Guild Wars 2

Hi!

Sorry for the open-ended post title, I just wanted to get some info on how the game is currently doing compared to six months ago.

I played since the closed betas and I really love the game but as a casual I don’t always game every night sometimes work just takes all the place in my life.

That’s why I’m asking:

Anything nice came in the last six months? Last time I came here people were QQing because of the Ascended gear grind and because the game was turning into a “normal mmo gear grind”. Which was the total opposite of what’s ANet promised us.

Did this change? Is it better?

If I hop in the game right now, what should I look at? What should I do?

Also bonus question: I’m living in Québec, Canada and I’m on EST timezone. Any nice casual/chatty/fun guild I could join?

This isn’t some rage thread, just an informative one. Everybody is welcome to answer!

Thanks and have a nice day!

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/

Too many to list. No one complains about ascended now since it’s easy to get and not game-breaking.

Well some people do actually complain, but no one pays attention to them. lol

Plenty of stuff has happened since. Also plenty of nice guilds out there (including mine). I don’t want to make this a whole guild recruitment thing though.

A lot of the content is “alive”. The living story comes and goes, so that there’s usually different stuff to do each month. There’s new stuff coming on May 14th for example.

So just jump on in, the water’s fine.

Yeah ascended turned out to be a big fuss over nothing…really

Lots of new things have been added, far too much to list, look through the patch notes going backwards…

Also, there has been loads of temporary content that’s been and gone, which you have forever missed out on…bad luck…the developers seem to plan on having constant new temporary content which will only be around 2 weeks to a month, so you need to keep up with current news to keep up…

Overall the games as good as was at release…perhaps a little better…

Actually there are quite a few “quality of life” upgrades that people tend to overlook. Simple stuff like you can new preview most things like armor and weapons on the trading post…even dyes. Like the WvW siege stuff is now account bound. There were changes early on even to the character’s view. Culling has been removed in WvW. PvP maps have been added.

On top of that, guild missions have been added, and while everyone seems to complain about bounties (though my guild likes them for the most part), the guild rushes are absolutely awesome.

They’ve redone AC (a lot of people complain about that too lol), changed Orr quite a bit (for both positive and negative depending on who you ask), added some new jumping puzzles and quests (like the skritt burglar), changed dailies so you can pick the five you want to do out of 9 or 10…there’s a lot of quality of life issues that have been done. I’m sure I’m forgetting a few too.

Thanks for your responses, I’m glad to see people are happy with the game now. I come back from mmorpg.com’s forums and it’s full of “GW2 was a lie” and “GW2 is dead” threads. But hey haters gonna hate I guess XD

I’ll surely hop into the game later today, and since my old Reddit guild dropped me I’ll be looking for another big community-oriented guild. But please no crazy “gotta interview you over the phone and ask you questions about your raiding schedule” kinda guilds hehe

Vayne.8563:

Actually there are quite a few “quality of life” upgrades that people tend to overlook. Simple stuff like you can new preview most things like armor and weapons on the trading post…even dyes. Like the WvW siege stuff is now account bound. There were changes early on even to the character’s view. Culling has been removed in WvW. PvP maps have been added.

On top of that, guild missions have been added, and while everyone seems to complain about bounties (though my guild likes them for the most part), the guild rushes are absolutely awesome.

They’ve redone AC (a lot of people complain about that too lol), changed Orr quite a bit (for both positive and negative depending on who you ask), added some new jumping puzzles and quests (like the skritt burglar), changed dailies so you can pick the five you want to do out of 9 or 10…there’s a lot of quality of life issues that have been done. I’m sure I’m forgetting a few too.

This is exactly the kind of response I wanted, these little UI tweaks and gameplay tweaks make the game for me.

AC changes seem neat to be, I did it over and over again and some changes will be welcome.

Thanks for this!

tomshreds.1745:

Thanks for your responses, I’m glad to see people are happy with the game now. I come back from mmorpg.com’s forums and it’s full of “GW2 was a lie” and “GW2 is dead” threads. But hey haters gonna hate I guess XD

I’ll surely hop into the game later today, and since my old Reddit guild dropped me I’ll be looking for another big community-oriented guild. But please no crazy “gotta interview you over the phone and ask you questions about your raiding schedule” kinda guilds hehe

To be honest, don’t take any forum responses seriously, including this one. They’re pretty much one sided. Those who don’t like the game generally are on the forums complaining about it. Those who like the game generally are playing it and don’t bother responding on the forums.

Just take note of people’s thoughts on the forum and try it out in game. It may be better/worse than stated.

tomshreds.1745:

Thanks for your responses, I’m glad to see people are happy with the game now. I come back from mmorpg.com’s forums and it’s full of “GW2 was a lie” and “GW2 is dead” threads. But hey haters gonna hate I guess XD

I’ll surely hop into the game later today, and since my old Reddit guild dropped me I’ll be looking for another big community-oriented guild. But please no crazy “gotta interview you over the phone and ask you questions about your raiding schedule” kinda guilds hehe

You’re welcome

My guild is probably too small for you, from the sounds of it. Though we have 90 people or so, we have a core of about 25 people who are on a lot. A lot of people are just casual members, who log in a couple of times a week.

The core group is pretty good, but if you’re looking for a larger group, there are plenty of options. Also, it depends on what server you’re on, since server transfers are no longer free.

You should try to find a decent guild on your server.

