Guild Wars 2

Im suffering badly from diminshing returns. I’m playing the game and the enjoyment I get from it is diminishing. Orr is stupidly boring and broken, with DE’s stuck in limbo, stupidly frustrating respawn rates and massive zergs on the events that arent broken and yet its the only place that is a halfway decent place to get any viable amount of gold.

The personal story “climax” was frustrating, unenjoyable and unrewarding. The lure of “exotics” is purely a matter of aesthetics and to be honest there isnt one set of skins I prefer on the thief over the medium gem store set (unsurprisingly). Crafting is so boring it practically makes me narcoleptic, and the rings and amulet I’ve made through Jewelling at 400 would have been cheaper to buy on the TP, I really can’t be bothered to continue with LW having looked up the exotic skins you can make, which are super-mega-fugly.

The social side of the game is severely lacking also, guild chat is mostly lvl 80’s complaining about being bored or yet-to-be lvl 80’s who aren’t bored yet but soon will be. People aren’t running dungeons with anywhere near as much frequency as they were. Combat is dull, dodge, hit, dodge, hit, blind, hit, dodge, blind, hit, wtf respawns?? etc etc. I’ve completed all of the PVE areas in terms of map completion and whilst that provided some motivation short term its now done and I have to do the same in the PVP areas…and I’m just not interested enough.

I have all the variants of black dye, yay, now my toon can be dressed in black and hang around smoking in Lions Arch with all the other cool kids…yawn. I really cant be bothered to grind dungeons for what is essentially a “looks” upgrade, so what am I aiming for? Theres just no motivation. I have to grind 42k karma for every piece of armor I don’t like the look of and won’t make me any tougher or powerful? Not happening…I got better things to do.

I hate to say it (as its how all other MMO’s are constructed and I respect the desire to try something new), but this game seriously needs raids, or at least some other viable, rewarding end-game pursuit. Something that encourages communication and offers reward. Its all stick and no carrot. And repair costs in pvp? Really? I’ll break all my armor, go be bored in Orr for two hours and then repeat. Yawn.

People say “don’t spend all your time in Orr, go explore the world” but beyond looking admittedly fantastic, the rest of the world is just as pointless…more so when you are all geared up and theres no challenge.

So yeah, before anyone clever suggests it, I’ll go do something else for a while and keep an eye on the patches I guess…

And yes, I got my moneys worth. For a single player game, However, I preferred Skyrim.