Guild Wars 2

I was thinking so pugs and “less skilled” players could enjoy dungeons. Consider having different difficulty paths. Ideally we could still have 3 simple paths that perhaps after completing open up another path which is much more difficult. The rewards for completing the more difficult dungeon expanded paths would give further rewards. Nothing you couldnt get from the previous “still get tokens just probably more..possibly higher chance of yellows and dungeon specific trade items” This would allow pugs and less skilled players to atleast be able to enjoy some dungeons and have a way to get their dungeon gear…but still reward the hardcore or more skilled players for being able to get those items a little faster. A pug could still attempt those harder ones if they felt they were up tot he challenge…but atleast this way less skilled players could have a fun alternative that doesnt frighten them away from dungeons entirely as dungeons have always been a core fun aspect of most mmos.

I hope you realized when you put a rank about paths adn rewards, you will split a pug between who is on rank 1 and who is on rank 4 (example of a dungeon with 4 paths) sometimes even reducing the actual lack of players playing a particular dungeon?
Paths exists as a variation to the boring same content.
Just to add, this would create elitism of “rank 4 guys” and “rank 1 noobs”.

What we need is to add a normal mode to dungeons, that yield 20-30 tokens per run, whilst making explorable mode exclusive for organized groups that want a challenge, with correspondingly increased rewards to match increased difficulty.

The only alternative is that endgame dungeons are restricted to a fraction of the playerbase, whilst the overwhelming majority of players continue to camp AC and TA explorable, CoF and CoE inbetween those if you’re somewhat skilled, because they’re the easiest and the exploits in other dungeons are “fixed”. That will, in turn, lead to people quitting or not doing dungeons anymore, and ArenaNet not releasing new endgame dungeons because the playerbase is focused on PvP, boring the high-end guilds to death and stagnation after running the same dungeons continuously.

I’d like to see story mode yield a small number of tokens, too. Honestly I just don’t think right now the dungeon rewards are on par with their difficulty.

As for the difficulty, while I’ve been able to personally grasp how to get through dungeons with guildmates fairly quickly, I’d like to see an across-the-board health reduction in dungeon mobs. Once you figure out the gimmicks of each trash pack or boss, I find the fights go a little stale since they just have mountains of health to burn down.