Guild Wars 2

I’m just coming back after 2 years and wanted to know (as the title says) the state of the game. Yes, HoT launched, but I didn’t want to get into GW2 at the time. I had gotten my character to level 80 prior HoT launch and I just left it there. For me, I didn’t know what else to do since I wasn’t apart of any guilds or really had people to play with. It was just solo play from 1-80 for me, which was boring. Hence, I want to know everything summarized so I’ll know if I should get back into it.

You can see all the major releases via the ‘Releases’ link above. You can read the patch notes via the ‘Game Release Notes’ on the front page of the forum, or in the Wiki (link above).

You can use the ‘Looking For…’ sub-forum to find a Guild, or the ‘Players Helping Players’ for other players to play with.

Welcome return, and good luck.

Also, this page should help: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/

You already own it. There are no monthly fees to play the game you already bought. So ….. why not jump back in and try it out? It will cost you nothing and honestly no matter what anyone else writes only you can decide if you will like it.

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

honestly giving how things are going right now in the game and so forth . a look around the forums and reddit well tell you a lot .

and since you not gotten hot yet at all. if it was me making this choice . i would go to walmarts and get a copy of hot . as now buying a copy of hot . gives you a second acount IF you do NOT hook it up to your first acount . and at my local walmarts if i wanted to i can get a copy of hot for $15.00 . but like i said the way its going i would not even do that and hold on to my $15.00 but that’s just me .

the state of the game itself in short wvw is pretty much dead and the same for pvp too as well . pve its ok for the most part still but for how long who knows till the new pack comes out with mounts and so forth .

My friends and I went on last night to just PvP for the fun of it; get back into the groove of things. It was funny when we 2v2, until we went into sPvP. That’s when my eyes opened up. For some reason, there were some classes that just felt difficult to burst down (not Guardians); they were Elementalists and Rangers to name a few. Compared to when my friends were fighting each other in 2v2, it felt like we didn’t stand a chance against these guys. Has something changed? Because I believe one of my veteran friends informed me that HoT has an Elite Spec now and it’s different. Would that explain why some of them were difficult to kill?

SilentDream.6397:

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

honestly giving how things are going right now in the game and so forth . a look around the forums and reddit well tell you a lot .

and since you not gotten hot yet at all. if it was me making this choice . i would go to walmarts and get a copy of hot . as now buying a copy of hot . gives you a second acount IF you do NOT hook it up to your first acount . and at my local walmarts if i wanted to i can get a copy of hot for $15.00 . but like i said the way its going i would not even do that and hold on to my $15.00 but that’s just me .

the state of the game itself in short wvw is pretty much dead and the same for pvp too as well . pve its ok for the most part still but for how long who knows till the new pack comes out with mounts and so forth .

My friends and I went on last night to just PvP for the fun of it; get back into the groove of things. It was funny when we 2v2, until we went into sPvP. That’s when my eyes opened up. For some reason, there were some classes that just felt difficult to burst down (not Guardians); they were Elementalists and Rangers to name a few. Compared to when my friends were fighting each other in 2v2, it felt like we didn’t stand a chance against these guys. Has something changed? Because I believe one of my veteran friends informed me that HoT has an Elite Spec now and it’s different. Would that explain why some of them were difficult to kill?

I don’t know if you’ve played black desert online, but elite specs in GW2 are similar to awakenings in bdo. The power creep is real. Not many core builds can stand toe-to-toe with the top elite spec builds.

So pretty much I’ll need to buy the HoT expansion.

SilentDream.6397:

I’m just coming back after 2 years and wanted to know (as the title says) the state of the game. Yes, HoT launched, but I didn’t want to get into GW2 at the time. I had gotten my character to level 80 prior HoT launch and I just left it there. For me, I didn’t know what else to do since I wasn’t apart of any guilds or really had people to play with. It was just solo play from 1-80 for me, which was boring. Hence, I want to know everything summarized so I’ll know if I should get back into it.

If you need a summary to decide, I don’t think the game will have changed enough to make a difference for you. The core things that give GW2 its identity as a game … remain the same. That is, if you think was a boring solo game in 2016, it will still be (for you) a boring solo game in 2017.

Alternatively, since it’s free to return, consider coming back and trying to do things differently:

• Find a guild — playing with others is often much more fun than going it alone. (If you want to do this, folks can offer advice in locating a guild).
• Participate in map-wide events. Those can be a lot more fun. (Again, ask for advice if you choose this route.)
• Do the first story of the latest episode to gain access to the new map and hang out there. There are a lot of people, so there’s plenty of ways to join up with others.
• Head to WvW to see what it’s about. If you join at peak times, there should be someone who can hook you up with your world’s VoIP, which is often a good way to meet folks.

