Casual player here these days, but also as someone who signed up for Everquest on Day 1 and played through it for years, then most recently playing LOTRO for awhile, I have to say I haven’t had that “epic” feel across the GW2 dungeons I’ve seen so far.
Now, I’ve only done CoF, AC, TA, and Fractals up to level 5, and there are some tough bosses. But still it’s only one group and it seems like everyone already has the strategy figured out long before the encounter starts. I’m not sure about Arah as it seems it’s so hard that folks don’t want to play it (chickens!)
Maybe it’s not possible due to game mechanics (instanced dungeons) or maybe that’s not where you want to go with the game, but I miss the feeling of a huge raid of several groups joining together to do something epic. There was nothing quite like requiring an entire server of guilds cooperate to get the bodies/classes needed (50-60 toons) to take down the likes of Nagafen, Vox, Kerafyrm, or Innoruuk. WvW comes close, but still that’s against other players and not lore of any sort. The Ancient Karka was really cool, but not that epic. So maybe it’s a combination of WvW mechanics and a Karka, dynamic type of PvE situation?
Thanks for listening and looking forward to many more great dungeon crawls!
