Guild Wars 2

Blaine Tog.8304:

I 100% agree with the OP.

I love the combat system in this game. Even when encounters are horribly designed (thanks to things like Defiant, the preponderance of one-kitten kills, and invisible damage sources), I still have fun because of how vibrant and slick the combat system is.

I love the little touches all over the place in this game too. Like the two Asura brothers trying to make perfume from Harpy glands in Blazeridge Steppes, or this one dialogue between two NPCs in Ascalon Settlement. I love walking around and stumbling into a what was clear a labor of love from the devs.

I love the lore, the history, the professions, the graphics, I even love running dungeons.

When Ascended gear was first announced, I was livid. I even quit the game for a while. But then we had the Laurel system and I thought, hey, this isn’t too bad. I can just do my dailies and my monthlies (which I did anyway) and I can slowly but surely gear up at least my main. I don’t have to prepare to have fun, I can still just have fun.

But this… no, this is too much. I’m not going to put myself through weeks and weeks of grunt-work, grind, and massive gold expenditure just to get one slightly better weapon, then do it all over again 20-30 times to gear up my alts as well.

Because what I loved most about Guild Wars was how it had absolutely no grind requirements. Gearing up your first character may have been a bit tricky but all your subsequent characters was dead easy. Getting max-level gear and weapons took hardly any effort at all, and then you could go on to just play the game however you wanted. You played the game to have fun, but just because you needed bigger numbers.

I had thought GW2 was going to maintain that tradition, you know, because they explicitly and repeatedly said it would. The new gearing system wasn’t as good as GW1’s system, but I thought, ok, this still isn’t that bad, I can still get Exotic gear for my characters without breaking my back too much. I can use Karma, or tokens, or Badges of Honor, stuff I’ve been banking anyway. Then I can use Transmutation Crystals to make it all look how I want. Cool.

But this… this spits all over that. The manifesto is obsolete; I don’t want to say it was a lie because maybe the devs really believed all those things they said about the game a year ago, but they clearly don’t anymore. Now they just want to trap us into grinding forever, into running champ trains for 8 hours at a time.

Pass. There are other games out there which allow me to have fun, rather than preparing to have fun.

I was originally just going to post one line about how I agree with the OP, but I guess I’m more disappointed in this game than I thought. The sad thing is, I’ve spent most of my time on the forums defending it from pessimists and whiners. I’m not a pessimistic person. I just can’t see a good way to spin this.

Agree 100%

Agree 100%. I did NOT purchase this game to do mindless grinding… If i did i would still be playing WoW or EQ2. Why can’t you idiots make more challenging content and not these kitten mini games shoved in our faces every 2 weeks… Its annoying. F this.. quitting and no you can’t have my stuff…

McWolfy.5924:

i use a 0/0/20/30/20 with shouts, staff. invaider armor/weapon, 4 altruism runes 2 monks and cleric jewels. traited for f2, everybody healed just because close to me, spam f1, use staff 4 for heal and might, dodge for heal spam shouts for buffs etc. tons of heal, buffs and u are nearby undestroyable.

This

Galtrix.7369:

I don’t feel a bond with any of my characters, because I feel like I’m forced to play in berserker’s gear with a specific weapon for each class. Examples: My elementalist pretty much had to play D/D because it was the only viable build at the time D/D was popular. After D/D was over, Anet buffed the staff a bit, so now staff is pretty much the only viable option for Elementalist. Same with my Ranger. I wanted to play with a longbow so badly, but it got nerfed into the ground so I had to play with the shortbow, no matter how much I disliked using it.

This is what is preventing me from bonding with any of my characters. The lack of paths I can take to customize my character. I feel like I could have spent millions of hours customizing my character in WoW because there was so much armor to choose from. SO MUCH! I admit, I was very disappointed when I came to Guild Wars 2 and there wasn’t much armor at all to choose from.

But it’s not just the armor, it’s the fact that I could choose to be a tank, a healer, or a dps in WoW, but I feel like Anet has reduced this to strictly Dps or nothing. I honestly feel like I could bond a lot more with my characters if I could 1) Customize my armor A LOT more. 2) Actually choose how I can play my character. 3) Actually be able to choose a class role. I realize that Anet wanted to move away from class roles, and I hate to say this, but it’s just not working. Sure it’s more of a challenge, but it defeats the purpose of working in a group when you’re all dps and die easily.

If these things were done, I’d feel more of a bond with my character.

This^^ Nor do I feel a bond with other players in this game by its design, which I miss with other MMOs.

Thank you for the time and effort put into this. I hope anet reads this….

Ranger hands down overall….

kitten with the whole tired Ranger isn’t an archer argument….Its old. Anyone unfamiliar with the game WILL roll a Ranger thinking he’s the “unparalleled archer” that it states which clearly is not the case as other classes can do the job better. I dont give a kitten if they CAN use 2 bows.. a warrior CAN easily/effortlessly out damage them from “Range” still…. Some of you trolls should be lawyers I swear.

I was sooooo in the dark, not having played some of the other classes in dungeons until recently and WOW…. I now realize there’s nothing a ranger brings to the table!! Meh Chopps your a cool guy but they screwed us pretty bad….

Why did they do this to our class………. good thing this game is free to play. :-/

I’m all for reduced damage as long as my pets can survive when I’m chain swapping pets. I cant tell my pet to dodge an AOE…or stay on the mob in the state of the game now half the time kiting. The f2 skills are not instant cast. I have no choice but to rely on this NPC for a large portion of my damage. Its pretty sad to see people looking for any class but us for fast dungeon runs. Maybe we should all just play warriors…

On a side note I have to say everyone pigeon holed in South shore is funny….. spread the love around everywhere!

I’ll add my 2 cents. Let people play the way they want! Some people who play this game tell me they hate the meta events because their PC just can’t handle it and its not fun.

Einlanzer.1627:

It’s very obvious that #1 skills on most ranged weapons need some re-tuning on their attack speeds vs. damage stats. It’s actually an across-the-board problem affecting almost everything, the only exceptions are the Rifle, the Ranger’s Shortbow, and the Mesmer’s Greatsword.

1. skills for Longbows, Pistols, Staffs, and Scepters across professions have a very slow rate of fire for the damage they do. Unsurprisingly, those sets tend to not get used very much. I don’t know what they’re smoking to have not addressed this yet.

I wouldn’t be that harsh about it but I do agree with this post

I just want to do my first post on this amazing game to tell the programmers your doing an amazing job for this FREE to play game. I’m sure your used to getting blasted if you read the forums for this and that but I think I speak for all the Rangers out there that this is a step in the right direction and we appreciate the love and feedback. Thank you for a wonderful job you do!