Guild Wars 2

Maybe it is just temporal, or maybe it is only due to low population of my server, I feel fotm is killing this game for me, faster than 10-mins exp dungeons. And no, I don’t mean I hate it. In fact, I like it. It is good. The problem is it is too good. There is no points you do anything other than fractals. All maps beside LA are empty now. Guilds are literally in fractals of 5. My whole server is in fractals. One thing I like about GW2 is that you can have your progression on many different goals (fancy-looking exotics, legionaries, achievements etc) in many different ways, kind of like a sandbox. Now most of them are getting nerf or dump down. I mean if so, why don’t you just have a join/create fotm option on the character selection screen so we can go directly form groups to fotm? Why need the social parts like guilds, communities? Why need a worlds to explore? Why need a crafting system? Why need a story line? Fractals always gives faster gold, better gears, better drop. I feel I lack the motivation to play. I don’t know if anyone feel the same.

P.S. The thread is a bit related but not talking about ascended gears. Pleas don’t hijack it too far away.

Some of that can be attributed to the newness of the dungeon. People love to gobble up new content. I think it will eventually settle down and you will see old dungeons being run again.

You are correct. There is no reason to hang out in Malchior’s Leap or Cursed Shore unless you’ve just hit 80th and are farming towards buying Exotics from the BLTC sellers. People can’t chain farm Plinx in Cursed Shore and they don’t want to farm the various god priests. The interested players don’t even have to set foot into the new karka hell that is the new open world zone.

All things considered, an established 80th character should only do instanced Fractals and let the rest of the game rot. For a game that was focused on open world Dynamic Events and the random interactions of non-grouped players, this is a severe shift from the initial focus of the game. Now like pretty much every other MMO, GW2 will have a Dyamic Event “climb” as Game #1 and an instanced grind fest in the Fractal dungeon for Game #2.

there is no way no please the heavy content grinders/ farmers/ hardcore people who play 40h a week.
only fractals… and pvp.
no content will ever suffice.

the solution is: player created content, and, amazing pvp or wvw.

no other way that i know off can satiate players who already have 100% explore and the best gear.
they are.. too intense.

i wish for them a game designer can save their life, one day

This same exact thing happened to wow. People blame the dungeon finder for emptying out the world but really its just because the rewards in dungeons out pace anything else in the game. Fractals give more money, more loot, and just more rewards than any other area of the game. Plus they are the way to get the new ascended items.

You also have to grind them a lot to avoid getting left behind in the lower level fractals.