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I really have no idea why I continue to play, 777 hours in since day 1 of the pre-start and all I really do is log on overnight do the PvE dailies and finish for the day. I played GW1 for 4 years and did almost everything, WoW for nearly 3 years before getting bored by childish simplification and I thought it would be graphically better, more flexible and a solo’ers paradise. Being old and disabled that’s important to me.
It lived up to the graphical expectations but in every other respect it has failed miserably. Disconnection and bad programming dogged the early days and now its become firmly aimed at PvP, something my disability won’t let me be good at. WvW had possibilities but the lag in large fights makes it unplayable. As for solo play…… completely useless as healing is woefully inadequate. Finding groups for dungeons is horrendous, even WoW has a random dungeon finder. Updates give you 3 minutes to complete what you’re doing which is not enough to even get safe. Load times are abysmally long, log into a fight and you are half dead before you get a screen to see. As for flexibility…….. basically there isn’t any, skills are too restrictive, certain classes can only be played 1 way successfully until lvl 80, GW1 was far superior. The only character I have successfully reached 80 with is Ranger, I have all classes but most are stuck between 30 and 50 due to constant deaths.
I now spend more than 50% of my time back in WoW and a little time in GW1. Maybe in 2 or 3 years GW2 will be worth playing but as I’m an achievement fanatic I will be so far behind by then as to make it worthless.
I most certainly wish I’d spent my money on something more playable……