Guild Wars 2

First of all, I’ll try to keep this short. (When I am talking about raids, I am not talking about outdoor bosses that one can just join, do minimum amount of work and get rewarded the same as players that have really pulled their weight, I am talking about instanced raids that are organized.)

Many of us already know it, Gw2 needs organized raids that encourages cooperation among players. Now, why does it need raids? The essential reason to have raids is to keep players interested in the end game content. Raids makes people come together and have a great time., raids make people better players, raids makes you feel that you’re a part of something.

I do believe Anet have stated that they won’t focus so much on end game raiding (Not fully validated information) but if this is true, they are doing a huge mistake and damages their own work of art. Raids are so important to keep players interested, to strive for progression and accomplishments.

My whole guild on Far Shiverpeak stopped playing because it was no real endgame content, so I can’t stress this enough.

Gear.
Some people are concerned with the idea that others have better gear than them and there for can preform better and have advantages. Well, I don’t really see the problem in this, but I will take it into account.

Gear does not need to be that much better. However, we do need a gear motivator to do raids, but it doesnt have to improve your character that much, only slightly. (Example, 30 more AP, some more vitality, precision, you name it, but it doesnt have to be much)

I believe that with Gw2 combat system they can make so many incredible encounters that is designed for many people. (Ever killed Giganticus Lupicus the correct way?Think about that fight, without dragging him to the waypoint and zerg it from there. )
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- Now, I dont want any comments on what Anet have said about raids.
- The gear matter is already explained.
- Explained why raids are so important in a brief matter.

I don’t mind raid content as long as they don’t end up doing what WoW did which was concentrate ONLY on raid oriented content for end game making zones so kitten difficult to do anything in UNLESS you were a part of a hard core raid guild or a geared-to-the-nth-degree group. If they do that, I’m done. WoW did that and that’s when they lost me as a customer after several years of dedicated play. As long as raid content is made available instanced while non-raid oriented end game content is made available for us casual players….I think that’s a great idea. As soon as end game content revolves nearly entirely around raiding and PvP…with little to nothing for questing etc for casuals…I’m gone.

mrsrachelm.7618:

I don’t mind raid content as long as they don’t end up doing what WoW did which was concentrate ONLY on raid oriented content for end game making zones so kitten difficult to do anything in UNLESS you were a part of a hard core raid guild or a geared-to-the-nth-degree group. If they do that, I’m done. WoW did that and that’s when they lost me as a customer after several years of dedicated play. As long as raid content is made available instanced while non-raid oriented end game content is made available for us casual players….I think that’s a great idea. As soon as end game content revolves nearly entirely around raiding and PvP…with little to nothing for questing etc for casuals…I’m gone.

I do not find the WoW model a bad foundation for a game, their problem was that they used it over, and over, and over again. That way it got very boring. I do not find it a problem that there are players who are hardcore, and they want to be like that. But I do see what you mean about not having casual content aswell.

Anyways anyways, this is not about the concept of being hardcore or not. Its about having REAL endgame content that organized players can come together and experience with fun and accomplishment to improve the game.