Good luck. I hope you find something you enjoy, whether in GW2 or another game.

Here is the state of the game:
WvW : dead. Anet completely ignored the gamemode for so long that most ppl, guilds left. Even t1 servers lack activity. Only 1 server is considered full and will soon be opened as well. No forecast of real changes or updates. Wvw community just messing around waiting for CU to launch.
Spvp: almost dead. Anet tried hard to force the esport idea on the game mode, bit that failed and the lack of balance most likely been killing the game mode.
Pve: still getting updates on the story mode very often, but the real developing effort is going to RAIDS. There is where anet is aiming their efforts. raid, raid, raid.
Ao if you wanna play this game for pvp or wvw, just forget it.. Look for something else cause aner has clearly given up those game modes.
Edit:
But hey, not everything is lost.
They gave us a new legendary weapon..
A kitteng lampshade looking torch. I bet that one took countless hours from several designers to came up with.
All the issues are solved. We can now hit monsters with a lampshade.
LOL

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

but for how long who knows till the new pack comes out with mounts and so forth .

Out of curiosity, who at ANET gave you that fact?

I think its falling apart as Anet seems to be putting its work into a very small part of the game and forgetting the other parts comply. The community is out right in riot mood.

If you take that much time for the next update of the LS it should be better then the one before but it was not and the next lack of content i think is going to kill the game.

Its like the devs. forgot how to run a video game. Did they realty lose all there session devs to amazon or something?

Blude.6812:

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

but for how long who knows till the new pack comes out with mounts and so forth .

Out of curiosity, who at ANET gave you that fact?

It’s a reference to the most recent leaks. It’s consistent with earlier leaks, and doesn’t contain any prediction that has yet been disproven, so … it’s legitimate that people believe it. (Though I’d prefer they note that it’s info from a leak, and subject to change.)

PS: I’m pretty sure that anet would also love to know who gave it out.

Blude.6812:

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

but for how long who knows till the new pack comes out with mounts and so forth .

Out of curiosity, who at ANET gave you that fact?

That would be Mike O’Brien when he acknowledged the veracity of the leaks.

Good luck.

SlippyCheeze.5483:

Blude.6812:

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

but for how long who knows till the new pack comes out with mounts and so forth .

Out of curiosity, who at ANET gave you that fact?

It’s a reference to the most recent leaks. It’s consistent with earlier leaks, and doesn’t contain any prediction that has yet been disproven, so … it’s legitimate that people believe it. (Though I’d prefer they note that it’s info from a leak, and subject to change.)

PS: I’m pretty sure that anet would also love to know who gave it out.

So no official info from Anet, just a leak from a site that has pulled the images.

stale

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Blude.6812:

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

but for how long who knows till the new pack comes out with mounts and so forth .

Out of curiosity, who at ANET gave you that fact?

That would be Mike O’Brien when he acknowledged the veracity of the leaks.

Good luck.

Really? Any links?

Blude.6812:

WARIORSCHARGEING.2637:

but for how long who knows till the new pack comes out with mounts and so forth .

Out of curiosity, who at ANET gave you that fact?

I don’t know if MO acknoledged the veracity of the leaks, but in the last AMA they said the next episode will be the last one for this season, then the new expansion will be released within a similar schedule as the LS episodes, and Season 4 will begin inmediately after, also in the same cadence of 2-3 months.

Make some math, and you’ll see they have to be really close to a finished product by now. (I doubt they would risk another “unfinished” Xpac).

Considering Anet is so close to the new announcement, then looking at the way the leaks cleanly connect, and then examining the beautiful, detailed and very finished art in the last one, we can suppose the leaks must be true. I doubt someone could make a hoax so detailed and well timed just to… what? Made fun of people?

BassHunteR.7246:

Here is the state of the game:
WvW : dead. Anet completely ignored the gamemode for so long that most ppl, guilds left. Even t1 servers lack activity. Only 1 server is considered full and will soon be opened as well. No forecast of real changes or updates. Wvw community just messing around waiting for CU to launch.
Spvp: almost dead. Anet tried hard to force the esport idea on the game mode, bit that failed and the lack of balance most likely been killing the game mode.
Pve: still getting updates on the story mode very often, but the real developing effort is going to RAIDS. There is where anet is aiming their efforts. raid, raid, raid.
Ao if you wanna play this game for pvp or wvw, just forget it.. Look for something else cause aner has clearly given up those game modes.
Edit:
But hey, not everything is lost.
They gave us a new legendary weapon..
A kitteng lampshade looking torch. I bet that one took countless hours from several designers to came up with.
All the issues are solved. We can now hit monsters with a lampshade.
LOL

A lot of truth to that.

