Run straight ahead and up the stairs through the gate, bypassing the PvP tutorial area (30 seconds). Run through the Asuran gate at your 11 o'clock (15 seconds). Now you're in Lion's Arch. The gates you want are 1 min away. Open your map and you'll see the circle of Gates to your N-NW, Enter the appropriate Main city for your friends Race (1 min).
In addition to dodges a lot of classes have skills that block, invuln, evade etc or CC like blind or daze. A lot of attacks can be avoided by by simply walking out of the way! While attacking a mob you can strafe (e) to circle them. Turn off the melee assist setting to allow walking through enemy hit boxes.
I had the same trouble, and wasted a lot of time trying to figure it out only to realize that it was down for the beta weekends. Damnit! I remember there being a command (that didn't work) during BW1 in the world selection screen to "guest" next to "transfer".
omlech • 9 yr. ago. Your racial stories themselves all come together around level 30. However, you can play together right now by one of you going to Lion's Arch and then taking a asuran gate (purple portal) to whatever city you want and then find the exit to the starting zone there.
Your stories may differ slightly depending on the chosen order and the choices made within the order. But the branches are the same after 30. But there are more branches after that as well. When the Pale Tree asks you your greatest fear, that gives three different story branches. These play out in Chapter 7.
That only applies to hearts which is a tiny fraction of your experience. You will both get exp from participating in dynamic events, can both gather the same ore/herbs etc and will both get exp from world exploration. Also as part of a group it is easier to tag multiple mobs (getting credit for them) in larger events and thus earning more exp..