Guild Wars 2

I am goal oriented and loved playing towards certain goals in this game, but it seems every time I think I am getting closer, the goal gets farther away.

I have been loving my game play. I have been slowly moving towards getting Twilight and have no problems with it taking me awhile to reach that goal. Legendary items force you to play all facets of this game and I like that I have been able (forced) to play WvW, Dungeons, DE’s etc…. All areas of the game have been enjoyable to me so I am glad I was forced to try them all.

In comes FotM which at first I loved, I try to do at least one lvl of fractals per day, now to where I am kinda pissed. After you make it so far in FotM you just can’t go any further without agony resistance, ok no problem but wait what? You have to rely on RNG to get a ring, well that sucks because I have the worst luck in the world I swear, so, ok I have to run lvl 10 once a day for the daily reward chest and hope like hell I get one. Unbelievably with my luck I was able to get one, not the one I want, stats dont match what I run but I didn’t have to run it 50 days in a row like I thought I would so I can live with it until I get the one I wanted, OK whatever, WHAT it doesn’t even have any agony resistance built in? OK I have to upgrade it, 50 skill points!! Twilight just got further away, 100 pricey T6 mats? Is that Twilight even still in sight So I spend a bunch of my legendary funds and mats I have been saving and get a Precise Infusion and head back to enjoying FotM.

Now a bit farther into the mists agony is getting un-survivable again and I need some more resistance. Time to get a back piece, you have GOT to be kidding me 24 more skill points, 250 Insanely priced T6 mats and 50 ecto! and NO AGONY RESISTANCE so here goes ANOTHER 50 skill points and 100 T6 mats. Later when I am forced to Infuse my back piece to survive FotM it takes 250 ecto and infusing it removes any infusion you have slotted so you have to get ANOTHER infusion taking ANOTHER 50 skill points and 100 T6 mats.

I can no longer see Twilight in my future, hell the precursor is up to 500G let alone everything else you have to have.

After all that whining above (sorry about that) my complaint is, ascended gear shouldn’t be so insanely priced and hard to get just to be able to enjoy the mists, I understand the legendary weapons being very hard to achieve, you do not NEED a legendary weapon to enjoy the game and it should be something to work towards. Ascended gear IS required to have and is just WAY too costly. This game is touted as a no grind and when ascended gear came into play that no grind was blown out the window.

I enjoy doing diffrent things every time I log in, there are certain things I do on a daily basis, like the WvW jumping puzzles for BoH’s, a few diffrent dungeons to get better gear and finish any daily achievements left over for the karma jugs. I do not want to have to farm Trolls for a month just to get enough powerful blood for a backpiece so I can get back to playing FotM.

I’ll quit complaining now, just wanted to get that off my chest, back to grinding in my no grind game (ok had to throw in that one last whining dig :P )

I really dont get all this Legendary goal stuff, i play to play the game, do i really need some ugly sword to make me look above everyone else…..no, which then save me years? of heartache and grinding drudgery…

Same for Ascended gear seriously all these people standing in Lions arch think the look awesome with those ugly glowing back pieces, no not to me, looks like odd silicon deformations attached to their backs..

Its great to have goals but when it effects you emotionally and causes you real life money issues its time to take a step back and look at the bigger picture, do i need this to continue the game or am i in the Drone mentality to look cool..

P.s. I do agree this game has way too much grinding to call itself a “casual non-grinding game though”

little hint:
You don’t need to forge the infusions you can simply buy them in the FotM-Lobby for 75 (defensive) or 225 (defensive or offensive) FotM-Tokens.
And the Back-Slot Item can be bought for 1850 FotM-Tokens and 24 Skill-Points
There would be your Twilight

And on a side note: As someone who farmed the 250 Powerfull Blood, there are better spots than the Trolls to farm it. You just need to look around

I would have to ask, if a legendary is your preferred goal why are you chasing fractal agony equipment? If you are doing fractals because you enjoy it or because you get good mats from it then does that really get any better as you climb the ‘fractal ladder’?

Tsaimath.4302:

little hint:
You don’t need to forge the infusions you can simply buy them in the FotM-Lobby for 75 (defensive) or 225 (defensive or offensive) FotM-Tokens.
And the Back-Slot Item can be bought for 1850 FotM-Tokens and 24 Skill-Points
There would be your Twilight

And on a side note: As someone who farmed the 250 Powerfull Blood, there are better spots than the Trolls to farm it. You just need to look around

Not to be negative, but if these Ascended gears are so “needed” why didn’t the company add them to the whole game and make them easy to get, like exotics, i’ll wait and if they are as needed as Anet says i’ll get them either easily (in the future) or i’ll move on to another game that doesn’t have such things.

Dante.1508:

I really dont get all this Legendary goal stuff, i play to play the game, do i really need some ugly sword to make me look above everyone else…..no, which then save me years? of heartache and grinding drudgery…

Same for Ascended gear seriously all these people standing in Lions arch think the look awesome with those ugly glowing back pieces, no not to me, looks like odd silicon deformations attached to their backs..

Its great to have goals but when it effects you emotionally and causes you real life money issues its time to take a step back and look at the bigger picture, do i need this to continue the game or am i in the Drone mentality to look cool..

Then why add it to the game in the first place and go around making it out be the greatest add on non grind addition to a game ever?

Lexy.3912:

I would have to ask, if a legendary is your preferred goal why are you chasing fractal agony equipment? If you are doing fractals because you enjoy it or because you get good mats from it then does that really get any better as you climb the ‘fractal ladder’?

I am not necessarily “chasing” agony equipment, I enjoy the fractals of the mists, but as you progress you can not go farther without agony wiping you out, and yes an added benefit to enjoying doing the FotM I do usually get decent drops there as well.

FotM is, in my opinion, the only part of this game that does require way too much grind to obtain needed equipment, weather it be grinding for all the skill points you need to aquire the gear or grinding for the mats it needs etc…. No other items NEEDED to enjoy this game require this much of an investment in gold, SP and mats.

Like I said, the Legendary items I understand requiring a huge investment because they are just a vanity item that you do not NEED to be able to enjoy any part if this great game. Dungeon gear requires you repeat the dungeons over and over and…..BUT same as with the legendary I don’t NEED that I just want it so the grind is my choice, the ascended gear you NEED to enjoy FotM and requires way too large of an investment.

I am not against vertical progression, but when it is a needed progression it should be part of the game play to achieve or a slightly higher cost than the previous lvl of gear, not a grind to achieve.