Guild Wars 2

I am reposting this here as in GW2 discussion it got ignored and quickly sifted to page 2 without a reply, on page two I doubt it will get one and I don’t like to bump threads

A bit of background first, I I bought the game when it came out, and greatly enjoyed it, despite the poor story and voice acting, and the (personal opinion) disturbingly young looking female toons, not to mention the one good adult human male face and the terrible smooth skinned norn male faces… anyway the gameplay was good.
I however, left once I hit max level, as this is in essence a social game and I used to enjoy playing mmos with my friends, who levelled slower than me. they found it boring without someone to play with, and for my part, I found I couldn’t join them at low level areas and get a reasonable (not extreme nor grindable, just reasonable, so there would be a point in me playing other than boosting my friends, which l find boring as sin.) reward for my time. Plus it as too kitten easy, levelling down means almost nothing when your gear doesn’t level down too. So neither of us were having fun, and we all left to the real world, as we have other things to keep us busy and don’t NEED the game, though it was fun.
I saw this: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/dynamic-leveling-adjustment/
the other day and thought this could be the answer I was waiting for, levelled down gear, a reasonable return and I can play with my friend?! Awesome!
Well I’ve tried doing some low level areas, such as the places my friends left them game in and would likely return in, and found the enemies still very easy, and the rewards pathetic. I mean they didn’t even cover my travel cost of waypoints, let alone make it worthwhile for me :/
Am I missing something here? Someone please tell me there is a figurative button to press to make this work
Thanks for your (anticipated) help.

The dynamic leveling adjustment wasn’t made to create a big difference in the system as a whole. I am sorry you disliked the game but thats how it is made and personally I agree. BTW, you gear is lowered as well and so are all stats on it. The mayor differenc is that you have access to all gear pieces and get the higher stats still cause your max level gear is perfgect or near perfect cause you can keep it forever. (where your leveling gear is likely to be green or lower).

The changes made in this update where done to fix some real issues where high level players where ruining the experience for low level players.

Just an example the help farmer Diah renown heart (level 2 heart in Queensdale, where you have to stump wurmholes and kills the wurms). There is also an event going on there from time to time, level 80 engineers came there and did the event for their daily achievement, no problem. But afterwards they left their turrets in place (not on purpose) and quickly waypointed to the next event. The turrets where for those reguarly wurms a one bullet kill, making it impossible for the lvl 2 players trying to do the heart to even participate in the fight and making the heart harder. This is just an example of many issues.

So the update was done to fix these issues, not to fix the game to your personal liking. I am sorry you don’t like the game as it is after level 80. Many others however do.

I’m not trying to have a sales story, but you might want to check the what to do at level 80 sticky. There are some good alternatives to do at level 80 in it.