Guild Wars 2

As someone who loves this game….yes, with all its flaws….i want it to evolve and make it truly shine for all it can be.

Dynamic questing in no way did it live up to what Anet promised. Besides the shallowness of most DE’s. My main beef with them is that there just arent enough of them.

Hearts quests, while they are “fine” for what they are(were) “supposed” to be, are also rather boring and shallow. Some are well made and hilarious, but they are far between. I say “supposed” to be, because they basically become your primary source of questing. DE’s….good luck if you can find them and once you find them , good luck farming them. Thats fun right?

I can keep going on and on about the problems but i will mention one last one. Groups. Grouping in this game is really bad.

This is because:
1)Anet has made them useless.
2)There is NO content to do with groups besides dungeons.

You might say, “oh but you can do DE’s with your group”. My reply to you will be “Its no fun to go look for DE’s….for the small number of different DE’s on the map”

So what can Anet do to fix the problems?

1)Give us more, WAY more DE’s….and please….working DE’s.
2)Make some DE’s stop triggering on NPC’s on the other side of the map, i mean seriously….is Anet trolling me?
3)More complex DE’s.

Finally, and this is the MOST important one. One that will fix a LOT of the problems.

4)Bring instanced mission quests from GW1 back. This will make grouping actually have meaning.

Indeed, I really miss missions!

If it’s instanced missions you want why not go and do some story quests with your guild? As far as i know this is content that is readily available, and there is nothing preventing you from running it with a group, as far as i know ‘events’ in these story quests also scale to reflect the amount of people in the instance, and they also have scaling implemented, so everybody in the guild (regardless of level) can join in, while story rewards are for the person the story belongs to, the people in the group are still rewarded for their contributions, atleast the kills/drops (though i am not entirely sure if they get a XP/Karma reward at the end of the story step)

Story quests can only be done if the player hasnt done it yet. Once its been done, its no longer repeatable. Unless its a functionality that i have missed.

Also, no, only the player whom the story belongs to, gets the xp/karma/loot. Speaking of loot, in most cases, loot is pretty rare to come by while in a story mission. I would also like to mention that most story quests are pretty shallow and not very fun if you have already done it once. Its only entertaining if you havent done it and really like the lore/story of the game. They usually offer nothing impressive that you cannot get from just going into the open world.

The implementation of missions from GW1 would offer endless possibilities and more complex levels to a group of players. In other words…a more tailored experienced. I’ve always found DE’s to be pretty bland because of their inherent purpose, they must cater to everyone who is inside the world, all the while also living inside the world. So they just end up being generic.

I haven’t played GW1 so I don’t know about the Missions, but the comment on grouping is spot on. I play with my wife on my main toon, and a group of 2 is vastly different from when I play a solo alt. And when I try to group so that we can just keep playing with less down time (MUCH less down time then previous MMO’s, but still way more then when there is a group) no one is interested. And sure, I run into an area where I am killing stuff, and someone else come in, and I kill stuff with this stranger, but then I attack a mob, and they other player, having finished his heart or whatever, is gone, and I started a fight I can’t win. It is not as reliable as a group working together.

I don’t know the fix, but something needs to make groups more worthwhile. Maybe a new type of currency earned when in a group, to buy a non-essential thing?

who says grouping is more fun :s
But still I’m a bit dissapointed with DEs, it was advertised as something a little more complex…but I think this is the best they could do.