Guild Wars 2

Hammer + Mace / Shield is an amazing weapon set and as long as you chain your abilities correctly, you can be davastating on all maps except Khylo (too many 1v1 / 2v2’s there).

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That is my spec, you need to try to position yourself at any and all 2v2’s and higher. You will really shut down alot of people by chaining your abilites.

Ok so, I understand people are upset that Anet promised no grind except for vanity gear.

What I dont understand is how people say they cant get gear at all at 80. So you cant be full exotic the minute you hit 80, big whoop. Anyone can go to the TP and buy the green level 80 stuff of their choice, with the stats they want, and only be a few stats below exotic gear. The difference in damage is so low that you will probably never even notice it in a dungeon.

I don’t agree with the wild prices on some of the karma gear, especially the racial karma gear and believe those should be adjusted accordingly.

The exchanging Karma for gold was an exploit, no matter any way you want to put it. The people who purchased 10 or even 20 weapons didnt get banned, there were people buying thousands and having hundreds of gold because of this. You cant tell me they didnt know they were doing something wrong.

People need to stop playing the," Oh I didnt know it was wrong so I did it thousands of times" card.

And honestly, drop the cash shop crap. What items in this game that are a total necessity that require the use of the cash shop? What items can you buy with the cash shop that you couldnt just farm some events or do WvW or gather some mats?
So people wanna drop 300$ on gems, who really cares, they can buy their exotics, which are marginally better than the green versions and go do the same dungeons, at the same difficulty, spending the same time to get the vanity gear.

Maybe people dont understand, youre not really supposed to grind dungeons for tokens for the stats on the gear, crafted gear is so easily obtainable that the only reason to grind dungeons is either for looks or maybe money, but that was nerfed.

I think arenanet is doing their best to give us a game that is enjoyable. The more you kitten and whine, the less that gets done. So the game isnt completely perfect at release, what MMO ever was? What MMO in existence never had any bug or patch updates fixing things.

I can agree with some of Stratto’s points, mainly the karma and gold prices of some gear. I still don’t see this game as much of a grind unless you want vanity gear, you are just as powerful as anyone who would ever buy gems at 80. So they dont want you to get 7-9 bars of your level every dungeon run and they want you to experience the world some, it isnt as bad as you claim. I feel you are trying to vilify the company that is working hard to make their game fun and not giving them the credit to try to do something different.

Do you not think there were people like you on this long journey that told them “This is a horrible way to do things and it will never work”, but here we are, most of us anyway, enjoying the game that a lot said would never work. Have some faith in Anet, this is their baby, I dont think they will let it rot and not nurture it.