Guild Wars 2

I’m just really frustrated with how end game pve is looking so far. Dungeons appear to be gone with the wind, no new fractals ( if you are making them the defacto pve end game I would except multiple new fracts…) and it seems there is this push for pve players to turn towards mindlessly zerging map meta events.

I play mmos for pve content, if I wanted to play competitively I’d go back to shooters. So with that being said, most mmos I’ve ever played the focus was progressing your toon to max level and going through the constant gear treadmill. It would legitimately take years of playing to max out your toon in levels in top end gear which was the primary pve focus. This game abandoned that, and I actually like that they did although I sometimes miss that grind. However, in absence of that being the focus of pve you need to replace it with something that can engage the playerbase at the end game. In its current state there is no way in hell fractals achieve that goal. It’s tedious chipping away at the health of the boss with the new increase in hp, we have done these same fracts for months/ years, and the rewards honestly suck.

GW2 pve for me ever since I joined the game has been marked by a strong focus towards generating gold so you can fully customize your characters to your liking. If that is only accomplished via hopping on your staff guard or whatever tags mobs well and riding a map event train then I’m going to look for alternative games. For me that is not what end game pve should be, and it is just not interesting to me. Ideally, reverse the decision made a long time ago to neglect dungeons and make new ones/ revert the nerf and customize the gold to the time taken/ difficulty of the path. Also, buff fractal rewards, make new fractals, etc. ( am excited for raids though having not played any of the betas)
I don’t think this asking for much to be honest, as the end game pve has been stagnant ever since I joined a year ago, and according to a lot of people it hasn’t really changed since fractals were introduced.

Honestly haven’t played mmos in a long time, but in the ones I’ve played min maxing is pretty standard practice- gearing your toon for optimal clearing potential. However in this game a good percentage of players feel like there shouldn’t be a meta or meta builds. (aka min maxing..) It honestly confuses me… pve content has always been about maximizing your ability to farm or clear high level content as effectively as possible.
Why is it different in this game?

If anyone is interested in teaching arah it would be much appreciated

I joined this game about 5 months ago, and immediately came here and posted that I was new and looking for people to help me out in learning this game. There were a lot of positive responses, with people adding me in game and answering my questions, as well as good advice like try to join a guild ingame that caters to new players ( which worked wonders for me). So to all the people who go out of their way in game and on this forum to help new players, thank you. This has been by far the friendliest and most enjoyable gaming experience I’ve had in a very long time, and it’s mostly due to the community.

Something everyone should remember is “everyone is a new player once”. I had a lot of help learning this game from others, so I try to pay it forward. There will always be negative people/players unfortunately, just block them if needed and move on- the only thing I would stress is use your brain with the lfg. (as the concern most new players have with the game is around dungeons) Even though this is a more casual game, not everyone is looking to spend 30 minutes on paths that should take 10 by having to walk new players through paths who may or may not listen to your advice. These runs are labelled in a way that should make it obvious to everyone that it is some sort of a speedclear, just make sure to actually read the postings. IF you are unhappy with the groups on LFG, as a lot of other people recommend, make your own.

There is no reason to chastise someone for being new though, and saying things like DEAD= noob is not only insensitive, it just makes you look like a tool. IF you aren’t looking to be friendly or helpful just keep your mouth shut, no reason to put down people just becoming accustomed to the game.

gotten 3 mace skins so far… game pls

Thanks a lot guys, I’ll try to add you ingame. I’ve been exploring and trying to lvl up, more interested in learning about pvp, server v server, and dungeons etc. cheers

just picked this game up less than a week ago, have the basics down but still unsure of a lot of things, probably easier than trading comments back n forth here.