Guild Wars 2

Everyone is too busy doing champion and world boss trains to even bother with all these side random events.

Part of the problem is that there’s no way to know about an event until you stumble onto it or see someone on /yell asking for help…

Another part of the problem is that the rewards are rubbish in comparison to what they normally do and nobody cares.

I’m fairly new here and have followed the queensdale train just because it’s where the players are and the loot is good if mine is getting outdated. When I’m bored of that I do some stories, hearts, and map completions, but they don’t seem to be worth it in terms of profit vs time played, just more entertaining.

I would rather be entertained than make a profit, but that is just me. Supposedly, the purpose of games is to entertain you. For me, it’s not that fun to be bored.

What good is profit, if it doesn’t buy you entertainment?

Just one player’s take on gameplay. =)

I only rarely do a champ farm, because it gets boring fast. I’d rather take longer to make money while actually having fun. Thus, I usually am leveling an alt, or exploring a map or something.

Weylin.6478:

Everyone is too busy doing champion and world boss trains to even bother with all these side random events.

Part of the problem is that there’s no way to know about an event until you stumble onto it or see someone on /yell asking for help…

Another part of the problem is that the rewards are rubbish in comparison to what they normally do and nobody cares.

I’m fairly new here and have followed the queensdale train just because it’s where the players are and the loot is good if mine is getting outdated. When I’m bored of that I do some stories, hearts, and map completions, but they don’t seem to be worth it in terms of profit vs time played, just more entertaining.

Which server are you playing at?

Gates of Madness I think?
I only went there because that’s where my 2 friends were.

Mate, get off the train and explore the world. I don’t like telling people what fun is but the champ train really isn’t. Be entertained by the game and the gold will start building anyway.

Once you’re done exploring the world, your character will be heigher level and get better gear. And from that point, I can see no reason for anyone to do champion runs.

WvW for example, how stupid as it sounds, gave me all the resources and gold needed for a full ascended set. And it was actually fun.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

I would rather be entertained than make a profit, but that is just me. Supposedly, the purpose of games is to entertain you. For me, it’s not that fun to be bored.

What good is profit, if it doesn’t buy you entertainment?

Just one player’s take on gameplay. =)

Exactly that. Why care about profit in a game if you’re not having fun?

Weylin.6478:

Gates of Madness I think?
I only went there because that’s where my 2 friends were.

Well, this is just from my point of view but it might not be the same as yours.
Still I hope you would consider reading it.

Point of playing a game = Having fun
Definition of ‘having fun’ = get rich in the game or have the best equipments or giving commands to people or having as many lvl80 characters as possible or being accepted into any events/dungeons you join or pimping your latest armor in the game infront of plenty of crowds or showing off that huge mini collection of yours or [your choice].

As for me, I just wanna farm the best equipments because I feel that it’s the first requirement to achieving ‘having fun’. I mean, ever joined a cof dungeon and getting kicked for NOT being in a zerk gear? Or fractals of the mist and getting pwned for not having enough agony resistant?

So I made these goals anyways;
By safest I meant….. ‘most accepted’ anyways.
Safest class/equipment for dungeon (generally speaking) = warrior zerk gear.
Safest class/equipment for fractals (generally speaking) = guardian celestial gear.
Safest class/equipment for world V world (generally speaking) = theif valkery gear.
Safest class/equipment for player V player (generally speaking) = engineer [choice] gear.
Safest class/equipment for events (generally speaking) = ranger [choice] gear.

I mean, some might argue that ele is the best for dungeon (noteably AC) or world v world but like I said….. I just made these goals for ‘generally speaking’ situations. There are only 5 ‘things to do’ anyways in this game. Dungeons, Fractals, WvW, PvP, Events.

Main reason usually;
Dungeons = farm tokens for free weapon/armor skins, good gold reward.
Fractals = ascended back piece item, ascended rings, ascended weapon/armor drops, fractal skins, 20 slot bags for tokens instead of gold.
WvW = good leveling up by following zerg, farm tokens for some wvw skins, lots of ‘titles’, good gold/loots considering your zerg keeps clashing with other people’s zerg.
PvP = good leveling up by exchanging points, various finisher styles.
Events = farming dragonite ores (for ascended weapon/armor/back)

And to be frank, you don’t need to have a legendary weapon to ‘own the best equipment’. Flexible? perhaps, but not necessarily ‘must own’ as it has the same stats as ascended. Also, you might get some free ascended weapons from fractals (though not the stat of your choosing) if you’re lucky.

And if you still think that getting legendary is your goal, then you should do world exploration (you need that Gift of exploration anyways) and those hearts gives quite a ton of EXP. I recall reaching lvl 80 in the past by just exploring 65% of the world (Not including stories and the wvw map). Whatever it is, you need your own definition of ‘having fun’ first. I guess it all starts from there. I’ve got some friends who started this game 2 years ago and they quit 2 weeks later because they just don’t have ‘any aim’. Then again I’ve got some friends who’ve played this game since day 1 and they’re still having fun. If you just started this game, I can understand about what not knowing you want in the end as you’re just ‘exploring’ at the moment but I hope my post helps.