Guild Wars 2

I’m not a crafter. I have disliked crafting in nearly every game I have played: The only exception I can think of where I actually ENJOYED it was Vanguard; I tolerated it in LotRO. If a game requires that I craft, it is not a game for me.

In most MMOs, I can just contribute to a guild / friend who will craft on my behalf. That is impossible in GW2 for most “end game” things (Mawdrey, ascended armor, legendaries, new precursor system). When I heard about the new precursor/legendary system, I was really excited. I thought back to getting my epic weapon back in EverQuest: A huge, long quest I could chip away at over time, that required some difficult encounters, teamwork, and some farming. We got some of that, but then a whole bunch of crafting.

Am I the only one turned off by this kind of thing? I’m not asking for it to be easy or handed to me. I’m just asking for a way to accomplish the same things WITHOUT having to craft (and, in my case, without having to grind tradeskills up to 500, THEN go through the crafting process required). But I would rather farm some hard-to-get items for a month or two than to spend a month or two farming the gold necessary to craft items to get the thing.

what’s funny is you like grinding and then think your opinion on anything but grinding matters. lmao

Well, to start, I didn’t say I liked grinding. Second, I don’t really know what your point is or really why you felt the need to post at all, since you aren’t really adding to the conversation.

(it’s a free bump don’t complain. ) And you do you said you don’t mind grinding for one-two months..that’s a lot of time.

wolfie.7296:

(it’s a free bump don’t complain. ) And you do you said you don’t mind grinding for one-two months..that’s a lot of time.

haha thank you

Nah, I didn’t say I like grinding. I said I would prefer slowly working on a longer quest over a period of two months than having to craft to achieve something like Mawdrey. Not sitting in Silverwastes for hours each day, but go in there, run the event, get a small part of it. Repeat until I have enough. Like getting a Torment weapon back inGW1.

RDarken.2495:

wolfie.7296:

(it’s a free bump don’t complain. ) And you do you said you don’t mind grinding for one-two months..that’s a lot of time.

haha thank you

Nah, I didn’t say I like grinding. I said I would prefer slowly working on a longer quest over a period of two months than having to craft to achieve something like Mawdrey. Not sitting in Silverwastes for hours each day, but go in there, run the event, get a small part of it. Repeat until I have enough. Like getting a Torment weapon back inGW1.

what’s wierd is you didn’t say the same to squee’s unconstructive comment here to you, that doesn’t even talk about part of the game like I did (ie grinding on my part.) Why is that?

I was talking to you xD But I figured my post would just get ignored, as it probably should have. And also because I didn’t come here just to tell him his opinion doesn’t matter.

I don’t mind the crafting, although I have to admit that I used GW2crafts.net to get through it all as efficiently as I could. I did a little “normal” crafting for a while, but it seems very tedious to craft a little here and a little there as you level up.

It’s a bit odd that, because so many end-tier crafted goods are account-bound, the game pushes everyone to master every crafting discipline. Your friends and guildmates might help you speed through some time restrictions, but once you reach exotic armor, you’re really on your own from there.

Redenaz.8631:

I don’t mind the crafting, although I have to admit that I used GW2crafts.net to get through it all as efficiently as I could. I did a little “normal” crafting for a while, but it seems very tedious to craft a little here and a little there as you level up.

It’s a bit odd that, because so many end-tier crafted goods are account-bound, the game pushes everyone to master every crafting discipline. Your friends and guildmates might help you speed through some time restrictions, but once you reach exotic armor, you’re really on your own from there.

Yeah, I GW2 crafted my way up to 400 weaponsmith on one character. Mostly because I wanted Vision of the Mists. I was going to bite the bullet to get to 500, but a guildie gave me a walkthrough and it really turned me off

Squee.7829:

I was talking to you xD But I figured my post would just get ignored, as it probably should have. And also because I didn’t come here just to tell him his opinion doesn’t matter.

Yes you said nothing at all constructive, but somehow didn’t get attention from the op? Whereas I made a point about the op being ok with grinding which is relevant to the topic.