Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 seems a bit more like a totally new game.
Aside from some books and names u encouter on the game, the mechanincs have nothing to do with GW1.
GW1 was(IS) a great game that changed the gamer worlds some years ago. And lots of those features arent present now in any way.
Addapt the old features to this game. We(GW players) are a specific type of player that cant like any kind of thing. Thats why we were at GW1.
Daily quests, LOTS of titles, UNIQUE rewards, NO-Grinding(we actually have a LOT OF GRINDING NOW in DUNGEONS, HEARTS and STORY)
In GW1 i never complain about leveling. Now im pretty afraid of doing alt characters. its LOT of grinding to get MONEY, to get GEAR, to ger STORY. Actually, i would say only the Events(orange ones, not hearts) arent grinding.
Fun factor? where?
Please bring GW1 live in GW2.

Peace

While I am somewhat disappointed that a lot of the complexity GW1 had especially in skills, you never even mentioned that so I don’t think we’re on the same page at all.

GW2 has titles for achievements
What part of the story quests involve grinding?
What is your definition of grinding, if you think story quests have it?
Equipment for leveling is dirt cheap on the trading post
Exotic equipment for 80 costs a reasonable amount (15g)
Prestige equipment (cultural, dungeon, legendaries, etc) take a lot of work but are not significantly better (cultural is worse, I believe), same as GW1.

I’m not saying there aren’t places where GW2 doesn’t quite match up, but you’ll have to explain a little bit more what you mean.

At almost all heart locations it gives you 3+ options on how you want to complete the heart. Don’t want to grind 50 centaurs to complete the heart? Oh wait I can just run up to these spikes on the group and press ‘F’, Or hey bring this bag to this cow and feed it. OMG this heart is taking a bit to grind, whats this, dynamic event? oooh snap, completes heart while completing event gaining money + XP + Gear

One can literally earn XP for just running around the map. I do not understand why you think it is so hard to lvl.

If we didn’t grind dungeons I’m not sure what I would do at lvl 80 besides WvW. At least they give cool gear for like 6 different dungeons.

the original guild wars 1 had a lot of optional grind.

the guild wars 1 title “god walking among mortal men” is a huge grind. but that’s optional.

i guess for new players it would be a somewhat grind to earn their first 7500 gold (guild wars 1 currency) or 7.5k platinum (guild wars 1 currency) for their first level 20 (max level) armor in the original guild wars 1.

in guild wars 2 i guess there is a little bit of grind for max level max stats a full set of level 80 exotic armor and weapons as well. that, i dunno yet. as my level 80 warrior is still exploring the lands and not grinding for max level max stat exotic armor and weapons yet. still wearing old green / blue armor and weapons from drops etc.

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in guild wars 2 i guess there is a little bit of grind for max level max stats a full set of level 80 exotic armor and weapons as well. that, i dunno yet. as my level 80 warrior is still exploring the lands and not grinding for max level max stat exotic armor and weapons yet. still wearing old green / blue armor and weapons from drops etc.

If you’re going for 100% exploration, I imagine you’ll hit 15 gold before you finish as long as you don’t dump all your gold elsewhere. I haven’t played my Engineer since I got everything but WvW, and she has ~7 gold, full bag slots (3×1.5g at the time) and three extra bank tabs (3×2.5g at the time…I think…).

This is completely by accident, vendoring most equipment drops except the ones I salvage (light/medium armor and 70+ rares) and I never sell salvaged or dropped mats.

So yeah, 15g for level 80 exotics feels about right.