Guild Wars 2

I’m not sure whether I should rate happiness with my class or with the game overall so I’ll do both. I’ve tried every class so far(But not past lvl 23 in beta.)

Ranger- 10/10

Guardian- 9/10

Warrior-8/10

Engineer-9/10

Mesmer-7/10

Elementalist-8/10

Necromancer-7/10

Thief-10/10

Overall game experience: 9/10

-1 for blantant lack of communication from forum mods and their tech support department.

Their community manager and reps seem to do a good job though. Seeing the devs post here is encouraging as well so that saves them a point.

If it weren’t for my one gripe about communication I’d have zero problems with this game, however, overall, I like this game a lot and see myself playing it for a long time.

Level 80 Warrior 7.5 out of 10

I deducted one point because there is no real skill progression, since all your main skills and abilities are aquired by level 5 or 6. I deducted another point for alot of broken events. and I deduct another .5 points for not having a decent way to find groups for dungeons.

80 Mesmer
8/10

60 warrior

31 ranger

7 gaurdian

rest of the classes suck.

1-3 bases soly on dps/tank/justkilling

80 Thief
11/10

80 Necromancer: bugs… bugs everywhere.
The ‘everything is endgame’-thing is a lie and the downscaling is not consequent enough, which really bugs me.
But i had a lot of fun leveling and playing.
8.5/10

lvl 80 Thief

9/10 Apart from some minor issues, this is the best Themepark MMO since Vanilla WoW.

59 and loving every minute …..10/10

59 and loving every minute …..10/10

Asura warrior lvl fiftysomething, can’t exactly remember.
6 or 7 out of 10
Difficulty in the game seems to be created by increasing spawn sizes and decreasing respawn timers, by giving all enemies knockdown and poison/bleed and by forcing you to kite and kite while waiting for your condition remover and healing skills to come off cooldown. Seems that whatever class you pick, that is what you end up doing (at least in the personal story)

lvl 80 guardian 3/10

80 ranger
happiness (7/10)

80 mesmer – 9/10
The amount of people complaining about quest bugs is surprising. I can’t think of any other MMO launch that was as smooth as this one, and I think I playedkittennear all of them. TP problems were slightly annoying and my heart goes out to the necros, but I have to say that Anet exceeded my expectations.

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Level 50 Norn Elementalist 9/10 because of things that need refinement.

-Dungeons;
-More armor skins;
-Bug fixes;
-Balance PvP;

Level 44 Guardian 10/10

80 Sylvari Elementalist 9/10

Still a lot of things that need fixing but there is enough stuff that works for me to still have fun.

61 Sylvari Elementalist 9/10

I have some minor annoyances but so far the rest of the game makes up for it.

Engineer 22 9/10

80 Mesmer 10/10

31 thief 8/10

Wish I would notice all the time I spent in spvp more when I do pve

80 elementalist:
PvE: 4/10
WvW: 9/10

63 warrior:
PvE: 9/10

Trying a bunch at the same time so here goes (this is experience SO FAR, will change I’m sure as I level)

Ranger 28 – 9/10 – Very easy to play, Lynx I choose you! (BM/wilderness)
Warrior 28 – 7/10 – Straight forward slash fest (Crit build – sword/axe)
Mesmer 20 – 5/10 – Powerful but slower in pve. (staff build/ illusions)
Elementalist 20 – 7/10 – Fun in groups, haven’t figured out solo yet. (staff build air/fire)
Engineer 18 – 2/10 – Damage lowest of the 5 ( grenades/bombs thinking about maybe trying flame thrower)

If I had any idea of what I was doing, they’d probably all be 10/10. So really I’m rating my personal skill and understanding of the classes.

Last 3 tried but not my cup of tea.
Necro – deleted
Thief – deleted
Guardian – deleted

Human, Engineer, 39, 7/10. Mostly happy, but with skill challenge npcs not working, and loots and rewards from mobs/champions being absolute crap, I am getting progressively unhappy the more I play.

