Guild Wars 2

Bah. It’s no big deal. Doesn’t mean that they had the coverage to do all the maps at once. It happens!

But it is rather amusing to hear about battles in hindsight, giving others the illusion that one is somehow omniscient; post-event, of course. Clearly, the correct move would have been to X, and then to XYZ. But since it’s already occurred and the mistakes can be seen, MAN it must be fulfilling to bash other players publicly for what went wrong!

Looking forward to seeing those two realms in the coming weeks, instead of having to fight the #4/#5 alliance, and being tag-teamed every single day. (Well, not true; today we actually saw 4&5 go at it a few times….after they’d cooperatively eliminated the evil 6, of course) Two realms who each fight their battles on opportunistic targets, rather than on the premise of reward or ‘status’? Yowza! Sounds good to me!

Good luck in T2 FA! (Pick your alliance wisely, IF you get the chance!)

Not too pleased with our server results, but it’s not going to PREVENT getting the mistforged skin…just means I’ll be making two in the mystic toilet with my 275 points, rather than buying one/making 3 with 300.

Lots of it happening during the tourney….it can be funny, but for the most part, it isn’t…

The fact that our server is being tag-teamed by two others who won’t fight each other also makes gameplay pretty boring. And I didn’t enjoy the fantastically mature people who came into teamspeak channels just to scream and swear during reset night….not really a pleasant experience for the most part.

Gold tier. Where the trolls troll harder!

Felessan said it best:

“The new unlock system is almost amazing in how badly it executes a wonderful idea.”

Couldn’t be more true.

Myself – not a huge gamer; the last time I logged on was over a week ago. However, when logging on today, was surprised by the fact that I needed to either spend a pile of money and skill points to get basic 80-level bits all over again, or make a HUGE investment of time to achieve the same thing.

The catch is, I’m the opposite of BAWW (though he makes some excellent points and suggestions!). I’ve played for a good while now, but only have ONE toon. That’s it. NO desire to play any others! And I play exclusively WvW. I HATE leveling. I HATE world content. I can barely stand guild bounties and rushes; I think most of it is just giant waste of time….and I couldn’t care less about anything other than just mashing down opponents on the field. So this patch to me, is a huge issue….those skill points are much better used for siege and crafting, as is the money.

Don’t get me wrong; I love that Anet has developed a game that increases rewards with the amount and effort of play. Problem is, we’ve moved into a whole new realm where you need time-based ‘loot’ from leveling (gold and SP)….in order to level an 80 to it’s top (?) level. However, being essentially forced into the PvE setting to claim what already should be available to an 80-level character is ridiculous at best. More variety in the accumulation of these traits is definitely necessary, because not everyone has the desire to complete the specific events. Not everybody has the money. Not everybody has the time to achieve all this, in order to play again at the ‘top’ level, even though they’ve previously achieved that status.

It’s a bit disappointing to be told that essentially everything we’ve invested for time and money to get to 80, develop our toons, etc……well that just ain’t good enough anymore. Gotta roll single file down the line like cattle and all do the same stupid world events – or blow the cash – in order to get the basic stuff for an 80-level toon. The BASIC stuff! Stuff we already HAD!

If a future expansion for GW2 raises the level, and we are REQUIRED to do this PvE crap to get our basic traits….I’m more likely to just abandon the game altogether. I hate to sound all bitter and whatnot, but it’s just not why I play…..they seem to have forgotten that there are people who DON’T appreciate certain aspects of the game – we don’t do dungeons, events, temples…any of that stuff, and we already pay for it through a lack of variety in loot. Yes, it’d be nice to spend 14 hours a day exploring, keeping up with the latest events…all that junk. But some people just want to blobmash, fire a treb, and nuke a roamer here and there. We don’t all live at our computers; time is a precious commodity!

I can’t offer much for suggestions, because I’m not great at this game, but I have seen some excellent ones in a few previous posts.. I like the idea of final traits possibly being tied to character storyline, but at the same time, I HATE doing storyline stuff, because it never involves WvW or PvP. If it did every now and then, I’d be all over it!

No hard feelings though – just some thoughts, and a bit of disappointment. I think that there was a serious lack of consideration for ALL play styles in this particular case.