Guild Wars 2

Paddy.3985:

A R W E N.6895:

Am I in the wrong game?

If you want gear treadmills and constant raids that replace everything before it every few months. Yes, you are indeed. This game does have endgame content but it’s quite a bit different than most other MMOs. PvP and WvW are basically it. If you are a pver exclusively then there is going to be little for you to do endgame wise other than the LS every few weeks, and that takes… a day or so to finish off.

I’m really sad that you’re more or less correct. I’ve never enjoyed WvW all that much because it’s always biggest zerg wins. Sure there are rare occasions that may change the outcome from time to time, but 9/10 you’re bigger zerg will get the drop on anything that isn’t a castle. To me, that deludes the entire strategy behind large scale war, which in turn makes me hate WvW as a means of any sort of actual progression. The blue Dorito will over rule any coherent thought the player has for fear of being picked off by a passing group of more than 1 player.

I don’t want a gear treadmill, I just want something to work for that I don’t have to craft or spend days upon days farming the same crap for aesthetic or otherwise. Is that too much to ask for?

I miss my personal story. It was gripping, and kept me interested in finishing it through to the end. I had drive, a coherent plot, and characters I grew to enjoy/hate. It was a very basic, but well executed aspect of the game I missed dearly once I had finished.

I know they’re trying to focus on Living World content as a means of end game and we all know dungeons and WvW are decent end game as well, but Season 1 was incredibly boring, and I’ve never liked the “play now or never get the chance” aspect of it all. Not to mention I feel like Scarlet was the biggest plot hole filler in GW2 history… not that I would know for sure.

I think GW should try at least to expand on your personal story a bit, not to mention all the closed zones in the Guild Wars 2 map that they could release as a standalone expansion. (Factions/Nightfall cough) At the very VERY least, I would like to see a bit more permanent content. (New weapon type? skills? NOT Gemstore items?)

Just imo, really… I was hooked until level 80. Now I’m trying desperately to find things to do that don’t involve champ farming or farming for my crafting. It quickly becomes more about grinding for any sort of endgame gear (ascended for agony resistance) than it does just playing the game for fun. You have dozens of ways to level, different avenues to explore, which was something I’ve always loved about GW2. You hit level 80 and the avenues go back to the same grind every MMO has since the dawn of time.

On top of that GWs even ‘fixes’ farming so people can’t make decent cash, EVEN WITH THE MIND NUMBING BULLCRAP THEY GO THROUGH. Right now, the only decent way I’ve found of making money is doing my daily and spending my laurel on T6 mats. It’s about 1g a day… which is nice compared to the all day champ farming I was trying to accomplish.

At some point this became about endgame content, and steered into my problems with GW2, but I hope this at least helps someone, sorry I got so off track. :P