I love how:
Amazing the soundtrack is
It makes my every action feel more heroic and my truly heroic actions feel monumental.
The unique and stunning artstyle
No fictional world can compare to the beauty of Tyria’s landscapes, clothing, or architecture (with the obvious exception of the hideous Orr).
Adventuring is a delight
While the rewards for adventuring and playing the game as it was intended to be played are currently too low, the experience is incredible. There is so much open world content. There is such a large variety of dynamic events. There are so many sights, so much amusing ambient dialogue, and so much to experience.
The combat can be awesome
Oh sure, it’s no Devil May Cry, but that doesn’t make it lacking. As an Elementalist, nearly every fight is a dance of spells and dodges. If I go out of my way to challenge myself, I’m going to have a good time.
The community is generally pretty friendly
It has its bad apples, but not very many.
It’s actually fun to make alts.
A large variety of maps and striking differences in playstyle between classes and even different builds within classes make the leveling process for each character unique.
The Personal Story may not be great, but it’s such a vast improvement over what the genre has been giving players.
Being able to make my own choices to any degree is a significant improvement. In most MMO’s, there is little to no context to what I’m doing, very little in the means of coherent story and lore, and next to no choice.
I love the lack of a trinity. So much.
When the system works, it’s beautiful. It’s always more organic than the trinity system, IMO, but the game could be refined to compliment the system better.
Separate loot, nodes, and rewards was the best idea ever.
No more arguing over loot through the use of some archaic “Need, Greed, or Pass” system. No more stealing mobs or bosses. No more arbitrarily losing a resource node because XxSasukeUchihaXx beat you to it. Everyone participates, everyone gets rewarded.
The monthly updates have been awesome.
Halloween in Guild Wars 2 was hands down the most epic patch to an MMO ever released. It was exciting, original, and fun. Each major update has added something of significance for no charge (even if that something could often use more refining) and with promises of more to come.
Oh, sure, the game has its issues, but I give it a 9/10. I earnestly hope that it will improve over the coming months and years so that it can be a nigh-perfect experience.
