Guild Wars 2

Often. Sometimes I log in and there is absolutely nothing I want to do, so I log out. I mean, there’s stuff to do. I don’t have dungeon master, I’m not high level in fractals, WvW is always going on… But sometimes none of it seems like fun.

My advice is to take a break. Maybe play a single player game.

I love this game, invested well over +3K hours, +12k AP, made thousands of gold and 5 legendaries.

But I hit a wall about 3 weeks ago and just got bored. I’ve had bouts here and there where other games come out and I’d only commit about 45 minutes to GW2 for dailies.

But I really hit the wall and I can’t even log in to do my dailies.

I’m not gonna completely quit and uninstall GW2 – but my involvement with GW2 right now involves completing the LS achievements and finishing up WvW season 1 achievements. I’m afraid the next wall I’ll hit, I’ll ignore LS and probably just stop logging in. So instead of playing every day of the week for 4/5 hours a day, now I probably end up spending no more than 4 hours a week playing GW2.

The rest of my time is spent destroying noobs in BF4

I stopped playing anything else than WvW. I’m in Vabbi, the small scale server.

My main complain was not boredom per se. It was more of a feeling of getting nowhere while playing. There was a lot of stuff i enjoyed. However, this game requires too much of a time investment for me to ever feel like I am progressing.

I just don’t have the time for legendaries or to get good at crafting. Even map completion would be too time consuming for me. I’ve had to let a lot of things go in this game. I don’t find that enjoyable.

Finally I get to exotic gear, and there’s ascended. I also still have 2 toons not level 80. I do like some of the living story stuff. “Unveiling the nightmare” was well done. I like them giving us a reason to visit an obscure area as well.

When too much of the game feels out of my reach I feel disinterested.

Take a break, that’s what I did for a few months. Just came back this week and I feel like there’s lots to do again.

Many would agree, many wouldn’t. All I can say is that I’ve written/read posts exactly like this in every MMO I’ve played.

The fact you equate content to AP grind leads me to believe you aren’t really talking about boring content, but rather boring achievements to chase (which I would agree—but they are in fact optional). The new dungeons they’ve added certainly aren’t boring to me, nor is the entire concept of this Toxic tower thing. I find it actually pretty cool and completely reasonable for a 2-week content release.

I think 3-4 hours of sitting down grinding out the AP is more accurate for these releases, but considering that the majority of GW2 players don’t have or want the time to sit down for 3-4 hours, that 3-4 hours will likely be split up into 30min here, 15min there, and for most it actually spreads out pretty close to that 2-week mark (especially if you do PvP, WvW, dungeons, etc regularly). So much so that people actually complain that 2-weeks isn’t enough time to complete the achievements.

Yeah, I’m feeling bored. Sure there’s ascended or legendary stuffs to go after but the only way to grind for those is grind random money. I’ve done most of the dungeons a fair bit, they’re still good but yeah, they’re getting old.

I started playing Guild Wars and found myself wishing I had that sort of stuff to work on.. specific challenges for outfitting heroes, vanquishing areas, hard modes of all kinds, titles, prestige gear. I’d love to have more specific activities to do, perhaps even more solo challenge type stuff.

I’m just tired from the random money grind to earn most everything aside from specific dungeon gear.

I’ve taken a few breaks from GW2, then I come back later and enjoy playing again. I don’t think it’s a bad thing, personally.

I’m also not sure ANet can do anything to fix it. What’s your MMO history? Have you been deeply involved with other MMOs in the past? I started my MMO journey I think 8.5 years ago with GW1, then moved onto WoW about a year later. I was a raider in BC, then did some raiding in WotLK as well as the first tier of Cata. I’ve dabbled in a whole slew of MMOs between WoW and now.

So what is the crux of the boredom issue? Is it that the formula is often the same in these games? You have a character, you hit max level, you cap your gear, and then what do you do? The mentality a lot of people have with MMOs is that they play in order to progress their character, not because they want to play the game. So what do you do when your character is done progressing? Some people just find more and more to do, but eventually they run out of reasons to play.