52 Norn Warrior – 9.5/10. He hits things really really hard. Sometimes he gets in over his head because I whirlwind into a pack of 8 mobs and now they’re all attacking me.

40 Human Elementalist – 8/10. Large learning curve but I think I’m getting the hang of it. More gear dependent than the warrior though.

21 Norn Guardian – 7/10 so far. I like that she can take more damage than my warrior but she really needs more ranged options.

Mesmer – 44

9/10 fix illusionary leap and give feedback field an ground target tag and then 10/10.

(playstyle 10/10 anyway)

Rockbaby, lvl 70 Guardian, 8/10.

Lost a point due to bugs ingame (I’m well aware it’s the beginning and those will be fixed, but so far, lost a grade for that) and another one for PvP (I enjoy it, but due to some features missing I can’t enjoy it as much as I want).

I had an engineer, got it to level 35, and deleted it. I just couldn’t get in to dropping totems all the time, er turrets, whatever.

Level 31 thief – 9/10
Level 45 guardian – 9/10
Level 21 warrior – 7/10
Level 40 elementalist – 8/10
Level 28 mesmer – 5/10 (seems like too much effort to put out decent dps)
Level 35 ranger- 8/10
Level 27 necro – 5/10 (just not my playstyle I guess)

Level 80 Ranger 10/10

Level 55 thief 9/10 love the class and design,
Level 30 Mesmer 9/10 ^^^^^^^ same as above
Level 25 Guardian 8-10 (love the class, wish we had a ranged weapon for WvW.)

If you meant for the game, 9/10 loving the game it’s a blast, definitely going to keep my attention for a long time.

Got Elementalist to 80… Found it to be lacking when you stack it up side by side with the other classes.

5/10.

Made a Thief which I have pushed to 64 at this point. High burst and lots of finesse dodges. Much more fun to watch. Viable tank/survival and DPS builds.

8/10

No such thing as perfect in my book. To get a 10/10 classes would have to be utterly flawless.

Lvl 48 Guardian. Rank 30+ sPvP. 7/10.

-1 Poor Elite skills.
-1 Poor range combat capabilities. (change Staff’s Wave of Wrath into a 1200 range attack, allow Empower to be used on the move. Change Scepter’s 1srt attack into a 3 chain hit combo, change Smite into a symbol).
-1 Annoying profession specific bugs.

Lvl 80 Ele 8/10

Necro 80 9/10
Engineer 28 5/10
Warrior 15 10/10
Ranger 15 9/10
Ele 15 7/10

Edit Just notice that it was a 1/10 overall and not about each class. Overall I guess 7/10

mesmerm, 32, 8/10

ranger lvl 63 9/10
1 point reduction : axe-horn / greatsword is more fun than bows

Main 80 Warrior – 10/10
75 Guardian – 9/10
32 Elementalist – 9/10

Trying out a couple more alts to experience story from other points of view.

80 Engineer

9/10

My only real gripes:

- Downed state abilities are kinda meh relative to some other classes
- Elixir gun doesn’t proc traits centered around elixirs even though the gun is shooting different elixirs (as said in the tooltips).
- Kits, in general, don’t adopt any of your main-weapon’s stats (and we only have one weapon set, just an fyi for those who don’t know engineers).
- Rifle is weirdly contradictory in that it’s supposed to be a ranged weapon and has skills to help maintain range, yet all of it’s high-dps abilities require you to be almost point-blank.

Elementalist, 70-ish, 8/10

it would be higher but i’ve seen way too many bugged DEs lately.

Warrior 47
Engineer 18
Elementalist 15

9/10 – some of the bugs on skill points and DE’s which block progression on them irk my OCD, but as long as ANet fixes them and I can eventually complete them I’m good

Ranger 39
Mesmer 14
Guardian 18
Engineer 8

Satisfaction varies. Lately recurrent multiple game bugs have seriously lowered my enjoyment.

On a good day 9/10
Lately 4/10

Necro 80 – class wise I’ll have to go with 6/10 just because I’m not playing him due to how many bugs they have.
Game wise – 10/10 I got my money’s worth and am still playing. 130+ hours I believe so far. I haven’t event played TF2 this long.

