Guild Wars 2

It’s fun.

/end

1) Motivation inspired by cosmetics
2) Cosmetics that are attractive at all levels, yet a clear intuitive understanding on what is high-end and what is low-end
3) The ratio of time put in to attractiveness of gear
4) The art
5) Fluidity of movement; jumping
6) Dyes and general individualization
7) Lots of interesting cosmetic choices, but not saturated like Borderlands

It’s an easy game to get into. By the time you hit 80 you can very easily get a set of rares, and exotics aren’t big enough of a stat increase where a person in all rares is hopeless against a person in exotics in WvW. And as someone with mostly rares and some masterwork pieces, I still feel extremely useful in WvW situations.

It’s refreshing in the sense that it’s more of a sandbox game(not to the point where it’s like Minecraft or Terraria, for obvious reasons) then a themepark game like most MMOs. You can do pretty much whatever you want when you want. Coming from a game like WoW it’s just a very refreshing game and a nice change of pace.

Guardians! I love Paladins. If there’s an option to make a Paladin in a game, I make a Paladin. I love my Ret Paladin in WoW. Being able to support allies while also going around crushing my foes is fun. And Guardian is definitely the closest thing in this game to a Paladin.

There’s also a nice nostalgia factor. I definitely remember some names mentioned in GW2 that were in GW1. There’s even armor sets named after some of the GW1 characters. Not to mention some music was carried over from the original GW. Plus, the EXP needed to get a skill point at max level is oddly similar to the EXP needed to get a skill point in GW1 when you got level 20. The little stuff counts, too! :P

Vakirauta.6397:

Veldan.4637:

I love GW2 because it cleared a few things up for me:

1) perfect MMO will never exist
2) a game with cash shop currency convertible to ingame currency isn’t worth playing
3) don’t believe everything that’s said in a pre launch hype, in fact, don’t believe anything of it

Fuz.5621:

…because there’s no vertical progression and no grind like every other mmo.

lol’d

I bet it was sarcasm. Plus I agree with you Veldan.

I haven’t touched the game since that betrayal. I can’t even enjoy other parts of the game like spvp anymore because its just wrong.