Guild Wars 2

1000 hrs strong and still having a blast. Millenials, represent!

Congratulations.

I hit the wall at 800 hours, my girlfriend is at 350 (a bit casual) but still playing.
My main issue is that I have nothing interesting to do left :/ but I believe this is mostly due to the fact most classes are still beta-ish so I can’t get myself to play them.
Got a Guardian to 80 then realized the major flaws of the class (no cripple/way to stay in range, no ranged), got Warrior to 80 then realized a ton of core skills are buggy and clunky, got a Thief to 80 and loved every second of it (most finalized class I played so far, only a couple bugs and the rest is very smooth).
Other classes don’t inspire me remotely, played my gf’s Ele a bit (too simple for my tastes, where’s this “high skill ceiling”?) and I’m tempted to make a power Necro but cannot find the willpower to level to 80 for the fourth time.

Not bad tho, the only game that got me into it for longer is Guild Wars 1 (but taking into account all expansions and farming for rare skin drops which is not implemented in GW2).

How do I check my hours played? Sorry for the noob question, I’m just curious.

Captain Maugrymm.1753:

How do I check my hours played? Sorry for the noob question, I’m just curious.

/age

nothing wrong with asking a question <3

lchan.2169:

good to know you blew 40+ days of your life doing nothing substantial. Or almost 60 days including your sleeps.

someone is bitter

Congratulations, I’m surprised at how many people have played 1000 hours. I’m about half that myself and I play quite a lot.

Vol.5241:

lchan.2169:

good to know you blew 40+ days of your life doing nothing substantial. Or almost 60 days including your sleeps.

someone is bitter

I hate to say it, or just realistic. I suppose I could be bitter about someone who spends close to all their free time in one spot, but why would I be?

Someone tell me if my math is wrong, out of a possible 3672 hours since release, he’s played 1000. So just over 27% of his time is spent in front of a computer playing one game.

edit I don’t mean to be rude though —- Congratulations on your achievement, Volkon.

People are allowed to spend their time in whatever they want. Next.

nice thread, i’ll join in in couple months… I wonder what will happen first, – completing my character(including legendary) or 1000 hours.

I have around 660 hours now, and my highest character is lvl 48 XD im soooo sloooow, but enjoying every second of the game, that might be the reason im slow. i think im scared to hit lvl cap because i might get bored then :o

It’s good to see you are still enjoying the game. I hope to join the 1000s next month.

long way to go here only 629- congrats Op

Seeing the reaction to 1000 hours, I can’t begin to imagine what people will say to me…

1,072 hours here. Still loving every part of the game and still so much to do and see!

Awesome!!! Congratulations! I think I started almost 2 weeks ago, so I must’ve logged around 50-70 hours by now xD

VOLKON.1290:

1000 hrs strong and still having a blast. Millenials, represent!

Pretty sad, spending that much of your life in a game… even sadder, this game.

I have been playing since the release of the game, I have logged in 72 hours. Between full time work, full time school, wife and my 3 year old son, I get about 4 hours per week to play computer games, which I use to play GW2, about 2 hours each on Sundays and Mondays.

Congrats OP! Sitting it close to 1200 hours myself with 4 level 80s. Planning a 5th ,ranger or warrior

Red Falcon.8257:

Congratulations.

I hit the wall at 800 hours, my girlfriend is at 350 (a bit casual) but still playing.
My main issue is that I have nothing interesting to do left :/ but I believe this is mostly due to the fact most classes are still beta-ish so I can’t get myself to play them.
Got a Guardian to 80 then realized the major flaws of the class (no cripple/way to stay in range, no ranged), got Warrior to 80 then realized a ton of core skills are buggy and clunky, got a Thief to 80 and loved every second of it (most finalized class I played so far, only a couple bugs and the rest is very smooth).
Other classes don’t inspire me remotely, played my gf’s Ele a bit (too simple for my tastes, where’s this “high skill ceiling”?) and I’m tempted to make a power Necro but cannot find the willpower to level to 80 for the fourth time.

Not bad tho, the only game that got me into it for longer is Guild Wars 1 (but taking into account all expansions and farming for rare skin drops which is not implemented in GW2).

