Guild Wars 2

Now I can say “I love this game” without folks saying “wait until you’re 80”. I do still like the game and feel like I still have plenty to do – a few stats might explain why my experience is so different from the folks who are unhappy:

• I have a little over 200 hours played on that character
• my crafting levels are around 250
• the highest level zone I stepped foot in before I hit 80 was the Iron Marches (Never been to Orr)
• I’ve got 58% world completion
• I haven’t completed my personal story
• I’ve run 5 story modes (2xAC, TA, 2xCD) and one explore mode (I leveled to 80 in it)
• I’ve done a little WvW (about 20 badges worth)
• I only have about 2 G in the bank after upgrading my weapons and twinking some alts. I bought one piece of cultural armor for the skin, and converted a few silver into gems for a silly chef’s outfit & toy frying pan.
• I’ve always had enough money to repair or to take a way point if I felt like it
• I haven’t spent any time farming or grinding or really doing anything I didn’t feel like doing
  • Well, I spent about 40 minutes reporting/interfering with/encouraging other folks to report some bots near Sleekfur Encampment. ANet has changed things up a bit there so it’s no longer a good spot for bots and I don’t feel it was wasted time.

I think the folks that are complaining about end game need to switch “wait until you’re 80” for “wait until you get to Orr”. I still have a ton of stuff to do that doesn’t involve Orr, and I’ll probably wait for a bit to finish my personal story after reading about the completion rewards being a bit busted.

I am a little disappointed in the problems that are plaguing the higher level content, but there is so much other content (for me, and how I like to play) that I have plenty to do while it gets worked on.

So, how did I get to the level cap without accomplishing one single thing? Honestly, I haven’t a clue. I spend a lot of my time looking for hidden areas and chatting up the natives for clues while completing a region and looking for cooking materials. Yes I know I could just look them up on gw2cartographers.com, but I like finding them myself. I also pal around with friends leveling their alts so I’ve run through the lower level areas more than a couple times. I always have a food buff on – the stuff I cook while leveling up isn’t worth anything on the TP, so I just use it or give it away to guild mates. I run everywhere instead of waypointing to keep my character svelte

I get why more goal oriented folks are unhappy. If I see a bugged skill point, I go do something else and check to see if it’s working later and it doesn’t bother me. If I was really focused on getting my world completion done, constantly having to leave one bit undone and come back to it would really get on my nerves.