Guild Wars 2

MiniEquine.6014:

If you really don’t enjoy it, why do you play? Your last statement is truthful though. Finding a group of people to play with will make your experience far more fun. Again, this is the same with all MMOs.

Don’t ask me. I got bored of WoW and I can’t find anything good so I lurk around here.

All of your “counterarguments” could be rephrased as “ANet decided it’s gonna be like that, so it is like that and there is nothing left to say”. The fact that they designed the game in a certain way doesn’t mean it should be left without criticism.

Downstate ruins pvp for me. It empowers massive blobs of players to a point of ridiculousness. It makes killing people harder for range characters cause they can’t come close to finish them off. It strongly pushes me to pick stability or stealth just for the finisher. It makes 1vX much harder, even if the opponents are not doing much besides auto attacking you. Lastly, I feel it’s just unnecessary and doesn’t bring anything into the game. 9/10 times I get downed, I am dead anyways.

If they wanted to give more diversity they could’ve just removed stats from trait lines. As it is now I can’t make hybrid specs. Feels like they are trying to set the meta in stone so it’s easier to balance for their e-sport dream.

Didn’t see the courtyard map. What I’ve seen is rank farm all over the place wnich I forgot to mention in my previous post. This should not be a thing.

I know you CAN survive in pvp. But the thing is that I don’t think that with fully defensive build I should be getting crit for >30% of my total hp.

Anyways what I’ve said is my personal opinion about few points in the game. The fact that you, or someone you know didn’t share my problems doesn’t change my point.

Also tried to get into it, yet again.

- still same pve meta (berserker, stack together and zerg)
- still same pvp meta (conditions, bunkers, tons of mobility)
- downstate still here lol (forcing me to pick stability or stealth in pvp)
- wvw empty, and even when it isn’t there is hardhly any pvp in there
- edge of the mists (new pvp map) is just a karma farm train
- reduced build diversity (no hybrid builds anymore)
- still forced to pick healing and elite skill, why for gods sake?
- added ascended items because gw2 has no power creep
- gold insanely devalued, skins cost up to few thousands of gold (gw2 has no grind lol)
- spvp still only capture the point, no deathmatch so far and no plans for it…
- world pvp servers still not here because community doesn’t want to be ganked lol, but when I level the zones are empty or full of lvl 80 people
- world bosses still massive health sack for no reason
- ridiculous burst in pvp, tried stacking defenses and still got crit for 8k on my ranger
- new skins only come through gems, even tho they launching a paid expansion
- recent drama with booster remake, some people simply got ripped off their old ones
- account security still absurd, can’t disable e-mail authentication without support help, still need my CD-key for anything support related, just ridiculous
- chest reward spam, getting like 5-10 chest rewards with useless, non salvagable crap that is flooding my bags

I also dislike the community. It’s a mix of ex-WoW players that now hate everything that reminds them of that game, white knights that keep saying the game is perfect, role players, and tryhards that flame you for no reason. Tho that’s quite typical for MMOs.

SO many people are saying the game is good and all, but I got no idea where is that coming from.

If you really want to get into it, despite all that, find some people to play. Anything can be fun with the right bunch of people.

Sup, I recently came back to gw2 hoping that things have changed and I am kind of clueless. I thought about rolling a new character so I need a few tips. I tried to look through forums for some informations but everyone says something else :|

1. Currently I was messing with my ranger, what class should I reroll so that a warrior with healing signet doesn’t outheal my dps while still doing more damage then I do? I want to play something with high mobility aswell. I like to kite things. I can kite warriors for over a minute, yet they just don’t die. Even with poison debuff. Or maybe I am doing something wrong on my ranger?

2. Is there any point in playing any other spec then full glass cannon in dungeons? And please don’t tell me to play whatever I like :P I like to be useful

3. I currently have 10 gold. Should I just grind CoF till my eyes bleed in order to be able to buy runes of strenght and exotics once I get to 80?

