Im an returning player. And are quite satisfyed with many of the changes that have been made. Game feels less annoying to play in pve. and there seem to be some actual tactics to the fights now instead of the “die and run back” that it was back in the days.
So over to the bad stuff..
The game have set out some stuff as for end game for us to chase. this is good.
However. The amount of effort needed seems for me..quite impossible.
Lets start with the Ascended gear. This part i dislike to like.
I havent been able to craft anything yet because i need like 7000billion items to craft one out of 4 pieces needed for a armor piece. This yet its still in reach- but its triggered by daily rewards so either way it will take me ALOT of weeks to complete this.
While crafting u get a cooldown timer that u have to wait for untill u can craft another piece. So saying its 1hour between. and u need 5 of the same. this is like 2 days for the average players because i dont time everything i do and i dont want to go click “craft” every 1 hour to be sure its on the clock. Why isnt this lined up that i can craft everything and then have a 5hour buildtime instead?? Getting mats are quite timeeating enough.
The other thing ive seen is that for me. my thief. dont have much armor id really want. Flame citadel set is still one of the coolest, but im bored of it. So i was looking at the hellfire set. thats pretty cool.
But why? Why make a armor set thats out of reach for basicly EVERYONE. you need 33k AP to get the chestpiece. and the highest AP known now is about 25k. There is atm 700ish players that are at this high AP. And may i ask how many ingame hours do they have? – So basicly. if i play hardcore goldfarmer bot style for over 1 year. MAYBE im getting close to getting it. But as for me being a normal everyday player trying to enjoy the game instead of grinding everything to bits for a year. this set is for me 100% impossible to get. I wont be able to do it no matter what ill try. Ill die of boredom grinding for it way before im at even 10k AP. And i cant buy it for gems either.
So when i run around. i feel like i get TONS and TONS of loot..but after 3 hours and clearing my inventory 100 times. ive still only gotten like 0.1% of the resources needed to craft the one piece i need/want. In any other mmorpg. after 3 hours you’d at least earned some gold and a couple of armorpices u could use in other ways. Here its just 2-3 ectos and a buck or 2.
All other mmo’s ive played. u get rewarded for doing multiple runs in dugeons and whatnot. so 3-4 hours actually rewards u something.. in here ur stuck with some ectos and perhaps enough mats to craft 1 of the 400 pieces needed to make 1 ascended. We dont even to craft visuals or perhaps get cool looking loot for our wardrobe.
Im all for the the lineup with gear being capped at this and that stats for ascended/exotic. But after 4 hours or even 1 week of gameplay i would love to be able to say. “hey at least i got this cool looking skin” that changes my everyday look. Ive been running in the flame citadel skins now ofr like 400hours and there still seems to be over 4000 hours left of gameplay to make that change. Hence for me a reason to quit my goals..
Read me wrong. i love this game in so many ways. but its sad that the stuff i want to do is no point of doing because it wont be able to get to it unless i quit my work. put my kid into a foster home. stop eating and block out my entire outside life so i have time to GRIND the same events over and over and over 7000 billion times to get it.
There is enough content in this game. Dungeons and whatnot. But as 1 dungeon is locked to 1 armor set. theres no point of doing them all if u only want this 1 set. u end up grinding the same stuff over and over till ur bored. and when ur done. the next goal is so far off u puke thinking of reaching it, as it contains grinding something else for multiple weeks. Yes a mmorpg is like this.. grinding. But other games at least let us grind 4-5 different dungeons to get the same piece u want. here ur bound to 1 dungeon.
So why Anet? why dont u put all the content into good use? im sure uve played other mmorpgs and see how PROGRESSION is there. i know u wana be different. but this type of different is for me a no go. i quit then.. and ill most likely to quit now. even though i love the game in so many other ways. its just not rewarding enough.
Call me whiner. but i know alot of ppls leaving the game due to this. i know returning players leaving again because the time restrictions on ascended gear.