Guild Wars 2

Ambika.6257:

This is the kind of point of view that is not helpful. Most of the time the PvP and WvW requires some type of pvp action. While it may not seem like a big deal to you it is a big deal to other people.

Yep. This week it reminded me of a trial period of a game I played a while back. The game was all PVP, and it drops you into a lobby without concern for the number of players on each side, or the experience level of the players. So during the trial period, I found myself in a lobby with other level 1 players while the other team was made up of people 25 levels or more higher.

A gank-fest is only fun for the gankers, not the gankees. I don’t like PvP. Forcing PvE players into a mismatched WvW map just to do the daily because the other options were hopelessly messed up or broken = not fun. It penalizes PvE-only players if they want to get the full benefit of the dailies.

While we’re touching on dailies, the Event Completion dailies need to scale – what happens now is that a desperate zerg of players mows through events in numbers large enough that you can wind up never getting credit because the mobs evaporate that fast. The only challenge involved is trying to find events and get there in time to get enough damage in to get credit.

I used to look forward to the dailies. Now I am not so enthused. I happen to like jumping puzzles. It’s sort of a zen thing for me… except when several dozen players with all kinds of vanity gear, wings, pets and minis are trying to zerg up the puzzle all together. Camera angles can be challenging under normal circumstances on jp’s – it just gets crazy at that point on some of them.

One this week you needed not just to complete the jumping puzzle, but find hidden orbs and unlock chests. Dozens of players just stopped in the middle of the puzzle to go look up the location of the orbs online, making it difficult at times to see where to jump.

I gave up and went to do the daily activity. It was broken. The NPC never responded. They used to work, but since the changes they seem to be a bit broken.

Yes, I miss the world boss dailies. I’d not hate the jp dailies as much if the other options worked. So, I wound up in WvW, only I get dumped in on a seriously mismatched map.

I’m almost exclusively PvE. I’m not geared/specc’d for PvP/WvW. Two thirds of the players were in one faction, and I wound up in one of the others. It was difficult to get that daily without being run down and killed several times by other players who I guess are happy with the changes that gave them a fresh influx of WvW noobs to take out.

So, it would be better if they could fix the broken-ness of the options, allowed the WvW/PvP crowd to get Completionist in their chosen environment, allow the PvE crowd to get it in their chosen environment, and maybe stop torturing us.

JMO, take it as you will.