The main reason I play is because I want to play. The main reason I stop is often because something starts nagging/annoying me. It could be repeated WvW frustration (only zergs, no really fun fights), or balance annoyances (most of these I should just get over and work on out-playing, but they add weight to the scale), or something along those lines. Alternatively, some other new hotness might show up or resurge in popularity among my friends (like D3), and I take a GW2 break.

The great thing is that if you get bored, then stop for a while. When you want to play, come back. No sub is making it feel like a commitment, so you can dabble at your leisure.

That’s my attitude anyway. No MMO end-game ever has a “point”. You could do PvE raiding in a game with gear progression, but what’s the point? To farm gear so when they release more content you have the gear to participate? Is that healthy meaning for a game?

I do agree that some of the achievements have been on the grindy side, but on the flip side of that coin, you get the achievements by just playing the game, really. Sure, you’re doing the same thing over and over, but you’re still playing GW2. They could probably do with making LS elements more adventure-like and less “zerg around the same theme of events 100 times”, and that’s something I would totally support. However, I think there are interesting implications to thinking that the act of playing a video game is “grindy”.

I’m getting off topic, but this is one that holds some interest to me. Either way, I’m back in and very much enjoying playing again, so no, I’m not simply bored.

Yep just hit the wall a few day’s ago as well. Spent whatever money I had on gambling for the heck of it. Stop logging in; even gave up on the daily. No point logging in and staring at the monitor and asking myself silently “why am I even logged in”.

- level 50 Fractal
- 2 Legendary
- 4 Ascended Wep
- 4 Char with all ascended Trinket
- Done every dungeon ( not all path)
- Almost 10k AP.

I’m getting to that point. It’s actually this lack of a ‘grind’ that’s making me bored.

We need more ways to progress our characters than just gear. More traits and skills, or a whole mechanic altogether that takes time. We got given everything too easily.

THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE

RELEASE THE kittenING EXPANSION

Not sure expansions would help. Expansions take a whole year or more to develop and frankly, It’s worth about 2 months if entertainment at most.

Try Rift. I downloaded it about a week ago and have been enjoying it very much. There is literally at least 50x more to do in Rift than in GW2…. I’ve been doing PvP and getting rewards for PvE, I’ve been exploring the world while questing, and I’ve been enjoying the guild features that GW2 should’ve had at the beginning of its existence.

Join the warrior’s Dark force.

Galtrix.7369:

Try Rift. I downloaded it about a week ago and have been enjoying it very much. There is literally at least 50x more to do in Rift than in GW2…. I’ve been doing PvP and getting rewards for PvE, I’ve been exploring the world while questing, and I’ve been enjoying the guild features that GW2 should’ve had at the beginning of its existence.

Yes some of these people have played this game probably over 3k hours and are bored, but you have played rift week and you still have lot’s of thing to do there.

Yeah, I am getting quite bored… It’s like I love the game, but the stuff that’s offered is kind of boring right now. Released dungeons ought to stay in the game, not be temporary. I’m burned out of the 8 dungeons out. The only incentive is fun when you have the gear _… and I’ve been having fun with those same 8 dungeons since I ran my first dungeon

Hi

I am not bored, in fact, really excited about todays WvW reset as we will have a match against a close server. There will be some awesome fights to be had !!!

I think the O.P.s main problem is he/she is doing only solo PvE content. Even in PvE runing dungeons with a bunch of guildmates on VOIP is an entirely different experience then running same dungeons in a text based solo PUG mode.

Please note that this game is an MMORPG, large part and key to having fun here is being a part of the community. If all you ever do is PvE farm and solo stuff such as outdoor PvE boss grinding, then you will never enter the community, thus never have fun.

Junkpile.7439:

Galtrix.7369:

Try Rift. I downloaded it about a week ago and have been enjoying it very much. There is literally at least 50x more to do in Rift than in GW2…. I’ve been doing PvP and getting rewards for PvE, I’ve been exploring the world while questing, and I’ve been enjoying the guild features that GW2 should’ve had at the beginning of its existence.

