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I’m really enjoying it. I stopped shortly after HoT came out. I complained it was too hard. I was frustrated. The truth is, I had one foot in another MMO at the time, and was basically just doing some dailies here and some world bosses with some alts when HoT came around. I had a full set of Ascended on my main, as well as a legendary Bifrost. Since I was already spending more time in the other game, I posted all my ‘this is too hard’ posts, and left, for about 15 months.
Coming back in the second week of December, I jumped into HoT and the story and was found it to be a blast, and couldn’t really figure out what I was complaining about. Now, I don’t know if it has been reduced in difficulty since it originally hit or not, but getting into all the map metas and learning how the maps worked and working on map achievements for points and leveling all the masteries up…it’s been a great time the past few months!
And then when I finished HoT and jumped into LW3:1-3, I was even more excited to see how it was progressing beyond that, and liked how they brought hearts back and turned them into repeatable options. LW3.4 is especially great for me, as I had commented a long time ago how it always seemed like end game zones took you to these goth, depressing landscapes, and how it would be nice to have a high end zone ‘that was like Queensdale, with centaurs and bandits and saving towns and such’.
Well…there I go!
So yeah, really enjoying the game again.
THIS! What really got me back was the Head of the Snake, Divinity’s reach lore and such! It’s good to know more about the places we already know and love. Including this new trend of releasing a map every chapter is expanding the world the way it was meant to be
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Hi! i played Guild Wars 2 until just after the expansion was released then i stopped because of Real Life work.
I’m going back now and i found out that Colin left ArenaNet and he was such a great guy, i’d like to know how GW2 is doing without him
What exactly is the end game content, and how do all you find it fun? Because farming for gear when it’s acquisition won’t be noticeable in these large end game events really makes me think twice about finding gw2 exciting
Endgame in this game is what you make of it. Sounds stupid at first, but when you think about it it opens up a variety of things to do.
Looking at my friends and guildies, I see a ton of different “end games”, all in one game.
Some are into dungeons. They spend their time getting to know each dungeon path inside-out, what traits and utilities benefit which encounter, and how to get the most out of their characters and parties. They like to learn how to duo or even solo the bosses and encounters, how to skip past specific mobs in different ways, and how to best counter boss mob mechanics.
Others are into open world PvE. They like to map-complete with multiple alts, do world bosses, farm crafting materials and generally get the know every last bit of the maps and where to find whatever resource they are after.
Some like WvW the most, and spend most of their time on the borderlands and the eternal battlegrounds, either in small groups or guild zergs. They learn how to best trait and skill their classes for the situation at hand, which, depending on the kind (and size) of group and your goal, can be quite diverse. They progress their wvw experience bar and rank to gain wvw abilities that have a serious impact on their play in that game mode.
I have friends that almost exclusively pvp, because they enjoy that game mode the most, and/or would like to have access to a specific rank finisher (phoenix for rank 70+ seems to be sought-after the most right now
).
Others spend most of their time in the silverwastes to unlock the full set of luminescent armor skins on their account.
There’s roleplayers, trading post specialists, story lovers that spend their time leveling multiple alts to experience the personal (and living) story from different angles, compulsive collectors, fractal frequenters, and last but not least the jack-of-all-trades that enjoy dabbling in all of these fields depending on mood.
The one thing you will not widely find though is people focused exclusively on gear aquisition, as that is just not a big thing in this game. You have to find the part of the game that is fun to you because you like to play it, not because it gives you better gear. If you are a meticulous crafter, this may result in you focussing on crafting ascended gear, but for most people, ascended is more of a by-product of playing the content they like, just like a legendary is something that you (ideally) build resources for over a long time, instead of force-farming the resources in one go.
Check out more of the game than just zerg event trains, and find the spot that appeals to you because you enjoy playing it. Rewards will come in by themselves, but focussing exclusively on them instead of enjoyable gameplay is (unfortunately) a pretty good way to burn out on this game quickly, as that isn’t how most (if not all) content is built.
This.