Guild Wars 2

So after 2 weeks, what are people doing in HoT nowadays? Because I am literally back to logging in just for the daily rewards.

Level Masteries
I did like half of them, but I don’t see any point to progress further, since most of them have situational usage at best. They will level automagically just by doing content anyway.

Maps meta events
I did quite a few of them, but I don’t see any point to do them further unless just for gold. All the map specific armor sets are ugly imo, I’m not interested in collections since I do not enjoy grinding and neither do I have OCD, and I do not need the elite spec weapons because I already have legendaries and ascended gear.

Achievements
I do not really care about them, been playing for 3 years and just got 5k AP, so whatever, no real purpose to grind them.

One thing that maybe will keep me occupied will be Adventures, but is that all that’s left?

So what are you guys doing?
This is not a bashing thread btw, I just need some ideas on what to do in the new content that I might be missing.

Since I spent a lot of time doing Halloween events, I’m not very far in HoT. Working on getting Updrafts so I can continue the story, for one. Exploring nooks and crannies, and finding places/items/whatevers that give me Achievements, by happenstance. Slowly learning how things work, as I don’t use Map Chat or look at guides.

Basically, just having fun. =)

Some people are waiting for raids to be released. Some are working on crafting their precursors. Some are working on attaining the currencies to buy the new armor skins. To me the jungle is my favorite place in the game. It’s my go to place to play now.

I took a break from the new maps because I have found a lot about them to be really annoying, like waiting around at group-only Hero Challenges and failing meta events over and over.

I decided to check out WvW, which is mostly dead everywhere except for EOTM. I’ve spent some time out there getting Proofs of Heroics so I can randomly complete the jungle HCs without actually doing them.

Judging from the number of people that are out there and how many of them have admitted to me that they are doing the same thing I am, a lot of players are looking to skip these.

Unfortunately, the more people that feel the way I do means even less people around to help out with Hero Challenges for the folks that want to do them the old-fashioned way.

EOTM is a grind, but at least I don’t do much sitting around waiting to play and I earn some decent loot besides. (Way better loot than I get in fractals, for sure).

Haven’t bought the expansion waiting for about £5 more to drop off the price, essentially roaming around WvW, which is waiting for something to happy as it’s still dead.

I’ve got hundreds of those heroic things, so I’m set when I do pick it up.

Leveling Masteries => they are account bound and level alone while doing something else. Not really content, secondary content.

- Unlocking all new items skins
- Making legendary fractal back
- Reaching fractal 100
- Guild hall
- Preparing ascended gear for Raids if you don’t have them
- Achievements

What can I do at 80?

- Hunt Legendary’s (I have not found these grindy at all, they are very similar to Quests)
- Fractals of the Mists
- Push Map Metaevents, seriously there are a lot to a number of these Metaevents, try to push for Tier 4 VB.
- Hunt the Specialization Armors
- Craft Ascended for Raids
- Help the Guild Hall be build
- Achievements
- PvP

These are the items of content in the game. If this is not the content that interests you, then perhaps GW2 is not the best mmo for you? With the new collection quests for items, they are very similar to other games Quest mechanics. They are not any more or less grindy than other games quests, and they are a lot of fun. I have spent a LOT of time doing HoT since its release (including a straight 26 hours period), and still continue doing things and hunting things I have not finished.

Unfortunately for gamers looking for big scale PvP, WvW is on the decline. the new borderland map is a joke, ANet left out WvW new features with the HOT release (pretty obvious they dont give a kitten), and the next major content is raids, so the next WvW update is at least 3 to 6 months away, if ever.