Yes some of these people have played this game probably over 3k hours and are bored, but you have played rift week and you still have lot’s of thing to do there.

That may be true, but I can tell you that once I hit level 60, I’ll be playing Rift for 1 to 2 years…. that’s how much there is to do.

Hmmm…nope…not bored. But, I do consume content much slower than some others so I am still at that point where I feel a lot of variety in what I do. I suspect that, within a few years, I will indeed get the sense that I have seen it all…but that is really a long way off for me.

Galtrix.7369:

Junkpile.7439:

Galtrix.7369:

Try Rift. I downloaded it about a week ago and have been enjoying it very much. There is literally at least 50x more to do in Rift than in GW2…. I’ve been doing PvP and getting rewards for PvE, I’ve been exploring the world while questing, and I’ve been enjoying the guild features that GW2 should’ve had at the beginning of its existence.

Yes some of these people have played this game probably over 3k hours and are bored, but you have played rift week and you still have lot’s of thing to do there.

That may be true, but I can tell you that once I hit level 60, I’ll be playing Rift for 1 to 2 years…. that’s how much there is to do.

Well, look at how long Rift has been around compared to GW2.

GW2 need a long term contents like an expansion not just living stories crap where u can finish in 1 day for 2 weeks event. So players have something to do to make keep playing.

I did a good mix of PvE and WvW then got bored of PvE

So at that time, I only logged for WvW + dailies then I got exhausted from WvW so I did almost pure PvE with minimal WvW

then I got bored of PVE so I tried sPvP and had a blast until I got r20 (I’m still going for tiger!)

Now I have a good mix of PvE, WvW and SPvP while trying for a legendary (only need precursor and runestones to go!)

WoW just announced an expansion. When are ANET going to step up to the plate?

As you said, there are plenty of things to do. So how is your boredom ANet’s problem? Entertain yourself.

Thanks for the suggestions all. I’ve played plenty of MMO’s in the past. I know sooner or later there are down points where we all take a break. I did the same with WoW before the 2nd expansion came out, same with GW1 before EotN. However, the difference is within barely a year people are hard line dropping out of the game because there is simply nothing to do.

@pdg don’t troll. This is A-Net’s problem, and a very serious problem at that. It’s community wide complaint that is growing larger daily and A-Net isn’t seeing it. Instead they’re continuing on this LS kick which most people could care less about. It’s mildly entertaining at best and the releases contain so little the new content is old before the release of the next content.

Other than WvW there is little to nothing to do. WvW requires you to be on a good server otherwise it’s incredibly frustrating. My entire guild moved because of this issue originally. I’m now on a fairly competitive server so I have some fun, but running with the zerg or roaming is only fun for so long. PvE, which is the largest portion of GW2 is dead for end game. It has been reduce to the same repetitive daily routine give or take what is going on with LS. Do dailies, hit some of monthly, run Cof and AC to make some gold, and then champ train or node farm for crafting ascended/legendary items which is the only thing to shoot for as level 80.

I have 4 level 80’s but I don’t consider myself hard core. Only 2 of them are truly close 100% geared up and I still don’t have a legendary even though I have enough mats to make two. Why? Because no Pre has ever dropped for me. I do not want to grind for months to make 500-800g. That is boring as crap to me. I refuse to pay for gems to buy gold. And this isn’t D3 I don’t want to “play” the AH to make gold. I want to play GW2 naturally and make money without repeating the same 3 things over and over and over again.

I think the biggest problem I have is things like dungeons and fractals have such potential to keep everyone interested if the paths were fixed. Since leveling scales unlike WoW this means hitting a low level dungeons doesn’t mean you’ll simply roll it even if you’re 100% geared. There are 8 dungeons and barely half of them are used. As I said before zones like Orr that could be a full on war are wasted. A-Net has pigeon-holed the entire game into doing 1 or 2 things which has gotten boring really fast.

Dungeons aren’t a problem, you can easily find a group for every dungeon apart from CM (because that’s just a pain in the face). Unless of course you want to go min-max your income which would end up with you doing the same thing over and over in any game.

