First of all i want to apologize for my bad english and please read carefully and don’t take it too seriously.
I was not a big fan of guild wars series and i started play it with guild wars 2 release. Some of you can consider me a “fanboy” of guild wars 2… but you are wrong… i’m more like a “fanboy” (if you want to call me so) of ArenaNet.
I started this thread because i can only see complaining post on the website at the point that i (and i’m sure 90% of people) started visiting only the sub-reddit page avoiding the forum as hell.
So, i’ll now explain to those people who only know how to complain about the game how to play, instead, the game.
As everyone know, guild wars 2 is a Buy To Play (b2p) game which periodically receive new content (every 2 weeks). Now, since the game itself gives you a big (really big) freedom and the ability to enjoy the world or simply skip everyting and rush to lvl 80 and final gear i only want to let you know how to play the 2 week updates.
What to do (every 2 weeks):
1) login and save living in your journal. Do you want to play?
A)yes, stay logged and go on
B) no, quit and do something else. You can always play it later…
2) New living up. Look for personal story update and complete it.
3) Pay attention to the world because arenanet is really meticolous and you will surely find something of interesting for the lore, for the living or funny things (today, the are still people finding hidden places with funny/lore related stuffs… simply wonderfull)
4) Look for achievement. Some times they challenge you to explore every spot of the map and discover hidden places.
5) Look for elite achievement if you want someting of more challenging (some may consider them “easy” others “too hard” but continue read and you will find the solution)
6) now the story is complete… achievement done… but have you discovered every single new event? Maybe there is still something you forget… come back and play the map/area more times to discover if there are time related (or condition related) events… you will never know what you miss.
7) well all is done… have you look for particular drop? farm it… or buy it, it all depends on you
8) now it is time to play it with friends! Do you have fiends that can’t complete the living/achievement soloing them (point 5)? Help them… after all this is a MMOrpg, it is always more fun to play togheter… if you dont… well i think you are playing the wrong type of game (the right one is called “RPG” without the MMO prefix)
9) now you have done everything… a minimum of 7 days are passed (if you did everything and not playing 24/24 hours)… do you want to continue play the game… for fun?
A) yes, continue play with the daily routine and try the new content with every class… you willsurely find some classes more challenging and some others easy-mode…
B) no, well you can play something else… why to force you to play only a single game? Enjoy an FPS, another MMO or simply do something else… you already did everything on gw2 (for now!).
What to AVOID:
1) miss the lore update… if you are not interested in the story you are playing a RPG (ROLE playing game) without know your role… wrong start, fast end.
2) rush through content and burn it in few hours because you did nothing! you only killed few mobs (not even discovered them all)… learn nothing about story… got nothing from rewards…
3) use dulfy’s giude before try yourselves… dulfy alway do a great job with updates but use his/her guides only if you can’t do it without because, otherwise, you will miss the challenging part… and complete everything in few hours instead of days and days of tryies and hard work (maybe someone will find everything ultra-easy also without guide… i’m not one of them XD)
4) post on the forum your complaining about what ArenaNet missed… obviously they missed something… if they added EVERYTHING every 2 weeks the game was complete after exactly 2 weeks… no sense.
5) Be patient with bugs… the game has a lot of bugs but very few game breaking and usually they will be fixed as soon as possible… i’m not saying to stop reporting bug… i’m saying STOP opening useless topic like “oh my gawd this game suk becose i finded a bugz in the new area!!! game kittenz” (grammar error intented here because those topic are usually opened by kids and ignorant people) because they tell nothing to developers on what to fix. Also i (as arenanet developer) will be very frustated to see only those complaining on my game’s forum especially if i do this for free and with passion…
TL;DR:
less complaining and more serious bug/error/suggestion reports. The actual forum is the worst place to visit and i can’t believe gw2 players and arenanet allow those kids to destroy the primary place for the game news and player feedback…
sorry again for bad english… and if you fell offended from this thread: touche!