Guild Wars 2

Granz.4068:

I see people complain they don’t want gear for progression in WvW. It makes it like WoW blah blah. But I know that if they don’t do anything that we can progress towards this game will be deader than dead in a few months. Hell it is already headed in that direction as we speak according to 90% of the people on theses forums. They have to give us progression that makes our toons better. No “Titles” will not cut it. Granz “The Super Awesome” above my head won’t work. I personally think Mythic nailed the PvP progression system in DAoC. Abilities and stat buffs was awesome. But never the less we need something. We need a reason to play this game. Right now there isn’t one.

Pardon my ignorance, I don’t see this out right posted very much when talking about gear progression, but is it really about the ‘haves’ and ‘have nots’? Is that what this boils down to? I know that playing for skins maybe didn’t feel like progression because you numbers didn’t go any higher, but is that all there is to the discussion? Is it enough to see yourself get better, or is it almost more about knowing that you are better? That there is a class hierarchy and you are in the upper tier?

But then wouldn’t the argument be it’s not about skill any more, that it’s about who has more money, or who is able to excel and enjoys progressing in one play style (really hard dungeons that over time tend to include only desirable players and excludes undesirables)? I see arguments ‘for’ winning on skill, aren’t items and sub-classing of players changing that dynamic? Or the people that talk about how important skill is in a game not the same subset of people that want gear progression?

The whole thing is rather baffling to me. If at the end of the day, the subtext to all of this is that we ‘need’ gear progression because it fulfills the basic instinct for us to separate ourselves by winners and losers. Well, having nothing to do with GW2, that’s just really sad.

Having said that, I personally am just going to meander on as I have been, having fun, and when things start to happen that makes me realize that I’m failing solely based on the fact that the best I’ll ever have is Exotic gear, then I guess I’ll get forced out of WvW.

Which, ironically, wasn’t something I was ‘remotely’ interested in doing when I started GW2, but after testing out how feasible it was going to be for me to get the 100% Explorer achievement, I fell in love with it. The idea of ‘recruiting the reluctant self-proclaimed PvE only person’ seems to have totally worked on me, if that was their intention.

It would be a shame if that reversed itself. Too soon to tell though.