Guild Wars 2

Allow players to choose whether they want “Beginner” or “Veteran” mode upon making a new character.

Keep all the gating behind the “Beginner” mode.

Please? Thanks.

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This is what most of the criticism about the feature pack boils down to.

I agree. The new leveling system is insulting and honestly very boring. I would have gotten bored to death leveling up if this is how it was at launch.

Edit: Also please do NOT make Guild Wars 3 (if ever) use a system like this.

Not going to happen. Anet nowadays is too prideful to admit that they can be wrong. Doing this will give them the metrics to show that the number of people using this “Beginner” option that they apparently worked so hard at, would be negligible. This would easily display a great mismanagement of resources and direction, thus threatening the job security of the people who came up with this (and the people you are asking to give us this option).

You might as well ask a lazy, crooked businessman to voluntarily participate in an audit. Not only that but spend his time and resources to make it easier for these auditors to see what he’s been doing. You are asking people unfit for their job to make a case against themselves. It is NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

i question whether people who are saying it would be boring can honestly know that given they have already experienced another way of doing things, it might very well be a better experience for new players.
leveling in the lower levels is much faster now so you’d be over most of the humps within a couple hours anyway and thats if you didnt have a billion skip to level 20 scrolls

I’d rather see something different altogether – upon hitting a certain criteria (level 80, 100% map completion, certain wvw rank – any or all of the above? I don’t know) I would like to see all newly made characters automatically equipped with a level 20 scroll.

Leveling alts is tedious, regardless of what system you use – there is absolutely no way around the fact that leveling alts just plain sucks.

This system is certainly more friendly for leveling, because it’s done so absurdly fast you’ll unlock everything much easier than you did before. There’s certainly no “timegating” if you can actually do it faster than the previous version, right? Oh, elites are locked at level 40? Excuse me, you must have missed the very important memo:

YOU CAN GET TO LEVEL 40 FASTER NOW.

But alt leveling is, and always has been, brutal punishment.

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i question whether people who are saying it would be boring can honestly know that given they have already experienced another way of doing things, it might very well be a better experience for new players.
leveling in the lower levels is much faster now so you’d be over most of the humps within a couple hours anyway and thats if you didnt have a billion skip to level 20 scrolls

See this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-On3Ya0_4Y

This system is destructive, counter productive, boring, frustrating and hands holding.
You broke my favorite game (yes, i’m going to QQ on every 2 threads cause i want to bump this up)