Guild Wars 2

I’m not into game as many other people are not. Last time I entered the game, my guild had 1 person online – the leader. I have 1 simple question : will this game ever become less like it is now? It feels like any fun in this game is dead due to hard farm and stupid meta.

I gave it a try like 2 months ago. I even entered for THIRD time (yet no alone) the HoT dungeon and guess what? I didn’t say a word about my build or something just wanted to feel how the game stands. I met people who actually were spamming “XD” and “jokes” about a guy that didn’t have a right build. They kicked him out and treated like kitten. Made jokes of him and didn’t even realise that they were so “smart” and didn’t see my build wasn’t good as well.

In past condi used to be crap, and the best way was usually dps, however on world vs world fights condi could be useful (imo, I saw guys with it). For me this game isn’t fun anymore with meta changing and excluding some builds, as well with the content you have to “participate in event” for, or “pay in gems” for. The attitude in this game for me changed and it is now about stupid farm and not just fun.

I know people can play less badly or more badly but this isn’t nice to loose the dungeons, world fights etc. I entered that new “world vs world” stuff and saw people in a train going for points, for farm i guess. In old wvwvw it was fun to defend structures, tower. I don’t know how exactly it is now, but I heard that commander left and there aren’t players to lead it again?

TBH I enjoyed that old karma farm in Arah more than those new “dungeons” with new builds and items I won’t get. I heard of players droping ascended, but myself never got it from fractals … before it was like : THERE WON"T BE MORE THAN EXOTIC, and now it is more than exotic and everyone has to have it. You can’t obtain it in an easy way or just get it in your time, you have to grind … Farm fractals (which weren’t so popular last time I participated in the game) or go to those new wings of dungeon from HoT…

And personally I feel this game lost some quality. Especially at point when final HoT boss was bugged and I couldn’t beat it solo (yes I was very close, tried it like 6 times but bugs were stronger). After some time I got back and guess what – it wasn’t fixed, Arena’s new child called hot had boss bugs like map breaking in wrong time, or those points spawning wrongly. Also I don’t get those ideas for gem store. In beta there were few (at least for me) nice looking armors, right now there are some, but ofc, those are SETS IN STORE, because why not to put something new to the game … (yeah I know you can get some from achievements, but I’m not sure if it is avaible for non-Hot users)

Everytime there appears some sort of gold “exploit” (not really) like easy gold farm so everyone can (those who follow the game ) get some skins, or items and just enjoy the game, arena must change the gamplay. Dungeons bringed gold? Let’s nerf it. Tricky bags brings gold? Let’s remove it (nerfed) etc. The only proper way to have gold is either to follow lemming trains for events or what? What if someone enjoyed dungeons, liked to train and have some gold from them? Can’t people have like 10 or 15 entries per day instead of gold nerf? This would have prevented the inflation but dungeons would remain alive. With HoT they were “alive” for a few days just to farm exp for masteries … yeah I guess this surely was the best idea for dungeons. To make them less popular and for people to farm exp on Citadel.

Dunno maybe this game isn’t for me, or maybe someone agrees with me. So far I liked pvp changes and leagues etc. It feels alright and it is a new content. I don’t like how other aspects of the game are treated. Playes had to wait for LFG long time … same for this new HoT dungeon.

BTW: Another stupid thing are those “extra rare” skins. Most people won’t use them because they’re so rare they would rather sell it for 312141412k gold. It is good to have more or less rare skins, but while some of them are so pricey, it makes them useless as well. For me a way worse thing were kitten bots like a year ago. They were breaking game economy, by picking ingriedients, and puting it on TP leading to price drop.

Maybe I just enjoy game that doesn’t change every half a year to the point everything is different …

Just post your feelings about this. If it is better right now for you, or was it better in past.

My experiences don’t include latest versions of the game

I’m enjoying the game quite nicely, I didn’t like HoT at launch, and only played it to Finnish the story. The April patch made HoT a lot more fun for me. People go off games, it happens.

Guild Wars 2 is a much better game for me now, over all, than it was in the past. Fractals are much better for me, because I don’t have to do 4. Dungeons are much better for me, because I like doing different dungeons and now I have to to get the gold reward at the end. Not that I ever didn’t want to do certain dungeons, but it’s helpful that other people have motivation to do some more obscure dungeon paths now over before.

The designs of the new zones are amazing. Not all that keen on AB, but all the rest of them are fantastic. I also like the new zone, Bloodstone Fen. I like being able to glide. I don’t think I could go back to this game pre gliding. It’s an amazing addition to the game.

I enjoy most of the new metas as well, again, AB being my least favorite.

And I like a lot of the new elite specializations.

There are definite differences. For example the new dungeon as you put it, isn’t a dungeon at all, its a raid. It’s specifically difficult content added for people who wanted difficult content. It’s not my thing so I ignore it. I’m not unhappy that people that like that style of play got some harder content, even though I know it means less content that I want to play.

Yep, I think the game is better now than it was 3 years ago.