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Well it depends…
GW2 is for the most part the same animal. Some things have changed but they’ve stayed the same as well.
The only real addition to PVE are Raids, which I hear are actually pretty darn good. aside from that HoT introduces new maps with new collectibles but thats not new content, that’s just reskinned old content. If you’re tired of grinding open world meta events then the new HoT maps will not peak your interest.
I don’t play WvW much so I can’t tell you a lot. All I know is the WvW community is in uproar because of the changes (I have no idea what they are), and the very famous “WvW players love PVE” dev quote that seems to illustrate that the guys in charge of WvW are completely disconnected from reality. With that said I’m not at all surprise the WvW folks are mad.
They added League Ranking to PvP, but they completely botched the Implementation. Its really bad. Myself and many others wish they would just copy-paste a ranking system from another game that’s done it right, like DOTA or LoL, and just be done with it. But they insist on pushing their own brand and it’s not good. Maybe we’ll see some changes, who knows. The new elite specs are fun though, dragon hunter is a blast and revenant is totally OP. Hopefully that’l get balanced but who the hell knows really.
They’ve killed dungeons. They’re gone. If you enjoyed running dungeons(lol?) you cant anymore. In all my years of MMO’s I’ve never seen a company flat out stop supporting an in game device. It’s crazy and it scares me. What happens if they decide to stop supporting fractals lets say? I don’t know, its just really shakes the pillars of faith of lot of people had in Anet that they can just stop supporting a piece of their game like its nothing. With that said they said they want to move the farm from dungeons to fractals, so fractals are expected to get some buff (soon?) but again, who really knows. Anet is so tight lipped about their plans they might as well be wearing chastity belts. ATM theyve added some rewards which make grinding gold out of Fractals more viable and a time gated back piece, because we all love timegates.
Other than that It’s mostly the same game. Farm gold for your mats so you can farm collections and skins. Farm farm farm. With that said though somehow… I’m having fun? Maybe because I’ve been gone for a while so I’m not burned out anymore but I’m enjoying PvP (despite the fact that ranks are BROKEN with a capital BROKEN), I haven’t tried Raids yet but the fact that you now need some sort of soft tank and healer to do the raid content makes me harder than an oak wood. So I’m really excited for that. Aside from that I’m looking forward to the fractals development. If they can spruce up fractals, add some new ones, perhaps implement some of this tank healer functionality into fractals (although I doubt it), and balance up PvP a little I think this game will have pretty solid footing.
But for WvW guys I’m sorry… I think you’re all pretty screwed.