4. How does one distinct mesmer from his clones? I asked some people around but all I got was “lol l2p scrub”.

That is pretty much it. Thank you in advance.

Sup, I decided to check gw2 out (again) with a hope that with the whole living story 2 and megaservers something changed. And looks like when it comes to pve, nothing changed.

In short : zerker is a full glass cannon build, and it is the only build people need in pve. Every class has to stack in one place, get a weapon with AoE auto attack and just sit there and watch the mob go down. That is basically it for regular dungeons. Make sure to grind useless anchievements or people won’t invite you to groups because for some reason they require certain amount of anchievement points.

I like ascended stuff but I don’t feel like crafting thus I don’t care about ascended weapons. Easy isn’kitten

God yes please. It is one of the main factors that make combat and pve boring.

It makes stacking in place profitable.

It makes zergs profitable.

It promotes glass cannon berserker meta.

It is why stealth stomps annoy you so much.

Just remove it already and make the game better. Anyone who is defending downstate is probably abusing it. Remove it from pvp spvp pve, get rid of it.

I tried teq 3 times.

Could be fun with a guild-only run in an empty overflow.

Instanced content any1?

No, because a scheudled boss that spawns every X hours and stands in place watching as you kill him feels just so alive.

/sarcasm off

Mathias.9657:

You should be able to convince yourself by asking one simple question, do you enjoy those classes? If yes, play them. If not, don’t play them.

I don’t understand all this massive QQ over the class trinity – yes it’s there, but you can choose not to use it. Just like in GW1 you could choose not to use PVX builds.

I’m completely fine on my thief and clear content with ease with my guildies.

1) I have the best blast finishers on SB)
2) I have excellent AoE
3) I have perma AoE blind
4) I can stealth the group
5) I have basically infinite dodges/evades so going full glass is not a problem for me.

What you said is basically “YES, some classes are way more powerful than others, but it is not a problem, just don’t play them if u don’t like it”.

Honestly…. are you stupid?

Also pardon me but no dungeon in this game requires any specific team composition. Maybe except fractals. Your blinds/stealths or any other excuse is useless when we can just walk past the trash mobs and zerg the boss in seconds.

Reasons for leaving

1. Downstate and horrible pvp overall

2. WvW being a PvE zergfest

3. Lack of build diversity

4. Lack of PvE challenges

How to fix

1. remove downstate

2. make WvW more of a small skirmishes pvp experience instead of grinding NPCs in empty castles

3. Start listening to the community or play the kitten game AT LVL 80. It is easy to see what needs a desperate buff/nerf.

4. Either instanced hardmode content WITH COSMETIC ONLY REWARDS SO THE CASUALS DON’T QQ or redesign legendaries/ascended staff – make them challenging to get, not just time consuming.

Instead of “defeat X boss 100 times” please “defeat X boss without getting hit” or within a minute, or without using healing skills, or without dodging, or defeat him after taking 100 000 damage. Use the brain.

It takes time.

And that’s good lets hope the new fractals or ascended gear or anything in general won’t be an auto attack spam in zerker gear or a crafting to-do grind list.

I lurk around the forums and spread hatred.

When update hits I quickly browse the patch notes looking for a miracle, then I log in and log out disappointed after 2 hours.

Naus the Gobbo.5172:

moiraine.2753:

Korossive.7085:

Naus the Gobbo.5172:

“Looking for more, VOA. 5k GearScore, link achievement! No more hunters”

Of all of you, only this guy put it in simple. A direct WoW quote to show the rotten dmg meter discrimination.

In my WoW time:
“LFM BWL, after hall 3 low dps kicked”

GW2 in future:
“LFM ping gear, pre boss fights lowest dmg kicked from group”

Bad already with:
“LFM 48 55ar guards only!!!!!11111”

Scr3w damage meters.

WRF are you talking about?I specifically stated in my OP persona dmg meter.Something that can’t be seen by others

I does not matter if it’s for personal use only.

