Guild Wars 2

Hello people. First I want to say I have enjoyed Guild Wars 2 a lot during these 3 years almost 8 thousand game hours and 13 characters, some dublicates because I really love certain classes. My number one favourite thing in game was running dungeons and I met so many great players via dungeons, had tons of fun there battling against time trying to clear AC as fast or possible or just goofing with friends and various solo or duo attempts (Arah P4 took us 6 hours). I think dungeons took easily 50-60% of my whole GW2 time, and it was best way to farm gold for me.
Now with latest update I just don’t enjoy the game anymore, I have nothing to do.No one goes dungeons because rewards are horrible, only 76 silver from ac? New fractals I don’t like, its very unstabile income and rng what you get from locked chests, also the fact that they are only 1 fractal map means that it takes longer to get full party for it than completing it. Now I don’t understand much about economics and im really bad with numbers in general but I don’t know how the dungeons ruined something? Items are still super expensive, gems and precursors for example. And why did experience nerf for dungeons, was it so people would not farm masteries with it? Because look cof p1 everyone has maxed Tyria masteries already.
It feels like you are forcing everyone to stop playing old GW2 content and go to jungle maps to do stuff but I never enjoyed open world as much as I liked dungeons. I think people who like hot content would do it and those who don’t like it would do something else instead. Seeing empty lfg for everyone dungeon except cof p1 really saddens me. And yes they were sometimes broken and anet didn’t really pay attention to them which is argument I hear often but community made own fixes for it, Magg bugs in cof p2? everyone else log out and he teleport to you. or Detha bug in ac p2? Get her killed and its fixed. We have seen Anet great reactions to elite spec 400 hero point problem and mastery problems, maybe they will realize there are lots of people who loved dungeons.

I Completely agree with this one. The dungeon gold reward nerf was not needed and I’m pretty dissapointed in this new living story expansion in overall. BRING ME BACK MY DUNGEONS!

And like Doctor said, people who like HoT content will play it, people who don’t like it, well they will atleast have the good old dungeons back to go grind some gold for their epic skins. Please Anet, we beg you… do the right thing, don’t make me wana quit this game again

100% agree, they say that fractals replace what dungeons used to be but…ive been doing so many and ive actually lost money and gotten nothing that makes them worth doing. Dungeons were fun even though they didnt change much i enjoyed trying to clear them faster and faster, it was satisfying.

Dungeons were the most efficient way to get some gold. Not much since it was only 1g per path but we all knew eventually, in short future that we will get the amount of gold we needed. Not to mention that whenever we needed money, the first thing in mind was duneons! It was pure gold in the wallet, since everything else simply wasn’t enough. I really feel sorry for the new people that are gonna buy the game. They are gonna be so dissapointed that eventually will give up. But it’s safe to assume here, that ANET won’t care since they will have already taken their money. Well done guys! Great job, on ruining our game. HoT is great (although i hate farming events above all) but dungeons didn’t need that nerf reward at all. I’m sad for wasting my money on this game. You had 9 months to make something good, and you managed to get everyone excited enough to even pre-order the game. I have never been so fooled before in my life.

Well said doctor,
Farewell.

Agreed with folks above. Dungeons were one of my favorite part of game. It was the best way to get some stable income every day. I don’t really see any point to nerf gold reward from dungeons. If can understand why anet nerfed experience reward, I don’t actually care, but I can’t say the same about gold. Prices are still so high if we look at tp and gem exchange. Grinding events is not the good way to earn money, because it is really random thing. I expected for new dungeons with Heart of Thorns, but I was so dissapointed to see that anet not just added no new dungeons, but also nerfed old ones. Those new events in HoT maps are not any better. After 3 days farming them I got less than 10 gold. So if I want to buy something for my characters or guild(craft materials, runes, sigils, etc), I can’t do it.

There are a few things in regards that just don’t sit well with me.

1. That they abandoned the content to begin with. Before the game launched dungeons were a heavily advertised feature. It’s a major reason I got into the game in the first place. Years on, to see nothing done with dungeons besides the rewards update (and now nerf) and the dungeon team disbanded is just shameful.

2. This change was sprung on everybody seemingly out of nowhere, buried in a boring post by an economist. Dungeons may have had nothing to do with HoT but my daily dungeon runs were a big part of what I did and what I had planned to continue to do after HoT. By the time this was announced Anet already had my $100 for HoT. Now I find myself wondering what I’m going to do for money once Halloween is over.

3. Dungeons are still the only source of certain ascended trinkets in the game and nothing was done to counteract the obvious and intended effect the rewards nerf would have on getting groups. Token rewards weren’t increased; nothing. If you didn’t have every skin unlocked for certain dungeons before, good luck getting them now. LFG is pretty much dead for several dungeons.

can always get them in spvp faster then dungeons tho.

I agree. The dungeon nerf was uncalled for, dungeons were the main way I made gold. Farming SW for hours on end is the most boring way to make gold. It’s not my cup of tea. Please return Dungeon gold.

Wasn’t one of their arguments for keeping level cap at level 80 also that they wanted people to still do the old content and dungeons?
And what do you know, literally no one does dungeons now after destroying the rewards.

I’ve enjoyed dungeons for a long time and i was looking forward to doing them again with elite specializations and revenant but no one really wanna do them now.
And raids better be fun to repeat otherwise I’m gonna run out of things to do in this game really quickly.

I’m gonna run out of things to do in this game really quickly.

