Guild Wars 2

McSlappy.1372:

Because back in the day the game was released to be a fun to play. Exotics you could get relatively easy and then play for fun. Then 3 months later the game massive grind fest(biggest and worst in the industry) was introduced. This leads to massive boring grinding over and over to get gold or the pay win route to be used to get the best gear in game. Personally I am paying for a MMO. I’m having way more fun exploring the new content in WoW. More content in the Warlords expansion then in the entire living story released to date. And still WAY LESS GRIND lawl. GW2 promised so much and delivered so little.

The really bad part though is how the game was released was awesome. Then they started changing it and ruining it.

I absolutely have to agree. I just came back with my friends and I think the entire NPE is a mess, story not until you reach level 10, why bother doing it. Traits that you don’t start picking up until level 30, ridiculous. There’s nothing in the lower levels to work towards except to grind your way to level 80. They took what was a fantastic game and ruined it.

I find it quite difficult to level my lower level alts and we spent all last night in Orr on our level 80s.

Elrey.5472:

Kenshii.6274:

i guess my friends were right, this game is fun untill 80, then it just flattens out so hard.

That’s a funny statement, everyone that i know and plays gw2 thinks the opposite, the game is terrible boring until you are lvl 80.

We don’t play to get gear (that would feel like a job :\), we play because IT’S FUN. Of course some player’s goal is to get X reward, either legendary items or such, but most of us just play because we like to play it. We like to smash enemies in WvsW, or we like to kill dragons like Tequatl in an organized teamspeak with 50 more friends, or we like to go to the new maps and defend the castles against mordrems like if was an Age of Empires game for 1 hour.

I hope you understand my point. Most MMOs makes you “work” to get your desired items, GW2 instead let’s you get them easier so you can enjoy playing. This game offers a lot of activities, I made a post in the spanish forum a few days ago listing all what you can do at level 80… the list is really long. If you think that you have nothing to do just because you have your gear, then please go back to WoW or other MMOs that force you to “have this equipment or gtfo”. This is GW2, this is different!

+1.

I personally feel that the game only starts to get good at level 80 as well, because you finally have a legitimate reason to begin investing in good quality gear, including sigils and runes. You finally have full access to everything the game has to offer in terms of gear, traits and skills.

No need to worry about replacing your gear soon because of a gear treadmill, or because you’ll soon outlevel it. You can invest in it and try new things without fear. Find the builds that work for you, as you finally can achieve the full potential of your character and profession.

Oh, and free content patch unlocking is a reward in of itself! (You need a level 80 character to unlock living story chapters)

Beldin.5498:

Tobias Trueflight.8350:

Ascended was meant as a “bridge between exotic and legendary”, and most people (rather snarkily) took it as a means of stats.

It was more a matter of effort, and to have a long-term goal as far as gear goes which could be the gear for your character to aspire to earning. At least that’s how I see it. I poke at it now and again when I start accumulating materials too much for my bank to hold, but it’s a side project at best. (Mostly because it’s entirely unnecessary for anything I actually do in the game.)

The “bridge between exotic and legendary” statwise was of course a joke, since
legendary had just the same stats as exotics at that time, so there was no reason
at all to have something “between” .. since a “between” simply didn’t existed.

To be fair, I think the “bridge” comment was meant as a musical bridge, linking two pieces of music (or content, in this case). If you look at it as a highway bridge, which makes it shorter or easier to get from one piece of content to another, well… Ascended actually makes it take longer (or cost more) to get a Legendary weapon.

Everything is easy in this game…..ascended….legendary as long as ur willing to put in a little time to grind it…even 2 hrs a day is more than enuff