Guild Wars 2

So I got my character to level 80, Played around a lot of bugged Orr points of interest, did a bunch of personal story missions, explored many zones, crafted many items, and barely touched PvP.

I want to say that I’m glad there isn’t a monthly subscription for the game, as I may come back to it later when inspiration takes hold of me again, but for now I’m feeling kind of ‘content’ with the game to put it down now.

It’s a beautiful world with a lot of heart put into it, massive in many examples, but feels aimless right now at the end.

I’m perhaps one of the few players who likes a goal to work towards, and it’s been troubling trying to find a goal after reaching 80. I don’t want a dungeon treadmill, or gear treadmill which seems kind of the point of level 80 (grab those legendaries or you don’t have any right to complain about nothing to do!). I wanted to try Guild Wars 2 out to see how it differed, and I think I’ve kind of felt the full effect now.

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It’s fun and it’s competitive. Take a first person shooter for example. Once you get all of the cool guns, you still enjoy playing, and killing noobs with your level of experience is entertaining as well.

The only “reward” you get are ranking levels and cosmetic armor. You could make it a goal for yourself to craft a variety of different things at the PvP forge. Stuff like that.

Can those looks and items be used in PvE? (Cosmetic that is). The biggest issue is how seperated PvP, and PvE is, and I’m not talking about power of items. Do I have to be red/blue every match?

Trying to figure this whole thing out, and information seems kind of sparse, or hard to track down exactly.

Aside from “you enjoy it” (Like why keep running old pve content if there’s no reward?), what is there to get by playing PvP. It may sound odd, but I usually like working towards a goal, and that’s part of why I enjoy the PvE in Guildwars at the moment.

It’s not really the destination, but the journey I enjoy.

Most importantly I want to know how seperated PvP is from PvE. The auto level-up, and top tier loot thing seems part of the issue as I don’t look like what I do in PvE, and items seem entirely different, including builds set. Is there anything you can get from PvP that can be used PvE, and vice versa? I know WvWvW has some tangible benefits, gives you XP, karma, and money; however what’s the alure of less giant zerg pvp which I usually enjoy, and it’s influence on the other parts of the game?