Guild Wars 2

Stormchoir.3276:

Chalk this up as another, possible, WoW player who has been handed everything to him/her. I could be wrong but in my experience that has been the case. You think the dungeons are hard for you? Learn how to adapt and overcome it instead of crying like a little girl. Game seems like work you say? Well you have two options, quit or suck it up and find ways to make the game better for you.

Pretty much this. It’s a mistake for people to insist on every game being tailored to their play style. Personally, I like having difficult content available through which I can obtain the more desirable items. This isn’t Farmville, where one succeeds by simply spending time at the keyboard and then showing off all their bling. It’s no coincidence that games like Farmville and the like are played with $0 investment by the player.

The thought of someone leaving work early to get their daily’s done just boggles my mind. Seriously? Why? If it’s that important to them, why is having to put a little effort into being able to be successful in dungeons something that pushes them over the edge??

I think I’d be more concerned with the first guild not being ok with it. By Paradox’s logic, there is no point in forming guilds in the first place – just keep a friends list.

Just speaking from my experience in other MMOs, my answer would be no. Sharing time between guilds is just that – sharing. It means that neither gets 100% of your time or commitment. Commitment is the whole concept behind a guild – not commitment except for when a better PvP squad comes along or commitment except for when some people you would rather be playing with log on.

It’s fine to have non-guild friends you like to play with, but they always need to take a back seat to guild members. That can’t be reconciled when two guilds are in play.

Lol, I’ve been trying to figure out what’s up with all the feline abuse going on in the forums, what with everyone talking about getting their “kitty” kicked. Now I get it, profanity filter. Lol.

My biggest problem is running a dungeon for the first time with players who have more experience with it, and having them run and gun from start to finish. Maybe I’ll be that way after I’ve gone through them a few times, but I like to at least enjoy the experience the first time or two through them.

It’s an age old MMO quandry – making content interesting enough for people to want to repeat it, and therefore making it feasible for new players to be able to get through it the first time.

This your first MMO, OP? That’s what known as getting “trained”. It’s a"problem" in most MMO’s. I say “problem” because I’ve seen games that prevent it, and to be quite honest, I’d rather have to deal with the possibility of it happening that play a game that isolates players from each other.

You just have to do what you can to avoid situations where it’s likely to happen, like staying off the beaten paths when you’re fighting.

I never heard the term “toon” used in MUDs. I’m sure it’s short for “cartoon” in reference to a graphical character on the computer screen.

It was coined by those folk who just can’t stand to be conventional – those who insist on calling wizards “wizzies”, rangers “ranjas”, shaman “shammies” and the like.

Didn’t anyone inform you that it’s lame not to refer to things by some made-up pop-culture term?