Guild Wars 2

I left GW2 a couple of months after fractals were released. I rejoined when the new specializations were released and left again as I got distracted by ESO.
However I have not played ESO in months since the PvE content became lack luster. Dungeons were the only challenging group content. And the remaining content did not scale and was quite trivial if you grouped up with 1 or more players. So I was not really satisfied as a PVE player.

Anyway I am not here to talk about ESO, I wanted to give some context to what kind of content I am looking. So naturally my main question is, will GW2 satisfy my needs with HoT?

I have stalked the forums for a while now and I cannot really put a finger on it. I heard positive things but I also heard some worrying things that dungeons were gutted, Guild Halls are a mess, WvWvW and PVP are a mess.

If someone could give me some info so that I could make a more educated guess wether to return or not.

Thank you in advance.

If you liked WoW Raids with meh mechanics and a dense, lush annoying jungle theme HOT is just what the doctor ordered.

wvw sucks , too much lag , only for blobs , only 1 map to play
pvp its inbalanced , its full of dragonhunters who just put traps on points and kill you pressing 1 and reapers who are unkillable.
Hot added alot of stuff to do in pve , but how anet is lazy , the way to earn the new stuff is doing the same events all the day , and expect them to fail the chain cuz maps need tons of people and if not , enjoy helping an skritt gather some eggs or turn on some lights to get nothing of exp.

Ok, so from what I understand GW2 is really grindy now(I remember it always kin of grindy)? And what about the dungeons and guildhalls?

I can’t decide whether you are real or just trollin’ but assuming the former, and assuming that you still have your login details, just download the game and dive back in. You can decide after that whether you want to spend money on the expansion.

Dungeon rewards are bad unless you have lots of the trinket recipes. They’re also beyond faceroll easy now because the HoT elite specs added a major power creep. They’re focusing on fractals as their new 5 man instanced content and pretty much dropped dungeons entirely.

Guild halls are nice imo, but they require thousands of gold to level up.

Dungeons are more then facroll easy, and because of the nerf in gold rewards the only ppl playing dungeons are the few people needing a gift from the dungeons fot their legendary.LFG for dungeons = empty. not like 5 or 6 posts, but 1 or 2 posts during primetime… Dungeons = DEAD

Fractals have been “improved” to make sure you can do whatever fractals for daily is
low tier (1-20):

1. 2 swamp,
2. 10 molten factility boss
3. & 1 random (daily level low tier)

mid tier (21-50):

1. 21 swamp,
2. 32 swamp or 40 molten factility boss
3. & 1 random (daily level mid tier)

high tier ( 51+)
1,2,3: 56, 67,77,83 (choose 3) being: swamp,swamp,swamp.

So if you be looking to be swamped in swamps you are good.

Guild halls are a main reason why WvW is in a sorry state, if you do not have a guild for wvw, you’ll likely do not have acces to buffs in WvW. Desert borderlands are a fail.
Meta devolved to Pirate ship with AOE ranged spam being the new for of combat. You do not have any sustain in the AOE fields so Melee is (mostly) non existent nowadays. expanding guild halls to a usable stat is EXTREMELY expensive, as is scribe tyhe associated proffesion to a point where A-Net promised to change this

PvP I do not have an opinion, but people used inexperienced players to speedlevel PvP ranks, meta is a limited number of rediculously overpowered builds as I hear…

HoT (expansion) brough a piece of Living story, and the masteries whcih are nice, but require a lot of effort to level (accont bound) Specialisations tend to be OP and reduced the reasons for people to play the oldstyle proffesions (at least for DPSin most cases) Herald (or revenant) is not my favored proffesion.

Some bright notes
Lastly if you left at the introduction of fractals and have not done LS S2 (pay wall 1600 gems) you will have plenty of new content to come back to. You will have seen southsun cove, but likely never been to Silverwastes or Dry top, you will have likely not had any time to get ascneded gear, wchih is replacing exotics slowly, at least for fractal fanatics and Raid enthousiasts, a lot o new skins were introduced and Silverwaste, and Orr remain nice places to farm for cash (now dungeons cannot provide any), Getting HoT will expand your endgame content with 4 new Meta event maps and a lot of new collections and grind ways to get stuff. You’ll likely be working to get everything for quite a while. If you are into it. 3 new legenadries have been added (axe, pistol and a staff)

We are waiting for introduction of legendary armor and backpacks. Likely rings will come not too long after these. we are waiting for way more but well see.

Raids
HoT brough raids. I have no opinion about raids, I would have favored dungeons tbh.

The end

Changes have been set for April, so if you decide to stay away, check back in then around the 19th.

I want to thank you all for the information. For now I will away for now. Even though there are postive things I still see that there are also quite some issues. As advised by Sariel V I will check in around the 19th to see how the game progresses.

come back try drytop and silverwaste first they are closed to the new exspansion thaT we get but hot does bring elites. wvw doesnt have the numbers it did but their are supposed to be changes coming up for it. raids are the big thing now. hot content is harder not the easy streamroll pve used to be. i think with the harder material youll be more satisfied if you left because you were steam rolling everything but first id try drytop and silverwastes cause most of the hot content is zerg type of content and has timers and you meta events to complete