Guild Wars 2

including difficult content shouldn’t include 100% of the new open world content. almost any other mmo has special areas like raids where people can enjoy difficult content if they choose to. forcing this crap on everyone is wrong imo. especially when your community is used to easy-ish or rather “moderately difficult” open world content from the core game. 180° change in design philosophy is like asking for people to complain and get mad about this mess.

i spent some time in hot areas to get 2 elite specs unlocked. that took around 15h +- after that i went back to doing classic stuff & farming world bosses. playing hot areas feels like working a job and i do that already for 8h/day so no thanks.

as a long time gw1 random arena almost only player, i was actually amazed at launch that they didn’t include their best mode in gw2. this was actually the reason i stopped playing immediately and just came back around 2 months ago.

like the OP and many others, i’d like to see a return of random arena since conquest feels a lot like dominion in league of legends. and it’s neither fast nor fun.

random arena was always refreshing and it was a lot of fun to discover what your team could acomplish – monk or not doesn’t matter.

despite what some people may feel about RA, for me, it never got stale. never. having to cap points, run around like chickens to cheese cap and avoid group fights at all costs is what makes current pvp in gw2 boring & plain bad.

also removing courtyard aka the only true pvp map in the game is a very questionable decision imo. limiting the players ability to choose their prefered mode is also something devs should never be doing. there are checkboxes for garbage mode #1 and #2 aka conquest & stronghold. bring back courtyard & make a few more generic TDM or arenastyle maps and give us a checkbox for that.

the current state of pvp is not sustainable imo.

Dengar.1785:

Further more, what is wrong with attempting challenges in groups in an MMO?

yeah, the mmo joker… i’m sick of reading this in every thread when people voice honest complains.

so you want a reason? good here you go: last time i went for hero challenges, i had to wait 10 min at some mushroom garbage queen and 25 min at the golem in the hot starting area for someone to make it to the point. i constantly told people how to get there and asked in chat for help.

25 minutes.

nothing more to say really. want to enjoy group content? go to the zones where people do champion trains on a regular basis.

not everything in an mmo has to require being social and cooperating with others.

veterans are sufficient. period.