Guild Wars 2

… after not playing for several months, hoping maybe I’d get sucked back in. Or at least, I’d understand better why I quit playing in the first place. Unfortunately, I didn’t get sucked back in. So here’s what’s keeping me from really enjoying the game, in case anyone’s interested. If not, that’s cool.

1. The combat and skill system are just… boring. I played for an hour or two, and the weapon skills just don’t complement each other at all. If I could choose skills like I did in the first GW, I would never put those skills together. It lead to “kill things with autoattack and then hit an ability every once in a while”. Boring.

2. The game world is too busy. There’s always something trying to grab your attention, and I just don’t like it. No, I don’t want to do an event every 5 minutes. No, I don’t want to be attacked every 2 steps. Sometimes, I just want to explore and relax. Just can’t do that, anywhere really. Even the exploration is specially prepared with vistas and jumping puzzles. It really takes the fun out of exploring when you know you’re only going where you’re expected to go.

3. I’m still not interested in long gear grinds just for basic end-game gear with top stats. Let me know when I can craft a full set of ascended-level gear for about 5-10G worth of mats that I can buy off the AH and be done with in about 5 minutes. Yes, it should be ugly as sin. That’s one of the things that made GW work. You could get good gear easy… it was just ugly. If you wanted nice stuff, well, that was where you had to put in the hard work. But at least you had the best gear to do it.

Disclaimer: this is not a commentary on what is good or bad. This is just observations about my own personal preferences, nothing more.

Edit because of people commenting only on a completely irrelevant detail.

DocHolliday.5921:

. I played my ranger for an hour or two…

I started off as ranger aswell, And the “combat flow” of that profession bored me so much that i stopped playing for a few months.

After some research i found i wasnt the only one who thought that way. So i started playing engineer after picking up the game again and i am enjoying the hell out of it.

It starts of slow quite like the ranger. But once you have full control over your spec and uttilities it is probably one of the most dynamic and diverse classes i played during my long MMO “career”.

Locuz.2651:

DocHolliday.5921:

. I played my ranger for an hour or two…

I started off as ranger aswell, And the “combat flow” of that profession bored me so much that i stopped playing for a few months.

After some research i found i wasnt the only one who thought that way. So i started playing engineer after picking up the game again and i am enjoying the hell out of it.

It starts of slow quite like the ranger. But once you have full control over your spec and uttilities it is probably one of the most dynamic and diverse classes i played during my long MMO “career”.

The ranger isn’t my main character, it’s just the one I logged in on today. I have a level 80 guardian and level 80 warrior that are my mains. I actually have a character of every class, and have dabbled at least a few hours with all of them.

What do people expect with a RANGED based class? Everyone acts like the class is supposed to be fun. It’s Ranged!

Every time I have watched a Ranged class PVP video I paint my entire apartment and watch it dry. It’s honestly more fun. Ranged is Ranged, it’s never going to be “ZOMG!”. Standing back and watching missiles shoot to your enemy will never be exciting.

OK so you know how I see Ranged Classes. Now take a Ranged class and toss it into GW2. Ever watched paint dry with a microscope?

Ranger sword/warhorn greatsword full berzerker is fun to play. Bows are for kitten.

C’mon guys, read before posting please. This has nothing to do with any particular class.

Take full melee and go in solo dungeons (those who don’t need others to interfere.) Not boring at all. Especially when you do time rush competition with your guild, if you overtime, the referee and his assistant kicks you, and since you launched the dungeon you have to srart from 0, an other way is to kick who ever get downed (or dead but since you need to be downed before for 99% of the time) gets kicked, the one who launch is the referee and don’t participate. Referee are paid.
Or you can go do tournament in sPvP, 8v8 sPvP is such a mess sometimes.

Crawford.4135:

What do people expect with a RANGED based class? Everyone acts like the class is supposed to be fun. It’s Ranged!

Every time I have watched a Ranged class PVP video I paint my entire apartment and watch it dry. It’s honestly more fun. Ranged is Ranged, it’s never going to be “ZOMG!”. Standing back and watching missiles shoot to your enemy will never be exciting.

OK so you know how I see Ranged Classes. Now take a Ranged class and toss it into GW2. Ever watched paint dry with a microscope?

What the hell logic is this?

I play mostly ranged in every game and there are such things as fun ranged classes…

There are boring melee classes too, this game is full of them lmao.

The game is auto attack dominated, more so than ANY game I’ve ever played.

Atleast in WoW white dmg wasnt 90% of your dmg lol.

Knote.2904:

Crawford.4135:

What do people expect with a RANGED based class? Everyone acts like the class is supposed to be fun. It’s Ranged!

Every time I have watched a Ranged class PVP video I paint my entire apartment and watch it dry. It’s honestly more fun. Ranged is Ranged, it’s never going to be “ZOMG!”. Standing back and watching missiles shoot to your enemy will never be exciting.

OK so you know how I see Ranged Classes. Now take a Ranged class and toss it into GW2. Ever watched paint dry with a microscope?

What the hell logic is this?

I play mostly ranged in every game and there are such things as fun ranged classes…

There are boring melee classes too, this game is full of them lmao.

The game is auto attack dominated, more so than ANY game I’ve ever played.

Atleast in WoW white dmg wasnt 90% of your dmg lol.

This is a good point. I played a Boomkin in WoW. None of the damage was auto-attack.

This game would be way better if they just put in a resource system (like energy in GW) and allow us to choose all our own skills.