Guild Wars 2

Azure Prower.8701:

Firewalker.2583:

Just can’t see the point of this. You have all the other cities. Come on.

And second yesterday I was crossing the Vigil Keep and everything that was in LA is there. I won’t buy the pass, and I dont see the need for it.

Plus, even if you buy the pass to have access to a more practical central point of the game, so what? Arena net does not charge you with 15$ every month in order for you to play the game, nor does it give you half the game free and makes you pay to have the other half.
They give you a full game for the usual retail price and content updates every 2 weeks. They need to get money somewhere and they do it selling stuff that’s not even required for the players to have a good game experience. The pass is a comodity, you really don’t NEED it.

You don’t need a lot of things.

You don’t even need to enjoy the game. Because fun costs extra.

Well fun is the whole point of playing the game. I will give you that the upgrades (character slots, bank expansions etc) are really useful, but except that, do you need something in the gem store in order to enjoy the game? And is this thing about not having the craft stations in the keep something bad enought to ruin everything?

If they had also taken them from the other cities then yes, I would be here raging.

yeah, it’s on the refugee camp just outside the Vigil Keep.

Just can’t see the point of this. You have all the other cities. Come on.

And second yesterday I was crossing the Vigil Keep and everything that was in LA is there. I won’t buy the pass, and I dont see the need for it.

Plus, even if you buy the pass to have access to a more practical central point of the game, so what? Arena net does not charge you with 15$ every month in order for you to play the game, nor does it give you half the game free and makes you pay to have the other half.
They give you a full game for the usual retail price and content updates every 2 weeks. They need to get money somewhere and they do it selling stuff that’s not even required for the players to have a good game experience. The pass is a comodity, you really don’t NEED it.

Zergfest yes, but fun. And its cool to explore the city.

After the 5th event or so it will get boring yes, but you are not require to grind it. The first few times it’s fun.

Belzebu.3912:

No grind =/= No grind required.
Many MMOs you NEED to grind to get to level cap for example, here you only grind a bit if you want the 5~10% better equip than the very easy exotic tier gear.
In GW2 you really don’t need to grind at all, but you have the option to grind if you want.

There it is.
Anet’s MMO Manifesto was a group of intentions. It was obvious that they would not be 100% succesfull at all of them. Specially because it was an ambitious Manifesto.
There will always be grind in MMOs, it’s in the structure of the game.

Where they were somewhat sucessful was in making a game where grind is not mandatory. You dont need to grind to make exotics. You don’t need to repeat the same things 1000 times a day to get full exotic armour and weapons. You can get those by exploring. And with exotic items you can play well enough. I mean it’s not a HUGE difference between Ascended and Exotic items. Ascended gives you some advantage but it’s not mandatory in order to play the game.

Besides you can get all materials for Ascended crafting but doing several diferent things and not repeating always the same.

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Let it burn :P

1. Engineer
2. Ranger
3. Mesmer

For me:

- Improve the story missions. The missions really are not as immersive as they were in GW1 and we don’t care about the characters.

- We should be able to at least the history mode of dungeons solo. Or with NPCs or something.

- They should do something to get people to participate in events.

I think monthly is good the way it is.

I don’t know how much time you have to play but I find it hard enough of achieving with the game time I can get.