Guild Wars 2

What was so wrong with the system back when we got our trait points at level 11? The patch that changed the leveling system then sucked terribly. Needing all those skill points to unlock traits and not getting any traits till 30. After that patch I said nothing. I figured ok, it sucks but I will adapt. I personally haven’t tried the new leveling system but if it isn’t better, Why did you make it worse? why waste your efforts on something the players didn’t ask for or want?

How much drugs it takes now to enjoy this game now? I certainly cannot enjoy leveling now or much else in the game. you know what I quit.

flame me all you want.

Frostwolve.2916:

How much drugs it takes now to enjoy this game now?

I’m heavily medicated and I’m not having any fun at all.

what’s wrong with it is that it was “too easy” people could complete it in a week, couple of days or whatever. they could not do their pve story, and were not “forced” into the “way anet wanted you to play the game.” oh they tried by adding things like vistas, achievements and all kinds of things to force you (if you wanted status) to go to remote areas for no reason at all to see some obscure area for no reason at all (no quest tied to it, no story line, no poi, just a cinematic and a point).

now, with this new “super fun and easy” way to progress, they can do super fantastic things, like: sell you “unlock skill #3” boosters for gems, and “unlock 2 <story/skill/whatever-progression>” micro transactions that they could not before all under the guise of making the game “super easy and more intuitive to play”

except its backfiring because everybody hates it. they got it right back in ‘12 when they launched the game and its hard to improve upon it from the users standpoint except “new content” which… yea they’re just not going to do for a number of reasons (1, because its simply too expensive from a cost perspective and as many gems / hair styles as we pay for its not enough to fund the kind of content we all want if you want to be realistic about it)

they’ve failed to find a consistent way to entice people to spend real money in game on things that matter with out destroying what they set out to do with the game (seems as though this may have begun it though IMO). what they should have been doing is taking lessons from the crooks and selling gold directly via gem to gold direct cash(gold) out with a higher exchange rate (just my 2 cents). plenty of people playing wvw reloading consumable goods who just need gold. none of this elaborate bs requiring time and energy on anet side just to make a buck.

I agree w/ OP. progression needs revert. lots of “tweaks” in player adjustments need reverts. tp (while nice) needs to be redesigned or reverted. i would be happy if the whole thing went back on the back burner permanently (at least till a lot of the things had been bounced off the community).