Why do I want to play the dungeons?
I don’t see the point of dungeons.
The armor skins don’t interest me at all.
The loot drops are mediocre, according to everything I’ve heard.
I’m an old Warcraft player (6 years, dropped sub about a year ago)… and I was a serious raider for a time. My frustration with WoW was always grinding dungeons for lucky drops — in GW2, it seems I’m supposed to grind dungeons for armor TOKENS. Since I don’t like the dungeon armors, I’m not sure what I gain from dungeons.
So.. what other reason is there to do the dungeons?
To have fun with friends doing challengeing content?
How about for the thrill of the challenge? Some of the world bosses are quite hard in the normal PVE areas but other than that the Dungeons seem to be one of the most difficult PVE events to accomplish. Especially with how hard the mobs are at this time.
I tend to do the dungeons late in my leveling so most of the time all of the gear I receive is worse than what I have already accumulated. I still find them fun and worth-while in a challenging sense when I complete them however. They are just a nice break from the normal PVE grind and PVP.
I don’t care for the dungeon gear (besides SE chestpiece), but just do it for the challenge and for fun team content. Also the cash reward is pretty good.