Guild Wars 2

will the old way of leveling ever return? it seems everyone ive talked to in-game preffered the old method of leveling, ie; unlocking weapon skills as you use them. Being able to start your personal story immediately. etc.

What is the purpose of these walls? are they just trying to make leveling feel longer and contrived or is it something else? starting up alts just isn’t as fun as before.

nope, it’ll be only getting worse, more popups while playing, more tooltips that eat your screen and a lot of handholding because you’re not able to do it yourself :>

it was to confusing for new players hence it was changed

Official feedback thread:

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/NPE-Feedback-Merged-Please-read-1st-post

I played both ways on multiple professions, and I like this way better. The old way was a pain on eles and necros. In fact, the only class that it was not a pain on was the engi. Oh, and don’t forget underwater combat. This way is much nicer. I don’t have to level multiple weapons to get all of the skills, I just have to get to level 10, equip the weapons, and I’m done. As for the PS, well I disliked being able to do a level 80 mission on a level 60 character. I have done that befor. Trust me, not fun. Now that I can only do those missions when I’m level 80 takes away the temptation and the pain. So ya, I really like the new system better.

If you play the game normally through PvE, the NPE is much faster than the old system. 1 to 10 used to take roughly 8 times longer than it does now and although it might take you an hour now to unlock all your weapon skills, it took you far longer to unlock all your weapon skills prior to the NPE (playing normally).

Either way though, everything that is complained about in the NPE was complained about prior to the NPE by someone else. People tried to quest for example by only doing the personal story, resulting in complaints about the requirement to grind. Although the gap is much bigger now, the idea is that they now have to figure out how the game is played much earlier. The content guide for example is to encourage exploration.

LOLOLOLOLOLO hard for new players……. since every person who started had to go through near 3 years of it. I am sure it was for new players.
I guess it was too hard to figure out how to use a bucket and off hand skills at lvl 2..