Guild Wars 2

As far as I know it’s only the armor that has better stats so legendaries will stay on top… Now that that is out of the way, why are people so upset about there being better armor with the new patch and possibly more patches afterwards? Having to continuously get better gear gives people a REASON to go and play content they otherwise might have never touched. Most people won’t go and do all of the dungeons. Why not?? It’s not because the dungeon isn’t fun, it’s because the dungeon isn’t rewarding. There’s no motivation or incentive to play content once you’ve gotten the pretty pixel armor set you want.

With a “gear grind” in place it gives people a reason to go and play content they otherwise might not have. It gives people something to do and a reason to keep playing. Let’s face it, the game was dying because there was no end game and nothing to do and no incentive to do explorable modes if they didn’t have the best looking gear. People just go do CoF until they get all their fire gear they want and then don’t do anything else because there’s no reason to. They’ve already gotten what they want so there’s no reason to go do dungeons.

People will say “It shouldn’t be able the loot! People should do things because they are fun!” Well unfortunately that’s just not how people work these days. Most people will only do something if there is a good enough reward for doing them.

So that being said I think a “gear grind” would be necessary for the game to stay alive. So that people will have a reason to play the content and have something to do. Because currently it’s far too easy to just log on, get to 80, farm a few dungeon badges from that one place with the armor you want, and then go play some other game until there’s a reason to play guild wars 2 again.

Edit: Also it would help if the dungeons in this game were better designed. They currently have some cool things in dungeons I absolutely love, like the last boss in CoF story mode and the lasers you have to pass in CoE explorable, things like that. However the boss fights are boring, tedious, and repetitive and generally poorly designed and that is the other main reason people don’t do dungeons.

The game isn’t dying. Ascended gear won’t be a better Stat Stick (It’ll work like Infused Armor from GW1). GW2 doesn’t need a carrot on a stick setup like other MMORPG’s. If you don’t like those things, then maybe GW2 isn’t the game for you.

imo the reason to play is FUN. not to get more powerful. and that is what they’ve been preaching to us for years. now that’s all changed.

They have already stated that it IS in fact a stat stick.

I mean if the stat stick and inscriptions only apply to that dungeon (let’s say that outside the dungeon, the gear is only as good as exotics), then should we really care? Treadmill folks get their treadmill without affecting everyone else’s experience… why is that bad?

Though my statement holds on the if part…. which I could see Anet getting (and deserving) a lot of flak if they don’t confine this treadmill to the treadmill only area.

Developer Of War.9871:

In b4 delete, stop thinking you’re a special flake and post in the already overcrowded thread,

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Thanks for contributing to the conversation!

From the start devs stated what you (OP) said.Pretty much thats why I choose it,because my free time is limited this year.I wanted a relaxing game and GW2 fulfil perfectly my needs.
However,I still understand your point and if I was in the same situation with yours I dont refuse that I would feel exactly the same.
By the way,I dont think game is dying.Maybe I am on overpopulated server or what(Underworld(?)) none of these thoughts crossed my mind.

Bruno Sardine.2907:

I mean if the stat stick and inscriptions only apply to that dungeon (let’s say that outside the dungeon, the gear is only as good as exotics), then should we really care? Treadmill folks get their treadmill without affecting everyone else’s experience… why is that bad?

Try taking a 2 month break from the game, coming back and getting rejected from all groups for that dungeon because your gear score is too low :o

Agreed, but bring legendaries inline.

Please lock this thread. It doesn’t add anything that already isn’t in the other huge thread, and to me looks like it may be a troll looking to create flames.

replicant.3620:

The game isn’t dying. Ascended gear won’t be a better Stat Stick (It’ll work like Infused Armor from GW1). GW2 doesn’t need a carrot on a stick setup like other MMORPG’s. If you don’t like those things, then maybe GW2 isn’t the game for you.

The game IS dying. Most of my guild and everyone I’ve talked to’s guilds have died out and people are bored of the game because theres no endgame and no incentive to keep playing.

I love guild wars 2 but theres not much of a reason for people to do things. “Oh I got my pretty glowy shoulders, I guess I’m done now!” You’re not going to play dungeon content more than twice if theres NO GOAL OR REWARD. Face it, it’s true, you won’t do it.

Doing a dungeons for gear is a universal thing. It gives a reason to do all the dungeons multiple times. The way it currently works is you get the armor you like from one or two dungeons and then completely drop doing dungeons because you’ve gotten what you want.

Also dungeons are extremely poorly designed at the moment which makes it hard to want to do dungeons even if there is a worthwhile reward.

MrSilver.5269:

Please lock this thread. It doesn’t add anything that already isn’t in the other huge thread, and to me looks like it may be a troll looking to create flames.

How am I a troll? I’m expressing my opinion and because that doesn’t agree with yours its a troll post. Interesting.