Guild Wars 2

Gilandred.9870:

I think you hit upon one of the key differences. In “borecraft” you don’t have to think; just fire off your optimal rotation and don’t stand in the fire. GW2 is more strategic. You need to go into battle having thought out what would be most effective beforehand. And be honest. Did you really use more than 15 abilities on any given fight?

Actually, yes.
I once counted every ability I used on a boss fight or PVP. It ranged from 20-30.
Obviously, sometimes 5 was all you needed.
You have a point there, I know. Thinking before the battle, but I like thinking during it, adapting.
I am not totally against this whole “preparation” idea, it’s quite nice, but it lacks something. Perhaps 10 skills are not enough, perhaps 15 (excluding the toolbelt) would be better.

This is an amazing phenomenon to me.
I love this game. When I started playing it, I was so surprised. I wasn’t hyped up when I heard about it. I was just “I’ll know when I’ll play it”.
I played it and it was amazing. So many things to do, exploring was so much fun.
Almost everything is amazing.

And yet I haven’t logged on for 2 weeks. I can’t really understand why. I have about 50% more content to explore, so many other classes to try out, but I can’t make myself.

I don’t know whether the only reason why I feel this way is because combat feels weird?
I mean, on my Engineer, I have to shoot a mob about 50 times (autoattack) for it to die. Dungeon bosses have a health pool so big that you never feel like you are making any kind of difference. Remember the Windows 95 Defragmentation when you could actually sit and look at the little squares change color as they get defragmented? And the whole process would last for hours. That’s how it feels like, in a way.
And then a zombie comes and takes 1/5th of my health in one hit.

And I have about 50 abilities to use, only thing is that I can’t. There’s another game, which rhymes with “borecraft” that I have a lot of experience with and what I loved on my Priest is that I always had an enormous amount of tools at my disposal. I didn’t have to adjust to every battle, change my set of abilities after a fight to be able to travel more comfortably and so on. I get the idea, I’d just love one more action bar (at least).
I really need more. Using 10-14 abilities is not enough. This just asks for button mashing.

So these two things made my character feel so insignificant and weak that I just never felt connected to it, never had this amazing feeling that I am somebody important enough to make a difference in Guild Wars 2.

And these two things are the only things that I don’t like. The list of the things that I love is so long that it would make this post too long (and it’s not short anyway).
Still, in a way I think they somehow out-weight the pros.

I took a break and I am patiently waiting for this need to long in and get lost in the game again, but I can’t find that feeling yet. Not sure it will come any time soon.

You’ve got to be kidding me!
When the game came out I completed it in 1 week, but now that almost a month has passed I am still 100 events away, and 250 salvages away.
The montly requirement is such a freaking grind now that I don’t log in as often.
And now I am angry, because you’re saying it’s been reset already.

KITTENS!!!

Every piece of food gives you +10% xp from kills and some other bonuses, depending on the food.
For example, it can give you 60 vitality and health regeneration, or 18% magic find, or precision, swiftness after dodging and so on.

This is actually one of the two things that annoy me in GW2. And it is the only one that annoys me and is not ArenaNet’s fault.
It’s cool and dandy when I am trying to buy stuff but when I am actually crafting something that took quite a lot of farming and see it go for nothing just makes me want to slap some people through the monitors.
To me, it seems kind of logical to put the prices a bit higher? I was expecting everything to be overpriced, while it’s ridiculously underpriced.

“Another well crafted game”?
I am sure you are not talking about TOR, or at least you are a bit sarcastic.
I’ve played a couple of MMOs and TOR is the only one that I ended up hating.
I am never going back to that horrible piece of wasted money.

Anyway, sorry for that off topic. I can’t rant about it on the TOR forums since I lack a sub… hah, but I do it wherever else I can.

To the point. What you may find in GW2 that all the characters you’ll play will somehow feel like they lack a punch. At least that’s what I am getting on my Engineer. It’s not because of the particular profession but because there’s very little burst damage in the game, at least what I’ve seen so far.

I am a level 80 Engineer and I started a Mesmer. Both are very interesting and very different. You haven’t seen anything like it anywhere else.
To me, all the classes are incredibly interesting, but I wanted something that could use guns and rifles.

You may try a Mesmer, you will be able to confuse other players with clones of your character and you will have tons of CC, or you can try something else.
Either way, I am pretty sure you can just roll a level 1 character, enter the “Mist” which will give you a 80 level, play around with the traits and skill points and try it out in some Battlegrounds.