Guild Wars 2

Hi,

As a new Guild Wars player, I first like to say: good job on the new game. I skipped the first, because I was already a WoW fanatic, and it would be taking a major step back, but GW2 is actually on the verge of taking me over.

One of the issues I have with this game, though, is the fact that if I’m partied with some friends, and we have a quest, we still have to do quest progression by ourselves. We can be completely out of sync this way. I kill a mob, they kill 2 of them, all of a sudden, they’re ahead of me, because I’m lower level and therefore take a little longer. I destroy an object, and I take the lead, because they can’t anymore. Unless we’re always running to the same place at the same time, we’ll always finish the quest by ourselves…
In WoW, one of the things I like a lot about the game, is that when partied with a friend, you actually always progress together. There’s no apparent reason for parties in the way GW2 works currently, except for keeping track of someone’s location and maybe dungeons, they could just be random people and it wouldn’t affect anything in my game/world…

Or, it could just be me?