Guild Wars 2

Im personally dissapointed in the phasing out of these particular stat combinations, in a game which was supposed to allow all different kinds of playstyles we come to a point where particular builds are being punished. I enjoy the way I play my character with knight stats, but if Cavalier is the only option in the future I doubt Ill even bother upgrading to any more ascended gear. If that means I cant do any of the new content, in all likelyhood I may walk away from the game Same goes for rampager / cleric sets, why punish people who like to play in a particular fashion? Not everyone wants to run around with glasscannon builds…

Apparently the superior sigil of fire, the name for it has been changed from english into Korean, sometime during 2/4/2013

I am severely upset with the direction the development team has decided to go with in terms of Ascended gear. I would consider myself a hardcore player, and have played through numerous MMO’s and was quite excited about GW2 especially in their adherance to a system outside the normal gear grind. As much as it is professed that this will not be a gear grind, I’m not blind and I can see the direction this is headed. This is a slippery slope, and as long as end game content will be nerfed in order to make high tier dungeon gear accessible to casual players while attempting to give hardcore players a leg up by increasing the reward temporarily of new content, a gear grind and WoW-like “Gear Treadmill” will be inevitable.

I would have hoped that the hardcore community would have continued to be rewarded to more aesthetically pleasing gear, achieved by more skill required dungeons or events, without actually necessitating a stat increase on said gear. This was the case in Guild Wars 1, it enabled content to be skill driven rather than gear driven as all players were put on a level playing field. This was the only reason I stood by Anet for so many years in the face of many other games that were on the market, a MMO where skill was the determinate factor in end game content not gear.

This is but one update, and Ascended gear is but a first step, eventually we will again come to the same cross roads and it will be all to easy to continue down this path. If that is the case I’m afraid myself and many of my hardcore friends who have cleared all the dungeon content before and after “buffs” throughout this game will leave with saddened hearts as to the direction that the development team has taken with this game. We are the community that shells out real money for continued investment into this game because we respect Anet and what they had tried to accomplish, not simply because we want a temporary leg up from the Gem Store.

I do hope it does not come to that, as I’ve already spent a deal of money on this game and for it to be ruined so quickly by becoming like every other MMO out there would be severly dissapointing. I had more faith and support in Anet before this.

Sorrows Embrace path 1, definitely was in for a surprise when I tried out the changes to this dungeon path. After about an hour and half though, we pushed our way through it and completed it, so no it is not impossible. I wouldnt even say its a complete mess, it just requires delicate strategy and some serious teamwork. If anything im glad they made it more of a challenge, I got so sick and tired of people exploiting or bypassing the path because they didnt want to bother fighting the waves.

I havnt dealth with the revamped path 2 yet, but I know with a good group the golems never posed much set back before. It’ll be nice for a little bit of a challenge, though I wish if the bosses were revamped so maybe they’d consider giving a chest in compensation