Guild Wars 2

Ok, I’m no stranger to the forums. I like to speak my mind, and now I’m doing it again. I’ve been following this game for years. Even heard the rumors back when it was thought to be ‘vaporware.’ I was estatic when I read the Manifesto about how no grind or no chasing after gear and how any class can fulfill any role in the game so as to avoid the holy trinity.

Now here comes the problem, when I go to log onto my character. Starts at level 1 and I think to myself, it’s going to take forever to reach level 80, and I Despise leveling, why I played GW1 for so long the leveling process was short and quick. Could do it in a weekend. Now in GW2 I just see weeks of grinding up through the levels to reach cap And then unlike GW1 there is fractional ascended armor which goes completely off RNG and you have to chase a carrot on a stick. Main reason I only played WoW for 45 minutes when I went back to them. I saw nothing but having to invest time before I could actually enjoy the game.

The last sentence in the above paragraph is nothing but a 180 degrees direction from the original manifesto. When I first started playing, the game was great people out in the world doing all sorts of things, whether you were at level range or a level 80 coming back to farm Karma from events Now no bodies in the world, no one is trying to get some rare cool skin they are all in one city and trying to do one instance.

So the problem is, no one to play with, the game when logging in feels like a chore and I Might get what I want, I might not. (Loved how armor could have been bought with just karma) So, Anet I believe personally has failed in their endeavor to create the game that did have great promise but now with lack of people in world, the long tedious leveling, the dangling carrot that you may or may not get.

The thing to realise is that once you start levelling and opening up the world, you can start doing things before level 80 that in other games would be classified as “end game”. While level 80 is the destination, having fun with the journey is just as important.