Karina.9871:

I’m gathering data for another little statistical project and I need as much data as I can get!

All I need is your level, class, and just generally how happy you are right now on a scale of 1-10.

Much appreciated!

level 80
Ranger
10/10

46 engineer. 9/10

Level 80 Engineer. Currently, I’d say I’m at 6/10 for happiness. Trying to raise crafting levels is frustrating, dungeons are horribly tedious and often feel cheap, the later areas of the game lack polish, a large amount of traits don’t work, and there are bugs everywhere.

Unfortunately, my interest is fading.

Note that I’m a PvE player, so all my opinions are in that regard. I do not enjoy sPvP. While I somewhat enjoy WvW, I’m not going to jump in WvW and weaken my server by taking a spot that someone who is better than me, and enjoys WvW more could use better.

Profession:
80 Elementalist: 8.5/10 – Thoroughly enjoyable to play, and a great challenge in parts (especially solo in Orr). Score would be higher with a better trait design, and a bit better reward for the higher effort to play.

29 Mesmer: 6.5/10 – I greatly enjoyed this profession in BWE3, but between the nerf in phantasm health, and overall being weaker feeling in general in PvE in live as compared to beta.

Gameplay:
Controls 9/10 – Some minor issues, especially with the camera and very tall and very short characters. Otherwise, rather responsive and intuitive.

Exploration 9/10 – Very fun. The only drawback is that some areas are incredibly difficult due to high densities and high respawn rates of obnoxious mobs (large parts of Orr, some dredge areas). Some bugged chests.

Events/“Questing” in the open world 7.5/10 – The lower score is due to the large number of bugged events, skill challenges, and a few broken hearts. It’s sad to see previously working events and skill challenges in 1-15 areas now broken. The ease for botting to happen in some events also degrades it a bit. It’s also a bit sad to see broken chests at the end of certain difficult jumping puzzles. Fixing the bugs and issues with events, skill points, and the like will boost this up to 8.5/10 or 9/10.

I’m of mixed feelings about the “zerg” nature of some events. In some ways, it’s fun to have those large many-vs-many battles. In other ways, the increased challenge of shortmanning (3-5) big boss events like the Queensdale Wasp Queen, Iron Marches Branded Army, or some of the mid-level champion grade group bosses is a LOT of fun and feel more satisfying.

1-70 Play “Experience” 8.5/10 – There is a lot of variety in areas, and you’re not really forced to go any particular place if you do not wish to. Most hearts give you multiple ways to complete, so that if you want a break from fighting, you can do so. There is enough available experience to easily level yourself without having to do much grind, and completing hearts gives you a reasonable amount of spending money.

70-80 Play “Experience” 6/10 – Frostgorge Sound is enjoyable. Orr is not. It’s a challenge, yes, but there is simply too much trash, at too high of respawn rates, with way too many obnoxious abilities (pullback, condition explosions, spammed blind, cripple, lightning fast run speeds). You’re practically forced to Orr as it has the highest karma available outside of WvW, and is the only place to have a good chance of getting many of the better crafting ingredients.

Crafting 6/10 – A lot of good can be made, but there is also a lot of junk. Crafting is a huge money sink. Disciplines are inconsistent as to their difficulty at the current time.

Dungeons 4/10 – While they have a lot of potential, right now they are far too much grind for what they’re worth. I don’t feel all the cheap tricks and fake difficulty aspects are worth getting through to reach the difficult and fun parts. The reduction in rewards greatly reduced my desire to run these. They’re only worth doing in organized guild groups where everyone is on voice.

Community 8/10 – In game community is one of the best I’ve seen in any MMO. It was even better in preview. What I reduced the score for was that there is nothing that really creates communities. You get ad-hoc groups together, do a few events, and then break up. It’s difficult to “connect” with your fellow players outside of guilds. Another issue is that while ArenaNet got rid of most of the ways that players can grief one another, there are still a few ways, and those “tricks” are being done more and more.

