Guild Wars 2

First of, what does casual mean to me? I means I don’t have a whole lot of time for RL reasons. In the scarce gaming time I have, I consider myself pretty hard core. I want to do optimal play because that’s the only way to make the most of my time. Casual doesn’t fit it to me, netiher for most “casuals”, but hey let’s stop arguing semantics. Casual now means time limited so I’m rolling with this flawed term. Even then, spending 6+ hours a week in a hobby would hardly be considered casual for any other hobby except gaming.

Ok. First story mode AC went fine so I went for Explorable. The first pug I joined wiped miserably. Then I did it with a guild and we aced every boss. What I found out was that most bosses were based on good teamplay and having an eye for calls. Gear was relatively unimportant, nor were skill selections crucial usually. That’s a good thing imho because it allows for every player to shine in his personal play style.

Ever since I’ve gathered a few hundred tokens from assorted dungeons. I’m not going for anything in particular, but I really like joining a group for a quick run. Quick does not mean easy, quick actually means playing quite well (except for exploits but let’s not go t here).

To me there’s no carrot. I can log in, find a good group in minutes (yay guild), run half an hour and log off. The idea of dungeons in this game is perfect. OK there’s some bugs, a few imbalanced bosses and not-so-obvious tactics. But once you know a dungeon, you can win due to player skill, not by outgearing it.

ye … I love dungeons. Compared to raids in other games, this game is far superior. As for raids themselves, the world dragons are beyond any raid ever seen. They bring back memories of MC and BWL, only better.

Good to see you enjoy running random dungeons:) Thats the good thing about Gw2. You arent forced to grind a dungeon to get the best gear. You can just run a dungeon for the enjoyment with friends/experience. You can just log in for a few, and log out in a few after a dungeon. Then come back when you have the time.