Within a few months people will have determined the best builds and professions and then it will be put on a website. And once that website goes live it will become common knowledge.
And once it is common knowledge that x profession isn’t up to par with the others it is bye bye to invites of any activity that requires a certain amount of damage.

What you are talking about is no longer a DPS-meter issue. It is called class balance and it is non existant in gw2.

personal dps meters pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaase

Yaki.9563:

Przemek.6835:

Dante.1508:

Because Zergs are easy in easy out type game play, you join when you want to get your loot (carrots) then leave when you feel like it, you don’t affect anyone else.

Raids require coordination, setting up, getting everyone online at the right times etc and can be huge hassles and commitments, not to mention massive dramas..

That’s my take on why the latter doesn’t work at least in GW2.

Lies. Look at WoW LFR system. Join, faceroll easy mode content, get loot.

You can join LFR for 5 mins and get loot? Including the VP which is the grind currency of WoW? Also in LFR you get to enjoy the pleasure of face-numbing trash before each boss. The joys!

Open world raids have been the only kind of raiding that has been any good, ever (ok I’ll admit I had a blast doing Karazhan 10-man, but that’s closer to a 5-man than the typical raiding monstrosity). The open world feels “real”. Instances feel fake. If GW2 was based around raiding for end-game loot I would not be playing.

A dragon that stands still in one place waiting for your zerg to auto attack spam him to death feels real for you? Oh boy…

Grinding tokens in WoW? You will do the raid few times for boss drops and by that time you will most likely have enough tokens for whatever you want.

I also like how you deleted the most important part of my post and referred only to the first sentence.

Cool.

Oh almost forgot the “face numbing thrash”. The thrash is just as hard as your GW2 BOSSES XD. I remember raiding in tbc and wotlk, by the time everyone was ready for 1st boss there were always few that cleared thrash so the rest doesn’t have to waste time

Dante.1508:

Because Zergs are easy in easy out type game play, you join when you want to get your loot (carrots) then leave when you feel like it, you don’t affect anyone else.

Raids require coordination, setting up, getting everyone online at the right times etc and can be huge hassles and commitments, not to mention massive dramas..

That’s my take on why the latter doesn’t work at least in GW2.

Lies. Look at WoW LFR system. Join, faceroll easy mode content, get loot.

It is there for players like GW2 casual white-knights that like spamming 1 for worthless loot. Although people QQed and said wow is ruined “cause free epics” when LFR was implemented.

Here we have only LFR-difficulty content. Imo raids are needed.

eisberg.2379:

Mesket.5728:

moiraine.2753:

Mesket.5728:

A damage meter will just show how unbalanced classes are.

Its better to keep the ilusion.

I won’t mind at all if it is working only in the Mists where are the dummies.But atleast we will have something…

I would like to have something for my personal improvement and testing as well but judging by the stupid elitism around the forums revolving around DPS I believe it will do more harm than good to the game and specially to the community and casual players (who btw, have little to no voice in the forums).

Plus it would make people focus on DPS more than they already do now, and everybody should be doing more then just DPS. As far as I am concernced, if you are focusing on making your damage as high as possible, you are being useless to the group because there are many other things a player should be doing.

No lol. ATM there is nothing that would require anything than maximizing dps and ability to dodge.

Mesket.5728:

A damage meter will just show how unbalanced classes are.

Its better to keep the ilusion.

This a 1000 times.

And please no “who cares about PVE balance u can kill the mob anyways”.

The posts in this topic make my eyes bleed.

You are all acting like if you can’t have a big-party instanced challenge dungeon without gear grind.

I would be glad to have a raid in gw2 that awards us just with skins or anchievements. But not the “kill X boss 10000 times”. I would like them to look like “kill X boss under Y conditions”. And the bosses would have to be hella hard.

Greatsword necro ANet pls.

I don’t care what WoW haters say, I want to make a fearsome death knight :p

Necros even have skills and passive to support MELEE playstyle. A lot of them. I dont wan’t to shoot lazors like mesmers do.

Melee range greatsword WITH CLEAVE. Thanks.

