Guild Wars 2

I’ve been pretty good about completing most of the previous events and there sub tasks, but there have been a few dragon bash included that I just have to say no thanks to because the tasks are too tedious.

namely the world scouring “collection” tasks such as lighting the effigies. fighting the holograms. I just recently got to 150 holograms thinking that was it. it took me most of the week stopping by them as I did my regular questing and resource gathering so it felt right. to my dismay I realized there was another tier and I was actually only half way.. no thanks arenanet, no thanks. same with the effigies. as spread out as they are and time consuming “especially if you want to watch the whole dance animation…” 50 is a bit extreme.

I don’t see why all the coolest rewards and achievements have to be tied to a massive time sink. I would be much more inclined to work for an achievement or cool skin if it was the result of a challenging task. not because I wasted a whole weekend repeating the same activity several hundred times. give me more credit than that..

there’s a lot of seasonal events and tasks I’ve liked. most of the holiday games have been fun although a bit clunky. love the jumping puzzles especially the clocktower, but I really can’t stand the super grindy tasks that need to become a second job in order for you to complete them in the time allotted.

so in short I’d like to see more of the unique and challenging events less of the please collect 300 of blank.

But….. anet wants you to grind yourself to death. :c

Grind is a way to increase the longevity of content. If they didn’t implement grind then we’d be able to run through the content in a single day. Mind you I do agree in part, a bit less grind would have been nice (and of course by extension a bit more content wouldn’t hurt either).

well, I don’t really have a problem with some grind. as you said it provides long term goals to work for. the legendaries for example. I work towards mine gathering a few resources each day as I’m playing the game and its ok. I have as much time as I need to get that done, but when there is only a week to collect a massive amount of items, sometimes even less if the task doesn’t open up til later in the event it becomes a second job to get it done.

things like that which require you to schedule time in order to get them done are not fun for me. its the reason I quit raiding in wow and why I don’t miss it in this game.