Guild Wars 2

they want the dungeons to all be the same difficulty which makes sense. but i personally think it takes way to long to make a dungeon set. but what makes no sense is they are saying they dont want this to be a grind fest but this last update did the opposite. all the dungeons accept cof take an insane amount of time to get the gear and now they made cof just as hard. plus they made it so you get less stuff for doing it multiple times?!?! in what universe does that make sense? lets look at this like a math problem

they want less grind so they make the dungeon harder + give less return from dungeon = even more grind! this is so dumb!! as a pure pve player that actually has a life and started at the early start i only have 170 carvings from cof and that was before they made it insanely hard. im actually a littlekitten off i paid for this game thinking that it wouldnt be a grind fest and it turns out to be worse then that because atleast normal grind fests allow you to change where your grinding! in this game i have to grind the same 4 dungeones paths for something like 25 hours of gameplay. in my opinion all the dungeons should be like cof. as it was before if you wanted to play for like 10 hours you could get 1 dungeon set and since there are 8 dungeons to get all the sets, its 80 hours of end game play plus legendary weps for those who are willing to put in insane hours of play. this way it caters to everyone. personally with school, work, and a life 80 hours of play will last me a long time. now its going to take me like 2 years just to get all the sets considering the arah set takes like 80 hours by itself. Before the cool sets were within my reach now its basically impossible. I was having so much fun playing this game and I was even playing an ele which is easily the most QQed about class but now its just pointless.

In conclusion before the update my mindset was if I grind on this dungeon I can get a set after the update my mindset is dungeon sets are pointless might as well go for clearing the map. As it was before I tried the other dungeons and they took so long that the sets were out of my reach and now cof has joined that group congratz sellers on the trade system you now have a new customer. By the way this is not QQ im not sad this is more like rage because I feel like my money is wasted and I can already say now I will not be buying an expansion if it is just a new set of grind dungeons.

There are two solutions to this in my opinion

1. Make all the dungeons sets lvl 80 and them make them harder based on the dungeon level. This way people that don’t have tons of time to play can still get cool armor and people that do want to put in the time can still show it with the harder dungeon armer
2. Make all the dungeons share tokens so I can at least not get hella bored running the same dungeon.

I agree the shared tokens thing is genius. They said they were getting rid of grinding which is such BS. At level 80 your either grinding for gold, dungeon tokens, karma, or crafting materials. The last update destroyed my favorite dungeon, Honor of the waves. I’m astonished that they don’t have a difficulty setting, there supposed to be fun but if you just gather a group of random players they get destroyed. I guess arena net loves the elite MMO raiders and dungeoners more then then the 98% that just want the gear.

There HAS to be grind if the game is supposed to last long term.

I don’t have a problem with that. What I do have problem with is that the grind needs to be made fun, and that’s not the case in GW2.

The way I see it is if all the dungeons gave the same tokens and the end game was really about looks meaning you would want to collect the armor from all dungeons you would still have an insane amount of gameplay. Arah by itself is something like 95 hours to get the full set and 2 weps with a good party. But the problem is if I ever want any sets I cant afford to play arah cause it takes to long and I don’t have insane amounts of time to play. But if the dungeons all shared tokens I could just play which ever one was the most fun and still be working towards armor.