Guild Wars 2

Some more feedback. I begin to see that with guesting blocked server transfer is not that big of a concern. Still it would be nice if new players were given a couple of free transfer opportunities. My favorite server to play PvE is Ring of Fire nowadays btw.

I tried WvW and it turned out that there are a lot of nice people playing on Ruins of Surmia! Unfortunately WvW is beyond me yet. I feel totally useless (getting slaughtered even 1 on 1). Also the equipment repair cost kind of deters me from trying too many times.

In another thread it was brought up and I think it’s true that the best way to enjoy PvE in this game is to just let yourself drift with the flow. You see an interesting village there? Go check it out! Is it in the opposite direction you was heading? No problem, you’ll continue your journey tomorrow… or the next day.

This is how I ended up in Lion’s Arch and the Asura starting zone. I must say I absolutely loved the Asura zone. It’s a somewhat twofold feeling because I kind of regret the Sylvari zone (Caledon Forest, where my character started) while aesthetically beautiful, is not as good gameplay wise as the Asura zone (don’t know the name, sry).
Example: I was just walking around when I saw a big golem fighting off some inquest members. I helped it. Then it began to repair a tower. I then noticed that there are other towers which need to be repaired too. I helped the golem repair those too. Then I noticed there are numerous smaller towers all along the way which could now be switched on. Then a lightning elemental emerged from the damaged power plant… etc. Very nicely chained events, where I felt that my character’s actions indeed made a difference. I didn’t have that feeling in Caledon Forest. Plus add the humorous mini-quests, mind blowing scenery and all around coolness.

What somewhat makes enjoying PvE hard are group events. Those are typically the culmination of smaller, chained events and I’d really like to complete them because of the story! But soloing those is way too hard unfortunately.
Example: Champion of the Sun. I beat all of them just to face Xolotl who is impossible to beat alone (or takes way too much time).
On the bright side: I finally managed to solo the undead pet brood mother: I found a hole in the wall of the cave. I hid there, it couldn’t overrun me this way.

Yes, this diversion… I’m very new to the game, also casual, so I’m only around lvl 21. But getting distracted is fun. Last time I was going to continue my personal story. But I decided not to use waypoints. I ended up going through asura gates (it was marked by that green swirl mark, don’t know why), visiting Lion’s Arch for the first time, doing a lot of quests around the asura starting area (including group events) and I had lots of fun before I eventually reached my planned destination two (IRL) days later.

Some more feedback.
Yesterday I again guested on the Desolation server. It was nice, people were lfg in chat, helping out each other. What bothers me to some degree is every now and then a group of 4-8 players spontaneously gathers at an event, it’s all joy, we destroy everything so fast, revive each other and what not. But then the event ends and everyone just scatters in all directions and it’s back to the low chance that I’ll bump into anyone the next event I encounter.

Listening to map chat I ended up at the Wurm event, I don’t know if it’s a daily or what, but people were referring to some kind of a timer that it would soon spawn.
I didn’t have the waypoint yet, so I walked. And when I got there I was like OMG! So many people! There were like 50 or more players waiting for the Wurm. It was awesome. Everything happened so fast I didn’t really grasp what was happening. I made sure to register a few hits on the beast and I received a f…ing big sword from a chest. It looks so cool! Not long after I had to restart the game because of an update and I decided to stay at my home server this time (Ruins of Surmia). Someone called Wurm is up in map chat so I thought give it another go. Ugh, now that was something different. There was only 2 of us, or maybe 3 after some time. Nevertheless the fight was epic – now I was fully aware of what was going on. But we were not able to succeed. I wonder if there is a good balance (many or few players I mean)…

The transfer fee is disgustingly wrong. It punishes new players the most who are typically not to change servers to win in WvWvW, but would like simply to gather with their friends or realize too late that they picked the wrong server – which is very easy to do btw. If I remember right the only information I had on the “choose your home server” page was NA/EU and list of established guilds. I also remember I was encouraged not to choose a very populated server.

I wonder can you join a cross-server guild? I guess not, but I’m still not familiar with the significance of guilds anyway.