Wait what? No ranged and no way to stay in range for guardian? Are we even playing the same profession/game.

1h sword (gap closer), meditations (healing/burning gap closer, healing/damaging condition removal, scepter+torch (immobilize, high sustained damage, burst, burning). Along with that they still keep high staying power compared to any other damage oriented spec.

Some people dont like the fact that other people spent so much time playing a game.
Not everyone has the same way to have fun, some like to spend their time walking in the park and others play gw2.

Mister Mustard.7203:

Vol.5241:

lchan.2169:

good to know you blew 40+ days of your life doing nothing substantial. Or almost 60 days including your sleeps.

someone is bitter

I hate to say it, or just realistic. I suppose I could be bitter about someone who spends close to all their free time in one spot, but why would I be?

Someone tell me if my math is wrong, out of a possible 3672 hours since release, he’s played 1000. So just over 27% of his time is spent in front of a computer playing one game.

edit I don’t mean to be rude though —- Congratulations on your achievement, Volkon.

I know it sounds like a lot… but the question is what is that time replacing? I’ve a full time job, wife, two kids, etc. and still have plenty of time. What I don’t do anymore is plop on the couch watching TV. That time is replaced with computer time with the kids (who also don’t watch much TV). I also work rather well on about six hours sleep. I do the lion’s share of the cooking, which I’m rather good at, a good share of cleaning and handle most the laundry, which is rather easy to take care of while the game’s up. I even squeeze in a daily exercise routine. Ah, I’m also the goto Dad for homework, especially science and math.

Basically it’s replaced my “do nothing” time. I’d rather keep my mind engaged online than stagnant staring at the TV.

Alas, I am not there yet. Maybe one day I will be able to join this exclusive club.

http://i.imgur.com/DcK5Z.jpg

I hit the 1000 hr mark not long ago too, though I spend most of my time last 2 months just afking in lions arch just checking my black lion transactions every hour or 2 and troll a bit.

yeah, i hit that too by standing in LA bored with nothing to do in this game.

Nuka Cola.8520:

yeah, i hit that too by standing in LA bored with nothing to do in this game.

If that’s true, I don’t think the problem lies in the game.

I don’t really think there’s a problem, it’s pretty normal for people to just get bored with a game after a while, specially after putting over 500 hrs into it.

SneakyErvin.3056:

Wait what? No ranged and no way to stay in range for guardian? Are we even playing the same profession/game.

1h sword (gap closer), meditations (healing/burning gap closer, healing/damaging condition removal, scepter+torch (immobilize, high sustained damage, burst, burning). Along with that they still keep high staying power compared to any other damage oriented spec.

I doubt we’re playing against remotely similarly skilled people.

Gap closers won’t keep the gap closed, any person with a brain will just open the gaps immediately.
Immob from scepter is something that again anyone with a couple brain cells will remove immediately.
Sure, Guardian has a lot of staying power but anyone with a brain will just stay away from you successfully and kite you to death.

-Hehe can i join the club :P ?

Congrats on having so much fun!

I’ve played over 1000 hours too and I still have things to look for. Like map completion later tonight when I can change servers. Grass is greener on the green corner of Eternal Battlegrounds.

I quite prefer playing GW2 to watching TV several hours every night, sadly one is considered the norm and the other odd.

Ze Dos Cavalos.6132:

Nayru.4537:

Chaos.7231:

He labelled it a “milestone”, which it is.

I r fanboy.

Milestone of sadness?

Sad people are those that care so much about what other people think that they waste their free time doing stuff they dont want to do.

Quote for true !

1,274 hours …

Probably 2/3 of that in WvW, rest in PVE

Im at around 1.5k hours.. alot of its afking but i have 4 80s.. and still alot of fun.

Congratulations on spending 1000+ hours on a game! Instead of with your two kids or with your wife! Try and make it to 1500+ now.

1,291 hours and change.. Still playing too

i’ll be honest, i got bored of this game for the most part around 900 hours in, but i continue to play because of friends, mainly helping them get their Legendaries.

