Guild Wars 2

I simply don’t get it. The are too many different ways in which this game penalizes having alts. Why?

Cuz of people getting kicked off their native server due to so many ppl farming bosses on alts.

or because The game wants to troll you.

What alt hate or penalisation?

Are you playing the same game as the rest of us?

I don’t think my alt is being penalised at all…. to begin with, alts are made because you enjoy playing another class other than your main. I can gear my alts just as easy as I can gear my main. Of course, certain things like fractal cap and ascended amulet I take priority on my main but other than that, the ascended/exotic stat difference is almost negligible

Lexandro.1456:

What alt hate or penalisation?

Are you playing the same game as the rest of us?

Lets see…dyes, ascended items, fine t-stones, story mode dungeons, story mode post 50, fractals, this up coming chest change, and several others…..they are not hard to see.

Edit: penalize was probably a poor word choice.. maybe better would have been asking why that game is not alt friendly and why they keep making it less alt friendly?

Dyes are cheap and a money sink
Ascended gear is account bound, so any alt can get one from your main
SM dungeons? Dont get your point, Ive barely done SM in any dungeon and still done plenty of exp modes on all my alts.
SM past 50? Again dont get your point other than the fact that its repetative.
Fractals? What? You can do them easily with any char of any class, hell I do them with a ranger.
Chest change is not even that big of a change for the vast majority, you just cant get 30+ chests a day now.

I have a ton of alts. I have one character that runs fractals. I don’t need to run fractals on my alts. In fact, I don’t even really need to run dungeons on different alts. My alts are there to play around in the open world, so I don’t need ascended gear on each of them.

Oh sure, I’m specced high enough to do dungeons on all of them. In fact, I just got my sixth 80 last night. She’s already in mostly 80 armor, has an exotic chest piece and two ascended rings, from my fractal character. Plus a rare back piece and amulet, also level 80.

I’m not so sure that most people who make alts feel the need to run fractals with all of them, and I’m not convinced that most people who are altoholics need BIS gear on every single character. I don’t.

I like the dye system also because it gives me something to work for on each character. I have so many dyes on all my alts, well, yeah.

The one thing that the OP said I agree with is that story mode dungeons should be unlocked by account, not by character. However, even this there’s a reason for. It’s harder for people to get story mode groups together than explorable groups, because the rewards are so much less. So if you take away the number of alts who need story mode from the pool of people who need those dungeons, you’re crippling new players who haven’t had a chance to do them yet.

Of course, since you can do an explorable as long as one person in the party has done story mode, this rarely is even a hindrance to me.

Essence Snow.3194:

I simply don’t get it. The are too many different ways in which this game penalizes having alts. Why?

/scratch head

Seven 80’s (all in exotic gear) out of now 37 alts.

Account bound goodies.
Leveling to 80 can be done in less than a week. (Somebody posted 8 hours).
Blue gear is sharable.
Achievements are shared.
Dailies are shared.
Monthlies are shared.
Karma, Laurels, Fractal badges, Explorable badges can all be shared.

/scratch head again

I’m not sure I understand why it isn’t alt-friendly. Compared to other MMOs, I’m finding no problems with GW2 and my chronic alt-itis at all.

At least here I only have 2 accounts and no monthly fees (compared to 4 accounts with subscriptions.)

PS: yes, I had to choose mains to put my laurel gear on. And will do the same with Fractal rings.