WvW has been falling apart and Anet hasn’t made any bold moves since world linking in an effort to save it. To my friends and I, it feels as though they don’t care what happens to the game mode.

PvP – like WvW is an unbalanced mess. Anet has hovered between mediocre and bad at balancing since day one. Its no surprise that its going the same way as WvW.

PVE is loaded with good stuff. More maps with the living story, RAIDS, legendary weapons and now legendary armor. They had current events and their periodic festivals that are fun for a lot of people.

Game is better generally in PvE than it is in PvP, but if you were bored playing alone before, you’ll be bored playing alone now. Solution?

Find someone to play with.

When Mike O’Brien states (in the latest AMA on Reddit) that if players want to be spoiled before the official announcements, that is their choice, but to please not post it on the forums or other venues and spoil it for others, that is pretty much confirming the veracity of the information out there.

According to Mike, we should be getting official information after Episode 6 in 2-3 months. So….not too long a wait for news. =)

Some of the pessimistic replies are ridiculous. Why don’t you just quit the game instead of bashing gw2 on the official forum?

Let’s be fair here.

WvW is far from being dead. There are queues on reset. There are queues on some maps in prime time zone. True it is lacking updates and development attention. But it is still very active and definitely better than what it was 2 years ago.

PvP is at its best state ever since the game existed. There is a real MMR based leaderborad. There is better rewards. The balance is actually the best since I started playing the game 3 years ago. Yes there is no pro scene any more but that doesn’t prevent 99.9% of the players from playing PvP. The biggest problem with this game mode is infrequent balance changes which make the meta stale. If you have played the pvp game for over a year regularly, you would probably get bored.

PvE is again in its best state ever since I started playing this game. There is just so much diversity and you can choose the type that suits you the most, let it be open world, fractals or raids. They are all fun and give out good rewards.

As for OP, it is simple. Play the game if you enjoy it.

You can find plenty of good youtube reviews and introduction to the game.

The official forum is probably the worst place to ask for advice as it is essentially a vent box for players who have overplayed the game for thousands of hours and couldn’t find reasons to continue.

SilentDream.6397:

I’m just coming back after 2 years and wanted to know (as the title says) the state of the game. Yes, HoT launched, but I didn’t want to get into GW2 at the time. I had gotten my character to level 80 prior HoT launch and I just left it there. For me, I didn’t know what else to do since I wasn’t apart of any guilds or really had people to play with. It was just solo play from 1-80 for me, which was boring. Hence, I want to know everything summarized so I’ll know if I should get back into it.

Different people are into different things so their perception of “state of the game” is different, but for me its like this:

PvE:
Dungeons – just ugh – nerfed in every aspect, no new ones
Fractals – bored to tears, been there done that just too many times
Open World / living Story – Good for a weekend or 2 of gameplay when it comes out, after that its “been there done that” and “bored to tears” again.
Raids – Bleh – I played EQ1 and 2, Rift, WoW, bunch of other games with raids in them. I’m completely and totally raided out and came to this game because it was NOT going to have them and everything horrible that comes with them. And here we are, game has turned completely focused on raids, right down to joblike schedules and addons.
Legendary armor – kinda sickens me due to Raids and what I stated above.

SPVP:
Played it a bit, but then HOT powercreep kicked in and kinda killed it for me. I actually don’t like some of the elites and would have loved to have beefed up old specs instead, especially on mes, engi and necro.

WvWvW:
Its disappearing. or rather, more specifically, the guilds are disappearing, along with commanders and everyone else who follows and plays together.
For the last year A-Net finally has been making changes to it, unfortunately those are far too little far too late to make up for the 3-4 years of neglect. All these new changes should have been done on the start of 2nd year and development should have just continued going forward from then. Now its just right down horrid.

Personally I log in to this game only exclusively to play with my guild once in a while, and thats only when certain commanders and certain people are playing and we’re running WVW. But as many others above, we’re just kinda using this to keep in touch more or less while waiting to jump ship.

And I have a feeling that once powercreep from new expansion hits that will be it for me regardless of any other factors.

(smoothes pantsuit) The state of our game is strong.

It seems anet has heard pretty strongly that things like the content hole that surrounded the HOT release were not exactly appreciated and we will hopefully not get it again. Right now we just had the 5th of 6 releases in season 3, each came with its own map and stuff. Not only that, right after 6 we will go to expansion 2 as if it were another episode, which means if it keeps to the same pace we could even see it in November.