Guild Wars 2

Background:

My 1st MMORPG was Everquest 1 and in many ways that is still my favorite atleast as far as the community and my guild (very little drama and EVERYONE helped everyone else out).

I then moved on to WoW and played that for several years and then tried SWTOR for a while. Currently I play GW2 and Rift.

As far as other games… I was into first person shooters dating back to Quake 2 and Tribes and also played a lot of console RPG’s such as Final Fantasy and Zelda. I currently play Halo 4 but still love to play any GTA/Saints Row type games.

How I feel about GW2:

I LOVE all of the new things GW2 added to MMO’s such as dynamic events (although Rift has those too), shared loot on kills and no kill stealing, shared nodes, jumping puzzles, vistas etc.

I like the idea of horizontal progression for a change but I feel that finding a balance between vertical and horizontal is the only way GW2 will ever work.

Having said that, I can see why people are upset over the changes.

I think new tiers of gear with better stats should only work in certain dungeons/raids and when worn outside of those areas the stats become no more powerful then exotics.

Overall, to me the good things that GW2 has brought to MMO’s far outweigh the bad.