Guild Wars 2

Thank you for all replies and comments!
We have relocated irl and I have not been able to monitor this thread until now.

comments: Well, ‘casual’ might be a somewhat wrong word. ‘Not a skilled player’ is more accurate and that’s the problem. I’m working on it, lol.

We usually try to team our chars to complement each others strategies.
I had an old sleepy necro and a 50 lvl ranger in my army, so I am working on them atm.
Practice makes perfect…

We have just now joined a very nice guild with members around same age and pace. Unfortunately, it turns out most members live in Australia.
We are in Sweden, on Aurora Glade Server, so the timing is a bit difficult.

I love this game and want to get better at it, I’ll take all of your suggestions to heart. Hopefully, we can find a ‘senior-oriented’ guild in our ‘hood’.

Happy New Gaming Year!

Thanks again for taking the time to read and answer.

Thanks for your replies and offers to accompany us in times of need!
I will look for you next time I’m in the game…. !
We are on the Aurora Glade server and we live in Sweden GMT +1 h.

Thanks for the extremely valuable tips about the ranger (my main is a mesmer – Kailash – (exalted berserker gear and weapons, sigils, runes, trinkets etc.)

I do have an 80 lvl ranger in my closet … time to let her out. lol

I do see all your points when it comes to a choice in difficult mode. I too like the challenge and that hardship is progressive in the game.
What I meant with overload is that at times it is just too many mobs, bosses, and AoEs to handle solo-2ppl. Thanks for offering assistance!

I sincerely hope that this game never becomes like WOW, as it turned out after the 5th extension, I think this is when the first crew of Devs left since artistic freedom was restrained and some Devs started Arena and GW2, (as far as I know). We played WOW for approx. 5 years, but got wary of changes in ppl’s attitudes, overall rudeness, and all the bells and whistles together with the heavy influence of freemasonry signs everywhere.

Also, my definition of us as casual players are more about our game skills just like Tom described it rather than time spent in the game.

Your replies inspired me to start working on my ranger. Thanks!

I have noticed lately that we very often are suggested to change instances due to lack of players. Here are some of my thoughts on today’s GW2 game experience.

I have played GW2 since beta, together with my husband. We have several 80 level characters each, we play PVE and we both love this game. We spend a lot of time in the game. And Dulfy is almost a family member.

In real life, we are old, retired folks, not hardcore, not even good players. We are not skilled to do dungeons, PvP, WvW and not good enough to join a group/guild to do them either, usually ’cause the pace is too fast for us.

Looking back from beta days until today, I feel the game has become overloaded with difficult mobs, impossible quests/missions, and events, not to mention bugs and glitches here and there.

Areas we find to be overloaded with mobs, difficulties, and hard to play are:

Personal Story – final bosses – sometimes with bugs and glitches.
(Atm some of our chars are not able to finish their Personal Story).
HOT
Hard to explore and learn the way around HOT when constantly attacked by too many hordes of mobs. (We do follow groups doing some events in HOT). But solo or just 2 ppl -impossible at times. Not Fun!

I do realize that hardcore players have no problems with this, but what is the reason for the lack of players in instances and even in the dailies nowadays?
Could it be that other casual players have a similar experience – it is way too much of everything?

My suggestions to the Devs:
Instead of nerfing chars, effects and the like, Please make instances or choices of levels of difficulties for PVE = Normal – Hard – or something similar.
That would make the game available and interesting to all levels of game skills.
Thank You.

Thanks to all of you for inspiring input! I will try them all!

I did not know that either, Thank you so much for that! I will do that!

Ooh, I did not know that. Thanks!
Only me and husband in ‘our guild’, so I realize that we miss out on many nice things in the game. Maybe I should try to join a bigger, patient, and social guild to tag along with, on such adventures.

SUGGESTION! 2/3 instead of 3/3 daily missions…

I am a player since Beta days, with several 80 lvl chars, I am also a very old retired lady, enjoying the PVE-part of the game, to my hearts content.
GW2 is an extremely beautiful and exciting game, and I love it !
My husband also play this game, so I speak for him as well.

But… we do NOT play FRACTALS, WWW or PVP or even DUNGEONS, cause we are not swift or good enough!
This means we can sometimes only do 2/3 of the daily missions, as per 27th of July 2015.
This has occured a couple of times recently!
Very annoying, to say the least!!
I think this is unfair to newbies, and players like us, that are a bit too ‘slow and old’ to play in those other ‘fast forward’ worlds.

Please consider to always add a World Boss, Forge, etc. so WE ALL can do our 3/3 daily. Thanks! Helen