Guild Wars 2

I currently play both WOW and Guild Wars 2. Right now there are no other MMO’s on the market quite as good. (I have played many others in the past) Below is a list of pros and cons for both games, but essentially why you should rather play Guild Wars in general.

+ Guild Wars is free,
- WOW is subscription

+ Guild Wars graphics are simply better
- WOW Legion has much improved graphics and the cartoony style suits the game but Guild Wars 2 still wins this department.

+ Guild Wars 2 has new content ALL THE TIME in the Living Story FOR FREE. The development so far since HoT has been interesting and engaging. You can also replay the Living Story episodes to catch up. Characters are believable and the script has improved since early days.
- WOW’s content and lore is still amazing, but the expansion packs do cost.

+ Guild Wars quest system is still the best out there. The dynamic quests and even just what the player are required to do in certain quests are a LOT more exciting and diverse than WOW.
- WOWs quest system is like this: kill x number of monsters, or collect x number of items, rince repeat over and over again. VERY STATIC and monotonous.

+ Although Guild Wars has less active skills to work with in game, the main and offhand weapon combinations make it more diverse and this mixed with your traits and mastery make creating and using your build very fun, especially in PVP.
- WOW has more active skills on your skill bar, but again you just pretty much spam certain skills at certain intervals to get the max damage/effectiveness out of it. There is really no diversity or complexity behind it. My retribution Palladin is level 100 and I have been using the same skills all game so far.

+ Guild Wars 2 PVP is simply the best there is. WOW is nowhere even close. The mechanics in Guild Wars 2 PVP (and combat in general) are extremely rewarding, fluent and exciting. In WOW, you pretty much just spam you skills till the enemy is dead. (Yes PVP requires a little more tactic and timing of the use of skills) But in Guild Wars 2, you can also dodge to evade attacks based on a stamina bar, you can also block depending on your weapon selection and class. It is a much deeper experience than WOW, and I am only talking about sPVP here. WvWvW is a whole other scope of large scale PVP combat which the only other game I can think of that comes close to it is DAOC or WAR: Online.

+ WOW is a grind for gear based game. If you want the most powerful items, be prepared to spend most of your life playing this game. Also, every so often, they introduce new weapons and gear that is more powerful than previously. So you have to keep grinding to have the best gear. Some people enjoy this and thats fine, this is for the hardcore crowd.
+Guild Wars 2 grind is more for cosmetic looks of weapons and gear. Yes, the Legendary weapons and armor have slightly better stats the Ascended and Exotic, but that is not the main reason people want them. Just have a look at some of the legendary weapons, they are stunning.

The twos department that I can think of where WOW actually beats Guild Wars is the sheer size of the WOW universe, in terms of map and zone size, a more importantly (and this is what I dislike about Guild Wars 2 the most) is that the zones in WOW are almost completely seamless. When you cross over into a new zone, there are no loading screens, it really feels like one gigantic world. Where as in Guild Wars, yes the zones are big too, but you have to go through a portal to enter a zone next to it, which takes the immersion out of the experience a bit. Also, when opening up the map in Guild Wars 2, it looks like you are looking at a giant sliced cake (all the zones cut up into squares). I understand it was designed this way because of server limitations, but I really feel after 5 years of the game being out they can afford to design more seamless environments.

-To get around in Guild Wars 2, you either run or use Asura portals all over Tyria for a quick transit and a small fee.
+ WOW has supercool mounts and this works because it goes hand in hand with the massive world I mentioned above.

Both are superb games, but Guild Wars 2 was designed for longevity and the millions of people that still play the game are testament to this.

In Guild Wars 1, we could create builds and save them, or even copy a template off the net and save it. This would save valuable time especially when wanting to play a different build on particular class without having to manually change your gear, traits and weapons.

I know this probably has been touched on, but Guild Wars 2 offers nothing like this. Everytime I wish to play a different build, I have to manually change my stats, gear etc and it is frustrating because there are times when I don’t play a particular build for months, and then have to remember what traits, runes etc to change. This is such a time waster, so the only way around this was to create 2 new characters of the same class to accommodate different builds. It is quicker to log out and just select the other character, than to manually change traits, gear etc. The problem with this is that not all of us have extra character slots (I bought 3 more).

Please Anet can you introduce a system where we can save a build, and incorporate a menu system that drops down in which we can select the saved build for our characters. This would be especially helpful in PVP and ultimately give us more play time and less ‘admin’ time.

It is not listed on the left. This is the problem. When I go to Myani to look at the gifts, the gift of history says I already know the recipe.

First of all, thanks for the awesome game.

I have all the prerequisites to create the gift of history, needed for the legendary weapon I would like to create (Flameseeker Prophecies).

I have two characters, one which is a Guardian level 80 with 400 Armorsmith. The other is level 21 Mesmer with 400 Tailor. I read that you need to be a tailor to create the gift of history. I bought the recipe for the gift of history from the Miyani with my Mesmer. When I want to craft it (at the mystic forge), I am able to add all three materials (100 Onyx Lodestones, 250 Crystalline Dust, 250 Hardened Leather Squares) but I am UNABLE to add the gift of ascalon. It does not even appear in the pane on the left.

Then someone told me it must be crafted at a normal crafting station. Same story there, gift of ascalon does not even appear in the left pane.

Then I tried the whole process with my Guardian (Armorsmith) as I read somewhere perhaps there was a bug and you need to be an Armorsmith to craft it. Still, no luck.

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? I acquired the gift of ascalon with my Guardian, but that should not matter as they are account bound.

Thanks in advance