Economy 6.5/10 – Money sinks are essential. I feel that they are a bit too much at the present time. Playing normally, without spam-farming Orr events, it can be difficult to build up a reasonable supply of currency to spend on levelling up crafting and optimizing your equipment. It seems as if a lot of the level 80 aspect is to get you to buy gems to earn money, but the gold you trade the gems for has to come from somewhere. I don’t want that gold to come from stolen accounts, bots, or exploits.

(Edit: Forgot the economy section)

My thief… leveled it up… was 10/10 until about level 40 and then kinda 7/10 in the end. I really LOVE the thief, but it needs more combat variation (I think just the variation that some more weapons would bring). Has great gameplay though.

My guardian is totally 10/10 at level 51.

My overall experience with the game is definitely a 9/10. There’s room to improve the game in some areas, but on the whole it’s an amazing mmo, imho.

I LOVE the dungeons, and don’t mind crafting — glad that both are hard for a change and not the mindless systems that other MMOs have.

Lv 80 Elementalist – 7/10 PvE, 9/10 WvW, 5/10 sPvP
Lv 50 Ranger – 9/10 PvE
lv 20 Thief – 9/10 PvE
lv 25 Warrior – 4/10 (I just don’t feel the class play style at all)

others, various levels under 20:
necro – 6.5/10 (bugs andkitten minion AI)
guardian – 5/10 (play style a bit better than warrior, but still not my thing)
mesmer – 8.5/10 (slower in pve than other classes, but a lot of fun)
engineer – 8/10 (cool concept but somewhat confused as a class whole, no weapon swap is hurting it IMO, and counter-intuitive rifle abilities)

Game satisfaction: 8.5/10 why?
Pros: Very fun, addicting, WvW fun, all exotics share the same stats so you can choose your grind, beautiful big world, great race diversity
Cons: Champion Events turn into a zergfest where you usually stand and autoattack, underwater fights often bugged (creatures go immune + heal up to full), crafting is a grind to 400 and takes insane amounts of resources, personal story becomes Traherne’s story at one point.

Level 80, Thief 10/10

Engineer 80.
PvE 10/10
PvP 3/10 on land. PvP 7/10 while defending a siege. PvP 10/10 underwater.

Overall Score: 7/10.

Warrior 17
6/10
Only 2 weapon slots what? I’ve got like 4 unique skill bars on my engineer at any given time. Gets boring fast. Feel like my options are quite limited even on a profession that can use many more weapons.

80 Guardian: 7/10

For the most part I’m enjoying the game and my Guardian, to the extent that I have yet to get an alt past level 6 before going back to her. The game loses 3 points though for a few reasons. Keep in mind there’s just as many, if not more, reasons as to why I LOVE this game.

1. Crafting/Economy
- Lots of over-saturation and many items are only worth vendoring.
- Secondary materials (Blood, Bones, Dust, etc) are more important than primary materials (Ore, Wood, Cloth, etc).
- The price of Runes of Holding spikes up DRAMATICALLY (4s → 14s → 50s → 2g? → 10g!?)

2. Guardian
- Scepter’s #1 is entirely too slow.
- Staff needs a lot of attention and the animation for it’s #1 seems unnecessarily bad on female Humans (imo).
- Greatsword is overpowered, as it is for every class that can use it.
- Sword and Torch don’t really seem to have a purpose because Greatsword is superior in just about every way.
- Elite skills seem very binary and lack variety (one for tanking/melee, one for supporting, one for ranged DPS)
- Tanking doesn’t feel like an accepted role in the game due to the removal of the trinity system and mobs can still 2-3 shot even if you’re stacking Toughness.
- Heavy armor design feels uninspired compared to the absolutely gorgeous light, and to a lesser extent medium, armor designs.

General:
- Events are too easily zergged.
- World bosses should have a more randomized respawn timer to prevent people from camping and zerging them repeatedly.
- It would be nice to be able to change FoV.
- “Culling” when there are too many players in an area
- Dodge, although super fun and an amazing idea, is inherently anti-melee
- Ranged feels superior to melee