Just my overall feedback from playing the game so far. Was not sure where to post this, I do have some “issues” especially with some of the gameplay so I figured I’d post this here.
I play a level 80 necromancer.
1. Cultural tier 2-3 weapon karma prices are way too high, tier 2-3 gold prices too high for armor as well. They seemed reasonably priced before the change, then after the change, you need like 60k karma for tier3. I am level 80 and I haven’t even broken 30k karma yet. The prices before the change made sense, these new prices don’t though. They’re just ridiculous. You could probably get 400 crafting in something and make something better long before you would get that much karma to even buy it…
2. Token prices for dungeons are way too high. From what I gather, in some of these dungeons you only get 5-15 tokens max per run. Some of these items require 280-500 tokens for just 1 thing. Let’s say you actually had a life (lol), and you were able to run this 2 times a night (even that’s stretching it), you could get 30 tokens a day hypothetically. That would take you 7 days (A full week), just to get 210 points, which wouldn’t even get you anything considering the lowest prices for these items are like 280 tokens, some even cost up to 400+.
I’m in a very large guild, and most of them (the ones that are 80 with me) who have no lives at all like I do, have basically lost all desire at this point to actually want to achieve getting this gear or play that much of a grindy end-game. Even the guys with no life look at this and say “wow that’s ridic” lol…
This game was amazing in every aspect, right up until you hit this point. There’s just too big of gaps in rewards at the end game, I honestly think they’re asking way too much out of the player for some of these rewards.
I mean think about it. I play a condition necro, so I’d obviously like to have that nightmare token set. However, you’re asking me to play for like 2-3 months (assuming I’d be able to run this dungeons 2 times a night, every night) to get that gear. Which is the same thing as saying, run that dungeon 140+ times. Which probably still wouldn’t actually be close to enough. It’s more like 220-250 times (guesstimating).
You can’t even do this token thing in WvWvW either. I’ve spend a large chunk of time in wvwvw and I’ve only attained 51 tokens from it. 9 times out of 10 you don’t even get any tokens at all from the player you killed and looted, I know, because I’ve killed about 600 players and have only received 51 tokens.
I simply do not understand this at all. It’s simply too grindy. I understand you need some from of longevity at the end game, but it doesn’t have to be this ridiculous. If you want the player to keep playing then give them some rewards here and there, don’t give them 1 reward every 9 days. That’s just insanity and I know this team can make this game better than that. Most people quit diablo 3 (for example) because the effort wasn’t worth the reward. That’s basically exactly what this is in guild wars 2 end game as well. The effort put forth right now doesn’t seem worth the miniscule of a reward that you’re getting.
I mean by the time anyone has a full token set of armor/weapon, or gets epic/legendary armors or weapons, or a full pvp set, the expansion pack is probably going to be out for this game and they probably won’t even get to have any fun with it at all lol…
That’s my overall feedback so far from playing the game. I absolutely love the art style and everything else. Game could use some dungeon group finders though. I love the pve systems and I do really enjoy the pvp as well. But man oh man, this end game grind may even be more ridiculous than vanilla WoW. It is just too ridic. Like I said, I know a lot of 80’s who don’t really know what to do at the moment because they’re not even sure if they want to attempt grinding for the pvp or the pve and may be leaving for different games. Some already are playing diff games because they just don’t know what to do against this deep of a grind. I mean, it just doesn’t seem worth it and a lot of us have realized that. We just look at it and say … “yeah…. that’s ridic” Lol… duno what to tell you.
That’s my best feedback I can give you, the grind is just too extensive. Love everything else. Would give it 10/10 easily if end game wasn’t so bad.
(edited by Shelledfade.6435)