Guild Wars 2

I might be what you call a casual gamer, I work full time and have an active social/party life. In other MMOs I’ve played I will enjoy the game then usually quit soon after I hit end game as I will never have the time to grind for hours and hours to get the best gear in the game, especially when the best gear in the game becomes redundant every so often, making the game a never ending hamster wheel.

When I first heard about GW2, having no power creep, I thought to myself, “At last! A game where I have a chance of being on par with the top players. Seems they have managed to eliminate that disparity between the casual and the elite.”

Now, only 3 months later, have announced they are bringing gear in with better stats and bumping up legendaries to be on par with them. Since I spent a lot of time in Orr grinding for the exotics I do have, only for them to no longer be on par with the best items in the game, I no longer have the desire to play, since this announcement.

Basically I don’t want to waste any more time on this game, until I get some answers on what this new tier of items means to GW2.

TLDR:

Will casuals still be on par with the elite?

Will the new tier be as easy to get as exotics, or do I need to join an elite guild and give up either my social life or job to remain competitive?

Will Legendaries be easier to get to compensate?

Is ArenaNet still keeping their original promise, or have they back flipped and basically changed the game to be another typical never ending power chase?

I guess you’ll just have to wait and find out like literally every other person on these forums. Orrrrrr you could speculate and sound like a moron like the vocal majority around here screaming for the devs heads on pikes.

Wreckdum.8367:

I guess you’ll just have to wait and find out like literally every other person on these forums. Orrrrrr you could speculate and sound like a moron like the vocal majority around here screaming for the devs heads on pikes.

I choose to wait, was hoping there would be an answer by now, wasn’t sure, as I haven’t been playing since the announcement.

There’s only 2 rings you grinded that bear replacing. Perhaps a back slot if you paid the 5 gold.

But look at what the stats do in the game. If you take a microscopic view of a particular piece you can think “hey this ascended is a lot better than my exotic.”

Those of us who wore rares while we got the karma for our exotics came to discover that our characters perform pretty much the same, regardless. And when you look at the equations for damage, you can see why.

Gear’s just not that big a deal.

mulch.2586:

There’s only 2 rings you grinded that bear replacing. Perhaps a back slot if you paid the 5 gold.

But look at what the stats do in the game. If you take a microscopic view of a particular piece you can think “hey this ascended is a lot better than my exotic.”

Those of us who wore rares while we got the karma for our exotics came to discover that our characters perform pretty much the same, regardless. And when you look at the equations for damage, you can see why.

Gear’s just not that big a deal.

This man knows his crap. I went straight from greens to exotics on my warrior. Never really saw that big of an increase. Pretty much all your effectiveness comes from your traits. I ran around in Orr naked as an experiment before. Gear just isn’t that big of a deal. People keep saying GW2 is different and there doesn’t need to be a gear treadmill… They fail to see that it doesn’t even matter if there is.

Really going to have to wait and see how this pans out….. or be a drama queen like many others around here and claim you quitting or have already quit before the patch is even here with no further info about whats really going to happen. Or you could sit there and cry about how you were promised verbatim that this would never happen and how your going to go to court for a refund for 60 bucks……

Or you could just do what most are gonna do which is see what the plan is and continue to have fun. I am willing to be most that are raging and saying they are quitting really aren’t. They just don’t know how to deal with the unknown and instead of calmly accepting the fact that without further information they have no way to make a informed opinion or choice about the game they lash out like they are 12 all over again not getting their way. Its like when a kid wants a toy but thinks mom isn’t going to give it to him so he threatens to run away from home only to realize she already bought it and it was waiting at home the whole time.