Guild Wars 2

So I’m a PvE kinda guy… I don’t like crafting and I don’t really enjoy pvp, I just love killing bosses and completing tasks to get loot and things like that. I thought I’d have that in this game, and I kinda did when I was starting and every new World Boss I could do was so much fun and challenging and new and awesome… But then I hit lvl 80, I had already killed pretty much all the World Bosses more than a few times each and I just have trouble feeling rewarded. Some fights are still challenging enough to not be boring but I just don’t feel like doing a daily boss fight for 10-15 minutes and get a few blue and green items I can but salvage… The world map is HUGE and every single zone has countless events, most are even DAILY rewards so why can’t I feel rewarded for doing said events? Do I really have to be forced to craft items to upgrade my character? Or participate in pvp? I mean the pvp is instanced so I thought it would be ok if I bought the game even though I’m a pve player. Why are ascended items account bound on aquire? Why can’t I farm the materials and give it to a friend who likes crafting to make it for me? Or hire someone? Maybe more Mystic Forge crafting that doesn’t require grinding your crafting skills? A Guild Hall upgrade with crafters? The game is really hard for new players, it’s not very noob friendly… I had over 450 hours of playing and all I had done besides world bosses was a single dungeon run that I had no idea what to do and just got yelled at by a veteran. Everyone expects you to play the berserker meta and have experience, most guides are 2-3 years outdated. Is this game really that narrow or am I missing something? Please tell me if I can play guild wars 2 and feel rewarded without being forced to do stuff I don’t want to. I like this game a lot but sometimes it’s just too frustrating :/

On a side note: I was about to quit the game like a week ago or so because it was just pointless but then I decided to put up a LFG to try to find a guild that could maybe change that a little. That’s when I found Perseus Veil, they’re a small group of players that have welcomed me and been nothing but amazing, teaching me about the game and not trying to transform me into a berserker android, I’m pretty sure they’re not the only ones like that out there so if you are in a similar position, there’s still hope.

In regards to the account bound nature of the ascended crafting: Anet didn’t want that to be a mechanism for gold selling, and they didn’t want people to buy the top-tier gear like you can for most legendaries.

The way around this is you can send mats to your friend who can craft the most expensive parts of an ascended weapon but then you’d have to craft the final version of it. Or you can craft the parts and give them to a friend.

FYI, come sometime in December, Anet is increasing the drop chance of ascended armor boxes in Fractals so you can get them without paying for them.

For the dungeons, it sounds like you just ran into a veteran who was unpleasant. Do more dungeons and simply ask what to do. I guarantee most people will explain stuff. What you should NOT do is attack bosses that you don’t know what to do on. All of us would rather spend a minute or two explaining what to do rather than assuming you know whats going on and then causing a wipe because of it.

No one is forcing you to do anything, so I’m not sure where you got that from.

For your side note, a good rule of thumb is that the meanest people also tend to be the loudest. In the same way that you should ignore the trolls you should ignore them. I’ve played most MMOs under the sun and GW2 has by far one of the most friendly communities I’ve ever encountered.

Addition: PvP is unnecessary to upgrade your character. You will not miss out on anything except PvP specific rewards (of which there are few) if you never do PvP

I’ve been playing PVE since launch of the original game of GW2. I am an ALT-oholic, currently with at least 2 characters of each class and 3 Warrior classes. This includes the newly released Revenant class also btw. All my characters are level 80 with only maxed exotic gear. I play all of them and favor none. That’s just how I enjoy the game. That is the main reason why I would not be able to afford making ascended gear myself because I have too many characters and no main. I might have enough materials to at least start crafting some required stuff for ascended but it is spread through my entire account and trying to consolidate what I have will be busy work and will take time away from actual game play and enjoyment of PVE. So, you are not alone.

My two cents….

You don’t really need ascended for anything except for the most hardcore end-game stuff so I would not worry about it too much particularly as it is not a big difference between that and exotic gear which you can get pretty easily by playing in wvw and using badges of honor; doing ANYTHING to accumulate karma and buying it with karma from one of the npc’s; or by running dungeons and buying it with dungeon tokens. You can also get exotic gear from pvp reward tracks (if you are like me and dislike pvp, you can go to the daily room where there is no fighting and simply get pvp points by just standing around lol).

