Guild Wars 2

After all the changes to this game and with all the new features, having a mode where it was almost vanilla (maybe circa 2013?) would be really nice. As someone who played since launch and hasn’t returned since HoT, I’d like to see this.

All of vanilla Tyria PvE on a char that doesn’t have an elite profession is the place you can play vanilla gameplay. Source: An account of mine that doesn’t have HoT and an account that does but has chars that don’t have elite specs.

Other than that, I’m not sure why ANet would want to revamp the game to make whole new maps shards for people that haven’t played in over a year and who don’t want to play with anyone whose bought the expansion and uses elite specs.

Why?
the only things that would really change are a few maps, like Kessex Hills, and a few rare events would be removed

I think it’s a great idea to have a vanilla Guild Wars 2. Just make sure when you do it Anet to remove the wardrobe, updated crafting UI including the ability to craft from stuff in your bank, remove the 2 gold per day for the dailies, reinsert the falling bug that occurred when you ran downhill, makes sure you can’t salvage by right clicking a salvage kit, oh and make sure you can’t preview anything on the trading post.

Pretty sure that some people are seeing vanilla Guild Wars 2 through rose-colored glasses.

Vayne.8563:

Pretty sure that some people are seeing vanilla Guild Wars 2 through rose-colored glasses.

Yeah, over in WoW it pretty much always turns out that they are asking for the experience they had back then — the “feel” of the game.

Which is mostly tied to the people they played with, and the relative degree of “newness” that MMOs as a genre had for them at the time, so changing the game wouldn’t actually help with any of it anyhow…

Guild Wars 2 is the vanilla and hot is umm something not what tho . and the

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Guild Wars 2 is the vanilla and hot is umm something not what tho . and the

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HoT is broccoli flavored, of course.

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Vayne.8563:

Pretty sure that some people are seeing vanilla Guild Wars 2 through rose-colored glasses.

Yeah, over in WoW it pretty much always turns out that they are asking for the experience they had back then — the “feel” of the game.

Which is mostly tied to the people they played with, and the relative degree of “newness” that MMOs as a genre had for them at the time, so changing the game wouldn’t actually help with any of it anyhow…

Disagree
People say that its the experience but that experience isn’t gone over time it’s gone over pruning. WoW classes are nothing like they were in the day and the nostalgia that holds people in place was destroyed with the Cataclysm expansion.

Gw2 while not as old as WoW has had class pruning and neglect in the way of the shift of Esports things like trait mechanics removed, animations reduced, underwater abandoned, and when was the last time there was a season in WvW.. Maps changed with constant junk and trash from all the S1 events while the player base becoming more toxic first with the shift to esports, then to the shift to raiders, and now the few remaining WvW players are forced to deal with T1 elitism due to linking servers.

These things have pivot points and I’d say the pivot point from the feel of old Gw2 to the current was the destruction of Lions Arch. Old LA represented everything great about how things were done in the past while the destroyed LA represents decay the time period with the longest content droughts. The new variant is hollow lacking a soul and doesn’t make sense in regards to lore. Even currently with new current events an other notes they talk about LA being a den of thieves and pirates but it’s basically sea world what with the giant sea life shaped buildings and clean giant massive areas.

I play something akin to the OP’s request with so.e degree of frequency. Every time I log into core maps I get such an experience.

u can just dont buy hot ^^

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WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

Guild Wars 2 is the vanilla and hot is umm something not what tho . and the

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HoT is broccoli flavored, of course.

oh that what we calling it hum wonders if it be more better salmed in extra sharp cheddar cheese