Guild Wars 2

I feel bad complaining about free content, but I have to say that season 1 of the living story was, for me, a fun way to level up my alts without having to repeat content I’ve already played 2 or 3 times before. When I logged in to my level 78 mesmer to do Gates of Maguuma and saw in the journal that it will “unlock at level 80” I was therefore really disappointed.

I’m mainly a pvp and wvw player. I did enjoy previous installments of the living story, but getting to level up my lowbies was a little bonus, and an extra incentive for me to play them. I no longer feel I’m getting the same benefit by being forced to do them on an 80 character. Instead, my only incentive to do them is to catch the window in which they’re accessible for free, which makes it more of a chore than an incentive.

Please make future installments of season 2 accessible to uplevelled lowbies, like season 1 was.

Nothing prevents you from bringing your Level 78 into the new map and doing all the new events, though.

I’m not sure if your lower levels can party up and join the instances of others (who are 80). Or whether there is any XP to be had, in that case.

They’ve stated that the new Journal content will be for level 80s as a form of end-game.

yep it is all lvl 80 stuff being Arc 4 of the Main Storyline.

Meh… unhappy about this. Means my lowbies will languish.

If you’re mainly a WvW player why not level them up in WvW? A lot of people do that even if they don’t normally play WvW regularly.

And yeah you can still get into the new map without doing the story, just walk through the portal. You probably won’t be up-levelled but for a level 78 it’s not a big deal.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Nothing prevents you from bringing your Level 78 into the new map and doing all the new events, though.

I’m not sure if your lower levels can party up and join the instances of others (who are 80). Or whether there is any XP to be had, in that case.

That;s actually something!

It’s good that way.
Go away with your level 1 chars.

If they kept giving out low level content soley so people could level their alts and “help friends” there’d be nobody left interested in the game from way back (and it’s halfway gotten to that point for a lot of people).

More 80 zones are crucial in a game like this. Anet still hasn’t perfected their scaledown/scaleup system and it shows if you have a legendary and ascended gear. You just go through most of the lower zones 1-3 shotting everything, which is what they wanted to avoid in the first place.

All that being said, the new trailer shows lower level zones are somewhat involved (guard getting attacked by tentacle in timberline falls). But I believe all the new zones they bring in will definitely be 80, and it’s a good thing too. This game desperately needs end game PvE zones and has for a while. I think they did a great job with dry top despite the brevity of the story and small map size, and hope there’s more good maps like it to come (maybe with even more verticality).

As a frame of reference, I have played since day 1, helped lead multiple guilds and am well aware of both the strengths and weaknesses of the new patch. I still think it’s a step in the right direction.

Systematic Anarchy.1439:

If they kept giving out low level content soley so people could level their alts and “help friends” there’d be nobody left interested in the game from way back (and it’s halfway gotten to that point for a lot of people).

More 80 zones are crucial in a game like this. Anet still hasn’t perfected their scaledown/scaleup system and it shows if you have a legendary and ascended gear. You just go through most of the lower zones 1-3 shotting everything, which is what they wanted to avoid in the first place.

All that being said, the new trailer shows lower level zones are somewhat involved (guard getting attacked by tentacle in timberline falls). But I believe all the new zones they bring in will definitely be 80, and it’s a good thing too. This game desperately needs end game PvE zones and has for a while. I think they did a great job with dry top despite the brevity of the story and small map size, and hope there’s more good maps like it to come (maybe with even more verticality).

As a frame of reference, I have played since day 1, helped lead multiple guilds and am well aware of both the strengths and weaknesses of the new patch. I still think it’s a step in the right direction.

I have to agree, having just (PvE-wise) Orr (hate the environment) and Frostgorge (pitifully-few events) was miserable for open world mucking about. I actually like the critters in Dry Top (especially that they change with sandstorms. Granted, predictably, but I still like it).