Guild Wars 2

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A lot of the people who have rushed to level 80 are WoW players, and are uncomfortable with the mechanics in GW2.

Pretty much this. People burn themselves out rushing to 80 and than complain because they feel like there is nothing to do. This is an entirely different game than WoW, there is no monthly fee or carrot on a stick approach. There is no “grind for these points to get this gear so I can do this raid and get better gear so I can do harder raids and get even better gear”

Its all about the gameplay at 80, and whether that’s you deciding to go for 100% world completion or jumping into dungeons or WvWvW or doing it all that is up to you. You basically get 100% of the game at the start rather than at the end.

Meh it happens with a lot of games bro. Sometimes a break is all you need, the game does seem to have a lot going on all the time so it does take quite a bit of brain power. Just take a break for a few days, there is no monthly fee so you don’t really have to worry about it all that much, you can come back at anytime.

Or you can do other stuff in the game like focus on crafting or maybe just do some PVP or something. Anybody gets worn out after awhile, even the most dedicated players do.

Guardian is boring?

Have you even played Guardian? It is insanely fun. Equipped a Great Sword or Hammer and look at the skills

GW1 and GW2 are two completely different games. GW1 did its own thing, GW2 is what you would expect from an MMO, though it does a lot of things like questing, crafting and PVP better.

World of Warcraft

The first MMO I ever really got into around 2006 in the middle of TBC. I’ve put countless hours into it, probably around 365 days over the period of about six or seven years. I still play this game from time to time and keep up with it the best I can. I do not like what it has turned into; the world is dead, people sit in cities all day, the community is just terrible, the questing is linear and too easy, the in game story from 1-85 has been screwed up thanks to Post Cataclsm Level 1-58, Illidan 58-68, Arthas 68-80, Post Cataclysm again 80-85. The leveling literally makes no sense story wise anymore, though it’s not like anybody in the world actually pays attention to it now as you can just level without even leaving a city at level 10. Cataclysm is also terrible.

Warhammer online

Honestly for as much crap as this MMO gets it actually brought a lot of new things to the genre. Queuing from anywhere in the world, an in game lorebook and achievements and world events. EA Destroyed this MMO, it was released too early and a good amount of the content was cut out at launch. I enjoyed it but it just felt unfinished and the endgame was for the most part terrible. Though at least it still brought some new things to the genre.

DC Universe Online

This game actually wasn’t that bad as it was quite a bit different than the average MMO. It just got repetitive fast and the end game was terrible. It was a game you could enjoy for like 15-20 hours before getting bored with it and moving on.

SWTOR

Another MMO that EA destroyed. SWTOR had potential, and it really could have been a great game. I think the developers really thought that it would become the next #1 Pay to play MMO, they were even going off on how many more planets they could add and all this great content they had planned for the future. To start, the engine was terrible and the game was badly optimized and the player stories were good at the start but really became mediocre as they went on. The PVP was horrible and like 90% of the skills were ripped off of WoW, even some of the names of the skills were the same.

There was basically no world PVP and the factions didn’t even quest on the same planets. The game had so much potential using the Star Wars license yet failed so badly. There wasn’t even space exploration or anything, it was all on rails and basically pointless. It just didn’t feel like star wars……..also everybody running around with light sabers was just lame.

This game

I am enjoying Guild Wars 2 a lot more than any of the previous MMO’s on my list currently. That could change in the future, but I like the direction this game is going so far and the lack of the monthly fee pretty much guarantee’s that I’ll be playing this game for a long time.

Well seeing as how I never stuck to one character at the beginning (I never do with new MMO’s) adding up the time between my

Level 21 Engineer
Level 12 Warrior
Level 16 Guardian (going to level this guy all the way)

I’m at about 40 hours all together. So far I am enjoying the game quite a bit : )

My Human so far.

Lynces Guardeus

Dwayna the goddess of healing blessed me when I was young. Though trouble may follow me, I overcome it with dignity.

I grew up among the nobility, and I value my honor. I’ve made something of myself, and the only thing I regret is that I never searched for my true parents.

I am a Guardian. I wear the armor and have the aspirations of a conqeuror.

This is my story

My level 12 Guardian

There will always be tons of people playing the same class as you, and while Guardian is probably one of the most played I don’t think it’s anything over the top. The class that seems to be the least played from what I see anyways is Necromancer.

and yes it is still a very good time to settle on a main character to invest a lot of time in. This game is still practically brand new.