Guild Wars 2

I had so much fun with it in the beta, I spent most of my time with my Guild in it. Even with my old crappy card that would run it at maybe 20fps, I still had a bit of fun.
I guess that was because it was actually balanced.
The two main things I’ve come to notice is how Gear based this is. It was supposed to be this thing that Anet talked about constantly: “Hey! you don’t have to PvE to level up! You can get XP from WvW.”
You can get XP in WvW (At an incredibly slower rate), though even setting foot in Wvw without max level or best gear is treacherous.
The second thing is the players popping in. I don’t recall this ever being an issue in the beta, but it seems Anet has leaned towards the “Hey we need to make sure everybody can run the game perfectly on horrible computers.”
And in doing so, you f’d it up for everybody.
Combining these two elements, I literally just got killed a few minutes ago by some character who took out over half my health without me seeing him. Then when he popped in I died nearly instantly because he is lv80 with max Arah gear and weapons, and I am a lv30 OF THE SAME CLASS, and got slaughtered.

You wonder why so many people haven’t been playing, spamming your Facebook with links to websites talking about “What to do when you hit level 80.”
I haven’t played in a month before today, because to be frank it got so ridiculously boring, this idea grows exponentially because none of my guild members play anymore. You literally tore the guild’s interest with bad game design.

Just fix it, honestly. The players popping in infuriates me more than the gear-based combat (Which you claimed wouldn’t exist in the almighty GW2 because that’s so primitive!). I feel as if I rant much on this topic, so don’t get me wrong, I am a Gw1 veteran, played for 5 years, but at least GW1’s PvP worked. WvW just doesn’t work.
Essentially, you took the whole reason I bought this game, and threw it in the trash. Won’t be getting any money from me any time soon, there are better games to play in this moment in time. Even giving it another chance, I did play with a few guildies in WvW, we got so bored so quickly because of the imbalance and invisible players that we were getting very angry while on Teamspeak and ended up just cancelling the whole thing.

Again, as I said in game, I play wvw since lvl 2, and I get A LOT of xp in there. Did thief kill me with 2 hits? Yeah, so, whats the problem? I’d kill and die. Thats the wvw game.
I dont understand ppl waitin to reach lvl 80 and get exotic gear before do wvw -.-

260 kills wuv wuv kills, 50 deaths total in the game including pve, level 35.

Its not a lot of kills, and kills don’t matter, but the point is play defensively and you can enjoy yourself. You get a couple kills, you get killed when you over extend, you get great exp.

" You get a couple kills, you get killed when you over extend, you get great exp."

This basically means “stay with the zerg and assist with damage”, and if you happen to be away from the zerg you’ll die. If you also run into 2x smaller zerg but with good gear, you die.

“I dont understand ppl waitin to reach lvl 80 and get exotic gear before do wvw -.-”

Because there’s absolutely huge difference between your lvl2 and my lvl80 in exotic gear, all traits, elite skill, and utility skill. My lvl80 in exotic can kill 4 of your lvl2, and if not, can outrun so you’ll never catch me anyway. Oh, I also have almost permanent 33% speed boost which is a huge deal in WvW.

“and I get A LOT of xp in there”

That’s a total lie, and I know because I was in a WvW for a few hours today. I gained no more than 1 lvl in the entire hour, on a lvl2 char. That is in an average WvW situation. If you’re in an ideal situation where you follow the zerg and constantly take over towers and keeps, you can level a bit faster but that’s by no means average situation. It’s quite often a situation in WvW that your zerg is trying to take some Keep and it takes forever, and even then maybe fails. Or a situation where your server is losing – which means good luck.

And I’m not even going to go into how equipping the character for max gear and getting the char to lvl80 in the first place, is such a nightmare in GW2. For us who came from GW1 it is a bitter experience.

I level all my alts in WvW cause I dont feel like grind up PvE…. you can EASILY get several levels an hour depending on what you are doing…. if you are just running around aimlessly killing random people … you are gonna get ganked and you aren’t gonna have a lot of XP….

if you get a couple of friends and take camps, sentries, and dolyaks… you can get a lot of xp ….

as for the whole “you have to play in a zerg or you will die” thats stupid…. I ran with 3 other people and we can take towers and camps all day with few deaths if you play smart