8+ hours a day? That’s a full time job. I’m at 180h in 4 months and I think I play way to much.

So this is how your day goes. Get up 6:30am, get ready to be at work for 8:00am. Off work at 5:00pm. Now you need 8 hours of playing time that day. So you’re up till 1:00am playing, every week night? Nice one. Either your character sits idle alot while you’re afk or, wow, just wow.

Gz

im only on 200+ hours, but im a hardcore wow player tho

you people waste too much of your life with this IMO.

real life is not that long.

Red Falcon.8257:

SneakyErvin.3056:

Wait what? No ranged and no way to stay in range for guardian? Are we even playing the same profession/game.

1h sword (gap closer), meditations (healing/burning gap closer, healing/damaging condition removal, scepter+torch (immobilize, high sustained damage, burst, burning). Along with that they still keep high staying power compared to any other damage oriented spec.

I doubt we’re playing against remotely similarly skilled people.

Gap closers won’t keep the gap closed, any person with a brain will just open the gaps immediately.
Immob from scepter is something that again anyone with a couple brain cells will remove immediately.
Sure, Guardian has a lot of staying power but anyone with a brain will just stay away from you successfully and kite you to death.

Similary skilled as what? Myself or you? I dont know how skilled you are, but I assume I play with equally skilled people compared to me and I have no issues. If you play against equally skilled people as you then the problem isnt the class.

You have many 1200 ranged skills and gap closers. As easy as it is for them to clear roots and all, it is for you to remove any condition you want pretty much. A few utilities allow you to do that in addition to healing yourself and closing the gap.

You can rock a very high damage spec for guardians and still keep above avarage survivability. If you have issues keeping the gap closed there is always the retaliation specs for you. Just because the gap isnt closed doesnt mean you cant hurt the enemy plenty from range just as they do to you.

Guardians also have a multitude of defensive abilities backe din with offense, asking for a gap closer is like a thief asking for more base HP and more armor.

rogerwilko.6895:

you people waste too much of your life with this IMO.

real life is not that long.

I don’t have 1000 hours played but your post is a bit judgmental- how can you decide what people should do with their free time?
I haven’t watched TV in more than 20 years- I don’t even own one.
I do have 9 book cases full of books and 15 boxes in the garage though.

If I want to spend my free time playing GW2 then who are you to judge?
How exactly should we not waste our lives?
I play this game with my husband and kid, it is a fun.
Before you say get out more, yes we do that too

At least 2 good things have come out of my addiction, yes addiction, to gw 1 and 2. I quit smoking and drastically cut down on my drinking. From bar tabs $100-200 every Friday and Saturday night and 1-2 packs per day…I figure it has saved me roughly $16-17,000 a year for the past 4 years. 64 thousand dollars not too shabby!

Essence Snow.3194:

At least 2 good things have come out of my addiction, yes addiction, to gw 1 and 2. I quit smoking and drastically cut down on my drinking. From bar tabs $100-200 every Friday and Saturday night and 1-2 packs per day…I figure it has saved me roughly $16-17,000 a year for the past 4 years. 64 thousand dollars not too shabby!

That’s awesome! Congrats!!! As to everyone else judging…im sure you all spent countless hours doing other things, watching TV, etc, it’s all about what you find fun, so don’t judge.

251 hours, only one level 80 and the rest of my alts aren’t past level 20.

Get on my level \o/

i just hit a 1000 today too lol
with over 900 deaths as well

So is that really a crafting booster on?

1350 hours played here

Working on my second Legendary, The Predator.

Trixstir.3956:

So is that really a crafting booster on?

Holy crap, it is! I decided to start cranking artificing to 400, had run out of mats by this time.

Guess my mind had just be blown that after all that play time just now ya work on it :P

1137 hours here, still enjoying the game.

Zogyark.4597:

I don’t really think there’s a problem, it’s pretty normal for people to just get bored with a game after a while, specially after putting over 500 hrs into it.

Not usually in an MMO ….

otherwise why would you even buy it, they are for long term playing obviously… an ever expanding online world?

Next step, log 1000 hours doing stuff IRL…

But seriously, good work. I think I am at around 100 lol