Guild Wars 2

So, I would like to add my personal experience to this topic. I’m fairly new to the game (about 200 hours into it) and neither played season1 nor 2 of ls. However, I don’t even see why I would want to.
Here’s why: I, personally, was absolutely bored by the main story. Like, seriously, after playing games like Witcher 3, Life is Strange and other story heavy titles, i found the story of GW2 to be…not very good.
The writing was terrible, the voice actors cringeworthy (Trahearne seems to be very bored in the story, i’ve never heard a more emotionless voice in another video game) and I generally don’t care at all about the characters because there is (at least for me)no connection to them.
While this might not have been a problem when the game came out, the recent amount of very well written and greatly acted games have set the bar a lot higher.
So I wonder how someone like me, a new player, who has been bored out by the main story, should be convinced to put another 20$ into another story, that may be as boring as the main story. Sadly, I don’t even think that the HoT Storyline, on its own, is convincing enough.
While certainly better than the main story, it’s still, at least for me, not enough to put 20 bucks into the LS2.
Maybe someone can convince me, but that person remains to be found.

And for the GW2 Fanboys: Don’t think that I don’t like the game. I do. Just not for it’s story.

Soo since this seems to be the place to drop some opinions on the new patch for fractals, i’ll just drop my opinion here:

So i’m actually new to the game.
I’ve been playing GW2 for about 1 Month now and it’s been a lot of fun. I quickly found a guild and joined the fun. So far so good. Fractals were always possible and I played them as dailys pretty often. Not always, but often. When the guys from my guild went to play the lower daily fractals I was able to join in without any issues.

So, now after the patch I’ve got a problem: Nobody wants to do the lower fractals anymore because the loot is bad and they are able to do the higher ones without any problems thanks to their agony resistance. And I can’t blame them, because…i mean I wouldn’t either if i could just do the highest ones and get all the loot.
But I can not, as I now have a agony resistance of 10 or so, not very much to say the least.
They now drag me along in the higher fractals (76 and up), which is fine for me, but its no real fun for me, nor for them (at least thats what I guess).
So while the patch made the fractals definetely better for those who have been playing fractals for a longer time, it is now problematic for new players to join in, at least for those in a guild and who want to participate in said guild, as the seasoned players now lack the motivation to play the lower fractals.
Although I can not offer any advice on how to solve that problem, I would just like to mention this here. I personally had more motivation playing the Fractals before the patch, since I was able to actually help the group, not be an obstacle.
Since I really enjoy GW2 and playing with my guild, I don’t have the motivation to do lower fractals with pugs.
Which then again seems to be a must now if the new fractal system focuses more on people with more experience in them. Sadly, this leaves the newbies out of the equation.