Guild Wars 2

Edge, I fun is subjective. For people with limited amounts of time, fun might not include hanging out in a low level zone for a chance of getting a level 80 item, as well as getting less karma, money, and XP as they would in a high level zone. My point still stands. Unless the rewards are equal, not a chance, not lowered, the high levels with less time do not have a good reason to stay in a low level zone.

Please don’t tell people that don’t think lowered rewards are fun that they are somehow incorrect.

@Edge, you missed the point entirely. Aside from map completion or helping a friend, there is no reason at all for a level 80 to hang out in a low level zone. The rewards aren’t as good as the high level zone. Downscale it all you want for “challenge”, but aside from those two things mentioned earlier, it is not going to bring high level people back into the zone. This is the same as any other MMO in existence. Outlevel the content (and the drops) and people move on. Fix that problem and you’ve fixed the empty zone problem.

I can also confirm bugged on Stormbluff.

I am also having the same issue.

Leiloni,

I said game, not MMO. I have played WoW for years and it was difficult to play that and EVE at the same time, so I understand that point. I am speaking of games in general. Even Greg Street, the lead system designer for WoW says it is unhealthy to focus solely on one game. I have played many many games at the same time as any MMO I was currently involved in. When you stop playing something and move onto something else, it gives you time to reflect upon it. One can’t get bored because one is always moving on. There is nothing to say one can’t return.

No, I think Gilandred got it right. The problem is that when people see MMO they expect it to go on forever, and that attitude is unhealthy. I do not understand why both the haters and the fanboys expect this game to be the only one taking up their time. Maybe both sides can explain that to me. There are thousands of other titles out there, why spend your time solely on one?

Zeromius, most of these posts have tried to shoehorn one game into the other, and I think people are tired of it. Not that games can’t learn from each other but I think the underlying philosophy of both games are different.

WoW is about gear, raiding, perfecting specs and min/maxing.
GW2 is about exploration and socialization.

These two don’t seem to have much overlap.

1) Yes, I agree with this completely. The game is starting to show it’s age. Trying to compete with people in the new Pandaria zones is ridiculous on my server.
2) Level 25 guild, everybody can rez. Never saw this as a big deal. Release and run back in a raid, it’s rude to wait for healers to rez you after a wipe.
3) The games don’t treat experience the same way. WoW gives a ton more XP for quests and killing mobs, so it probably averages out.
4) Most damage in WoW is avoidable too. You’re not supposed to stand in fires, remember!
6) As a tank I miss not being able to in this game.
8) I don’t care for the level scaling.

WoW and GW2 are completely different games and have different kind of audiences. I really wish people would stop comparing them to each other. A person can enjoy both games and play both games. It isn’t healthy to fixate solely on one game.

Ten.8421:

Male Norn Mesmer.

You’d really think you see a lot of those, considering the trolling potential of three huge clones, but nope… never seen one but in other people’s screenshots.

I have one. He’s a big beefy guy… in what looks like a skirt. It’s kind of sad and funny.

As far as I understand, you can only get the armor on the character that is in that order. So if your ele is in Priory, that is the only set that he can get.

zerospin.8604:

Why do people farm mats? You can buy all you need on TP, and it will save you loads of time. In that saved time you will make more more than you spent on the mats, and it will be fun on top. So why? In this MMO grinding mats is not needed at all, unless when TP is down maybe. I have 2 professions on 400 and only had to farm for about 1 hour to get low level mats, only because TP was down for a few days at that time.

Where do you get all this money to spend on mats on the TP? What if the player doesn’t want to spend money but his time?

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Tinni, have you even done Forging the Pact? You have to keep the NPCs alive or it bugs out. In that story you face wave after wave of undead. Without the NPCs to help you, you will get steamrolled by them every single time.