Sanduskel.1850:

They missed one. Allowing scrub builds like permastealth. I agree that doing things that appeal only to the elitists but are required is horrific – ascended garbage.

Didn’t even need to read the first post.

Yours clearly shows that this topic will soon become the casuals QQ mekka.

stop begging for expansion, it is all over the place and not just in gw2 forums

whats up with all this “blah blah blah expansion today, tomorrow another one”

stop this

saden.6942:

Whenever I’m in WvW I see…well I will rank what classes I see:

1) Warrior
2) Thief
3) Engineer
4) Ranger, Guardian
5) Necromancer
6) Mesmer, Elementalist

Oh, really? Glad to hear that. What world is that? Mesmer is so annoying to play against that he is one of the main reasons I stay away from pvp :|

From what I have seen it is

1) warrior guardian
2) ranger mesmer thief
3) necro ele
4) engineer

Karizee.8076:

Don’t listen to the hyperbole, they’ve added tons of content to the game. Fractals, Guild Missions, the new Twilight Arbor dungeon, the Tequatl open world raid, jumping puzzles, mini games, new pvp maps, custom arenas, spectator modes and more.

Only stuff that doesn’t make sense for you to do now as part of the Living Story was “removed”. For instance, a couple months back there was an election held ingame for the next council member which also ties in to future content releases. The vote was held, the councilmember decided, it would not make sense for you to participate in a past election.

Many things rotate in and out, like the Super Adventure Box (we just had the 2nd release of it), Labyrinthe Cliffs zone will be coming back and a couple post-launch dungeons that were part of Living Story will be coming back as Fractals later this year.

Start here if you are just coming back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ce_dvXJercI

A quick explaination

- fractals : a bunch of dungeons that scale endlessly with each level, no new rewards after first few levels, if you intend to reach the higher levels u will need a stable 5 man organised group, if not you can just faceroll the first few with berserker warrior and get rewarded for nothing, enjoy

- guild missions are either running after one mob around the whole map or annoying mini games like jumping puzzles or guild races enjoy again

- new TA patch is not bad

- tequatl is A RAID BOSS, IN AN OPEN WORLD XD, have fun getting thrown into an overflow, that is if your world manages to down tequatl, else the event is empty enjoy guesting

- more mini games…. enjoy the facebook-like mini game distractions I guess?

- pvp is horrible wvw is a zergfest

- but there are a lot of anchievements to grind for (like kill 100,000 risen) ENJOY

I dont know about PVP because it is just so horrible like underwater combat so I avoid it like a plague.

In pve I tend to see eles quite often.

Why all eles are such drama queens?

Nybor.9687:

Let me set this straight, once again. My point is, it’s fine to make constructive feedback about things your not happy with, but to make whiny posts about how the game as a whole is failing or going downhill is just complete rubbish and that’s what brings the negatively. ANet appreciate feedback, they don’t appreciate people telling them the game they have worked so hard with and continue to do so is failing, when it isn’t.

Since few months there are constant concstructive complaints about many things. Like conditions, and they are still not fixed.

Why would we keep spamming same topics and arguments when the issue is simply ignored. Meanwhile with such problems we have spvp tournament. Still trying to force this game into esport category?

Well ur opinion is that the game is good, and u seem to think that it is okay to express your opinion in this topic.

Why are you trying to tell me that expressing negative opinion is not good?

In my and many others opinion game is not good. It is natural that people will let you know if they don’t like something. Don’t expect people to just move on without a word.

To me you are just another casual white-knight gw2 fanboy. No criticism allowed, the game is perfect in every aspect. All praise ANet.

Probably only a few dungeon paths with a group of people that don’t stuck in place to zerg but actually play the game.

Just wait one more year. Be patient.

SCRIPT ALL THE CHAIRS, MUGS, BENCHES AND WHATEVER ANET PLEASE.

That is one great way to make the game exciting !

I can’t even count how many times I wanted to pick up a mug from tavern and climb up on a tree to drink it there. Why can’t I do it here? ANet pls.