The intention to deter people from server-changing with the price will backfire. If I’m stuck on a dead server I’ll rather just stop playing then pay significant money just to have another try.

The “you can pay once and have all your characters transferred” argument is false. Because in reality your existing characters are holding you hostage on your dead server: you can not even start again on another server with a new alt.

Guesting is limited 2 times per 24h which is also ridiculous because they will boot you from the game because of updates, and then you need to guest again.

It’s also factitious that all the people who are defending the fee did have the opportunity to transfer freely before until they found their ideal place. And now they deny this from the newcomers.

All in all, I demand free server transfer!

Yesterday I tried the Desolation server. It might have been just luck but I encountered many people, yay! Though everyone disappeared around midnight.

The more I think about it the the less I can accept the lack of free server transfer.
This is utterly, blatantly bad design. Actually this is being close to a business fraud!
Seriously. I payed for the game. The game is MMO, thus it requires other people to provide gaming experience it promised when I bought it.
I can accept the need for separate servers due to hardware limitations but in all honesty who plays in what fraction in a WvWvW battle is a logical thing. It has nothing to do with hardware implementation on a logical level. There might even be multiple GW2 servers run by a single piece of hardware. And while I know nothing of the actual set up, I know that with today’s technology it is entirely possible.
So it is not my responsibility as a customer to make sure there are actually people playing on my “server”. The thought that I need to again pay money so that I indeed have multiple players around me in a game which is advertised as an MMO game is absurd. I’m really offended by this unfair business attitude!

Thank you for the kind replies!
What concerns me is that I read (I know I know too much reading…) bosses are gradually buffed at many places patch after patch to appeal better to lvl 80 guys wandering around. Problem is this will cut new players’ progress making leveling significantly more difficult. “Living world” temporary dungeons only make this worst I guess.
I just found out that apparently the server I picked (basically randomly – I was eager to play and I didn’t know I was going to get stuck there), “Ruins of Surmia” is selected by some people to be a WvWvW focused server, where they “will do everything in our power to reject the PvE guilds that will want to get Surmia, and at the stubborn ones we promise to do everything possible to ruin their game” – Why thank you guys! That’s really nice of you! /facepalm
I’ll try out a few servers via “guesting” – I’ll hopefully find out quickly how to do that. Then it seems I’ll need to delete my character /sigh

Hi all!
I’m very new to this game. I like it so far but I’m already developing some alarming thoughts. Am I too late to the party?
About me real short: I’m a casual player, I’m 33, have work, family, I’m simply unable to dedicate much time to any game. I’d just like to have some fun. For example I really liked Torchlight 2. My english is ok, but I’m not using TS.
I watched the Angry Review of this game and while I do enjoy it I don’t feel the same euphoria.
I play a sylvari ranger. Sylvari because I love elves and they are the closest to them in this game. Though I have grown to love their plant life form and they newness in the world. I read going ranger may not have been a too lucky choice. So far so good though, but I’m only lvl 12.
I like exploring the world but I’m a little bit at loss about what’s happening around me. For example my personal story required me to go far into unknown (to me) land. As I go I’m suddenly required to kill off some creatures I’ve never seen before, turns out it’s in favor of some other kind of creatures I’ve never seen either. By the time I reach (the already dead) quest giver (pardon me, heart owner) I’m knee deep into the quest.
Also most of the events are really hard (for me) to solo. And I keep unintentionally popping all these events by my solo presence. Or, last time a bunch of us (supposedly new) players spontaneously gathered around a boss but we were still hopelessly unable to defeat it. It was the “transformed something witch” boss that had a “pull” ability to teleport you next to it self from quite far and then one shot you once you’re near. Are we supposed to have way more (say, like 20) players for some of the events?
And then there are those interesting fights when you are transformed into a tiny crab/drake/jelly fish and are supposed to somehow beat a huge version of the same monster.
I read I should switch to a better populated server like Tarnished Coast. But I refuse to pay for that. Basically I can’t even create a new character there until I delete my current one here? That’s flat out outrageous IMO. Plus I suspect that’s a NA server. Any European corresponding server? Also, what’s a RP server like? I like RP-ing though I fear my english may not be good enough.