The problem also isn’t them not releasing enough substantial content. We got enough content in th past year to construct several new dungeons and maybe a new exploitable area.

So what’s the problem you ask? They keep taking stuff away.

It is very boring now and I don’t even care anymore about dailies.
The combat is boring
Zerg combat is even more boring
Time gated content limits the way I want to play
Rewards are lack luster
LS is beyond boring and poorly written
The same Meta events after a year, even with the changes are still boring
Dungeons are time gated but that is really the only thing that I do now, when I do log in.
Too bad since I spent 10k Hours in GW1 and never really got bored. GW2 just doesn’t have the moxie that the original had.

Living Story has been an abomination. The content is horrible. Everything that has been done to the game since release has pretty much taken it steps backward.

I keep saying the game is boring.
People in my guild just stop playing one after another.

I go between This game and Dc Universe. When I get bored with one I simply switch to the other.

Eh. I lost my overall interest for it awhile ago. The content they’ve been releasing just hasn’t felt that engaging nor replayable, the gameplay’s still pretty straightforward, and the systems they’ve been introducing to encourage “longevity” do the opposite for me.

There have been and are more games out there with more of an “endgame” for me and GW2 isn’t one of them. Was kinda hoping it was.

The game has things to do. It’s just that what is there to do , is not really what you ‘want’ to do.

yorick.1305:

The game has things to do. It’s just that what is there to do , is not really what you ‘want’ to do.

Or the game has tons of things to do but not worth doing.

This is the biggest reason I want player housing. Once you find a job you like, level it to 80 and find armor/runes/dyes you like, and experience the content, there’s not a lot left. Personally I’m just doing dailies and PvP while I wait for wvw queue.

Rasaaaaaaaaaaaaasaaaaids. I’m like a zombie at the moment craving for that.

And a deeper sense of character progression. Where did those regular new skills go?

I havn’t been a game where people actually gave a kitten about player housing. Everyone is just too busy massacring stuff for loot to stand on a virtual box.

Yes. Add a really in depth Housing / Home instance system to the game with plenty of collectables (trophies, achievement statues and items, crafting items, etc) The grind to get a legendary is huge, armor collection is pointless because you can simply buy a skin that you’re happy with and that’s game over in that department (with cash shop items giving absolutely zero satisfaction because you don’t actually have to play the game at all). So basically once you’ve bought your skins what exactly is there to do? I’m at a loss.

Housing will keep you busy for what? A few hours at most. Then back to the AMUSE ME bandwagon.

Yargesh.4965:

Housing will keep you busy for what? A few hours at most. Then back to the AMUSE ME bandwagon.

That’s completely up to the player. It will obviously keep you busy for a few hours, but you are not me thanks.

Salt.4621:

Yargesh.4965:

Housing will keep you busy for what? A few hours at most. Then back to the AMUSE ME bandwagon.

That’s completely up to the player. It will obviously keep you busy for a few hours, but you are not me thanks.

yes, thank goodness that is true.

Yargesh.4965:

Salt.4621:

Yargesh.4965:

Housing will keep you busy for what? A few hours at most. Then back to the AMUSE ME bandwagon.

That’s completely up to the player. It will obviously keep you busy for a few hours, but you are not me thanks.

yes, thank goodness that is true.

The most extensive housing system I’ve seen in a gane is RuneScape’s. There’s multiple types of rooms, you can build mini games, trophies, dungeons, portals, servants and basically everything you’d possibly want.

Yet no one gives a kitten about housing there even after countless updates and revamps to the extent the devs just gave up and decided the construction skill should be used for something else.

