Guild Wars 2

I’ll keep it brief. The lack of needing to grind for gear to stay competitive is very much welcome. I was somewhat hardcore back in college with WoW being able to obtain the best gear, but don’t have that level of time to commit any longer. This is great on so many levels I’m glad we don’t have to do this. At the same time after reaching max level I’m somewhat at a loss of what to do. The natural thing to do is go run dungeons to improve my gear, but the stat gains are minimal and the best looking armor I already have (norn cultural cloth tier 1 is awesome) Orr just isn’t interesting due to the zergyness, dungeons are just chaotic and lack structure and you can only get rolled by a zerg in WvW so many times before becoming frustrated. The poor quality of most traits discourages experimenting with builds.

I hope things will improve in the near future. GW2 has a very very good core setup here, but I guess I just had higher expectations for the epic scope of the events/dungeons and had thought the combat would be somewhat deeper/complex than it is.

Still, worth every bit the $60 I paid for it so I can’t complain too much. Kudos to Anet but I hope refinements come sooner rather than later =D

I completely agree with you. They better be listening or else! waves fist

My thought here is that when we have something good, we always want more!

Im only level 38 or 39, and I actually bought into the game prerelease. Your level of time commitment must be pretty high, I feel like I have played quite a bit and still not reached level cap or seen most of the world map.

Though I would agree, I do think there is always some room for improvement, and right now im optimistic that the game can only get better.

Zinnabun.3560:

I completely agree with you. They better be listening or else! waves fist

I don’t know if I’d wave my fist, but I agree with the rest of your post. Here’s hoping they make changes soon.

Me for one, i think it’s awesome ….

This game was more fun in 3 weeks than, WoW in 3 years ….

As for endgame:
Did you do ALL explorables yet?

Sure, may not be because of gear … but y’know… it’s fun!

Dunno, but for me it’s more fun to do stuff because of “being fun to play” rather than having to do it to grind Gear, which I need to farm further Gear, which … you guess it, is used to farm further Gear… which… ok, … i think you get it !

What they guy above me said… ever tried to have fun instead of waving your kitten?
My idea of finishing map means I talked to majority of npcs and checked their dialogues not just ran from poi to vista to skill challege and as soon as i got 100% left and never came back.

I played a game like DAoC for over 5 years, just mostly doing PvP alone. So far WvW is pretty fun (Not on DAoC’s level, nothing ever can be) but for me that is my endgame. :P

If you like your carrot on a stick type of gameplay there are plenty of others out there…Though you have a point, it would be nice to see other types of new things to do at level cap.

HiSaZuL.2843:

What they guy above me said… ever tried to have fun instead of waving your kitten?
My idea of finishing map means I talked to majority of npcs and checked their dialogues not just ran from poi to vista to skill challege and as soon as i got 100% left and never came back.

This is trophy hunting. This is exactly what console games do once you beat them, give you more objectives that are trivial just so you can feel like you’re accomplishing things. This is a competitive game, it’s focus is PvP, that’s why they have tournaments and are wanting an e-sport to come out of it.

There is no character progression at 80, I don’t know if that will ever change. This game has heaps of potential, I just feel it was a bit pushed out too early.