Guild Wars 2

Lord Darghaz.2314:

Imo raids are the best content so far.
And to all moaners…could you please explain how spreading conspiracy theories about the raid team size will make GW2 better?

People (including me) aren’t kittened off because of the raids coming out consistently and being great, thats not a problem, thats awesome, the problem is its only good IF you are part of the very specific elite minority of players that actually do raid, and make no mistake, most GW2 players don’t raid, hell I’ve played the game semi-regularly for 3 years and have full ascended, and I don’t raid for several reasons, the problem is, raiding is the ONLY place that is getting consistent content updates, if your an average GW2 player that just wants Living Story or Fractals, yeah your kittened, unless arena-net adds a “practice” mode to raiding to let everyone manage to play it (something that tons of people are super angry about the idea of because…reasons) Raiding will never be enough to keep people playing GW2, and that can easily be evidenced by the massive drop in player retention since HoT

thewaterguy.4796:

People (including me) aren’t kittened off because of the raids coming out consistently and being great, thats not a problem, thats awesome, the problem is its only good IF you are part of the very specific elite minority of players that actually do raid, and make no mistake, most GW2 players don’t raid, hell I’ve played the game semi-regularly for 3 years and have full ascended, and I don’t raid for several reasons, the problem is, raiding is the ONLY place that is getting consistent content updates, if your an average GW2 player that just wants Living Story or Fractals, yeah your kittened, unless arena-net adds a “practice” mode to raiding to let everyone manage to play it (something that tons of people are super angry about the idea of because…reasons) Raiding will never be enough to keep people playing GW2, and that can easily be evidenced by the massive drop in player retention since HoT

• I play fewer than 6 hours of GW2 in an entire week.
• I spend 4 of those hours raiding.
• I have a casual guild full of extremely introverted people, 90% of which don’t have ascended gear.
• We decided “let’s yolo raids and see how we do”.
• We killed VG after a great deal of practice, and it was one of the most rewarding experiences for us as a group of friends since release.
• We have gone on to beat every single raid encounter thus far.
• We are now much better players and you probably couldn’t distinguish us from the “elite” anymore, whatever that is.

Anyone can raid if they’re willing to put in even a modicum of time into it. If you’re playing GW2 for 30 minutes a week, sure, you probably won’t be able to raid (but neither could you do much of anything else in-game either). Outside of that, all it takes is the will to keep trying and the right, cooperative attitude. You’ll be a better player for it, and if you enjoy GW2’s combat system at all you’ll find it surprisingly fun.

Yep, keep it up Anet! Raids have definitely invigorated my Guild Wars 2 experience and I have never enjoyed something as much in the game!

The Zealous Templar.3861:

Yep, keep it up Anet! Raids have definitely invigorated my Guild Wars 2 experience and I have never enjoyed something as much in the game!

So much this. I’ve never played GW2 as much as I do now in raids.

For those that fear that you need a closed roster or to dedicate X time per day to be in a raid group, you don’t.

My guild is consistently completing both wings with no dedicated team. We’re just a bunch of 35 multi-class players that join random guild runs on-the-fly and have some fun while doing it.

Elrey.5472:

The Zealous Templar.3861:

Yep, keep it up Anet! Raids have definitely invigorated my Guild Wars 2 experience and I have never enjoyed something as much in the game!

So much this. I’ve never played GW2 as much as I do now in raids.

For those that fear that you need a closed roster or to dedicate X time per day to be in a raid group, you don’t.

My guild is consistently completing both wings with no dedicated team. We’re just a bunch of 35 multi-class players that join random guild runs on-the-fly and have some fun while doing it.

Not to mentions that the more experience your group has the faster the boss kills become.

Rising Dusk.2408:

• I play fewer than 6 hours of GW2 in an entire week.
• I spend 4 of those hours raiding.
• I have a casual guild full of extremely introverted people, 90% of which don’t have ascended gear.
• We decided “let’s yolo raids and see how we do”.
• We killed VG after a great deal of practice, and it was one of the most rewarding experiences for us as a group of friends since release.
• We have gone on to beat every single raid encounter thus far.
• We are now much better players and you probably couldn’t distinguish us from the “elite” anymore, whatever that is.

Anyone can raid if they’re willing to put in even a modicum of time into it. If you’re playing GW2 for 30 minutes a week, sure, you probably won’t be able to raid (but neither could you do much of anything else in-game either). Outside of that, all it takes is the will to keep trying and the right, cooperative attitude. You’ll be a better player for it, and if you enjoy GW2’s combat system at all you’ll find it surprisingly fun.

I am not exactly the biggest fan of raids, and the first two of your sentences are the reason why. You spend 2/3 of your time in raids. I have around double the time as you have to play atm, and I don´t have the slightest interest in assembling 9 other people to wipe at the same content over and over again or relearn my class for a raid. I know that some people enjoy the thrill of that, but I certainly don´t. I also disilke PvP, but I still play in the season because you can get over with it quickly and just step out of it after 15 minutes.

Correct me if I am wrong, but people like me seem to be a large majority. I am pretty pleased that Anet at least tried lately with open world events, but the prospect of another raid outright depresses me if Anet plans to play along the tactic they have been using in the time since HoT was released. Which, by the way, was not such an overwhelming success supporters try to sell everyone even in the words of Anet.

“Which, by the way, was not such an overwhelming success” Just trust him on this, he can feel it. His feelings tell him what the truth is.

Look until someone actually pulls real evidence that raids aren’t a success, I’m gonna go by what the devs have been telling me.

This has nothing to do with feeling, this has something to do with the ability to read. NcSoft and Anet themselfes have published that they expected HoT copies to sell better in various reports.

Torolan.5816:

This has nothing to do with feeling, this has something to do with the ability to read. NcSoft and Anet themselfes have published that they expected HoT copies to sell better in various reports.

Ah, I thought you were talking about raids specifically. Yes I’m really not sure how well the HoT expansion overall did, my bad.