Yeah sure. Let’s give them uhh… 5 minutes respawn time.

I am sure doing same event every 5 minutes will never get you bored. Or wreck the economy.

You are like a child that would eat as much candies as he can.

Karizee.8076:

Przemek.6835:

In gw2 you stay in place and watch the auto attack animation while drinking coffe.

SOOO ACTIVE.

Go into a dungeon with that kind of playstyle and you will be destroyed.

Oh thanks for reminding me about easy mode dungeons that thiefs solo naked.

I have never been to a dungeon, thanks man I will make sure to try them.

/sarcasm off

Jski.6180:

As a bit of advices look at the ppl who are posting negative things about this game past post you will find that they ONLY post negative things that what these forums are used for and nothing but.
Any way GW2 is not WoW so it will take time to get use to GW2 agen you must be active and not sit there and hit the same buttons in a set way over and over. To get the fullness of GW2 you need a guild you need an active guild who talks. If you just go though this game completing every thing with out talking and making friends your lost and far better off playing a single player game.
The nice thing in GW2 there is a lot of easy in being to play with whom you want and doing what event. You can make a pt of any class comp you can run with lower level often you can run with ppl who have better or wost gear and not be for the worst off because of it. If you got to be the best gear every GW2 is not for you. I think this may be your biggest leap from WoW to GW2.

Ahaha nice joke. In WoW doing damage involves usual rotation (4-6 buttons) and random procs that require you to adjust.

In gw2 you stay in place and watch the auto attack animation while drinking coffe.

SOOO ACTIVE.

The game is boring and it looks like ANet has no idea how to fix it.

If you want another guild wars, go play more gw1.

Else stick to wow.

Here once you get to 80 you will have literally NOTHING to do. You will log in and than be like “wat now”. Unless you enjoy following the brainless zerg train in every part of the game. Then the game is perfect for you.

Horrible suggestions 0/10, except downstate removal.

Remove downstate please. It is pointless, annoying and not fun.

If you don’t want to do dailies, don’t do them.

If you don’t want to min-max your gear don’t work for ascended items. The skins that I like are pretty easy to get. After I buy them off trading post for 10 silver total there would be nothing more to do. Leave small and slow vertical progression for the ones that enjoy it.

Don’t act like everyone is like you. When I log in I know what I feel like doing and I just do it. I don’t care about anything else and you too shouldn’t because we all play for fun.

And the most important point, don’t act like it is all easy to implement. You can’t just say blah blah add more dungeons skills events. It takes time.

I judge people by the forums obviously because they are the ones that I am referring to. The pseudo casuals that spam QQ ascended/manifesto topics.

Think about what I have said again. It is clear that I got nothing against true casuals. The problem is with the ones that spread the hatered via forums. Their philosophy is “we can have fun but you cant, take your fun out of our game”.

The casuals are the plague of this game.

They don’t want to work for ascended wnich is fine but they act like they can’t play the game without it wnich brainwashes the rest of the community.

You were enjoying the game before fractals and ascended stuff? You can still do it. There is no reason to take them away from those that enjoy them.

You are not a casual if you want to work for ascended items. You may not have the time for it because of real life stuff, but don’t act like you play the game only for fun and not for the rewards because there are both of these in-game atm and there is a choice that is only up to you.

Meili Ying.3820:

Przemek.6835:

Since when giving some people a reward at the end of an activity is considered bad?

I mean… wtf.

Rewards for everything —> Sense of Entitlement --> Players wanting loot more than fun.

I’m not saying that rewards should not be included, its just that rewards shouldn’t be the focus of gameplay.

Uhmm no? If you get a reward for everything then the value of reward starts to go down because everyone can get it. Common sense.

Anyways what’s the diffrence? Would you play the game that is not fun but has shiny rewards?

If people play then they obviously enjoy it. Either the way they anchieve said reward or the reward itself.

Since when giving some people a reward at the end of an activity is considered bad?

I mean… wtf.

You enjoy something? You do it. And additionally you get an extra shiny stuff for it.

