Guild Wars 2

note: this is just my thoughts, don’t take this as a “i’m right, they’re wrong” thing

When i first got the game i thought i’d be doing everything in the game and especially the dungeons, but i didn’t.

i guess i’ve always felt that dungeons are just one big sugar coated grind, and the sugar starts to lose its appeal after a few times.

sure, the gear looks nice and all, but i don’t want to spend that many hours doing something over and over and over and over just to get that item.

of course grinding for mats or anything similar is equally as boring, but here’s the thing, grinding for mats/ anything similar is usually put into context with other stuff, like events and world bosses.

all dungeons do is just the grind, i don’t think i ever will get the time to ENJOY the dungeon itself without worrying about my run times and how many runs i need to get that item, and the thought of the above in itself puts me out.

I remember when i first heard of GW1 with their “no grind” policy, and it did turn out to be a big grind nonetheless, and i thought that GW2 will have this thing down like nobody’s business, but it turns out it’s even a bigger grind.

with fractals it’s gotten a little better, but it’s not perfect, i can see it becoming a real problem when the ascended gear can be crafted and such.

i want to have the gear and have all the pretty items i want, but on the other hand there’s the excessive grind for all these things that i just won’t let me have fun.

i’d be more than happy building up resources and crafts to get a legendary item, but knowing that i need to grind at least 1 dungeon for it makes me not wanna do it.

right now i’m a window shopper, and it’s bugging the hell out of me.

I’d love to try a dungeon but I have no one to do them with.

Every MMO that claims to eliminate ‘the grind’ has failed. Every one… think about that the next time someone claims they have no grind.

That said, you can just play the story mode of dungeons to see them once, so that might be an option.

The fractals are just a shuffling of the same XX ‘cards’. It’s a grind, and a gear grind at that. Another thing that was promised to be avoided.

Seriously, Diablo 3 has better dungeons. It has fewer bug, fewer exploitable, better combat, more builds, solo-friendly and have much better grouping. Only thing GW2 do better is that GW2 dungeons don’t have strong gear-check in every level, at least by now. I am disappointed that Anet are making this game more and more dungeon-centric.

Honestly, ignoring fractals and the drama around it, dungeons all pay out about the same reward, and there’s at least 20 explorable paths.

20 different things you can do for dungeons at any one time (at 80), and at the minimum, 3 if you want to work towards a specific type of armor.

Not really much of a grind if you have a bunch of places you can go to get to the same thing at about the same speed.

I would love if every dungeon shared the same token type, even fractal.

Could run whatever you like to get what you want, and the DR would actually be a good fit then as well.

Hell if I’m ever going to find an Arah Exp group again.

Just adjust the rates or cost of items if they need to.

Plus there are still some dungeons I still haven’t done, and feel no desire to as they don’t have ANY rewards that I want, and while I’d like to experience the content it’s still the same old gimmicky overtuned stuff and I’m really not worried about it.

Atleast this way, if I want a specific armor set or weapon skins I can just do ANY dungeons I want, AC path 3, SE path 2, CoF path 3, or whatever combination and be able to progress toward my specific reward, goes in line with Anet’s philosophy really.