Guild Wars 2

First of all, I’ll back up my title with facts:
I have 4 characters with 100% map completion, I am among the first people to complete higher levels of FotM, my guild had unlocked all the guild missions before any other guilds on the server, and my guild leads an alliance of wvwvw guilds on my server.

It had been more than a month since I had stopped playing the game, while still checking the forums daily.

I truly enjoyed every moment of playing the game.
I love the community, and while I consider my self as “hardcore”, I am not entitled to being an elitist. I took joy in teaching other people and sharing tips with random people while having a good time. In my opinion, the best thing about this game is the quality of the community. Kindness is not a shocking word like in most other online games.

But the problem is in the new added content.
In spite of the fact that I had completed the new added content, it felt more like a chore than playing a game. I’ve come to realize that I don’t want to login and play, but I got to do so, If I don’t want to feel like I’m falling behind.

This is not a goodbye.
I just had to to let this off, and I felt like this forum is the most fitting place.
I am still checking the forums daily, and hoping to return and have a great time once again.

the dailies and the laurels feel like work

milo.6942
“the dailies and the laurels feel like work”

Yeah they do, they stop me from doing what I want to be doing because you just feel you have to do your crummy daily.

(It’s not a grind, right)

None of this makes sense to me.

Fall behind what?

What exactly is it you need to do dailies for? Unless you are doing nonstop fractals with every single character you should probably have hooked yourself up with whatever ascended gear you might want by now from laurels, so what is it you’re needing to do?

If you don’t want to do new content, don’t. If you don’t want to do dailies, don’t. Unless you simply don’t want to play the game, though, it is typically a simple job to complete most dailies just by doing what you like. I haven’t felt like I was grinding dailies since they changed them to the rotating selection process. There is almost no need to actually do living world content ever unless you really can’t live without whatever prize you get from the meta achievement.

I just don’t understand what the problem is here.

Kal Spiro.9745:

None of this makes sense to me.

Fall behind what?

What exactly is it you need to do dailies for? Unless you are doing nonstop fractals with every single character you should probably have hooked yourself up with whatever ascended gear you might want by now from laurels, so what is it you’re needing to do?

If you don’t want to do new content, don’t. If you don’t want to do dailies, don’t. Unless you simply don’t want to play the game, though, it is typically a simple job to complete most dailies just by doing what you like. I haven’t felt like I was grinding dailies since they changed them to the rotating selection process. There is almost no need to actually do living world content ever unless you really can’t live without whatever prize you get from the meta achievement.

I just don’t understand what the problem is here.

ascended gear is max stats, and also valuable for fotm. so you could say that people may want it. to get it as fast as possible, they are required to log in daily. every daily you miss is like a laurel lost.

btw, laurels give lots of other interesting exclusive rewards, and many more may come in the future (ascended weapons?).

Kal Spiro.9745:

None of this makes sense to me.

Fall behind what?

What exactly is it you need to do dailies for? Unless you are doing nonstop fractals with every single character you should probably have hooked yourself up with whatever ascended gear you might want by now from laurels, so what is it you’re needing to do?

If you don’t want to do new content, don’t. If you don’t want to do dailies, don’t. Unless you simply don’t want to play the game, though, it is typically a simple job to complete most dailies just by doing what you like. I haven’t felt like I was grinding dailies since they changed them to the rotating selection process. There is almost no need to actually do living world content ever unless you really can’t live without whatever prize you get from the meta achievement.

I just don’t understand what the problem is here.

I don’t get it either. I never even look at the dailies until I’m about to log off. Then, if I only have one or two more to do I will quickly finish them in 10 minutes or less. Just by playing the game how I want to play it I usually get my daily done well before I log off. And if I don’t get my daily on a particular day big deal. It’s only one laurel.

I also don’t understand feeling like you have to participate in the living story. I usually play it to see what it’s all about, get a sense of the story, and then either go back to what I would normally do, or if it holds my attention, continue to work on the living story.

If I could give you some advice it would be this: play the game to have fun. If that is your only goal, then the rewards are bonuses and not the end all-be all of the game. Anyway, just my two cents.

milo.6942:

Kal Spiro.9745:

None of this makes sense to me.

Fall behind what?

What exactly is it you need to do dailies for? Unless you are doing nonstop fractals with every single character you should probably have hooked yourself up with whatever ascended gear you might want by now from laurels, so what is it you’re needing to do?

If you don’t want to do new content, don’t. If you don’t want to do dailies, don’t. Unless you simply don’t want to play the game, though, it is typically a simple job to complete most dailies just by doing what you like. I haven’t felt like I was grinding dailies since they changed them to the rotating selection process. There is almost no need to actually do living world content ever unless you really can’t live without whatever prize you get from the meta achievement.

I just don’t understand what the problem is here.

ascended gear is max stats, and also valuable for fotm. so you could say that people may want it. to get it as fast as possible, they are required to log in daily. every daily you miss is like a laurel lost.

btw, laurels give lots of other interesting exclusive rewards, and many more may come in the future (ascended weapons?).

But max stat doesn’t mean anything in this game. I ran in mostly greens, with a handful of rares and even a blue, because I wasn’t willing to spend gold on items I’d replace anyway once I could craft exotics. Do you know what amount of improvement I experienced in my play once I upgraded everything to exotics and ascended? None, at all. The numbers are so small that it literally makes no difference as long as your gear is at least close to your max level.

So no, unless you are doing high level fractals and are in need of agony resistance, there is no actual NEED for such things.

Kal Spiro.9745:

milo.6942:

Kal Spiro.9745:

None of this makes sense to me.

Fall behind what?

What exactly is it you need to do dailies for? Unless you are doing nonstop fractals with every single character you should probably have hooked yourself up with whatever ascended gear you might want by now from laurels, so what is it you’re needing to do?

If you don’t want to do new content, don’t. If you don’t want to do dailies, don’t. Unless you simply don’t want to play the game, though, it is typically a simple job to complete most dailies just by doing what you like. I haven’t felt like I was grinding dailies since they changed them to the rotating selection process. There is almost no need to actually do living world content ever unless you really can’t live without whatever prize you get from the meta achievement.

I just don’t understand what the problem is here.

ascended gear is max stats, and also valuable for fotm. so you could say that people may want it. to get it as fast as possible, they are required to log in daily. every daily you miss is like a laurel lost.

btw, laurels give lots of other interesting exclusive rewards, and many more may come in the future (ascended weapons?).

But max stat doesn’t mean anything in this game. I ran in mostly greens, with a handful of rares and even a blue, because I wasn’t willing to spend gold on items I’d replace anyway once I could craft exotics. Do you know what amount of improvement I experienced in my play once I upgraded everything to exotics and ascended? None, at all. The numbers are so small that it literally makes no difference as long as your gear is at least close to your max level.

So no, unless you are doing high level fractals and are in need of agony resistance, there is no actual NEED for such things.

anyone who wants anything from the laurel vendor is strongly compelled to log in and complete the daily. so for these people, the game can start to feel like a job. it is fortunate for you and others that you don’t particularly have your eye on anything there, but telling humans to stop wanting things will get you exactly nowhere.