Guild Wars 2

Strange title I know but bear with me….

My guild has been mmo’ing for a few years now and we’re all good friends. We have played through the abortion that was Aion, managed to get through the otherside and carried on with Conan, then Rift , m,ost recently SWOTOR (which we were all desperate to come out) and then got horrendously bored of latter. This was due to stupidly quick level progression and poor end game content. A few of us played TSW (well I did anyway) and loved the story but the gameplay just wasn’t there. Then the beta for GW2 came out and good god it was a game that looked to have cracked it. The reason our guild went off swotor was the repetitive grind of the 2 paltry raids that were available at launch. This along with the rubbish heroic versions of dungeons made the the game unplayable after a few months. Once you’ve completed both raids in nightmare after a month of launch you know that it’s way too easy!

Roll on gw2. The best thing about gw2 is it isn’t a grind, near enough every other mmo i’ve played it’s a grind to cap, and you can’t wait to get there. I have had no issue with starting 2 more characters once my main and alt hit 80, mainly cause the scenary, the 3 seperate story lines and just….well you know. However we are now running into that age old problem, we have a fairly close knit guild which, although fairly small, is used to grouping together and taking on challenges. Arah exp path 4 aside, there hasn’t really been one. I know anet have always said this is a pvp game so maybe we’re asking too much but our guild is now looking to leave for another game. I don’t really want to mention the R word but open world events just don’t have the commeradery (sp?) that traditional raids do. There’s no real sense of achievement in bringing the shatterer down because it’s camped, in fact they all are.

I am desperately trying to convince them to give it more time, I know it’s stupid to leave a game so early in it’s development but their argument is that unlike other games it’s paid for already and when it gets more end game they’ll come back. I’m not asking for raids, i’m just asking for something to keep us interested.

I like the comment you made on another thread about raids I know where you are coming from though it seems a lot of people are getting bored of this. There are people saying there needs to be some things added to the game or fix some things. I say either raids or a bigger/harder and longer/chain event(s).

I thought this was going to be a complaint about Clone Wars moving to Saturday mornings from Friday prime time.

That guy got my goat is all, one line sentances with no real discussion is just trolling in my opinion. There’s a fabulous post from Ordika that goes on about how mmo players are geared only for progression and that raids are systematic of that and I completely get his argumnent. I don’t happen to subscribe to it mainly because I’m one of those players but it’s a bloody fine post. People these days are too quick to rubbish an argument because they don’t agree with it, I just think that in a game that HAS to be both pve and pvp that they need to have content for both sets of players. There’s no need to concentrate on one or another, currently the pve aspect of GW2 is great but the difference with pvp is that you’re always fighting a new player….or a new boss as it were making the content different everytime.

Give organized WvW a try. It can be very challenging and rewarding. In fact, I would suggest trying to do WvW on a server like Kaineng or Devona’s Rest. This post is not made in sarcasm btw.

I didn’t think there was any sarcasm there mate, I know what you’re saying. organsied pvp is great but rare. we have 20 people in our guild that can…if you excuse the french as it were… kitten wvw and have done but it gets tiresome. wvw no matter what scenery or what map seems the same, defend this, attack that. I suppose in reality pve is the same in the long run but it never seems that way. I want a kitten off boss that has various phases, each one having a different stratergy. not these 2 phase bosses that we have at the moment. We still have to beat arah path 4, the only one that is testing us at the moment but once that’s done where next?