If you are looking for a rewarding challenge, give dungeons another try. Don’t let some jerk turn you off from doing them. Its hard to find a group nowadays but if you tell people its your first time, most are understanding and will help. I love dungeons and am always happy to go with first timers and could not care less about gear/builds though if people are interested in improving their game, its always nice to learn from others as well. People worth playing with will care more about the quality of your real life character than the quality of your in-game character.

Thanks for all the replies

Yeah, I have 2 lvl 80 characters (Revenant and Mesmer) and a 73 elementalist, mesmer is fully equipped with exotic armor/trinkets and a couple ascended weapons I got from Tequatl, Rev has an ascended chestpiece, amulet and rings. The thing is I just don’t see a point in doing world bosses and other events anymore, I don’t feel rewarded for the time and effort I put into it. I’m not asking for ascended stuff once a day… but we have events you can only do once a day and all you get are crafting materials and a yellow item, exotic if you are VERY lucky… I remember back in early 2000’s when I played diablo 2 nonstop. I’d do mf runs all day doing the same bosses over and over and I still had a lot of fun, why? Because I felt rewarded doing so, I’d get unique items, sure most sucked but that’s how it’s supposed to be… You get the shiny stuff but not all of them are worth something, that’s not the case with guild wars. If I spent like 5-10 minutes doing mf runs on a somewhat challenging content like cow level, uber diablo, nihlathak, etc to get unique or set items, which represented the highest tier of loot you could find (the beautiful crafting system of rune words was both fun and noob friendly, something that could be done in this game too) then I’d feel rewarded even if the items sucked, there needs to be some rng to make it interesting too. But in GW2, I spend 15+ minutes in some epic boss fights or events that require a lot of people to work together to complete it… And I get blue and green items, maybe a yellow? No one even uses yellow items and there’s no other use to it than to salvage, which gives you like 1-5 of some materials you will need around 200ish to craft something else you might actually use… Can’t blame me for not feeling rewarded :/

Rewards in this game mostly are not so much in gear tier or stats, but rather in the skin you unlock. As such, you’ll find most “rewards” in your wardrobe, weapon and armor skins as well as miniatures, dyes, and more.

Have you tried browsing the wardrobe (you can do so from the 3rd tab of any bank window) to see if there’s any skins reachable that interest you?

If you have access to Season 2 of the living story for example, the Mawdrey backpack and luminescent armor skins that come with those episodes and their achievements proved very satisfying for me to achieve.

Check your achievement log and especially the collections category for achievements/collections that award equipment, skins, miniatures, or even items that give you continuous presents for left-over materials, like the princess karka you get from the LA karka hunt achievement, that awards you with surprise boxes every day in return for some dragonite ore (which you probably have a lot of if you like doing world bosses).

Actually, some of those collections have given me a similar feeling to going for set items back in D2 (yes, I enjoyed that in my time, too ), and some of the rewards are fun (who doesn’t want to gain a big bag of junk ? ) or even helpful (e.g. ascended trinkets from dungeon collections and season two achievements ).

And if you happen to have access to the expansion, then there’s a whole new level of involved world bosses to fight and cool skins and ascended equipment to win. Order backpacks , specialization weapons , and more … maybe think about buying the expansion, if world bosses and ascended rewards are your thing, you sure find those in the new content.

^ Yeah I have HoT and so far Tarir is giving me the best loot, which is still yellow items only though… The Legendary Wyvern Matriarch is a joke, it’s a pretty challenging and time consuming boss fight, specially when it’s glitched which btw is more often than not hehe, and the ‘rewards’ are worse than airship cargo… I killed the Axemaster once but I don’t even remember if I got a chest from him so probably not a good sign either. I’ll try checking the collection I’ve been neglecting for months though, thanks for the info

The rewards in Tarir are in the (great and grand) chests you get to open under Tarir once the meta succeeds, more than the event reward itself. Stock up on exalted keys (according to the wiki there’s 5 grand chests and 14 great chests) and go open those chests.

Of the VB night bosses, I actually like the matriarch wyvern the least. Try the patriarch wyvern boss in the canopy over the pale reaver’s outpost, that fight is a lot more fun. There’s also a mastery point attached to the achievement of killing each of the nighttime bosses (there’s a different one for each outpost, so 5 in all), so it might be worth it to branch out and fight the remaining bosses, too. Rewards for all of them should be the usual bouncy chest with a guaranteed yellow and a chance at something better.