Guild Wars 2

I actively played GW2 from launch until a few months before the release of HoT, then quit because I got bored from the lack of new content. I haven’t looked at GW2 much since then so I don’t really know what the game is like nowadays, but I’m feeling motivated again so right now I am contemplating whether I want to buy HoT and get back into the game or not. Logged in today for the first time in a long time and noticed a few things:

- Is nobody doing dungeons anymore? Before HoT there were always lots of people running dungeons, especially dungeons with fast/easy paths like AC and CoF were crowded, while now it seems hard to even find enough people to fill a party with for those dungeons.

- What are raids like, are they expansive and challenging enough to keep an active player busy for months or do raids quickly get boring?

- Are world bosses still relevant?

- Do people still actively participate in WvW?

Basically I’m just trying to get an idea of what the endgame life in this game is like nowadays and whether it’s worth it for me to buy HoT and spend a lot of time catching up or if I will only find myself in an endgame situation that will get me bored before the end of summer again

HoT is pretty much all end game content, so those who used to run dungeons find HoT more profitable. I’d rather run an hour dragon stand map than a 15 minute dungeon.

World bosses are still done. Whether they’re relevant or not depends on what you like to do. People still to Teq. Big guilds still do Triple Trouble. There’s even a guild dedicated to doing Dry Top.

But there’s more action in the HoT zones as far as end game stuff than the old zones, partly because it is new content.

People who raid seem to like raids, but I’m not one of them.

Can’t tell you about all servers, but I’m up in Tier 1 and there’s plenty of WvW activity.

Oh yeah, fractals are more rewarding than they used to be and a lot of people run them now because of it. Try a fractal group instead of a dungeon group.

Vayne.8563:

HoT is pretty much all end game content, so those who used to run dungeons find HoT more profitable. I’d rather run an hour dragon stand map than a 15 minute dungeon.

World bosses are still done. Whether they’re relevant or not depends on what you like to do. People still to Teq. Big guilds still do Triple Trouble. There’s even a guild dedicated to doing Dry Top.

But there’s more action in the HoT zones as far as end game stuff than the old zones, partly because it is new content.

People who raid seem to like raids, but I’m not one of them.

Can’t tell you about all servers, but I’m up in Tier 1 and there’s plenty of WvW activity.

Oh yeah, fractals are more rewarding than they used to be and a lot of people run them now because of it. Try a fractal group instead of a dungeon group.

I’m glad to hear there’s a lot of endgame content in HoT. The game felt kind of deserted to me when I logged in earlier but I guess that makes sense since I was still at the old content and people are mostly doing the new HoT content now.

As for WvW all of my characters are in Gandara so that should not be a problem

And it’s great to hear fractals are more popular now cause I really used to enjoy those. Not going to try them right away now because I don’t have updated builds and don’t remember the specifics of each fractal but definitely happy to hear this.

If you’re buying HoT, get the first two masteries on core Tyria done before doing Fractals. They’ll make Fractals more profitable.

As usual, though, people are going to go where the loot is.1