Guild Wars 2

I started playing Guild Wars 2 back in Summer of 2015 and I got completely hooked. A month after I started I didn’t hesitate into pre-ordering the expansion and played non-stop for over a year, taking a break around December of last year. And I decided to come back around early this month.

But honestly… I can’t help but feel that everything I do in this game is utterly pointless. I’m still playing the game even though I take little to no joy from it.

- My main focus has always been the PvE but after completing the whole map and doing the Story so many times I grew tired of it. Explorings maps feel like a chore and I can’t enjoy the writing anymore after taking a good look at its flaws. Dungeons feel repetitive and bothersome. I can’t try anything new in the Fractals because my gear doesn’t allow it. And I can’t bring myself to farm. All I do are some of the regular daillies and the ones from the new maps, check some nodes throughout the maps and then just stand around.

- I tried to switch my focus to PvP and WvW. I already mixed the three modes. I have 21 characters, each character resembles a different role and carries a different set of weapons. I try to be original with my builds, going for an idea instead of being unriginal and cliché and copy-paste one from the internet. But it doesn’t matter how hard I try, I’m always incompetent with them everywhere. I can’t stand my ground against a player or a group… I can’t even solo regular things on PvE. It’s worse that I made a Thief my main character, my least favourite class.

- I used to love designing new looks and experimenting with dyes. Sadly, I always ran out of charges… and when I try to get some of them I end up bored and just give up. I also don’t get why so many people look alike. Why so many people go for that “snowflake” and “flashy” look while ANet has provided a vast number of options and outfits for us to mix. Having all of these particles and immersion-breaking characters and weapons covering up my screen isn’t something I enjoy looking at most of the time.

- I feel lonely. When I first joined I managed to gather a group of friends. We spent a lot of time together, building up a friendship as we chat and played together for almost every single day. We even used other apps in order to keep in touch. There was someone in particular that I spent most of my time with. We even roleplayed together and developed stories, worked for the same goals and did a lot of events and all of those sorts. All of that came to an end when this person followed that typical “elitist” route and decided to focus on the grind and high-tier things like Fractals and Raids, using me as a pawn and eventually leaving me behind once I was no longer useful. I haven’t been able to really get people to just play with me… I just end up doing things on my own or with a random and mute LFG party. Not even one soul bothered to contact me while I was on that 5-month hiatus..

- The grind. I remember when this game was advertised as casual-friendly. Now I’m familiar with its mechanics, I know that this game is extremely grindy Everything requires some sort of grinding: achievements, skins, goals, story, exploration, gold… My “Legendary Journey” opened my eyes to it. I’ve been working on my Legendary for six months now, and 4 of those months were really stressful and was one of the main factors as to why I ended up leaving before. I just managed to craft my precursor recently and it didn’t feel rewarding at all. I don’t think I’ll manage to get the last two gifts and finish it.

- ANet itself. I have seen many things come and go. Many fixes and major new flaws raising to the surface. I still feel like there’s a huge lakc of msicommunication between the developers and the community itself. I can’t really get into much detail here, but this company has disappointed me.

I don’t know why I’m writing this or why I still login. I think it’s because I’ve spent so many hours(like 3k) and money into this thing that I want to force myself into enjoying it…

Maybe some Staff moderator will probably delete this thread like other ones I’ve posted in the past few months. It wouldn’t surprise me. Maybe they should so that I can nail this coffin once and for all.

And sorry for some possible grammar errors.

I would advise taking another break from gw2. If you’re not enjoying the game, it really doesn’t matter how much you have invested in it. Who knows you might find something else and never come back to this game. You are either going to miss the game or you are not.

Dashingsteel.3410:

I would advise taking another break from gw2. If you’re not enjoying the game, it really doesn’t matter how much you have invested in it. Who knows you might find something else and never come back to this game. You are either going to miss the game or you are not.

If I miss it’ll be out of “nostalgia”, from the good moments. That’ll make come back and realise it was all a farse and make me leave once more.

I have tried other games as well, but they also end up lacking after I’m through with their story modes. Can’t really try anything new because my computer can’t handle it. Nor my wallet.

21 characters? Max level? If they are max level then kitten! There isn’t anything on earth that after being done repeatedly doesn’t become boring. That’s just human nature. Imagine a pianist playing moonlight sonata for the 15000th time. He probably hates the song and anyone who makes him play it. Look at it like this, even if you did do high level fractals, if you went at it as hard as you went at the rest of the game it too would eventually become boring. That’s just life. The little shake ups in character balancing and a little change here or there to skills is really what keeps some people playing honestly. Don’t get me wrong I still love the game, but if things don’t change from time to time or you find ways to change up what you’re doing how many times can you kill stuff the same way really?

Like others have said, maybe take a break again. Expansion 2 will be within the year, might be the perfect time to jump back in.

If you don’t want your topics deleted, go for a more informative approach.

Title: things to do after end game?

Just having a title such as that will invite players to share their ideas.

Considering the negative title, this thread will probably go under.

In all this wall of text I’m missing 1 thing: the moment where you tried joining a guild of like minded individuals.

I get it, you started playing with friends and some left, others changed their gaming habits and now you feel alone. Why not try joining a guild and doing stuff with guildies? Seems very wierd to me because it’s the most obvious approach.

Wvw and spvp are the only true end game and after end game thing in gw2 (realty all mmorpg). There always new pve content and story but they tend to be very fleeting. The thing is Anet seems not to understand this and are not putting much into wvw or spvp these days and most into very one shot pve content. Its what is holding the game back atm for a lot of ppl.

The Druid Stone achievements are a good step forward to staying in the new maps by being rewarded IMO. I think that if anet made each collection timegated but instead of doing the same thing over and over (Hearts) it would be something new, that would excite players and have people anticipate what’s next in it.

Legendaries will likely stay forever so you have all the time in the world to get them. Save up gold from doing casual on-the-go stuff. Spotted a rich iron vein? Mine it quickly and move on. My attitude towards gw2 is play casual, have fun. No need to develop stress over it… The sad part is a lot of people have “completionist” mentality where they absolutely must get everything. A worse habit is getting everything right as it’s released. New map? I need to get everything day one so I don’t have to worry about it later!

Cool thing is, these things stay forever. Achievements, once done, will never need to be touched again. Make these moments memorable, not done in a whizz. Sure, it’s nice to have all that flair, and if you’re in the AP leaderboard game it’s perfectly understandable to catch up on achievements, but if you’re an “average” player there’s no need to grind your way out to be first in everything.

Some cheap advice if you’re frustrated is to contemplate a lil, then just drop the game off a bit. Take breaks and leave GW2 for a while, until nostalgia settles in and the game’s been updated with new stuff.

After the end? Wut?~

You have reached the end.

From now on you could come to this forum and give constructive feedbacks,

like so many others who have reached the end.

Hopefully, we can improve the lives of fellow players.

You could also spend more time with the friends who left the game and

never come back until you all want to do it again.

Playing this game alone is an unhealthy thing to do.

One would be happier spending time face to face with others.