Guild Wars 2

and monthlys completly. they feel like a chore… and it’s not fun anymore.

Cool story, bro.

Don’t then? Message Body length must at least be 15.

Monthlies…. really???

I bet you can’t avoid doing it unless you actively avoid its requirements.

they could have at least added some story or purpose to the dailies and monthly’s…. any attempt to even try and mask it would have been nice….or getting reputation or rewards out of it would have been nice… anything would be nice… anything..

instead of an attempt to mask it with quest or something its just a dam checklist…go kill x amount of these… and so on…. in their attempt to be different and not be a grinder game GW2 has become the ultimate grind fest.

Think you guys could fix this please?

Id appreciate it and im sure many others would…

IM still foolishly holding out hoping GW2 will get fixed by an xpac..

You’re going to stop dodging? And killing things? And gathering? What, exactly, are you going to do when you log on?

They already fixed it and It’s pretty great now… And we are rewarded.

Wolfheart.1938:

Monthlies…. really???

I bet you can’t avoid doing it unless you actively avoid its requirements.

Might as well not play, about 3hrs in and I managed to finish the Vet Slayer one by accident. I love that Melandru event with the spider. I slowed down in the end as the next 2 can be done easily without forethought. Where as the JPs I do.

darkace.8925:

You’re going to stop dodging? And killing things? And gathering? What, exactly, are you going to do when you log on?

i’m not going to… cause it was pretty much the only reason i have been. besides the living story dungeon yesterday.

So you just sit in LA and chat otherwise then? I’m lost on why you play at all.

I’m halfway on the monthly by just doing WvW for a few hours and running the new dungeon once. 3/4 of the vets I killed came from the new dungeon.

Good on ya. Why should the rest of us care?

salsa aj.4627:

darkace.8925:

You’re going to stop dodging? And killing things? And gathering? What, exactly, are you going to do when you log on?

i’m not going to… cause it was pretty much the only reason i have been. besides the living story dungeon yesterday.

So this is an hidden farewell thread? Byebye. Hope you find a game that better suits you.

The point of dailies/monthlies was to give you a reward for things you would most likely be doing anyway in game. Running dungeons, WvW, roaming zones to pick off dynamic events, all these pretty much give you an easy 3 categories for your daily. Bring a pick and an axe, zoinks, there is number 4.

If you aren’t doing any of this…, why are you playing? Just socializing in LA? Why would you need the rewards for that?

Wolfheart.1938:

Monthlies…. really???

I bet you can’t avoid doing it unless you actively avoid its requirements.

It’s not hard at all. Since beta I have played every day except for a couple of weeks I took a break and only completed 2 monthlies, and the only reason I finished them was I actively worked on them.

salsa aj.4627:

darkace.8925:

You’re going to stop dodging? And killing things? And gathering? What, exactly, are you going to do when you log on?

i’m not going to… cause it was pretty much the only reason i have been. besides the living story dungeon yesterday.

it’s a bad idea not to dodge.

It’s designed to reward you for playing just as if it weren’t there. Just play the game. You’ll probably do 4 of the items within 30 mins without even knowing it.

Give it a glance & see underwater kills is on there. Oh, well then I’ll do that kill-krait heart that I still need for world completion now. It’s really easy. Stop trying to do it and just play.

Also, the only reason I do dailies is for the laurels. If you don’t want/need laurels, don’t do the dailies.
If you’re sub-80, doing the dailies are a better source of XP than a heart. So it’s actually a great leveling tool. Which makes it more than just a chore thing for a luarel…it’s a valid in-game goal.

The best part of the game and you will not do it real!
Its basically a free way to say * suck it up fractal i don’t like running you. *

Mattargul.9235:

The point of dailies/monthlies was to give you a reward for things you would most likely be doing anyway in game. Running dungeons, WvW, roaming zones to pick off dynamic events, all these pretty much give you an easy 3 categories for your daily. Bring a pick and an axe, zoinks, there is number 4.

If you aren’t doing any of this…, why are you playing? Just socializing in LA? Why would you need the rewards for that?

