Guild Wars 2

Castien.1872:

Since I no longer plan to get HoT at this point in time, I see no reason for me to continue to play GW2 at the moment. I stuck by you guys for a ton of years, while all of my friends bounced and went to other games. None understood why I kept playing GW1 at that time. I kept the faith even after my original account was hacked and I had to buy the trilogy again while everyone was telling me to join them in the various games they were playing at that time. I stuck by you guys through a ton of gripes that I won’t list here (I’m trying to keep this short).

I’m not saying I’m gone for good, but it’ll be a cold day down under before I pay 50 bucks for that expansion as is. And until I buy HoT, I see no reason to continue playing this game. I’ll holla when HoT no longer looks like a horrible purchase to me. I’m not paying 100 bucks just to feel like I’m actually getting my money’s worth and the base pre-order package ain’t worth 50 bucks in its current iteration. So… peace out for now.

After looking around this thread, this summarizes my thoughts and circumstances exactly. As one of the last few in my circle of friends who actually stuck with GW for years, I won’t be encouraging anyone to come back to… this.

I don’t need another core game. I won’t be buying unless there’s a straight up account upgrade for HoT. This isn’t about the money. It’s just shady.

Unbelievable… all that effort killed midway.

I’d deeply appreciate an invite.

My feedback:

If you must keep ascended gear, please make it reasonably attainable after exotics.

Currently, the method of acquisition is just terrible.
1. 70+gold in resources and RNG for the back
2. 10+ FotM difficulty and RNG for the ring

For the back piece alone, you could buy several sets of exotic gear…

This jump in cost is not feasible for the average player and diminishes the importance of skill.

Please create an option with a generic skin and equivalent stats.

People shouldn’t be forced to have to go for the prestige/obsidian armor to stay competitive in both PvP and PvE.

Anyone find these new ascended items to be not that accessible?

If I have to upgrade my transmuted gear once more to get peak performance out of it, fine, I don’t like it, but I’ll deal with it.

But seriously, the time/resource requirement to jump from exotic to ascended grade gear is absurd.

70+g in resources + RNG for an ascended back piece? Really? A chance to get an ascended ring at 10+ FoTM difficulty? You think the average player has a remote chance at this?

What happen to creating a level skill-based playing ground thats relatively easily attained?
In GW1 terms, I dont need the prestige and obsidian armor so where’s the affordable regular max armor? Or did grinding for gear become the norm?

No.

I don’t want my aesthetic investments (skins, fine transmutation stones) on exotic gear wasted. I spend a great deal of time arranging my characters’ appearances and stats to my liking, and I resent a new tier of equipment invalidating all my work. I wouldn’t have spent a considerable amount of gold, tokens, and karma on non-max gear. Why do I need to use another fine transmutation stone to tide my favorite skin over again and lose an exotic piece in the process?