Guild Wars 2

All kitten talk about how HoT was too hard to hardcore…bleh. I may the vocal minority (make it hard!) but here’s the rundown on how things feel for me as your non-casual player:

1. PvE – love the maps (save shiverpeaks), especially the HoT onces. The maze like verticality, hidden nook and crannies etc. I love to explore to complete etc.

But i hate how braindead most of pve is. Rule of thumb is simple – go balls to the wall zerk or you’re doing it wrong. 90% of possible builds and setups don’t exist because they’re just not efficient…

And to add insult to injury, to “play my way” i have to craft tons of gear sets (for different stats) if i really want to for example experience condi bunker, zerk rusher, healer/medic playstyle on the same char. Again, in most cases needless…

2. PvP – finally a place where i get to choose my stats freely without extra hussle, where building for anything else then balls to the wall damage can be actually meaningful, where things like stunbreaks, escapes, stronger heals or condi traps matter.

But it’s just few small, same maps, none of the exploration, puzzles etc. Well duh! it’s pvp!

Still i feel we shouldn’t dive into this whole “pve is for casuals” cauldron too much. I can already feel the dreaded grasp of that approach when i go teq around i dunno….2 years after it’s rewamp to see people clueless on how to reapair a turret, which skill to use first and foremost (#2!!!) or get jumped by risen spawns from the bushes 10 meters away…

Pamper them too much and then it’s mass deaths and hysteria when they hit something remotely remindful of “not faceroll easy” content…

Posts like this make me chuckle a bit.

It’s like you hate PvE because it’s too kitten easy but for many people PvE is about lore and story, not doing metas and world bosses. It leads to speculation about what comes next. Where’s the story going? Who is E? There are things that are far more mentally stimulating than PvP to many of us.

Putting it another way, did you see the new Star Wars movie? I didn’t because it was just too easy.

Some of us play to be entertained rather than challenged. And it’s okay to want to be challenged, but that’s not why everyone is here.

The problem is A net operates on the view that PVP is the center of the game. Everything is balanced for PVP and so pve and wvw have to deal with those results. As for gearing, it would be nice to just have adjustable gear. It would put a dent in the conomy though. Ultimately you can get pretty close with full ascended which can be restated through the mystical toilet. The time gating and insane expense really makes it annoying though.

Warchant.8476:

The problem is A net operates on the view that PVP is the center of the game. Everything is balanced for PVP

I guess they are still hoping to make GW2 one of the major E-sport games on the planet.

Warchant.8476:

The problem is A net operates on the view that PVP is the center of the game.

PvP IS and has always BEEN the center of Guild Wars, mang. As to PvE being balanced around it, sure it kinda sucks but it’s definitely not the end of the world.

FYI they started separating balance so rejoice

Warchant.8476:

The problem is A net operates on the view that PVP is the center of the game. Everything is balanced for PVP and so pve and wvw have to deal with those results.

This is ether not true or Anets balance team is incompetent. The balance for PVP is certainly not the best.

They should have built GW2 as an esport type game, not a roleplay/lore pve casual game because that’s what it really is. I finally convinced a few friends of mine to play gw2 with me/buy gw2 and try to pvp and they hate it. They also played wow for 5+ years and the original GW, they still play the original GW. We’ve all agreed that if you take GW2 graphics and everything else of WoW and it would be a perfect game.

Warchant.8476:

The problem is A net operates on the view that PVP is the center of the game. Everything is balanced for PVP and so pve and wvw have to deal with those results. As for gearing, it would be nice to just have adjustable gear. It would put a dent in the conomy though. Ultimately you can get pretty close with full ascended which can be restated through the mystical toilet. The time gating and insane expense really makes it annoying though.

Really? A lot of PvP’ers complain that all A-net cares about is their precious PvE. I guess it’s all a matter of relativity.