Guild Wars 2

Hey Anet,

I think I understand what your trying to do with explorable dungeons here. You want them to be the endgame , the hardest thing in the game. Its the most epic thing we can do.

However here are the issues.

Most of us come from other MMOs , for most of us dungeons just a stepping stones for bigger and more epic things. Finishing a dungeons is no big accomplishment. However GW2 dungeons are exactly the opposite thing , it is a bigkitten accomplishment. This is confusing us , everyone expects to die in WoW raids , no one complains , however if you die in WoW dungeons ur a loser. Its not our fault. WoW has conditioned us that the word dungeon is easy. I don’t think the word “DUNGEON” is the right one for GW2. Solution : Rename them to raids, or super duper operations or something.

Oh explorable mode is such a bad name, call it Heroic or elite or Real-man mode or something.

Then there is the lore. The dungeons are totally backwards. Its easier to kill Zhaitan in story mode, but its impossibly hard to kill his minions !! Same with AC , King Adelbern is the more epic villain, it would have been more epic to kill him in Explorable mode than a bunch of gavelings.

I recently finished the Story mode and all 3 explorable paths in AC. I should have felt like an accomplishment , like when i felt when i cleared Deathwing or Ragnaros or Nefarian, instead i was just relieved that now i could get out of there.

Killing Zhaitan lore wise was necessary or the world would be doomed. Killing Giganticus Lupicus felt optional, no big deal.

And reward us better, the armour is cool but takes forever to get all the pieces. I know theres an Achive when you finish a whole dungeon but its not obvious. Give us a mini (like a ethereal cat for AC ) or a title (like Ghostbuster or graveling slayer for AC)

tl;dr Usually in other games dunegons are easy, GW2 dungeons are not, so rename them to something else. Explorable dungeons bosses should be epic and have gravity. Like King Adelbern and Zhiatan , graveling and oozes don’t make epic bosses.