See, that’s the point, they where supposed to be for doing what you would normally do, but for many it does not work like that any longer. when dailies where introduced, that is how they worked. If you just played the game, you would eventually get your dailies no matter where you played or how you played. It is no longer that way. I can’t count the number of times I have had to stop playing with friends because they had to do their dailies. Want to do all the renown hearts in the charr area then do the dungeon? better hope the dailies do not require you to go to the asura or norn areas or your out of luck, “sorry but you can’t just play the game and get your dailies today”.
Like I said in another post, I play every day. I do some fractals, some dungeons, and have only gotten 2 monthlies since beta. I have to stop what I am doing and check dailies before signing off to make sure I have them all, because many times I do not. Sure, it’s easy enough to finish them off. Do some crafting of useless items that no one wants and no one needs, so I just toss them to the merchant. Waste of time. Spend karma on items I have no use for while trying to save for items I do need, kind of counter productive. Visit the laural vendor? really? Easiest one, but just stupid beyond belief and such a waste of time. Ascolinian killer, magumma killer, shiverpeaks killer, these are all badly done. They force a player to visit a specific area to get them. You are not going to get the dailies just playing the game if you don’t play in that area. And then add in the personal story one? Guess you have to keep an alt artound just in case you need to do that one to get your 5/5. Yes, I know you can pick and choose any 5, but it’s very rare that I see 5 that I can get while just playing the game like I normally do. Doing dungeons, fotm, hearts, DE, killing anything that moves, I guess these are not normal for most players as I never get the dailies or monthlies any more from just doing these.

Some people just have to complain for the sake of complaining it seems. Don’t want to do dailies/monthlies? Don’t do dailies/monthlies. Simple.

Then don’t do it. It’s not like you will get banned for not doing it (:

He said he quit already. Why are you guys continuing to contribute to this post… We cannot convince him to stay…. He was…. our last hope. -_- lower heads along with a moment of silence Without him… more people will leave, and we’ll just be alone in our ghost town servers again *weeps

the problems I’m seeing with it is it actually can take an entire day to complete now. Seriously, like 6-8 hours of gameplay with some combinations they need to ensure that there are an equal number of quick things to do with the long drawn out things to do or remove the long drawn out ones entirely. Like killing the invaders thing? 150? really? that’s extreme.

There’s plenty of things to do open world that we could accomplish that they just haven’t added and we asked for them before in threads when they said they wanted to make changes originally to make it our choice. Well it’s not really our choice if we have all pvp long drawn out dungeon only stuff and things like killing 150 of something we have no control the spawn times on is it.

What happened to trying on new pieces of towns clothes or doing minigames a certain number of times or finding a certain number of hidden chests in open world. These are dailies we’re talking about here not monthlies. The stuff they are giving us might as well be weeklies.

Simon.3106:

He said he quit already. Why are you guys continuing to contribute to this post… We cannot convince him to stay…. He was…. our last hope. -_- lower heads along with a moment of silence Without him… more people will leave, and we’ll just be alone in our ghost town servers again *weeps

Cya later more precursors for me.

Don’t you get it, Enjoyluck?! Without him, there will be no more people… Without people! There will be no more precursor! We’re doomed! The end of GW2 is near! Time to migrate back to Pokemon MMO. Still grinding for my legendary pokeball there.

Simon.3106:

Don’t you get it, Enjoyluck?! Without him, there will be no more people… Without people! There will be no more precursor! We’re doomed! The end of GW2 is near! Time to migrate back to Pokemon MMO. Still grinding for my legendary pokeball there.

I’m mentality kittened so i will not miss him. Also giv eme a muderkitten gengar

If you’re bored with them stopping doing them is probably a good idea. Or at least not actively working towards them, as many people have pointed out it’s hard to play at all without making some progress on them.

Until they added laurels and varied goals I hardly ever did the daily because I had absolutely no interest in it. After they changed it I felt the same way for a while – if I completed it then it was by accident.

Then I started getting really into it and found myself focusing more and more on it. I’d check the options as soon as I logged in and it’d determine what I did that day. (For example if Shiverpeaks killer was one of them I’d make sure to play a character whose going around the Shiverpeaks.) At first it was fun but after a while I started feeling like I HAD to do the daily even if I didn’t feel like it or didn’t have time to do it while playing normally and had to focus entirely on it.

Unsurprisingly I got burned out and sick of it. Luckily SAB came out and while I was focusing on that I couldn’t do the daily (I only get a few hours to play so I couldn’t do both) which broke the habit.

So now I do it occasionally, if I have time and it fits what I want to do and if not I don’t worry about it. It’s a lot more fun this way.

salsa aj.4627:

and monthlys completly. they feel like a chore… and it’s not fun anymore.

You can’t stop doing it. You just play the game and it’s doing it.

In the OP’s defense, there’s nothing really desirable to get with laurels.

I could waste it on getting Ascended gear for a single character… Or I could just wait until ANet provides alternative methods of getting Ascended. (Like crafting, for example… Crafting professions are kind of pointless currently.)

I could waste it all on a potion that will turn me into a cat.

Or a miniature cat to follow me around. Or a wolf.

See? It’s all kind of pointless. No cool skins or anything. All current Ascendeds (aside from backpieces, which you can’t get with laurels) aren’t visible.

Also, I have an overabundance of Mystic Coins (I passed 250 last month) and still no desire to get a Legendary.