What is the problem lol.

Ohhh noooo… some guild requires exotic gear. Man this is SOOO HARD to get. I few dungeons + gold from leveling will get you to full exotic. Who has time for this? It takes ages. And the dungeons… oh man, spamming auto attack button is WAY TOO HARDCORE.

And don’t forget that you cannot just join the battle with no gear at all and try to leech off the ones that are actually doing their job in defeating tequatl.

NO. To be successfull in this game you absolutely NEED ascended gear. ANet please remove stats from all items in the game so we can all be equal and happy.

/sarcasm off

1. I think spvp is fine, although downstate is annoying and unnecessary. I often find myself just dpsing people in downstate till their death because I don’t have an oppurtunity to finish them off.

2. WvW needs to be less zergy. Huge battles are fun, but not when they are the only battles. Atm WvW feels like champion farming, with occasional reset if you meet a bigger enemy zerg and they wipe you.

3. Living story is k I dunno what is your problem with that. There could be a challenge to each part of it like the gauntlet but overall I think living story is great and unique.

Overall pve needs to be less about dodge and more about… well… other stuff.

Cool stuff I like the current direction of this game, don’t get distracted by all the forum QQ about whatever you have done to the GW2 it isn’t a WoW/Korean MMO clone and it will never be.

As for the future of class and pvp balancing I would like to see two things :

- greatsword or other 2h weapon on necro so we can go melee with cleave mechanic and wreck people’s faces

- a shapenshift mechanic for ranger cause that is also a popular thing in MMOs and many people miss that

- and for the love of god do something with zerging, I joined WvW for the first time in today and it was AMAZINGLY fun till I realized how does it work, all I had to do was to follow the mass of people spamming my swiftness and auto attack at whoever came close

there was nothing I could do alone or in a small group of few friends, always a zerg came along and wiped the floor with us

the big problem in my opinion is the downstate mechanic, wnich gives the bigger groups in small skirmishes an enourmous adventage both in wvw and spvp, I feel like it was unnecessary, it is not fun to use nor to play against

That… or you can just enable world pvp. I mean, you have a massive, living and changing world. There could be a immune buff to any1 who is in an dynamic’s event range so people don’t troll each other. But other than that I see no reason to keep pvp off the world.

You could make missions from vigil/whispers/priory NPCs to find and kill members of other fractions. Simply because each one of them wants to be dominant in the pact and they don’t want others to have too much power.

Thank you for reading and have a nice day.

Limit skipping in the dungeons? Atm it is insane, sometimes people just run from boss to boss, or skip a whole boss, or skip 90% of trash mobs.

It would also stop complains in general discussion forums, like “everyone is looking the same” topics.

Oh yeah the “you dont have to” attitude.

Amazing approach to any idea. You don’t have to pve, pvp, do dungeons, events, get legendaries, look cool. You don’t even have to play the game. It is perfect, has no flaws, and needs no improvements. If I don’t like it it is not for me yea?

Dude I don’t mind a gold sink. Let that skin storage be separate for every character and let every skin unlock cost some gold.

THERE IS NOTHING TO DO HERE BESIDES CHASING FOR GOOD LOOKS. I want to have a few pvp and pve builds because ANet said there is a build diversity here so there is nothing wrong if I get bored with one thing and switch gear to play another one yea? And if I switch from berserker build to full tank build I don’t want to look half naked with lot’s of spikes n stuff, got it? The point is why do I need to keep A TON of items around me to do that? As they say, customisation and looks is the goal and core of this game so why is it so messed? It should be easily manageable… Seriously there is already enough things to make me buy additional bank slots, skins won’t make a diffrence.

If you already ask, I thought about it when trying out new ranger build. I have been playing a full glass cannon one previously. Everything was berserker. Now I went melee and wanted to balance the gear a bit, and I realized that in this non grindy, cosmetic oriented game I have to grind a tanky jawellery, tanky weapons and on top of that another (2nd) set of berserker armor if I want to have a diffrent look for diffrent build, and I don’t want to abandon my old one forever.

