Guild Wars 2

Dear Anet,
why you trying to force me to play only one of all my chars?

First with laurels which takes me ages to gear up with ascended amulets all my chars, now you introduce world xp/rank and its again, char based.

I got all classes and i PLAY all classes now i must spend 8x more time to get world xp for all my chars and probably never will be anywhere in leaderboards because i can bet those will be char based too.

So i’m asking, what is idea behind all of this?

This is a MMO*Role*PlayingGame.

uberkingkong.8041:

This is a MMO*Role*PlayingGame.

These abilities can hardly be classed as character building abilities.

uberkingkong.8041:

This is a MMO*Role*PlayingGame.

i don’t think GW2 is classified as MMORPG anymore.

simply : MMO game

You lived for 6 months without these very very very very minor boosts, you’ll do fine playing alts without them for many more months. You CHOOSE to play 8 characters YOU need to be prepared to do 8 times the work. It was your CHOICE.

Ofcourse it was my choice, but 6 months ago GW2 looks more “alt friendly” than it is now, no one tells us they will add content which will be char based not account based, don’t they? ( There are char slots in shop for some reason )

So as i say now i feel FORCED to play on only one char, and i’m not alone with that opinion.

Catisa.6507:

You lived for 6 months without these very very very very minor boosts, you’ll do fine playing alts without them for many more months. You CHOOSE to play 8 characters YOU need to be prepared to do 8 times the work. It was your CHOICE.

Agreed. The boosts are also pretty minor.

I can’t wait until we start hearing “I have my ballista/cannon skill at 5, get off and let me use it” simply because I chose to play more than 1 character.

WvW is built around people who want to play 1 character and run around in a mindless zerg, and the game is set up such that it is discouraged to do anything else. Yeah, the rewards might be minor, but they’re still there, and while I’ll still play all of the classes and run around in small groups in WvW because it’s more fun, I know that I’ll always be at a disadvantage in the game simply because the developers can’t/won’t cater to people who want to play like me.

I believe the OP has identified what people in the industry refer to as a “trend”.

That said, this is one of the least offensive grinds in the game. Leveling up and gearing up a second character for WvW is far more onerous.

No one is forcing you to stick with 1 character. You had to level all those other characters so you must level WXP ranks PER character too.

Splitting it to per character is fine but the ranks up seem a little slow compared to regular leveling.

Lets hope then leaderboards wont be char based.