The real issue with laurels is people like me: Those that are just collecting them for the heck of it. Now ArenaNet can’t release some mega-awesome thing at the vendor, because I would be able to get it instantly, while it’d take everyone else a while to work back up to 120 laurels.

Back on topic. I can do my daily in 30 minutes… flat -_-\/ I dont know who takes more than an hour doing daily. I know someone who finished their monthly just last night, and the monthly just reset itself yesterday afternoon.

A short story. I was just 2 jump puzzles away from my monthly. Right before I got to it, BAM! Reset! You know how mad I am? Curse you A-net and your heartlessness. I only do it to achieve something simple. Not for laurels honesetly. Laurels is pathetic to me. I’m willing to sell it 1 copper each if I could. -_-\/

Simon.3106:

Back on topic. I can do my daily in 30 minutes… flat -_-\/ I dont know who takes more than an hour doing daily. I know someone who finished their monthly just last night, and the monthly just reset itself yesterday afternoon.

A short story. I was just 2 jump puzzles away from my monthly. Right before I got to it, BAM! Reset! You know how mad I am? Curse you A-net and your heartlessness. I only do it to achieve something simple. Not for laurels honesetly. Laurels is pathetic to me. I’m willing to sell it 1 copper each if I could. -_-\/

Get the materiel bag congratz you just earn like a gold for 1 laurel lol..

salsa aj.4627:

and monthlys completly. they feel like a chore… and it’s not fun anymore.

NO! If you drop below 5 dailies a week the bus will explode!

Wait, that’s the plot to the movie Speed… if you stop doing them nothing happens. So carry on then.

At least someone here chose not to do what they don’t like. Most other people will complain about hating doing dailies but yet still do them.

Simon.3106:

Back on topic. I can do my daily in 30 minutes… flat -_-\/ I dont know who takes more than an hour doing daily. I know someone who finished their monthly just last night, and the monthly just reset itself yesterday afternoon.

A short story. I was just 2 jump puzzles away from my monthly. Right before I got to it, BAM! Reset! You know how mad I am? Curse you A-net and your heartlessness. I only do it to achieve something simple. Not for laurels honesetly. Laurels is pathetic to me. I’m willing to sell it 1 copper each if I could. -_-\/

I think the OP’s point which I agree with is that Dailies just begin to feel pointless…
I’ve largely stopped playing GW2 every day because of this.

I feel the monthlies have been getting less annoying actually. Before they’d make you do jumping puzzles and dungeons and fractals and you had no choice. And 500 salvages seems annoying but that’s better than the periscopes for sure. =p

So, what are you doing in the game exactly?

I’m already half done with my monthly, by accident, and it’s only been like, 1 day after it reseted?

The only things I’ve done is things I like, and that is WvWvW and Jumping Puzzles.

Why are you even playing the game if you can’t even get these things done by accident, do you seriously have to hunt them down?

Minos.5168:

In the OP’s defense, there’s nothing really desirable to get with laurels.

Okay, what? It’s obviously a matter of preference, but I could spend laurels every day and not run out of things to shop.

Minos.5168:

See? It’s all kind of pointless. No cool skins or anything. All current Ascendeds (aside from backpieces, which you can’t get with laurels) aren’t visible.

See, for me, actual better stats > some purely cosmetic skin.

I am currently wearing an ascended amulet that gives me a +15% karma boost, which helps towards getting my legendary.

But I also like crafting starter bags (I haven’t mastered all of the crafts yet), dye kits, and… not a huge fan of minipets in general but I might actually get fancycat.

PS: the dailies are really easy to get for me in 20-35 minutes; even when I don’t play overly much the I run out of monthlies halfway through the month and then I’m just a bit bored.

I like dailies and monthlies, and haven’t missed a daily since January. My only gripe would be that the jumping puzzle monthly requirement this month is the same as last month. Moar variety prz!

And yes, I know I could just do 12 different puzzles but I already hopped around a lot last month. Can’t I just kill dragons this month instead lol?

Pixelpumpkin.4608:

Minos.5168:

In the OP’s defense, there’s nothing really desirable to get with laurels.

Okay, what? It’s obviously a matter of preference, but I could spend laurels every day and not run out of things to shop.

I buy dyes with laurels, sell them for gold, and use the gold to equip my alts. So for me laurels = gold.

I just got an alt to 80 and all my ascended and my legendary are on my main.

So now I need laurels again to gear up the new character * sigh *.

tigirius.9014:

the problems I’m seeing with it is it actually can take an entire day to complete now. Seriously, like 6-8 hours of gameplay with some combinations they need to ensure that there are an equal number of quick things to do with the long drawn out things to do or remove the long drawn out ones entirely. Like killing the invaders thing? 150? really? that’s extreme.

