Guild Wars 2

Before this game was released Anet stated there is no grind in this game. And for the most part they were right. There is little to no grind to leveling and leveling was extremely enjoyable.

BUT.. Once you hit max level.. That’s all there is to do is grind. You cant redo the story line and pick a different order to follow, you can’t redo hearts.

Example #1 Karma. At level 80 you have a few sets of karma gear. The best set is 44,000 karma a pice. HOLY kitten!
A normal heart/event gives about 300 to 400 karma.
Math time.
44,000/350 = 126 hearts for 1 piece of gear.
44,000X5= 220,000
220,000/350 = 629 hearts.
There are only 301 hearts in the game. So you must do EVERY heart in the game and still grind out 328 more events just for enough karma to get a set of gear. Not including a weapon.
(This does not include WvW karma gain for keeps and such or vistas.)

Example #2 Instances.
1 instance run gives about 15 tokens (please correct me if I’m wrong). It costs between 180 to 330 tokens for 1 item.
(full set is 1380)
Math time.
1380/15 = 92 runs. That’s 92 runs for 1 set of armor.
There are 8 sets of instance armor. If you wanted them all that would be
92 X 8 = 736 runs total just for all the instance armor in the game. Not too bad only problem is that’s 92 runs of the SAME instance.

Example #3
PvP.
Farm WvW for PVP tokens and it feels like you randomly get tokens for ONLY killing players nothing else awards tokens. So you must kill a player and stay alive and around the loot bag to get it if you dodge away from the look bag you miss your tokens.
Math time.
PvP armor is priced the same as PVE armor with just a less frequent drop rate.
I can’t even do the math because of the inconsistency of PvP token drops. But it feels like 2 tokens for every 5 kills. I am making an assumption so if I am wrong please correct me.
So 2/5 = .04 per kill.
1380/0.4= 3450 kills for 1 set of gear.

I have no problems with sPvP reward system.

I hope some of you found this helpful and somewhat informative. I want to state for the record I love this game and think Anet did a great job (excluding last night’s PVE patch what a horrid idea) on this game and I feel they will continue to do a great job. This is hands down the best MMO on the market.

Sorry for the 4 posts. it wouldnt let me post it all in once with out tripple copping it making the post about 600 lines long.

I plan on doing dynamic events just for the sheer fun. Im not really the type of player who makes many alts, so I plan on going through all the other levels and zones I havent been to and participating in the events.
The down level feature is fantastic in my opinion.

I agree the down level is fun but i wish i could turn it off so when i go to get ore and stuff i can just 1 hit every thing. the events are fun also.