Guild Wars 2

Some great posts here. I have only leveled up an Asura Engineer so that is my only point of reference. Also, I am probably an average to below average skill player. I just abandoned the personal story line when I discovered that the last mission requires a dungeon group. Up to this point, the difficulty levels seem to be all over the place. Some missions are incredibly easy while others (Starving the Beast) took me days of experimentation to accomplish. I did solo everything eventually up to the point I quit. I found it easier for me if I waited until I was a few levels higher than the mission. Also…the comments about gear are dead on. Having the best gear that you can, even though it is downgraded, is very helpful.

In the end, this whole PS thing is kind of a personal contradiction for me. I really enjoyed it more than just about another other part of the game. Now that I am up to the dungeon, it has been really tough on me to just let go before finishing. Six plus years of Blizzard and WoW, though, have soured me on PUG dungeon groups. To the OP points, though…there are definitely missions with a lot of intensity…maybe tuned just a bit higher than I would like. My judgment of them and the overall PS is now biased by the abrupt requirement for a dungeon group. Had I known about the dungeon while spending days on Starving the Beast….I would have just let go then instead of powering through.