There’s plenty of things to do open world that we could accomplish that they just haven’t added and we asked for them before in threads when they said they wanted to make changes originally to make it our choice. Well it’s not really our choice if we have all pvp long drawn out dungeon only stuff and things like killing 150 of something we have no control the spawn times on is it.

What happened to trying on new pieces of towns clothes or doing minigames a certain number of times or finding a certain number of hidden chests in open world. These are dailies we’re talking about here not monthlies. The stuff they are giving us might as well be weeklies.

6 HOURS???? o.o wow… When I finish my daily every day in 15-20 minutes, now I feel like I’m doing something wrong…

Don’t like dailes: Don’t do them.

I like the dailies, because they’re easy experience for levelling a new character with.

am I really the only one that agrees with the OP?
dailies are a chore. One that I am still doing, but a chore none-the-less.
“The point of dailies/monthlies was to give you a reward for things you would most likely be doing anyway in game” – except nearly everyday when I am done playing I find myself having to go through this list to see what part of the game I didn’t play so I can get my daily laurel.
Last night: perfect example. did the new dungeon twice. completed monthly vet slayer achievement + 3 daily achievements. If that quote were true, I’d have my laurel and signed off. Instead, I did the urmaug’s jumping puzzle in lion’s arch again then gathered around orr for 5 minutes.
clearly I played the game like normal, but then had to go out of my way because I want laurels.
“you don’t have to do them”, “be more diversified”, etc. = I’m not complaining that they are there, and I’ve accepted their true nature. What I’m trying to do is help the developers understand that more people will be realizing that chores are not fun and drive people away. and, yes, dailies are a chore.
one suggestion I have: have 8 random ways to earn points toward your daily. when you get 100 points, you completed the daily and get those rewards. The difference between that and now is that it’d be possible to gather 100 things to complete daily. or kill 25 vets. or do 5 dungeons. or 2 dungeons and 60 gatherings. There is no cap on any of them (but after you complete the daily, you stop getting achievement points for them). It allows for more freedom with what you do to get it. still a chore, but more likely to actually complete in your normal course of playing.

Seras.5702:

It’s designed to reward you for playing just as if it weren’t there. Just play the game. You’ll probably do 4 of the items within 30 mins without even knowing it.

Give it a glance & see underwater kills is on there. Oh, well then I’ll do that kill-krait heart that I still need for world completion now. It’s really easy. Stop trying to do it and just play.

Also, the only reason I do dailies is for the laurels. If you don’t want/need laurels, don’t do the dailies.
If you’re sub-80, doing the dailies are a better source of XP than a heart. So it’s actually a great leveling tool. Which makes it more than just a chore thing for a luarel…it’s a valid in-game goal.

Well, mostly yes. If dodge/50 kill/vet/kill variety is there everyday then it’ll just come by itself. But thing is, it often requires you to kill stuff in certain area. Or it tells you to do fotm while you want to do dungeon that day. Also, interrupt…..some class just lack those skills.

I could really finish 4/5 just by playing fotm once before they change daily to this format. I love fotm but now I can rarely go there because I only have an hour or so a day and I probably won’t finish the daily if I go play fotm…….:(

Mystic.5934:

one suggestion I have: have 8 random ways to earn points toward your daily. when you get 100 points, you completed the daily and get those rewards. The difference between that and now is that it’d be possible to gather 100 things to complete daily. or kill 25 vets. or do 5 dungeons. or 2 dungeons and 60 gatherings. There is no cap on any of them (but after you complete the daily, you stop getting achievement points for them). It allows for more freedom with what you do to get it. still a chore, but more likely to actually complete in your normal course of playing.

That is actually a great suggestion! Would make dailies easier/faster to do but I see nothing wrong with that! When some of my friends log for less than 1h most of their playtime is focused on getting it done

i wish they made some monthly achievement; “RALLY”. 1000 rally and just one tier. since i get down so much now in wvw whit my ele.

kikittener.9578:

i wish they made some monthly achievement; “RALLY”. 1000 rally and just one tier. since i get down so much now in wvw whit my ele.

Haha that would be awesome, farming orr I think I rally on my thief more than I shoot arrows sometimes..

darkace.8925:

You’re going to stop dodging? And killing things? And gathering? What, exactly, are you going to do when you log on?

cof p1
10+Hours farming. A lot of money. You Cant do dailys, just farming the worst dungeon ever. 3 months later, your brain is totally burned and you can leave this game bcoz the game dont have lvl 80 content or end-game while you cry.
This, is exactly the people are doing. Deal with it.

Go ahead. Chances are you’ll get your daily done without even paying attention to it. Hell I get my daily done while taking a kitten, and not even being logged in.

I don’t really understand all the annoyance directed at the OP. He/she is going to stop doing dailies because he/she doesn’t find them fun any more. That’s fair enough. What’s wrong with it.

I stop doing anything in a game I don’t find fun.