Guild Wars 2

As an elementalist player in beta, would I enjoy coming back to this?

I played a few months ago for a couple weeks and it was agonizing…

If you didn’t have a decent guild or good friends in game, it was mind numbing champ grinding and dungeon running. And I literally mean… dungeon RUNNING… as in… past everything.

I’m missing a “time sink” in my life. Game worth coming back to yet?

Here’s a great video that shows what changes you’ll see right away (applies to everyone)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce_dvXJercI

And another video that highlights changes to WvW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUfV3OBLyc8

You can see the release splash pages here:
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/

And here is a searchable patch notes:
http://gw2patchnotesearch.david-reess.de/

I main an elementalist, I died a lot at first but it’s a pure joy to play once you understand it

Spellwork.7285:

I’m missing a “time sink” in my life.

You could always learn how to play the piano. It’s a lifelong endeavor that you can sink nearly any amount of time into.

So, by the information offered in your post, you played most aspects of the game. So, Your actual question is.. Did the core design of all game aspects change to suit your needs.

No, no it did not. Obviously.

GW2 isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, most of the people I played MMOs with, won’t play it anymore.

Or you could try it yourself and see what is basically a personal opinion.

Spellwork.7285:

If you didn’t have a decent guild or good friends in game, it was mind numbing champ grinding and dungeon running. And I literally mean… dungeon RUNNING… as in… past everything.

Here is the first part of your problem. GW2 is NOT meant to be played alone.

The game has always been fun for me, but I made building up a good social base a high priority. As a result, I have good friends who I work together with to achieve goals in the game- we’ve helped each other make legendaries without champ grinding and now are making each other Ascended backpieces. Not only do we actually do dungeons (killing everything in them easily without resorting to stacking or exploiting), we’ve four-manned, three-manned, and even two-manned dungeons for fun.

I’m missing a “time sink” in my life.

And here is the second part of the problem. Never play a game just to eat time because you have nothing else to do. It’ll burn you out. GW2 especially isn’t designed to be played twelve hours a day.

They added something called a Living World. So there will be new content to tackle every couple of weeks. But if your problem was with the core gameplay then no, nothing substantial has changed.

The game has always been fun…
For me anyways!

Spellwork.7285:

I’m missing a “time sink” in my life. Game worth coming back to yet?

If you want a time sink you could farm your life away to get me legendary for all my characters.

Spellwork.7285:

As an elementalist player in beta, would I enjoy coming back to this?

I played a few months ago for a couple weeks and it was agonizing…

If you didn’t have a decent guild or good friends in game, it was mind numbing champ grinding and dungeon running. And I literally mean… dungeon RUNNING… as in… past everything.

I’m missing a “time sink” in my life. Game worth coming back to yet?

comeback in 10 yrs…. why are u even here….

Spellwork, tell us what you would find fun, and we can tell you if it’s possible in GW2. This game simply isn’t for everyone. Dungeons haven’t changed much since you were last in game, most people run past encounters if it’s possible. If you decide to come back and run dungeons, make LFG posts specifying you don’t want to skip.

I think the most important thing to enjoy this game is to find a guild that is right for you. The rest is more fun after that.