and it includes the first three expansions and all living world seasons. I believe the Standard Elder Dragon Saga also goes on sale for $25 if you're pinched for cash and want the best bang for your buck.

WolfysEyes: I just have to say that your videos have been a great motivator. I played GW2 just as it launched and got exhausted of it by the time I got to Orr. I've tried coming back a few times over the years but heeding your advice in your recent(ish) videos has helped to improve my enjoyment of the game and plan ahead, especially with this one here.

I'm right now trying to tie down what my map-wandering main will be, so I'm a long, long

deishabari: more gw content.. yey!

R2N81: All of them, don't miss any of them.

Nuh: I do so wish ANET just bundled everything into 1 single, easy to activate expansion under $60 and call it a day. One day...

GurthySappling: I think I'll do POF first to not speed through on dragon. Slow and steady is how my lady loves it. Thanks for the video!

Opus_Fluke: Just a quick note: GET THE BUNDLE IN SALES. UK pricing was £7.50 last sale (less than $10). If you can wait to get Heart of Thorns/Path of Fire then do it.

smokepotion6981: I only recently got into GW2, but the expansion i jumped into first was POF. The story hooked me, the quests are fun, and I really love the crystal desert, as opposed to HOT, which has MUCh better open world events, the zones just didn't click that hard with me. Sure, I'll have to go back to HOT to work out who this cute asuran in my ear is. But honestly, the story kinda stands alone. Edited note: I've popped into HOT, POF, and EOD, and all the zones tend to be populated with players. Unlike other MMO's, where old expansions tend to be empty.

basvriese1934: Personally I'd say that HoT PoF blows SotO totally out of the water as a best first pick. Sure you get some sweet late game QoL upgrades in SotO, but that's really about it. HoT and PoF still have some of the best content in the game, two elite specs for every class really open up the game (who the hell plays instanced content on the base classes?) But most importantly their zones and content in general is just sooo much more fun that SotO imo. If you start with SotO I doubt anyone is going to think, yes this is the game I want to stick with, because I can get legendary armor here. If you get HoT and PoF you will be hooked and then you might start to even consider going after legendary armor, not the other way around. Also getting the skyscale first moreso makes the older expansions a worse experience rather than a better one imo.

whiskeycreammedia: Great channel! Glad I found you.

16Vagabond: I got it in order coz I'm a lore nerd

adamii323: I've watched you for a minute now, glad you still do GW2 stuff; Having said that, this is the earliest I have ever disagreed with you, and have to actually check out. SOTO is actually the easiest expac to skip, and may even be the reason GW2 shutters earlier than it should. Not just because the it ushers in the failed expac a year update method, but simply because it isn't good! ANET has everything but said this themselves....lol, but these rushed expacs show the problem with crunch at an epic level. GW2 is not an action rpg, it's a story based mmo with (supposedly) sustainable playability;/replayability driven by 'content'. The new expac a year system, especially SOTO, miss the forest for the trees: First make a good game, then the players will come to play.....then add even more elements and possibilities to improve the game, and then the players will stay, but players staying, can never be the priority, because players will see that's what's happening (think the gyala delve tunnel meme). GW2 is not alone in this, it's just the latest symptom for mmo's and drm games. SOTO looks like 'we have to do something' instead of let's do something we like, and hope they will like. I'll pass. GW3 is a NCSoft idea not Anet! If you are out of ideas, then improve what you have already! It's not hard to figure out, just ask the devs at Cyberpunk 77 and SW Battlefront 2. Stop rushing, tune out the idiot corpos....and make good/fun content! Not looking for a forever game, just a good one!

soulgamingyt8456: great vid but thanks for telling the spoiler when mention theres a spoiler with no spoiler warning lol

omi_khan4901: When i started the game I used to watch your videos 24/7. Now i'm doing super endgame content and having a lot of fun ingame everyday. Glad you're back to making gw2 videos :D

Kantharr: Something worth mentioning about Janthir Wilds is the legendary backpack that you can get in Open World and it brought back raids for those hardcore gamers.

cyriell: If we go seperate PoF (mounts) HoT (meta events) eod (more events and jade bot) then either soto or LW4 (skyscale) then JW (homestead) then pick up leftovers pick LW2/3 if you care about AP then rest, but with collections, just get elder dragon saga and then soto for ease of skyscale (easier to get skyscale) or janthir wilds for homesteading if you enjoy decorating and or maxing out your house for daily harvest (you can join others aswell but doing it at your own time is great QoL)

DocOverlord: This is a good list for people who don't care about the story - although they should! It's worth going through all the earlier stuff just to get to story of Living World Season 4 lol

Also EoD should have the jadebot mentioned. I'm not a huge fan of the jadebot but some of the functionality/QoL improvements it provides are nice.

aaleaa: The ability to fly ruins such a massive component of the game: exploration.

If you like metroidvania games, smart exploration and traversal....leave the fly thing for last. Explore this amazing world how it was designed. Level design is probably the peak of Guild Wars 2, it's the thing that make this game a great game.

DorkestKnight: So I'm pretty new to the game. About 30ish hours and I'm still learning a lot but I'm getting to a point where its slowing down for me. I haven't beaten the base game - could I just hop into an expansion and work on mounts then go back and do old story content?

SocratesJuJitsu: Personally, I would get Sotor first too for SKyscale. A newcomer should't be thrust straight into Heart of Thornes. Plus it had the best story out of all the expansions IMO. Then EoD for Jade bot and Elite spec, then Path of Fire and Heart of Thorns then Janthir Wilds.

EnzoVinZ: HoTs is a must as the first expansion. Then just about anything else.

dave_by_day7632: You're back!

jmangan17: so, question for long time players. does buying the expansions give you more character slots? i've started playing GW2 a couple of times, get a handful of levels and kind of wander away. it's not really the games fault, the learning curve isn't bad, i just know if i put any real effort into it my altoholic gene will kick in, and two characters aren't going to cut it if i like the game.

dragonriderabens9761: HoT absolutely KILLED my interest in playing GW2 for the LONGEST time.

and TBH, it has permanently damaged my ability to enjoy this game.

and I have NO interest in skipping because I'm actually paying attention to the story here

still haven't gone back and finished PoF yet because of the damage HoT did to my interest in the game

that is actually one of the issues with sideways progression in an MMO.

if content releases OP and never gets nerfed, new people come in and get brutalized by it as well

beanienation6176: Tbh I get the idea but my opinion on this is let them chose don’t tell them instead of making a vid telling get this one first why not make a video on all the dlc and do pros and cons with it but I would say PoF is a big one to get coz of mounts makes traveling map and that easier

Jun 22 2025

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