Guild Wars 2

been keeping an eye on the feature pack for September, while some of it looks interesting a lot of it seems geared towards new players, so unless i’m missing the point I do not see a lot for veteran players.

apart from the performance updates and dungeon changes (which I think are awesome) i’m not seeing a lot else which excites me personally.

Also tomorrow’s reveal “A fresh start” sounds like more stuff older accounts won’t have a use for, we’ll see.

and then there is the final week of reveals “Collecting and Trading”
which could mean anything or nothing. but as a wise man once said Time will tell all

Lets see …
New PvP only armor from Tournaments and PvP track, doesn’t feel like focused towards new players.
Class balance change affects everyone.
WvW commander tag and the new Siege Golem mastery are focused more towards veteran players.
New Crafting UI and recipes affects all, but the new backpieces seems to be end level crafting, so rewarding the veterans.

Most of those may not excite you, but actually few of the updates are focuses towards new players, most of the changes affect both new and veterans or just veterans.

Belzebu.3912:

but the new backpieces seems to be end level crafting, so rewarding the veterans.

only crafting level 0-399, so no exotic lv.80 backbags. Not for veterans.

Belzebu.3912:

Lets see …
New PvP only armor from Tournaments and PvP track, doesn’t feel like focused towards new players.
Class balance change affects everyone.
WvW commander tag and the new Siege Golem mastery are focused more towards veteran players.
New Crafting UI and recipes affects all, but the new backpieces seems to be end level crafting, so rewarding the veterans.

Most of those may not excite you, but actually few of the updates are focuses towards new players, most of the changes affect both new and veterans or just veterans.

I really don’t see what others don’t see when they say things like the post above yours. Just how much free updated material does one expect every few months? It’s not just tweaks and bug fixes, I began to believe peeps think a 2 year old MMO development team consists of a vast army of workers that should be constantly and extremely frequently pumping out new and exciting things…….well that just isn’t reality now is it?

Marcus Greythorne.6843:

Belzebu.3912:

but the new backpieces seems to be end level crafting, so rewarding the veterans.

only crafting level 0-399, so no exotic lv.80 backbags. Not for veterans.

I just read the official announcement, can you link where you read that the new backpieces will be just for crafting 0-399?

it’s in the blogpost:

These backpacks don’t take much to build, but they’ll guide players up from novice to adept crafting in each discipline

Umm … I over-read that part, I thought it was about those new types of gear like the rifle in the example. Oh well, 1 item less in my list, haha
Still plenty of stuff for the veterans and the announcements didn’t even finished.

It really doesn’t matter if the back items are 400 or not. It wouldn’t make them veteran.

Every veteran has enough back items at this point to start up a whole supermarket.

Sure, but by veteran I meant “not new”, a feature where you need lvl 400 of a crafting skill isn’t focused for new players at all, so I would label as for “veteran”.

Well then the problem still stands that true veterans could use a few more things to do and stuff to earn.

Belzebu.3912:

Most of those may not excite you

Indeed.

- PvP rewards… great on them, they need more love, but I don’t do PvP.
- Class balance changes… mostly pretty minor and no new build options since launch.
- Commander tag… I have taken advantage of this, at least.
- Minor crafting QoL feature… snoozeville. still nice I guess.
- New back pieces… already got one thanks. btw they appear to be designed to the benefit of players who are not yet max level crafting?(??) VagueNet strikes again
- New leveling items… explicitly for new players.
- Profession loot… useless to anybody who already has what they need or the means to get it.

Looking at what’s been announced so far, there’s a decent number of arguable features that are sparking a lot of debate, padded with a lot of overdue fixes and humdrum tweaks.

and there we have it.

look I understand this is for QoL stuff and features and not content. the name Feature pack explains that quite well enough but after today? eish I don’t know about that one.

one week to go. and I am not feeling the love here as it were.

like I said in the OP I appreciate the coming performance upgrades, crafting ui changes and the mega server improvements heck even the commander title stuff but as a pve only player and 6 80’s I can’t say that i’m exactly feeling the love here as it were.

atleast I got some goals I set for myself in game. i’ll get back to those. atleast the game is still fun and at the end of the day that is what matters I suppose