Guild Wars 2

I know they said that they are not going to open any new lands with the next couple of updates, however, that is not the only way they can introduce open world content. Working on Southsun Cove is one of many examples.

I am one of the “anti vertical progression” crowd and have made my peace with ascended gear: I will simply ignore it unless it becomes reasonably available via other means. I have made my peace with fractals: I will simply ignore them unless, down the line, I feel like it for fun. I am fine with, and do run, older dungeons.

What I do hope for is Anet giving people like me, who like PVE without being funneled into fractals and vertical progression, stuff for, well, people like me. If they do not do this I am not going to storm off in a huff or make a big mess over it. I will play what I have available to me until I have gotten all I can out of it.

Go to the lower-level areas and help people like me taking their time and levelling alts…we need more people on the group events!

Southern Lord, I spend a lot of time going through the lower areas as I farm, do diving goggles, etc., and help folks out as I pass through.

No kidding about the group events. I am starting a new toon and finding it much more difficult due to depopulation than I did my first ones.

Wait for the blog post this week.

Vol.5241:

Wait for the blog post this week.

I am awaiting the following series of updates with trepidation.

Being a bit of a pessimist, the only PVE content (other than bug fixes I hope) I expect is more fractals and ascended gear. I think that these series of updates are going to give a good indication of future direction the game is going to take.

Hopefully I am wrong and there is more than what I stated above for PVE.

Gregori.5807:

Vol.5241:

Wait for the blog post this week.

I am awaiting the following series of updates with trepidation.

Being a bit of a pessimist, the only PVE content (other than bug fixes I hope) I expect is more fractals and ascended gear. I think that these series of updates are going to give a good indication of future direction the game is going to take.

Hopefully I am wrong and there is more than what I stated above for PVE.

ColinJohanson.2394:

Hey guys,
We are however working on expanding reward systems to make them more re-rewarding across all parts of the game, making the open world more rewarding, and adding new ways you can earn precursors as rewards via new reward systems taking advantage of our open persistent world.

That to me says that they’re focusing on the open world and a reward system for DE’s. Possibly readying for including Ascended gear in the open world?

I personally do hope they focus on

Gregori.5807:

Vol.5241:

Wait for the blog post this week.

I am awaiting the following series of updates with trepidation.

Being a bit of a pessimist, the only PVE content (other than bug fixes I hope) I expect is more fractals and ascended gear. I think that these series of updates are going to give a good indication of future direction the game is going to take.

Hopefully I am wrong and there is more than what I stated above for PVE.

We already know that fractals is getting a fix, and that is happening this month.

But I believe this post will describe the next 6 months.

I do believe they will have a better reward system. Perhaps we’ll have a token system, more karma rewards, dungeon improvements, more DE’s.

Remember that Colin is stressing improvement of the current game, rather than expanding it.

Hopefully the next couple of updates will give people a reason to play in the open world.

ATM the GW2 is all about FOTM instance grinding… the worst possible gaming design ever invented. If GW2 continues down the path of cloning WoW and all of it’s worst aspects then I predict many of us who don’t log in anymore will never return.