Guild Wars 2

So this might sound odd but.. got my way up to 77 now, aspiring warrior. Up until now the game has been fun, but once I hit straits of devastation, gameplay became.. somewhat less enjoyable.

Why you may ask? There is almost nothing to do. Sometimes you come across an even you actually CAN do solo, but many times it’s a group event, or try as I might, the NPC guardians get overwhelmed before I can finish off the mobs etc.
To add to the issue, it feels like there is /no one/ in those zones anymore, I only literally met one person while I was in straits today, on dragonbrand. This can’t be right, can it? And if so, the events could do with a bit of tweaking, so that you actually can complete them all by yourself, if there is no one nearby. Else, how is anyone supposed to get anything done? It frankly gets boring doing the push on the southern assault, only to get pushed back every time on the subsequent quest, for instance.
Or to hold brassclaw, only to see that the next quest in the chain is a group event you don’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of completing.

I’ve played long enough – and read enough – that I don’t consider myself a total noob, and I have played plenty of MMOs etc before. So I highly doubt that I’m just that incompetent that I can’t solo events – and even skill challenges – anymore, when before this point, I could do so just fine.

Go guest on another populated server. Tarnished Coast is the craz these days.

That being said, if you are willing to rush all the way to lvl 80 and get your feet wet in Cursed Shore, go to shelt/pen and farm it for a few – you can get lvl 80 pretty quick and won’t die pretty quick as long as you stand behind others.

Or you can buy your last remaining lvls for under 2g using the cooking profession.

I might just try another server, thanks for letting me know about Tarnished Coast.

On a tangent, this would make me wish GW2 would just follow the same idea other MMOs pursue: Do away with shards, and just have one realm that runs instances of the zones as needed. Boom, population issues mostly solved, until the game /actually/ runs out of players. One would think people would’ve learned from the disaster that was SWTOR, where a week after release, the shards felt like ghost towns because they had too many of them.
Oh well, guesting is a nice fix. And I have a set of rare zerker gear waiting for me when I’m 80, thats a pretty good motivation, too