Guild Wars 2

Actually want to run the other dungeons?

Personally… No. There are very basic fundamental flaws in general Dungeon / Mob / Boss design coupled with a huge obvious flaw with the Token system. CoF wasn’t stopping people from running other dungeons. How un-fun those other dungeons are is what’s stopping people from running other dungeons.

For reference, I’ve done a lot of the other explorable paths/dungeons for the sake of seeing what’s out there. We haven’t failed one nor have we died more than a few times per player. They’re just not fun, laborious at times, and frankly very poorly designed. A lot of bosses seem to have a design philosophy of: “let’s make this ‘challenging’ by adding a few too many zeroes to its hp”. I’ve alt-tabbed out of fights to pass the time browsing the internet. My auto attack beat the boss.

The Dungeon patch has now made me basically not want to play my level 80 at all. WvWvW is pretty much broken. Queues aside, most of the matchups are extremely lopsided and they last a whole week now. No incentive for either the winning side or the losing side. DE’s are pointless for me since Karma is pointless for me. Grinding Orr is well grinding and mind numbing. No reason to visit lower level zones, nevermind the entry fee for waypointing there. Dungeons are not enjoyable to begin with. There wouldn’t be such a huge need for knee jerk poorly designed dungeon patches like this if you actually made dungeons enjoyable with a reasonable reward system.

In the midst of all this “end game” complaining… Overall, I feel that GW2 doesn’t lack content. There’s a ton of it. The issue is that the content itself is designed poorly which is really a deficiency on two fronts: 1) poorly designed karma, dungeon token, and even WvW badge systems and 2) the actual PvE encounters are quite frankly not enjoyable on a repeatable level.

It still feels like we’re playing a largely unfinished, broken game with no idea as to when core elements will be fixed. (Unfinished in the sense that elements were left broken at release, not in the sense that there is more content to be added later)