Honestly, I’m playing for almost a year now and I’m quite disappointed with the game.
It’s grindy and I hate grinding (*cough*TwelveSky2*cough*). At 80 all I have to do is dailies, dungeon runs, WvW if I’m in the mood to get my kitten kicked. I’ve alts to level, but after I completed map completion with my main, I lost interest in the maps since I saw the points of interests that were interesting to me. I found myself just standing in LA doing nothing. I’ve run dungeons a few hundred time, I’ve dungeon Master, it’s not fun anymore. I don’t care about Ascended or gear in general, not a big fan of this gear treadmill they will create, it’s not fun to do and with ascended they killed that part of the lore too, along with infusion. I don’t know what to do now. In the precessedor I collected armors and weapons, but with this RNG stuff(worst system I ever experienced in any MMO), I can’t do this. I did the PS so many times while lvling alt back then I’m sick of it and IMO it’s not that great as GW1’s. Choosing a faction or order means nothing, it’s not the game I thought it would be when I started playing. The LS is not interesting since I dislike zerging and grinding and it’s not really connected to GW lore or the world, the rewards are simply not worth it. The combat is good, but repetitive, since we don’t have much skills or skill chains and the dungeon stacking make it worse. I’m a big fan of GW(played the 1st one for 6-7 years, I even bought the Nightfall Collector’s Edition) but this one is a letdown to me, sorry Anet. I hope they will listen to ppl posting in the collaborative thread.

Forgot to mention PVP, not thanks, never was a fan, though I did Fort Aspenwood, Jade quarry and thing like that in GW1 because they were really fun and rewarding. It kept me busy for hours, they were really great. This PVP system is not quite appealing to me.

Junkpile.7439:

Galtrix.7369:

Try Rift. I downloaded it about a week ago and have been enjoying it very much. There is literally at least 50x more to do in Rift than in GW2…. I’ve been doing PvP and getting rewards for PvE, I’ve been exploring the world while questing, and I’ve been enjoying the guild features that GW2 should’ve had at the beginning of its existence.

Yes some of these people have played this game probably over 3k hours and are bored, but you have played rift week and you still have lot’s of thing to do there.

Not being rude but try it and see, i’ve found drastically more to do in that game than this game and i’ve been there 3 months now, google Dimensions now they are fun to do. that is just one aspect it has many.

Guildwars 2 limits most things with grind and very little longevity thats why so many are bored..

Sirendor.1394:

I stopped playing anything else than WvW. I’m in Vabbi, the small scale server.

But the rest of the game is so bad, even if WvW is not that good, the rest is even worse.

Xae Isareth.1364:

Yargesh.4965:

Salt.4621:

Yargesh.4965:

Housing will keep you busy for what? A few hours at most. Then back to the AMUSE ME bandwagon.

That’s completely up to the player. It will obviously keep you busy for a few hours, but you are not me thanks.

yes, thank goodness that is true.

The most extensive housing system I’ve seen in a gane is RuneScape’s. There’s multiple types of rooms, you can build mini games, trophies, dungeons, portals, servants and basically everything you’d possibly want.

Yet no one gives a kitten about housing there even after countless updates and revamps to the extent the devs just gave up and decided the construction skill should be used for something else.

That’s probably due to the fact that the game is full of 10 year olds that just want to be better than other 10 year olds. Therefore, they spend 90% of their time leveling, obtaining new gear, and improving skills. The other 10% is used for stuff like housing, guilds, and friends. I honestly don’t know what the devs were thinking when they implemented that… because I could smell failure from the beginning of its existence.

Only WvW interests me now, if GW2 didn’t have that, I would have stopped playing ages ago…

But if your bored, possibly suffering from burnout, play another game or do something else. I play loads of other games besides GW2. The games industry is ultra competitive with loads of games to choose from…

The b2p/f2p payment model does not work.

This dev team has amazing ideas and vision, but lacks the funding necessary to bring any of them to light. It’s really a crying shame…

That’s why you see Teso, WS, and FFXIV returning to sub models. The stuff that players want is just too expensive to do for free.

the game is boring in general. The music makes you sleep. The fights can’t be all soloed and as there is no one around it feels like a single player MMO. The Orr is too gloomy and dark and depressing. The zones are too large to run on foot, etc.

Someone mentioned Rift. Before I signed up to GW2 I went over to their site and looked on their forums. What I found there made the complaints in the GW2 forum look like a tea party at Buckingham Palace.

Grass is always greener and all that…