Guild Wars 2

Okay guys, so like what if, we like, made it so that like after your first level 80, you can like, select a like “Veteran Mode” on character creation. It’d like, be like the old levelling system.

Like… yeah.

If you’re a veteran player you most likely have one of those leveling tomes which level your character to 20 instantly.

Zoid.2568:

If you’re a veteran player you most likely have one of those leveling tomes which level your character to 20 instantly.

yous till ahve to go through 20 level of level gating with that. sorry it snot and option

I don’t understand the assumption that only veterans hate these changes. There was an uproar in china because these changes were terrible. The chinese players certainly weren’t veterans. What makes you think new players enjoy being treated like idiots after they load into queensdale and see very little to do but dance for cows with two skills unlocked?

I know that if this had been gw2 when I played during the beta weekends then that would have been the last time I’d played it.

And some of us actually LIKED the low level experience. I for one have a big stack of lvl20 scrolls I don’t want to use.

The new system is not just a downgrade to veterans, but also to new players as well. Remember when we started playing? Exploring Tyria was what made the leveling experience so fun. A living world with events happening all over and around every corner there was a new secret to find.

Now even if you find a skill challenge, you can’t even take it until you “unlock it”. Remember your first diving goggles? Now imagine replacing that memory with a “you can not use that now” dialogue screen. It’s a boring linear experience now where you follow an arrow until your next unlock. This is not artful game design, but mobile phone 0.99 cent game design.

Instead of attracting players with this new system, you’re just going to drive them away.

I can confirm this. Maybe my guild is an exception, but most of us have brains. We’ve also played FAR more complicated games than this, and we actively help bringing new players up to speed in the games we hang around in.

And I can confirm, if this game had been like this when the guild started playing in Beta, we’d have skipped buying it.

None of my guildmates stopped playing because the levelling was too hard (please… we never played a game where levelling went faster or easier). Many left because it was insufficiently challenging and because of the (at launch) interminable WvW queues that kept us from fighting as a guild.