This has been bothering me for past few days seeing how empty lfg is. I don’t enjoy the new maps that much, I barely ever pvp, I used to like wvw and now dungeons are empty.

Dungeons were always the most interesting form of endgame content, together with fractals. Gutting dungeons like this is a terrible design choice. The most boring type of content, pressing 1 in zergs, is now by far the most effective, while content requiring skill (yes, dungeons could fail if you were poorly organised) is becoming just a hobby without rewards.

This is a disgrace.

Its funny – they think you will be happy raiding once/week instead.

Fractals with the recent changes and poor loot based on RNG (no liquid gold or very little) is a disgrace for so-called harder content.. oh wait – its now ‘easier’ content.

They had to tone it down so the condi-meta/PHIW players could play without getting one-shot and actually have a hope of getting past lvl 50. Before if they messed up they would be dead in 1-2 shots – now it takes 5-6.

+1 to everyone!

Nerfing the dungeon rewards wasnt an awful idea imo. What was awful was they didnt bother to try balancing them at all. COF p1 deserved the nerf, its worth about 30-50s, however things such as Sorrows Embrace p2 should have at least been left alone, if not buffed.

A flat out 66% nerf just shows how little Anet care about dungeons. Whats even worse is they didnt even bother to transfer the gold reward to fractals like they stated they would, which now COST you money more often than not.

If all gold generation is stuck in raids its going to be hell for the people who like instanced content but dont have a static group or raid guild to run with.

I’m so glad I didn’t buy HoT. No way I would ever support ANet and their decision to nerf dungeons to the point of extinction.

Lots of my friends that purchased HoT wont even log on because of dungeon/fracs being destroyed.

I’m enjoying the elite specs and parts of the new maps but.. I’m already wishing for my instanced content with groups. I cant recommend this game in good conscience. Its the most overpriced overhyped MMO expansion Ive ever seen that not only lacks major amounts of content but actually takes content away.

Do NoT Buy

I totally agree with this!

If they made fractals more rewarding then I’d be cool. But that’s just #myopinion

+1 Dungeon nerf has taken away alot from my daily gameplay. Please bring the gold rewards back.

+1 to returning dungeons to their former glory…

colin plss

I honestly believed that fractal rewards would get better like we asked on and on and ON FOR 2 YEARS! Thus compensating this dungeon nerf obviously. I was so wrong. Everything is down the drain now. RIP. I demand revert! Or start working towards your paying customers needs. Not the other way around suiting your precious economy horsekitten. Do better!

I am trying now to get some tokens for my Legendaries. Waiting in LFG for 30 minutes and guess what… 0 joins. It feels now impossible to get 500 tokens. Sigh… (going back to grind PvP tracks).

1. Why the hell would you abandon old content that is still required by your legendary crafting? People need 500 tokens for a gift and now you’ve made it impossible to find a party for dungeons. Either buff tokens rewarded or buff rewards in general.

2. Why is there no dungeons for new content? Silver Wastes? Perfect dungeon lore. Heart of Thorns? More perfect dungeon lore. Instead we get shafted with “Oh here’s more fractals because kitten lore.”

3. Why are raids designed to replace dungeons? Why not have both? What was the line of thinking that went “We need to take dungeons and just kitten on them. kitten all over it. Here’s a raid, it’s a double dungeon.”

I’m so legitimately mad that I purchased this game with dungeons as its selling point back in 2012. But now, they’ve basically abandoned the entire thing. I found my time playing GW2 was literally split 50% Dungeons, 40% World Bosses, and 10% doing other stuff.

1 you can get tokens from spvp on farming maps easy.

2 They told you no new dungeons in expansion and there are no new fractals just scaled higher.

3 Raid are not designed to replace dungeons fractal are ( crossing fingers that we get new fractals faster then we got new dungeon paths…. Looking at you aetherblade path that replaced a path so not added any path since launch)

Anet dont care about dungeons, they have abandoned them and thatwas a long time ago.

There’s a difference between “abandoned” and “destroyed”.

Anet abandoned dungeons really years ago after realizing fixing them would cost just way too much.

Now they destroyed them. They could have just as easily just removed them how they reward gold and items atm. Which is, according to their blogpost, exactly what they intended anyway.

And I wouldnt even be that angry about it, BUT they have NOT, absolutely HAVE NOT, made fractals as worthy as dungeons were before. Not even closely.

Currently Im financing my fractal runs with lab farming. After halloween closes, Im probably gonna get stuck farming stupid mats. Which is the point Im just gonna leave, because if I had wanted that, I could have played WoW.

Badly done Anet, badly done indeed.

I don’t just want at least some of the dungeon rewards returned, I want the dungeon rewards rebalanced (why does HotW 3 reward the same as CoF 1???) and I want dungeons to be updated to be as challenging (or at least engaging) as Heart of Thorns content. Dungeons have a ton of potential to be the BEST 5-person content in the game, but they haven’t gotten love from Anet since launch. AND I WANT NEW DUNGEONS (even more than Raids)!!!! :P

Seriously, almost no one does dungeons compared to before the nerf. What a waste of content that has such great potential…. TA Aether is one of my favorite dungeons to do in the game. Why not make all dungeons be as fun/interesting (maybe not all as challenging for pugs of course)…

Just did AC story. The part where you need to keep two champions separated, guess what, you cant anymore because new defiance bar!!! This game is turning into huge joke. Seriously Anet, seriously..