Guild Wars 2

TooBz.3065:

VOLKON.1290:

TooBz.3065:

No. Ascended gear is boring to get. If they bore me I will complain. Don’t care if I never have to do it again.

I hate peas, if you make me eat peas I’ll fuss (especially if it’s a big heaping plateful). Even if you say it’s unlikely I’ll have to eat them again.

Some people like peas, that’s cool with me. Enjoy. Personally, I think that taste terrible.

Good news then. No one is making you eat peas, nor are they making you grind ascended gear.

I like peas btw. Steamed. Keeps them sweet and snappy (instead of mushy).

Snow peas in the pod are ok. But as for the other ones, no, you don’t like them. You just think you do (kidding).

Ascended weapons are here to stay, no amount of QQ will change that. In some ways, it was a good try. They are pushing people to do a lot of different things to gather materials, temples, jumping puzzles, champions, world bosses, dungeons(???) etc…

However, there are terrible aspects to it, where I think they missed the boat entirely. Grinding 50 levels of crafting with 25 levels of recipes is oh so bad. Progress grinds to a halt. I don’t know how many discoveries it actually takes, I’m guessing that someone will figure it out, but it’s too many. (This may be because I had previously crafted gear for 7 alts. Probably about 21-25 weapons or more, so been there, done that)

No one is making me play this game at all. But honestly, if the content is out there I’m going to check it out. So no, they aren’t making me do ascended gear, but I still salvaged about 15 exotics and grinded to crafting level 439 before deciding that it was too boring / tedious.

I just think that boredom is the worst addition to the game.

You don’t even know the half of it. Here’s the list of mats required to craft an Ascended Greatsword after you’ve reached 500 Weaponsmithing: http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/gw2-ascended-greatsword-crafting-32.jpg

It’s practically the Legendary grind all over again, just in a slightly more manageable form. I said it last year; I’ll never have a Legendary weapon. Now I’ll say it this year. I’ll never have an Ascended weapon.

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve done grinds before. Hundreds of days spent in other MMOs doing dailies and reaping their rewards. Crafting disciplines maxed and then maxed again when the next expansion or update is released. Mats farmed, epic items crafted, you know the deal. But in GW2 the grind isn’t fun because there’s no payoff at the end. I don’t want to spend weeks of my life in pursuit of such lame rewards.

Legendaries weren’t worth my time and Ascended weapons aren’t worth my time. There’s so many other treadmills worth running. GW2 definitely isn’t one of them.

World Events/Living Story stuff is definitely coming out way too fast for the average player to really get into. It has to be said, however, that they cannot be classified as content.

I want you to think about what you would miss if you skipped one of these events. What would your account end up lacking? A handful of cosmetic items and some achievement points that could easily be gained from participating in other activities.

The only real content that has come out in the last year is fractals of the mists and more recently the ascended weapon update. If those were missable then we’d have a problem because you’d be in a serious disadvantage in the game. You have to come to terms with the fact that at the end of the day all these world events are in fact meaningless to the overall game and nobody should give a kitten if you miss them because the only thing lost was some of your “fun.”

This game has perhaps been the lightest on actual content for any big MMO ever released and it has ended up boring me to tears because of it.

Palador.2170:

This is for the more casual players that may not care about BiS gear. They may not want to run fractals and dungeons, but doing dailies is something they enjoy. When the time comes, they’ll look and see that they can get a good piece of equipment for a set cost in laurels. If it’s worth it or not will be up to them to decide.

This, prettymuch. I’ve never even done a fractal and don’t desire to. Meanwhile I’ve done years worth of dailies on other MMOs so 35 more is a cakewalk for me and I’m sure many others. Never underestimate the amount of dailies your typical player, even casual players, are willing to go through.

This daily achievement is, for lack of a better word, stupid. It’s just not something I do daily as a Ranger. Even as other classes I dodge to move away from or kite things, not avoid auto-attacks. The gaily gatherer achievement is pointless too because once you max your crafting disciplines there’s barely a point in gathering other than to sell stuff on the AH. The resurrection daily is also quite needless since you usually have to go out of your way to complete it.

Basically I don’t see why they feel the need to add in daily tasks that most people don’t even bother doing every day because they’re pointless.