Vol.5241:

tomshreds.1745:

Thanks for your responses, I’m glad to see people are happy with the game now. I come back from mmorpg.com’s forums and it’s full of “GW2 was a lie” and “GW2 is dead” threads. But hey haters gonna hate I guess XD

I’ll surely hop into the game later today, and since my old Reddit guild dropped me I’ll be looking for another big community-oriented guild. But please no crazy “gotta interview you over the phone and ask you questions about your raiding schedule” kinda guilds hehe

To be honest, don’t take any forum responses seriously, including this one. They’re pretty much one sided. Those who don’t like the game generally are on the forums complaining about it. Those who like the game generally are playing it and don’t bother responding on the forums.

Just take note of people’s thoughts on the forum and try it out in game. It may be better/worse than stated.

100% agree with you on this. I learned the hard way of ignoring trolls and QQers on game forums.

90% of forums user seem to be QQers and the other 10% are people in their offices working and waiting for the evening to finally hop into the game (like me). hehe

tomshreds.1745:

Vol.5241:

tomshreds.1745:

Thanks for your responses, I’m glad to see people are happy with the game now. I come back from mmorpg.com’s forums and it’s full of “GW2 was a lie” and “GW2 is dead” threads. But hey haters gonna hate I guess XD

I’ll surely hop into the game later today, and since my old Reddit guild dropped me I’ll be looking for another big community-oriented guild. But please no crazy “gotta interview you over the phone and ask you questions about your raiding schedule” kinda guilds hehe

To be honest, don’t take any forum responses seriously, including this one. They’re pretty much one sided. Those who don’t like the game generally are on the forums complaining about it. Those who like the game generally are playing it and don’t bother responding on the forums.

Just take note of people’s thoughts on the forum and try it out in game. It may be better/worse than stated.

100% agree with you on this. I learned the hard way of ignoring trolls and QQers on game forums.

90% of forums user seem to be QQers and the other 10% are people in their offices working and waiting for the evening to finally hop into the game (like me). hehe

Ha ha, funny you should say that, I am at work right now but did everything ages ago so I am amusing myself on the forums trying to look busy (don’t want another job close to home time…)…roll on 5 o’clock…

Meglobob.8620:

tomshreds.1745:

Vol.5241:

tomshreds.1745:

Thanks for your responses, I’m glad to see people are happy with the game now. I come back from mmorpg.com’s forums and it’s full of “GW2 was a lie” and “GW2 is dead” threads. But hey haters gonna hate I guess XD

I’ll surely hop into the game later today, and since my old Reddit guild dropped me I’ll be looking for another big community-oriented guild. But please no crazy “gotta interview you over the phone and ask you questions about your raiding schedule” kinda guilds hehe

To be honest, don’t take any forum responses seriously, including this one. They’re pretty much one sided. Those who don’t like the game generally are on the forums complaining about it. Those who like the game generally are playing it and don’t bother responding on the forums.

Just take note of people’s thoughts on the forum and try it out in game. It may be better/worse than stated.

100% agree with you on this. I learned the hard way of ignoring trolls and QQers on game forums.

90% of forums user seem to be QQers and the other 10% are people in their offices working and waiting for the evening to finally hop into the game (like me). hehe

Ha ha, funny you should say that, I am at work right now but did everything ages ago so I am amusing myself on the forums trying to look busy (don’t want another job close to home time…)…roll on 5 o’clock…

Same here! Except I’m not done working, it’s just that I’m a developer and I have to wait for my app to compile every 4-5 minutes to test my stuff out, so I waste time here while waiting :P haha

Vayne.8563:

tomshreds.1745:

Thanks for your responses, I’m glad to see people are happy with the game now. I come back from mmorpg.com’s forums and it’s full of “GW2 was a lie” and “GW2 is dead” threads. But hey haters gonna hate I guess XD

I’ll surely hop into the game later today, and since my old Reddit guild dropped me I’ll be looking for another big community-oriented guild. But please no crazy “gotta interview you over the phone and ask you questions about your raiding schedule” kinda guilds hehe

You’re welcome

My guild is probably too small for you, from the sounds of it. Though we have 90 people or so, we have a core of about 25 people who are on a lot. A lot of people are just casual members, who log in a couple of times a week.

The core group is pretty good, but if you’re looking for a larger group, there are plenty of options. Also, it depends on what server you’re on, since server transfers are no longer free.

You should try to find a decent guild on your server.

Thanks for the offer! I don’t mind the guild size, I talked about “big guilds” just because I’m used to them hehe but I really don’t mind On what server are you?

tomshreds.1745:

Vayne.8563:

tomshreds.1745:

Thanks for your responses, I’m glad to see people are happy with the game now. I come back from mmorpg.com’s forums and it’s full of “GW2 was a lie” and “GW2 is dead” threads. But hey haters gonna hate I guess XD

I’ll surely hop into the game later today, and since my old Reddit guild dropped me I’ll be looking for another big community-oriented guild. But please no crazy “gotta interview you over the phone and ask you questions about your raiding schedule” kinda guilds hehe

You’re welcome

My guild is probably too small for you, from the sounds of it. Though we have 90 people or so, we have a core of about 25 people who are on a lot. A lot of people are just casual members, who log in a couple of times a week.

The core group is pretty good, but if you’re looking for a larger group, there are plenty of options. Also, it depends on what server you’re on, since server transfers are no longer free.

You should try to find a decent guild on your server.

Thanks for the offer! I don’t mind the guild size, I talked about “big guilds” just because I’m used to them hehe but I really don’t mind On what server are you?

We’re on Tarnished Coast (probably the busiest PVe server). Far more geared to PvE than PvP (though we have some WvWers in the guild and even some people who enjoy SPvP).