Wow… I can’t believe how misinformed you are on almost everything you’ve written here…
- 100%ing WvW requires transferring to another server at least once
Maybe, if your server is absolutely terrible at WvW. Not that it really matters anyway, because WvW isn’t needed for world completion anymore. I did 4 world completions whilst WvW was part of world completion and at the time, the servers I did this on were pretty average (Underworld, and then I moved to Gandara). It took a bit of time and a little bit of keeping an eye open when an area became uncontested, that’s all.
- Farming Karma requires a server doing a good edge of the Mists map
Maybe. It certainly is the best way to get a huge amount of karma in a short frame of time. However, unless you are spending a huge amount or not doing any PvE, karma isn’t difficult to get.
- It takes around 600 gold to make Ascended Armor, but you can only expect to average 5 gold a day from dungeons unless the Meta-Babies groups are actually competent today: highly unlikely.
Light armour is about 540g to make, if you were to buy everything from the TP from the sell orders, rather than listing your own bid. Making your own damask will save you around 3-4g if you buy the materials when they’re low-ish, or even cheaper if you use the materials you get from drops. The other armours are significantly cheaper. “Average 5 gold a day”… well, maybe if you only do two, maybe 3 dungeons.
- Farming Iron produces the most consistent income. 2 gold per hour average.
Wow, I guess you really are struggling to find a good dungeon group. I can make almost 2 gold in 15 mins with a CoF P1 run. CoF P2, CoE, AC and TA are all easy dungeons and wouldn’t mind pugging with almost any group. I could run 3 or 4 dungeons (depending on the group) in about an hour, choosing from this list and I wouldn’t call myself a speed-runner or a highly experienced dungeon player.
- There’s really no combat-group experience in the game.
WvW? PvP? High level fractals? Triple Trouble Wurm? Aetherpath? Put it this way- this selection of content requires very good co-operation and synergies between builds and players. Some of these are so difficult that it’s almost a necessity to use voice communication to organise.
- There’s really only one solo-combat experience in the game – Run until perfectly stationary creature’s agro zone is violated + kill creature.
Open world PvE, excluding some of the large events- yes. Maybe Thief as a profession would interest you? Thief certainly has more play regarding aggro. But yes- most games require you to aggro and kill enemy mobs.
- Nothing is sacred, nothing is iconic. Traveling around Guild Wars 2 is the same experience no matter how far you have traveled as the only game design is ‘kill and move on’.
You say this, but I can think of a few things that are (at least to me, and from what I’ve heard from others). Soloing Lupi, clearing a level 50 fractal, being able to do the hardest JPs in game without a hitch, mastering ele/engi rotations, having sought after PvP/WvW titles and high WvW rank. To some extent, owning legendaries, multiple ascended armour sets, having high AP, running Aetherpath easily… It’s all just a matter of perspective. For some people, soloing any level 80 champion is a feat, and I can appreciate that too.
- Ascended Trinkets, Accessories, and etc are only accessible via Laurels unless you’re doing fractals, which is unlikely as Guilds are rarely doing group-anything.
You can purchase ascended accessories with guild commendations. You can also get a few ascended amulets, accessories and rings through achievements (e.g. LS2 and Dungeoneer). Personally I don’t see the problem- ascended trinkets are perfectly achievable for a a “casual player” and are only really of actual use in fractals anyway (where they’ll be dropping like flies).
If your guild isn’t doing “group anything” and you don’t like that, maybe you should try finding another guild. There are plenty of guilds who are very invested in doing as much content as they can, together.
- Guilds have no use as the game is designed almost exclusively to be solo’d.
A-net wanted Guild Wars 2 to be inclusive to the point that a player could get by even if they didn’t want to be social with other players. However, there is plenty of content (and what I’d consider to be end-game) that requires a group, so much so that having a quick-access list of friends makes it easy to prepare for. Guild missions, fractals and dungeons all require a team. We’ll be seeing raids soon, which will require larger groups. Plenty of content can be solo’d, yes, but the experience is far better with a party.
- The game is all solo oriented, but demands group activity for high end content like making legendaries and ascended gear while doing everything possible to remove access to karma, coin, and reasons to group up or build a community
If you really didn’t want to be involved in a group and yet still want to make ascended or legendary gear, it is absolutely possible. If you need dungeon tokens for your legendary, hop into PvP and earn them through dungeon reward tracks. Do solo arenas if you really want to. Ascended gear certainly doesn’t require group content to make it- you can easily earn enough gold or get enough materials for it doing stuff on your own.
- Meta isn’t necessary to do dungeons, but meta is the only thing being done in dungeons.
And yet it isn’t- I see plenty of “all welcome” groups on the LFG. I don’t care much for meta in dungeons or low level fractals, so usually I just write “experienced only” or similar. If there isn’t a group that satisfies my needs being advertised, I make my own. Simple. I can even ask for an opener if I haven’t done story for that dungeon.
- Armor should not be able to be linked nor AP seen for 30 minutes within any dungeon nor for the same length whenever a person joins a group of any kind.
For what reason? So people can’t make sure that you aren’t trying to bypass the requirements they asked for in the LFG? I agree that AP is a terrible metric to judge a player’s ability, but people have the right to do what they want. Like I said, if a player wants to do a dungeon, but no advertising parties are suitable… they can make their own.
- Anet has done too much to make this game a solo experience and removing all access to end game content least a person change from a casual player to a dedicated 6 hours a day player.
I’m not sure I understand your point here. If you’re grinding for a legendary or ascended gear, there’s nothing making you try to achieve it as soon as possible. Things can be achievable, even if they do take some time.
- It’s 250 gold (on average) to go from 400 to 500 in any given trade skill.
Uh… no? http://gw2crafts.net/
Ok, this will show you the cheapest way of getting to 500, but the range is 32g-99g from 400 to 500. This also doesn’t consider any materials you already have in your bank, so it might be even cheaper. I think I’d actually struggle to spend 250g levelling from 400-500 in any of them.
Tl;dr: It’s hard to take any of your points seriously with exaggeration and misinformation. However, in some respects, perhaps you can feel a bit happier about the game (less frustrated) considering a lot of your problems aren’t as bad as they might have first appeared to be.
