Guild Wars 2

1st: I love the community.
2nd: I loved Gw2, the game, the gameplay, the sights & sounds….

I think Guild Wars 2 had an enormous quality and quantity of content.

I enjoyed levelling, story, dungeons, later on fractals, I geared up my characters, I made several of my most played classes even, made condition builds, 1st mostly for laughs and experiments, being laughed at by guildies and now 23rd of june they were unleashed after 3 years, I was happy. finally I could play how I wanted…

I bought HoT looking forward to more content more maps, layered maps for more area… yes seems nice. New group content…. yes raids… Guess I understood it wrong…

Then HoT arrived…

• I have played dungeons fanatically for 3 years. I stopped playing them: no drops, no rewards
• I have played fractals occasionally for the time they were available, I was lvl 40, was downed to 30 after the 1st big change, went up to 40 and I lost interest: no drops, no rewards. People are shouting at me I do not suicide to pass bosses I get kicked by people dying to low AR…
• I played my 18 lvl 80’s but now levelling gives no reward. I can do some masteries or something but I don’t care tbh, there is noone if I want to log in and do something cause at time x you need to be at poing z to do y else you get NOTHING.
• Can’t get the mastery points I need to play mini games…. I do not want to play mini games. I have epilepsy and find it hard to concentrate for a longer period of time.
  I hate repeating stuff, to maximize performance. I’m slow like a slug on a frozen pipe, can’t play FPS, simulators, and racing games due to the risk of seizures and I get racing games, FPS like games and so on… everyting I tried to evade was integrated…
• All my hybrids and condi’s were invalidated, stats were changes and gear needs replacing. I cannot afford it, no cointent pays for it. And I need the mats from salvages to make the gear.
• I do no longer have mats, or cash, and no longer do I have valid characters. Yes my DPS characters, which were mandatory for the meta… to do what? Dungeons? Raids? Fractals?
• I tried raids, went all out didi it since launch of the raid daily and I spend 4-5 hours an evening every evening and I found it… unrewarding. lot of effort 10 ppl, no rewards, no gold… Oh and mandatory ascneded gear… if not now then later on, BUT you do not worry just buy it with gold… it only doubled in price, so it’s more affordable… That’s economical…
• World bosses are stale. People DPS ’m with no effort: no rewards, mostly no gold. never had a tequatl box, or a TT box, though I almost never did TT.
• Meta events… which one?
  - Hirathi Hinterlands,
  - Fields of Ruin,
  - Southsun Cove,
  - Dry Top,
  - SilverWastes,
  - Straits of Devastation/Malchor’s Leap/Cursed Shore,
  - Verdant Brink,
  - Auric Basin,
  - Tangled Depths,
  - Dragon’s stand
  Choose one… the non HoT ones tend to be more guiding and rewarding…

I have considered my probelms and I’ll be frank:

1. reinstate dungeon gold rewards
2. reinstate cash rewards, for meta achievs, raise raid rewards start with 21-35 gold for a succesful raid if it’s repeatable once a week (3-5 gold a day)
3. halve mat costs for ascned gear.
4. reduce all vials of linseed oil needed for recipes by 4 making ony 1 needed.
5. increase drop rates on gear/ mats/ ascnededs in all forms of play.
6. make meta events cycle faster. having to wait for 90 minutes makes stuff stale. I sometimes have only 30 or 40 minutes to play and I really really like to feel like I did something.
7. taxi…. taxi… taxi…. well you should understand. either you have a working map and you are lucky to get an early cab or you can do something else, oh and then no gold anyways, and no rewards if you miss the map…
8. guild missions are wrecked. I do not do anything with my guildies anymore, I ran guild missions for 3 different guilds in the past 2 years. I stopped doing it as it’s broken. No gold, no rewards.
9. revert WvW back to the ice maps. your new maps are definately not more interesting or special. You destroyed WvW IMHO, oh drops couldn’t be lowered anyways so …

Conclusion: Something is economically broken in this game, in a very bad way.

The people are still great
The maps look stunning I love the new critters.

But….
The game has lost it’s (re)playability, it’s feel, the few rewards it had
I am out of cash. I cannot play when I cannot travel. Oh and I sold my mats to repair builds due to stat changes. Losing runes, losing sigils… I still need to repair 5 characters at 200-400 gold per character… but there is no income.

I could start begging. but i do not want to. I played dungeons and fractals. Now I don’t play, cause I just do not see any reason to play anymore. HoT is a fail.

I wish you all good luck.
Get rich, get your legendaries.
Be the best and enjoy the rest.

Oh and for mandatory “can I have your stuff”:
No:
it’s mostly ascneded on my mains,
I have 18 characters with ascneded weapons
I have 18 characters with ascneded trinkets
I have 18 characters with acneded backpacs
I have 6 characters with full asnceded armor. 3 more with parts…
I have 2 legendaries
I have all but 4 dyes unlocked, yes all.
I have 20.5k AP
I have been co-leader in 2 guilds, officer in 5 more…
I have NO gold and no mats, and no gems.

If rewards is all you care about, then you set yourself up for disappointment. Idk why people can’t get it through their thick skulls that this is a game, not a job. Rewards are there to give you direction; reaching the destination is pointless if you don’t enjoy the trip.

And yeah, it’s not perfect. Lots of stuff needs to be addressed. And it is being addressed, whether or not they’re talking about it yet. Point is, you can enjoy it if you want to. Or you can move on, if that’s the better choice in your mind. But don’t go around thinking your dissatisfaction is reflective of the state of the game, when more likely than not, the problem is in the way you’re looking at it.

Andred.1087:

If rewards is all you care about, then you set yourself up for disappointment. Idk why people can’t get it through their thick skulls that this is a game, not a job. Rewards are there to give you direction; reaching the destination is pointless if you don’t enjoy the trip.

And yeah, it’s not perfect. Lots of stuff needs to be addressed. And it is being addressed, whether or not they’re talking about it yet. Point is, you can enjoy it if you want to. Or you can move on, if that’s the better choice in your mind. But don’t go around thinking your dissatisfaction is reflective of the state of the game, when more likely than not, the problem is in the way you’re looking at it.

Yes, and honestly gold is so easy to get after HoT, you get tons of cash just by gathering wood nodes and flax.

The new systems in HoT feel like a job. They even give you a list of chores to do right off the bat. You don’t have the freedom to play as you want and progress. Nope, you have to do the HoT checklist or else.

personally I find doing the harvesting is working, and honestly it bores me to death.

I made 70+ ascneded weapons with spiritwood being below 5 gold… I have all the gear. I just do not see the point WHY I must condone having people I can play with run around the map chopping down trees instead of playing the game with me and IMHO playing dungeons ,raids, bosses or doing (meta-)events is playing the game.

Or am I wrong here? So you say farming tier 2,3,4,5 maps will make you rich and happy so you can start playing the game afterwards?? By the time you are rich there will be noone left.

Raids is kinda what “ruined” the game.
Raids take too much time to be done, and feel empty. They take time that should be used in other things (PvP, WvW, Dungeons) and put it into new dungeons that are just a few bosses.

After you do them there is nothing left to do, like in WoW and other raiding games.

In WvW, PvP, Dungeons, you just do them over and over again because they were fun and/or rewarding.

They need to stop doing raids, or it will end “dead” like WoW, it is just not worth it, and everyone rather have fun in other content, pve maps, pvp maps, wvw rewards, dungeon rewards.