Guild Wars 2

Phoenix.6735:

It’s just so funny. Diablo 3 started off bad and got increasingly better after patches, this one just went from hero to zero with just one major content patch after release.

Between the gear treadmill, bugs, stupid one-time events and the piss poor technical design of fractals, I’m out. GW2 was a $60 well spent, but not a single cent more when it could have got more from me.

Diablo 3 is still bad. The only people still playing it are bots so they can get their paragon 100, because it can’t realistically be attained by a person who has anything resembling a life. Guild Wars 2 started off bad and became worse. They give you one boring pvp mode with terrible balance that drives off the pvp crowd, and give you a bunch of dungeons that are apparently too easy to drive off the dungeon crowd (I don’t actually know as I’ve never run a dungeon, but this is what I hear). Now they give you some Progress Quest rip-off gear grind with events that punish players unless they spent every minute of their free time logged into the game. Core mechanics in both games have been dumbed down from their predecessors to the point that a monkey could play the game without hesitation. There’s my rant, both games will be gathering dust for me.

It looks like this is the GW2 version of the NGE for star wars galaxies.

Which is incredible, as this game just came out a couple months and I was really liking it.

Why do they insist on doing this? =(

NGE was released in November too!

Infusions are an integral part of their gear treadmill. They have already explicitly said there will be more (read: increasingly better) versions of them.

This needs a sticky, people are still misinformed and think the difference is only 2 points or what not.

mjharrison.3209:

Infusions are an integral part of their gear treadmill. They have already explicitly said there will be more (read: increasingly better) versions of them.

This is the harsh truth. Most of the grind and treadmilling in this new gear/infusion double whammy update is in the infusion upgrades. The more ascended pieces you have, the more infusions you need to keep your gear up to date. 12 gear pieces and 12 infusions. When the new tier of infusions release, you can grind for another 12, then another, and another. And another.