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[Angelica]

I started to play GW2 not long ago and I'm still a noob I have a problem with the chat.
How do I know how to interact with other people?
I know how to whisper/party or chat with guild members, but if I go "/l" the green chat, I don't see anybody talking there, am I doing it wrong? How do you get to see the local chat? How/where do I look for LFG?

I'm still learning how to play but I thought using the chat would not be hard, but I feel stupid traying to use it with no result.

If I can get some help I will appreciate it very much, thanks.

[Inraged Twitch]

GW2lfg.com other than that just spam chat or get into a guild.

[Arewn]

At the top of your chat box, the chat tab you have selected will have a small arrow pointing down, click that to bring up a list of the chat filters applied to that box. There should be a tab for 'Main' and 'Combat' by default, you can add more by clicking the +.

At the bottom of the chat window, to the left of your typing space you'll see [Say] or what ever other chat your currently typing in (for example [Guild] or [Party] ). Click that to bring up a list of all available chat types.
Most people use /map for grouping.

/say or /l (its the same thing) is chat for people in your immediate surroundings, it's short range and used for talking to people you can see next to you.

[Darkobra]

If you want to talk to people in your instance, use /map or /m. That's the orange chat you should see. it has the range of an entire town or explorable instance.

/l or /s only works to your local area and doesn't really have much of a range to it. So it's good if you want to talk to people in your immediate area without spamming the map chat.

[4arsie4]

Use /map /m or /whisper /w

/say is just for lulz, really.

[Angelica]

Thanks to you all, I did not know about " /map".  

[Kurosov]

I, like many others have say, map, team etc all turned off unless in WvW.

If they can't see it they won't reply.