This game is centered around cosmetics isn’t it?

It is also laballed as “casual friendly and not grindy”.

That being said, I want to get a second set of gear for my character. The stats on most items are the same, but if I will transmute them into other item the previous skin is gone.

My idea is the following :

when you obtain an item you unlock a skin in your skin storage, the skins still needs a transmutation stone but when you transmute it the skin is not used. That way we don’t have to keep a ton of items of diffrent stats and skins and constantly re-farm them when we use them on a new outfit.

It was a bit hard to explain but I hope it is understandable. =)
Is something like this possible? Are devs working on this? As for now, the whole transmuting is messy and unpracticable. Ty.

Your example of riot games as a bad company fails hard.

1. The reason why LoL is so popular (far more than gw2) is that there is always a goal to play for. You want a champion, or some runes, or higher position in ranked system.

2. They relase patches, champions, skins, artwork showcases, tournaments and many other things EVERY WEEK. While ANet does something once a month. Any crucial bugs are insta fixed, the rest is patched within a week or two. 7800s champions after a week or two drop to 6300, additionally they reduce price of 2 older champions sometimes.

3. No, just no. You are horribly wrong here I am not even going to explain that. What was op when relased? When? You probably got stomped by someone with new champion that you don’t know how to play against and you already QQ. How about gw2’s balance? HOW LONG do warriors, guardians and mesmers are kings of pve?? How long thiefs and mesmers facerolled everyone in spvp?? Ha? Are they working on it? Are they balancing these issues? Maybe. But you won’t see a fix in MONTHS. Also our skill tooltips are inaccurate, few weapon’s for certain classes and active skills are totally useless since relase. GW2’s classes are unpolished and need a lot of work, on the other side we got riot that relases completly new champion every month, mostly without bugs, and without any need for nerf or buff.

4. Because you don’t pay to download the game and play. You know that running a f2p game is kinda… less profitable than running a massive MMO yea? XD and on top of that we got prizes in tournaments, skin sales, champion sales and free RP reward for playermade tournaments.

5. Pay to win my *. I and many other players are high rated and play without any problems with just 2 default rune pages.

That being said, bye. ANet has much to work on to be on pair with riot.

In WoW gear is a reward for your skill so you can show off and u don’t have to play at ur best vs easier players/dungeons. In gw2 u don’t get more power as a reward. There IS a dungeon scaling in difficulty if you are looking to test ur skills (because that’s called endgame no?) or u can play spvp tournaments but pvp is really horrible here.

a) add more armor skins
b) Let us store them like in Spvp

From my PoV there is no best class and there will never be one.

We don’t even have damage meters, no way to really check what do we bring to the party like in WoW where u have all these damage meters, the math behind everything u can see the numbers and just say this guy is worse because his class is doing less damage.

Just play what u like and than try to think how to perform the best.

Also keep in mind that ranged classes have a natural adventage over melees. With good positioning you don’t have to dodge, you don’t have to heal a lot and you focus on doing dmg. Also you don’t lose time to catch up to enemy. You keep the damage flowing.

Twaddlefish.6537:

TL;DR – Wanted WoW2.

So many WoW haters here. NOBODY WANTS WOW2. Nobody needs another wow clone, you know why? Because clone will always be worse than original. If people would like to play WoW, they would do it. Point is, as in every other thread like that

“The game is lacking any kind of depth, dungeons and world bosses are mindless zerg fest, player specs don’t change how do you play.”

and the likes of you still think that any change in any MMO, especially gw2 is based on WoW and is pretty much another step into making this game a WoW clone. Wtf.

Gathslan.1870:

This game is amazing and there is never a lack of things to do. You can find roles here just like in other MMOs and the strategies you speak off it just takes longer to figure out due to have different this MMO is.
Have fun in wow

And that post is just a one big lie.

As someone that finds most games easy mode, I am kinda jelly. I miss the times where I didn’t understand much and every day was full of discovery and improvement.