Guild Wars 2

Hey PHP! This is an odd topic, but a serious one no matter, I want your opinions on it.

I’ve been a GW2 player since the game came out. I’m not a hugely avid player, I usually play in short binge bursts at a time with pauses between, but over time I’ve racked up maybe 600 hrs. of gameplay (not sure if that’s commendable at all or not). But in that time, I’ve gotten 3 lvl 80s (which at this point is enough for me) with two of them fully geared-out. I’ve finished the main story twice, and have gotten lvl 400 Crafting disciplines about 5 times now. I’ve completely explored the map with one character, and explored all WPs on the other two. Nowadays, I either zerg around in WvW or do karma/gold trains in Orr, mainly as a ploy to grab gold and luck for magic find. As I said, I binge play for a few weeks at a time, and then leave the game sit for a couple weeks.

At this point, I’m asking myself “What’s next? What do I want to achieve next?” I’ve become a little bored of hitting all the main bosses, running karma trains or zergging because it’s not gaining me much except gold. Yes, I know that gold can be used for making legendaries, but at the rate I play, it would take way too long for me to make enough gold to start attempting to make a legendary.

So…what are your suggestions for how to keep the game fresh? I do Living Stories and DLC, but that doesn’t usually take too long to complete. Any achievements I should be working toward? Any items or titles worth getting?

Depends what you have fun doing.

Some people have fun soloing dungeons or doing level 50 fractals

Some people have fun doing WvW, and the guilds involved are fun communities.

Some people have fun doing tpvp (champ titles are a nice goal)

Legendaries & Ascended Weapons/Armor

IrishPotato.6327:

Legendaries & Ascended Weapons/Armor

Anything that doesn’t require an insane amount of gold farming beforehand? Sure, I can farm about 100g, but then I become really bored with the game (which is where I’m at right now).

End game for GW2 is about making yourself look pretty. If you’ve done map completion and don’t care about ascended/legendary…there isn’t a whole lot for you I guess. Are you interested in achievement farming? what about living story? anything other than that is “same ole same ole” in my opinion. Dungeons, fractals, jumping puzzles, wvw, pvp, world boss farming, etc. You said you’ve done zerg for WvW. Have you tried doing that outside of the zerg? Depending on your server, you may have havoc teams or solo/duo players who just run around and mess with the other teams.

Arzo.8671:

Depending on your server, you may have havoc teams or solo/duo players who just run around and mess with the other teams.

I’m on JQ which no doubt has a lot of that running around. I’ll check my guild and see what’s going on there.

Another part of it, I suppose, is that there used to be a group of me and about 5 other friends who would log on on a regular basis and mess around. These days I’m the only one who’s still a loyal fan (since GW days sigh) and they’ve all moved on, so karma and gold farming isn’t as fun as it used to be.

I suppose if I was with a group of friends (even guildies, per se) who were all gold farming, I would have no problem with that, that would be fun, but…meh, what to do.

I’m working on the new living world stuff including the achievements for it. I find it fun. Some of the rewards for doing the Dry Top events are okay as well but I have fun trying to push the zone to Tier 5.