Just boosted to 80 as a new player

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Leveled a Warrior to 40 and boosted, vet player will try to scare you into not using the boost, but you will be doing the same ♥♥♥♥ anyway, the story and clearing maps. Look up an open world build and go for it.

[Tuathaqin]

It's not scaring, it's warning. If you are that casual or are fine with figuring out how your skills, traits and weapon skills work and interact with each other after all of it is thrown at you at once, good for you. For some, that's a lot, especially on a first character, or if you decide to jump ahead into an expansion, which present an objectively harder experience compared to the basegame.
Wish you all the fun.

[Jin-]

It's not trying to scare you. It's because we don't want to carry you when you don't know how to play basic 80lvl content. (Your profession abilities and how they work and gearing)

[Muted_]

I always tell people to go to the pvp lobby as soon as you hit lvl 2. You can try out all the skills and learn how they interact before you even spend your first hero points. Knowing what skills and traits you want first is never a bad thing, but jumping straight to 80 your gonna feel like you gotta slog through all the maps just to get your hero points up because you don't boost will all of them if I remember right, just the ones you get from leveling which doesn't max you out. Either way tho, have fun and enjoy the game, if we aint having fun then why we here?

[yivya]

It is a well meant warning. Not a weird scare tactic.

If it was the correct thing for you and you feel happy with your experience, there is no harm done and you might be a fast learner. There are probably a bunch of people like you who do not easily get overwhelmed, but in my experience it is more on the common side for people needing the time until lv 80 to adjust.

Nothing wrong with your post, outside of painting a picture of vets trying to scare new players. OR maybe it's the case of text not conveying emotions well and you sound worse than you meant to.

Alot of fun to you, still !

[Ifeelsane]

It was a mistake to boost your first character to 80

[Nibbie]

In addition to what everyone else said, levelling halfway before using your boost just wasted half a boost. Unless you plan on never using any other characters ever, doing it how you did was largely a waste.

You also act as if people say to not use the boost at all, which has never been true; the advice is always to not use the boost on your first character, and save the boost for a second character. That way you gradually get used to the game on your first character, and don't have to go through the entire levelling process to get a second character going.

[Lord Doober De La Goober MXI]

Going through the zones and leveling an alt is fun in gw2 idkw have one of each class at 80 and I'm still making new toons to play through the story (besides for the free key)

but boost or no there will always be leeches contributing no CC and whatever damage 1-1-1-1 will get them

[Tahl]

Scare you?
The worst thing you can do in GW2, because of its fairly open concept approach to player goals/activities, is take the average MMO player(or even general player) and toss them in the deep end. Builds, gearing, access to content, etc.

Its very easy for someone to get blasted with all that, get confused, get frustrated and think "there are other games I could be playing right now".

The leveling process is a fairly decent way to ease people in to some of the basic systems. Its also worth pointing out that on a first character, you dont really get much for doing the boost.
I wont go as far as saying you cheat yourself out of an experience as everything you could have done can still be done but when leveling alts, you may find you want that boost back.

TLDR: Iv used two boosts. There is nothing wrong with them. But it is good practice to advise people to pace themselves and try to go the natural path while its still fresh. Saved the short cuts for when the road gets less inviting.

[yivya]

Originally posted by Tahlaon:

But it is good practice to advise people to pace themselves and try to go the natural path while its still fresh. Saved the short cuts for when the road gets less inviting.

You wrote that very nicely, which is why it reminds me to say to OP and maybe other new players:

Don't give in to the "FOMO".
Gw2 is casual friendly in the way that you can just take a break for a year and continue where you left off. You don't need to catch up. Everything will happen while you have fun. The worst you can do is stress yourself to get where other players are.

[Tahl]

Originally posted by yivya:

Don't give in to the "FOMO".
Gw2 is casual friendly in the way that you can just take a break for a year and continue where you left off.

YES! This is HUGE!
Iv had this issue with games before(often quite validly I might add) and I was literally talking to a friend about this the other day. They were struggling a bit after coming from BDO and worried about how much they would have to commit to catch/keep-up in 'another mmo'.

[LSD]

The whole "dont use boost!!!" thing always makes me laugh. As though the 1-80 is gonna teach you anything but bad habits...
Until 71 you don't even unlock your last spec slot. Until like level 10 you don't even have your basic 1-5 attack skills. Until 31 you don't have your utility slots.

The 1-80 experience was bad 10 years ago, and is atrocious now. Use your 80 boost and go find something fun to do.

[Hekk]

You do you, boost is fine but makes it harder to find where you are at :D

[amarrminer]

Originally posted by LSD:

The whole "dont use boost!!!" thing always makes me laugh. As though the 1-80 is gonna teach you anything but bad habits...
Until 71 you don't even unlock your last spec slot. Until like level 10 you don't even have your basic 1-5 attack skills. Until 31 you don't have your utility slots.

The 1-80 experience was bad 10 years ago, and is atrocious now. Use your 80 boost and go find something fun to do.

core game sold over 5 mio . how many bought the expansions?
opinions and taste is one thing, numbers and facts is another
without the core game to lure new players in, this game would had folded long ago
hot had over million players ready at launch, if it was successful, then there should be over 100k players there at all times.

[Haze]

I went through 1-80 and enjoyed it the first time around, now I just use all my Tomes whenever I want to level up as It's boring the second time around.

Also, Warrior is one of the most faceroll classes in the game. You don't need to know much, if you try boosting to 80 instantly and going for something more complex like a weaver elementalist, chances are you're going to be very overwhelmed trying to figure out your rotation, meanwhile getting slaughtered in a few hits

[RotherHans]

Used a 80 boost on my very first Revenant and immediately shelved it, because it was too annoying and daunting to learn all at once.
It was my 12th alt.
Now while leveling a key mule as Revenant, I'm starting to warm up to the class.