Guild Wars 2

As someone who just returned to the game: Why?

I’ve had this game for what, 5, 6 months now and the experience just feels horrible, especially when making alts. The sense of wonder in the world is placed with little “go here” glowing icons on the map that are gated by level, encouraging backtracking which GW2 essentially eliminated before this update. Progressing in the story is gated now, opposed to having the challenge of taking something on that was a level above you or few, and going back to take it on if it proved too much. SKILLS, instead of being progressive and fun with each weapon, are now gated by level and automatically given to you regardless if you’ve used the weapon or not before. Everything feels like an extended tutorial that’s been streamlined so the average toddler can pick up the game.

Would you like some feedback? Next time, please don’t fix what isn’t broken. The little features that made me love the game are now gone, and that saddens me to no end since it’s difficult now to view GW2 differently from the common MMO and these changes are inclined to make me leave once more.

I’ve been getting major issues since the latest patch. I’d usually maintain a good 50-60fps with all the settings set to their highest, but now I’m getting around 10-15 in major cities and around 25-30 outdoors.

Reading up on the wiki(I joined rather recently), I found out there were different personality archetypes influenced by the method of diplomacy you chose at character creation and in doing so, you could further influence NPCs via dialogue. What happened to this mechanic and why was it removed? This seemed like such an interesting RP mechanic.